London, UK (PRWeb UK) June 8, 2010 — Acronis, a provider of easy-to-use backup, disaster recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced that it has teamed up with Origin Storage to provide an easy to use package which allows users to migrate their operating system, applications, settings and data from hard disk drives (HDDs) to self encrypting drives (SEDs).

This package comes as part of Origin Storage’s Enigma range which includes the Acronis True Image solution. This package can capture an operating system, including applications, settings and data. The tool will allow users to easily migrate from their existing system to a new SED.

The package comes with a kit that includes a USB / SATA data transfer cable for ease of installation. Once the image has been migrated, Origin Storage customers can also use encryption capabilities to lock down the data on their SEDs. The encryption data comes courtesy of Winmagic.

Andy Cordial, managing director at Origin Storage, explains: “Our aim is to provide a complete solution to enable businesses to migrate their system from one source to another. This can sometimes be a complicated process, which is why we have created this package. We looked at several imaging vendors, but Acronis was the obvious choice for its ease of use and reliable technology.”

David Blackman, general manager Northern Europe at Acronis, said: “As the demand for self encrypted drives continues to rise, Acronis True Image HD has become the preferred solution for vendors like Origin Storage who want to give their customers a proven, reliable product that helps users make the most of their technology investment.”

All three drives come in a 2.5 inch form factor and use 256-bit AES hardware encryption. The drives start at £249 for a 160GB version, and span up to 500 GB for £299.

About Origin
Origin Storage Ltd is one of Europe’s leading IT storage manufacturers for matched hard drive solutions. Origin Storage prides itself on its ability to support legacy storage products and notebook accessories for all leading manufacturers. Origin has supported all major OEMs for the past five years and has worldwide supply links with tier one manufacturers. http://www.originstorage.com

About Acronis
Acronis is a provider of easy-to-use backup, disaster recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. Its patented disk imaging and management technology enables corporations and individuals to protect digital assets in physical and virtual environments. Acronis’ backup, recovery, server consolidation and virtualization migration software helps users protect their digital information, maintain business continuity and reduce downtime. Acronis software is sold in more than 180 countries and available in 13 languages. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.co.uk Follow Acronis on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acronis.

Acronis® and the Acronis logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Acronis Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

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London UK (PRWEB) October 28, 2009 — Lombardi®, a leader in business process management (BPM) software, today announced that its President, Phil Gilbert, will be presenting at a Networking Lunch as part of the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009. Lombardi is a sponsor of the four-day event, which will be held on 2 - 5 November, 2009 at the Palais Des Festivals in Cannes, France.

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2009 is the industry’s largest and most important annual gathering of CIOs and senior IT executives. The theme of this year’s program will focus on how business technology can help companies return to growth by balancing cost optimization and risk mitigation.

The networking lunch takes place on 4th November from 13.15 - 14.30 (local time) at the Majestic Hotel - Salon Dinard, Cannes. The two-part presentation, entitled “Putting Business First in Process Improvement,” includes an introduction and market overview from Janelle Hill, Gartner’s Research VP for Business Process Management. Mr. Gilbert will then discuss why it is critical to get “buy-in” from the business to drive BPM, the role business and technical individuals really play in BPM and how financial outcomes can be maximized via a “business first” approach towards development.

Additionally, Lombardi staff will be available during the conference to demonstrate the company’s award-winning BPM product portfolio in Booth K1 of the conference’s Business Process Management Marketplace.

The networking lunch session is open to all registered conference attendees. For more information about the conference, visit http://www.gartner.com/technology/symposium/2009/esc21/agenda.jsp.

About Lombardi
Lombardi is a leader in business process management (BPM). We offer award-winning BPM technology and services to help our customers, partners and government agencies around the world succeed with their process improvement initiatives.

Lombardi is behind some of the largest, most successful BPM implementations in the world. Our customers include AARP, Aflac, Allianz Group, Applied Materials, Aviva Plc., Banco Espirito Santo, Barclays Global Investors, Chiquita Brands, Dell, Financial Services Authority, Ford Motor Company, Hasbro, ING Direct, Intel, Jaguar Land Rover, Mirant, National Bank of Canada, National Institutes of Health, OAD Groep, Pfizer, PHH Arval, SIRVA, Symantec, UCLH, Wells Fargo, Yale University and numerous governmental agencies. For more information, visit www.lombardi.com.

Lombardi, Teamworks are registered trademarks and Teamworks Process Optimizer, Teamworks Portal, Teamworks for Office, Teamworks for SharePoint and Lombardi Blueprint are trademarks of Lombardi Software, Inc. All other company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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(PRWEB) September 18, 2009 — As part of its evaluation of offerings in the data quality tools market, the Gartner report highlights the importance to all organizations, regardless of size and sector, of high quality data. Yet despite this, the Data Warehousing Institute reports that 83% of organizations suffer from poor master data - and this can have a dramatic impact on profitability.

Datactics specializes in supporting organizations globally in achieving and maintaining the highest level of product data quality to drive increased revenue, raise customer satisfaction levels and tap into new opportunities. Its solutions reach far beyond traditional cleansing of name and address data to embrace product data, which is extremely complex and often contains hundreds of attributes (currency, price, dimensions) derived from multiple systems. Creating and maintaining an accurate and consistent view of product data is no longer an uphill struggle with Datactics technology. Its powerful yet user friendly qualities enable business users who understand the data to manage, control and audit product data quality throughout the organization with ease.

In today’s competitive business world, Datactics technology is instrumental in helping Fortune 500 and other leading organizations deliver mission critical initiatives to generate revenue, reduce cost and risk. For instance Datactics enables distributors to bring suppliers and products onboard faster with product catalog loading. With Datactics high speed data loading, labor costs can be reduced by 80%. Items are loaded accurately, without duplication, in standardized formats even from disparate sources. This can accelerate revenue generation through much faster time to market. Similarly by equipping manufacturers with product data quality tools, Datactics has helped them increase global purchasing leverage, obtain the best deals for the highest quality products, optimize inventory by reducing duplication, better control corporate spend and identify and implement best pricing strategies.

Jon Brooks, CEO of Datactics, says, “We are delighted to be included in the Gartner report. We have witnessed many real-life examples to demonstrate that senior management is often unaware of how much manual work goes into correcting data, and the significant cost this effort implies as well as lost revenue if data is incorrect. Product data becomes more complex as organizations grow and need to assimilate new products which may be in different units of measure, in a different language or a different currency. Added to this, product data quality will inevitably deteriorate over time - that’s a simple fact. But by applying effective tools to manage product data effectively, organizations can develop a clear business advantage.”

Mastering the power of data is clearly essential to business success. The Datactics suite of product data quality tools yield a visible impact on organizations’ bottom line through data cleansing, data validation, data matching, data standardization and data enrichment of volumes of complex product data regardless of language, structure, duplication, omissions or errors.

About Datactics -
Datactics data quality solutions equip the business user to build a unified, enhanced and accurate view of product, supplier, customer and financial data. Use of Datactics reduces manual data cleansing time and costs, creating faster time to market, driving revenue as well as reducing risk and costs. The company specializes in industries such as distribution, retail and manufacturing. Datactics has over 10 years experience in the data quality industry. The company has gained industry recognition as a visionary within the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools since 2007. Datactics has been recognized by Bloor Research and also by Information Difference in its Data Quality Landscape Report. Datactics has a strong portfolio of Fortune 500 customers and other leading organizations, and a worldwide partner network. For more information please contact us now on: USA + 1 312 291 4185 or UK + 44 (0) 28 9073 8854 or visit Datactics online at www.datactics.com.

About Gartner’s Magic Quadrant -The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) September 15, 2009 — After a brief configuration and deployment process, Bay Creek Manufacturing has successfully implemented the OMNITROL Real-Time Manufacturing Visibility solution to increase efficiency and productivity at its main production plant in Mountain View, Missouri. Bay Creek manufactures uniforms such as track suits, and band and cheerleading uniforms for schools and colleges. Every order is unique with respect to quantity, size, style, colors, braid, embroidery, and tackle twill, so that it is not unusual to have well over 15,000 units on the shop-floor on any given day.

“Bay Creek Manufacturing represented a highly complex and customer-driven operational environment,” said Sieg Weber, Director of Engineering at Omnitrol Networks. “We are delighted to successfully deploy our unique real-time visibility solution without impacting their operations. It was easy for Bay Creek’s personnel to deploy the solution and rapidly accomplish operational efficiencies in their process.”

Due to the relatively short order cycle times, Bay Creek Manufacturing required automated collection and integration of real-time operational data to help them identify orders at risk of being late, increase throughput, and make immediate business decisions. The problem was compounded when Bay Creek recently added a third manufacturing plant to meet increasing production requirements. “Manual work-order tracking across all three sites was proving virtually impossible. Bay Creek needed a solution that would provide real-time visibility of not only the Mountain View factory, but eventually across all three facilities,” said Sieg Weber, “while keeping the total cost of ownership of the solution as low as possible.”

The OMNITROL Real-Time Manufacturing Visibility system is designed to provide automated business intelligence and real-time operational dashboards, scorecards and alerts. The OMNITROL solution is the industry’s first fully integrated sensor-based application network that securely integrates business process intelligence with real-time sensors on the shop floor.

Among the benefits Bay Creek Manufacturing cites is complete visibility of the shop-floor. “I can view the complete status of my operations and quickly identify at-risk orders from my desktop”, reported Mark Odom, Bay Creek’s Vice-President of Manufacturing. “Instead of discovering late orders through missed delivery dates, thanks to the Omnitrol Networks’ solution, I am always in the know, and my operations have transformed from a reactive to a pro-active environment where I can address the issues before they escalate into customer problems”.

The OMNITROL Real-Time Visibility Manufacturing solution allowed Bay Creek to automatically:
• Enable clients to check the status of their orders in real-time through a web portal
• Accurately track real-time forecasted production against MRP schedules
• Track employee timing and job schedules as they happen
• Reconcile multiple job order pairing
• Attach digital content such as photos, and quality records to job orders

Bay Creek employees immediately took to the new OMNITROL system with a minimum of training. “It allows them to easily input the status of orders and the activities they are performing,” says Mark Odom, “rather than filling out paperwork. This increases the overall throughput, all with only a small investment and no real change to our existing manufacturing processes.”

About Omnitrol Networks:
Omnitrol Networks Inc. is a leading provider of real-time operational visibility and traceability solutions that integrate advanced wireless, mobile handhelds, RFID and sensor technologies. The company’s award-winning OMNITROL software has pioneered the market for “Always On” real-time business intelligence, supply-chain traceability and automation for shop-floor operations. The OMNITROL’s unique edge-centric solution architecture delivers the industry’s first complete business intelligent solution for real-time shop-floor to top-floor collaboration at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. Omnitrol Networks Inc. is a privately held company with corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California, USA. Additional information about Omnitrol Networks’ products and services are available at http://www.omnitrol.com.

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London, UK (PRWEB) August 24, 2009 — Altien today announces the expansion of its Legal Suite for IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) with new releases of Altien Legal Document Manager and Altien Legal Hold Process Manager. These applications harness the extensive capabilities of the IBM ECM platform to deliver focused solutions for law firms and corporate legal departments.

Lawyers were early adopters of document management technology, and today most law firms and in-house legal departments have a document management system of some sort. However, many are now looking for next generation ECM solutions that meet all their content management needs and include fully integrated business process management, email management, records management and eDiscovery capabilities.

Jason Hirst, Chief Executive Officer of Altien, said: “Looking forward over the next five to ten years, we see enormous challenges for law firms, legal departments and indeed all enterprises in the way they manage their unstructured data. We expect continuing explosive growth in the volume, variety and complexity of digital information and a parallel increase in the costs associated with information governance failure.”

“The level of product development investment that will be required to deliver technology solutions that meet these challenges will also be enormous, and consequently we expect only a handful of core enterprise content management platforms to eventually dominate. Altien’s strategy is to deliver packaged applications that utilize the IBM ECM platform to solve specific business problems. By taking advantage of the core ECM capabilities of the IBM platform, we are free to concentrate on building intelligence and best practices into our applications to deliver an excellent user experience.”

Altien Legal Document Manager (LDM) is an advanced, matter-centric document & business process management solution for law firms and corporate legal departments. It offers an intuitive user interface that is both easy to learn and efficient for frequent use. Built on the IBM FileNet P8 platform, it enables organizations to bring together all their documents, emails, images and other media into a single, hugely-scalable and flexible system.

LDM streamlines the document drafting process through tight integration with Microsoft Office and the industry-leading document comparison and integrity tools from Workshare. With IBM Content Collector, inbound and outbound emails are automatically captured and filed into relevant matters. Documents can be declared as records using IBM FileNet Records Manager, either with Zero-Click policies or using the manual-declare wizard. Through its integration with IBM Content Integrator, LDM allows users to securely browse and search other content repositories from the same user-interface, enabling a phased migration from legacy systems.

“Altien Legal Document Manager delivers the key features that law firms and legal departments need to manage their documents today, and is architected to meet the challenges of the future”, said Jason Hirst, Chief Executive Officer of Altien. “An important differentiator in our solution is the deep integration with the IBM FileNet Business Process Manager engine, which enables the automation and auditing of document-centric and matter-centric workflows, from simple ad hoc tasks to complex multi-step, multi-party processes. Customers can design and implement their own workflows or take advantage of pre-built Altien Process Packs, such as Altien Legal Hold Process Manager.”

Altien Legal Hold Process Manager (LHPM) enables corporate legal departments to establish and manage an efficient and defensible legal hold process. It offers two unique benefits compared to standalone solutions. First, it is fully integrated into the Altien Legal Document Manager matter-centric model so that all the emails, documents and workflows generated as part of the legal hold process are stored in the same matter file as other case-related materials. Second, because LHPM is built on the IBM FileNet Business Process Manager engine, it offers a far more flexible and cost-effective solution than alternatives which rely on their own embedded workflow and content management technology.

Altien will be officially unveiling its new products at the ILTA ‘09 Annual Educational Conference taking place at the Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center, near Washington DC on the 24th-27th August 2009.

About Altien
Altien develops packaged applications for the IBM Enterprise Content Management platform. Altien’s expertise is based on more than fifteen years of experience in designing and implementing ECM systems and Altien has been an IBM FileNet ISV ValueNet partner since 2003. Altien’s applications are deployed today with major organizations worldwide in the financial services, energy and government sectors. Altien is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.altien.com.

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(PRWEB) August 25, 2009 — Over-C’s Managing Director Michael Elliott shook up the world of remote worker management by announcing not only the launch of a new, improved Over-C software package, but also that in Q1 2010, the entry-level edition will be available free of charge.

John Roddy, Group Managing Director of AFC Group, said: ‘Michael’s speech was inspirational - we finally have technology which is supporting future sales and operational delivery’.
V3, the new software package, will be available from 26th October this year and offers a number of enhanced features, including:
*New - Live mapping - using enhanced interactive mapping to make it easier than ever to manage and customise locations and NFC tags.
*New - Lone worker monitoring - this built-in facility can either be automatic or ‘opt-in’ for staff, which allows managers to keep an eye on their workers anytime, anywhere.
*New - Exception reporting - instant email and SMS alerts on uncompleted tasks within time-specific schedules (ie your required shift patterns etc), with built-in escalation through levels of management when tasks are not meeting targets.
*New - Up-to-the-minute personal schedules and rosters, displayed securely on the mobile phone along with instructions and tasks, and updated instantly. Available to all leading roster and scheduling systems, including Coldharbour, Innovise and in-house solutions.
as well as significant improvements to existing features:
*Real-time notification of key activities including checklists, photo and audio recordings, with customisable messages to suit customer needs.
*Faster and easier than ever to manage customer accounts and locations.
*More control over NFC tags and handset management.
*Dashboards and analytics specifically designed to facilitate quick and informed decision making. *Real-time view of operational performance and trends.

The advent of free software at the beginning of next year is set to revolutionise remote worker management globally.

Michael Elliott, Managing Director of Over-C, comments: ‘We’re offering the entry level edition free of charge because we’re committed to making a positive contribution to organisations that rely on remote workers, whether they’re domiciliary carers, cleaners or security guards. We can help them to work smarter and safer, and we want Over-C to be the natural choice for this kind of technology.’

Selected attendees received a free Nokia NFC phone as a demonstration of Over-C’s commitment to helping them improve their business, and five organisations were singled out as role models in an awards ceremony which recognised excellence in the use and promotion of both Over-C and NFC:

Europa - Over-C Customer Service Award, for their excellent use of Over-C with their client Capital Shopping Centres Plc, in monitoring performance against service level agreements.

STM Security Group - Over-C Safety Award, for exemplary use of Over-C in every London Overground station and for monitoring personal safety on board trains.

Knightsbridge Security - Over-C Quality Award, recognising the use of Over-C to ensure consistent quality is maintained by staff working on behalf of Broadgate Estates.

G4S Ireland, Denis Murphy - Over-C NFC Champion, awarded to the individual who has made the biggest contribution in initiating new opportunities for the company using Over-C.

Securitas - Over-C Innovation Award, for pioneering work with Marks and Spencer using Over-C’s multimedia functionality alongside revenue protection officers, to record thefts.

Finally, a charity auction raised a fantastic £3,350, which will go to Help for Heroes.

Notes for editors:
Over-C is the leading provider of innovative technology called Near Field Communication which uses mobile phones and tags to pass information to each other when they touch. It has a broad range of applications for organisations who need to share information and data with their remote workers on a real-time basis. With clients in the security, healthcare and construction industries, Over-C consistently monitors around 1 million activities each month. For more information on Over-C services, visit http://www.over-c.com/.

Contacts
Susan Granger - Marketing Manager
M: 07856 817319

Steph Yaguer - Corporate Communications
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MAASTRICT, The Netherlands (PRWEB) August 13, 2009 — Scala and Blue Chip Technology have partnered to create a range of dedicated hardware players designed, tested and pre-loaded with Scala digital signage software. Blue Chip now offers a wide range of pre-installed Scala images for Scala’s EMEA customer base - simplifying system set-up for a quicker installation.

The new range of PC-based players covers the spectrum of Scala user requirements, the L3 and P1 models being cost-effective workhorses for the mainstream user while the E2 and 2U address the most demanding content with high-end graphics and quadcore CPU support. Incorporating special design features such as rugged chassis, wide operating temperatures, maglev fans and high MTBF hard drives, Blue Chip platforms are ideally equipped for demanding digital signage applications. All Blue Chip hardware players are designed and manufactured in the UK, EMC tested and fully CE approved.

“This partnership ensures the Scala customer base will have easy access to a range of proven hardware solutions with volume pricing, consistent availability and managed lifecycle, key considerations in high-profile signage applications,” said Damon Crowhurst, Director of Services for Scala EMEA.

About Blue Chip Technology
Blue Chip Technology is a leading UK innovator and manufacturer of dedicated digital signage hardware as well as a range of cross-industry systems and embedded computer boards. We designed our first Vario model nearly ten years ago when digital signage was in its infancy, developing our own expertise alongside the exponential growth in this fascinating market. Our hardware is used and recommended by key industry display manufacturers, software players and system integrators, and is driving content in airports, shopping malls, pubs and schools around the world. More information available at http://www.bluechiptechnology.co.uk/Category/Scala-Digital-Signage-Players.

About Scala
Driving more than 300,000 screens worldwide, Scala is a leading global provider of digital signage and advertising management solutions. Scala is the world’s first connected signage company, offering the leading platform for content creation, management and distribution in digital signage networks and the first unified platform for advertising management of both traditional and digital signage networks. The company’s digital signage customers include Rabobank, IKEA, Burger King, T-Mobile, Virgin MegaStore, Warner Brothers, The Life Channel, Rikstoto, Repsol, NorgesGruppen, Audi, ECE Flatmedia, Kaufhof (Metro Group) and thousands more. Advertising management customers include CBS Outdoor, Clear Channel Outdoor and Magic Media, among others. Scala is headquartered near Philadelphia, USA, and has subsidiaries in Canada, The Netherlands, France, Norway, Germany and Japan, as well as more than 450 partners in more than 60 countries. More information is available at www.scala.com.

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Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (PRWEB) August 18, 2009 — Staffordshire’s Parker Software has recently won a contract to supply their WhosOn Web Visitor Tracking technology to Food Services and Facilities Management company Sodexho which employs 355,000 people across 80 countries.
Keeping IT systems up and running and secure through strong security controls is considered critical by successful large organisations like Sodexho, particularly when employee internet activity is conducted across multiple locations and countries.

This led to the decision to install the WhosOn software to observe the company’s employee internet activity. WhosOn has been used on a total of ten Internet Information Services (IIS) Servers monitoring user activities in a non-intrusive system that complements existing security systems and enables the company to create reports which can be interrogated either on a daily basis or over a longer period of time. The reports created are also used for Sarbanes Oxley audits for compliance in combating fraud and alerting the company to any irregularities.

If an investigation is needed the software can produce results in a few mouse clicks, rather than the average of 2-3 man-days. This, when coupled with the clear communication of an organisation’s security policy, provides strong controls against computer and systems misuse and where such misuse does occur, provides clear and accurate evidence.

Sodexho chose WhosOn because it’s a solution that installs in minutes, is easy-to-use, is affordable and provides secure access at anytime and from anywhere, monitoring across a mixed server environment.

This latest win by Parker Software comes hot on the heels of the latest software release by the company to improve performance and scalability and introduce new features and improvements on existing ones such as operator activity reporting, remote administration, CRM integration and additional security.

One of the key features improved in version 5 that attracted Sodexho to the product is a redesign to the backend database to offer better performance, better reporting and lower disk space usage for the same number of visitors.

In relation to improvement to Visitor Tracking there is improved spider detection plus the ability to add custom spider user agents to the database. Web owners can also now monitor visitors on-line form entries in real time and the new version also allows anonymous proxy server detection i.e. visitors are flagged if they are using an anonymous proxy server.

All of the updates and new features are available immediately for all customers with current support contracts in place and without any additional fees. WhosOn Version 5 is now available in both a hosted and installable format a unique offering and in 4 editions to suit different business sizes and types Standard, Professional, Enterprise & ISP Editions.

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Portsmouth, Hampshire (PRWEB) August 13, 2009 — Printware is the UK’s largest independent printer reseller, offering small businesses the very best products and services in the industry. Whilst already offering an exceptional level of service, the company’s website has undergone a major update to make searching for the perfect printer even quicker and easier for customers.

The Printer Search is an innovative tool for potential customers to search for the right printer for them; this process is entirely unique and can’t be found anywhere else. Exclusive to Printware the new search tool allows customers to search all the very latest printers on the UK market; including models from all major manufacturers.

This brand new tool means there has never been an easier or faster way to reach a well-informed decision on buying a printer. All results include the manufacturers own incentives and special offers as well as any offers from Printware themselves.

Peter Donnelly, E-commerce Manager for Printware explains why this feature is so valuable: “The thing with printers is once you get down to the core needs of the user there’s not a great deal of difference between them these days. That certainly applies to non-specialist applications. The technology has become extremely advanced so it’s actually quite difficult to find a poor printer - as long as you’ve identified its key operating requirements. There are so many to choose from and the Search Tool makes it simple to narrow the amount of products down to an easily manageable size.”

Mr. Donnelly continued, “There will be key features of the machine that you will definitely need, and if you don’t know what you need, each section will give you a description so that you can make an informed decision. Then, you can base your decision on the purchase price and ongoing running costs.”

Printware are unique in the fact that they are the only company to publish running costs and the only company in its industry to allow the public access to their product database.

About Printware
Established in 1989, Printware has always offered exceptional service to its customers, working closely with recognised manufacturers in order to provide support, service and supplies to keep businesses printing. In 2007 Printware was acquired by one of the UK’s largest independent suppliers of total office solutions, The Danwood Group, which has the benefit of being able to offer customers a full range of photocopiers and consumables, as well as having their own fleet of over 300 regional printer engineers.

With over 30 years experience of supplying tailor-made solution packages to suit printing, faxing, copying or service needs, being linked to The Danwood Group has been an exciting move for Printware. Their leverage and relationship with the various manufacturers is stronger than ever.

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London, UK (PRWEB) August 6, 2009 — T-Plan Ltd acquires test automation specialist VNCRobot.

Highlights:

T-Plan Ltd (T-Plan), the UK based Integration and Test Management company, is pleased to announce that it has acquired VNCRobot, a test automation solution. Terms were not disclosed. This solution is highly complementary to the T-Plan Quality Solutions suite as it addresses the next logical step in the Testing Process. VNCRobot technology automates the actions of the end user, enabling highly manual elements of the testing process to be automated, dramatically reducing the regression testing cycle and replacing highly labour intensive manual activity with an efficient automated process.

VNCRobot has received over 4,300 unique downloads per year from the VNCRobot site alone. As a result of this acquisition, T-Plan will benefit from:
• an ‘end to end’ product portfolio. Dealing with Requirements Integration into Test Management and then optimizing the testing with efficient Test Automation;
• a larger combined customer base, including a significant number of blue-chip organisations;
• greater penetration of the strategically important US technology market;
• greater scale which will enable the enlarged company to better meet the growing demands of the combined customer base;

Commenting on the acquisition, Steve Marshall, Chief Executive Officer of T-Plan, said: “T-Plan sees significant value for customers and shareholders as a result of this deal. Acquiring the VNCRobot Automation business is a logical extension to our existing proposition, and we see strong growth potential in this market”. Marshall added, “With continued growth in our Quality Solutions Portfolio and a strengthening of our management team we are in a great position to quickly realise the benefits of this acquisition.”

Robert Pes, VNCRobot Managing Director, said: “As IT projects get more and more complex, integration of a standalone testing tool into a test management framework is a logical step to achieve structured and organized approach to the whole QA process with predictable costs and results”. Pes continued “Impressed with the T-Plan test management product line as well as the company culture, I’m pleased to bring VNCRobot to their portfolio and I am convinced that integration of our products will create a compelling proposition unmatched in the QA industry.”

Background notes to Editors:
T-Plan evaluated a number of acquisition opportunities in the test automation market, as part of a strategic plan to adopt ‘Agile’ methodology which is becoming increasingly important to our customers.

T-Plan was particularly impressed with the VNCRobot architecture as it provides full cross platform support and utilizes the Java programming language to extend the functionality rather than a proprietary language. This provides a truly global reach for the Test Automation solution. Users are represented across the major platforms in the following proportions: Windows 75%, Linux 15% and others 10%.

About T-Plan:
Founded in 1999, T-Plan provides Integration and Test Management Software to help customers Reduce Business Risk, Regulate their Processes and Reduce time to market. For additional information please visit www.t-plan.com.

About VNCRobot:
Founded in 2005, the VNCRobot project provides advanced software for automated software testing based on remote desktop technologies. Learn more at www.vncrobot.com.

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