Title: “CIO Insights: How to Optimize User Experience Across 60 Hospitals”

When:  Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Time:  11 a.m. Eastern time

Presenters:  George Conklin, Senior Vice President & CIO, CHRISTUS Health; Michael Wilson, IT Director, Compuware Healthcare Solutions

Why:  For health services provider CHRISTUS Health, poorly performing applications are never an option. Just as medical equipment cannot fail, the applications supporting CHRISTUS Health must operate flawlessly. In order to avoid decreased clinical productivity, increased risk to patients and lost revenue, CHRISTUS employs an end-user perspective to application performance management.

What:  During this free webcast, attendees will learn:

• what impact healthcare application performance has on customer experience and business goals;
• how the CHRISTUS Health IT and business teams optimize customer experience; and
• real-world best practices for improving user experience without slowing down your healthcare processes and procedures.

Register Here:  http://bit.ly/zKzh1k

The Compuware Gomez platform is the industry’s leading solution for optimizing the performance of Web, non-Web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, Gomez provides a unified view across the entire application delivery chain, from a user’s browser or mobile device, across the Internet or a corporate WAN, in the cloud, to inside the data center, eliminating blind spots from the First Mile to the Last Mile.

Compuware is recognized as a leader in Gartner Inc.’s “Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring” report. To view and download a complimentary copy of the report, click here.

Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world’s most important technologies perform at their best for leading organizations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com.

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Explains Roy McDougal, Head of IT at Greggs: “For five years now, J2 has supplied us with EPoS units that are ideal for our retail bakery environment. J2 hardware is space-efficient and practical.  It’s very reliable and gives a long lifespan, so its value for money is good.”

“In 2006, we were looking for a partner who could give us an EPoS terminal with all the I/O and CPU in the head. We ended up collaborating with J2 on a terminal that was bespoke-developed for us.”  

J2 designers have developed thin-client hardware with various mounting options to maximise the space Greggs has available for customer service.  Use of flashcard technology negates the need for a hard drive, so the system is completely solid state. The latest units are designed around the innovative Intel Atom chip set, which does not require a cooling fan.    

Adds Roy McDougal: “The result is a flexible, durable and competitively-priced system.  We are now on our fourth-generation terminal and all the J2s need very little ongoing maintenance so give us an overall low cost of ownership.”

He continues: “J2 have positively affected our development and we’ve done the same for them.  ‘All in the head’ is now J2’s trademark differentiator and, thanks to the quality of the EPoS they’ve supplied over 5 years, J2 have played a tangible part in our expansion.  The features Greggs has designed with J2 have gone on to benefit the whole market.”

“Today, our tills are split between 1,000 J2 615s with Solid State Drives which will eventually be our de facto model, 2,500 J2 560s and some earlier models.  We order a significant quantity of tills each year, for replacement of older models and to equip new shops.  We aim to get a 5-7 year life from every till. The longevity of the J2s is good and we’re certainly getting that lifespan.”

“We find the J2s the ultimate in flexibility.  We can easily convert them to be flat counter-mounted, or mounted on the glass counters with the screen on a bracket at the server’s eye-level.  Importantly, too, being fanless the J2 tills can’t overheat or suck in dust and flour.”

Concludes Roy McDougal: “J2 are an open, trustworthy company, easy to work with.  They’re always willing to give us advice and talk through new developments. We look forward to working with them for the next five years.”

About J2 Retail Systems - www.j2retailsystems.com
J2 Retail Systems is a specialist manufacturer of PC-based touchscreens, LCD touchscreen monitors and point-of-sale hardware.  Now with over 100,000 units installed worldwide, its clients include thousands of leading brand retailers, hospitality businesses and leisure operators.

For the corporate clients, partners and resellers with whom it works, J2 offers business stability, technical excellence and close working relationships.  Its products represent innovation, exceptional reliability and one of the lowest costs of EPoS ownership available today. The company controls its design and manufacture, and constantly looks for ways to improve the quality of its user experience.  J2’s history has been one of pioneering and market ‘firsts’.  It recently launched the first EPoS to contain Solid State Storage drives as standard.

About Greggs - www.greggs.co.uk
Greggs is the UK’s leading bakery retailer with more than 1,570 shops nationwide and serving over six million customers a week in Britain.

Expert bakers for more than 70 years, Greggs specialise in daily fresh shop-made sandwiches on Greggs’ own-baked bread, and savouries baked off fresh in the shop ovens throughout the day, including the iconic Greggs sausage roll.   These lines are complemented by a wide range of muffins, cupcakes and other confectionery, and a wide range of take-home bread and rolls.

Greggs has ten regional bakeries around the UK, supplying fresh bakery food to its shops in each region.

“Ecwid 10.2 makes it as easy as possible for website owners, of varying level levels of technical expertise, to start monetising their sites,” said Ruslan Fazlyev, founder and CEO of Ecwid.  “Traditionally, users would be required to build and maintain a separate e-commerce site; pay for a hosted e-commerce solution; or add additional code to add individual 'Buy Now' buttons to their site, all of which can be a time consuming and costly exercise.  Ecwid 10.2 not only makes it easy to set up an online store, but it also now offers store owners greater levels of customisation than ever before.”

Ecwid is the first and only store builder created entirely in AJAX. This means website owners can be confident that buyers are able to use the shopping cart regardless of device or browser type and without the need to install a Flash plug-in.  Ecwid 10.2 is available in 40 languages and integrates seamlessly with major CMS and site builder platforms such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Parallels Web Presence Builder and now also any site created using Microsoft Office 365, providing them with e-commerce functionality. Ecwid 10.2 can be integrated into all blog formats and major social networks including Facebook, Ning or any other OpenSocial-enabled network.   Furthermore, Atandra’s “T-Hub” app now supports Ecwid meaning that it can be integrated with QuickBooks accounting software.

Key features of Ecwid 10.2 include:

• Customer comments on checkout – website owners can now ask customers for additional information during checkout, so they can add it to their order (for example, a gift note, preferred delivery time or specific delivery instructions)

• Tracking and affiliate code integration – website owners can now easily add conversion/affiliate tracking codes to their conversion page.  This means that they can use their Ecwid store seamlessly with their preferred affiliate system to further boost website traffic and sales

• Unfinished sales – the ability to view any unfinished sales (e.g. orders which were started by customers but were not actually placed).  This allows website owners to delve deeper into order histories to address potential ordering problems and help convert abandoned orders into sales

• Ask customers to select product options – this enables customers to select product options (e.g. colour or size) irrespective of how they add products to the shopping cart. This provides customers with the necessary options to avoid possible incorrect purchases

• Greater visibility over pending PayPal orders – website owners are now presented with reason why specific orders may be “queued” and pending completion

Ecwid 10.2 accepts payments from all major payment systems such as PayPal, Google Checkout and Authorize.net, and is free to websites with fewer than 100 products.  For larger websites with stores with more than 100 products, there are monthly plans that start from $17 offering enhanced levels of functionality and support.

Ecwid has also recently upgraded its Facebook application (http://apps.facebook.com/ecwid-shop/welcome/) to enable users to create fully-featured Ecwid store on their personal or company Facebook pages.  The new application is easy to install and, through a central dashboard, displays all the pages where Ecwid is installed, meaning that users can open and manage their pages all in one place.  This is ideal for people who have many Facebook pages to manage.

In addition to replicating the store look and feel of Ecwid 10.2, the updated Facebook application allows users to easily create custom tabs to show promotions, company information and welcome messages without the need for extra coding or hosting. Furthermore, tight integration with Facebook's API means that the application includes 'Fan Gate' functionality allowing website owners to offer different content to users dependent on whether they 'like' a page or not.  For example, non-fans can see a message offering a promotion which then changes to a coupon code when they like that particular page.  All of this will can help increase the number of fans your page has and boost potential sales.

“Social commerce is estimated to reach $50 billion by 2020[1] with sites such as Facebook expected to drive this growth.  Last year, we saw a ten-fold increase in the number of customers placing Ecwid orders using Facebook. On average these stores saw a 40% increase in Facebook sales. Our new application aims to make it as easy as possible for businesses and individuals to set up a store within Facebook and help them to start making direct revenue from their social networking activities,” added Ruslan Fazlyev.

About Ecwid (www.ecwid.com)
Ecwid offers a new approach to building an online store: a free, SaaS-based widget, compatible with any existing site and payment system, designed to be trouble-free and lightning-fast. Founded in 2009 by Ruslan R. Fazlyev, Ecwid won The Business Project 2010 startup contest sponsored by Google and Forbes Russia. Fazlyev’s first startup, X-Cart, was founded in 2000, producing the world’s first PHP store builder software. With no funding, X-Cart grew from a team of three students to 120 employees. Ruslan has left X-Cart to commit his time fully to Ecwid.

In an independent survey of senior UK finance and management professionals by research and advisory company K2 Advisory in association with Exact, nearly half of respondents said that a lack of transparency of business processes was making it difficult for them to identify their most profitable business areas. In addition, 40 per cent of respondents identified a lack of familiarity with existing business systems and tools as a factor hampering business transparency and making it difficult for the IT team to provide support.    

“The survey presented some very concerning findings into current business trends in the UK,” says Wayne Dewsnap, managing director, Exact UK & Ireland. “We were shocked by the lack of transparency they face. If business IT systems are in place, at the very least they should show senior management how profitable different parts of the business are.”

Notwithstanding these challenges, the survey also revealed more positive news about the state of UK industry. Nearly two-thirds of respondents said that they were planning for businesses growth over the next 12 months, with the majority anticipating 5-10 per cent growth and one fifth forecasting more than ten per cent growth.

“The confidence that businesses have in achieving growth over the next year is heartening,” continued Dewsnap. “However, having full transparency of business processes is vital if they want to achieve this. Having the right ERP systems in place, such as Exact Synergy and Exact Globe Next, can help businesses ensure they make the most of growth opportunities.”

The full survey results are discussed by K2 Advisory in the webinar ‘A painpoint shared is a painpoint halved’, which provides an in-depth analysis of the research. A whitepaper providing an in-depth analysis of the survey results is also available from Exact. To receive your copy, please email graham.forsyth@exact.com.  

Exact. And it all comes together.
Exact is a leading global supplier of business software. Since 1984 our range of solutions has grown from financial software to a complete ERP offering for small and medium enterprises. Innovative solutions like Exact Globe, Exact Synergy and Exact Online support over 100,000 customers – local and international companies – with the daily management of their business.

Exact develops industry-specific on-premise and SaaS solutions for manufacturing, wholesale & distribution and professional services. Exact is headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands and has been listed on the NYSE Euronext Amsterdam since June 1999. The company’s revenues in 2010 amounted to € 228.2 million.

For further information about Exact visit www.exact-software.co.uk.

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Media Relations
Aspectus PR
Luke Davies
T: +44 (0)20 7242 8867
E: exact@aspectuspr.com
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Exact UK
Graham Forsyth
T: +44 (0)1784 221 200
M: +44 (0)7889 680795
E: graham.forsyth@exact.com

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Both products were awarded VB100 Certification after being tested along with nearly 60 other security solutions. In the three different tests that formed the basis of the certification, both products achieved perfect results. Details of the VB100 comparative test can be found here.

Next up, the aforementioned products – Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows and Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 – fought off all other competing products in complex testing by AV-Test.org. The products gained the highest scores of 17 (average - 13.2) and 17.5 (average - 13.4) respectively. Testing consisted of several trials, including those on effectiveness of malware detection and removal, the number of false positive detections, and resource usage.

In another independent testing lab’s comparative analysis – this time a very detailed one by Computer Bild, one of Europe’s most popular IT magazines – Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 received another best-of-the-best award: Best Consumer Security Software Product.

In this testing Kaspersky Lab’s security product was the only one to neutralise all active malware on the infected test system. It also achieved the best result in a real-world test, effectively blocking all malicious objects before they could infiltrate the system.

As well as a successful spell for Kaspersky Lab’s PC products, it was also a great time for its mobile security solutions. Kaspersky Mobile Security 9, an Android-based mobile phone security solution, was awarded five stars by PC Security Labs, the only test lab in China to have joined the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organisation.

Twenty mobile security solutions were tested for detection of malware and the number of false positives. On the former, Kaspersky Mobile Security 9 was among the top-three rated solutions. On the latter, the Kaspersky Lab product returned none - the perfect score. The full report on the testing can be found here.

And last but by no means least – the most significant award recently granted to Kaspersky Lab’s products – the company won Product of the Year in independent test lab AV-Comparatives’ Annual Awards. This prestigious award was based on the results in nine different key comparative tests of consumer anti-virus solutions conducted in 2011. In Kaspersky Lab’s case this meant two products - Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security.

Significantly, Kaspersky Lab was the only solution provider to be awarded the highest grade – Advanced+ – in all nine tests. The full Anti-Virus Comparative Summary Report 2011 can be found here.

The nine different tests conducted throughout 2011 in which Kaspersky Lab got the highest grade are as follows:

1. February - On-Demand Malware Detection Test (includes false alarm and on-demand scanning speed test)
   (Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011)
2. February - Retrospective/Heuristic Test (static detection of new/unknown malicious software)
   (Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011)
3. March - June - Whole-Product “Real World” Dynamic Test - Part One
   (Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 & 2012)
4. July - Performance Test (Suite Products) (impact on system performance)
   (Kaspersky Internet Security 2012)
5. August - On-Demand Malware Detection Test (includes false alarm and on-demand scanning speed test)
   (Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012)
6. August - Retrospective/Heuristic Test (static detection of new/unknown malicious software)
   (Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012)
7. August - November - Whole-Product “Real World” Dynamic Test - Part Two
   (Kaspersky Internet Security 2012)
8. November - Performance Test - Anti-Virus Products (impact on system performance)
   (Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012)
9. November - Malware Removal Test
   (Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012)

Nikolay Grebennikov, Chief Technology Officer of Kaspersky Lab, commented: “The importance of these independent test results for our wide range of consumer and corporate security products cannot be underestimated. If we were to compare them to a sports contest, they would be like winning gold medals in all the disciplines of the Olympic Games.

“Achieving excellent detection rates is one of our main goals, because in a world which sees tens of thousands of new malware samples each day, no one can afford to miss just one serious threat. We are very happy to see the world’s most reputable independent research institutions praising the effectiveness of our products, while at the same time refusing to rest on our laurels and striving to improve our products in the future.”

1st Touch applications can bring significant efficiencies and productivity increases to any application where field based workers are equipped with mobile devices to provide services. 1st Touch has already won widespread acclaim in the social housing and local government markets where the software manages, supports and controls all aspects of mobile workers’ activities. The resilient but flexible system enables programming-free, user-customisable mobile device based solutions to be created through its easy to use graphical interface. As such, the system is specifically designed to simplify handheld form design and data capture. Any type of electronic form can be generated without the need for Business Process Mapping. 1st Touch has also developed a range of high quality integrations with most of the leading housing management and back office systems used in these markets.

1st Touch is keen to stress that whichever mobile platform users chose to run version 4.5 with, the system will still operate using the company’s acclaimed offline working model. This negates the problems of unsympathetic geography and terrain that can disrupt signal strength. With 1st Touch, data is automatically sent and received in compact bursts only when a signal is available. Crucially, this means that users are able to log in to the application and start completing forms even where there is no signal.

Commenting on the launch 1st Touch CEO Robert Dent said, “At 1st Touch we believe in providing a consistent environment. So for our existing customers, any forms designed in the 1st Touch Management Studio to date, can be deployed to the wider variety of mobile devices now supported without any need for redesign. In contrast, platform and device choice for new customers is now completely flexible; supporting the original 1st Touch ethos of facilitating maximum customer choice.

“In terms of our overall strategy, 1st Touch firmly believes that Microsoft continues to supply the most comprehensive platform for mobile workers; encompassing extensive support for device management, device data security and integration into corporate line-of-business environments. As such, 1st Touch will continue to actively develop and support the full 1st Touch Mobile Workforce Management suite running on the current Windows Embedded Handheld platform. In the future we will do the same for Windows Embedded Handheld version 8, in line with Microsoft’s overall strategy for the corporate enterprise mobile workforce. However, 1st Touch acknowledges the importance of customer choice and will monitor industry trends and market requirements closely to consistently offer leading edge, best of breed mobile workforce software across a wide variety of platforms and devices.”

Version 4.5 will be available from Q2 2012.

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The Company will present the new xsNet portfolio, including bend insensitive fibre technologies, cables and connectivity, all targeted specifically at the FTTH market

Milan, 8th February, 2012 – Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cables and systems industry, will present its integrated Telecoms vision and identity on the world stage at next week’s FTTH Council Europe Conference. The Prysmian Group, formed as a result of the merging of industry leaders Prysmian and Draka will be present at the biggest FTTH event in Europe - the Council’s 9th annual conference and exhibition which takes place in Munich on 15th & 16th of February.

As the leading supplier of passive optical technology in Europe, the Group will also showcase for the first time its consolidated product portfolio which features the best technologies and products from both businesses under the Prysmian Group banner.

Phil Edwards, Executive VP of Telecoms at Prysmian Group, says: “The FTTH Council is a fantastic opportunity for us to show our credentials as the new Prysmian Group. As a combined company, with our collective knowledge and cohesive message, we have become the leading global player in the energy and telecom cable industry. The integration process is proceeding quickly and the Group has already presented its new organizational model, brand strategy and product range for both our businesses.”

Main product groups will include optical fibre with a focus on bend insensitive fibre technologies, cables and connectivity for application across the access network. The Group’s xsNet brand will also be launched at the event as the defining system of products targeted specifically at the FTTH market. Bringing this combined portfolio together into a clear structure under the xsNet brand is the defined product brand strategy of the Group.

Mr Edwards will make a presentation at the conference looking at trends in the market and how the industry is constantly innovating to keep ahead of the levels of demand. He says “We fully support the European Digital Agenda 2020 and as a company are convinced that a fibre based, open access infrastructure is fundamental to providing the future proof networks that this requires. Prysmian Group will maintain its strong commitment to innovation in order to develop the products and systems which will enable these networks to be created and sustained”

Prysmian Group is a Gold Sponsor of the FTTH Council Europe Conference. More than 3,000 visitors attended the event in Milan in 2011 and more are expected in Germany in 2012. The industry association’s objective is to promote the benefits of fibre access across the continent and accelerate the availability of fibre-based, ultra-high-speed access networks to both consumers and businesses.

For more information about the event or for details of the programme visit www.ftthcouncil.eu. 

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Managing Director
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Email: enquires@webitpr.com

The announcement comes right on the heels of a recent study by the Gartner Group emphasising that US retailers need to up their multichannel game if they are to survive and grow. 

Salman Malik, CEO of Brightpearl comments, “Our customers operate in highly competitive markets and we think they shouldn’t miss a sale just because of the complexity of managing data across multiple sales channels online or offline. Our integrated approach eliminates that complexity to provide a single view of customers, inventory, prices and sales performance, consolidating multiple sales channels into one flexible but powerful system. Large businesses have built systems like these over the years, but small businesses haven’t been able to afford them or easily implement them. We are changing that.”

Brightpearl’s new multichannel integrations were developed in close contact with its customers. James Marchant, a founder and CEO of Marchant Dice, a distributor of CNC machines and components, comments, “We have used lots ofecommerce systems before Brightpearl and none have managed to completely tie all of aspects of our business together. This new offering means we can finally handle all sales channels from one place and integrate a stock system which was previously impossible.”

Brightpearl plans to add more channels over time. “This is just the start,” Malik continues. “Our vision is that businesses should be able to sell anywhere they want to - any online marketplace or any shopping cart software - easily and cost-effectively while managing all customer data, orders, inventory, fulfilment and financials in one centralised place. New channels shouldn’t create new headaches on the back end.  Using a platform that lets them scale smoothly across all channels - online and offline - is the future for small retail and wholesale businesses.”

To find out more about Brightpearl and the new eBay and Magento sales channels go to www.brightpearl.co.uk/is-it-for-you/multichannel.

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The survey covered 387 UK IT professionals, and was run by Vision Solutions in concert with Frontier Technology, a cloud services provider based in London. It also found the following:

• When asked if cloud computing was a good fit for their organisation, 18 per cent of companies said that they were already making use of cloud technologies, while 16 per cent were considering how to make the most of cloud. 33 per cent of organisations did not see cloud as a good fit, while 31 per cent were undecided on this approach.
• When asked what issues they were facing, budget constraints were listed as the number one concern by 67 per cent of all respondents. This was followed by lack of in-house expertise (35 per cent) and staff efficiency (30 per cent).

Vision Solutions supports cloud-based disaster recovery and business continuity services with its Double-Take Availability and RecoverNow products, which offer real-time replication of data from target servers over to any platform, including physical servers, virtual machine solutions such as VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, and other cloud platforms. Frontier Technology’s Frontier Continuity Service, based on Double-Take, offers a private cloud disaster recovery solution that removes the need for customers to rely on their IT department to manage essential data. This service methodology complies with the BS25999 specification, which covers design, build, implementation and exercising fail-over capabilities.

Quote:
Ian Masters, Sales Director UK and Ireland, Vision Solutions: “The interest in cloud computing continues to gather momentum within end user organisations, but there is also greater awareness that there are multiple different models for using the cloud. For the majority of those who were surveyed, hybrid or private cloud computing models are seen as the most appropriate solutions for their own organisations. In order for cloud computing to be successful, vendors have to demonstrate not only that solutions can fit customer requirements from a technical perspective, but also from a control and management point of view as well. When it comes to disaster recovery, the cloud offers a real option for organisations looking to lower costs associated with running DR sites filled with potentially unutilised resources.”

Edwin Wong, Managing Director, Frontier Technology: “Areas like virtualisation and cloud are of significant interest to the customers who we are speaking to on a daily basis, as there is still a lot of education required for companies to feel comfortable around these technologies. However, the opportunity to see better value from cloud is tangible: we have customers who entrust their disaster recovery and business continuity strategies to our cloud platform, as we can provide real-time protection for their company data, and we can demonstrate how using the cloud can offer enterprise-class disaster recovery for all sizes of organisations.”

Links:

• Vision Solutions: http://www.visionsolutions.com/
• Frontier Technology: http://www.frontiertechnology.co.uk
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/VSIDTUK

About Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions, Inc.is the world’s leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing markets. Vision’s trusted Double-Take®, MIMIX® and iTERA™ high availability and disaster recovery brands support business continuity, satisfy compliance requirements and increase productivity in physical and virtual environments. Affordable and easy-to-use, Vision products are backed by worldwide 24X7 customer support centers and a global partner network that includes IBM, HP, Microsoft, VMware and Dell. Privately held by Thoma Bravo, Vision Solutions is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA with offices worldwide. For more information, visit visionsolutions.com, follow us on Twitter @VSIDTInfo, on other popular social networks or call 1.800.957.4511 (toll-free U.S. and Canada) or 801.799.0300.

Vision Solutions Contact:
Jennifer Cumbee
Vision Solutions
Tel: (630) 282-8283
Email: jennifer.cumbee@visionsolutions.com

Frontier Technology Contact:
Divina Tumlos
Frontier Technology
Tel: +44 (0) 845 603 6552
Email: divina.tumlos@frontiertechnology.co.uk

Vision Solutions Press Contacts:
Mark Kember / Ben Hart
Goode Communications
Tel: +44 (0) 1491 873 323
Email: mark.kember@goode.co.uk

Digital Prototyping Streamlines Product Development
As a member of the Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program — which provides software to established and emerging clean tech companies in North America, Europe, Japan and Singapore — Hydrovolts gained access to a variety of Digital Prototyping tools to help develop and optimize its turbines.

“Autodesk Inventor software and Autodesk Inventor Fusion software are invaluable tools for helping us digitally visualize and then revise our designs,” said Burt Hamner, CEO of Hydrovolts. “And by using the Eco Materials Adviser within Inventor, we can weigh all ecological impact together with performance and financial impacts of materials for our turbines. Autodesk technology is simply more efficient than anything we’ve tried.”

Using Inventor and Inventor Fusion on a recent project for the Bureau of Reclamation, a federal government agency, enabled Hydrovolts to quickly and accurately model a turbine for the proposed installation site, and then make appropriate changes to the prototype design in less than a week. Meanwhile, Autodesk Vault software provided complete document control, ensuring every iteration was recorded and traceable.

“Digital Prototyping can save time and money at every step of the product lifecycle,” said Robert “Buzz” Kross, senior vice president, design, lifecycle and simulation, at Autodesk. “By using a single digital model, clean tech companies like Hydrovolts are able to develop their products more efficiently and deliver the innovative energy solutions that the marketplace is demanding.”

Smart Design Makes Turbines Easy to Use
Much of the speed of installation is due to the highly efficient design of the Hydrovolts turbines. All of the different classes of turbine have been engineered for easy “drop-in” installation — eliminating the need for dams or other permanent constructions. The turbines are held in place by mooring lines, while an output cable plugs directly into the power load onshore.

In addition, the Hydrovolts turbines are specifically engineered to easily accommodate different types of rotor blades for optimal efficiency in the existing current. This adaptability enables users to select the blade that can deliver the most power for the least cost, based on a waterway’s unique flow.

About the Clean Tech Partner Program
The Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program supports the efforts, innovations and environmental advancements of clean technology pioneers, providing world-class software to design, visualize and simulate their ideas through Digital Prototyping. Clean tech companies in North America, Europe, Japan, and Singapore are invited to apply to receive up to $150,000* worth of software for only $50. Access to a collection of Autodesk industry-leading software includes up to five licenses each of Autodesk Product Design Suite Ultimate, AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite, Autodesk Simulation Mechanical, Autodesk Inventor Publisher and Autodesk Vault Professional software. Get more information.

About Hydrovolts
Incorporated in 2007, Hydrovolts offers new in-stream hydrokinetic turbines for clean energy generation around the world. For additional information, visit www.hydrovolts.com.

About Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc., is a leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. Customers across the manufacturing, architecture, building, construction, and media and entertainment industries ¾ including the last 16 Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects ¾ use Autodesk software to design, visualize and simulate their ideas. Since its introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982, Autodesk continues to develop the broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art software for global markets. For additional information about Autodesk, visit www.autodesk.com.

*Value is based on up to five commercial licenses of each application.

Autodesk, AutoCAD, Alias, Autodesk Inventor, Inventor, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. Academy Award is a registered trademark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product and services offerings, and specifications and pricing at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document.

© 2012 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved.

In windream’s ECM product portfolio ABBYY’s products are mainly used as scanning applications and server-based OCR tools for full-page text extraction and for automatic extraction of specific metadata from documents.

Windream will integrate OCR products from ABBYY, including ABBYY FineReader Engine and ABBYY Recognition Server, into the windream ECM. This will enable windream to better serve its enterprise customers with a solution for scanning paper-based documents, capturing and filing them in an ECM system and automatically indexing them.

Windream will also deploy ABBYY FlexiCapture, a powerful solution for the accurate extraction of data from a wide variety of documents. With the extracted data any kind of document, whether in paper or digital archives, becomes instantly searchable and retrievable. Within an ECM environment the information or the content extracted from documents as full text and metadata can be processed by windream and used for document retrieval.

Furthermore, in the future ABBYY solutions will be integrated into windream’s bizhub-connect software. This solution was developed by windream specifically for the bizhub MFPs from its partner Konica Minolta. This solution seamlessly connects the windream ECM system with Konica Minolta’s bizhub.

Both ABBYY and windream will continue to work closely in the future with the goal of collaborating on IT projects in the ECM sector.

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With more than 7,600 visitors last year, and 240 international exhibitors from 18 countries, CallCenterWorld has become Europe’s leading conference and trade show for service providers, solutions and equipment for the contact center industry. True to the motto, “Be in the Race with ASC,” visitors to ASC’s booth can use a g-motion driving simulator and are invited to experience how quality management and speech analytics can significantly improve quality and processes within the contact center.

Marco Mueller, Executive Vice President of ASC, said: “Speech analytics helps to identify and extract relevant information from unstructured data for a deeper analysis of customer interactions. In so doing, it optimizes business processes, improves agent training and continuously boosts customer satisfaction.”

Mr. Mueller went on to describe how previous measurements of service quality such as disconnection rates, holding times and reaction times only describe what is happening in customer interactions but fail to tell you why they occurred. He then expounded upon ASC’s entire workforce optimization (WFO) portfolio and the enterprise-wide role it plays in ensuring a cost-effective customer-centric organization.

Workforce optimization encompasses communications recording, quality management, speech analytics, eCoaching and workforce management. ASC’s workforce optimization solution, INSPIRATIONpro, plays a central role by helping contact centers to enhance customer service, efficiently deploy staff and increase productivity. Based on the content of recorded calls and screen activities, INSPIRATIONpro reveals improvement potentials in contact center operations including processes, marketing, sales activities, time of reaction and problem analysis.

A free ticket to visit ASC’s exhibition can be obtained at http://ccw.asctelecom.com.

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Adax IPsec is based on AuthenTec's widely deployed QuickSec™ IPsec toolkit and integrates IPsec binary software and hardware acceleration with the Adax Packet Processing Boards. The result is a complete IPsec solution that provides robust, high-speed, security functions for security gateways and routers. Adax IPsec also provides embedded security functions in any network node, resulting in excellent security system performance and unparalleled ease of integration.

With hundreds of proven OEM implementations, AuthenTec QuickSec provides the advanced levels of protection, reliability, and performance mandated by customers and industry standards alike. The Adax IPsec binary software package is pre-integrated with the Adax boards and takes advantage of crypto-acceleration in the Cavium processors. Adax IPsec is a complete, ready-to-use, high performance and highly reliable IPsec solution.

IPsec has been defined by 3GPP as the security protocol for both control and user plane applications in LTE and is mandatory for IPv6 deployments so every node in the network will eventually need it.  Adax IPsec enables robust and standards-compliant authentication, confidentiality, and data integrity for network nodes such as the LTE MME, SGW, PGW, HSS and PCRF nodes. It is also ideally suited for Security Gateways, Femto/Home eNodeB Gateways, enhanced Policy Servers and Data Offload devices.

The integration of IPsec with the Adax Packet Processing boards offers a broad range of platform support including, ATCA, Rack Mount Servers, and Blade Servers. Running Linux provides easy portability between the platforms and rapid application development using the open APIs.

“Security in IP networks has been and continues to be of great concern to end users, network service providers and therefore to network equipment and application developers. But many of those users don’t want to know about security in the network, they simply want to use it as a part of their application,” said Drew Sproul, Director, Marketing, Adax Inc. “Adax has selected a highly respected IPsec partner in AuthenTec, and our integrated solution enhances security while reducing application development costs and time to market for those applications.”

”Through our collaboration with Adax, we worked to solve many of the issues facing today’s network system and application developers,” said Martin Bergenwall, Director of Product Management, Embedded Security Solutions at AuthenTec. “We are pleased that Adax selected AuthenTec’s QuickSec for their new Adax IPsec solution, which combines high-speed network functionality in a cost-effective solution that is compliant to the latest security standards.”

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Joules design a range of outdoor clothing for women, men and children; including wellies, quilted jackets and gilets. With over 60 stores in the UK, products stocked by over 600 retailers across the UK, US and Europe and an established online website, Joules is aiming to improve its online brand presence and increase traffic to its website with the help of ChannelAdvisor.

“We were keen to establish a presence on comparison shopping engines but realised this was not something we could manage in-house,” said Chris Bevan, online marketing manager for Joules. “With ChannelAdvisor’s Comparison Shopping solution we will be able to manage our inventory across multiple comparison shopping engines, in turn increasing our brand awareness and traffic to our website.”

ChannelAdvisor’s Comparison Shopping solution simplifies selling across more than 130 individual comparison shopping engines. By optimising Joules’ inventory feed to fit the unique specifications of each comparison shopping engine, ChannelAdvisor is able to ensure products are visible and drive clicks. In-depth reporting features allow Joules to track buyer behaviour, to better understand the clicks that contribute to conversions. Having this detail means that Joules can make performance-driven decisions down to the product level.

Joules is one of the 3,000 leading brands that trust ChannelAdvisor’s solutions to drive their online performance. Other ChannelAdvisor customers include B&Q, Ann Summers, Boots and New Look.

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• Organisations are finding integrating communications channels a real challenge with 90% saying they want to do so but only 31% achieving it.
• The situation is compounded by the growth in channels: Over half (53%) now engage with customers via social networks but only 8% achieve integrated, cross-channel communications based on preferences.
• The result is often lost customers, with fragmented communications blamed by 32% for losses during onboarding, and mass targeting blamed by 26%.
• Some 27% say they are not capitalising on the inbound channel and only 9% have systems that model customer behaviour to make appropriate prompts that enable staff to maximise the opportunity.

Commenting on the research results, Gary Roberts, Executive Vice President, EMEA, Pitney Bowes Software said, “Customers now use a whole range of different communications channels and expect continually improved standards of customer service from their providers. These providers need to speak with a clear and coherent voice and this is proving a real challenge with today’s disconnected channels.”

The survey reveals that, while most organisations are striving to fully integrate their communications and recognise this as best practice, only a minority has achieved it. Companies that are using sophisticated marketing segmentation techniques based on deep customer insights are also more likely to be using predictive analytic tools and communicating with customers via their preferred channels. However the research suggests that only 2% of companies have arrived at this level.

Gary Roberts, added, ‘There are three things that organisations can do to connect customer channels to drive customer loyalty and lifetime value: embrace technology to achieve cross-channel marketing; fine-tune channel exploitation and ensure they are making the most of all opportunities, particularly during the onboarding phase and with the inbound channel; and finally gather insight during every interaction and use this to enable more relevant communications at every touchpoint.’
 
The study was commissioned by Pitney Bowes Software and carried out by research consultancy Opinion Matters. It surveyed 250 chief marketing officers and directors in business-to-consumer companies (financial services, utilities and telecoms) with over 1,000 employees in the UK, France and Germany.

To read the research report ‘Disconnected Customer Channels – download now.

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Incorporating Centrix WorkSpace iQ, an advanced analytics solution, Centrix WorkSpace delivers rich analysis on end-user computing environments, and details how software and desktop assets are used and consumed. The information it provides enables organisations to optimise the design and deployment of application and desktop infrastructure based on user and organisational requirements, reduce overprovisioning costs and manage the introduction of new technology platforms such as virtual desktops and Windows 7. 

“We chose to work with Centrix Software due to the power of its WorkSpace iQ solution. It provides unparalleled usage details and insight across end-user computing estates, enabling technology decisions to be made quickly based upon the unique requirements of individual customers,” commented Rhys Sharp, CTO at SCC. “Using WorkSpace iQ across our services, licencing and software asset teams, we will be able to identify significant cost savings for our customers. We already have a strong pipeline of tens of thousands of users that we’ll be analysing with WorkSpace iQ to highlight where they have opportunities to further optimise their environments and reduce costs.”

Centrix WorkSpace provides enterprises with the ability to track and manage application and service demand across their business, as well as deliver unified workspaces that aggregate the delivery of local, virtual, cloud-based and web applications and content. Using Centrix WorkSpace, organisations can:

• Build the business case for new technology investments, such as virtualisation.
• Reduce the time needed to deploy new application and desktop platforms.
• Manage the growing diversity of applications and devices – from the licensing of installed productivity applications to the use of cloud services, ‘Bring Your Own Device’ schemes and enterprise tablets.

“Having partners of the calibre of SCC joining our programme is testament to the requirement in the market for our WorkSpace solutions,” said Lewis Gee, senior vice president of EMEA sales and marketing at Centrix Software. “We’re focused on helping infrastructure teams address two key concerns – how to ensure technology investments deliver business value and that the right technology choices are made. With WorkSpace, our partners can help customers make those decisions faster, based on detailed analysis of how they use and consume technologies and with clear business case justification.”   

About Centrix Software
Headquartered in Newbury, UK, with offices in Boston and New York, Centrix Software provides award-winning workspace computing solutions that optimise the way IT infrastructures deliver applications and content provisioned from physical, virtual, web or hosted platforms. By enabling a user-centric approach to IT service delivery, Centrix Software helps its customers to be more agile, flexible and efficient in how they deliver client-side technology services. Centrix Software’s solutions have helped leading organisations in banking and securities, insurance, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy and utilities, and the public sector. For more information please visit www.centrixsoftware.com.

About SCC
SCC is Europe’s largest independent technology solutions provider around the infrastructure, and is part of Specialist Computer Holdings (SCH) plc. The Group has regional operations in five different countries, employs over 7,000 professional staff and has delivered sustained, profitable growth for some 36 years, with annual turnover exceeding £2.48 billion. Long term partnerships with the world’s leading solutions providers combine with SCC’s services capabilities to create a rapid return on an investment in IT. It has an enviable track record of successfully helping European-based companies and Government organisations better manage their technology infrastructure, remove cost and create business advantage.

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Architects, Chandavarkar & Associates have designed the 20-acre campus taking a cue from the ancient architectural principles behind local temples and applied them to a modern design. The campus is being built in a phased approach and the first phase of 200,000 square feet will be completed in 2013. The total size is expected to be around 800,000 square feet and will take between 5-7 years to complete.

Subroto Bagchi, vice chairman of MindTree said, “MindTree believes Odisha is the emerging hub of the east. We
are looking forward to building a world-class centre here that will train and deploy some of the best minds of the eastern region. We will engage with the academic community here to create a vibrant eco-system.”

At a launch ceremony, students from various local educational institutions poured earth specially brought in from
many different places in the world at the base of a Krishna Ficus tree at the proposed site. Odisha chief minister Shri Naveen Patnaik consecrated the event by pouring earth from the State. Welcoming MindTree to Odisha, the chief minister said “When high quality organisations come to the state, apart from helping the economy, there is a cascading effect on the intellectual environment. We welcome MindTree as our newest corporate citizen”.

The total number of employees working at MindTree Kalinga once the project is completed is expected to be around 5000. It will also provide facilities for  MindTree to train 4000 people each year.

LogRhythm will form a key part of, and complement its existing portfolio of next generation security solutions. By monitoring the logs and events generated by other security solutions in real time from one management console, LogRhythm is ideally positioned to help resellers and partners take advantage of a high growth market that is being driven by the need to automate and comply with increasing EC directives and more rigorous compliancy. Analyst firm Frost & Sullivan predicts substantial growth for log management based SIEM solutions in Europe, with the market expected to accelerate to $359 million by 2014.

“LogRhythm doesn’t just offer resellers an award-winning product, by centrally monitoring other security solutions in real-time, it helps organisations identify and remediate weaknesses in their existing IT defences. It’s this ability that makes LogRhythm a very attractive addition to our portfolio,” said Barrie Desmond, Group Director, Marketing and Global Accounts at Exclusive Networks. “Demand for SIEM solutions is rising rapidly, offering partners excellent incremental revenue and margin opportunities.”

LogRhythm has chosen Exclusive Networks for its expertise in the security market, its complementary product portfolio, the value added services it offers resellers and for its geographic reach, which is particularly important as LogRhythm continues to expand its European operations. A single distributor across the entire region allows LogRhythm to streamline its channel operations, allowing the company to provide better support to all of its European partners.

“Exclusive Network’s experience and reach will allow us to tap into new, lucrative markets. It will also help our partners take a more strategic role in the marketing, by offering holistic security solutions to their customers,” said Stuart Quinsey, channel director EMEA at LogRhythm. “Over the coming months, our partners will also begin to see the introduction of a comprehensive new channel programme designed to help them nurture leads, close deals, manage customer deployments and ultimately take advantage of the explosive demand for solutions that can combat today’s increasingly sophisticated cyber threats.”

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Financial highlights for the Quarter (INR)

• Revenue at INR 1,445 crores; up 8.4% QoQ
• Operating Profit (EBITDA) was INR 234 crores; up 14.7% QoQ
• Profit After Tax at INR 276 crores up 14.8% QoQ
• Earnings per Share (EPS) was INR 21.8 for the quarter ended December 31st, 2011

Financial highlights for the Quarter (USD)

• Revenue at USD 289 mn; up 7.4% YoY
• Revenue on constant currency basis was at USD 295 mn
• Operating Profit (EBIDTA) was USD 46 mn; up 2.3% QoQ
• PAT was USD 54 mn; up 1.5% QoQ

Other Highlights for the quarter ended December 31, 2011

• Total headcount at 42,746. Software Professional headcount stood at 25,218, BPO at 16,419 and Support staff at 1,109
• Debt was Rs 1,376 crores as of December 31, 2011
• Cash and Cash equivalent stood at INR 321 crores on balance sheet as of December 31, 2011

Vineet Nayyar, Vice Chairman, MD and CEO of Tech Mahindra said, “We have had a satisfactory quarter, with growth in both revenue and margins. This is a result of our investments in growth markets, and in emerging technologies. We continue to focus on delivering enhanced value to our customers in an uncertain economic environment."

Key wins and operational highlights

• Tech Mahindra has been appointed by a major media company in Latin America to provide maintenance and support to the client’s legacy applications in telecom billing domain.
• Won a strategic multiyear contract as a system Integration partner for one of the largest cable operator (providing digital and analog cable television, Broadband & Telephony services) in Benelux region. Tech Mahindra will develop new systems to provide integration, fulfilment, and Identity management and mediation services. As an SI TechM will drive the delivery of IT systems stack for MVNO Converged Services.
• Chosen by a telecom service provider in Europe on a multiyear contract for implementation of BI services and also execute a multiyear managed services engagement.
• Won a deal from a Tier I telecom operator in North America on Wi-Fi services in Network Support Systems area. Tech Mahindra will provide managed public and private networking services for the Wi-Fi network and the customers of the telecom operator.

Partnerships

• Tech Mahindra signed a MOU with SITRONICS India to promote the OSS/BSS-solutions of SITRONICS India. In the framework of the agreement, Tech Mahindra will promote the OSS/BSS-solutions of SITRONICS India in the Indian market and both the parties would mutually explore and leverage their expertise in development, implementation and support of different IT solutions.
• CanvasM Technologies, Tech Mahindra’s VAS subsidiary and Polaris Wireless, have entered a strategic partnership to introduce the first high-accuracy, network based wireless location solution for the Indian market. The solution would enable increased revenue opportunities for mobile operators, in value added services and location-based services.
• Tech Mahindra signed a MOU with Kaspersky Lab. Under the MOU Kaspersky Lab, along with Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam will leverage their strengths in security products and services to develop joint security solutions in the areas of Mobility and Endpoint Security and Cloud Security Services
• CanvasM launched 'Saral Rozgar' in collaboration with TATA DOCOMO. It’s a first of its kind mobile VAS solution from CanvasM targeted at providing flexible and end-to-end solution utility based services for to bottom of the pyramid, the Blue Collar job segment.

Awards and Recognitions

• Voice & Data ranks CanvasM, Tech Mahindra’s VAS subsidiary, amongst India's Top 10 VAS players
• MIS Asia has ranked  Tech Mahindra in the Regional Top 20 coveted group

About Tech Mahindra
Tech Mahindra is a leading provider of solutions and services to the telecommunications industry with a majority stake owned by Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, in partnership with British Telecommunications plc.

Tech Mahindra serves telecom service providers, equipment manufacturers, software vendors and systems integrators worldwide and their proven delivery models, distinctive IT skills and decades of domain expertise enable clients to maximize returns on their IT investment. Tech Mahindra registered revenue of USD 1,127 million in the year ended March 31, 2011 and is ably supported by 42,500 professionals who provide a unique blend of culture, domain expertise and in-depth technology skill-sets.

A SEI-CMMi Level 5 organization, Tech Mahindra’s development centers are ISO 9001:2008 and BS7799 certified. Tech Mahindra has principal offices in the UK, United States, Germany, UAE, Egypt, Singapore, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Philippines, Canada and Australia. Tech Mahindra Ltd is part of the US $14.4 billion Mahindra Group, a global industrial federation of companies and one of the top 10 business houses based in India. The Group’s interests span automotive products, aviation, components, farm equipment, financial services, hospitality, information technology, logistics, real estate and retail.
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Hamburg, Germany. February 8, 2012 – Dr. Peter Smeets, a seasoned manager and entrepreneur in the technology industry, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at gateProtect. As the founder of Constantin Bastian Leander Venture Capital GmbH, he has been investing in multiple technology companies for more than ten years. In dynamic growth phases, he took over a leading role to shape the strategic direction of these companies, position them on the global market, and share responsibility for their business performance. Smeets holds a doctorate in law and in 2002 founded the Smeets Haas Wolff legal practice, which specialized in banking, financial and real estate law. In 2008, the practice became the German operation of the leading international law firm Paul Hastings under Smeets’ management. Smeets has been associated with gateProtect AG since October 2003 as its majority shareholder and chairman of the supervisory board.

The company’s considerable global success and strong growth in international sales made it essential for the company to appoint a Chief Sales Officer (CSO). Dennis Monner, who founded gateProtect and was previously its CEO, is a recognized sales expert and will now take sole responsibility for the overall sales function, which has grown significantly in recent years. “Sales and opening up new markets for gateProtect have always been the focus of my responsibilities as an executive of the company,” says Monner. “I’m looking forward to being able to concentrate all my energies on its ongoing sales performance.”

Under Monner’s leadership, gateProtect has emerged as one of the world’s top ten UTM makers in a fiercely competitive market with up to 500 other providers. In 2011, the company’s international sales volume overtook those from its successful German domestic market for the first time. This proves the success of the international sales campaign that Monner has led since 2009. Independent international analysts such as Frost & Sullivan and Gartner see gateProtect as one of the world’s top players in the IT security sector.

A new member of gateProtect’s board is Stephan Ziegler as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), heading up the research, development and technical support areas. Prior to joining gateProtect, Ziegler – who holds a degree in computer science – held several management positions in the IT industry. He headed up the software division at the industry association BITKOM, taking responsibility for its work on IT architecture, quality management, software development processes, and cloud computing. He also worked as an independent IT consultant for private companies and public authorities. Ziegler was also the IT industry representative in the German IPv6 Council. He started his professional career as an IT consultant at SAP AG in the IT Engineering division.

The management team also includes Dr. Reinhard Festag, who has been gateProtect’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) since July 1, 2011, heading up the company’s financial and strategic functions. Festag, who holds a doctorate in physics and is a visiting lecturer in management consulting at the University of Ludwigshafen, was already associated with gateProtect for a long time in an advisory capacity before taking on his current position.

Print-quality photos of the new management team are available for download at http://www.gateprotect.com/de-DE/news/bildmaterial.html. Short biographies of the management and supervisory board members are available athttp://www.gateprotect.com/en-GB/company/management.html.

This press release can be downloaded at: http://www.gateprotect.com and http://www.phronesis.de

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London, United Kingdom– February 8, 2012 – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM) announced today that it has acquired Blaze Software Inc., a provider of frontend optimisation (FEO) technology, in a cash transaction.  The acquisition is expected to complement Akamai’s market-leading site acceleration solutions with technology designed to optimise the speed at which a web page is rendered, regardless of end user device.

With the rapid adoption of rich Internet applications and the increase in mobile browsing, new performance bottlenecks are emerging.  Websites are becoming richer and more complex, with more compute requirements built into a single page, impacting performance in the browser or client device.  As a result, content providers are faced with a growing set of challenges in maintaining a high-performing site and assuring a superior end-user experience. 

Blaze provides technology designed to automatically optimise the code on a web page during the delivery process to ensure faster transmission of content and a faster rendering of the page, whether served to a PC, tablet or smartphone.  As a cloud-based service that requires no software or code changes by the customer, Blaze’s offering is designed to work with any web site.  Akamai plans to integrate the technology into its global cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere.

“As businesses provide rich, interactive web experiences online and across devices, it is vital that end users receive a consistently high-performing site,” said Rick McConnell, executive vice president of Products and Development, Akamai.  “We believe Blaze has developed a powerful solution for frontend optimisation, and that its cloud-based services approach is synergistic with Akamai’s offerings.  The team at Blaze will be an important addition to our focus on site acceleration.  Our goal continues to be providing customers with the most comprehensive set of technologies to optimise all aspects of their site performance.”

“Core to our focus at Blaze is constant research and product development that enables us to improve the speed of our customers’ sites by automatically applying the latest web performance optimisation best practices,” said Michael Weider, CEO of Blaze.  “Our technology is aimed at reducing the number of requests required to load a page, reducing the size of each request, and improving the browser rendering experience for our customers.  Combining our technology with the global Akamai platform is a big win for customers who are increasingly looking to take performance optimisation to the next level.”

About Blaze
Based in Ottawa, Canada, Blaze was founded in 2010 with a mission to help clients deliver better performing Web businesses by making their sites faster.  User experience, conversions, search rankings and operational costs are all influenced by the speed of your site.  Blaze provides a cloud-based service that automates Frontend Optimisation (FEO). To learn more, please visit www.blaze.io.

About Akamai
Akamai® is a leading cloud platform for helping enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device, anywhere.  At the core of the Company's solutions is the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ providing extensive reach, coupled with unmatched reliability, security, visibility and expertise.  Akamai removes the complexities of connecting the increasingly mobile world, supporting 24/7 consumer demand, and enabling enterprises to securely leverage the cloud.  To learn more about how Akamai is accelerating the pace of innovation in a hyperconnected world, please visit www.akamai.com or blogs.akamai.com, and follow @Akamai on Twitter.

The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about the expectations with respect to the integration of the Blaze technology and resulting benefits and the expected future business and financial performance of Akamai resulting from and following the acquisition. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, inability to successfully integrate the technology of Blaze or to develop products based on the technology and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.

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Ascendant Communications
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Amobee's mobile ad campaign integrates sophisticated mobile advertising technologies, enabling Vertu to successfully identify growth opportunities within the female, luxury fashion segment. Vertu's mobile advertising campaign for the Constellation includes an exclusive sponsorship of Conde Nast's release of the Vogue Daily News app, the most exclusive mobile app for daily fashion news, effectively reaching a new female market. The campaign also included a Vertu video in a Net-A-Porter iPad app, which achieved an astonishing 24% click through rate, exceeding expectations and industry standards. Furthermore, Amobee worked with Navteq to geo-fence affluent shopping areas to drive footfall into Vertu boutiques.

"Working with Amobee has shown us how powerful mobile advertising can be to reach a niche, luxury audience with smart media placement and sleek creative design," said Mark Izatt, Head of Digital for Vertu. "We're excited by the results we've seen so far and look forward to continuing our work with Amobee to reach luxury consumers via state-of-the-art mobile marketing."

"Vertu is all about a world of ‘unique experiences and a life beautifully arranged', which works well with Amobee's mobile expertise for luxury brands," said Trevor Healy, CEO of Amobee. "At Amobee, we like to help brands turn customers into fans and owners of Vertu devices are fans of this great brand."

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As a result of this unique collaboration Skyscape’s Cloud Services will be immediately enhanced through the integration of QinetiQ’s market leading Protective Monitoring Service – a service already widely used by many of the UK Government’s applications.

Phil Dawson, CEO, Skyscape said “In our UK public sector Cloud Prediction 2012 survey we found that over 53% of the public sector perceived security risks as the greatest inhibitor to cloud adoption. By incorporating QinetiQ’s Protective Monitoring Service into our Infrastructure and Software as a Service Cloud offering, we go a significant way towards alleviating this concern.”

The provision of an effective framework of Protective Monitoring of Governmental information and technology systems is an essential element in the treatment of information security risks. With it arises inevitable investment that needs to be made in respect of the supporting infrastructure and technology, but most importantly the correct resourcing of the deployed solution in terms of manpower, expertise, information assurance and defined levels of service such that there can be confidence in a return on investment and the effectiveness of the solution.

Alasdair Rodgers, Managing Director of Security, QinetiQ said “QinetiQ’s Protective Monitoring Service is a set of business processes, with essential support technology and highly skilled personnel, that oversee how ICT systems are used and provides a means of treating risks to information and technology systems. Combining this with Skyscape’s Cloud Services provides a unique and differentiated capability to the UK public sector when using cloud computing.”

As part of their Cloud Alliance Agreement, Skyscape and QinetiQ are also collaborating towards the future provision of secure cloud based services.

The closeness of this collaboration is further enhanced as Skyscape will relocate its headquarters to QinetiQ’s Farnborough site, creating 30 additional vacancies as the Company expands its technical, product and service capabilities.

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During the summer of 2011 4,500 mobile devices were lost by people on London transport alone. As the influx of people increases to watch the games in July, so does the need to implement effective security and back-up solutions across all business and consumer devices.

Jon Pickering, MD, Block Solutions comments: “This summer will likely see extensive personal use of mobile devices, particularly as the wave of sporting events increases. With the rapid growth of Consumerisation of IT and the issue of more corporate smartphones, the likelihood that these will also contain corporate data and intellectual property is very high. It is worrying that over 27,000 devices were lost last year and if this continues, there is a risk of losing a further 2,840 mobiles, 231 USBs and 121 laptops in just two months!”

“This means that a lot of personal and corporate data will be unaccounted for across the country. For this reason owners, particularly those using devices for business purposes should take specific steps to protect their assets and implement remote access solutions that can manage and resolve this risk. Good examples of this would be to utilise centrally managed solutions such as MobilIron’s Mobile Device Management or Vmware’s Horizon Mobile platform, as each gives IT access and control to the corporate data & IP on a remote device, which if necessary can be locked down or remotely wiped if compromised.”

By implementing such security and back-up solutions, any lost device is simply that, a lost device. Through taking action now, the potential threat of over 3,000 additional lost devices full of data turning up in the Transport for London’s lost property box or worse a stranger’s pocket will be eliminated.

Pickering concludes: “Without doubt the Olympics will bring disruption to the capital this summer, however whilst people can’t do anything about the millions of extra visitors and congestion, simple measures can be taken to ensure everyday life isn’t disrupted and devices are more secure, so they aren’t left feeling the consequences after the final ceremony on the 9th September.”

About Block Solutions
Block is a technology consultancy that specialises in solving organisational issues and challenges through intelligent use of technology. Our solutions deliver outstanding performance for organisations that need robust systems to stay ahead of changing demands.

Our technology capabilities include LAN and Data Centre Networks, Wireless, Network Security, Unified Communications, Video, Storage and Virtualisation. These capabilities are based around our key technology partners: Cisco, EMC, VMware and Microsoft.

About Eduserv
Eduserv develops and delivers technology solutions that demonstrate savings within the public sector, especially Government, Health, Charity and Education. As a not-for-profit organisation it channels any surplus into research and development of services that will benefit its customers today and in the future. Services include web development, managed hosting, identity and access management, license negotiation and research.

For more information, contact:
Alex Bacon
Communications and Marketing Executive
01225 470485
alexander.bacon@eduserv.org.uk

Alex Brooks/Amy McKenna
Rocket Communications
Eduserv@rocketcomms.net
08453 707 024

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Scottish Water is committed to providing reliably accessible information to its 5 million customers. “During peak times such as winter, when pipes are liable to freeze, or if there are problems with water supply, the website traffic can spike by more than 100%,” says Chris Wallace, Director of Communications at Scottish Water. “The upgrade will make the website even more reliable and easy to navigate for customers looking for advice and information. The site will also be easier to use for our internal contributors, making the addition of video and other new content quicker and more intuitive.”

The partnership will see Eduserv provide fully managed services and support to Scottish Water, ensuring that any issues with the site are quickly resolved. The website is developed with Sitecore Content Management System and will meet AA standards for accessibility[1], ensuring it is usable for people with blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning and other disabilities.

“We had heard of Eduserv before and knew their reputation, and their public sector focus and experience. Once we’d met with their developers and discussed our requirements, we felt we were in safe hands. Working with Eduserv allows Scottish Water to develop and improve online communication to our customers,” concludes Wallace.

The Scottish Water website will be hosted in Eduserv’s UK datacentre, which already manages and hosts IT for the Department for Education (DfE), the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

About Eduserv
Eduserv develops and delivers technology solutions that demonstrate savings within the public sector, especially Government, Health, Charity and Education. As a not-for-profit organisation it channels any surplus into research and development of services that will benefit its customers today and in the future. Services include web development, managed hosting, identity and access management, license negotiation and research.

For more information, contact:
Alex Bacon
Communications and Marketing Executive
01225 470485   
alexander.bacon@eduserv.org.uk

Alex Brooks/Amy McKenna
Rocket Communications
Eduserv@rocketcomms.net
08453 707 024

[1] AA standards as specified by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines

Only select cameras purchased between April of 2010 and the present may be affected and require a firmware update. Eighteen camera models have been identified. A list of the identified products is available on TRENDnet’s homepage: http://www.trendnet.com.

How can consumers upload new firmware?

Updating firmware takes a few minutes. New firmware for all of the listed models is available at the following link: http://www.trendnet.com/downloads/

How can consumers contact TRENDnet?
TRENDnet has created a dedicated email for all inquires related to this reported issue. Customers with any questions related to this issue such as how to update your camera’s firmware are invited to contact TRENDnet at the following email: ipcam@trendnet.com.

For more than 20 years, TRENDnet has built a reputation for offering trusted, security IP camera solutions to consumers worldwide. TRENDnet has worked hard to create a brand delivering network solutions that people trust. TRENDnet extends its deepest apologies to consumers, which may be impacted by this issue.

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Email: trendnet@touchdownpr.com

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The survey of more than 2,000 UK adults, carried out by online polling firm, YouGov for SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, finds that people are most willing to share information when they expect it to lead to higher levels of security and that generally, they trust the police with this information far more than they trust the government.

48% of those surveyed said they would be prepared to share personal data with the police in return for enhanced personal security against criminal or terrorist attacks. 37% claimed they would be prepared to share with border/customs for the same reasons but only 22% were prepared to share with government.

Mark Gibson, sales and marketing director EMEA & Asia Pacific, Public Security, SAS, says, “While people remain cautious about who has access to the data they share online, and on social media networks in particular, their concern about crime and terrorism is such that many are prepared to sacrifice privacy in return for greater peace of mind about personal security.

“This confidence in sharing when there is a clear security benefit contrasts strongly with the public’s continuing wariness about government, banks or other groups using the information they’ve posted online or even knowing where they are.”

77% of the survey sample said they would not be prepared for any groups to have access to their location information while 82% were not comfortable about groups using personal information they’ve made available on social media.

The survey also finds that people’s growing interest in using social media for public security extends to an increasing willingness to report crimes via social media rather than by telephone or face-to-face, especially among the young.  15% of 18-24-year-olds said they would use a social media site to contact the police if they witnessed a crime (as opposed to only 1% of the 55-plus age range).

Perception and Reality

More generally, the survey reveals a widespread lack of awareness among British adults that other groups are likely to use the information they post online.  

As many as 27% of social networking website users polled did not think any groups were currently using personal information they had made available on social media. Only 26% of respondents thought the Government were using this kind of information and just 27% thought smartphone service providers were.

According to Gibson, “the public perception about what happens to the information they share online appears to be far removed from the reality. Our survey shows that nearly half (42%) of online British adults use social media websites at least once a day. Yet many don’t realise that by doing so they’re likely to be sharing data with a range of other groups. And when questioned directly, they are often nervous and even hostile about different groups using their information.”

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ABOUT SAS

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers at more than 55,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.

SAS®’ public security business provides solutions designed to help improve intelligence processes, enhance public safety, and prevent and deter crime, terrorism and other threats. Via SAS® and complementary Memex solutions, the company can now provide a comprehensive tactical and strategic solution around the world for law enforcement, national security, border agencies and fusion centres.

ABOUT THE SURVEY

All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc.  Total sample size was 2057 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 30th November - 2nd December 2011.  The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all GB adults (aged 18+). For more information, including an infographic, please visit www.memex.com/public-security-social-media.

According to IDC, the UK is the biggest cloud service market, roughly twice the size of Germany, growing at 30% per annum. At the summit, Allen highlighted mission critical elements for businesses which are moving towards the cloud such as application development and IT infrastructure, according to the Mission Critical Server Workloads Model. He also emphasised a convergence between public and private clouds in the future.

Allen’s keynote highlighted trends in the marketplace for 2012:

• There is a growing need for standardisation and  reference cloud architectures
• The rate of data growth is predicted to be 48% in 2012. The proliferation of data and how to handle it is high on the CIO’s agenda.
• People want more self-service models. They want to spend less time building and more time on the value added by applications.
• New business models for CIO’s will be driven by cloud.
• There is an increasing pace of disruptive technology in the market. 
• There is a shift in the competitive landscape as small and agile service providers come into the market.

 “The development of cloud computing is impacting how our customers buy and operate their IT.   To evolve with and lead this change, we are developing new financial and partnering models, and enabling our sales teams with new solution offerings which reflect those customer evolving needs.  We are actively committed to helping our partners build services that will win in the market place,” said Dave Allen.

“The IT landscape is evolving and cloud computing is high on everyone’s agenda. Our customers are looking for innovative IT infrastructure that will benefit their business growth and, with support from NetApp, we are developing our go to market approach to keep ahead of developments,” said Carmen Carey, CEO of ControlCircle.

The summit was the second summit of its kind and was attended by 45 delegates from leading partner organisations including Cisco, Atos, CSC, Fujitsu and NTT.

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