Firm analysed data from multiple sources to assist Government in rooting out error and fraud related to tax credits – developing an approach that could save £2 billion in long runLiverpool and London (August 7, 2014) – Consumer insight and anti-fraud company Transactis has been named SME (Small and Medium Enterprise) Team of the Year in the 2014 Management Today Analytics in Action Awards for its work in support of efforts by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to reduce fraud and error related to tax credits. The company’s use of analytics, drawing on data from multiple consumer data sources…
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Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to ExecuteLondon, August 07, 2014 – ExaGrid Systems, Inc., a leading provider of disk-based backup solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the first “Magic Quadrant for Deduplication Backup Target Appliances.” [1]ExaGrid, a fast-growing company in the backup storage industry, is placed furthest along the completeness of vision axis in the Visionaries Quadrant. Criteria used to measure completeness of vision include geographic strategy, vertical/industry strategy, marketing strategy, sales strategy, innovation, offering (product) strategy, and market understanding. Companies named as “Visionaries” deliver innovative products with…
London, UK – 7th of August 2014 – SPIE, the independent European leader in multi-technical services, has today announced the acquisition of Scotshield Fire and Security. The move, which will enable SPIE to develop its expertise in Intelligent Buildings, sees it entering a new market, one that demonstrates natural affiliations with its existing portfolio of services.Established in Scotland, in 1998, Scotshield is a leading provider of fire detection, security alarms, access control and closed circuit television systems. Its service offering includes design, supply, installation, integration, service to maintenance with long-term maintenance and framework contracts. The company’s strong recurring client base…
Business Application Users Gain New Ways to Work With Requests, Collaborate With Peers and Manage TasksLondon – August 7th, 2014 – Hornbill today announced the latest updates to its Collaboration Platform and Service Manager collaborative ITSM application. Users can now view requests as easy-to-understand cards with My Boards, using simple drag-and-drop methods to aid management; use “@ mentions” to share information and conversations with peers faster and more easily; and create checklists to ensure ad-hoc tasks are completed correctly. Created through Hornbill’s Continuous Delivery development model, the features have been automatically delivered through the Hornbill Collaboration Platform and Hornbill Service…
London – 7 August 2014 – Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave cloud services company, has today announced that it has successfully achieved certification for the Government’s new Cyber Essentials Plus scheme. Launched in early June 2014, the Cyber Essentials scheme is designed to improve the resilience of UK businesses to common cyber security threats, and provides for verifiable certification of their capabilities. Skyscape’s Cyber Essentials Plus technical assessment was conducted by the NCC Group, following the successful completion of which certification was awarded by CREST. CESG, the information security arm…
Bringing together two experienced ABBYY capture & document businessesReading UK, 6th August 2014: Formscan Limited and Becker Limited announced today that the companies are joining forces to provide greater support and capabilities to both existing and new clients.The joint expertise will enable the team, trading as Formscan, to have greater scope in solution design and deployment. The combined business will provide improved support to the Becker document and data capture solutions base, and add Formscan’s 38 year old data capture track record, along with its more recent success with Papertrail – The powerful SaaS document management & docflow application. www.formscan.com/papertrail…
In an industry first, global specialist in energy management, Schneider Electric, has entered into a sales and implementation partnership with top Cloud E/CTRM vendor Aspect Enterprise Solutions. This partnership allows small to mid-size companies to access a complete risk management software solution, offering the most compelling and comprehensive Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) solution to the energy trading, commodity trading and risk management space. Schneider Electric is the leading provider of market information, including physical market prices for refined fuels in North America, and is the largest provider of proprietary news, weather and analysis. Aspect Enterprise Solutions is the…
London, United Kingdom – 06 August 2014 – Computop, a leading payment service provider (PSP), has today announced that it has been selected by Stokke, the innovative Norwegian children’s furniture and equipment brand, to support Stokke’s new e-commerce business. Founded in 1932, Stokke has become synonymous with innovation and unique, ergonomic design which, since 2006 has focused exclusively on children’s furniture and equipment within the highchair, stroller, baby carrier, home textiles and nursery market segments. Stokke already provides worldwide distribution through selected retailers represented in around fifty countries, but through it new e-commerce business, Computop will be instrumental in supporting…
Avere FXT Series Edge Filers Accelerate Production and Empower Artists PITTSBURGH, PA – August 6, 2014 – Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for the hybrid cloud, today announced that ToonBox Entertainment, Canada’s leading animation studio, is using Avere FXT Series Edge filers to speed up workflow performance and enable fast, cost-effective scaling to meet their production demands. ToonBox looked to Avere to help solve its storage-performance slowdown issues during production of “The Nut Job,” the studio’s first feature-length animated film that features the voice talents of Liam Neeson, Katherine Heigl, Will Arnett and Brendan Fraser.”Before Avere, we…
L’innovativo OCR in background e l’elaborazione batch più rapida ottimizzano la conversione dei documenti e migliorano l’efficienza per l’utenteMonaco di Baviera, Germania (06 agosto 2014) – ABBYY Europe, fornitore leader di tecnologie e servizi per il riconoscimento dei documenti, l’acquisizione dei dati e la linguistica, ha annunciato oggi la disponibilità di FineReader 12 Corporate, la nuova generazione del suo potente software di riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri (OCR). Ideato per automatizzare la conversione dei documenti in ambienti aziendali, governativi e accademici, FineReader 12 Corporate offre una più rapida conversione batch dei documenti, una maggiore accuratezza, migliori opzioni di pre-elaborazione delle immagini,…
London – August 06, 2014 – Attenda Limited, the Business Critical IT company, today announced that it is publishing its latest BroadGroup research findings on mid-market enterprise cloud adoption.BroadGroup is an Information Media Technology and Professional Services company, with a leading data centre consulting practice. During the independent research, commissioned by Attenda, BroadGroup conducted interviews with Attenda clients, across a broad set of verticals, to ask CIOs and IT Directors how widely they had adopted cloud; and if so, what best practices had been adopted and were there any lessons to be learnt.As Daniel Beazer, Consultant, Broad Group comments; “The…
6th August 2014, London – SalesMethods, a premium Salesforce partner, which specialises in delivering software and services, to drive high performance sales in Salesforce, has been selected by De Vere Venues, the number one provider of training, conference and event venues, as its sales enablement software provider.De Vere Venues has purchased 50 licenses of SalesMethods’ Plan2Prosper, Plan2Close, OrgChartPlus and Competing Forces. The technology, running over Salesforce CRM in the Cloud, will enable the 50-person UK sales team to better achieve their aggressive revenue growth targets, which amounts to a 20% increase per salesperson.The sales methodologies and tools, all built natively…
Abiquo and CloudSigma Integration Grants Users Seamless Cross-Cloud Management, Security and Accessibility from Abiquo anyCloudLondon, August 5, 2014 – Hybrid cloud management platform provider Abiquo today announced a partnership with CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, to add CloudSigma services to its multi-cloud management platform, Abiquo anyCloud. With anyCloud, public cloud users can now manage their CloudSigma deployments, as well as other next generation cloud platforms, all from one portal. CloudSigma offers highly-available, flexible, enterprise-class cloud servers and cloud hosting solutions in Europe and the U.S. By offering its 1,000+ customers full control over their…
5 August 2014, Maidstone, Kent – Complete security services provider, SecureData is proud and pleased to announce its acquisition of 25% of ordinary stock of Paterva (Pty) Ltd, the South African registered maker of the Maltego software suite.’Maltego’, built by Paterva, is a powerful suite of software tools used for data mining, link analysis and data visualization, giving the user the ability to extract large volumes of data from diverse sources and then analyze it to understand the patterns and relationships it reveals. In the modern digital age these techniques are used to convert data into information and thereby extract…
ABBYY PDF Transformer+ offers intuitive tools for reading, converting, commenting on and protecting all PDF document typesLondon, UK (5 August 2014) – ABBYY UK Ltd., a leading provider of technologies and services for document recognition, data capture and linguistics, is supplying CMS Hasche Sigle, one of the leading law firms for legal and tax advice in Germany and part of the wide reaching international CMS network, with ABBYY PDF Transformer+, which enables convenient and intelligent archiving of documents and files in Microsoft SharePoint. ABBYY PDF Transformer+ is a comprehensive tool for working with PDF documents, which creates PDF files and…
London, 5 August 2014 – Award-winning digital agency Cyber-Duck today announced the launch of UX Companion (http://uxcompanion.com/), the first app to offer a comprehensive glossary of user experience (UX) terms and theory. The app provides clear, easy-to-grasp introductions to core UX design concepts and techniques, offering a simple reference tool for those involved in UX-focused projects. UX Companion is available for immediate, free download from the iTunes store, for apple devices. UX Companion demystifies the jargon by summarising UX design terms and methods. For example, it clarifies the common confusion between the scope of ‘UX’ itself, and ‘usability’. Each article…
Singapore, 05 August 2014 – As advanced countries such as China, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia continue to make strides in rolling out LTE to optimise their voice, video, messaging and Data services, Asia is undoubtedly leading the LTE evolution. With the number of users of next-generation LTE technology in the region forecast to surpass 120 million by 2015[1], Asia is one of the most dominant LTE markets, compared to its global counterparts. This provides the backdrop for LTE Asia 2014 (23-25 September) which will bring together the ecosystem to discuss the technologies driving the region’s success, including network optimisation,…
Software change management solution includes new features for database modernization, and compatibility with CA 2E and LANSA UNICOM Global has announced a new release of its TURNOVER software change management solution for the IBM i platform, aimed at helping developers modernize their IBM i applications. The new software, part of UNICOM Global’s SoftLanding product portfolio, also helps to ‘future proof’ IBM i applications so that they can be easily maintained by a new generation of developers. TURNOVER now includes object-based type code conversion; integration with the CA 2E and LANSA development environments; and compatibility with the latest release of IBM’s…
Boston and Ljubljana, Slovenia – 4 August 2014 – Pioneering predictive analytics leader RapidMiner today announced a strategic partnership with CRMT, escalating RapidMiner’s momentum within the EMEA market. The partnership combines RapidMiner’s expertise in advanced analytics, especially in predictive analysis, with CRMT’s reputable client success in the Adriatic region.RapidMiner provides CRMT with a best-of-breed predictive analytics solution and the ability to work on larger datasets, connecting with more data sources than ever before. Different than competing products, the RapidMiner platform derives its extensibility via source-code availability and integration to other open-source solutions. “Our mission is to always offer customers a…
New study of 650 global IT professionals reveals intense, widespread psychological bullying in the workplace. This closely mirrors broader existing research but shines an in-depth spotlight on IT.IDG Connect has conducted a self-selecting study of over 650 IT professionals to discover their experiences of bullying in the IT workplace. Results show 75% of respondents claim to have been bullied at work and 85% have seen others bullied. Despite this only 8% admit to bullying others, and 45% chose not to answer this question. These results in no way prove that things are worse in IT than elsewhere and are weighted…