European fine wine trader migrates to hybris’ commerce platform to support market expansion and provide a superior online buying experienceLondon – 29 July 2014: Sceneric, a leading web and e-commerce consultancy, today announced it has launched a new commerce platform for FINE+RARE, one of Europe’s largest fine wine merchants. With the launch of its new multi-device optimised website built and enabled by Sceneric and running on the hybris commerce platform, FINE+RARE celebrates its 20th anniversary of trading by providing its customers with a state-of-the-art commerce and digital buying experience designed to take customer service and satisfaction to a new level.The…
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Change and configuration auditing is essential for organisations that need PCI DSS says Netwrix29 July 2014: With recent PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) compliance incidents costing companies millions of pounds in fines and losses and inflicting damage to valuable brand reputations, Netwrix is urging organisations processing payment cards to follow six best practices to safeguard against a security incident. Netwrix points to the recent eBay breach that forced the company to advise 145 million active users to change their passwords to avoid financial information loss, while the breach at US retailer Target resulted in 40 million stolen…
Etherios taps into the power of salesforce.com’s social, mobile and connected cloud technologies to help accelerate business transformation for companies using Service Cloud July 28, 2014 – Etherios, a division of Digi International and a Platinum Cloud Alliance Partner of salesforce.com, announced it is an inaugural member of the Salesforce Fullforce Masters Program which recognises partners with proven expertise delivering industry and cloud-specific services and solutions for customers. Etherios was selected to join this elite program based on its proven expertise with Salesforce1 Service Cloud and history of delivering overwhelming success to its Salesforce customers coupled with its differentiated and…
Final deadline for all entries is August 29thLONDON, UK – July 28th 2014 – The Tech Trailblazers Awards early bird rates close at midnight Pacific time this Thursday, leaving enterprise tech startups with just a few days to make savings on their awards submissions fee. The discounted rate of $250 for the first entry and just $100 for any subsequent submissions means that entrants make attractive savings, especially when submitting multiple entries. With stacks of prizes from the $1million dollar equivalent prize fund up for grabs, a comprehensive promotion campaign by the organizers, plus judging and mentoring from the crème…
BI Provider Honoured for Exemplary Worldwide Customer Support Services New York, NY – July 28, 2014 – Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI) and analytics, information integrity, and integration solutions, today announced that the company has been honoured with a silver Best in Biz International Award in the Support Department of the Year category. This recognition speaks to Information Builders’ dedication to providing top-level support services to complement its advanced BI and analytics solutions and increase customer success. With more than 60 global locations, Information Builders has a strong international presence and serves tens of thousands of customers…
Hereford, 28 July 2014 – Xytron Ltd, a leading data recovery services company, reports today that many consumers and businesses are attempting DIY retrieval of their data to failed media and physically opening the disk enclosure in non clean room conditions, thus compounding any potential recovery. Further to this it has been noted that the PCBs (Printed Circuit Board) are also being replaced in an attempt to gain access to data.All magnetic storage media are manufactured in clean room conditions and to exacting tolerances, often less than 1 Micron tolerances. Opening the disk in standard room conditions will introduce airborne…
Cambridge, 28 July 2014: Spectral Edge (www.spectraledge.co.uk) today announced that it is working together with Colour Blind Awareness, an organisation that raises the awareness of the needs of the colour blind, to trial its new image-enhancement technology, EyeTeq. EyeTeq uses mathematical perception models to modify image colours so that colour blind observers enjoy improved visibility, whilst at the same time minimising the strength of the effect for those who do not have colour blindness, or “colour normals”. Following a successful psychophysical study on a representative sample, Spectral Edge is now bringing EyeTeq into living rooms and applying it to mainstream…
Landmark document looks at five use cases which demonstrate vision of interoperable smart home28 July 2014 HGI, a leading organisation which is shaping the way IP services are delivered, has today set out new high-level Broadband Service Provider (BSP) business requirements for a Media Gateway as it continues in its quest to build a technology-agnostic smart home ecosystem. The Media Gateway builds on the Home Gateway, adding functions that are traditionally located in a set-top box, such as media acquisition, media protection and optional media rendering. It has storage capabilities to support services like time-shifting and adds new functions such…
David Walters joins as CTO of leading automotive diagnostics provider to help shape delivery of its multi-channel, multi-device strategy.James Bagan comes onboard to accelerate European Sales growth. 25 JULY 2014 – Wheatley, Oxfordshire. Autologic Diagnostics today announced the appointment of David Walters as its first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and James Bagan as its European Sales Director. Walters joins Autologic to steer the technical development of the company’s next generation of multi-channel automotive diagnostic software and solutions. Bagan will shape and develop new sales channels, while ensuring that customer input drives development of the best product platforms and diagnostic services…
Leading European ISVs and Solution Providers to meet in London – March 2015(London, 25 July 2014) IT Europa announced today that it will be staging the eighth annual European ISV Convention on 25 March 2015 in London. The event will bring together leading Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with hardware, software and service organisations to explore and address the issues affecting the development of the IT Industry in Europe and to develop and strengthen partnerships aimed at supporting solution-based sales. Over recent years ISVs have been very much the driving force behind growth within the IT and Telecoms markets. This seems…
24th July 2014, London: Part of an expansion drive by the tech executive search and development specialist that includes more major hires, the opening of a Germany base and a new global headquarters.Stephan Thoma has joined European Leaders from Google to lead the talent development division that will further improve the performance of Europe’s tech companies.Thoma was previously Global Director of Learning & Development at Google, where he led the team that developed Google’s talent while preserving the company’s distinct culture. He was the only non-US based member of Google’s leadership team. Before Google he held senior learning and development…
24 July 2014 – Pioneering technology services company, telent Technology Services Ltd, has increased its IT security capability by acquiring a 25% stake in CNS Group, the London-based information assurance and cyber security specialists.IT Security is an increasingly critical component of services provided across the telent portfolio of service solutions, including Blue Light, Rail, Business and Traffic. CNS will continue to be run and managed as a separate entity but the two organisations will work closely together. “This deal is strategically beneficial to both telent and CNS, and enables us to build solutions bringing together telent’s scale and ability to…
Company is re-engineering solutions and processes to optimise for cloud-based deliveryExpanding scale and reach of cloud-based applications and partners to meet growing demand Commits to greater simplification for faster provisioning and reduced resource requirements Guildford, UK – July 24, 2014 – Avaya today escalated its efforts to get customers to fast-track to the cloud with the first of several sweeping initiatives that will optimise solutions and processes for delivery of collaboration as a service (CaaS) via the Avaya Collaborative Cloud. Strong demand from large and midsize enterprises for Avaya communications and collaboration applications is driving a focus on expanded scale…
Advertisers now able to drive performance advertising campaigns in new territories with Criteo’s expanded operationsNew York – 24 July, 2014 – Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO), the performance advertising technology company, today announced that it has enhanced its operational capabilities enabling advertisers to target consumers with individually personalized ads in over 130 countries worldwide. Criteo’s performance advertising solution is now able to deliver and rapidly scale multi-region campaigns for advertisers, significantly reduce time to market and help its customers capitalise on the billion dollar revenue potential in new territories.”In the last few years we’ve experienced exponential growth, resulting in us to becoming…
Software company positioned as sole European vendor in Gartner Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Engagement Center during successful Q2 2014Reading and Singapore, 24th July 2014, Global multichannel customer interaction software company Eptica today announced record revenues, with Q2 revenue up 30% on the same period in 2013 at $3.3 million (£1.97m). This accelerates the success of Q1 2014, bringing total revenues for H1 2014 to $6.48 million (£3.8m), 24% higher than in H1 2013.Eptica’s innovative, linguistic-powered customer engagement software is increasingly being chosen by organisations across the globe to transform the customer experience. During Q2 2014, Eptica signed new customers…
Cloud service provider adds Employee Relations case management Software Europe, the provider of business process improvement and spend reduction cloud services, has added Employee Relations [ER] case management to its cloud services portfolio with the acquisition of Workforce Metrics Ltd and its core product, ER Tracker. Software Europe already supports the expenses, contracts, workflow and due diligence challenges of its customers and can now efficiently manage ER cases. ER cases, such as absence, grievance or disciplinary, from the initial Human Resources referral to the last step in the process can now be managed by Software Europe’s cloud based business process…
New CISO to oversee practice and drive security awareness programmes in mid-size enterprises23 July, Maidstone, Kent 2014: Complete security service provider, SecureData has today announced former Sainsbury’s security team leader, Mark Sprules has arrived to spearhead its in demand CISO-as-a-Service practice, and promote security awareness programmes in the mid-enterprise market.CISO-as-a-service was designed to assist mid-size enterprise businesses in developing and maintaining an Information Security Management System (ISMS), and Sprules will be responsible for the company’s existing base of clients in sectors such as retail, property, publishing and charity as well as the day-to-day assurance of its own CISO duties and…
23rd July 2014, London – SalesMethods, a premium Salesforce partner, which specialises in delivering software and services to drive high performance sales in Salesforce.com, today announced its most successful year to date. During the most recent fiscal year, SalesMethods experienced a 200% percent year-on-year growth, the highest growth rate since the company’s inception in 2011.SalesMethods’ customers have led the trend of organisations globally, and across different industry sectors, in identifying and using sales tools to enable them to realise the full potential of their sales organisations.By year-end, March 31st 2014, SalesMethods had added a record number of new customers, with…
UPnP+ demonstration for Cloud and IoT to take place at IBC 2014Amsterdam – 23 July 2014: Global home networking standards group, UPnP Forum, is driving UPnP+ forward, using the Cloud to connect the Internet of Things (IoT) to the things you will have in your home and make those things even more capable. UPnP Forum, which is exhibiting at this year’s IBC (12-16 September), will demonstrate UPnP+ capabilities using sensor management control over a Cloud network to show how UPnP can integrate devices into the IoT.UPnP Forum has created a strategy around using new and existing UPnP device control protocols…
New analytics solution mines for customer and market insights across vast volumes of dataLondon, UK and Oslo, Norway and New York, NY: 23 July 2014: Confirmit today announces the launch of Confirmit Genius™, an innovative software solution for text and social media analytics. Confirmit Genius provides a powerful addition to Confirmit’s suite of solutions for Customer Experience, Employee Engagement and Market Research.Answering the rapidly growing need for organisations to gain insights from the large volumes of unstructured feedback and content they gather, Confirmit Genius has been well received by customers and prospects alike. The solution uses advanced statistical techniques to…