Published by: PR Artistry
Date: 18th March, 2010

18th March 2010 - Barking and Dagenham Community Health Services has selected HMT's erostering system to manage staff rostering and overtime on its wards. The Trust is using HMT's RosterPro Central initially to manage shift working on three wards, with a view to rolling it out across its rapid response teams and all clinical staff. The Trust expects significant savings from reducing the use of agency services as well as improved governance of working time directive, with more accurate records of staff working hours and overtime.

HMT, which was acquired by SMART in December 2009, was selected to provide erostering systems following an evaluation of three competitive solutions for its ease of use and functionality. The new solution, RosterPro Central, replaces a manual system reducing both administration time taken to create staff rotas and the use of bank and agency staff by enabling the deployment of available staff first. The Trust's Ward Managers use the system to create workable and safe rosters for suitably skilled staff, improving staff morale through more responsive shift patterns.

According to Alison Browne, Head of Nursing at Barking and Dagenham Community Health Services; "We chose HMT's solution because it was the easiest to use, yet gave us the features that we were looking for. We anticipate significant savings from using RosterPro Central - through agency requests and annual leave being processed electronically and accurate timesheets going to payroll.

"With the right deployment of available staff, we don't have to depend on filling gaps with temporary staffing. It also helps us with governance, to ensure that our staff are not overstretched or working outside of the legal requirements, as well as reminding us automatically of staff registration dates."

HMT's system provides an accurate picture of current staffing and absence levels as well as costs and budget, providing measurements and control on the use of agency and bank services. It prevents over rostering, thereby losing man hours (as well as staff working under their allocated hours) and gives an up to the minute record of staff leave and overtime payments.

Tristan Spencer, Health Market Director at SMART commented; "These are challenging times for the public sector - the NHS, like all public services, is facing reduced budgets yet must meet key performance indicators. Trusts must match staff skills and availability with the required patient care demands by optimising resources, whilst still maintaining a tight control on costs.

"E-rostering systems can help to maximise staff efficiencies. They provide an automated process of preparing and managing a staff roster. Based on grades and skills and availability, e-rostering best matches the patient care required, and by deploying available staff, there is less dependency on filling gaps from the (costly) bank or temporary staffing. Efficient staff rotas have also been proven to improve staff morale and job satisfaction."

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Notes to Editors

Barking and Dagenham Community Health Services
Barking and Dagenham Community Health Services (CHS), part of North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELNFT), provides community-based health services such as health visiting, physiotherapy and district and school nursing, speech and language therapy, diabetic clinics, safeguarding, immunisation and dentists.

Its aim is to; ‘provide personal primary and community health and care to local people. Delivering the right service, with the best staff, closer to home, first time, every time'. CHS is comprised of three main teams: Adult Services, Children's and Young People's Services and Integrated Governance.

Since becoming a Foundation Trust last year, one of NELFT's main aims has been to provide even better, more diverse care. It plans to use the greater freedoms that being a Foundation Trust brings to further develop and deliver the local services that communities want and need both, by the people who use the services, and by those in the broader community.

For more information, please visit: www.nelft.nhs.uk/our_services/bd_chs

About SMART
Established in 1986, SMART is a leading provider of solutions for workforce management aimed at helping companies to maximise the performance, productivity and value of their people. By implementing SMART's technology, organisations can expect to achieve a sustainable reduction in their people costs of up to 10%.

SMART's web-based workforce management solutions manage complex shifts and annualised hours to ensure adequate staffing to meet fluctuating demands, which results in reduced absenteeism and recruitment costs, an end to spiralling overtime and an improvement in productivity. Importantly, the software helps to improve employee relationships through the use of powerful self-service and the ability to implement flexible working patterns.

SMART in Healthcare
In 2001, SMART was selected by the NHS and McKesson as the best of breed provider of e-rostering and time and attendance solutions for the National ESR programme. SMART is able to deliver fully integrated workforce management solutions for all nursing, medical, administrative and support services in the NHS. SMART is uniquely positioned to provide proven secure, reliable and fully automated ESR integration, which have been rigorously tested and accepted by ESR.

HMT Systems
In December 2009 SMART acquired HMT Systems. HMT pioneered the first rostering systems for the NHS in 1997 and recently launched its flagship product RosterPro Central which has been developed using the very latest technology.

Together SMART and HMT provide comprehensive solutions to a significant proportion of the UK Healthcare market.

Over 600 organisations worldwide benefit from SMART's and HMT's solutions and services in both the private and public sectors. Customers include Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, Ocado, Gist, Habitat, Jaguar, JCB, Mandarin Oriental, Sainsbury's, Swissport, Trailfinders, Tussauds Group, and Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service.

For more information, please visit www.smart-workforce.com.

For information relating specifically to the NHS sector, please visit: www.smart-rostering.co.uk

For press enquiries, please contact:
Lucy Caudle
Marketing Manager, SMART
Telephone: 01438 822229
Email: lucyc@smart-workforce.com

Andreina West
PR Artistry
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Email: andreina@pra-ltd.co.uk

Published by: TopLine Communications
Date: 18th March, 2010

Nick Moglia, 50, Group Managing Director of value added distributor Zycko, is running in the London Marathon on April 25th to raise sponsorship to help orphans in Zambia to go to school.

"When I was asked by a friend, Julie Grime (Fundraising Support Officer at Cecily's Fund) whether I would consider running the London Marathon for Cecily's Fund, I had to admit to knowing very little about the charity," says Nick, "From what I now know, this is an extremely worthwhile cause and one which deserves a special effort, which is exactly what I will be giving it."

Cecily's Fund raises money to send Zambian children who have been orphaned or pushed into extreme poverty, to school. They do this by supplying the children with school shoes, uniforms, books and pens and helping them with school fees at secondary level. The HIV epidemic has created 1.2 million orphans in Zambia, 10% of the total population.

It costs Cecily's Fund just £25 to send an orphan to primary school for a whole year and just £50 to secondary school. As a father of three himself, Nick is delighted to be able to give hundreds of children who don't have fathers the chance of a better future.

Using his contacts in the business world, Nick has raised over £13,800 so far - enough to send 500 children to primary school for a year.

Nick started running in 2005 and now averages over 1,000 miles per year. He has already competed in approximately twenty-five 10K races, and in two half-marathons.

"I started my 16 week training schedule on January 4th, and this will see me cover over 700 miles. My target time is an ambitious 3 hours 15 minutes."

To sponsor Nick go to www.virginmoneygiving.com/NickMoglia

Notes for editors:
Cecily's Fund was set up in 1998 in memory of Cecily Eastwood who died aged 19 in a traffic accident while on her gap year in Zambia. Cecily's father is former British Ambassador to Switzerland, Basil Eastwood.

With funds raised by supporters in the UK, Switzerland and the USA, and working with local partner organisations, Cecily's Fund is currently supporting over 9,500 children in primary and secondary school. It also funds 35 young people to train as teachers and 50 a year as peer health educators to help teach other children about HIV and children's rights.

HIV has hit Zambia harder than almost anywhere else in the world. Already, one in five of all Zambian children are orphans and tens of thousands have been pushed into extreme poverty by the disease. HIV mainly affects adults, many of whom are parents. Many teachers have also been lost, are sick, or are frequently absent for funerals or to care for sick relatives.

Cecily's Fund won an Institute of Chartered Accountants' award for the clarity and user-friendliness of its Online Accounts in 2009.

Cecily's Fund is a UK Registered Charity number 1071660.

For more information please visit http://www.cecilysfund.org/ or contact us direct.

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Address: Cecily's Fund, Unit C6, New Yatt Business Centre, New Yatt, Witney, OX29 6TJ

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Published by: Rainier PR
Date: 18th March, 2010

Madrid, March 17, 2010 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world's number one independent leader in data integration software, announced that Banco Popular is implementing Informatica Data Quality to improve the quality of information handled by the company and contribute to the launch of more effective business campaigns.

With a presence in Spain, Portugal and the United States, the Banco Popular Group is currently the third largest banking group in Spain, with a team of over 14,400 professionals. Informatica Data Quality is part of an operational improvement and customer attraction and retention initiative that began a few years ago. The aim is to ensure that the bank offers all customers the right products for the right situation.

In December 2008, a Quality Office was created within the IT department to look closely at the quality of the data being used, since customers can only be approached with products suited to their needs at the right time based on their personal circumstances, if accurate data is available.

The Quality Office publishes a monthly Data Quality Index based on 23 variables that ensure data completeness and quality. These 23 variables include fields such as name, date of birth, education level, CNAE (standard industrial classification) and CNO (occupational title) codes etc., and are classified as mandatory, necessary or desirable. The mandatory fields refer to regulatory compliance, the necessary fields to business requirements and the desirable fields to ‘ideal' data (customers' interests and tastes, for example, for sending personalized offers).

Before Informatica Data Quality was installed, the variable types were distinguished by means of manual programming that was getting increasingly more complex as new requirements were added. For this reason, Banco Popular assessed various tools for data quality automation, eventually opting for the Informatica solution. Since the Banco Popular Group was already working with Informatica PowerCenter to integrate data from the entire Group's data system, it was possible to make use of the data structure developed for this project.

"In view of the excellent results of a proof of concept on 280,000 records, Banco Popular decided to use Informatica Data Quality. The advantages it offered us included a complete dictionary of the existing domains, which is a key aspect for launching offers by email, and it was very easy to use for users without a technical background," explains Alberto Romero, director of Banco Popular's Quality Office. "Our intention is to involve business users-from branches to regional management-in data quality so that it is not seen as a task exclusively for IT. Good data quality ensures a better and more effective business strategy."

Automation and Saving Time
One of the main advantages of the installation of Informatica Data Quality, which is due to be deployed in 2010, is the autonomy and independence gained by the Quality Office, since it is able to define its own data quality rules (which only needs to be done once, since they can be reused) without being dependent on the workload of the development teams.

Once the new solution is deployed, it is expected that the data quality level, which will be included in the monthly report, will be increased to 90% for all variables (it is currently around 74%). Likewise, the automation of the whole process will save a significant amount of time for the Quality Office technical team, who will then be free to analyze the data in depth. Finally, the solution will improve the company's ability to respond to regulatory changes in the financial industry affecting data management and protection.

"Ensuring that data is accurate, that there are no technological or organizational barriers to accessing it and that all users can understand and manage it are critical issues for effective business management nowadays. More and more customers, like Banco Popular, are using the Informatica Platform to do this, combining data quality and integration to turn their data into a real strategic asset," concluded Emilio Valdés, Regional Director for Spain and Portugal, Informatica.

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About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world gain a competitive advantage in today's global information economy with timely, relevant and trustworthy data for their top business imperatives. More than 3,900 enterprises worldwide rely on Informatica to access, integrate and trust their information assets held in the traditional enterprise, off premise and in the Cloud. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com.

Note: Informatica and Informatica Data Quality are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in various jurisdictions around the world. All other product names and corporate branding are registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Contacts:

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Informatica Corporation
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Published by: Eskenzi PR Limited
Date: 18th March, 2010

Copenhagen, Denmark 18th March 2010 : The ISACA Denmark Chapter, which is part of a non-profit association of 86,000 global information technology professionals, is celebrating its 25th year. To commemorate this, the Denmark Chapter will be hosting a Celebratory Banquet, the first of three special anniversary events, on 14 April 2010 in Copenhagen. During the event, which will also incorporate the Annual Meeting, the co-founder and executive director of the Cloud Security Alliance, Jim Reavis, will be giving an informative and lively presentation encompassing what auditors and security professionals need to know about Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing is rapidly becoming a business information technology buzz word, but there are many issues concerning Cloud security and audit-ability.

Cloud Computing may help enterprises meet the increased requirements of lower total cost of ownership (TCO), replacing IT capital expenses (CAPEX) with operating expenses (OPEX), increased efficiency, dynamic provisioning and utility-like pay-as-you-go services. However, many IT professionals are citing the increased risks associated with trusting information assets to the cloud as something that must be clearly understood and managed by relevant stakeholders. In recognition of new risks around this emergent technology, ISACA became an affiliate of the Cloud Security Alliance, and together they collaborated on a whitepaper titled ‘Cloud Computing: Business Benefits With Security, Governance and Assurance Perspectives', available as a free download from www.isaca.org/cloud.

H. Peet Rapp, MBA, CISA, of Rapp Consulting, and part of the ISACA Cloud Computing Work Group, said, "It is fitting that, whilst ISACA celebrates, its members are able to keep abreast of important developments in this emerging technology. ISACA members can provide advisory to their organisations, leveraging the unlimited advantages of the Cloud, while at the same time avoid possible shortcomings of Cloud security for organisations' business-critical data or applications. Today, the Cloud does provide business advantages for organisational data which would not be a target for "black hat" cyber villains. Perhaps in the future, with guidance from the Cloud Security Alliance, ISACA and other cloud security leaders, organisations will be able to trust, yet verify, Cloud Service Providers' (CSPs') virtual computing services with data protection at least as secure, and perhaps more secure, than that found in traditional in-house enterprises. This will be a good reason to celebrate."

ISACA members can attend the annual meeting free of charge and those wishing to stay to the banquet will only have to pay 25% of the full ticket price-as a special 25th birthday present from ISACA. The full program and a registration form are available by visiting www.isaca.dk/anniversary or sending an e-mail request to 25jubi@isaca.dk.

The other two events planned for later this jubilee year are a mini-governance day on June 9 and a special Christmas celebration in Copenhagen on December 9 with further details of these two events released closer to the time.

To learn more about the association and the benefits membership offers, including access to a range of resources, networking, seminars and member activities, or to join ISACA, please visit http://www.isaca.org/. Further information specifically relating to the Denmark Chapter can be found at www.isaca.dk.

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About ISACA:
With more than 86,000 constituents in more than 160 countries, ISACA (www.isaca.org) is a leading global provider of knowledge, certifications, community, advocacy and education on information systems assurance and security, enterprise governance of IT, and IT-related risk and compliance. Founded in 1969, ISACA sponsors international conferences, publishes the ISACA® Journal, and develops international information systems auditing and control standards. It also administers the globally respected Certified Information Systems AuditorTM (CISA®), Certified Information Security Manager® (CISM®) and Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT® (CGEIT®) designations.

ISACA developed and continually updates the CobiT,® Val ITTM and Risk IT frameworks, which help IT professionals and enterprise leaders fulfil their IT governance responsibilities and deliver value to the business.

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Published by: Red
Date: 18th March, 2010

London, March 18th, 2010 - Virgin Trains has renewed its mainframe-to-desktop IT outsourcing contract with Capgemini UK plc in a multi-million pound contract for the three-year period to 2013. The contract is a further renewal of a relationship between the two companies that started in 1999, making it one of the longest-running IT outsourcing contracts in the UK.

Capgemini will manage the entire IT infrastructure that supports core business-critical systems at Virgin Trains, including financial and key operational systems such as train and crew scheduling and rostering, and the catering management system. The systems are based on over 100 Virgin Trains network servers that are now located in two Capgemini secure data centres in Rotherham, Yorkshire. The contract also includes desktop and laptop management and support services for approximately 1,000 Virgin Trains staff at 42 locations across the UK, based on a dedicated team at a Capgemini service centre in Inverness.

Virgin Trains says that the decision to renew its existing contract, taken after a formal review of competitive bids from other leading IT vendors, reflects the high quality of the service delivered to date by Capgemini, its cost-effective proposals, and its proven commitment to effective innovation and to a fully collaborative partnership role in the relationship.

Francis Jellings, Head of IT at Virgin Trains, said: ‘We continue to be impressed by the quality of the Capgemini people working with us and by their ability to work in full collaboration with our own teams. They have an excellent appreciation of our business and IT needs and I am pleased that we are to work with them for a further three years.'

Capgemini has recently completed a number of important IT projects at Virgin Trains, including a major transformation of its desktop and laptop environment, involving new hardware and a migration from Lotus Notes to the latest versions of Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Office, which has significantly boosted staff efficiency and productivity at the train company.

David Corr, Account Director for Virgin Trains at Capgemini UK, said: ‘We have constantly applied a policy of continuous improvement to all aspects of our work for Virgin Trains, with advances in technology and service levels, and we are naturally delighted that our efforts have been rewarded with a further contract period.'

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About Capgemini
Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM. The Group relies on its global delivery model called Rightshore®, which aims to get the right balance of the best talent from multiple locations, working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for clients. Present in more than 30 countries, Capgemini reported 2009 global revenues of EUR 8.4 billion and employs 90,000 people worldwide.

More information is available at http://www.uk.capgemini.com/.

Capgemini Outsourcing Services (OS) draws on the expertise of more than 25,000 employees to manage, innovate and improve the IT systems and business processes of its clients. Capgemini OS offers a full spectrum of services including Applications Outsourcing, Infrastructure Outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing and Transformational Outsourcing. For more information: http://www.capgemini.com/services/outsourcing/

Rightshore® is a trademark belonging to Capgemini.

About Virgin Trains
For further information about Virgin Trains contact the Press Office on 0845 000 3333 or visit the Media Room website at www.virgintrains.co.uk/about/media-room/

Virgin Trains is the brand name of Virgin Rail Group (VRG). It has operated the West Coast passenger train franchise since 1997; the current franchise runs to March 2012. VRG is owned 51 percent by Virgin Group and 49 percent by Stagecoach.

Published by: Tunstall
Date: 18th March, 2010

18 March 2010 - Norman Lamb, Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary and MP for North Norfolk has experienced first-hand how innovative telecare solutions from Tunstall Healthcare are providing support, and enhancing quality of life for older people and those with long-term needs in Norfolk.

Mr Lamb visited a telecare user in Cromer to see how Tunstall's solutions, deployed in thousands of homes by Norfolk County Council, helps individuals to live safely and independently in their own homes, reassures families and carers, and improves efficiency in delivering care services.

Norfolk County Council recognised the potential of telecare to transform and enhance its care services, and integrated the technology into its assessment and management processes. An analysis of the outcomes from telecare deployments showed an average saving of £11,152 per service user. Without telecare, many users would have been re-directed to residential or nursing care.

Furthermore, in several instances during the study period, use of telecare solutions avoided hospitalisation for users, reducing distress and realising further savings.

Mr Lamb commented: "With the issue of long-term care being so high on the political agenda right now, it is critical that we find new ways to help people retain their independence and a good quality of life for as long as possible. I believe telecare is key to achieving these aims, while managing the costs of social care. Norfolk County Council's approach of personalising care to the individual is an excellent blueprint for delivery of next-generation services."

As part of the study into the outcomes following telecare deployments, the majority of service users agreed that they felt safer, and more secure and independent in their own homes.

Jon Lowe, Managing Director for Tunstall, said: "The way that telecare has been integrated by Norfolk County Council into its mainstream services highlights the benefits of the technology, both for users and in terms of cost savings and efficiency gains. This integration with other services and disciplines is key to achieving rapid, ongoing benefits from telecare."

Telecare is a low-level, cost-effective alternative to traditional institutional or residential care, and can assist in reducing some of the pressure on care providers, by giving people access to round-the-clock support and care.

Published by: CommScope
Date: 18th March, 2010

Richardson, Texas, March 18, 2010 - Architectural design and layouts of enterprise buildings, campuses and large venues can be the enemy of wireless technology, limiting signal coverage and making it difficult and costly to install systems to create better wireless coverage and capacity. CommScope Enterprise Solutions, a division of CommScope, Inc. (NYSE:CTV), helps overcome these significant hurdles with its new Wired for WirelessTM Solution, providing owners and developers of new buildings and campuses with the infrastructure necessary-in advance-to eliminate weak or blocked signal areas from the outset and prepare them for better wireless coverage over the structure's lifetime.

As the demand for wireless coverage increases, the Wired for Wireless Solution serves as a building's new utility for mobility. CommScope's cost-effective innovation builds upon its enterprise structured cabling expertise and Andrew® brand of wireless products, engineered with wireless carrier and public safety communications requirements in mind, to flood a building with enhanced signal coverage from multiple indoor Andrew antennas, eliminating the need for future custom modifications. By implementing CommScope's Wired for Wireless Solution during the construction phase, customers reduce the installation and design costs of a wireless system, eliminate the need for costly and time-consuming radio frequency (RF) site surveys, and protect wireless performance inside the building from future changes to the outdoor network.

"Our Wired for Wireless Solution provides a necessary foundation to ensure exceptional wireless coverage throughout the building's lifecycle," said Morgan Kurk, senior vice president of intelligent buildings, CommScope Enterprise Solutions. "The employees, suppliers, customers and general visitors that occupy these buildings and campuses rely on dependable connectivity in all aspects of their business and personal lives. A smartphone is becoming just as indispensable for business operations as electricity and plumbing are for the building. We believe the Wired for Wireless Solution is the most sensible way to better prepare a building or campus for its wireless needs - today and tomorrow."

Most new hospitals, high-rise office buildings, hotels and government buildings boast energy-saving features such as heavily insulated walls and windows that reduce energy costs. Unfortunately, those same energy-saving measures can also make it difficult to receive outside wireless signals. Not only does the Wired for Wireless Solution provide the infrastructure to eliminate these dead zones within new buildings, but CommScope's carrier-neutral solution frees enterprises and building owners from a single-carrier commitment, offering the flexibility to enable other applications that can contribute to enterprise efficiency and productivity.

CommScope's Wired for Wireless Solution is a part of the company's total in-building wireless portfolio, which includes fiber distributed antenna system, repeater platform, radiating cable, and other coverage solutions. The Wired for Wireless Solution features two Andrew Cell-MaxTM low-profile, multiband indoor antennas that cover 3G applications up to 2.7 MHz. It also utilizes Andrew's HELIAX® 2.0 transmission line cables, both Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH) and plenum, easy-to-install connectors for high performance and flexibility, and cable management apparatus.

Like all CommScope products, the Wired for Wireless Solution is designed and engineered to meet or exceed industry standards for performance reliability. Together, the Wired for Wireless products can provide ubiquitous wireless coverage throughout the entire structure - and in most cases, the entire structure's lifespan.

"The Wired for Wireless Solution is a much-needed evolution to the way wireless infrastructure is implemented in enterprise buildings," Kurk said. "Instead of waiting to find coverage trouble areas, CommScope's cost-effective platform for uniform coverage provides building owners with a low-cost solution before the high-cost problem presents itself. This capability not only allows people to stay connected and achieve more in their day-to-day lives but long-term, it can help enterprises reduce infrastructure costs by embracing in-building wireless systems for their communications needs."

CommScope's Wired for Wireless Solution is available now globally. Customers are invited to "Connect and Evolve" with CommScope-including learning more about the Wired for Wireless Solution-at International CTIA WIRELESS 2010 (booth 2433), March 23 - 25 in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information about the Wired for Wireless Solution, visit www.commscope.com/wiredforwireless.

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Andrew and HELIAX are registered trademarks and Wired for Wireless and Cell-Max are trademarks of CommScope, Inc.

About CommScope
CommScope, Inc. (NYSE: CTV - http://www.commscope.com/) is a world leader in infrastructure solutions for communication networks. Through its Andrew SolutionsTM brand it is a global leader in radio frequency subsystem solutions for wireless networks. Through its SYSTIMAX® and Uniprise® brands, CommScope is a world leader in network infrastructure solutions, delivering a complete end-to-end physical layer solution, including cables and connectivity, enclosures, intelligent software, and network design services for business enterprise applications. It is also the premier manufacturer of coaxial cable for broadband cable television networks and one of the leading North American providers of environmentally secure cabinets for DSL and FTTN applications. Backed by strong research and development, CommScope combines technical expertise and proprietary technology with global manufacturing capability to provide customers with infrastructure solutions for evolving global communications networks in more than 100 countries around the world.

Published by: NeonDrum
Date: 18th March, 2010

Dublin, Ireland, 18 March 2010 - TradeDoubler, the number one pan-European digital marketing company, today announced the appointment of three new key executives, further strengthening the company's aggressive expansion and operations strategy within the Irish market and across Europe in line with increased customer demand for the company's digital marketing solutions.

Patrick Murphy joins the company with five years' experience in digital, most recently as Account Manager at Agency.com and prior to that at Paddy Power. Patrick will join the TradeDoubler affiliate team where he will be working on major brand accounts such as O2, Vodafone, ebookers, Expedia, Dell and Apple to name a few.

Fiona O'Riordan will be taking on the role of Digital Campaign Manager and brings with her three years' experience as a digital media planner and paid search specialist at McConnellsintegrated. Fiona will be responsible for the delivery of TradeDoubler ad network campaigns as well as search marketing services.

Eoin Clarke, formerly Publisher Sales Manager, has been promoted to Head Of Sales for all TradeDoubler products. Eoin's main focus will be to drive TradeDoubler's search, affiliate and campaign offerings.

Andrew Maat, Country Manager for TradeDoubler Ireland said: "TradeDoubler and its solutions are highly regarded. Given the company's market-leading position, this investment is another excellent endorsement of Ireland as an emerging European innovation leader and shows our commitment to both increasing investment into the region and our desire to drive and support activities for international ecommerce businesses."

In 2009, TradeDoubler Ireland launched td Search, offering expert SEO and PPC search marketing services, bringing it in line with the rest of TradeDoubler's td Search businesses across Europe. With its extensive reach in 18 countries across Europe, TradeDoubler delivers 32 billion impressions per month, reaching 154 million unique users and generating 10 million leads every month. The Group offers unrivalled access to more than 76% of the European online audience through its network, which comprises more than 128,000 active website publishers and in excess of 1,800 advertisers.

About TradeDoubler
TradeDoubler is an international digital marketing company offering a range of performance-based marketing solutions. TradeDoubler's products and services provide companies with the tools and expertise to drive results online whether they are looking to generate sales, leads or traffic or drive brand awareness. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, the company boasts a unique global reach spanning 18 countries in Europe. With a breadth of expertise across multiple industry sectors and a network of more than 128,000 website publishers, TradeDoubler helps deliver results for over 1,800 advertisers including a mix of local and international companies such as Apple Store, Dell, TeliaSonera and Kelkoo. TradeDoubler is listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm Exchange.

Please visit www.tradedoubler.com for further information.

For further information, please contact:
Jennifer Cheung
Marketing Manager
TradeDoubler
Tel: +44 (0)20 7798 5860
Email: jennifer.cheung[at]tradedoubler[dot]com

Vanessa Land
Devonshire Marketing
Tel: +44(0)870 242 7469
Email: vanessa[at]devonshiremarketing[dot]com

Distributed on behalf of TradeDoubler by NeonDrum (http://www.neondrum.com/)
Nicky Denovan
Tel: +44 7747 017654
nicky[at]neondrum[dot]com

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Published by: Dell KACE
Date: 18th March, 2010

New Study Shows Almost 90 Percent Surveyed Plan to Adopt New Operating System, Almost Half Planning Deployment Ahead of Service Pack 1 Release

Reading UK, 17th March 2010 – As part of an ongoing research series on Windows operating system (OS) adoption, the latest Dell KACE global survey shows 87 percent of IT professionals surveyed now plan to deploy Windows 7.

While concerns for software compatibility and migration costs remain high, this is a dramatic increase from a similar study released in April 2009, which revealed the majority of IT staff had no plans to upgrade existing systems to Windows 7 in the next year. This year’s study attributes increased confidence in performance, security and stability to the overwhelming change of heart. Further demonstrating affinity for the new OS, almost half the 900 respondents said they plan to deploy Windows 7 before the anticipated summer release of its first Service Pack (SP1). And for the first time since KACE initiated this research in November 2007, those considering alternative operating systems to avoid Windows decreased dramatically from 50 to 32 percent.

“These results reinforce what we are hearing from the customers we talk to everyday,” said Rob Meinhardt, president, Dell KACE. “Productivity gains associated with working in two windows at the same time, having an OS that works with proprietary technology, powerful encryption to protect credit card numbers and employee data, and connecting PCs quickly and easily to wired and wireless networks are among the big wins over Windows XP most often cited by our customers.”

Conducted in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific by market research firm Dimensional Research and commissioned by Dell KACE, this is the fourth study of its kind to gather data about current plans and attitudes within mid-sized corporate IT organisations about Windows OS adoption. According to Diane Hagglund, senior research analyst for Dimensional Research and the survey’s author, another driver for speedy Windows 7 adoption is the fact that XP is reaching its end-of-life.

“As Windows XP becomes out of date and more expensive to support and with Vista increasingly insignificant, IT leaders are embracing Windows 7,” she said. “Based on previous research, Windows 7 deployments are dramatically ahead of planned Vista deployments at a similar stage in the OS lifecycle with most respondents skipping Vista altogether.”

Key survey findings include:

• 87 percent of survey respondents plan to deploy Windows 7 compared to 47 percent who had plans to deploy Vista at a comparable point after its release;
• 46 percent of the total surveyed revealed they have plans to migrate even before the release of SP1;
• 86 percent reported concern about software compatibility when migrating to Windows 7;
• 25 percent expressed concerns about Windows 7 performance, down from 47 percent reported during the 2009 survey; and,
• 32 percent are considering alternative operating systems to avoid Windows Vista or Windows 7, down from 50 percent in 2009.

“What a difference a year makes. Windows 7 is looking like it will be the biggest inflection point in Windows OS adoption since XP,” added Meinhardt. “But because there isn’t a direct upgrade path from XP, migrating to Windows 7 could be challenging and costly for many organisations. From a business continuity standpoint, customers just can’t afford not to get the support they need, and that is where we can help.”

Understanding the need to minimise the cost and complexity of operating system deployment, Dell KACE offers an appliance-based approach that allows IT administrators to quickly and easily migrate to Windows 7. While most IT administrators recognise the value commercial migration tools offer, only 27 percent of survey respondents currently have such tools in place. Dell KACE eases the pain of both remote and on-site provisioning by automating the entire deployment process, eliminating time-consuming and error-prone manual tasks.

The Dimensional Research report, titled “Windows 7 Adoption: A Survey of Technology Professionals,” is available free at: http://www.kace.com/resources/Windows-7-Adoption-Survey. A pre-recorded webinar on this same topic is also available at http://www.kace.com/resources/Windows-7-Wildfire.

Survey Methodology
In January 2010, IT professionals were invited to participate in a Web survey on the topic of Windows 7. A total of 923 respondents completed the survey and were not compensated for participation. Participants included hands-on IT professionals, IT managers and IT executives representing a wide range of company size and industry verticals worldwide. This survey is the fourth in a series on corporate operating systems. This most recent report compares certain results of similar questions asked in April 2009, June 2008 and November 2007.

About Dell KACE
Dell KACE is the leading systems management appliance. The award-winning KACE family of appliances delivers easy-to-use, comprehensive systems management capabilities. KACE customers usually install in one day and enjoy a low total cost of ownership.

Helpful Links

• Dell KACE Windows 7 Survey
• Dell KACE Windows 7 Migration
• KACE Systems Management Appliances
• KACE Systems Deployment Appliances
• KACE Trial Appliances

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Goode International for KACE
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Email: kace@goode.co.uk

Published by: FAST IiS
Date: 18th March, 2010

The Digital Economy Bill has passed its third reading in the House of Lords, and John Lovelock Chief Executive of FAST, voice of the British software industry, urges MPs, many on their final hurrah, not to unreasonably delay the introduction of this important legislation.

“The software industry and other copyright holders in the wider creative industry welcome the attention that is being focused on copyright issues in this digital age. We urge clear action against copyright infringers using the Bill’s provisions after Royal Assent.

“Delaying the legislation unnecessarily in the Commons will not help. The Bill has had scrutiny in the Lords to excess. FAST has lobbied for intellectual property legislation since its inception in 1984.”

The Bill, which includes the ‘three strikes rule’ giving the Government powers to suspend illegal file-sharers' Internet connections, has FAST’s support.

The now replaced Clause 17 had initially proposed to allow the secretary of state the power to update copyright law, which in principle was far sighted to combat as yet unknown future methods of piracy.

“Whilst campaigners have rightly pointed out that we shouldn’t allow politicians the power to meddle unrestrained with our copyright regime, let us be clear, there are checks and balances in place being eminently sensible given the rapid pace in digital technology and the difficulties in protecting intellectual property,” concluded Lovelock.

About FAST
The Federation Against Software Theft was formed in 1984; it was the first organisation globally to champion the professional management of legitimate software and protect publishers’ rights. It aims to reduce, restrict and or lessen the incidence of unauthorised dealings in computer software.

FAST is a not-for-profit organisation limited by guarantee and wholly owned by its members. It works on many fronts to promote the legitimate use of software and protect its members’ rights through education, enforcement, lobbying and promoting standards and best practice in business. www.fastiis.org

Published by: Solicitors Own Software
Date: 18th March, 2010

Oxford's premier law firm, Henmans LLP has carried out a review of IT systems and is laying down a unified foundation for the future with SOS Connect from Solicitors Own Software. The aim is to equip the firm with a modern, open and fully integrated case, practice management and marketing solution which will improve the firms' agility and ability to compete proactively, in a changing legal services and IT landscape.

SOS Connect will replace the existing, Solicitec and Axxia systems which are reaching end of life and be rolled out to every one of the 130+ members of staff.

Henmans LLP is a regional law firm based in Oxford with a national reputation for heavyweight expertise in its specialist areas, such as clinical negligence, commercial & professional negligence dispute resolution, corporate, employment, personal injury, private client, family, charities and property. The firm recently made the national news with its success in helping Karen Saunders win significant damages of £282,500 awarded by the NHS after a French surgeon operated on the wrong toe. The firm has undergone steady expansion in recent years and continues to grow.

The IT selection process began in earnest at the Legal IT Show 2009 with the realisation that change would be necessary whether the firm chose to follow the Lexis Nexis product roadmap following their acquisition of the Solcase and Axxia solutions, or not. The starting point was to see which integrated systems were in use with other law firms. This led to a short list for more detailed evaluation of various systems including SOS.

There were a number of factors which led to the choice of SOS Connect. Henmans LLP head of information management and technology Colin Paice commented: "SOS Connect is based on modern, flexible technology giving us an expandable platform to compete with new business models including virtual practices, extranets, mobile and remote working. We liked the tight integration of accounts, case management and marketing which enables a golden copy of reference data and a completely unified system to be accessible by the whole team.

"SOS also has the advantage of close integration with Solcase and previous experience of converting data from Axxia systems which augurs well for a smooth changeover," continued Colin Paice. "SOS Connect's automation and case integration of email was also the best we saw, but of equal importance was our confidence in the SOS people and the prospect of a fruitful, long-term relationship."

Initially Henmans LLP will roll-out SOS practice management and accounts enabling standardised business processes such as for file opening, together with performance and statistical data to be adopted by everyone. "We didn't want a big bang implementation and with SOS we can introduce case management to areas not catered for currently, such as family and corporate before phasing in the other departments from Solcase."

David McNamara, managing director of SOS said: "Attracting dynamic, successful law firms such as Henmans LLP vindicates our investment in SOS Connect, our independence and our commitment to anticipating the needs of law firms. Our goal is to provide systems that can underpin and flex to the changing needs of law firms for many years to come."

About SOS www.soslegal.co.uk
SOS is one of the most progressive providers of software and services to the legal profession and one of the largest with 400 clients and a 20 year pedigree. SOS Connect, the flagship application, is breaking new ground in practice and case management combining efficiency through high levels of process automation with flexibility for lawyers to create and control their own work flows. The Virtual Practices division for smaller firms delivers all the benefits of SOS Connect as a fully-hosted solution together with an outsourced legal cashiering service.

Published by: Venture Public Relations
Date: 18th March, 2010

Document Software specialist Sefas Innovation has unveiled its latest software solution, which it claims could help companies get on the fast track towards an upturn by saving them vast amounts of time and money on their document production.

Called Open Print BackOffice, the package aims to make the process of editing existing transactional documentation simpler by allowing companies to manage the work in-house.

Giles Hill, UK Managing Director of Sefas Innovation, explains: "Historically, even the simplest of amendments to such data-heavy documentation have cost companies huge amounts of third party fees, IT support and administrational man-hours.

"BackOffice is a unique solution which enables companies to implement changes to existing documentation quickly, with minimal programming skills, so in-house staff will no longer need to rely on the intervention of external IT partners."

According to Sefas, Back Office has the potential to save the average, mid-sized general insurance company as much as £2.25m* on their annual document production costs.

Giles comments: "BackOffice stands to save clients substantial sums of money and talks with a leading print business to use the software in a major new project are already well advanced.

"The BackOffice interface is really easy to navigate, so it doesn't require high level programming skills for staff to use. This means Operations departments can use it themselves to expand service capabilities, enhance the application of documents by adding TransPromo messages, or simply make global changes in a fraction of the time and cost," he said.

"This is going to be really invaluable for operations teams looking for greater self-sufficiency and better overall productivity; two things which count a great deal in the current climate," Giles adds.

Open Print BackOffice is capable of processing multiple programming languages, ironing out potential incompatibilities by converting each language into a common, universal format. The software has been developed as a next generation product from Sefas' already successful ‘Remake' software and features all the functionality of Remake, with the added benefit of being able to share documents from Sefas' document composition software, which gives its users the ability to develop new documents, as well as being able to edit existing documents.

Giles continues: "Economic conditions demand that operations teams be more agile and do more with less. BackOffice has been designed with that in mind. It will particularly appeal B2C businesses from banks to utilities providers, seeking to improve production efficiency, allowing them to become self-sufficient when making simple changes to production output."

ENDS March 18, 2010

Notes to editors:
*A company has a number of transactional document types (x) which use data from many different data sources (y) before publishing in a number of output formats (z) for printing, web publishing, texting, emailing and archiving. Each and every time they need to change these documents for statutory, branding or other reasons (n), they will have to script xyz number of changes - typically using very expensive IT resource. By bringing all of these document types into BackOffice, companies will make only one change to the component repository to affect EVERY document type. The software also allows users to improve the features of the content - adding colour, additional data to personalise, adding barcodes to ease production, etc.

In a mid-sized general insurance company allow x=250, y=5, z=6, if each change takes 30 minutes, it takes 100 person-days to run EACH change. If n=6 per annum, and cost per change = £50. Cost of change = £2.25m pa.

About Sefas
Based in Bristol, Sefas is a world leader in document production technology. The company is headquartered in Paris, with operations in the US and UK. Sefas has been a leader in the European market since 1993 and specialises in creating enterprise solutions with high performance and flexibility. Its clients include blue chip companies and Fortune 500 firms.

For further information, please contact Corrina Cockayne at Venture Public Relations on 0845 223 9889, or 07765 404616.

For more information visit www.sefas.com
email: marketing.us@sefas.com
Office Locations:
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Published by: Avaya
Date: 17th March, 2010

Basking Ridge, N.J. - Avaya today announced an agreement with LifeSize Communications to establish interoperability between the Avaya Aura unified communications (UC) platform and LifeSize HD video conferencing systems. The combined solutions will enable broad-scale deployment of HD video conferencing with the high-quality and flexibility of LifeSize video systems and the centralised management and control capabilities of Avaya Aura.

Using the SIP-based Avaya Aura, enterprises will be able to distribute video conferencing capabilities over multiple locations in businesses with multi-vendor environments. Employees will be able to easily collaborate with each other by video -- regardless of the communications system which serves their specific location. IT will enjoy low bandwidth utilisation, streamlined management, and lower costs by routing video over their internal network.

"As working environments become increasingly distributed, video communications provide an outstanding ability to draw teams together and enable effective collaboration as part of a cohesive unified communication experience," said Alan Baratz, senior vice president and president, Global Communications Solutions, Avaya. "Avaya's work with LifeSize Communications and others will help make it easier and more cost-effective for companies to deploy video to employees at all levels of their organisation."

"Avaya's leadership in the enterprise and LifeSize's proven HD video solutions are an ideal combination for organisations seeking to easily and broadly deploy high quality video communications to fundamentally improve their business," said Craig Malloy, chief executive officer of LifeSize Communications. "Interoperability with Avaya is yet another step forward to delivering on the promise of video communications for anyone, everywhere."

Organisations that want a choice of video anywhere will benefit from the resulting solution. LifeSize high definition video can be easily deployed, and is a cost-effective solution delivering superior HD quality for small or large group video conferencing. Avaya Aura enables the centralised deployment of audio, video and web applications over multiple locations, as well as the creation of "application profiles" based on employee needs.

Companies will be able to more broadly extend access to video conferencing to those individual workers or teams that are moderately to highly collaborative, thus increasing their productivity and benefiting from a low total cost of ownership. In addition, with Avaya Aura, organisations can realise network savings and increased control by combining audio and video onto a single network, and establishing network-aware bandwidth management policies to control usage and deliver a high quality user-experience.

LifeSize is a Platinum member of the Avaya DevConnect program - an initiative to develop, market and sell innovative third-party products that interoperate with Avaya technology and extend the value of a company's investment in its network. Through the program, products undergo rigorous compatibility testing by a team of Avaya engineers. Doing so ensures businesses can confidently add best-in-class capabilities to their network without having to replace their existing infrastructure-speeding deployment of new applications and reducing both network complexity and implementation cost.

According to the 2010 Frost and Sullivan World Videoconferencing Endpoints Market Report, the total revenues for the worldwide videoconferencing endpoints market reached an estimated $1.25 billion in 2009.*

"As video gets increasingly incorporated into larger enterprise communications suites, it is largely shifting from a point solution to integrated collaboration," said Roopam Jain, principal analyst, Frost and Sullivan. "Moreover, mass adoption of video will largely happen through integrated applications and unified communications solutions."

*Source: 2010 Frost and Sullivan World Videoconferencing Endpoint Market Report*

About Avaya
Avaya is a global leader in enterprise communications systems. The company provides unified communications, contact centers, and related services directly and through its channel partners to leading businesses and organizations around the world. Enterprises of all sizes depend on Avaya for state-of-the-art communications that improve efficiency, collaboration, customer service and competitiveness. For more information please visit http://www.avaya.com/.

About LifeSize Communications
LifeSize Communications is a world leader in high definition video communications and telepresence. Founded by industry veterans in 2003, LifeSize pioneered high definition video communications to make communicating at a distance as natural and effective as being in the same room, for anyone, anywhere. LifeSize became a division of Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGI) (SIX: LOGN) in December 2009, sharing a vision of everywhere there is voice there should be video. More information about LifeSize can be found at http://www.lifesize.com/.

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Published by: TopLine Communications
Date: 17th March, 2010

Bullhorn, the global leader in On Demand, front office staffing and recruiting software, today launched the Bullhorn Marketplace, the recruitment industry's first destination for software applications and services that extend the Bullhorn Platform. The Marketplace provides best-of-breed solutions that are tightly integrated with Bullhorn and gives Bullhorn clients the ability to leverage the appropriate technology for their unique business needs. The availability of the Marketplace is a major milestone in fulfilling Bullhorn's vision of providing recruiters and partners the industry's first fully extensible application platform.

"The business climate of 2010 demands that staffing and recruiting firms provide their clients with greater flexibility and speed than ever before. Simultaneously, the host of technology solutions and services available to the industry has expanded dramatically. Customers need the ability to evaluate and integrate technology solutions into their operations quickly and efficiently to gain an edge," explained Art Papas, Bullhorn's Founder and CEO. "With the launch of the Bullhorn Marketplace, Bullhorn together with its partners has created a broad and extensive platform of business solutions aimed at solving the needs of staffing and recruiting professionals. The Bullhorn Marketplace is the most robust technology and service ecosystem in the industry."

The Bullhorn Marketplace enables recruiters to choose from an extensive range of cutting edge applications and services, all of which are already fully integrated with the Bullhorn Platform and can be accessed on demand to drive bottom-line results. As the first application marketplace in the industry, Bullhorn clients are afforded a revolutionary set of advantages. The freedom, choice and the ability to tie applications and services together is unprecedented in the industry.

All partner solution providers in the Bullhorn Marketplace have joined the new Bullhorn Alliance Partner Program. Members of the Bullhorn Alliance Partner Program receive global market exposure, collaborative business planning, dedicated partner relationship and technical support. Initial Alliance Partners include: Broadbean, CAL Business Solutions, CareerBuilder.com, Daxtra, First Advantage, HarQen, M5 Networks, Monster Worldwide, RealMatch, The Code Works, Virtual Software and ZoomInfo. Each partner provides best-of-breed technology or services that integrates directly with the Bullhorn Platform.

"We are excited about bringing such an innovative concept to UK recruiters. It underlines Bullhorn's commitment to building a strong presence in the UK as we can now offer our clients access to this unique mix of applications," said Peter Linas, Bullhorn's UK MD. "We are looking forward to adding more UK recruitment solutions to the Marketplace to enable recruiters to access all the tools they need to achieve success."

The Marketplace initially includes solutions in the following categories:

Sourcing and Client Prospecting
The sourcing solutions from Bullhorn's partners provide deep capabilities to efficiently source both candidates and client prospects, including direct integration with the world's most popular job boards and business networks like CareerBuilder.com, Monster, RealMatch and ZoomInfo; job posting with Broadbean; candidate searching and matching through Daxtra; and skills assessment with First Advantage.

VMS
The Code Works, and its new product VMS ExpressT for Bullhorn, integrates Vendor Management Systems (VMS) with Bullhorn's Applicant Tracking System by automating both job order entry and candidate submission directly from a long roster of VMS systems, dramatically impacting both time to fill and order to fill ratios.

Back Office
Bullhorn expands its back office solutions, providing customers with the flexibility to choose the right back office to meet their needs.

Virtual Software provides a unique set of web-based timesheet, billing and expense reporting solutions for the Intuit QuickBooks platform.

CAL Business Solutions' StaffLinx GP provides a fully integrated Bullhorn experience by directly connecting Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) back office accounting software to your Bullhorn front office system, eliminating double entry, expediting invoicing, and enhancing payroll.

Telephony
The Bullhorn Marketplace offers innovative telephony solutions from M5 Networks and HarQen.

M5 Networks' M5Connect plug-in joins Bullhorn and the telephone for optimal information management and productivity with one click dialing.

With HarQen's VoiceScreener, recruiters are able to easily create and distribute automated voice interviews that are integrated into Bullhorn's dashboard, adding another key dimension to the recruitment process that goes beyond a simple resume.

To support and further grow the Bullhorn Alliance Partner network, Bullhorn launched the Bullhorn Developer Center. With full API documentation, articles, and support forums, the center is the premier resource for partners and developers building solutions that extend the Bullhorn Platform.

For more information about the Bullhorn Marketplace, Bullhorn Alliance Partner Program, or Bullhorn Developer Center, please visit: http://marketplace.bullhorn.com/

-ENDS-

About Bullhorn, Inc.
Bullhorn is the global leader in On Demand, front office staffing and recruiting software, providing the only completely integrated front office solution for staffing and recruiting firms. By enabling recruiting, sales and management to experience the power of working together with 360° visibility into every activity, from job order to placement, at any time and from any place, Bullhorn customers achieve the highest placement rates in the industry. Delivered through software as a service (SaaS), Bullhorn continually meets the evolving business needs of its customers. More than 1,500 firms and 15,000 users worldwide, including some of the largest global recruitment companies, partner with Bullhorn to meet the employment demands of the global economy.

For more information, visit: http://www.bullhornsoftware.co.uk/

Bullhorn is a registered trademark of Bullhorn, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Copyright © 2010 Bullhorn, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Published by: RealWire
Date: 17th March, 2010

London -17 March 2010 - Technosummits, the business technology events organisation has announced that "enabling the future of the digitally-connected home Telco VoD or OTT Video?" is the theme for the 3rd Annual Media Content World Summit 2010 to be held at The Courthouse Hotel London on Wednesday, 31st March 2010.

The Media Content World Summit is the premier event in the broadcast, media, entertainment and technology sector looking into some business opportunities presented by convergence and the coming together of the separate worlds of audio, video, data and voice communication services.

This summit is set against the backdrop of a continuing debate on whether Pay TV or Video on Demand (VoD) provided by Telcos and other service providers are being threatened by the increasing popularity of free internet videos provided by Google's YouTube and Hulu. It will also explore BBC Project Canvas, OFCOM's Pay TV review and the upcoming services provided by see-saw, new offering from Arqiva, who bought the remnants of the defunct Project Kangaroo.

The digitally-connected home is becoming the battleground for all these services and technologies that are blurring different sectors including telecoms, broadcast and digital media.

Key discussion points will also include Video on Demand, catch-up and follow me TV, IPTV, TV-Internet convergence, three screen digital experience, delivery of VOD, On-demand Pay TV. It will also cover discussions on initiatives spearheaded by the Open IPTV forum (OIPF) and the Hybrid Broadcast and Broadband TV (Hbbtv).

Speakers line up also include Dr. Mohammed Dadas of Open IPTV Forum (OIPF), Lucas Bauge from Orange UK, Peter Bale from MSN UK, Steve Plunkett from Red Bee Media, Alex Gulland from Ogilvy Entertainment and Contented Brands, Steve Morris from Ant software (Hbbtv) Sarah Rose from Channel 4, Melanie Steward from Turner Broadcasting. The two panels will be moderated by Dan Cryan from Screendigest and Cesar Bachelet from Analysys Mason, respectively. This event is chaired by Bill Scott, COO and founder, easeltv.

Joseph de Villiers, Founder and CEO of Technosummits said "The digital home will be the battleground for operators and service providers who are bundling all services to the living room to increase their revenues. The prevalence of broadband connectivity in the homes paves the way for new services that covers Pay TV business model and free access, which is, as ever a continuing challenge to Operators and Advertisers. We hope to highlight some of the recent trends in making the digital home a focus for content delivery and hopefully finding how stakeholders and consumers can benefit from it".

Bill Scott, Founder and COO of easeltv, the chair for this event commented, "There's a lot of hype around over-the-top video services and the threat they pose to existing models for video consumption; new devices, new platforms, new services from traditional players and many new players. We've got a great variety of speakers and delegates from across the value chain and I'm certainly looking forward to a highly interactive and stimulating debate at the event."

The 2010 World Content Media summit is the premier event for Broadcast, broadband technology, media, entertainment, including advertising executives looking to grow their business and explore new opportunities with cross platforms which spotlights the constant state of creation and evolution required of business leaders in today's rapidly changing digital media landscape.

Published by: JDA Software
Date: 17th March, 2010

JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) today announced that the JDA Pricing & Revenue Management Conference 2010 will show attendees how advanced revenue management technology can optimize pricing for perishable inventory - such as cargo capacity, passenger seats or rooms - based on fluctuations in consumer demand. With the theme, "Take Advantage in a Recovering Economy," more than 120 executives from companies in the travel, transportation, hospitality and media industries are expected to attend this complimentary* annual event on March 24 in Heathrow, London.

"In a competitive environment, there is often little to differentiate one supplier from another. Paired with the fact that customers are well-equipped at finding deals with sophisticated price-shopping capabilities, price is an increasingly substantial differentiator. At the JDA Pricing & Revenue Management Conference 2010, we will demonstrate how innovative price optimization approaches help companies in the travel, transportation, hospitality and media industries around the world position their prices relative to their competitors, driving increased market share in today's recovering economy," said Hamish Brewer, JDA chief executive officer and a keynote presenter at the event.

Featuring Customer-Led Sessions, New Solution Demonstrations
Innovative, customer-led sessions that will be featured at the JDA Pricing & Revenue Management Conference 2010 include:

• Laura Freeland, vice president of cargo revenue management, American Airlines Cargo, will discuss the importance of organizational change management when implementing a new revenue management system.
• Suzanne Donnelly, head of revenue at East Coast Mainline Co. Ltd., will share how leveraging an advanced price optimization solution enabled the rail operator to increase forecast accuracy, leading to improved revenue generation.
• Maria Harti, chief executive officer of iDTGV, a high-speed rail operator in France, will discuss the company's process for determining the best price for seats to maximize sales.
• An executive from JDA will present the benefits that Carlson Hotels Worldwide, a leading hotel operator with more than 700 properties in 74 countries, realized during the first year of a multi-phased roll out of JDA's Travel Price Optimizer solution.
• Steve Swope, chairman and chief executive officer of Rubicon Consulting, a leading provider of competitive market intelligence, market analysis and revenue management services for the global travel industry, will share his expertise on Market Aware Pricing.

American Airlines, Inc., Bourne Leisure Limited, Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd, Continental Airlines Cargo, East Coast Mainline Co., Ltd., Eurostar Group Limited, First Group, IBM Switzerland AG Travel & Transportation, iDTGV, National Express Group PLC, Rubicon Consulting, Thales, TUI Travel UK and Unisys are among the many JDA customers and partners that will be in attendance.

The Information Zone at the conference will provide companies with abundant networking opportunities, as well as feature new price optimization concepts and best practices to help improve operational efficiency and profitability. The Information Zone will also feature a live demonstration of JDA's Travel Price Optimizer solution, which is designed to help travel, transportation and hotel operators drive demand during low seasons through optimal pricing.

For more information or to register for the JDA Pricing & Revenue Management Conference 2010, visit http://info.jda.com/content/PRM2010Conference.

Published by: MASERGY
Date: 17th March, 2010

London, 17th March, 2010: MASERGY and First Connections today announced an agreement offering complete videoconferencing solutions over IP networks with guaranteed quality of service (QoS), supported by the industry's strongest and most straightforward service level agreement (SLA).

Keith Gyford, MD First Connections, commented: "We are delighted to sign an agreement with MASERGY that enables our customers to take advantage of an unsurpassed level of network quality. MASERGY's network is purpose-built for the delivery of real-time HD video applications, which is essential in providing our customers with maximum ROI on our TelePresence solutions. The partnership with MASERGY enables First Connections to deliver a truly end to end managed service for its clients."

Traditional IP backbones were not designed to handle the demanding performance requirements of high quality videoconferencing. Packet loss, jitter, and out-of-order packet delivery often result in degraded video and audio quality. Historically, this lack of predictable performance has limited the viability of IP transport for real-time videoconferencing. In contrast, the MASERGY network ensures that video information packets travel in-sequence and at the highest priority, end-to-end, thereby delivering video-over-IP with guaranteed quality of service (QoS).

Key performance metrics of the MASERGY network for video traffic include:

• 100 percent in-sequence packet delivery.
• Maximum latency variation (jitter) of 1ms.
• Sub-1 second fast fail-over (network recovery)

These industry-leading performance metrics are possible because of the Class of Service (CoS) and QoS capabilities inherent in MASERGY's native Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) IP backbone. Customers do not need special equipment to take advantage of these advanced services since a standard IP router is the only customer premise equipment (CPE) required.

"MASERGY is excited about teaming up with First Connections because of their commitment to market-leading videoconferencing solutions," said John Dumbleton, UK Managing Director of MASERGY.

About First Connections
First Connections was formed in 1995 and focused on providing high quality services in the Video Communications market place. Dedicated to supporting this dynamic, growth market, First Connections is a value-added integrator of TelePresence, videoconferencing, audio visual solutions, private video networking, video streaming, and conferencing services. First Connections works closely with its customers in order to successfully implement visual communication tools within their respective organisations, and has helped them to take advantage of the cost savings and numerous productivity benefits that audio visual technologies offer. For more information, visit the company website at http://www.firstconnections.co.uk/ or call 0800 096 6396.

About MASERGY
MASERGY, a global telecommunications company, has redefined enterprise wide-area networking by providing superior service performance, an exceptional customer experience and innovative network solutions, including global Ethernet and hosted network services. Built from the ground up to support real-time converged business applications (voice, video and data), MASERGY's pure IP/MPLS network delivers the highest quality experience with unsurpassed performance, reach, flexibility and scalability. Further, the company's suite of award-winning hosted services provides enterprises with

unmatched network management and control. MASERGY serves hundreds of customers throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia in various industry verticals including financial/banking, professional services, healthcare, entertainment broadcasting, hospitality/hotels and manufacturing. For more information, visit the company website at http://www.masergy.com/ or call 0207 173 6900.

Published by: RealWire
Date: 17th March, 2010

Service-oriented Integrated Business Architecture provides blueprint for service providers to reduce operating costs; improve business agility and time-to-market

Morristown, NJ-March 17, 2010 - The TM Forum today announced the launch of Frameworx, an integrated business architecture blueprint for service providers in the communications and digital services markets. Frameworx will enable service providers to significantly reduce their operational costs and improve business agility by providing an industry agreed approach for rationalizing their operational IT, processes, and systems.

Frameworx expands and integrates the Forum's existing NGOSS standard Business Process (eTOM), Information (SID), and Application (TAM) Frameworks into a full enterprise IT and process architecture that also embraces major IT industry standards such as ITIL and TOGAF. The addition of the new Integration Framework to the suite provides a service oriented integration approach with standardized interfaces and support tools. Another major step forward with Frameworx is the introduction of product certification, certified training, a certified TM Forum partner program, and extensive implementation support that will help service providers implement practical solutions based on Frameworx.

"Frameworx comes at a critical time for the market," said Keith Willetts, Chairman and CEO, TM Forum. "With significant pressure on operating costs, service providers need an enterprise architecture that enables them to move much more quickly; to rapidly integrate new technologies and third party services; to deliver consistent services across the world; and most of all, to significantly cut operating costs. Frameworx provides the blueprint for that agile enterprise-out of the box."

TM Forum Frameworx gives service providers and their suppliers an independent, industry-supported and standardized platform to guide new procurements and migrate their existing myriad of incompatible and fragmented processes and systems, which today often deliver poor business efficiency and delay the introduction of new services.

Albert Hitchcock, Group CIO at Vodafone, said "In today's market we need to offer consistent services to our customers across the world, moving ever faster and delivering more to our customers at ever lower costs. A common, industry supported reference architecture, tailored to meet the particular needs of service providers is very important to us and we welcome this move by the TM Forum."

Phil Dance, Managing Director at BT echoed these sentiments: "We encourage common industry approaches that help us build a vibrant market delivering innovative software at realistic prices. We welcome Frameworx, the TM Forum's move to a SOE-based approach, as it future-proofs investments as the market changes. We especially welcome the ability to build systems and processes tailored to our specific business needs using a common set of standard building blocks."

Frameworx, scheduled for full release in June 2010, is the result of a multi-year TM Forum effort and the substantial contributions of its members. A preview of Frameworx is available now at http://www.tmforum.org/frameworx and includes these new features as well as early versions of the Integration Framework:

Telecom and IT integration, incorporating ITIL processes
"Getting Started Guides" to enable new users to grasp quickly the information and tools available and to understand the steps needed to apply Frameworks into their environment
Managers' Guide overviews of Frameworx and key benefits

Frameworx is the result of extensive collaboration by the Forum's 700-strong corporate membership through TM Forum's collaborative R&D programs. The architecture-built for the industry, by the industry-will consist of:

• Information Framework version 9
• Business Process Framework version 8
• Application Framework version 4
• Integration Framework version 2

A platform architecture approach to facilitate collaboration and management of value chain and outsourcing partners
Frameworx Roadmap release 1, showing the release strategy and content for the next 12 months

In addition Frameworx will be supported by software tooling for rapid implementation; identified Business Services developed from business, information, and application framework mappings; plus certified product, training, and support services.

Key Facts

• Frameworx is an end-to-end reference enterprise architecture designed specifically for providers of digital services and based on common software standards such as Service Oriented Architecture techniques, ITIL, and TOGAF.
• Service Oriented approaches encourage business agility and re-use, essential in today's market where service providers need to rapidly deliver new services and increase revenues in the face of changing value chains and technologies.
• Frameworx uses standard, reusable, generic blocks-Platforms and Business Services-that can be assembled in unique ways to gain the advantages of standardization while still allowing customization where necessary.
• Frameworx is aligned with standard Enterprise Architecture Frameworks populating the Business, Information, and Application layers with the existing NGOSS Business Process, Information, and Application frameworks.
• Frameworx comprises an integrated set of frameworks defining common business processes, information, and applications. Each component framework may be used individually to solve particular problems or as an integrated Service Oriented Enterprise implementation.
• Frameworx allows you to realize ITIL compliant implementations through the Business Process Framework (eTOM) which is now fully mapped to ITIL.
• Frameworx is battle hardened-its core frameworks are mature and are in use by Service Providers throughout the world. TM Forum members have published more than 150 case studies on implementation of Framework components.
• Each component Framework includes a Managers' Guide that provides a high level view of the Framework and its benefits and a web-based "Get Started" kit.
• Through Frameworx' reusable, standard, and consistent end-to-end process flows, solutions, and interfaces, Service Providers, Systems Integrators, and Vendors can reduce integration time and product costs.
• By procuring Frameworx-certified compliant commercial products, development time is reduced and project predictability increased.

Resources

• Learn more about Frameworx at http://www.tmforum.org/frameworx
• Participate in the Frameworx on-line communities
• Find vendor solutions that have been certified by the Certified Compliance Testing Program
• Press and analysts desiring a briefing to learn more about Frameworx should contact Geoff Devlin
• Subscribe to TM Forum's press release RSS feed and newsletters

Published by: RealWire
Date: 17th March, 2010

Oceanus announces acquisition of Australian company Erilis, to expand their operational footprint into Asia Pacific

London, UK - 17 March, 2010 - Oceanus Limited today announced the landmark acquisition of Erilis, a leading provider of design and delivery services for IBM® FileNet® P8 solutions. This acquisition brings certified training and expert delivery of the full range of education programmes for the IBM® FileNet® suite of products and compliments Oceanus' existing skills with Java and Agile development expertise. Oceanus will now be able to offer existing customers IBM® FileNet® support and system delivery across Asia Pacific as well as develop new international business in the region.

Over the last five years Erilis has successfully carved out a valuable niche in the IBM® FileNet® space. The company is recognised as the most experienced training organisation for IBM® FileNet® software in the Asia Pacific region. Erilis also provides analysis, design, configuration and customisation services to large international companies, such as Standard Chartered Bank and CoInvest.

Nick Rowley, CEO of Oceanus said: "It has always been a deliberate and strategic goal for us to expand our global foot print so we are delighted to announce the acquisition of Erilis in Australia. Erilis' capabilities fit well with our company's offerings and ethos and will enable us to develop extensive business potential in the Asia Pacific region. We have committed significant resources and investment to the development of our technology and skill base which has opened up many opportunities for us to form tactical alliances with key technology partners. This acquisition is the next logical step in our evolution."

According to Gartner's Magic Quadrant for ECM, the market is expected to resume a healthy growth rate, with predictions exceeding $5.1 billion in worldwide software licence revenue by 2013.

Rowley added: "The ECM landscape is continually changing in line with the challenges of business demands and the CIO. CIOs require solutions that help them demonstrate value as well as aid innovation and transformational change. Oceanus not only has the depth of experience and heritage to deliver timely solutions, but we have brought together an impressive powerhouse of expertise that now spans Europe and Asia pacific. "

David Alfredson, managing director, Erilis stated: "We are very fortunate to have the opportunity to be part of an organisation with the vision and energy that Oceanus has within the ECM space. We are one of the few companies within our region with a depth and breadth of expertise with current customer and product knowledge, continually delivering best practice ECM implementations. I believe that with Oceanus we have the opportunity to merge our experience, and to integrate our IP, products, and implementation services for customers globally."

Together, Oceanus and Erilis will work on customer projects and support across Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Erilis will integrate their training, delivery methodology and new products with Oceanus' capabilities.

One of Erilis' new products, the ‘FileNet System Analyser' is shortly to be launched globally as part of the acquisition activities. It simplifies and improves the management and support of IBM® FileNet® systems. It gives customers the ability to capture system configurations across multiple IBM® FileNet® components and to produce analytical documentation from the configuration data.

http://www.oceanus.co.uk/

Published by: 2e2
Date: 17th March, 2010

Newbury, UK - 17 March 2010 - 2e2, a leading provider of mission-critical IT services, proudly announces it has been shortlisted in the Public Sector Reseller of the Year category at this year's MircoScope Awards for Channel Excellence (MircoScope ACES) 2010.

2e2 entered the award to recognise its work within the public sector, offering innovative solutions that transform processes, reduce infrastructure costs and enhance performance. As the public sector tightened its budget, local and central government bodies looked at IT to deliver the business transformation, enabling 2e2 to propose an increased number of Software as a Service (SaaS) and hosted solutions. 2e2 focuses increasingly on selected verticals, including the public sector which now accounts for 35% of its annual revenues, and works with 24 London boroughs; an impressive 74% of the total.

One London borough that has benefited from working with 2e2 is the London Borough of Brent (LBB), which saw 2e2 implement Cisco's Call Manager Enterprise Telephony Solution and Microsoft Office Communications Server. The deployment of unified communications within LBB has revolutionised the way in which council staff communicate, both internally and externally, with a change from an efficient process into something that was efficient and easy-to-use.

The MicroScope ACES Awards annually reward the achievements of resellers and distributors across the channel. The leading industry awards are judged by a panel of trade experts including analysts, independent consultants and editorial staff from MicroScope.

Nathan Marke, CTO at 2e2, says: "2e2 is delighted to be shortlisted in the Public Sector Reseller of the Year category at these Awards. Our public sector customers see IT as a key enabler to drive productivity and process efficiency, remove cost and deliver value. In the future, the G-Cloud will become a key part of the £3.2bn savings per year outlined in the Government's Operational Efficiency Programme, and 2e2 is working hard to deliver solutions that will enable those public organisations involved to benefit from the secure, resilient and cost-effective service environment. By becoming a technology partner with 2e2, our customers benefit from a combination of innovative technology around web and cloud computing. Also, 2e2's deep knowledge of technology and highly capable delivery and services infrastructure offer a fast return on investment."

The MicroScope ACES Awards will take place at the Lancaster, London on 26th May 2010. Online voting starts on Monday 15th March. To vote for 2e2 as the Public Reseller of the Year, please submit your vote here http://microscopeacesawards.co.uk/

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About 2e2
2e2 is a systems innovator; an agile, customer-focused provider of end-to-end next generation IT services. The company creates innovative solutions that transform business processes, reduce infrastructure costs and enhance performance - ‘creating business advantage' for its customers. 2e2 focuses on solutions and managed services for medium and large private and public sector organisations, delivered on premises, in the cloud or as a hybrid. 2e2 has worked with many companies within the telecommunications, media, healthcare, retail, transport, public, financial services and professional services sectors.

2e2 guides its clients towards their goals though a combination of deep-level business and technical expertise, an extensive knowledge of today's technologies including innovations around web and cloud computing, and a mature and highly capable delivery and services infrastructure.

2e2 has established strong industry ties, with the highest level of accreditation achieved with Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle, HP and Check Point in addition to an eco-system of complementary vendors and ISV's. This enables 2e2 to deliver a greater breadth of vendor-neutral and unbiased solutions to its customers.

In 2008, 2e2's Group turnover was £194million. It employs 1,300 staff, operating across the UK, Benelux, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. For more information, please visit http://www.2e2.com/

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Published by: PEER 1
Date: 17th March, 2010

Southampton, UK, 17 March 2010: International managed hosting provider, PEER 1 Hosting, today announces its sponsorship of the UK’s Next Space programme which will witness the exciting launch of a high-tech paper plane, named Vulture 1, into space. The mission is set for take-off in Summer 2010.

Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) programme, inspired by Robert Harrison's Icarus and the Cambridge University Spaceflight, aims to restore national pride in space exploration by setting the longest paper plane flight ever recorded. The PEER 1 Hosting sponsored aircraft will be lifted into the stratosphere where it will be released and history made.

The aircraft’s design still remains a top secret but what is certain is that it will carry a miniature camera, the Flycam, which will provide spectacular shots during its flight. It will also be equipped with a GPS system to track its progress and ensure its safe recovery and return.

Dominic Monkhouse, Managing Director, PEER 1 Hosting commented; "It is a huge privilege to be involved in such a ground-breaking programme. PEER 1 Hosting is all about innovation, doing things better and delivering outstanding performance, so we see significant parallels with the quality, engineering and excitement surrounding the Vulture 1 Mission.”

Phillip Mitchell, Operations Director, The Register said: “This is a truly exciting mission and is all about pushing the boundaries of space exploration. We are delighted that PEER 1 Hosting has come on board and with their support and enthusiasm we are sure to make this mission a success.”

For those wanting to follow the Vulture 1 mission, updates including design details of the aircraft will be regularly published on PEER 1’s blog, http://www.peer1hosting.co.uk/blog.

Published by: Quicksilva Software Solutions
Date: 17th March, 2010

Wiltshire 17 March, 2010 NHS Trusts will be able toaccess Personal Demographic Service (PDS) information faster and more easilywith an advanced new service being launched today by Quicksilva SoftwareSolutions, an independent UK-based supplier of systems and services to the healthcareindustry. orQestra provides straightforward and secure integration between NHSTrusts legacy applications and the central NHS Connecting For Healths SpinePDS.

As the PDS is the national electronic database holding NHSpatient demographic details, retaining the integrity of data is paramount toensure a clean source of patient information. With that in mind, only Trusts withapplications that have achieved the required levels of compliance are entitledto connect to it. Over the past 12 months there has been well-publicisedattempts by Trusts to connect to the PDS via a Local Service Provider (LSP)solution. These projects have experiencedsevere delays, operational problems and spiralling costs. The issues werehighlighted in a recent report by the North West Strategic Health Authority,which described the LSP offerings as notfit for purpose.

To alleviate these connection issues, Quicksilva has createda new, simple and effective approach to PDS connectivity with orQestra. Thissolution resolves the complexity of establishing a PDS connection by creating alocal database to hold patient data securely within the Trust. The orQestradatabase then creates a pure single link to the NHS Spine, allowing for theupload and download of demographic information to and from the Spine PDS. Inturn the orQestra database can be accessed, and information downloaded, byhundreds of existing legacy IT systems which meet the guidelines of the newlypublicised NHS CFH (Connecting For Health) Interoperability Toolkit.

Gayna Hart, Managing Director of Quicksilva said, Accurate,up-to-date, demographic information is the foundation of a modern, productive NHSas clinicians are reliant on the data available to them to provide the higheststandard of initial and follow up patient care. orQestra has been developed toprotect this authoritative data in an NHS Trust. By working with existinglegacy systems, orQestra allows clinicians to work as normal with theguarantee that the demographic information available to them is as correct andclean as possible being centrally derived from the Spines PDS. The NHS CFHInteroperability Toolkit will go a long way to facilitating this aim.

The Quicksilvas orQestra solution contains all theinformation a Trust has concerning its patients, a subset of which is patientdemographic information. To maintain authoritative data quality within thisdatabase, it performs an automated patient synchronisation, which updatesrelevant information on legacy applications, the orQestra database and theSpines PDS. orQestra ensures that demographic records are consistent acrossapplications by permitting messaging between them. This creates improvements tointegrated patient care involving multiple healthcare organisations.

Front line staff are aware that incorrect demographic informationdirectly affects productivity through identification errors, Hart added. Itis essential that records held across all levels of the NHS are authoritativeand current. Recent implementations to replace existing systems have attemptedto solve this, but failed because of the complex scope of their ambitions. orQestrawas developed to work with existing systems, minimising the impact frominstallation. Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all solution, orQestraactually encourages choice as it can work with any existing, planned or futureIT system.

There is a tendency to overcomplicate IT programmedeliverables and the orQestra solution aims to offer an alternative to ripand replace which is proving costly, Hart concluded.

About Quicksilva Software Solutions
Quicksilva Software Solutions is an independent UK-basedsupplier of software solutions and integration services to the public andprivate sectors. It has a particular focus on the healthcare market, currentlyworking in a number of areas of the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) programme.These include the Electronic Prescriptions Service (EPS), access to the centralSpine database through its Spinal Tap® secure messaging engine, Choose and Book(enabling GPs to book hospital appointments in real time), TechnicalArchitecture, creation of GP websites and HL7 tools and secure messaging applications.

Quicksilva Consulting Solutions provides advice and guidanceto local authority communities to help them implement practical solutions toaddress their information sharing needs.

Quicksilva's customer base includes the NHS, Boots, CegedimRx Ltd, Northern Ireland Social Security Agency, the NI Pensions Service,Deutsche Bank and the Department for Work and Pensions. Partners includeMicrosoft, IBM and Oracle.,Founded in 1999 and based in Wiltshire, Quicksilvassuccess has been recognised by inclusion in The Sunday Times 2004 Tech Track100 league table as well as being 2006 winner of both Growing BusinessInnovative Company of the Year award and Wiltshire Business of the Year BestBusiness Culture award.

Published by: AirWalk Communications
Date: 17th March, 2010

Richardson, Texas, March 17, 2010 - AirWalk Communications, a leading innovator and developer of advanced CDMA technologies, today announced an on-premise enterprise femtocell that uniquely combines both wireless voice and data functionality - the EdgePointTM PRO. This new femtocell product utilizes a dual-mode platform, combining both 1xRTT and 1xEV-DO Rev. A, and offers an unprecedented level of integration in a single device.

The EdgePoint PRO enhances AirWalk's line of femtocell products and introduces full in-building cellular capabilities while offering seamless hand-off and hand-in functionality with the macro network. Advanced application software integrates voice and data functions by controlling radio performance management and self-configuration into a unit that can scale from a single enterprise installation to multiple unit clusters capable of supporting large enterprises, public venues, or industrial compounds. AirWalk plans to provide demonstration models at the CTIA conference in Las Vegas next week in Booth 2130.

The EdgePoint PRO assures enterprises secure in-building voice and data coverage while providing ubiquitous connectivity to the macro network. The unit acts as a cellular access point and plugs directly into an existing broadband enterprise connection to extend 3G wireless CDMA services. For operators, this reduces capital expenditures while maximizing macro network efficiencies. Other advanced EdgePoint PRO functions address radio interference issues and hand-off between femtocell clusters.

EdgePoint PRO is distinguished for its unrivaled clustering feature that assures soft handoff between multiple units along with an industry-leading hand-in/hand-out capability to the macro network. This unit is available as a wall mount or rack mount with simple plug-and-play installation and advanced SIP/IMS interface.

"EdgePoint PRO is able to bring full wireless service into the workplace and support a more complete connected experience for employees. This breakthrough device enables AirWalk to exceed customers' mobility requirements and introduce a truly powerful, compact, and affordable femtocell," said Serge Pequeux, president and CEO of AirWalk Communications. "Our heritage of supplying micro and pico base stations, combined with our field-proven software, enables AirWalk to be first to market with a dual-mode enterprise femtocell product."

AirWalk's EdgePoint PRO femtocell extends voice and data in-building cellular service to businesses, campus areas, and large industrial complexes. The unit serves as a low-power access point, operating in licensed spectrum, to connect subscribers to their carrier's network via broadband Internet connections.

About AirWalk Communications
AirWalk Communications, Inc. is a developer of IP CDMA Radio Access Network (IP-RAN) products that deliver 3G and 4G voice and data platforms with migration path to LTE. AirWalk's products are modular, stackable and increase coverage and capacity. AirWalk delivered the industry's first base station and base station controller in a single, inexpensive, compact platform. The company's radio products operate on the global CDMA licensed frequencies and offer operators new sources of revenue. For more information, visit www.airwalkcom.com.

Press Contacts
Kevin Tanzillo
Dux Public Relations
Phone : 903-865-1078
Email : kevin@duxpr.com

Sharon Roberts
AirWalk Communications
Phone: 469-484-4732
Email: sroberts@airwalkcom.com

Published by: Dux Public Relations
Date: 17th March, 2010

Seattle, March 17, 2010 - Just in time for this spring's "lightning season," Alset Corp. today introduced its Lightning Shield product line. Lightning Shield protects telecommunications equipment installed at rural sites from the harmful ground currents caused by nearby lightning strikes.

"Essentially, what Lightning Shield does is keep the lightning in the ground and off your circuits," said Gary Fox, president of Alset Corp. "It protects your equipment from harm and assures that your services aren't interrupted. Your investments in broadband equipment are protected and your network is secure, even in the toughest weather conditions."

Telecommunications companies must be able to reliably deliver high-bandwidth Internet or video services to customers without interruption. Airports, railroads, and utilities, who rely on their equipment for customer safety or status monitoring, also place a high priority on uninterrupted equipment performance.

Lightning Shield helps ensure uninterrupted service for telecommunications service providers and other companies with valuable equipment located in rural areas that are vulnerable to lightning damage. For these companies, the services they provide require constant uptime and high reliability.

Lightning Shield protects against lightning damage that conventional surge protection and grounding do not address. The danger from a nearby lightning ground strike is that its high frequency energy travels through the earth to the remote equipment site, saturates its grounding system, and forces fault current through the electronics equipment onto the bonded power circuits. Eliminating this fault path through the electronics, by temporarily isolating the equipment from the power connection, protects the equipment for the duration of the lightning threat.

Conventional surge protection is designed to protect equipment from lightning-induced current on telecom or power conductors. A grounding system is designed to dissipate low frequency energy to the earth, so long as soil conditions permit. Neither will protect the equipment at a site from lightning ground currents, especially in areas where soil conditions make it difficult to achieve a low-resistance ground.

"Alset's Lightning Shield provides the only proven protection against these ground currents, the high-energy pulses that can cause a lot of damage in rural electronic sites," Fox explained. "Our technology detects imminent lightning and pre-emptively eliminates the potential fault path. By improving site reliability and significantly reducing repair expenses, Lightning Shield can pay for itself in just one thunderstorm."

Lightning Shield is available in 50-amp (LS-50) and 200-amp (LS-200) versions small and large remote sites. LS-ATS provides customized protection for larger facilities, such as remote switches or MTSOs. Remote Manager rounds out the product line, offering control and test capabilities that enhance site management.

Lightning Shield has been accepted by the USDA's Rural Utilities Service for use on RUS-funded projects.

About Alset Corp.
Seattle-based Alset Corp. designs and manufactures equipment designed to protect against damage from lightning ground currents, also known as lightning ground potential rise. Alset sells its equipment both directly and through a network of manufacturer's representatives. For more information about Alset and its lightning protection technology, visit www.alsetcorp.com.

Contacts:
Gary Fox, Alset Corp.
888-344-3707
gfox@alsetcorp.com

Kevin Tanzillo, Dux Public Relations
903-865-1078
kevin@duxpr.com

Published by: CloudNine PR
Date: 17th March, 2010

Crawley, UK- 17 March, 2010 - Macro 4 has introduced a new version of its Columbus archiving software that lets users retire legacy applications and retain important legacy information in a mainframe archive, using the lower cost IBM z/Linux platform.

"The new z/Linux version of our Columbus software is ideal for mainframe users who are keeping obsolete applications alive just in case they need to access the data. Now they can retire these applications - freeing up IT resources and cutting maintenance and support costs - while retaining access to key application data within the high performance mainframe environment. Any data and documents they may need in the future - for customer support or legal compliance, for example - are simply moved to an archive running on a lower cost specialty z/Linux processor," said Alan Ackers, Head of Development at Macro 4, a global software company.

"The software is also certified for SAP® archiving - allowing companies to remove and compress historical data from live SAP applications and place it in an archive to free up space on the database. This helps reduce storage growth, improves application performance and shortens backup and restore windows. The archived data is still accessible directly from the SAP system. Again, running the archive in a z/Linux environment is a low cost option."

According to Macro 4, some mainframe users prefer an archive they can retain on the mainframe rather than on a separate server system. This allows them to continue using the existing infrastructure, including mainframe hardware and support skills.

"Mainframe users now have the choice of hosting their archive on the mainframe, running under z/Linux, or alternatively on a separate Windows or UNIX server. Whichever platform they choose will have significant cost benefits when compared to keeping data live within the z/OS environment," Alan Ackers explained.

Alan Ackers pointed out that when regularly archiving very large data volumes, maintaining the archive on the mainframe can also speed up the archiving process as it eliminates network traffic overhead.

Columbus, now available for z/Linux, can archive all critical business documents including JES printer spool output, SAP documents and data and legacy data from any application, on any platform. The information is held online so it remains accessible to end users. If required the archive can be integrated with the original application, making the source of the data transparent to users. The data and documents are also highly compressed, so that they require significantly less disk space.

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About Macro
Macro 4 is a global software company that helps organisations to improve the performance of their critical business applications. Macro 4's solutions for application performance, document management and application availability are easy to use, fast to implement and deliver value quickly in even the most complex IT environments.

US and European subsidiaries and a network of international business partners represent the company in every major market worldwide.

Macro 4's Document Management solutions capture, store, present and deliver business-critical data and documents electronically and physically in the most appropriate way. They increase the efficiency of key processes such as SAP ERP and application decommissioning as well as supporting call centre and online customer service.

Macro 4 is a part of the UNICOM Group of Companies.

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All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Published by: MCC International
Date: 17th March, 2010

dhc, provider of integrated software solutions, today announced that the cleaning company DB Services is now using its Access Dimensions Lite financial management and accounting software with Stock Order Processing. The implementation will improve functionality and ease of management for the organisation, whilst computerising the accounts system.

Based in London with a regional office in Fareham, Hampshire, DB Services is a family-owned company focused on providing its clients with a professional and personal service. It retains its core value of strong customer service through the leadership and direction established by its founding family members.

Having previously deployed a CleanLink solution to manage payroll and invoicing with Excel spreadsheets to monitor purchase invoices and cashbook movements, DB Services realised it faced various complexities when integrating the software into all aspects of the growing business. "We needed software with superior functionality, in order to link all of our departments together," says DB Services Director, Roger Brice. "In particular, we wanted to computerise our accounts system and ease the management of the system as a whole."

In searching for a suitable replacement, DB Services short-listed offerings from dhc and one other vendor. The assessments were based on three main factors: programme functionality, sales support and value for money. Additionally, it was essential that the business was provided with a bespoke solution for managing wages, as DB Services needed to be able to create standard time templates that could be amended on a monthly basis and could handle the multiple pay rates for employees.

Following a review, DB Services selected dhc to deliver Access Dimensions Lite (complete with Stock Order Processing and Repeat Billing), Payroll, Asset Manager and SDK Modifications, allowing the company to manage its timesheet entry and salary productions. The software has been distributed across a variety of departments including payroll, asset management, invoicing and accounts. On a day-to-day basis, DB Services use the customised software to compare, amend and process timesheets as well as creating proposed payment schedules.

With the new software in place, DB Services is benefiting from increased efficiency and system support. Says Brice, "The new software is much more user-friendly and seamlessly integrates across all our departments, ensuring much easier management of the entire system. This helps us to achieve a clear single view of all of our financial assets, and improves the efficiency of our debt collection process."

"Working with an organisation with unique requirements such as DB Services gives us and our client the opportunity to explore the flexibility and scope of our products," says dhc's Director, Matt Garman. "We were able to use our knowledge and expertise to transform its IT strategy into a system that complements its current needs, but which will is also capable of providing the support its needs as the business continues to expand and grow."

Published by: AIM Software GmbH
Date: 17th March, 2010

AIM Software, a global provider of reference data management solutions to the financial industry, today announced that Privatbank IHAG Zürich, a Swiss private bank, has successfully extended its existing GAIN Data Management installation by the GAIN | Ambit Apsys interface for the daily update of static data. The interface, developed in close cooperation with Privatbank IHAG, helps the bank to further increase the degree of automation and represents an important new offering for AIM Software's Ambit Apsys user pool.

Privatbank IHAG (www.pbihag.ch) has been relying on GAIN Data Management since 2002 for the processing of SIX Telekurs VDF and Reuters data as well as for managing the storage, versioning and mapping of the data. Growing demands from the market made it necessary for the bank to further enhance the daily updating of static data. After substantially contributing to the development of the GAIN | Ambit Apsys security creation interface as a pilot customer, the bank decided to extend its long-standing cooperation with AIM Software (www.aimsoftware.com) to create the new GAIN | Ambit Apsys daily update interface. Privatbank IHAG's profound know-how regarding the Ambit Apsys banking system and its close collaboration with SunGard as well as AIM Software's expertise in data management, were the foundation of the efficient extension of the GAIN Data Management platform.

"Our positive experience with the GAIN Data Management platform in the past and our need for an automatic update interface for static data made us take the decision to further intensify our cooperation with AIM Software," explains Daniel Albisser, First Vice President at Privatbank IHAG. "Our joint effort has led to the creation of a comprehensive interface that helps us to reduce the manual handling of data and boost the degree of automation in our organisation."

The joint project resulted in a fully fledged GAIN | Ambit Apsys mutation interface that builds on the mutation logic in GAIN to automatically feed daily changes of static data into the banking system without manual interaction. The interface went live at Privatbank IHAG in January 2010. In addition to the GAIN | Ambit Apsys security creation interface, Privatbank IHAG can now profit from the daily automatic updating of static data directly in Ambit Apsys. In the next few months the interface will be implemented at numerous other AIM Software clients relying on the SunGard banking platform.

"The new interface is a milestone for our entire Ambit Apsys user pool", explains Josef Sommeregger, Vice President Marketing and Sales at AIM Software. "Since we put new functionalities at the disposal of all customers, other financial institutions will also be able to benefit from the mutation interface that allows them to concentrate on their core competencies."

"I am very pleased that we have been able to further enhance the GAIN Data Management solution based on our long-standing collaboration with Privatbank IHAG," concludes Martin Buchberger, Head of Marketing and Sales at AIM Software. The new GAIN | Ambit Apsys interface will help banks and financial institutions to reduce costs related to data management while increasing their overall level of automation."

Published by: VoSKY
Date: 17th March, 2010

March 17, 2010 - VoSKY, the market leader in developing Skype for business solutions, today announced that its PBX-to-Skype for SIP Gateway, the VoSKY SSG, is the industry's first gateway to be certified as interoperable with Skype for SIP.

Skype for SIP interoperability with the new VoSKY SSG will enable small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to connect their legacy PBX and Key systems to Skype. This way, SMBs can maximize the functionality of their current communications system to reduce communications costs, while also enhancing their business communications by enabling over 520 million Skype registered users to call their organization for free over Skype.

"With the VoSKY SSG, companies of any size can utilize Skype for SIP Open Beta with their existing legacy phone systems at a low start-up cost," said David Gurle, general manager and vice president of Skype for Business. "They can quickly and easily open up their communications systems to the benefits of Internet communications and enjoy the ongoing savings, while also enhancing the way they connect, collaborate and interact with colleagues, partners, suppliers and customers."

The VoSKY SSG is available in two versions, supporting either 4 or 8 channels. It offers seamless integration with Skype for SIP Open Beta with any analog PBX or key system, connecting via a conventional (FXS) analog port. It allows businesses to take advantage of Skype's cost savings and enhanced business features without restructuring their existing communications network and infrastructure.

The VoSKY SSG also allows businesses using the Skype for SIP Open Beta to place click-to-call buttons on their corporate Web site. These click-to-call buttons enable customers using Skype to call the business directly for free with just one click. Having received a call via a click-to-call button, the VoSKY SSG directs this inbound call to the company's legacy PBX system for it to be routed to the intended recipient.

David Tang, VP of global marketing for VoSKY, said: "As the industry's first certified Skype for SIP gateway for PBXs, the VoSKY SSG gives businesses reliable, plug-and-play access to all the features made possible by Skype for SIP. The new gateway is a great solution for SMBs, which do not have IP PBXs and have not traditionally been able to take advantage of the cost benefits of Skype for SIP.

"The VoSKY SSG gives them a cost-effective method of using Skype for SIP with any type of telephone system: they simply plug it into their existing legacy PBX or KTS and immediately start reaping the benefits, such as low-cost calling rates and enhanced business communications. It enables return on investment within two to three months."

For more information about the VoSKY SSG please visit http://www.voskystore.com/

http://www.vosky.com/

Published by: NEOVIA Financial
Date: 17th March, 2010

NEOVIA Financial Plc (LSE: NEO) (“NEOVIA” or the “Group”), the leading alternative payments business, presents its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2009.

Financial highlights
Group total revenue of $64.5m, down 15% (2008: $75.9m);
Fee revenue of $62.9m in 2009, down 10% (2008: $69.8m);
Gross margin at 54.6% in 2009 (2008: 61.8%);
EBITDA of $8.0m in 2009 (2008: $16.0 million);
Loss before tax and other items of $1.7m (2008: profit $6.4m); and
Total Group cash of $73.5m at 31 December 2009 (2008: $82.3m).

Key performance indicators
Active e-wallet users totalled 99,978 in Q4 2009 (Q4 2008: 97,673);
E-wallet fee revenue per active e-wallet user $116 for 2009 (2008: $128);
Average daily sign ups 1,048 for 2009 (2008: 981); and
Average daily receipts $488,641 for 2009 (2008: $457,442).

Operational highlights
Newteller platform running, completion in April 2010 after extended testing period;
Focus on cost control with Business Transformation process commenced in first quarter; and
Transition to new CEO completed; substantial progress on evolving Group strategy.

Dale Johnson, Chairman, commented: “Following a transition year characterised by progress in dealing with internal and external challenges, including weaker market conditions, the Board has renewed confidence in its updated business strategy and executive leadership to deliver significantly improved shareholder value in 2010 and beyond.

A relentless pursuit of improved operational efficiency, energetic organic revenue growth and a disciplined approach to strategic development opportunities are expected to drive materially improved financial performance.

The fourth quarter of 2009 saw stronger performance for both the e-wallet and NETBANX businesses compared to the third quarter, and revenue for the first two months of 2010 was in line with management’s expectations. The Board continues to be optimistic about the outlook for NEOVIA and remains confident about the Group’s prospects going forward with its adoption of a renewed strategy for growth.”

For more information visit the 2009 Results page to download the full press release and audited financials in PDF format.
For further information contact:

NEOVIA Financial Plc
Email: investorrelations@neovia.com + 44 (0) 207 638 9571 (17 March)

Mark Mayhew President & CEO
Doug Terry CFO
Andrew Gilchrist VP Communications + 44 (0) 1624 698 713

Citigate Dewe Rogerson + 44 (0) 207 638 9571
Sebastian Hoyle / George Cazenove

Daniel Stewart & Co Plc + 44 (0) 207 776 6550
Paul Shackleton

Lumen PR +44 (0) 20 7617 7019 / neovia@lumenpr.com
Nick Daines / Sheelagh Connelly

Conference call details and further information
NEOVIA will hold a briefing for invited UK-based analysts at the offices of Citigate Dewe Rogerson, 3 London Wall Buildings, London, EC2M 5SY, later this morning at 11.00 a.m. From this time, copies of the analyst presentation and the Group’s annual report and accounts will be available on the Company’s website, www.neovia.com.

NEOVIA management will also host a conference call on 17 March 2010 at 2.00 pm GMT (10.00 a.m. EST) for analysts and institutional investors that can be accessed by dialling 0800 028 1277 (UK free call) or +44 (0)20 7806 1957 (International) or 1888 935 4577 (USA free-call). This call will take the format of a short introduction by management, followed by a Question and Answer session. A recording of the conference call will be available for a period of 7 days from 18 March 2010 (until 25 March 2010). To access the recording please dial the following replay telephone number: +44 (0)20 7111 1244. The passcode for this replay is 1370486#.

About NEOVIA Financial Plc
Trusted by consumers and businesses in over 170 countries to move and manage billions of dollars each year, NEOVIA Financial Plc is a leading alternative payments business. Through the NEOVIA Payment Network, merchants use the NETBANX® processing service to simplify how they accept and settle card, direct-from-bank, and cash payments, and the NETELLER® payment account to increase margins, capture new customers and increase customer lifetime values. Being independent has allowed the company to support tens-of-thousands of retailers and merchants in many geographies and across multiple industries.

NEOVIA Financial Plc is quoted on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM, with a ticker symbol of NEO. Subsidiary company NETELLER (UK) Ltd is authorised by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to operate as a regulated e-money issuer.

For more information about NEOVIA Financial visit www.neovia.com or subscribe at www.neovia.com/feeds/.

Published by: Aspect Enterprise Solutions
Date: 16th March, 2010

Three deals with bunkering specialists – one in Europe and two in the Far East – have followed quickly the release by Aspect Enterprise Solutions (AES) of a specialised version of its software as a service (SaaS) trade and risk management solution.
AspectETRM for Bunkering is a development of the flagship AspectETRM offering, already the fastest-growing next-generation solution globally for downstream traders and buyers of petrochemicals and other commodities. It combines all the required core functionality required for bunkering, together with ultra-fast speed of implementation – typically weeks not months. The solution’s scalability makes it cost-effective for small operations right up to the heavyweights that dominate the world’s bunkering hubs.

AES’ any-to-many scalability results from its SaaS foundation that means bunkering operations don’t need to install and maintain special software or IT hardware. Users simply but securely access AspectETRM for Bunkering through a standard desktop or mobile browser. The architecture enables key elements of a fully end-to-end solution including fuel procurement capture, derivative-based risk hedging, and back office accounting to be in place and delivering savings within a matter of days, with additional elements going live as the progress of integration projects allows.

“Bunkering operations have a rich choice of contending ETRM solutions so we think it’s highly significant that AspectETRM for Bunkering has won three major deals even before we formally launched the product,” says AES CEO Steve Hughes. One is a relatively modest sized trader and one is a major global player where we are delivering 120 AspectETRM seats and partnering with in-house IT and other external suppliers in a complex integration project.

“These two customers are at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of size, yet their reasons for going with AspectETRM for Bunkering are the same – speed of implementation and affordability. The deals are yet another demonstration of the power of the business case that results from our unique technology.”

Aspect Enterprise Solutions provides enterprise class market information, trade and decision support tools for energy, metals and commodities professionals. The company delivers near real time position keeping, risk management, market prices and intelligence to users virtually anywhere, anytime. Trusted by over 500 corporations in more than 80 countries, the company's solutions routinely support more than $10Bn of transactions every day. They go live quicker, fit more exactly and deliver greater ROI yet cost far less to implement than first generation offerings. See http://www.aspectenterprise.com for more information.