London (City) 05/03/2014: Leading IT Management & Investor group NewGen Associates is pleased to announce the successful completion of its most recent transaction, advising on the sale of Crocus Consulting Limited to Inoapps Limited.Founded in 2000 Crocus Consulting is a leading Oracle Gold Partner specialising in PeopleSoft applications for HCM, Financials and Global Payroll. Inoapps is a leading Oracle Platinum Partner & hardware specialist with operations throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. NewGen works closely with entrepreneurial businesses, their owners and management teams in the mid-market technology sector and was selected by Crocus Consulting to advise them…
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Leading e-learning association rewards global online language training platform Munich – Wednesday 5th March 2014 – Speexx, the leading global provider of online communication skills training, has secured the German eLearning Award 2014. The award goes to the Speexx language training solution which was implemented for a leading biopharmaceutical company. The official award ceremony will take place on 29th March 2014 at the didacta in Stuttgart, Germany, the largest international trade fair for education and training.Now in its fourth year, the eLearning Award 2014 selects outstanding state-of-the-art e-learning and educational projects and showcases them as best practice examples. The eLearning…
Goat ate my cheque book, one of many excuses given to tradespeopleLONDON – 5th March 2014 – A survey from WorldPay, the UK leader* in payments has found that many micro businesses and sole traders are regularly battling with late payments from their customers and are chasing up an average of £799 in late payments. This suggests that bad debt accumulated by this group alone could add up to a staggering £2.5 billion in the UK.The research, which surveyed over 1,000 UK mobile tradespeople across various sectors, found that they typically get paid late once a month. Individual consumers are…
Qumu’s upgraded enterprise video integration brings more power to Microsoft® SharePoint 2013® San Bruno, CA – March 4, 2014 – Qumu (NASDAQ: QUMU), the leading business video platform provider, today announced the inclusion of Speech Search along with several other features to the expanded functionality of the Qumu Video App for Microsoft® SharePoint 2013®. Building on Qumu’s award-winning Video Control Center platform, the Qumu Video App for SharePoint delivers a seamless, integrated enterprise video solution within SharePoint that can scale globally for even the largest enterprises. The enhanced SharePoint 2013 app is available immediately along with the existing Qumu solution…
Report reveals ISV’s failure to implement licensing & entitlement management technology reduces virtualisation revenues, go-to-market effectiveness, and quote to cash efficiencyMaidenhead, UK – March 4, 2014 – Despite the massive growth and evolution of the enterprise software industry, independent software vendors (ISVs) have largely failed to implement automated software licensing and entitlement management systems across their product lines, and their failure to modernise is hurting business. This is the conclusion of a new Flexera Software Application Usage Management Report prepared jointly with IDC, which surveyed more than 750 respondents from software vendors, intelligent device manufacturers and end-user enterprises on all…
4 March 2014 – Online 50, the Sage 50 accounts online specialist, has chosen a private suite in the central London data centre, City Lifeline to securely operate its most critical operations, involving the financial data of thousands of companies across the world.Having previously worked with other data centres, Online 50 had experienced problems with downtime and access. After initially taking up temporary rack space with the City Lifeline data centre, Online 50 commissioned City Lifeline to build a custom-specified secure private suite in the data centre to meet the company’s specific requirements.Rob Lambden, chief executive at Online 50, explains:…
Fareham, UK: 4 March 2014: CoralTree, an innovative fast-growing software company that works with some of the industry’s leading cable and satellite operators, announces its participation in Cable Congress, 12-14 March at RAI, Amsterdam. CoralTree can be found on Pod #6 demonstrating its innovative daVinci BSS. With a heritage in cable and satellite, CoralTree solutions are uniquely positioned to enable operators to maximise their continued growth in the television business.”This is an exciting time for the television business. A view shared by the leading European television trade bodies that recently announced their optimism for the future of this sector. As…
Cloud based Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service solution offers sub 15 minute recovery times. StratoGen today announced the release of StratoSure, a cloud based Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution based on award winning Zerto Virtual Replication technology.StratoSure offers an assured way for organisations to meet their business continuity targets with extremely low recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) of less than 15 minutes. The service is secure, scalable and fully automated allowing self-service failover from a web based portal. StratoSure is a next generation disaster recovery solution which is:Suitable for all VMware based environmentsHugely scalable with the ability to protect many…
Based in Yorkshire, Broadacres Housing Association provides a full range of housing services to over 5600 homes across both rural areas and market towns. The repairs and maintenance operation is a major element of the services provided. By introducing 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com) mobile workforce software, Broadacres has derived significant and quantifiable productivity benefits for its repairs operation. As delivering the highest possible levels of service is the key priority at Broadacres, a decision was taken three years ago to bring the repairs service in-house. This afforded Broadacres the opportunity to look for a mobile solution that could support the work…
Fortune Global 500 company looks to Interxion’s London Campus for support with European expansion plansLONDON 4 MARCH 2014 – INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE: INXN), a leading European provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral co-location data centre services, today announced that NTT Communications has opened a Point of Presence (PoP) at its London City data centre campus. NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, and ICT solutions for business customers all over the world including Canon Europe, Yamaha Motors and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The company operates a global tier-one IP backbone network spanning Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe. With six existing PoPs already open…
Shenzhen, Beijing, CHINA – 4 March 2014 – Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, and Huawei, a world leading information and communication solution provider, today announced that cards based on Emulex BladeEngine™ (BE)3 Ethernet and Emulex Engine™ (XE)201 converged fabric controllers have passed Huawei FusionSphere Cloud Operating System compatibility test and were granted Huawei Ready certification, as the system and hardware interoperate seamlessly and can provide superior performance. Cloud computing and big data have changed distribution of data traffic in traditional data centres, making data centres the new hotspot of data traffic distribution. At the…
Oxfordshire villages made fit for the future through DEFRA fundingOxfordshire, 03 March 2014 – Gigaclear, provider of ultrafast pure fibre broadband has been appointed to design, build, implement, and operate a fibre-to-the-premises broadband network in the Parish of Northmoor – delivering a future-proofed and reliable broadband service for residents. Gigaclear applied for the contract via an open procurement process conducted by West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC) after the Parish secured a Rural Community Broadband Fund (RCBF) grant from the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).Better broadband scored very highly in a survey of residents’ needs. The village…
Customer-centric retailing solutions and expertise help retailers transform their businessesPalo Alto, CA – March 3, 2014 – Symphony EYC, a global leader in delivering ROI for retailers, manufacturers, and wholesalers using customer insights to drive execution, today announced more than 45% percent 2013 revenue growth over the previous fiscal year. Symphony EYC new revenue came from established product offerings, the introduction of innovative new products, as well as through the merger and acquisitions of EYC customer insights and segmentation strategies, marketing communications “one click” shopping platform Slingshot and the ENGAGE customer analytics and enterprise marketing platform.In 2013, Symphony EYC signed…
AirPair to deliver fast, pay-as-you-go external online advice on Searchmetrics integration tasks New York – March 03, 2014 – Digital marketing software and services company, Searchmetrics, has partnered with AirPair, an online platform which delivers live on-demand pay-as-you-go remote assistance from leading software engineers and developers. The partnership means customers of Searchmetrics Suite, the online marketing and enterprise level Search Engine Optimization (SEO) platform for companies and online agencies, have the option to call on remote external assistance from leading experts within AirPair’s network using video chat and screen sharing.”The expert advice from AirPair could be useful if someone wants…
– Imago Techmedia launches new event focused on smart thinking for the Internet of Things -London, Monday 3 March: Imago TechMedia, the specialist technology event organiser, has unveiled a ground-breaking new event, Connected World Expo – the Internet of Things. It will run from 21-22 April 2015 at London Olympia and will be co-located with Connected Business Expo, the leading communication and collaboration technology event.Connected World Expo is set to be a pioneering B2B exhibition for the next generation of smart technologies and services to support the Internet of Things (IoT), and will showcase the current state of the market…
March 3rd, 2014: Recent reports released by researchers at the University Of Liverpool revealed that WiFi networks are becoming highly prone to un-detectable virus infections spreading quickly between homes and businesses. Purple WiFi, the cloud-based Social WiFi software company, has highlighted the need to take action against these WiFi security threats.A recent Purple WiFi survey covering 3,349 venues across the globe, uncovered that 2048 venues were running completely open networks, meaning anyone could access their network, putting them at greater risk of virus attack. But as with many security-related issues, potential threats become minimised with the right systems in place.Purple…
Munich, 03 March 2014 – The theme for CeBIT 2014 is Datability and consequently ABBYY Europe, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies and services, will demonstrate solutions for efficient and highly accurate capture and processing of information from different input channels, like paper, fax, or e-mail, for their fast integration into relevant business processes and workflows. ABBYY will present its new solution FlexiCapture for Mailroom, which offers optimized classification, capture and structuring of big volumes of unstructured data. Thus, companies gain fast access to their information. Additionally, ABBYY proudly introduces FineReader 12, the newest version…
– Connected Business Expo chosen as ideal stage to showcase latest collaboration and business technology – London, Monday 03 March: Imago Techmedia’s communication and collaboration technology event – Connected Business Expo – is reporting record numbers of exhibitors. With a rise of 26% floor space sold and 20% in the number of exhibitors, the event is set to be Imago Techmedia’s largest communication and collaboration expo to date.This year’s event, taking place at London, Olympia on 4-5 March, will cover current and emerging themes such as unified communications, social business, workforce mobilisation, cloud communications and cloud contact centres, content collaboration…
i4C Analytics is one of only four European vendors to be included within the Gartner reportLONDON, UK, 3 March, 2014 – i4C Analytics, leading software vendor of advanced analytics, announced today that is has been included in Gartner’s 2014 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms report.i4C Analytics is a privately owned company which has experienced 75% growth over the last year, with a significant focus on expanding its international network of partners and resellers. Its unique approach with a single, flexible platform is aimed at providing advanced analytics capabilities through APPs to a variety of businesses, across multiple vertical sectors.…
UK Cloud Awards acknowledge hybrid cloud pioneer with industry accoladeBath, United Kingdom – 3rd March 2014: Zynstra, the pioneer in hybrid cloud solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has been named the Most Innovative SMB Cloud Solution at the UK Cloud Awards. This coveted award was the most hotly contested and included the very best of cloud technology from around the world. The inaugural awards were jointly organised by the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), Cloud Pro and techUK, and were presented at a ceremony on 26th February at London’s City Hall.”In the UK alone there are over two million…