30 June 2010 20:42

Kodak announces Cima Software Corporation, developers of the DOCUCLASS Document Management Solution, as a member of its Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program. Cima will work with customers to use KODAK Software and Scanners to digitally extract information from paper records and forms into its document management software. The combined technologies will help businesses improve the efficiency of process-driven tasks, such as claims processing, accounts payable, human resources and medical billing.

“Cima Software Corporation is committed to bringing world-class document management solutions to the marketplace, and being a member of the KODAK ISV Reseller Program plays a big part in helping us to deliver on this promise,” said Nelson Cano, Solutions Principal, Cima Software. “Kodak’s advanced imaging capabilities will improve the quality, accuracy and integrity of the information used within the DOCUCLASS Document Management Solution.”
More: www.docuclass.com
More: http://www.kodak.com

30 June 2010 15:21

ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that it is expanding its offering for enterprise search systems with the new ABBYY Recognition Server IFilter solution. Integrated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) or Windows Search, it unlocks image files such as TIFF, JPEG, DjVu, and PDF for full-text content indexing and therefore enables faster and more complete search of all documents in a corporate network. As a result, corporate users have a reliable tool to easily sort through volumes of image files accumulated in their organisation.

“Enterprise search systems give corporate users quick access to information contained in a variety of documents necessary to perform everyday tasks. A document that cannot be quickly retrieved is usually considered to be lost even if, nominally, it still exists somewhere in the archives. But some documents are stored in formats that are not convenient for search and retrieval, such as image formats,” commented Andrey Isaev, director of Technology Products Department at ABBYY. “Our product, designed to enhance Microsoft systems with the image content search support, provides an easy solution to simplify access to corporate information and knowledge, and increase work efficiency in an organisation.”

More: http://www.abbyy.com

30 June 2010 11:48

PCI DSS Compliance is certainly going to be top of mind for retailers in the coming months. On Thursday July 1st Visa is tightening up its security rules on smaller companies accepting card payments; this is particularly pertinent as it was announced earlier this month that all London Olympics tickets must be purchased on a Visa card! In September, a further security mandate will require large scale card-accepting businesses to be fully PCI DSS compliant from the start of that month onwards.

What is needed, according to Jeff LoSapio, security practice manager for application security specialists Fortify, is a change of mindset at the SME end of the market: “Smaller companies accepting card payments need to start thinking like larger scale companies. With cyber threats at an all time high they are increasingly a target and need to take PCI seriously.”

More: http://www.fortify.com/security-resources/library/compliance.jsp

30 June 2010 11:18

This month Fujitsu is celebrating its 75 year anniversary – a milestone very few other global IT companies have reached. Fujitsu, which is today the largest Japanese employer in the UK and Ireland (11,500 employees), has been a fundamental part of some of the IT industry's most notable breakthroughs and innovations – from the early days of telephone switching in the 1930s; the mainframe and parallel computing generation of the 1970s, to more recent inventions such as palm vein authentication and the world's first 3D PC.

Today Fujitsu is a £2 billion revenue company in the UK and Ireland; managing over 1 million desktops across government departments and private organisations; was the first company in Europe to have a Tier III certified data centre, and recently won the UK's largest desktop and thin client outsource deal with the Department for Work and Pensions. Globally the company is ranked by Gartner as the worlds third largest IT services provider based on total revenue*; employs 170,000 people worldwide; is present in 70 countries, and reported revenues of 4.6 trillion yen ($50bn) in the financial year ending 31 March 2010.

More: http://www.fujitsu.com/

30 June 2010 11:16

Verity Systems, leading manufacturer of degaussers and bulk tape erasers, today announced that their hard drive degausser, the SDD Master has been tested and approved by the National Security Agency (NSA) to sanitize classified information from magnetic storage media, and now features on the NSA’s Evaluated Products List for Degaussers.

The National Security Agency (NSA) has set out a policy for the disposal of magnetic storage devices such as hard drives. It is this standard that all US government agencies must adhere to and is recognised as the most effective and fool-proof way of disposing of hard drives effectively and securely. Security professionals need a guarantee that their data is completely erased and the SDD Master degausser delivers.

The SDD Master is simple and safe to operate. Lift the perspex lid, insert the hard drive, close the lid and press START. The entire cycle takes approximately 60 seconds. Data becomes permanently unrecoverable once exposed to the powerful gauss force in the device. The SDD-Master delivers a minimum magnetic field of 17,750 gauss, three times to the media throughout the automatic operation. This ensures that the SDD Master remains unrivalled by any other degausser on the market.

More: www.veritysystems.co.uk  

30 June 2010 09:39

At the recent Interop Tokyo event, Napatech successfully demonstrated that a standard server with 8 CPU cores can be used to build a full throughput 10 Gbps Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). Napatech has shown with this breakthrough that high-performance IPS products can be built using off-the-shelf components at lower cost, with less risk and faster time-to-market. More significantly, this demonstration shows that throughput performance can be scaled with the number of available CPU cores leading to even higher throughput possibilities.

“With Napatech network adapters, we can take full advantage of available CPU cores, which allows the solution to scale”, according to Erik Norup, President, Napatech Inc. “We can support up to 32 CPU cores, so throughput performance can be increased even higher, if more CPU cores are available. This provides predictable scalability in performance.”

More: http://www.napatech.com/resources

30 June 2010 09:33

Aia Software, a leading author and developer of intelligent document composition software today announced that its ITP Document Platform will facilitate anytime and anywhere document creation through integration with Office 2010. Microsoft Office Web Apps, the online equivalent of the Office applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, gives users online access to documents created in ITP.

Users can view, share and edit documents on a desktop PC, a mobile device or online. This makes interactive correspondence management with ITP wholly independent of the kind of browser that is used, with the integrated approach offering unrivalled ease of use. This new development lays the foundation for the future deployment of ITP in the Cloud through Microsoft BPOS and Azure.

ITP allows business users to develop and manage the content of their own documents themselves, without the intervention of the IT department. As a result, documents can be edited quicker and more efficiently. Integration with Microsoft Office is one of ITP’s strengths. ITP can generate correspondence based on templates and text boxes from Microsoft Word, or generate documents in Word, so that the user can further edit these documents. Recording templates, text boxes and input fields makes it possible to guarantee the quality and consistency of customer communication. It also yields cost savings as employees will no longer have to repeatedly draft the same letters, emails, proposals or contracts manually.

More: www.aia-itp.com

29 June 2010 16:22
Trillium Software^®, a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. , and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, announced today that independent industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has positioned Trillium Software in the "leaders" quadrant of Gartner’s influential Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools(1) research report.

“Our focus within Trillium Software has always been about helping organizations succeed. Our market leading solution is designed to help businesses in all industries, with all types of data, create and maintain decision-ready information,” said Len Dubois, senior vice president of marketing at Trillium Software. “Data quality is strategic to our customers, and we are the only vendor whose sole focus is to improve the quality of data within large enterprises. As a trusted partner for our customers, we provide deep knowledge and experience in how data impacts business processes and results. We provide a level of data quality expertise that challenges our competitors who treat data management as a commodity.”

You can download a complimentary copy of the Magic Quadrant by clicking HERE.
More: http://www.trilliumsoftware.com

29 June 2010 16:17
Pitney Bowes Business Insight, a global leader in location intelligence, data management and customer communication management software, data and services, today announced that EngageOne™ Interactive, the company’s solution for interactive document generation, can now be integrated with SAP® applications. Developed by BSG Business Services GmbH (BSG) and SAP-certified as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform, the BSG Interface for EngageOne 1.0 can be used to initiate, conduct and complete interactive document processes at the click of a mouse directly from the SAP® ERP application.

Many companies use SAP solutions to create documents across numerous business functions, such as insurance claims documents, credit card dispute letters or HR correspondence. EngageOne Interactive may replace costly and maintenance intensive document processing applications. It is based on the certified BSG Interface for EngageOneTM, and is easy to integrate with SAP ERP. The solution offers targeted and direct access to document templates within the SAP application, providing integrated management of documents during processing as well as workflow support, temporary archiving and comprehensive evaluation options.
More: http://www.pbinsight.co.uk/

29 June 2010 15:16
ABBYY® Europe, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that it is offering the ABBYY Recognition Server™ for Google Search Appliance™ together with its newly announced Recognition Server 3.0. ABBYY Recognition Server works as a background optical character recognition (OCR) service, enabling Google Search Appliance to index full text content from documents in image formats to make them easily discoverable. ABBYY Recognition Server for Google Search Appliance is a highly efficient solution for organisations looking to decrease administrative costs and prevent the loss of company equity by ensuring that all valuable organisational knowledge is electronically accessible 24 x 7.
Often the success of a company rests on its ability to build efficient processes that keep information moving. Companies that are able to quickly organise and access information are in a better position to save money and time with shorter training periods for new employees, and increased productivity from knowledge workers in their daily work. Google Search Appliance is an enterprise search system designed to index searchable and editable file formats on an organisation’s file servers, Web servers, content management systems, and other resources. Google Search Appliance makes these documents available for the user to search using an easy to use Google interface.
More: http://www.abbyy.com

29 June 2010 13:25
Isilon® today announced the sixth generation of its OneFS® scale-out storage operating system and two new data management software applications, SmartPools™ and InsightIQ™. With OneFS 6.0, SmartPools and InsightIQ, Isilon delivers a uniquely powerful yet simple approach to solving complex data management challenges, enabling enterprise IT departments to easily manage data, consolidate applications and scale out a single storage resource in lockstep with evolving business needs.
Leveraging the innovations of Isilon’s industry-leading scale-out storage platform, SmartPools enables users to unify multiple Isilon storage performance tiers into a single file system, providing simplified data management and automated data movement to drive increased efficiency, cost-savings and application performance. Using SmartPools in combination with InsightIQ, Isilon’s new storage analytics application, administrators can optimize workflow performance by closely aligning application demands with storage resources, improving resource utilization and reducing both capital and operating expenses.
More: http://www.isilon.com

29 June 2010 12:00

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. , a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, today announced that it has been awarded the Microsoft ISV (Independent Software Vendor)/Software Solutions Partner of the Year Award. The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the last year. Jack Henry & Associates was chosen for the award out of an international field of top Microsoft partners for delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.
According to Jack Prim, CEO of Jack Henry & Associates, “We are sincerely honored that our company was selected as Microsoft’s 2010 ISV/Software Solutions Partner of the Year. It is our associates who deserve the credit for this achievement considering it is the high-quality products they build and the outstanding customer service they provide day-in, day-out that differentiates us in the markets we serve and generates rewarding levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty. This award also reinforces the strength of our relationship with Microsoft and the value we derive from its technology.”
Awards were presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of almost 3,000
More: www.jackhenry.com

29 June 2010 10:46

WWF-UK has chosen bluesource to provide a range of fully managed technology solutions to improve and consolidate its communication and information collaboration operations. This move will help WWF-UK to cut costs, optimise their information environment and support their green ethics.

bluesource is helping WWF-UK to update and consolidate its IT messaging and information server infrastructure onto a single, reliable, future-proof, Microsoft Exchange 2007 platform. bluesource devised an archiving migration strategy for the protection and management of WWF-UK’s information stores and used Symantec’s Enterprise Vault to automate email and content archiving.

bluesource has also advised WWF-UK on the deployment of additional Microsoft technologies, including Active directory and Outlook in the UK, to help connect WWF’s UK workforce across the globe.
More: http://www.bluesource.co.uk/

29 June 2010 09:27

AVAST Software, developer of the award-winning avast! antivirus, released a report today proving wrong the general
"feeling" that it is the 'dodgy' and 'adult‘ sites that are virus infected. "We are not recommending people to start searching for erotic content, not at all" says CTO Ondrej Vlcek "but the statistics are clear - for every infected adult
domain we identify there are 99 others with perfectly legitimate content that are also infected".
In the UK for example, we see every day more infected domains containing the word "London" (such as the blog section of http://kensington-london-hotels.co.uk/) than any other domain containing the word "sex". The latest discovery of an infected site is the Vodafone UK website. This infection in the smart phones section shows how advanced the bad guys are at finding ways to deliver the malware to the internet users.
More: www.avast.com

28 June 2010 18:09

DocuLex, creator of document and content management software, announces receiving industry analyst Buyers Lab’s top 5-Star rating for the company’s flagship offering, DocuLex Archive Studio.
The report’s overview states:
“DocuLex Archive Studio combines a scan capture and routing tool with a document management repository to form a cohesive content management, workflow and document collaboration system. Noteworthy is that it’s one of the few offerings on the market that includes the archive component, WebSearch, and a robust scan component, Goby Capture, in a single package. Furthermore, except for additional logins for the repository, all features and functionality are standard so businesses receive everything up front. While Goby Capture and WebSearch can be implemented separately, DocuLex reports that approximately 95 percent of customers choose to purchase the suite.
More: www.doculex.com

To review the Buyers Lab report, visit http://www.doculex.com/releases.htm.

28 June 2010 16:15
Canon UK, world leader in imaging solutions, today announced a contract to supply Channel 5 Broadcasting, with print and imaging equipment for the UK broadcaster’s newly refurbished central London Office.
The five-storey building, which houses the majority of the organisations 290-strong workforce, is now fitted with Canon multifunctional printers (MFPs) to help manage print and document management more effectively. Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE devices serve all departments across the business so will be printing anything from production schedules, scripts, financial reports, to creative ideas and marketing materials.
Environment and energy savings were a key consideration for Channel 5 Broadcasting when making decisions about the office refurbishment. Consolidating the printer fleet to just two per floor, instead of multiple desktop devices, and providing access cards for staff to release printing at the device were therefore suggested as simple ways to control printing and cut waste within the organisation. The latest imageRUNNER ADVANCE devices also offer the industry’s highest levels of energy efficiency with an overall reduction in carbon emissions of up to 50 percent.
More: www.canon.co.uk

28 June 2010 13:00

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, today announced the rebranding of Pemco Technologies, which it acquired in October 2009. Pemco Technologies will be rebranded as JHA Payment Processing Solutions and will operate as a division of Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. Jack Henry & Associates was contractually committed to rebrand Pemco Technologies within one year of the acquisition.
JHA Payment Processing Solutions will continue Pemco Technologies’ long history of operating as a leading provider of payment processing solutions and outstanding client care and service.
The products and services added through this acquisition strategically complement Jack Henry & Associates’ ATM and debit card solutions with proven credit and prepaid card solutions, and positions the company to support financial institutions with a broader array of payment-related solutions that are collectively supporting more than 1,000 banks and credit unions.
More: www.weknowpayments.com
More: www.jackhenry.com

28 June 2010 11:30

Global 360, a leading provider of Process and Document Management solutions, today reported strong results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended March 31, 2010, compared to the same quarter a year ago, led by a 106 percent year-over-year quarterly increase in license revenue from its strategic Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) business.
The company also reported a 22 percent increase in total BPMS business year-over-year with 49 percent from net new BPM license revenue, along with a 78 percent increase in its Professional Services Organization (PSO). In addition, 29 percent of FY10 license revenue was influenced by Global 360 partners.
Noted Global 360 President and CEO David Mitchell, "Our corporate strategy and positioning is working, as evidenced by our ability to target and win the highest percentage of new customer business we have achieved in the last two years. Our leadership in BPM and case management, supported by our persona-based approach, is fueling our growth - and confirming the need in the market to address the needs of knowledge workers."
More: http://www.global360.com/

28 June 2010 11:12

Intel's new Anti-Theft (AT) technology for computers, which allows for companies to give a remote command to a laptop PC to disable access to the computer's operating system or, where appropriate, disabling the encryption key system, has been given a big welcome by Origin Storage.

"The points raised by Duncan Mee, the director of WinMagic over the weekend, in a podcast with security analyst Ben Chai in which he explains that the Intel AT technology can auto-disable the laptop if it does not `call home' every 30 days, is a very powerful feature," said Andy Cordial, managing director with the storage systems integration specialist.

"What this means is that laptops will start to cease to be such an attractive target for thieves, who will effectively be left with a high-tech doorstop on their hands when the AT system is triggered, either remotely, or the laptop fails to call home within the required period," he added.
More: http://www.intel.com/technology/anti-theft
More: www.originstorage.com

28 June 2010 09:40
Australian-listed Senetas Corporation Limited today announced it has agreed to acquire a UK-based encryption solutions business to lead its efforts to aggressively grow the Senetas share of the high speed network encryption market in United Kingdom and Europe.
Senetas CEO, John DuBois said Senetas Europe Limited would be a 100%-owned subsidiary of the Australian listed company from July 5, 2010. This follows the signing of an agreement to acquire Focus Europe Limited a highly-regarded encryption solutions business based in Basingstoke, the hi-tech corridor south-west of London.
Mr DuBois said Senetas Europe would benefit from the extensive technical experience and industry knowledge of three key employees who will lead the European sales effort: Gareth Jones (General Manager), Pete Smith (Manager Encryption Solutions) and Graham Wallace (Government Accounts Manager and Product Specialist).

More: www.senetas-europe.com

25 June 2010 12:50
Half of organisations have said that what excites them most about the cloud aside from the acknowledged business benefits of cost saving and increased agility is that resources can be reassigned to focus more on creativity and growth rather than fire drills according to a poll by 360°IT - The IT Infrastructure Event, due to take place at London's Earls Court this coming September. A further 30% said that it was the ability to use familiar apps they used outside work in a work environment, and 14% thought that they would gain competitive advantage over non could adopters. Only 9% were too worried about security risks to get excited by the cloud. [Poll of 509 IT managers carried out in June 2010]
Peter Hinssen A leading lecturer and technology trends expert who blogs for 360°IT says that, far from being wary of cloud computing, businesses should actively embrace its benefits and accelerate the rate of adoption that the Internet-based computing and storage environment brings to firms of all sizes.
More: http://www.360itevent.com/page.cfm/action=Archive/ArchiveID=2/EntryID=65

25 June 2010 09:15
A new white paper from Pitney Bowes Business Insight – the leading global provider of location intelligence, data management and customer communication management solutions – highlights the fact that citizen-centric CRM systems in the public sector are well positioned to exploit the benefits of location aware services and technologies, particularly as part of a Cloud Computing-based solution.

‘Location Aware CRM and Cloud Computing: Considerations for Public Sector Organisations’ examines the confluence between the strong element of geographical information at the heart of many local government services and the increasing popularity of delivering online applications via SaaS (Software as a Service) models. It is available for download at: http://goto.pbinsight.com/locationawareCRM/
More: http://www.pbinsight.co.uk

24 June 2010 16:32
ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced the availability of ABBYY Recognition Server 3.0, the latest version of its award-winning solution for document capture and optical character recognition (OCR). ABBYY Recognition Server is a server-based solution for automating document processing in enterprise and service-based environments. Version 3.0 builds upon Recognition Server with new batch scanning, efficient indexing, and scripting support to deliver a more complete functionality for document capture and conversion. By leveraging its scalable architecture, customers can easily deploy document processing projects of any scale with significant time and cost savings.
The product is designed to automatically convert large volumes of paper documents or document images into fully searchable electronic text suitable for business processes such as document archiving, e-discovery, and enterprise search. Recognition Server enables automated, unattended processing which can be centrally managed and accessed from multiple points within the organisation or remotely. Recognition Server can also connect with a variety of back-end systems and third-party applications with integration via Scripts, XML tickets, a Web-service API, or a COM-based API. ABBYY intelligent OCR and PDF conversion technology delivers highly accurate document conversion with recognition of up to 190 languages.
More: www.ABBYY.com

24 June 2010 15:00
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, today announced it has been named category leader for single plate CR in the 2010 Best in KLAS Medical Equipment Report. Agfa HealthCare's CR 30-X single plate Computed Radiography (CR) digitizer is the No. 1 ranked CR product, according to KLAS, a research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors.
The CR 30-X received an overall score of 88.74, with a functionality of 95 percent, according to the medical equipment report.
Working together with executives from over 4500 hospitals and over 2500 clinics, KLAS delivers timely reports, trends and statistics which provide a solid overview of vendor performance in the industry. KLAS measures performance of software, professional services and medical equipment vendors.
More: www.agfa.com/healthcare

24 June 2010 14:19
Accellion, Inc. today announced that the Central Office of Information (COI), the United Kingdom Government's centre of excellence for marketing and communications, has selected the Accellion Secure File Transfer Solution. After an internal review of the agency’s data sharing procedures, followed by a thorough search of secure file transfer options, the COI selected Accellion for secure sharing of digital information.
The COI works with government departments and the public sector to produce information campaigns on issues that affect the lives of every citizen - from health and education to benefits, rights and welfare. Given the nature of the information, security is of the utmost importance when collaborating on ideas and sharing information internally and externally with suppliers and clients.
More: http://www.accellion.com/uk/home

24 June 2010 13:00
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, today announced that Heartland Community Bank has selected Jack Henry Banking’s SilverLake core processing system to provide enterprise-wide automation. This Arkansas-based bank, which has more than $140 million in assets, will implement SilverLake through Jack Henry Banking’s outsourced offering.
According to Clyde H. Henderson, chairman and CEO of Heartland Community Bank, “We pride ourselves on providing highly competitive financial products and services, so as our customers become more sophisticated, our markets more competitive, and our business more complex, we made the decision to replace our technology with a platform that provides the end-to-end integration and deep functionality we need to further streamline our operations and efficiently support our near- and long-term business plan. The satisfaction among other banks using the systems we looked at was also a major factor in our decision. We contacted and visited numerous banks running SilverLake to find out about their real-world, day-to-day experiences and we got very, very positive feedback. After evaluating several technology platforms we were convinced that SilverLake is the right fit for our bank, and that Jack Henry provides the commitment to service and the financial stability we want in a technology partner. We are excited about SilverLake and believe the ability to support our business with this sophisticated technology platform will help us take our financial products and services, our customer experience, and our customer acquisition and retention to the next level.”
More: www.heartlandbankonline.com
More: www.jackhenrybanking.com

24 June 2010 12:55
Advanced Computer Software Plc (Advanced), a leading provider of software and IT services to the health, care and commercial sectors, today announces its new group structure to improve efficiencies and maximise cross-selling, supporting its growth strategy.
Advanced now comprises three distinct divisions: Health & Care; Business Solutions; and Managed Services.
Vin Murria, Chief Executive of Advanced says, “The new group structure provides a robust framework that optimises resources, facilitates cross-selling of IT software and services, and opens up new market opportunities. Our customers can benefit from easier access to a comprehensive portfolio of solutions and services, a larger pool of specialist resources and a clearer organisational structure for improved relationship management.”
More: http://www.advcomputersoftware.com/ 

24 June 2010 12:42
Software vendor United Planet has incorporated a special “page wizard” with Intrexx 5, the latest version of its popular enterprise portal software. This new wizard allows companies to make their business data and web applications ‘mobile’ in no time at all. It will enable companies to provide their employees with access to important business information via smartphones and tablet PCs even when they are out of the office.
More: www.unitedplanet.com

24 June 2010 08:36
Today at the GigaOm Structure conference, Spiceworks™, Inc. launched its new “Reach” partner program, which is designed to enable providers of cloud-based services to easily reach the 1 million IT pros using the Spiceworks social IT management application. The program includes integration APIs and services that allow vendors to make their cloud services manageable from directly within Spiceworks. Spiceworks users benefit by being able to manage both their cloud-based services and on-site technology through a single IT management application interface.
More: http://www.spiceworks.com

23 June 2010 17:26
Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc company, (NYSE:T), today announced the results of a global survey looking at how companies manage the complexity of cross-border invoicing. The research highlights the cost savings benefits to be gained by automating country specific mandates for cross-border invoicing around processing, archiving and auditing; notably through the elimination of error-prone manual processing and the reduction of associated penalties and fines.
The survey, commissioned by Sterling Commerce and conducted by Forrester Consulting, was undertaken across accounts payable, accounts receivable and tax management functions in enterprises with annual turnovers in the range of $250 million to $5 billion, in the United States, Germany, UK, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and Italy. It looked at enterprises in the manufacturing, retail/wholesale, communications/media and distributions/logistics industries.
More: www.sterlingcommerce.co.uk

23 June 2010 17:22
England Stands Still - the World Cup cuts commercial road usage in half
Data released by Cybit, the UK’s leading online Telematics provider, shows vehicle usage fell by 49 percent in the hour leading up to kick-off of the England v Slovenia match. Traffic volumes remained at half of normal levels for the remainder of the afternoon.
“There was a noticeable increase in activity this morning from 6:30am as employees started their working day earlier to allow for an earlier than normal finish, which shows how flexible most employers are being,” says Steve Towe, Cybit’s Head of Sales.
More: www.cybit.co.uk

23 June 2010 09:02
IT-Freedom, the leading provider of specialist software solutions for the general insurance industry, today announced the launch of a complete case management solution for the claims investigation market. The fully web-enabled solution enables investigation companies and departments to examine claims to verify authenticity and prevent fraud. The first customer sale has been completed to Robertson and Co, the award winning fraud investigation, surveillance and claims management company.
ICE Investigator is a new product within the ICE range of solutions from IT-Freedom that seamlessly integrates with ICE Claims, the established claims management platform. It enables companies to efficiently track and manage claims investigation cases. It supports interfacing to a wide range of data sources including social networking sites and makes full use of SMS technology allowing field agents to send and receive SMS/MMS messages.
More: www.it-freedom.com

22 June 2010 16:00
Solid State Solutions (S3), a leading Value Added Integrator of Data Storage and Storage Management Systems, today announced it has been named as Isilon’s European Partner of the Year following an outstanding annum successfully delivering major Isilon projects for a growing roster of pan European clients. S3 has also become the first UK channel partner to attain Platinum status within the recently launched Isilon Preferred Partner Program.
“S3 have shown a real commitment and expertise in delivering Isilon scale-out NAS solutions to a number of high profile clients within complex environments,” explains Mark Stevens, Vice President & General Manager in EMEA for Isilon Systems, “This award and achievement of Platinum partner status is recognition from Isilon of the outstanding work S3 has carried out over the last year and we look forward to working with them on a number of upcoming projects and events over 2010.”
More: http://www.isilon.com


22 June 2010 14:58
Ipswitch, Inc., the secure, managed file transfer company, just launched Sendable, a powerful and affordable file sending solution that gives individuals and prosumers a fast, easy and secure way to send large files and sensitive documents to other people.
Until now, people have been forced to rely on risky and frustrating file transfer methods – including unsecure email attachments, easily lost or stolen thumb drives and DVDs, and costly courier services. A recent survey by Ipswitch found that nearly 90 percent of respondents use external devices to move work-related files, posing major security risks to organisations and individuals.
Sendable eliminates the risk, cost and complexity of sending sensitive documents and large files with an easy-to-use Web interface that delivers security, visibility, speed, compliance along with anytime, anywhere access. And you no longer have to wonder if your files were sent, received and opened. File delivery notification and download confirmation for every file you send are included with Sendable.
More: www.Sendable.com
More: http://www.ipswitchft.com

22 June 2010 14:22
ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that Crimson UK Ltd of Lancashire and Dingwall, is now an ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 Certified Partner. Crimson has demonstrated expertise with ABBYY technology and an ability to work with customers to meet their data capture needs. Crimson joins a network of highly skilled resellers and integrators who can provide data capture solutions based on ABBYY technology as part of the Certified Partner programme. ABBYY FlexiCapture is an intelligent solution for capturing data from forms and other types of documents for input into databases and other back end systems. With its powerful algorithm for intelligent document classification and selective processing approach, ABBYY FlexiCapture is capable of finding and extracting key fields of information, even if the location of the field varies from page to page. As a result, FlexiCapture can be used as a single entry point for all kinds of paper documents including: forms (questionnaires, tests, insurance forms, tax returns, etc.), semi-structured documents (invoices, purchase orders, waybills, etc.) and unstructured documents (letters, contracts, articles, etc.).
More: www.ABBYY.com/

22 June 2010 13:58
The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering has selected Cordys, the leading provider of software for business process innovation, to study SOA based business process management (BPM) in its business modelling company.
With over 80 research centres including 56 Fraunhofer Institutes, a staff of 17,000 employees, an annual research budget of over €1.6 billion and affiliated research centres and representative offices in Europe, USA and Asia, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft is Europe’s largest applied research organisation.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial engineering has established a business simulation and process modelling company with the goal to study the effect of Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management on operational improvements. Companies and organisations considering implementing SOA and BPM can visit the Institute and see the possibilities and benefits in a real-life business environment. All business processes in the simulated company, from the orders in the webshop to the updates in the ERP system, are managed by the Cordys Business Operations Platform.
More: www.cordys.com

22 June 2010 11:05
ISYS Search Software, a global supplier of enterprise search solutions for information access, management and reuse, today announced it has won a competitive bid to supply an enterprise-wide search solution to UNAIDS, which is the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Working in conjunction with its strategic partner Raytion, ISYS will supply UNAIDS with a universal information access solution that encompasses a broad range of knowledge collections and access points. UNAIDS will leverage ISYS’s integrated solution to enable information access across its public websites, intranet repositories, content management systems and individual desktops. UNAIDS new solution will also be accessible by all employees across its worldwide offices, including remote workers, who will tap into ISYS’s mobile enterprise search capabilities.
More: http://www.isys-search.com

22 June 2010 10:12
Imperva, the market leader in data security, is pleased to announce Albert A. "Rocky" Pimentel as the newest member of the Imperva Board of Directors. Pimentel, currently the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of McAfee, Inc., will contribute more than thirty years of financial expertise as the Chair of the Audit Committee.
“Rocky Pimentel is a remarkable addition to our Board of Directors,” says Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva, Inc. “He has played an integral executive role at several notable technology companies. With his experience in the security space combined with his invaluable financial and operational insight, Rocky will lead the Audit Committee and Imperva into a new phase of financial growth.”
Pimentel has a long history as a financial advisor within the technology industry, serving in the CFO role at LSI Logic, WebTV Neworks (acquired by Microsoft), Zone Labs (acquired by Checkpoint) and Glu Mobile (NASDQ:GLUU) before joining as the COO and CFO at McAfee, Inc. in May 2008. At McAfee, Pimentel is responsible for leading all worldwide finance, IT, facilities and manufacturing operations.
More: www.imperva.com

22 June 2010 10:10
As threats to corporate data grow, and the cost of breaches increase, a survey of alleged security conscious professionals has remarkably revealed that over half of respondents (52%), who admit to carrying company data on a USB stick, do not encrypt it. Remarkably, 11% of this savvy audience, who really should know better, ‘protect’ their devices with passwords alone – an insufficient defence that is widely understood to be easily breached!
The study, sponsored by Credant Technologies – the market leader in endpoint data protection solutions, questioned 277 IT security professionals who, theoretically, view security seriously enough to spend time attending InfoSecurity Europe. Astonishingly, the type of unprotected data being carried would have serious repercussions to the organisation should it be misplaced – from intellectual property(67%), customer data (40%) and employee details (26%).
More: http://www.credant.com

22 June 2010 09:20
Q1 Labs, the global provider of total security intelligence solutions, today announced QRadar SIOS - the Security Intelligence Operating System - which powers the QRadar family of security intelligence products. QRadar SIOS is the foundation of the industry's first total Security Intelligence Platform, a common framework for collecting, warehousing, filtering, analyzing and reporting on all security intelligence telemetry. This integrated solution will be the platform for risk management, SIEM , log management , and network and application activity monitoring, as well as all new products to be delivered by Q1 Labs and partners.
More: http://www.q1labs.com

21 June 2010 15:08

AnyDoc Software, a leading provider of automated document, data capture, and classification solutions, and Appian, the global innovator in enterprise and on-demand business process management (BPM) technology, today announced that AnyDoc will develop and deliver the next generation of document processing solutions by combining AnyDoc’s industry-leading document processing technologies with the Appian BPM platform. Through the partnership, AnyDoc will leverage Appian’s 100 percent web architecture and powerful process, task, and data orchestration to help customers automate and manage the end-to-end workflow for both structured and unstructured documents and data.
More: www.AnyDocSoftware.com
More: www.appian.com

21 June 2010 13:23

Mimecast®, a unified email management company offering cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, has today announced the appointment of Dr. Nathaniel S. Borenstein as the company’s Chief Scientist. Dr. Borenstein is the co-creator of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) email standard and developer of the Andrew Mail System, metamail software and the Safe-Tcl programming language. At Mimecast, he will be responsible for driving the company’s product development and technological innovation, alongside Mimecast CTO and co-founder, Neil Murray.
Previously, Dr. Borenstein worked as an IBM Distinguished Engineer, responsible for research and standards strategy for the Lotus brand, and as a faculty member at the University of Michigan and Carnegie-Mellon University. He also founded two successful Internet cloud service start-ups; First Virtual Holdings, founded in 1994, was the first Internet payment system and was ultimately acquired by Doubleclick: and NetPOS (http://www.netpos.com), the first Internet-centric point-of-sale system, was founded in 2000.
More: http://www.mimecast.com

18 June 2010 20:28
Kodak recently announced eDrawer, an LSSP Corporation, as a new member of Kodak’s Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program. The agreement will help users of eDrawer’s Electronic Data Management System (EDMS) to standardize sophisticated image and document capture needs using KODAK Capture Pro Software.
eDrawer’s EDMS, specifically designed to service small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), functions as an online filing cabinet for numerous businesses including law firms, medical practices, accounting firms and other professional service organizations. The advanced imaging capabilities of KODAK Capture Pro Software, such as bar code and zonal OCR data extraction, database (ODBC) look-ups and automated indexing functions allows paper-based and electronic information to be easily structured for easy and accessible use in the eDrawer Software.
More: http://www.kodak.com

18 June 2010 10:31

Isilon® Systems today announced that Lincoln Center, the world's leading performing arts center, has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage repository for its new digital signage and advertising initiative. Using Isilon's NL-Series, Lincoln Center has unified a wide range of digital content and file-based data onto a single, easy-to-use, shared storage resource, streamlining content access and delivery to multiple LED and LCD signage displays throughout New York City. With Isilon scale-out NAS, Lincoln Center's Inmagic Presto asset management system can immediately and reliably access, catalog and distribute content, enabling Lincoln Center to easily manage and update its digital advertising and box office signage displays across its many properties.
More: http://www.isilon.com

17 June 2010 18:36
Colortrac, the leading developer of affordable, professional wide format scanning and imaging solutions, will showcase a comprehensive range of advanced high definition SmartLF large format map and technical document scanners at the ESRI World-Wide User Conference in San Diego, California, the world's biggest Geographic Information Systems (GIS) event, (14-16 July 2010, Booth, # 616 / 618).
Now widely recognized as the most accomplished innovator developing large format scanners today, Colortrac's range of SmartLF wide format scanners and scanning solutions software sport the longest list of credible productivity benefits available worldwide. The ESRI World-Wide User Conference provides Colortrac Inc with the opportunity to show the GIS community how the many advanced features and benefits available in SmartLF large format map and technical document scanning solutions make demanding GIS professionals more productive by bringing better, higher quality scanned images into the GIS dataset more quickly.
More: www.colortrac.com

17 June 2010 09:42
This summer, consumers will continue to scour the web to keep up with their interests and news. While surfing the Internet is statistically safer than, say surfing in Newquay, it is not a risk free activity. Around 85 percent of new computer infections are contracted via the internet; largely through the 396,679 hijacked and malicious webpages which avast! identified in May.
Landing on an infected site is as simple as just looking for something … NHS, roofing supplies, fireworks. To keep computer users across the UK protected during the hectic summer, AVAST Software, providers of the avast! antivirus program, has released the first of its “UK’s Most Infected” list of the most infected websites, alerting consumers to beware of the month’s infected websites as well as trends and site genres to approach with caution.
avast! virus labs uncovered an overwhelming small business theme during May for the most infected types of websites. Websites set up by small businesses to promote goods and services were prominent on the list as well as “fake” sites for well known UK organisations such as nhs.uk and blueyonder.co.uk have been infecting users’ computers with malware and other viruses.
More: www.avast.com

16 June 2010 20:52
docSTAR, a leader in document management software, and Fountains Spatial, a leading international developer of geospatial software are pleased to announce the availability of docSTAR MapConnect™ version 2.0.
docSTAR MapConnect combines the power of the ESRI® ArcGIS® architecture with docSTAR’s award-winning document management software. MapConnect is designed to enhance ESRI’s GIS application by associating documents with geospatial features in any layer or a general geographic area. MapConnect enables users to instantly geo-link and access documents in real-time. The result is significant savings of time, resources and tax dollars.
More: www.docstar.com

16 June 2010 12:01
Binary Research (UK) Ltd, part of the company that originally developed Symantec’s Ghost, announced today the availability of Big Bang’s Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) version 4.6, which includes full support for 64-bit Windows 7, as well as continuing to support 32-bit Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Intel-based Apple Macintosh's. The vanguard software application enables error-free deployment to every desktop, laptop and tablet PC in the business environment.
UIU, the leading product in the hardware-independent imaging space, works alongside a user’s existing cloning software (Microsoft Deployment toolkit, Symantec Ghost, Altiris, Acronis, ZENworks, et al) to create a single hardware-independent master Image of a Windows computer. This single Image can then be deployed across disparate hardware platforms, easing system deployment, maintenance, upgrades, rollouts and migrations, as well as disaster recovery efforts.
More: http://www.BinaryResearch.net

16 June 2010 10:51
Vemotion Interactive today announced that their new website is now live. The website has been updated to include the broader range of products now available from Vemotion including the remote deployment unit and remote encoders. Vemotion is best known for providing interactive high-quality, live and pre-recorded video streaming for Channel 4 and Big Brother 5.
The new site reflects the Vemotion specialism in Wireless Video transmission; encoding and streaming live video over low bit rate networks such as wireless GSM/GPRS and radio networks.
More: www.vemotion.com

16 June 2010 08:31
ExaGrid Systems, Inc. the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced that Bird & Bird, the international law firm, has chosen the ExaGrid system over four other competitors including EMC-Data Domain. Exagrid won the competitive bid as Bird & Bird believed it delivered a strong combination of faster backups, a scalable long-term solution and improved security of data. Furthermore, the ExaGrid system also enabled Bird & Bird to deliver on its promises to clients by providing rapid data restores.
Bird & Bird is an international law firm with 21 offices worldwide. It focuses on multimedia, telecoms, information technology and intellectual property. It works with some of the world's most innovative and technologically advanced companies, each of which depends on cutting-edge legal advice to meet their business objectives. As the business and client base grew, the quantity of data grew with it. Bird & Bird found that its tape-based backup systems were simply not able to cope with demand.
More: http://www.exagrid.com 
More: www.twobirds.com

15 June 2010 16:32
ARX (Algorithmic Research), a leading provider of digital signature solutions, has deployed CoSign® digital signatures at Novozymes, a leading bio-innovation organization based in Denmark. CoSign is being used within Novozymes’ Microsoft® SharePoint®-based Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) for signing electronic scientific notes, reports, studies and more.
In order to minimize disruption to their existing processes and procedures, Novozymes chose to develop their own, custom-built ELN solution. By taking their lab processes digital, Novozymes saves the time it takes for teams of scientists to assemble and authorize paper-based documentation. Through the ELN, documents proving scientific discovery and product inventions (which are later used in patent applications) are approved and trusted via standard digital signatures, and made electronically available to an unlimited number of researchers from remote locations, for years into the future. The potential benefits of enhanced collaboration and document control influenced Novozymes’ decision to base their ELN solution on a SharePoint foundation, a document management platform which they were already using for various other business processes. The addition of digital signatures to the ELN makes the entire solution electronic through-out.
More: http://www.arx.com/about/PR/PR-Digital-Signature-for-Novozymes

15 June 2010 14:55
Ipswitch is pleased to announce the acquisition of MessageWay Solutions, a leading provider of managed file transfer and business integration solutions.
This acquisition is exciting because we can now provide even more powerful, more complete managed file transfer solutions. In addition, it helps us expand our portfolio of offerings to include advanced analytics, enterprise-wide monitoring, interoperability, electronic data interchange (EDI), and high-performance data translation and transformation.
But we are most excited by what this acquisition means to you. We can now deliver the broadest portfolio of managed file transfer solutions possible. With improved visibility, management, and enforcement of managed file transfers, you can make sure your most important, most sensitive information is sent quickly and securely.
More: http://www.ipswitchft.com/Products/MessageWay/Index.aspx

15 June 2010 09:44
Netpresence Ltd, a developer of device-agnostic videoconferencing platforms, today announced the launch and the first commercial implementation of VideoVisit, a web based service that extends professional quality live video contacts from purpose-built videoconferencing rooms to everyday contacts. VideoVisit is the first professional web based videoconferencing solution on the market that enables connections between basic web cameras and high-definition telepresence systems.
VideoVisit turns live video into a new channel for customer care. Positioned between impersonal phone and email contacts and face-to-face meetings, VideoVisit combines the efficiency of contact centres and the stronger brand and service experiences created through visual contact. Delivered as a web service, VideoVisit seeks to increase the utilization of live video contacts as a new way to interact with customers.
More: www.videovisit.eu
 

14 June 2010 17:33
Lighthouse Computer Services announced today its participation in IBM’s managed beta program for the next major release of Lotus Connections. A limited number of IBM Premier Partners worldwide have been invited to participate in the program. The first official beta release of Lotus Connections will become available in the second half of 2010.
“Lighthouse’s participation in this beta program will enable Lighthouse to bring the powerful new capabilities associated with the next major release of Lotus Connections to customers as soon as it becomes officially available from IBM,” said Jim Murphy, Practice Leader, Lighthouse Computer Services. “We’re proud to be recognized by IBM as a leader in this space, and to continue to deliver IBM’s cutting-edge collaboration and social networking solutions to our customers.”
More: www.LighthouseCS.com.

14 June 2010 15:00
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has won the Supplier Performance Award, presented by the Premier Healthcare Alliance. Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,300 U.S. hospitals and 67,000-plus other healthcare sites working together to achieve high quality, cost-effective care. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier maintains the nation's most comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and operates a leading healthcare purchasing network.
Premier's Supplier Performance Award applauds the efforts of contracted suppliers that meet and exceed operational expectations. In selecting recipients, satisfaction and performance data are collected and scored over four successive calendar quarters. Feedback is provided during regular supplier business line reviews. Organizations scoring 80 percent or higher earn the Performance Award.
More: http://www.premierinc.com/about/news/awards/index.jsp

14 June 2010 11:00
Research from a global survey by BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) company, has revealed that secure data management is the healthcare industry's most pressing issue as hospitals transition from paper-based health records to electronic systems.
The Data Management Healthcheck 2010, a global survey into hospitals' ongoing strategies for managing their IT systems, found that the top IT spending priority for 2010 was disaster recovery (44 per cent), closely followed by Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS, 38 per cent) and digitising paper records (35 per cent).
John McCann, Director of Marketing at BridgeHead Software, said, "The healthcare industry's data environment is notoriously complex, with most hospitals navigating a variety of systems from a range of vendors for managing different types of clinical data in different locations, both on and off hospital premises. When healthcare information systems go down, bringing that information back online is an intricate process. Healthcare IT professionals need to know which applications and data have to be reinstated, and in which order. Given this complexity, it is not surprising that disaster recovery is the top IT investment priority in healthcare today."
More: http://www.bridgeheadsoftware.com

14 June 2010 08:01

Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral data services, today announced that SIX Swiss Exchange – the primary Swiss securities exchange – will offer proximity services to market participants from Interxion’s Zurich data centre.
By locating their trading platforms within Interxion’s Zurich data centre, in close proximity to the SIX Swiss Exchange matching engines, brokers, hedge funds and (high-frequency) trading firms will benefit from low latency trading in Swiss securities. Customers can connect to the SIX Swiss Exchange’s high speed CTI (Capacity Trading Interface) through exchange-managed high capacity fibre links. Additionally, market participants will be able to cross-connect to the ‘Financial Hub’ partner community within the data centre, including a choice of low latency connectivity options to Interxion’s well-established Financial Hubs in other liquidity centres, including London and Frankfurt.
More: www.interxion.com
More: www.six-swiss-exchange.com

11 June 2010 17:23
Eastman Kodak Company and Provision Interactive Technologies, Inc. (“Provision”), a subsidiary of Provision Holding , announced today that KODAK Service and Support will provide installation services for Provision’s 3DEO Rewards Centers, beginning in Los Angeles. According to the new agreement, Kodak’s involvement will include site surveys, set-up, installation, and sign-off, providing total accountability to the retailers and helping to assure customer satisfaction.
The companies also announced today that Kodak will be the premier sponsor at Provision’s exclusive VIP event for advertisers, manufacturers and press on June 16, 2010. This “Invitation Only” event will kick-off the first 3D digital media network in the country. At the kick-off, to be held in downtown Los Angeles at ESPN Zone at LA Live, Provision will reveal details of the company’s 3D network expansion plans. Provision will launch in 1,300 convenience stores and other retail locations beginning this year and continuing into 2011.
More: www.provision.tv.
More: http://www.kodak.com 

11 June 2010 16:59
The combination of an ageing workforce and the changing nature of work tasks in the knowledge economy lead the authors of a new book to claim that a new type of workplace is required to accommodate these critical changes.
Given the growing pensions crisis that is extending working lives and an anticipated knowledge gap in the workforce in many developed countries, the book "New Demographics, New Workspace" proposes that organizations should think afresh about how they plan and design their office environments.
Order from: http://tinyurl.com/356gnfx

11 June 2010 11:25
Aia Software, a leading author and developer of intelligent document composition software today announced that the Dutch foundation for telecom and Internet users (sTN) has chosen the ITP Document Platform to optimise communication with prospects and customers.
sTN promotes the interests of members of sector organisations, who benefit from the various telecommunications framework or discount contracts that sTN takes out with operators on the organisations’ behalf. This involves personalised quotations and proposals for the extension of existing contracts, but also written confirmation of interaction with the telephone help desk. In order to optimise its written communication process, sTN was looking for a solution that could be linked to Microsoft Dynamics CRM and that can work with multiple labels and conditional texts. The ITP Document Platform, which is currently being implemented, will enable sTN staff to generate all correspondence directly from the CRM system, while all customer data is stored in one place.
More: http://www.aia-itp.com/

10 June 2010 18:05
DocuLex , creator of document and content management software, announces Archive Studio as a convenient replacement solution for the discontinued eCabinet. Additionally, DocuLex is providing conversion services to migrate eCabinet-stored files to Archive Studio, preserving documents and content.
More: www.doculex.com

10 June 2010 15:06
Financial sector organisations can save up to 25% of their IT budgets by retiring legacy systems and applications, while maintaining easy, company-wide access to legacy data, according to specialist software developer NSC Group.
The company says that financial organisations typically have dozens, or even hundreds, of legacy applications such as pensions and investment management platforms that are rarely, if ever used. Yet these are kept operational at considerable expense, simply to maintain access to the legacy data they hold for legal, taxation or due diligence requirements.
However, with NSC Group’s data access tool, DataNovata, organisations can develop new, open applications that enable any user to easily access legacy data that has been migrated from these obsolete systems. This allows the legacy systems to be decommissioned, saving on maintenance, support and licensing costs.
More: www.nscgroup.co.uk

10 June 2010 11:12
ABBYY UK Ltd, a member of the ABBYY group of companies and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, and Interactive Ideas, a value added distributor of Software and Technology products, announced today a distribution agreement in the UK and Ireland. The relationship with Interactive Ideas is designed to create market awareness and demand for ABBYY products and increase customer reach through the existing distribution channels in these markets.
Michael Breeze, Interactive Ideas Marketing Director commented “We are delighted to be working with ABBYY, our aim is to constantly bring new revenue opportunities to our customers. With the current requirements from consumers and business to access increasing amounts of digital content, ABBYY have proven quality products that provide a unique opportunity.”
More: http://www.abbyy.com/

10 June 2010 10:43
TechnologyOne, a leading enterprise software application provider, has grown its UK operations with the appointment of two senior IT business leaders and the opening of a new office. The appointments follow a strong financial first half for the Australian Securities Exchange listed firm, which announced reported Net Profit After Tax up 47% on the previous comparative period.
The appointment of the two new regional managers coincides with TechnologyOne’s division of the country into a North & West region and a Southern region to ensure a high level of customer service for the company’s UK customers. It also meets TechnologyOne’s commitment to provide customer-facing senior managers in key regional areas.
More: www.TechnologyOneCorp.com

09 June 2010 20:39
Sitrof Technologies and Content Circles (Menlo Park, CA) today announced DocExchange, a secure, peer-to-peer document exchange solution.
DocExchange is a combination of technology and software from Content Circles and Sitrof. Content Circles presents a simple, secure content management and collaboration solution that works the way you do - anytime, anywhere, on your own computer. Sitrof provides a depth and breadth of experience with unstructured content, regulated industries and enterprise rights management. DocExchange is an amalgam of those benefits and creates a premier solution for sharing sensitive and large amounts of content.
More: http://www.sitrof.com/

09 June 2010 16:26
Ipswitch, Inc., an innovator of secure, managed file transfer solutions, today added a new Elite Partner Level and introduced a deal registration program to its global partner programme. The expanded Ipswitch FT Partner Program brings a more lucrative programme to partners featuring flexible requirements and valuable benefits.
The Ipswitch FT Partner Program allows partners to choose the level of commitment that best meets their business goals and objectives while enabling them to sell a complete solution set unrivaled by the competition. The Ipswitch Partner Program ensures channel partner success through competitive discounts, dedicated representatives, a robust partner portal, proven sales and marketing tools, and regular partner communications.
More: http://www.ipswitchft.com

09 June 2010 15:44
Isilon® Systems  today announced that IE Effects, a leading 3D visual effects and post-production studio, has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage repository for its entire post-production operation, including 3D effects for Michael Jackson’s This Is It and various Disney and Motorola commercial campaigns. Using Isilon’s X-Series, IE Effects has unified all of its visual effects, editorial, and color grading applications onto a single, shared storage resource, increasing workflow efficiency and accelerating project time-to-delivery. With Isilon IQ, IE Effects can cost-effectively scale its storage in-step with application demand, enabling it to process more visual effects projects in less time and expand its bandwidth to accommodate new business opportunities across movies, television, commercials and theme parks.
More: http://www.isilon.com

09 June 2010 15:29
Generation IPS, Powered by Tilera Multicore Architecture, Delivers Proven Network Security, Excellent System Performance, Unmatched Reliability and Customer Investment Protection
Top Layer Security, a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), announced today the availability of the newest models of its IPS 5500 E-Series family. The fourth-generation EC-Series leverages Top Layer's proven IPS and attack mitigation software running on leading-edge multicore processor technology from Tilera to provide the broadest protection against network threats, ultra-high performance, unmatched reliability, and future expansion capabilities.
More: http://www.toplayer.com/ec.jsp 

09 June 2010 11:19
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced its gold sponsorship of the European Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit, taking place on 15th June 2010 at the Hilton Hotel, Tower Bridge, London. The one-day programme is presented by Tier1 Research and The 451 Group, and provides executives within the hosting, cloud computing, data centre and Internet Infrastructure space with an array of rich content and networking opportunities.
The summit, attended by industry leaders from both sides of the Atlantic, will give participants an overview of the opportunities and challenges facing the hosting and cloud industries, through a secession of panel discussions on topics including financial strategies, colocation and proximity hosting.
As well as sponsoring the event, Interxion’s Group MD Anthony Foy will be taking part in the Colocation and Proximity Hosting Panel, which will be exploring the role of Colocation and Proximity Hosting in delivering low latency in the financial markets.
More: http://www.interxion.com/

09 June 2010 10:46
ISACA International Vice President Rolf von Roessing, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, has applauded the actions of Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner in publishing a draft code of practice that requires incidents involving the theft or loss of personal data relating to more than 100 people to be notified to its office.
"The Irish commissioner has reportedly published the draft code in response to the recent recommendations of the data protection review group established by Dermot Ahern, the Irish Minister for Justice," said von Roessing.
"As well as proposing that organisations be mandated to report data losses and thefts involving more than 100 people, the draft code also proposes mandatory notifications of all types where sensitive personal or personal financial data is involved," he added.
More: http://www.isaca.org/security

09 June 2010 10:40
StormMQ, an enterprise class message queuing platform designed for cloud, co-located or hosted deployment has publicly launched following a 6 month closed beta. As a fully managed service, StormMQ requires no capital expenditure on hardware or infrastructure and removes the ongoing cost and complexity of managing on-site message queuing servers and applications.
Developed by a UK based team that has spent the last decade working on major message queuing projects for some of the world’s largest telecommunication carriers and financial institutions, StormMQ embraces the AMQP standard and has an extensive development library support for a host of environments including Java, .NET, Ruby, Python and PHP on Linux, Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X.
More: www.stormmq.com

09 June 2010 10:29
Mimecast®, the unified email management company, has today announced that it has been selected by Eversheds LLP, one of the world’s largest full service corporate law firms, to provide SaaS-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving across all regions.
Eversheds LLP selected Mimecast’s Unified Email Management solution to provide enhanced business continuity, email archiving and security services as well as reducing the cost and complexity of handling the firm’s rapidly expanding email storage requirements. Eversheds has signed a three-year contract following a competitive tender process. The implementation of Mimecast’s Unified Email Management has already begun with Mimecast working alongside Eversheds’ on-premise archive solution to deliver a secure and easy-to-search record of all email communications, which will be accessible from within Microsoft Outlook.
More: www.eversheds.com
More: www.mimecast.com

09 June 2010 09:55
Data security leader specialist has backed the Australian Internet Industry Association (IIA) initiative in encouraging ISPs nationwide to adopt a new voluntary code of conduct on cyber security.
Along with educating and better protection customers, ISPs are also being asked to temporarily quarantine those users whose computers are infected by zombie malware and is generated spam.
"This move is to be applauded and while it’s certain to generate an outcry from some quarters, will only temporarily block an infected users' ability to generate spam. It won't affect their ability to surf the Internet or access a Webmail account,” said Amichai Shulman, chief technology officer with Imperva.
More: http://bit.ly/9P2AIG 
More: www.imperva.com

08 June 2010 13:11
ISACA today named the top five social media risks for business and recommended solutions to help businesses address security, customer service and corporate reputation risks raised by their employees’ use of social media—on the job and off.
In a complimentary new white paper titled “Social Media: Business Benefits With Security, Governance and Assurance Perspectives,” ISACA, a leading global association for enterprise governance of information technology (IT), urges organizations to actively address various potential risks.
Developed by a team of global ISACA experts, the white paper goes beyond the traditional look at social media in the workplace to address employees’ use of social media outside of work. It also provides detailed how-to tips for effective social media governance.
Free Download: www.isaca.org/research

08 June 2010 10:40
While our MPs are promising more transparency and honesty in politics perhaps the IT industry should follow suit. According to a survey, conducted by Tufin Technologies, of 242 IT professionals mainly from organisations employing 1000 to 5000+ employees, 1 in 10 admitted that either they or a colleague have cheated to get an IT audit passed. However it isn’t all bad news; compared to a similar survey conducted in 2009 the number of people admitting to cheating has halved in number.
Amongst those who have cheated lack of time and resources are cited as the main reasons, underlining the ever increasing pressure on today’s IT departments. With 25% responding that firewall audits take a week to conduct attempting to avoid this painful process is understandable if not excusable.
What’s more 30% of respondents only audit their firewalls once every 5 years and even more worrying 7% never even conduct an audit. With this in mind it’s less surprising to find out that 36% of IT professionals admit their firewall rule bases are a mess increasing their susceptibility to hackers, network crashes and compliance violations.
More: http://www.tufin.com/downloads/infosecurity_uk_2010_survey_results.pdf

08 June 2010 10:30
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it is attending the World Expo Shanghai in China, where it is hosting a special customer event on June 9th. This event, organized in cooperation with the City of Antwerp, the University of Antwerp, the Antwerp World Diamond Center, POM Antwerp, Antwerp Port Authority and the Province of Antwerp as part of the 'Antwerp Week', underscores the strong presence of Agfa HealthCare globally, and in the Chinese healthcare market in particular. The company, active in that market since the early 1990's, currently provides solutions for nearly one out of two hospitals in the country. A selection of Agfa HealthCare's broad portfolio of solutions will be on display at the event.
More: www.agfahealthcare.com

07 June 2010 17:33
Voltage Security™, Inc., a global leader in end-to-end data protection, and the American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, today announced that Voltage will provide secure email communication on the AMA’s new health information platform for physicians. The AMA platform will enable physicians to assess and meet their clinical and practice needs and will provide physicians access to information, products and services with a single, secure sign-on. The platform, which will launch nationwide later this year, is currently being beta tested in Michigan in collaboration with the Michigan State Medical Society.
The AMA platform will feature Voltage SecureMail™, powered by the Voltage SecureMail Network™, a SaaS delivery model that makes Voltage accessible to anyone with an Internet browser. Voltage SecureMail will encrypt and protect email communications sent between physicians, patients and the medical community. Voltage secure email helps members of the medical community meet federal and state healthcare privacy regulations such as HIPAA and HITECH.
More: www.voltage.com

07 June 2010 16:47
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, today announced that it has closed the transaction initiated to acquire iPay Technologies, the largest independent electronic bill pay provider in the United States. As a result of the acquisition, which was subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, iPay Technologies became a wholly owned subsidiary of Jack Henry & Associates. Under the terms of the agreement, Jack Henry & Associates purchased all of the equity of iPay for a purchase price of approximately $300 million in cash.
Through strategic partnerships with more than 50 providers of information processing and online banking solutions, iPay’s turnkey online bill pay services, technology, and expertise are supporting more than 3,600 banks and credit unions. iPay partners with companies like Jack Henry & Associates to provide online bill payment solutions to financial institutions and ultimately supports those institutions’ retail and small business customers with a highly configurable electronic payments platform.
More: www.jackhenry.com

07 June 2010 16:36
Addressing the complex, high-volume needs of municipalities in accounts payable, accounts receivable and payments, as well as document automation, imaging and management, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, will showcase the full lineup of its imageFORMULA digital document scanners and check transports at the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Annual Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center. Canon’s exhibit is located in booth #244.
More: www.usa.canon.com/kyosei

07 June 2010 14:45
Kodak and iBridge Group, Inc. recently announced a new System Output Destination (SOD) solution, to seamlessly input digitized information from KODAK Capture Pro Software into the IBM FILENET P8 Platform. iBridge Group, Inc., a member of Kodak’s Independent Software Vendor program, developed the free SOD to help integrate the batch scanning capabilities of Capture Pro Software with FileNet’s advanced data management capabilities.
SOD solutions provide end users with an easy-to-install component for Capture Pro Software that enhances overall flexibility and scalability to meet information management needs. The expanded connectivity helps organizations use information in larger business process systems, like the IBM FILENET P8 Platform. Businesses can use the solution to improve overall process efficiency of inputting unstructured and structured data across functions like compliance, auditing and records management.
More: www.iBridgeGroup.com.
More: http://www.kodak.com 

07 June 2010 14:26
Companies now have an easy way to demonstrate commitment to global health with the launch of MASSIVEGOOD’s corporate program, which lets them integrate a simple donation solution into their corporate travel systems.
MASSIVEGOOD corporate is being unveiled today at the annual conference of the Global Business Coalition for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis (GBC) in Washington, DC. This year, the GBC will award special honors to Condoleezza Rice, Former US Secretary of State, the National Basketball Association, among others, and feature MASSIVEGOOD as an initiative that can add new meaning to business travel.
More: www.massivegood.org

07 June 2010 10:59
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centre services, today announced an agreement with AlgoSpan and ALGO Technologies, to offer low latency connectivity and market data services from Interxion’s City of London data centre with immediate effect.
As part of the agreement, AlgoSpan and ALGO Technologies will be seeking to expand services across Interxion’s pan-European footprint of data centres, including Frankfurt, Stockholm, Zurich and Madrid.
The agreement will allow market participants located at Interxion’s data centres to benefit from AlgoSpan’s high-speed, high bandwidth shortest path connectivity to liquidity venues across London, Continental Europe and the US. AlgoSpan is the first provider to create an ultra-fast connection between Interxion’s City of London data centre and Slough, with an estimated one-way latency of below 270 microseconds. Interxion customers will also benefit from ALGO Technologies’ extremely low latency market data services offering raw, normalised and/or consolidated international market data. Customers can trial ALGO Technologies’ European market data feed at Interxion free of charge with immediate effect.
More: http://www.interxion.com/

03 June 2010 16:07
City law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, has hosted the inaugural Nuance eCopy UK user group conference. The user group conference was formed to create an open channel of communication between Nuance’s eCopy solutions customers, to facilitate the sharing of best practice, knowledge and advice, as well as experience of Nuance eCopy solutions across different business sectors. Nuance’s desktop imaging solutions combined with eCopy’s desktop and server offerings create a set of premier scanning solutions for an enterprise, department or line of business to easily deploy more efficient, paper-to-digital workflows and support business process automation efforts.
The conference was attended by Nuance eCopy customers ranging from industries including legal, public sector, and local authorities. The customers shared information about their Nuance eCopy deployments and applications, outlining the business drivers for their decision to implement a Nuance eCopy solution. The community shared the benefits that the solutions have returned to their business, and end users within their organisation. For example, Steve Atkins, head of finance and systems development at the UK Forestry Commission shared with the group details about its Nuance eCopy solution deployment, which incorporates an invoice processing system which has been fully integrated with The Forestry Commission’s ERP system. The deployment has enabled it to reduce paper distribution costs, aid regulatory compliance and supports the Commission’s environmental policies.
More: www.nuance.co.uk

03 June 2010 15:00
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has been awarded a new three year, multi-source, contract by HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG) to provide Computed Radiography products at competitive terms and conditions to their more than 1,400 not-for-profit and for-profit acute care hospitals, 120 alternate care sites, and 3,600 physician practices in the United States. The contract names Agfa HealthCare as a provider of a comprehensive assortment of Computed Radiography (CR) systems.
More: www.agfahealthcare.com

03 June 2010 09:39
Racktivity™, the leader in data center energy management systems, today announced that Marco DeMiroz, an experienced technology and energy industry executive, and cleantech investor, will join the company as president and Chief Executive Officer, based in Silicon Valley, California. DeMiroz will also join the Company’s board of directors. DeMiroz leaves Soliant Energy, where he had served as Chief Operating Officer and was also previously interim Chief Executive Officer.
Racktivity, founded in 2008 and headquartered near Gent, Belgium, provides innovative energy management systems for data centers around the world. The Racktivity Rack Controller™, Datacenter Management Platform™ and its extensions are designed to enable data centers to efficiently and effectively save energy and improve uptime.
More: www.racktivity.com

03 June 2010 09:24
24 months since the publication of the Poynter Report which was commissioned after the HMRC breach, and almost three years since the original misplaced discs came to light, and a similar breach could occur again. In a survey released today by Cyber-Ark, the leading global software provider for protecting critical information, applications and identities, has discovered that 19% of companies are still using couriers to send large or sensitive files, the insecure transfer method utilised originally by HMRC which left a disc containing child benefit information missing in London! The survey was carried out amongst 238 IT security professionals at Infosecurity Europe (London) in April.
The survey showed that some of the lessons had been heeded, with 82% of companies now having systems in place to allow them to transfer data. A further positive conversion is the decline in the use of email, from 35% in 2008 to just 16%, and a considerable increase in the adoption of secure email, up at 42%. However, it’s not all good news as a worrying 67% have now adopted File Transfer Protocol (FTP) as their preferred method to transfer sensitive data with a risky 28% trusting web based services.
More: www.cyber-ark.com

02 June 2010 17:04
Canon U.S.A. today introduced the imageFORMULA CR-190i High-Volume Check Transport scanning solution for financial institutions, utilities and other organizations handling large volumes of check processing. The device offers users a flexible production-level platform in an efficient, countertop design.
Key features include speeds of 190 checks-per-minute, precision image technology and reliable paper handling. The CR-190i is an ideal solution for organizations seeking to improve access to funds, reduce costs and increase flexibility in applications such as remittance processing, lockbox and branch capture.
More: www.usa.canon.com/kyosei

02 June 2010 16:26
Reports that Google are planning to drop the Microsoft operating system for security reasons following targeted attacks they've been suffering may lead other enterprises to follow this practice. Adopting this practice by enterprises will not improve their defences against targeted attacks, according to Trusteer the leading provider of secure browsing services.
“Enterprises that are considering shifting to an operating system like Mac or Linux should realize that although there are less malware programs available against these platforms, the shift will not solve the targeted attacks problem and may even make it worse," said Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer's CEO.
More: www.trusteer.com

02 June 2010 16:21
Crawford Technologies, an award-winning global leader in the transactional customer communications software development industry, is proud to announce that it has been named to the 22nd annual PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies by PROFIT Magazine.
"This is a great honor to be recognized for our growth and success," says Ernie Crawford President of Crawford Technologies Inc. "Our innovative technology, outstanding employees and dedication to our customers have made CrawfordTech the most successful software company focused on the high volume billing and statement market."
Ranking Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 100 profiles the country's most successful growth companies. Published in the June issue of PROFIT and online at PROFIT100.com, the PROFIT 100 is Canada's largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement.
More: www.crawfordtech.com

02 June 2010 15:48
Isilon® Systems today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has deployed more than two petabytes (PB) of Isilon scale-out NAS to power a wide range of genomic research initiatives into clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. Leveraging Isilon’s X-Series, featuring its OneFS^® operating system, JGI has unified 25 genome sequencers onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, reducing storage management. The JGI is also using the Isilon IQ 5000S-SSD, which combines SAS and Solid State Disk (SSD) drives as an additional storage resource for its team. With Isilon scale-out NAS, JGI has eliminated more than six disparate storage systems, unifying its mission-critical genomic data stores.
More: http://www.isilon.com

02 June 2010 14:34
Spiceworks™, Inc. today announced that its user base has grown to more than 1 million IT professionals in 196 countries. This milestone makes Spiceworks the fastest growing and most widely used application for managing IT networks in history. In addition, its free ad-supported IT management software and community have evolved into a new type of channel that gives vendors powerful access to research, social media, ads and apps to increase sales of technology products & services.
“More than 20% of the world’s IT pros at small and medium businesses – including law firms, schools, manufacturers, MSPs and more – depend on our free network management software and online community for everything IT,” said Scott Abel, CEO of Spiceworks. “Thanks to the support and dedication of our user community, we’re not only changing how they manage their technology, but also how technology vendors find, connect and market to the hard-to-reach SMB buyer.”
More: http://www.spiceworks.com/

02 June 2010 14:09
Accellion, Inc. today announced the industry’s first secure file transfer solution for the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure (BPI) and Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) allowing Microsoft SharePoint, OCS and Outlook users to easily and securely share digital information. Today’s announcement extends the Accellion solution to include new plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft SharePoint 2010, and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (OCS) for both on-premise and cloud environments.
Accellion plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook, SharePoint and OCS enable business users to securely send files to coworkers, remote users, customers or partners from within the Microsoft business applications. “Quick and easy access to information is essential for business collaboration, but protection of intellectual property and meeting compliance requirements is crucial,” said Yorgen Edholm, president and CEO of Accellion. “By integrating the Accellion Secure File Transfer solution across Microsoft’s BPI, enterprise organizations can now protect their intellectual property and achieve compliance by providing users with an easily accessible way to move confidential digital information.”
More: www.accellion.com 

02 June 2010 12:53
Canon UK, world leader in imaging solutions, has today announced the launch of the imageFORMULA P-150M to meet a significant demand from Apple Macintosh users for a stylish, high-speed portable scanner.
Following the launch of the award-winning* Canon imageFORMULA P-150 in November 2009 offering customers a highly portable ‘scan-anywhere’ solution, Canon’s new version comes with a powerful bundled software package specifically for Mac systems.
The imageFORMULA P-150M offers versatile cross platform compatibility for users working across various system environments, such as Windows and Linux**. The unique built-in CaptureOnTouch Lite software also provides ‘plug-and-scan’ functionality, without needing to install any application or driver software.
Whilst sharing many of the features of the popular imageFORMULA P-150 - including a black piano finish, compact design and fast USB-powered scanning - the P-150M will present a versatile approach to scanning in Mac environments. These will span traditional creative industries, marketers, and education establishments, through to more mainstream audiences, general office use and home workers.
More: www.canon.co.uk

02 June 2010 10:31
A survey of IT security professionals has discovered that 83% consider commercial applications, the ones you buy off the shelf, to be riddled with code flaws and vulnerabilities. That’s the discovery of a survey conducted by Fortify Software, a leader in Software Security Assurance (SSA) solutions, who found that 56% believe these flaws could allow hackers to exploit these software vulnerabilities. As a result, security professionals are making heavy investments in penetration and code testing, combined with application scanning, to try and build security into the software. Half of the IT security professionals also admitted to hacking, with 73% of these respondents doing so to test the strength of their own network’s defences, 13% for fun or out of curiosity, and 3% targeting their efforts at the competition.
More: www.fortify.com

01 June 2010 14:35
Artesian Solutions, the provider of web-based market intelligence and surveillance software, announced today that it was named in Gartner's prestigious "Cool Vendors of 2010" report in the CRM Sales category. Gartner's research identified Artesian Solutions as a "Cool Vendor" due to its use of semantic matching technology which helps commercial organisations accelerate their sales performance.
Artesian Solutions has been recognised as a cool vendor because it benefits its customers by offering improved sales productivity by reducing the cost, time and pain of filtering the web and social networks for critical sales intelligence saving time for salespeople in researching target accounts and contacts. The software-as-a-service application delivered through the cloud presents its results either fully integrated into the clients CRM system or through tailored gazettes, tag clouds, email alerts, dynamic searches, company watch lists, buzz monitoring indicators or by identifying key contacts in social networks such as LinkedIn.
More: http://www.artesiansolutions.com

01 June 2010 14:30
Danish inspection firm and engineering certification provider, CPI, implemented the CoSign digital signature add-on for SharePoint, which enables digital signing from within SharePoint and allows CPI to maximize their paperless investment. With the new digital signature capability, CPI’s engineers can electronically authorize inspections and reports created at customer sites, generating expedited processes and greatly improving customer service. By adding CoSign digital signature capability to SharePoint, CPI saves $130,000 in printing, scanning, archiving, routing, and lost document replacement costs.
Via the CoSign for SharePoint digital signature solution, CPI's engineers can digitally sign and archive the reports they create for customers on-site, via a laptop and a wireless Internet connection. The engineers prepare the report in Microsoft Word format, convert it to PDF, digitally sign the report with CoSign, and upload the file to SharePoint. The report is simultaneously published on CPI’s Customer Portal, allowing their customers to easily download and review their documentation.
More: www.arx.com

01 June 2010 13:47
ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that Crimson UK Ltd of Lancashire and Dingwall, is now an ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 Certified Partner. Crimson has demonstrated expertise with ABBYY technology and an ability to work with customers to meet their data capture needs. Crimson joins a network of highly skilled resellers and integrators who can provide data capture solutions based on ABBYY technology as part of the Certified Partner programme. ABBYY FlexiCapture is an intelligent solution for capturing data from forms and other types of documents for input into databases and other back end systems. With its powerful algorithm for intelligent document classification and selective processing approach, ABBYY FlexiCapture is capable of finding and extracting key fields of information, even if the location of the field varies from page to page. As a result, FlexiCapture can be used as a single entry point for all kinds of paper documents including: forms (questionnaires, tests, insurance forms, tax returns, etc.), semi-structured documents (invoices, purchase orders, waybills, etc.) and unstructured documents (letters, contracts, articles, etc.).
More: http://www.abbyy.com

01 June 2010 11:16
Maventa, one of the fastest growing electronic invoicing service providers in the world, today announced that the leading analyst firm Gartner has named Maventa as a Cool Vendor in their newly released report on Multi-enterprise B2B.
Vendors selected for the Cool Vendor report are “innovative, impactful and intriguing”.
Maventa’s award winning Software-as-a-Service solution makes electronic invoicing simple, cost-efficient and immediately available without upfront investments or process changes. Maventa offers all the benefits of high-end e-invoicing platforms purely on transaction based pricing without any fixed costs or minimum term periods. Besides the superior technology, Maventa’s intra-network transactions are completely free of charge – which has further pushed forward Maventa’s viral growth.
More: www.maventa.com

01 June 2010 10:57
As the IT industry digests the Chancellor of the Exchequer's plans to shave £6.25 billion from the expenditure spreadsheets of various government departments, a leading IT expert from the 360°IT Blog has warned that if IT is to maximise its potential to stave off the potentially devastating effects of the cuts, the sector needs the most resilient, persuasive, creative and revolutionary IT leaders the profession has ever seen.
According to Jim Mortleman, a leading IT industry commentator, there will be massive repercussions for IT in the sector as budget reductions are ramped up. While George Osborne's cut-backs include £95 million of IT savings, the pain doesn't stop there, as the Government has also mandated £1.15 billion in 'discretionary areas' such as consultancy and a further £1.7 billion through the scrapping or renegotiation of existing contracts. "Since IT is a big user of consultancy services and a big contributor to overall spending on third-party suppliers, it is likely to have to swallow a fair chunk of these cuts too," he said in his blog on the 360°IT Event website.
More: http://bit.ly/aggHaC

27 May 2010 09:03
Isilon® Systems today announced that Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Genomics Institute and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary repository for its next-generation DNA sequencing and analysis workflow. Using the Isilon IQ X-Series, Mount Sinai has unified its Illumina genome sequencers and analysis applications onto a single, shared storage repository, streamlining data access to accelerate time-to-discovery, while reducing capital and operating expenses. With Isilon IQ, Mount Sinai can provide researchers from many different locations access to its valuable stores of genomic data, enabling new levels of collaboration in identifying the genetic precursors to human disease.
More: http://www.isilon.com

26 May 2010 11:31
The AIIM Roadshow 2010, the UK's leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) event, today announced that delegates will learn how to cost-effectively take control of enterprise ‘content chaos’ - the growing volumes and disintegration of business information across the organisation. This stems from leading non-profit association AIIM’s findings in its latest report ‘Industry Watch – ECM State of the Industry 2010’ stating that the need to centralise and improve access to paper and electronic documents is the main driver for investing in ECM.
Whether it is more stringent compliance regulations or simply the ‘print-out’ culture of offices today, spiralling volumes of business-critical information is overwhelming the workforce and hindering otherwise simple processes and decision-making. Tackling this ‘content chaos’ will be a focus across the AIIM Roadshow’s programme of keynotes, workshops and seminars. ECM users looking to upgrade or new adopters will get the opportunity to hear from peers, suppliers and independent experts to optimise their ECM procurement and implementation, as well as how to benefit from resultant cost savings and compliance.
More: www.aiimroadshow.org.uk

26 May 2010 10:53
Tufin Technologies today announced that it has been named a 2010 Hot 100 EMEA finalist for the Red Herring 100 Europe 2010 Awards, a prestigious list honoring the year’s 100 most innovative and promising private technology ventures in the EMEA region. The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries. This honor is the latest in a steady stream of awards and accolades Tufin has received over the past 18 months, including numerous SC Magazine and Network Products Guide honors, Information Week’s Start-up 50, and CRN’s Emerging Vendors.
More: www.tufin.com

25 May 2010 18:17
In a battle to differentiate from broader business software products, pure-play Digital Asset Management (DAM) vendors are rolling out advanced features to compete with Web Content Management and Document Management vendors that have been securing more business by offering "lightweight" DAM features, according to new research released today by independent analyst firm Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch).
Today's newly released research includes updates to twenty-two DAM vendor evaluations, including recent major releases from Autonomy and Open Text, as well as two new evaluations of open source offerings: Nuxeo and Fedora.
More: www.realstorygroup.com

25 May 2010 16:50
Virtual Imaging Products, Canada’s, third largest manufacturer and distributor of imaging supplies, opens New York distribution center for 1-3 day delivery in the eastern United States.
“With demand for our product increasing in the United States this 50,000 square foot east coast facility gives us the strategic advantage we need to continue growing our market share,” explains Dan Benezra, President of VIP. “The New York distribution center is fully stocked and operational and now we have the ability to get the product into the hands of our customer faster and more efficiently.
More: www.virtualimagingproducts

25 May 2010 11:37
Varonis Systems Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, today announced Version 5.5 of DatAdvantage® and DataPrivilege®, a further evolution of the Varonis Meta-data Framework™, which enables customers to identify sensitive unstructured and semi-structured data on their file systems, SharePoint Sites and NAS devices. Varonis’ software helps customers find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity, understand who can access, who is accessing, who shouldn’t have access, and who owns the data, and remediate risk faster than traditional data protection products.
More: www.varonis.com/products

27 May 2010 13:30
Employer demand for new UK workers rose by one point (1%) in May compared to April, to give a Reed Job Index reading of 103.

However salaries on offer for new jobs dropped down four points (3%) over the same period to give a Salary Index reading of 95, according to the Reed Job Index published today (EMBARGO 00:01 Tuesday 1 June 2010).

Each month the Reed Job Index tracks the number of new job opportunities on offer compared to the previous month and against a baseline of 100 set in December last year. The Reed Job Index is based on data from the UK’s largest job board, reed.co.uk, which every day lists over 90,000 job opportunities from 8,000 recruiters across 37 career sectors throughout the UK.

Job demand rose most in the Charity & Voluntary sector, with demand also up in sectors such as Marketing & PR, Legal, Secretarial, and for both fully-qualified and non-qualified Accountants. Interestingly, demand rose in the Public Sector compared to the previous month, perhaps as the sector sought new people in advance of anticipated recruitment freezes. The Public Sector Index rose 23 points compared to the previous month to reach 97, back up close to last year’s level.
More: www.reed.co.uk  

25 May 2010 10:30
Research from a global survey by BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) company, has revealed that medical images, scanned documents, email and advances towards the Electronic Patient Record (EPR - also known as the Electronic Health Record (EHR)) are the likely causes for the upsurge in healthcare data that is already challenging hospitals and set to grow further in the foreseeable future.
Results from the Data Management Healthcheck 2010 - a global survey into the healthcare industry's ongoing strategies for managing their IT systems - found that over two-thirds (69 percent) of healthcare organisations expected their data volumes to increase this year. Less than six percent expected data volumes to stay constant and one percent expected data volumes to decrease.
More: www.BridgeHeadSoftware.com

24 May 2010 12:09
Visioneer, a leader in intelligent document imaging solutions, has today announced the Strobe 400, a new duplex colour scanner designed for busy people who need a fast and reliable scanning solution that can be used anywhere. The Strobe 400 is slim and lightweight, measuring only 295 x 65 x 50 mm and weighs a mere 0.7 Kg. When used in duplex mode, the Strobe 400 scans both sides of the page in only 6 seconds. Priced at £219.99, the Strobe 400 is one of the most affordable scanning solutions available for PC or Mac®.
More: www.visioneer.com

24 May 2010 10:18
Accellion, Inc. announces that London-based international law firm, Clyde & Co. LLP has selected Accellion Secure File Transfer to quickly and securely share confidential documents with clients. Accellion enabled the firm to avoid business disruptions when the courier company they relied on to share urgent legal documents was grounded as a result of ash clouds from the EyjafjallajÖkull volcano in Iceland.
Initially leveraging Accellion’s Hosted Cloud Service, the firm was able, within minutes, to access Accellion secure file transfer in the cloud. As a result, Clyde & Co. was able to quickly return to business and avoid disruptions caused by air transportation problems that affected much of the world.
Since air travel resumed in Europe, Clyde & Co. has now received shipment and installed an Accellion Secure File Transfer appliance on-premise and Clyde & Co. is no longer reliant on shipping and courier services as a way to transfer information too large for e-mail. In addition to creating a more efficient process for sharing information, the firm is already experiencing increased e-mail network performance.
More: www.accellion.com

24 May 2010 09:48
A report just released says that solid state drives (SSDs) are taking off in the enterprise server sector, largely as a result of the fact that high-performance SSDs can better meet the needs of enterprise and storage area network (SAN) users than magnetic hard drive units.
According to Andy Cordial, managing director with Origin Storage, the report from Objective Analysis - entitled `Enterprise SSDs: Technologies & Markets' - predicts that the market for enterprise SSDs will grow from 150,000 units in the current year to more than 4.1 million units by the time 2015 rolls around.
More on Objective Analysis report: http://bit.ly/c1mD5Y
More: www.originstorage.com

20 May 2010 17:11
Accusoft Pegasus, a Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner and a leading provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs), announces updates to ImageGear for Silverlight v17.
ImageGear for Silverlight v17.3 supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, helping developers accelerate the coding process and personalize their environments, while targeting a growing number of platforms, including Windows Azure. Customers using the current version of ImageGear will receive this update as a complimentary service pack.
More: http://www.accusoft.com/news_silverlight17_3.htm

20 May 2010 17:11
Accusoft Pegasus, the leading provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs), today announces updates to the ImageGear for .NET v17 SDK. This release includes a comprehensive OCR (optical character recognition of machine-printed text) solution for .NET software development, and annotation support for ASP.NET development efforts. Support for Visual Studio 2010 (VS 2010) is also included.
Accusoft Pegasus now licenses OCR support within ImageGear. A license for OCR includes character recognition in over 100 languages. It provides an auto-zoning feature that analyzes the structure of a page and automatically segments the image into zones.
More: http://www.accusoft.com/news_imagegearnet17_3.htm

20 May 2010 17:03
Panasonic System Networks Company of America (PSNA) and DocuLex, Inc. announce compatibility of the Panasonic KV-S1045C document imaging scanner with DocuLex Archive Studio content management software. The product combination creates an affordable workgroup system for entities to manage all forms of paper and electronic document’s contents via automated and distributive means, providing secure, permission-based accessibility. The products are available from participating Panasonic authorized resellers.
More: www.panasonic.com
More: www.doculex.com

20 May 2010 15:16
Kodak today announced that Capita Total Document Solutions (TDS), Capita Group’s bureau services organisation, has more than doubled its scanner capacity to support exponential business growth and enable the expansion and delivery of new services such as digital mailroom solutions and application forms processing for customers with exacting service level agreements.
Capita TDS has upgraded its scanner fleet to increase capacity purchasing eight Kodak i700 series high performance production scanners, three Kodak i1440 departmental scanners, with Kodak Capture Pro 2.0 software installed to ensure the efficient management of documents.
More: http://www.kodak.com/

20 May 2010 13:37
Over half of organisations believe that cloud computing will result in an improvement in security defences according to a poll from 360°IT, a fifth thought there would be no improvement and a quarter of organisations said that it will be detrimental. [Poll of 271 IT managers carried out in May 2010].
Richard Hall, CEO of CloudOrigin , a seasoned expert in the world of cloud computing - claims that the current trend of businesses migrating their IT systems into the cloud does not mean a reduction in security defences.
More: www.cloudorigin.com

20 May 2010 12:07
The Co-operative Group, the UK’s fifth largest retail organisation, has selected Xerox to manage the print fleet across its head office complex in Manchester, including nearly fifty Xerox ColorQube 9200 series multifunction systems, in order to limit the environmental impact of its print and reduce costs. The deal is valued at circa £2m.
Xerox will work with the Co-operative to introduce an enhanced print strategy supported by specially tailored software designed to reduce unnecessary office print. The move is expected to save the Co-operative an estimated £600,000 per year.
The retail giant has been widely recognised for its commitment to the environment, winning a number of high profile accolades for its environmental and sustainability policies. This latest move will see Xerox manage 100 print devices that serve in excess of 2,500 head office staff across seven head office buildings in Manchester.
More: http://www.xerox.com/
More: http://www.co-operative.coop/

20 May 2010 11:50
HCC International, a leading specialist international insurer, has appointed Neocol to provide a range of new Information on Demand solutions to deliver real-time data integration and analytics across their UK and European business. The solution will allow them to analyse and utilise data much faster which will help improve decision making, business efficiency and reduce costs.
The new Information on Demand solution from Neocol will enable HCC to deliver a consolidated European data warehouse to provide KPIs, analytics and management reporting and will provide the transparency of data needed to meet regulatory requirements such as Solvency II. Furthermore, the product provides functionality that will enable them to better identify and remedy data quality issues across their diverse portfolio of business applications.
More: www.neocol.com
More: www.hccint.com

20 May 2010 11:00
A new wave of clients and business partners in industries such as healthcare, energy and financial markets have made the switch from competitive platforms to IBM DB2 database software to meet data intensive demands of their businesses. To further accelerate this momentum, IBM announced today a new feature that allows clients to more easily move their applications written for Sybase ASE to DB2 - adding to the support for Oracle Database applications introduced last year.
Clients such as BJC Healthcare and Pep Boys are already testing the feature to move their industry applications from Sybase ASE to DB2 to help reduce IT costs and achieve overall better performance.
More: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/management/
More: http://www.ants.com/

20 May 2010 10:35

Aia Software , a leading author and developer of intelligent document composition software today announced that Celent, a Boston-based financial research and consulting firm, has recognised ABN Amroä Bank‘s implementation of the Aia ITP Document Platform as an innovative use of technology and successful best practice in the competitive financial marketplace. The Aia ITP Document Platform is a pillar of the bank’s award-winning initiative to improve credit proposals and security documentation.
Dutch-based ABN Amro Bank maintains a diverse, worldwide presence. International consultancy, Celent helps financial institutions create and sustain competitive advantage. ABN AMRO received the Model Bank Award at the Celent Innovation & Insight Day held on May 13, 2010 in New York.
More: www.aia-itp.com

19 May 2010 14:37
Iron Mountain, the information management company, has appointed Russell Sanderson as the company’s new Commercial Director for Professional Services in the UK. Sanderson now leads an experienced team managing Iron Mountain’s relationships with customers in the legal, insurance, accounting and property sectors.
Sanderson’s primary responsibility is to engage ever-more closely with Iron Mountain’s customers to ensure that they enjoy industry-leading levels of care, support and service. With the paper-intensive nature of the professional services sector, a major part of his new role involves helping customers manage the transition from a physical to a digital environment, applying the most effective solutions from Iron Mountain’s broad services portfolio. Sanderson will also help customers make sense of the information they hold and drive efficiencies through improved business processes and programmes to reduce long term storage costs.
More: http://www.ironmountain.co.uk/

19 May 2010 14:00
Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital document management and image capture solutions, today addressed the growing need for on-the-go image capture solutions among Mac users with the introduction of the imageFORMULA P-150M “Scan-tini” personal scanner. Utilizing the same precision technology and compact footprint in the original P-150 scanner, the new imageFORMULA P-150M personal scanner brings the latest in mobile image capture solutions to Mac-based environments.
“Since introducing the original imageFORMULA P-150, we have received tremendous feedback regarding the versatility of this on-the-go scanning solution, resulting in increased demand from several market segments, including Mac users,” said Jim Rosetta, vice president and general manager, Imaging Systems Groups, Canon U.S.A. “For mobile workers, on-the-go company representatives or the traditional ‘road-warriors’, it is essential to have a reliable and precise imaging solution to help streamline and conduct business – and the imageFORMULA P-150M is an ideal device to meet that need among Mac users.”
More: www.usa.canon.com/kyosei

19 May 2010 10:00
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has signed an agreement with the Fundação Instituto de Pesquisa e Estudo de Diagnóstico por Imagen (FIDI) for the delivery and installation of its digital imaging and healthcare IT solutions across the facility's 25 sites. The agreement was signed in the presence of His Royal Highness, Prince Filip of Belgium, who is on an economic mission in the region.
In total the agreement foresees the installation of Computed Radiography (CR) systems for converting analog diagnostic images to digital formats, the company's Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) IMPAX for managing and distributing diagnostic images and information, a Radiology Information System (RIS) enabling radiologists to electronically manage end-to-end operations, and a central imaging repository solution to centralize all image-related information across 25 sites.
More: www.agfa.com

19 May 2010 09:32
Core Consultancy, a leading disaster recovery and business continuity specialist, has won “Specialist Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Company of the Year” at the Business Continuity Awards 2010. Core Consultancy’s DataSafe High-Availability service, which protects hundreds of terabytes of data for SME’s across the UK, was selected by the panel of expert judges based on a number of criteria.
DataSafe is a hybrid service that uses a local backup appliance and a remote datacenter network to store and recover critical data. The High Availability version supports Instant Virtualisation technology to allow clients to quickly gain remote access to recovered applications and data via the internet. Core DataSafe also offers a continuous data protection scheme which means clients can specify how often a backup should occur, from as little as every 15 minutes, to ensure that no critical data is lost in the event of a major incident such as an evacuation, fire or flood.
More: www.core-consultancy.com

19 May 2010 05:05
For the second consecutive year, Rochester Software Associates, Inc. a provider of production print workflow software solutions has been named 2009 Overall Software Partner of the Year by Xerox Corporation. The award was recently presented at Xerox's annual business partner conference. Xerox's Global Business Group, responsible for managing the Xerox business partner portfolio of document solutions, software and systems, recognized 22 partner firms for superior digital workflow software and finishing solutions.
Since its affiliation as a Xerox partner in 1995, RSA has been recognized as Software Partner of the Year a record 11 times. "This honor speaks to the value of the partnership we have with Xerox and we remain committed to delivering innovative solutions and outstanding customer support to our many joint customers," said RSA Founder and President, Robert Baden.
More: www.rocsoft.com

18 May 2010 16:22
ABBYY Europe, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and language software, today announced the availability of its Mobile OCR Engine 4.0, a new version of the award-winning software development kit (SDK) for creating small footprint optical character recognition (OCR) applications. The key enhancement of the SDK is its new robust technology to support Chinese, Japanese, and Korean OCR developed by ABBYY specialists. Now covering 62 recognition languages, including both European and Asian languages, and a wide variety of operating systems such as Symbian™, iPhone®, Mac OS®, Android™, Linux®, Mobile Linux (Moblin™), Windows®, and Windows Mobile® this SDK is the ideal technology platform for developers building applications for the global marketplace.
More: http://www.abbyy.com/

18 May 2010 12:26
Fortify® Software, the market leader in Software Security Assurance (SSA) solutions, today announced the availability of two new white papers, one business-oriented and one technical, intended to help cloud infrastructure providers and their customers understand how to unlock the full benefits of the cloud through software security. The company also announced new capabilities in its Fortify 360 and Fortify on Demand products that include cloud-specific vulnerability analysis, the industry’s first software security Cloud Readiness Scorecard™, and remediation capabilities that enable teams not just to evaluate the readiness of their software for cloud environments, but to find and fix security vulnerabilities that could be caused specifically by a move to a cloud environment. The solutions are ideal for both enterprises and agencies that are considering a move to the cloud, and cloud providers that offer shared infrastructure services to clients.
More: www.fortify.com

18 May 2010 11:51
Colortrac will be demonstrating some new products on their booth #112 at the IRgA 2010 Convention & Trade Show being held at the Palm Springs Convention Center, California, USA, (May 19th - 21st, 2010).
Visitors to the booth will see an advanced high performance A1 / D-size flatbed color scanner. Using CCD optical imaging technology to capture high quality images at high speed, a scan of an 24" x 33" document is saved in less than 20 seconds at 400dpi optical resolution via a high speed Gigabit Ethernet interface. Capable of great accuracy, it is perfect for fragile or uneven materials, like very thick or heavy media, wood grain, fabrics and framed art.
Also debuting at the show is a new and fully-adjustable Universal Repro Stand (URS) that creates an operator-friendly, high productivity, multi-function system.
More: www.colortrac.com

17 May 2010 17:34
DocuLex, creators of content management software, announces the addition of customized business process and collaborative workflow capability to DocuLex Archive Studio’s just released WebSearch version 4.2, equipping organizations with decision making power via automation of any business process through the benefit of systematic workflow. The program’s new intelligent “decision engine” organizes project information, orchestrates flow to each staffer involved, notifies them of action needed and documents their information revisions and additions. WebSearch will store metadata in the SQL database and update the database when metadata is edited, providing backup of workflow content throughout each project. The end result is project simplification with time and cost conservation.
More: www.doculex.com.

17 May 2010 15:31
Working to expand its support for businesses and provide greater levels of service in the North and South Carolina regions, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in advanced digital imaging and software solutions, today announced the acquisition of the assets of Tereck Office Solutions, Inc., based in Durham, North Carolina. It will now be a new, wholly-owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A.
“Tereck has built a tremendous reputation for providing industry-leading imaging and document management solutions and support to companies in the North and South Carolina regions and we are excited to bring Tereck into the Canon family,” said Joe Adachi, president and chief executive officer, Canon U.S.A. “We take pride in offering the most comprehensive array of office imaging solutions and this acquisition will enable us to provide even greater levels of service to businesses and end-users in the Carolina regions.”
More: www.usa.canon.com/

17 May 2010 15:22
Kodak’s Scanners and DoxTek, Inc. will improve the scanning and processing effectiveness of 100 billing services kiosks at Flying J Truck Stops across North America. The Scan & Go Express kiosks quickly digitize bills, proofs of delivery and other related forms for immediate use in the billing process.
At present, Flying J customers are scanning upwards of 25,000 images per week. To enhance the kiosks’ document handling capabilities, DoxTek, an Authorized Imaging Reseller of KODAK Products, will begin using high-performance KODAK i1210 Scanners, upgrading from basic flatbed scanners.
More: www.doxtek.com.
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15 May 2010 00:01
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data management industry, has announced the release of Data Harmony 3.7, the latest version of the company’s popular data management software suite. The suite contains taxonomy management, automatic categorization, and metadata management tools and incorporates user-suggested upgrades that enhance the software’s functionality and features. The user documentation is also fully revised and updated.
All modules of the new version of Data Harmony – Thesaurus Master, M.A.I. (Machine Aided Indexer*) and XIS (XML Intranet System) – are 100 percent Unicode UTF-8. Therefore, they support all languages, all character sets, and integrated multi-lingual applications. They also support scientific nomenclature without a need for special coding or character entification.
More: www.accessinn.com

14 May 2010 13:23
Infosecurity Europe 2010 defied the ash cloud and the economy to become the most successful event in its 15 year history with 12,566* visitors converged on London’s Earls Court venue where 324 exhibitors greeted them with the latest technology and services to protect their organisation.
Claire Sellick, Infosecurity Europe’s Event Director attributes the growing success of the event to the fact that it is not just the need for organisations to protect their data that is driving investment. “Information security technology is now seen as an essential enabler for business to provide profitable and exciting new services. We have been inundated by demand for exhibition space for next years event and 82% of the space has already been booked for Infosecurity Europe 2011 which runs from the 19th to 21st April at Earls Court, London"
More: www.infosec.co.uk

14 May 2010 09:12
Isilon® Systems  today announced that the University of Lübeck has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as its primary storage repository, unifying the German university's file-based applications onto a single, shared file system. Using the Isilon IQ X-Series, the University of Lübeck has created a central storage solution for all its medical and scientific departments, accelerating data access for researchers, faculty and students, while reducing storage management to less than one full-time equivalent (FTE). With Isilon scale-out NAS, the University of Lübeck can provide highly concurrent data access to hundreds of users without compromising data performance or reliability, increasing efficiency and productivity for its research and educational efforts.
More: http://www.isilon.com

13 May 2010 19:34
docSTAR, a leader in document management solutions and Sage North America, a leading developer of business management solutions, have joined forces to bring best-of-breed document management to the Sage MAS 90 and 200 product line. The solution will fully integrate docSTAR with Sage MAS 90 and 200 to enhance the paperless capabilities in accounts payable and receivable to full document processing.“The objective is to liberate accounting departments from the burden of any paper files,” said Tom Franceski, docSTAR’s president and CEO. “Using their existing familiar interface, Sage MAS 90 and 200 users can now add incoming document management functionality to automate associated tasks and further streamline office operations.”
More: http://www.docstar.com

13 May 2010 15:06
Allied Images, scanning and document management solution specialists, is pleased to announce that we have been appointed UK distributor for ATIZ range of BookDrive book scanners. BookDrive solve all problems found in book scanners including page curvature, damage to the book spine and low productivity. BookDrive uses a different approach; a V-shaped glass and book cradle that hold the book open at a non-stressful angle for scanning by hi-speed, hi-resolution digital SLR (DSLR) cameras. This unique design guarantees sharp, curvature-free images in every scan. BookDrive cameras capture both left- and right-hand pages simultaneously with each shot taking less than a second allowing you to capture up to 800 pages an hour.
More: www.allied-images.com

13 May 2010 14:51
Pirean, a leading delivery partner for IT Service and Security Management, will be launching its application software division at the upcoming IBM Pulse Comes to You event in London in May. Pirean, the premier sponsor for the event, will have two stands to represent their services and growing software business.
On the Pirean Software stand the company will be launching their SMBUS product, built on their Award Winning Service Management Integration Tool (recognised by IBM in 2008 as the most innovative service management product of the year) with connectors bundled for industry leading Service Desk, Identity Management and Service Management solutions.
More: http://www.pirean.com/

13 May 2010 10:44
Thales, leader in information systems and communications security and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, announces the industry’s first hardware solution to enable time stamps for electronic document security in Microsoft Office Professional 2010. Thales Time Stamp Server appliance, part of the nCipher product line, is a network-attached, turn-key appliance that combines the ability to act as a tamper-resistant source of trusted time with a high speed and equally secure digital signing engine. This enables organizations to sign documents or other electronic files such as application software in a standards-based way, enabling verification long after the original signing certificate and credentials have expired or been revoked.
Utilizing the new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC 3161 interface in Office Professional 2010, Thales Time Stamp Server provides government agencies and private sector enterprises with a secure, cost-effective solution for moving workflows and archiving from paper to electronic documents without first having to convert Office documents from their native formats.
More: http://www.thalesgroup.com/

12 May 2010 09:40
PCTI, the supplier of Docman, an intelligent document workflow and collaboration solution demonstrates the power of the new Apple iPad for Doctors.

This new technology enables real time access to patient’s documents and important clinical workflows without being tied to a fixed computer on a consulting desk.

The practice common room could soon see a welcome return to GP’s reviewing and discussing patient letters through the use of new technology like the Apple iPad. Docman allows GP’s to easily comment on and highlight letters before re-routing to practice staff.

Tools like the Apple iPad will enable PCTI to build on an already extensive list of benefits a practice receives from using Docman for their document management and workflow.

11 May 2010 11:45

Fortify® Software, the market leader in Software Security Assurance (SSA) solutions, today announced at the Private/Public Cloud Summit that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate sponsor member. Fortify is joining the CSA to support its cloud security initiatives and to help establish and promote best practices for software security in cloud computing. Fortify will also provide its input on software security in the next release of the group’s Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing.
More: http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org

10 May 2010 15:00
Demonstrating its ability to improve workplace efficiency across a broad range of industries, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging technologies and advanced office solutions, will showcase the precision, speed and ease-of-use of its imageFORMULA digital document scanners and check transports at FUSION 2010 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center. FUSION 2010 combines The Association for Work Process Improvement (TAWPI) Annual Forum & Expo with the International Accounts Payable Professionals (IAPP) Annual Forum & Expo, addressing the needs of professionals in accounts payable, accounts receivable and payments, as well as document automation, imaging, and management. Canon’s exhibit will be located in Booth #301.
More: www.usa.canon.com/kyosei
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10 May 2010 13:56

Specialist software developer NSC Group has announced a new version of DataNovata, its web-enabled tool for accessing data in any relational database. DataNovata 3.0 introduces new features to further accelerate installation and set-up, and enhance ease of use with richer database search and data retrieval options for end-users.
DataNovata 3.0 now includes a new, interactive wizard to help users get started with their projects even faster. The wizard guides users through a series of simple steps to quickly configure a project, prompting them for the basic information required by the development kit.
A second new wizard guides users when they are moving projects from development to a live environment, to ensure a speedy, simple and reliable implementation.
More: www.nscgroup.co.uk

10 May 2010 10:29
Canon UK today announced that its award winning imageFORMULA P-150 portable scanner is now compatible with Apple Mac operating systems with the release of new Mac TWAIN driver and a Mac version of its user-friendly CaptureOnTouch software.
Following its launch in November 2009, the PC-enabled imageFORMULA P-150 has already received strong sales success across Europe and the latest download enables the multi-platform scanner to be used across all main popular operating system environments including PC, Linux and now Mac.
More: www.canon.co.uk

10 May 2010 10:08
Core Consultancy, The leading disaster recovery and business continuity specialist has launched a new version of DataSafe, its popular data backup and recovery service, built on a new hardware and software platform, to help small and medium businesses maintain a comprehensive disaster recovery position.
The Core DataSafe service, which protects hundreds of terabytes of data for SMEs across the UK, has been updated by developers at Core Consultancy to support a host of new features and will for the first time be delivered exclusively through a 100% channel model.
More: www.core-consultancy.com

10 May 2010 09:59
DRS e-Counting solutions have once again delivered results efficiently and effectively in Scotland, this time in the Drumchapel/Anniesland Ward by-election. Returning officer, George Black hailed the election a huge success. Running alongside the enormous manual count operation for the Parliamentary Election, the Drumchapel/Anniesland ward ballot papers were scanned in approximately 50 minutes.
With an electorate of just under twenty thousand, the postal and normal ballot papers were electronically counted using three DRS PhotoScribe® scanners. With a 52 percent turnout, the papers were registered, scanned, verified and adjudicated where necessary by the Returning Officer and his staff. Using an extremely small team of experienced staff, the results were delivered just 55 minutes after scanning was completed. The winning candidate was elected at the first stage. If counted manually, it could have taken in excess of 30 staff between five and six hours to complete the count.
More: http://www.drs.co.uk/

07 May 2010 12:10
Isilon® Systems today announced that Prologue, a leading visual effects and graphic design studio, has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage repository for all of its file-based data, including post-production on Hollywood blockbusters including The Incredible Hulk, Sherlock Homes and the Spider-Man trilogy. Using Isilon’s X-Series, Prologue has unified all of its file-based data onto a single storage resource delivering greater than 90 percent utilization, increasing workflow efficiency and accelerating project time-to-delivery. With Isilon IQ, Prologue can process more visual effects projects in less time, expanding its bandwidth to accommodate new business opportunities across movies, television and graphic design.
More: http://www.isilon.com

07 May 2010 11:26
Varonis Systems Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, announced it has joined forces with RSA, the Security Division of EMC, to address the growing challenges organizations face as they manage and protect their growing volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. The interoperability between the Varonis IDU Data Classification Framework (DCF) and RSA's Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite allows customers to identify sensitive data on their file systems, SharePoint Sites and NAS devices, find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity, understand who can access, who is accessing, who shouldn't have access, and who owns the data, and remediate risk faster than traditional data protection and classification products.
More: www.varonis.com

07 May 2010 10:48
The steady stream of advances in brute force decryption techniques - which started when Russia's Elcomsoft released the first versions of its Password Recovery suite of `utilities' around 18 months ago - means that laptop users must now raise their game when it comes to encryption, says Origin Storage.
And, says Andy Cordial, the storage systems integration firm's managing director, as Russian password decryption specialist Elcomsoft's advances clearly show, it can only be a matter of time before further advances are possible.
More: www.originstorage.com

06 May 2010 16:53
Genus is pleased to announce it has signed an agreement with the German scanner manufacturer, Inotec GmbH, to represent its brand new 400 series document scanners in the UK and Ireland.

Genus will be the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for the Inotec range of production document scanners. They are ideal for large volume end user clients such as Insurance, NHS, Census, Election and Mailroom applications as well as busy Document Conversion Bureaus.

The Inotec 402, 412 and 422 scanners offer bitonal/colour throughput of between 90 to 150ppm and are characterisedby a number of key advantages.
More: http://www.genusit.com/

06 May 2010 09:59
Reports are coming in that a member of staff at one of NHS Forth Valley's secure mental health units has been suspended over the apparent loss of a USB stick containing patient's medical records.
Credant Technologies says that, since the case involves a data loss involving medical records, it may well be referred to the regional office of the ICO (Information Commissioners Office) in Edinburgh for investigation and likely further action.
"According to local newspaper reports, a 12-year-old boy found the USB stick - which contained sensitive information on some of the staff and patients at Bellsdyke hospital's Tryst Park facility - at a supermarket in nearby Stenhousemuir," said Sean Glynn, product manager with the data security specialist.
More on NHS patient data fiasco: http://bit.ly/amjMwc
More: http://www.credant.com

05 May 2010 17:08
As the world economy starts to recover, the AIIM Roadshow 2010, the UK's leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) event, will demonstrate how organisations can retain the cost savings made during the downturn, using the five best practice milestones for information, document and records management. With keynotes and practical advice from the UK Managing Director of AIIM, Doug Miles, Microsoft’s Office Server Group Director, Peter King and the Principal of The Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch), Alan Pelz-Sharpe, visitors will learn how to build more efficient processes, waste less time and facilitate better teamwork.
More: www.aiimroadshow.org.uk

05 May 2010 12:17
Backup Direct, provider of stress-free online backup and data security services to UK businesses and organisations, today announced their partnership with Geo Mission Ltd and the Catlin Arctic Survey. The Catlin Arctic Survey 2010 is a study on what effects greenhouse gases are having on the environment. An explorer team – directed by Polar Explorer, Pen Hadow and led by one of the top women in Polar Exploration, Ann Daniels - has been travelling across the Arctic for the past two months collecting data that will hopefully provide key scientific insight into the effects of ocean change.
Backup Direct were chosen by Geo Mission, the company behind the Catlin Arctic Survey, to backup the mission-critical data gathered by the Explorer Team during the survey.
More: www.backupdirect.net

05 May 2010 11:06

ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that Digiscan of Dublin and Kells, Ireland, is now an ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 Certified Partner. Digiscan has demonstrated expertise with ABBYY technology and an ability to work with customers to meet their data capture needs. Digiscan joins a network of highly skilled resellers and integrators who can provide data capture solutions based on ABBYY technology as part of the Certified Partner programme.
More: www.abbyy.com

05 May 2010 01:51
ARX (Algorithmic Research), a leading provider of digital signature solutions, is proud to have co-sponsored a first-of-its-kind research conducted by AIIM on the use and benefits of digital signatures, entitled ‘Digital Signatures for Document Workflow and SharePoint’. The study is based on a survey of both organizations that haven’t implemented a digital signature solution and those that have, and compares the expectations of the former with the reported results of the latter.
Among the various metrics explored in AIIM’s digital signature research were the impact of the need for paper-based signatures, the ROI experienced by organizations that have implemented digital signatures, and the benefits those organizations have experienced.
More: http://www.arx.com/about/PR/PR-Digital-Signature-Survey-by-AIIM 

04 May 2010 17:09
Datacap, the pioneer in advanced data and document capture software solutions, announced today the implementation of a custom data capture solution, enabling the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) to track all aspects of H1N1 vaccinations from distribution to inoculation.
Even before the first warning signs of a potential H1N1 pandemic were seen, DHS Oregon Department of Human Services had the foresight to create a plan to quickly and properly distribute vaccinations to the citizens of Oregon and neighboring states.
The solution was designed and implemented by Datacap partner Cutting Edge Solution (CES) of Kansas City, Missouri. "We were ready to install a solution for DHS to capture healthcare enrollment and vaccination forms when H1N1 started to make news," said Jameson Nunn, CES co-founder. "It wasn't hard to switch gears and prioritize the H1N1 plan. We had DHS up and running just as the first batches of vaccination were starting to arrive."
More: www.datacap.com
More: http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/imm/docs/H1N1ReprtGdlines.pdf

04 May 2010 14:35
ALWIL Software, developer of the award-winning avast! antivirus program, has announced that its built-in GMER technology has earned recognition from Anti-Malware Labs, a respected independent security testing organization, as the highest ranked solution for the detection and removal of rootkits. A rootkit is a type of malware that hides itself within a computer’s operating system.
The Anti-Malware Labs test graded the ability of 12 programs to identify and eliminate a selection of rootkits from a computer running on a fully updated XP Professional operating system. The Lab tested GMER 1.0.15, a stand-alone version of the GMER technology which is a standard part of avast! antivirus software.
More: http://www.anti-malware-test.com/

04 May 2010 14:00
Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that its DX-D 500 n Direct Radiography system is now available in Canada. The system delivers instant previews, fast cycle times, a unified look and feel for CR and DR exams and streamlined workflow procedures through its NX workstation and MUSICA2 image processing. In combination with Agfa HealthCare's CR systems, the DX-D 500 n addresses the needs of the full spectrum of general radiology exams.
"Agfa HealthCare's DX-D solutions deliver fast cycle times, which can result in accelerated productivity, improved patient comfort, and efficiency in radiography departments. Providers and patients benefit from consistent image quality, the potential for dose reduction, and streamlined workflow," says Dirk Debusscher, Vice President Imaging. "Because Agfa HealthCare is the only company to offer needle quality in both its DR and CR detectors, choosing Agfa HealthCare's DX-D and CR systems can assure providers of high imaging quality, as well as enhanced productivity."
More: www.agfahealthcare.com