TfL partners with digital preservation specialist Preservica to help preserve and protect 150 years of rare London historyTransport for London (TfL), London’s historic transport network has begun extending its use of the AWS Cloud to protect its archive of over 140,000 digital and digitised files dating back to 1857, including all transport records from the London 2012 Olympic Games.TfL has partnered with Digital Preservation specialist Preservica to transfer its extensive digital collection to the Cloud. The Preservica digital preservation system, hosted on AWS, will ensure all items in the archive remain readable and useable by future generations by actively managing…
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Home care services provider can now tailor invoices easily to meet individual customer requirements Carewatch Care Services, a leading, national provider of care services to people in their own homes, has chosen a customer communications management solution from Macro 4, a division of UNICOM® Global, to help it better control and improve the quality of document-based communications with its customers, which include Local Authorities and NHS Trusts, as well as clients who pay privately for care services. By working with Macro 4’s Columbus solution, Carewatch can now more easily tailor the layout, design and content of their invoices to meet…
With many file formats and software popular in 1993 now obsolete and unreadable, company compliance and information governance teams are warned against losing critical digital information forever As 90s hit television series The X-Files returns to our screens next month after a 13 year hiatus, digital preservation specialist Preservica has launched an awareness campaign to highlight the danger of file format and software obsolescence, and an impending ‘Digital Dark Age’ – warned against by Google’s Vint Cerf last year. In conjunction with the new series of the popular US TV show, fans of the original series at Preservica have been…
[London – 5 February, 2016] The annual survey of the top 500 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) in Europe shows some major changes due to substantial growth in some areas, consolidation and changing market conditions. After a slow rise of 5% in the previous year, it looks like ISV fortunes have turned around strongly in 2015, based on early figures. The latest database report by IT Europa, ISVs in Europe – the top 500, published today shows a shake-up at the top of the list of individual companies, with three newcomers to the top ten. There has also been a big…
Tom Beriau named VP Sales Americas London 5th February 2016: Artesian Solutions, the market leader in customer engagement and sales acceleration software, today announced the appointment of Tom Beriau as its new Vice President of Sales Americas, following the announcement of its incorporation on 1st February 2016. Based in the newly opened Boston office, Tom will work alongside founder Mike Blackadder to spearhead Artesian’s Global growth strategy. Tom is a highly accomplished, results-oriented sales executive bringing with him 20+ years of enterprise software expertise at large technology companies such as, Zuora, Interwoven, Tellme Networks and Hortonworks. In this newly created…
Seongnam, South Korea, 4 February 2016: oneM2M, the global standards initiative for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced it will host its second interoperability event following the success of its inaugural test session last year. Co-organized by oneM2M’s founding partners TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association of Korea) and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute), oneM2M Interop 2 will give organizations implementing oneM2M standards the opportunity to validate interoperability and check end-to-end functionality via oneM2M interfaces. It is also expected to include a Conformance Testing Tool Demo in order to help companies understand oneM2M conformance testing, which aims to…
London February 3, 2016 – Plustek, the Taiwanese photo and document scanner manufacturer, today launches the Optic Film 135, a high performance and innovative 35 mm film and negative scanner tailor-made for people who want to easily preserve their valuable film treasures. Capitalising on over 20 years of product development expertise, the compact new scanner extends Plustek’s award-winning Optic Film series and introduces features with the new model to make it faster, simpler, more convenient and fun to digitise films and negatives. Packed with new ways to make scanning easy Plustek’s Optic Film 135 offers new functionality to make the…
London, UK – February 2nd 2016: ClusterSeven, the leading provider of strategic software for the management of user-built applications, today announces the appointment of Chris Gomersall as Chief Executive Officer.Chris joins the company with more than 30 years of industry experience and has held a number of senior management positions across various sectors during that time. Before joining ClusterSeven he was CEO at Acunu, a UK-based pioneer of Big Data analytics solutions. In just 18 months he led the company from a pre-revenue position to a successful acquisition by a leading Silicon Valley technology firm.Prior to this Chris was Regional…
The patent-pending Scandit Case replaces dedicated barcode scanners at a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) when used in conjunction with Scandit’s mobile software solutionsLondon, UK – 1 February 2016 – Scandit, developer of the leading software-based barcode scanning solutions for smartphones, tablets and wearable devices, today revealed the Scandit Case. An ergonomically designed iPhone 6/6s case that works with smartphones and all of Scandit’s mobile scanning solutions, the Scandit Case provides protection during everyday activities and a scanning experience similar to that of a dedicated barcode scanner but with a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The Scandit Case…
Upgrades to Core Offerings Give Users Streamlined Workspaces, Automated Rollout Projects and Secure Mobile EmailBRACKNELL — January 27, 2016 — Furthering its vision to modernize IT, LANDESK today announced the release of LANDESK Management Suite 2016, LANDESK Security Suite 2016 and the introduction of LANDESK Mobile Security Suite 2016. These updates give users greater visibility, streamline security and increase automation to further empower users and simplify IT.“LANDESK Management Suite and Security Suite are at the heart of our business and technology strategy. The underlying technologies not only help IT manage and protect the devices in their environment, but they also…
Legal systems innovator Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) and Converge TS (www.convergets.co.uk), the UK’s only dedicated Cloud computing provider for law firms, have launched a joint report on the issues affecting IT in legal practices. Called The Legal Landscape 2016, the report uses case management experience from firms and organisations that are currently investing in innovation to both drive efficiencies and boost client care. The many insightful contributions included come from: Anthony Collins, DAC Beachcroft, Genus Law, Olliers, Poole Alcock, South London Legal Partnership and Total Conveyancing Services.Amongst the key areas of concern that these organisations have for the year ahead, are: cybersecurity,…
Maria Ghibu amongst top contenders to receive Innovator of the Year AwardLONDON, UK – January 27, 2016 – Massive Analytic, a start-up specialising in innovative precognitive enterprise analytics, celebrates the success of their Head of Operations, Maria Ghibu, in the Women in IT Awards. After a fruitful 2015, Ghibu has been selected as a finalist in the Innovator of the Year category in the awards, eagerly awaiting the results at the prestigious ceremony this Thursday. This category recognises a woman who was integral to company innovation and the resulting success in customer wins, deployments and ongoing progression for the business.…
Legal systems innovator Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) has added four new software integrations with systems that are frequently used by both legal practices and local authority lawyers. The new integrations, with the company’s widely acclaimed document bundling technology, are for: SharePoint, iManage (formerly Worksite/ Autonomy), local authority solutions from Civica and NetDocs. Further integrations are also being planned for LEAP and an upgrade to the Iken case management connector. The new additions complement Zylpha’s existing range of successful electronic document bundling connectors. These include: Visualfiles/Solcase from LexisNexis, SOS Connect, TR Envision, Axxia FED, and FileStream. The announcement of the new integrations is…
Monday 25th Jan 2016: The UK’s fastest growing business communications provider, Olive Communications (Olive), has secured a £15.25m funding package to further scale up its operations. BGF (Business Growth Fund) has invested £10m growth capital while Barclays has provided £5.25m in new debt facilities.Headquartered in High Wycombe, Olive provides unified communications solutions which help corporate and small and mid-sized organisations in Britain to improve the way they run their IT infrastructure across voice, data, applications and mobile devices.As a result of significant growth – which has seen revenues climb from £11m in 2012 to close to £30m at the end…
Webtrends Analytics® for SharePoint helps Gatwick measure and improve employee engagement on its intranetLondon, 22 January 2016 – Webtrends announced today that London Gatwick Airport, the second largest airport in the United Kingdom, selected Webtrends Analytics for SharePoint to measure how its employees are engaging with content on its intranet. Gatwick serves more than 40 million passengers traveling to 200 destinations each year and employs 2,600 employees. After implementing a Microsoft SharePoint intranet as the central hub for company news, employee information and team updates, the intranet managers from various departments were challenged to measure the intranet’s success and usage…
Solution praised for enterprise grade Software Asset Management within an ITSM solutionLondon, England, 22 January 2016 – Matrix42 (www.matrix42.com), a top provider of software for workspace management, today revealed Matrix42 workspace management has been named the best in class solution for its software asset management (SAM), ITAM and ITSM capabilities in a review by analysts from the ITAM Review. The group test which put leading ITAM and ITSM tools under the microscope observed that Matrix42 uniquely offers enterprise grade software asset management within an ITSM solution.The review conducted by Martin Thomson of the ITAM Review, concluded that “Matrix42 is as…
Effectively managing, securing and processing healthcare information leads to improved patient care and highest levels of security and complianceM-Files Corporation, a provider of solutions that dramatically improve how enterprises manage documents and other information, is exhibiting at the UK’s largest healthcare technology event, Healthcare Efficiency Through Technology (HETT) at stand H260.The one-day Conference, taking place at Olympia in London, is a unique opportunity for industry suppliers to meet senior decision makers and budget holders from across NHS England, the Department of Health, NHS Trusts, Strategic Health Authorities and local and central Government.Julian Cook, Director of UK Business at M-Files Corporation,…
ABBYY’s Text Recognition Technology Used for Conversion of Documents Captured with a Mobile DeviceLondon, UK (17th September 2015) – ABBYY, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and linguistic technologies, today announced that its ABBYY Cloud OCR is gaining popularity among customers. Texthelp, a long-term ABBYY customer and the market leader in assistive software for the education sector in both the UK and North America, has incorporated ABBYY’s Cloud-based OCR (optical character recognition) technology to perform text recognition in its Snapverter™ product. Snapverter is one of the newest additions to Texthelp’s portfolio of apps and extensions for Google Apps…
Waitrose – the Nation’s Favourite Supermarket and winner of the BestSupermarket and Best Food and Grocery Retailer awards – currently has 339 shops in England, Scotland, Wales and the Channel Islands, including 60 convenience branches, and another 28 shops at Welcome Break locations. As with many organisations, the key issue for Waitrose was that its embedded IBM Notes application infrastructure was connected with several mission critical business applications. Although the Notes applications at Waitrose are vital to the continued communication and collaboration between Waitrose and its branch outlets and its supply chain, it was not considered an integral part of…
The Together Housing Group has chosen enterprise mobile workforce software from leading mobile technology company 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com). The software is currently being rolled out across the organisation.The Together Housing Group comprises seven companies, each run by a skilled voluntary board made up of tenants, council representatives and independent experts. In total, it manages over 35,000 homes, employing more than 1,400 staff over a large geographical area in the North of England. The Together Group also produces a Value For Money (VFM) Self Assessment for their regulator (Homes and Communities Agency), setting out how it is achieving VFM in delivering…