IT partner of choice gains top three European ranking in IT outsourcing satisfaction surveyLONDON, UK, 31 March, 2016 – Computacenter, Europe’s preferred IT provider to enable users and their businesses, today announces that it has been awarded third place in Whitelane’s European IT outsourcing survey, outperforming the likes of Fujitsu, Capgemini and Atos. The company achieved a satisfaction score of 77 per cent overall in the service provider survey, which builds on 2015’s second place in the UK alone. The study evaluates more than 4,480 unique IT outsourcing contracts held by over 1,500 of the top IT spending organisations in…
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Firebox M4600 and M5600 provide distributed enterprises with security, speed, and flexibilityWoking, Surrey: 31/3/16 – Wick Hill, WatchGuard’s longest serving value added distributor, announces that it is now shipping WatchGuard’s latest release, the highest performing Firebox® M4600 and M5600 Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances. In addition to top performance, WatchGuard’s M4600/M5600 firewalls offer flexible port modularity, and redundant power supplies, making them a perfect fit for organizations with larger and often dispersed environments that require fast speed and flexibility, such as distributed enterprises.Top performance paired with speed, flexibility, and affordability make these appliances ideal for taking the lead in distributed,…
Trend Detection Allows Data-Driven Organisations to Identify Contextual Anomalies and Forecast Against All Their Structured and Unstructured DataZurich, Switzerland – March 30, 2016 – Squirro, the leading Swiss data insights solution developer, today announces the availability of a new cognitive trend detection capability for the enterprise. The new feature, released with the latest version 2.3.0 combines the use of historical data and Squirro’s own smart filter technologies to enable a new level of predictive insight, one that can identify contextual trends, and realize the vast associated commercial benefits for data-driven organisations.“Drawing intelligent insights has always been the catalyst to unlocking…
Version Management and Collaboration Provider Strengthens Executive Team with Mark Ties, Colleen Kulhanek and Konrad LitwinWokingham, UK. (March 29, 2016) – Perforce Software today announced it has strengthened its executive leadership team with the hiring of Mark Ties as chief financial officer, Colleen Kulhanek as vice president of marketing and Konrad Litwin as managing director, international. Mark Ties has served more than 17 years in CFO and COO roles for public and private equity-backed technology companies. He brings 28 years of experience in accounting, finance, operations and mergers and acquisitions to the role, including positions at Arcserve, HelpSystems LLC and…
Three strong keynotes reflect the increasing importance and value of software within the IT industry and Europe’s leading role in its development[London, 24 March 2016] The ninth European Software & Solutions Summit in London next month will assess the pace and extent of change in the industry in three keynotes, covering the shifts in customer buying processes, the nature of European regulation and compliance and the core ideas behind the value of a software business.The summits opening keynote will be “The ten trends that impact the software industry” by Martin Hoff ter Heide, Lead Consultant, Information and Communication Technologies at…
Houston, Texas headquartered shipping and energy marketing/physical commodity trading firm Elliptical International, LLC has chosen the AspectCTRM trade and risk management solution as a key part of its oil and gas sales and marketing arm. Aspect’s leading global multi-commodity solution will also play a vital role in Elliptical’s shipping and logistics operations as the firm grows and develops its overseas markets.The choice of Aspect’s advanced solution precedes news of Elliptical’s accreditation to trade with major Russian suppliers including Rosneft and Gazprom. Effective and credible systems for real time management of operations, trading and risk were key to the Russian deal…
Warrington, UK | 23 March 2016: MDS has today announced that its Managed Service has been awarded Cyber Essentials certification. Cyber Essentials is a new UK Government-backed and industry-supported scheme that guides businesses in protecting themselves against cyber threats.The certification further enhances the MDS’s accreditations, having received TM Forum Frameworx Conformance certification in December. With data assurance and security at the forefront of many MVNOs’ agendas, MDS has proactively evidenced its credentials, with independent testing by two respected bodies. The Cyber Essentials scheme was developed by Government and industry with two clear purposes in mind. The first is to provide…
London, 22 March 2016 – IP EXPO Manchester, part of Europe’s number one enterprise IT event series, has announced that Dame Stella Rimington, former Director General of MI5 and the real-life inspiration for ‘M’ in the James Bond series, will be the opening keynote speaker at this year’s event.Taking place on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 May at Manchester Central, Dame Stella will open the free to attend event. In a world of state sponsored cyber-attacks and ferocious debate around our privacy this is a rare opportunity to hear from a pioneer in the world of the secret service.Bradley Maule-ffinch,…
London, City 21st March 2016: Inoapps (www.inoapps.com) has won the prestigious Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized UK Partner of the Year in SaaS (Software as a Service). The much-coveted Oracle Excellence Awards celebrate the important relationship Oracle has with its Partners and gives recognition to Specialized Partners that have demonstrated outstanding passion, drive and above all exceptional customer commitment. The 2016 SaaS Award reflects the success of Inoapps’ revolutionary INversion implementation methodology. This innovative approach enables companies to implement tailored Oracle Cloud applications quickly using a modern best-practice approach. Commenting on the Award announcement, Andy Bird CEO of Inoapps said,…
Agrantec now supports one of the UK’s largest ethical food industry associations on the NotaZone food production tracing platform.Bristol, 17 March 2016 Agrantec, the UK-based developer of software solutions to help small producers save time and gain value, has won new enterprise customers to the NotaZone platform.NotaZone is a new way of tracking food as it moves through the production process, all the way onto the supermarket shelf. NotaZone enables easy regulatory compliance, automatic documentation and even helps differentiate produce against competition.“We’re very pleased to see the NotaZone system gaining traction with some very large and influential business customers,” said…
New Solution Intelligently Unifies Information Silos and Business Systems with Patent-Pending Technology that will Disrupt ECM and EIM Landscape Thursday 17th March 2016 M-Files Corporation, a provider of solutions that leverage a unique new metadata-based approach to dramatically improve how businesses manage documents and other information, today announced a $36 million round of Series B funding led by Partech Ventures, with participation from Finnish Industry Investment and Draper Esprit.M-Files continues to experience explosive worldwide growth resulting in a six-year compound growth rate of nearly 1,000 percent. The new investment will further accelerate existing sales and marketing activities, as well as…
High Wycombe, UK, 17 March 2016Star Micronics is pleased to announce that ePaisa, a nationwide point of sale solution provider digitizing local businesses across India, has incorporated Star’s mPOP™, a unique combined Bluetooth printer and cash drawer mobile point of purchase solution, into its software to provide the ideal affordable mobile POS solution for small and medium businesses. Combining a Bluetooth thermal printer with a cash drawer, mPOP offers the ultimate space saving mobile POS system. Outstanding connectivity and compact design alongside intuitive functionality and simple integration define Star’s unique solution. Simple and stylish, the lightweight and portable solution is…
Carbon Black has top market share in both revenue and licenses soldWALTHAM, Mass.—March 16, 2016—Carbon Black®, the leader in Next-Generation Endpoint Security (NGES), announced today that a new report from Enterprise Management Associates confirms the company is “the clear leader in terms of both market share and revenue” in the fast-growing Next-Generation Endpoint Security market. For its Next-Generation Endpoint Security Market Sizing and Forecast 2016–2020 report, EMA conducted in-depth surveys and interviews with 25 vendors and ranked them according to revenue, software licenses sold and other related criteria, concluding that:Carbon Black is the NGES market share leader based on revenue…
Aspect’s commitment to information security and continuous improvement is on display with its new ISO / IEC 27001: 2013 Information Security Management Systems Certification. This registration demonstrates Aspect’s achievement in meeting stringent requirements posed by the ISO governing body that are considered international gold standards in security and asset management.Aspect’s clients, especially those with complex commodity trade and risk management configurations, extensive integrations, and large volumes of data, can rest assured that data and processes are secure using AspectCTRM. Both customers and Aspect win through competitive advantage, streamlined organizational processes, consistent delivery practices and secure environments.“We are proud to have…
Broadband Forum Distinguished Fellow and former chair of BroadbandHome joins NG-PON2 and GPON workPETALUMA, CA – March 14, 2016 – Calix, Inc. (NYSE: CALX), the world leader in enabling service providers to deliver a gigabit experience to their subscribers, today announced that marketing director Greg Bathrick has been named Work Area Director of the Broadband Forum’s Fiber Access Networks Work Area. With a mission that includes defining best practices and enabling revenue-generating services for service provider networks, the Broadband Forum has been a key organization in the proliferation of broadband networks and the improvement of the broadband experience for subscribers…
Multichannel optimisation platform Innometrics builds successful API utilising Riak’s scalability, resilience and simplified operationLondon – 10th March, 2016 – Basho Technologies, the creator and developer of Riak® KV and Riak® TS, the world’s most resilient NoSQL databases, today announced that cutting-edge consumer profiling platform Innometrics has adopted its Riak KV database to power its Profile Cloud API.Innometrics is a pioneering start-up that enables brands to bring together data about their customers’ behaviour across multiple channels and power more intelligent marketing by integrating customers’ data siloes in a single API service called Profile Cloud. Founded in 2009, it now operates from…
Dublin, Ireland, March 11, 2016: Leading billing communications platform provider, Brite:Bill, today announced that Aaron Fullen has joined as Global Head of Sales, providing executive leadership to the company’s growing sales force.Fullen is a senior sales leader with a wide range of experience in the technology sector, most recently serving as Head of Sales, North America at SundaySky, the personalized video platform provider, where his teams grew annual bookings by more than 750% during his four year tenure. Prior to SundaySky, Fullen held senior positions at LivePerson where he was instrumental in growing revenues from $17M to $145M during his…
Zang delivers the first all-in-one cloud communication and applications-as-a-service platform that lets anyone build custom, communications-enabled appsGuildford, UK: 10th March — Avaya today unveiled Zang™, an innovative cloud communications platform and communication applications- as- a-service that revolutionises the way businesses can use communications to connect with their customers and employees. With 79% of IT teams currently developing apps for customers, partners and employees[1], 100% cloud-based Zang offers easy to use drag and drop tools, pre-built applications and robust APIs that make it possible for anyone to leverage the best of the web to quickly build and deploy applications that communications-enable…
Zylpha (www.zylpha.com), the UK’s leading legal systems innovator has launched a new version of its widely acclaimed MoJ (Ministry of Justice) Portal integration. The software, which incorporates a host of new features and functionality, automates the smooth transfer of case management information for RTA (Road Traffic Accident) and EL/PL (Employers’ and Public liability) Portal submissions. This significantly speeds up the document submission process, whilst reducing costs and eliminating the manual input errors associated with the double handling of data. The latest version now has intuitive new workflow screens with additional context sensitive user guidance to aid navigation and enhance user…
Avaya unveils next-generation technology platform to simplify app development and introduces Avaya Snapp Store – the first e-commerce app store for business communicationsGuildford, UK; March 8, 2016: Avaya is changing the rules for business communications application development with Avaya Breeze™, a technology platform that makes it easier for organisations to develop the mobile, customer-facing and cloud-migration applications they need to achieve their digital transformation objectives. And with Avaya Snapp Store, Avaya is introducing the first-ever ecommerce app store for business communications, making it even simpler for enterprises to deploy Avaya Breeze applications and deliver unique, compelling experiences. As organisations today…