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VAI Named to Software Magazine’s 28th Annual Software 500

September 30th, 2010
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-VAI today announced its inclusion on Software Magazine’s Software 500 ranking of the world’s largest software and service providers, now in its 28th year. VAI is a leader in enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for the distribution, manufacturing, retail and service industries, and an IBM Premier Business partner.

The Software 500 is a revenue-based ranking of the world’s largest software and services suppliers targeting medium to large enterprises, their IT professionals, software developers and business managers involved in software and services purchasing.

Approximately 47% percent of the 2010 Software 500 companies are privately held, including VAI.

John P. Desmond, editor of Software Magazine and Softwaremag.com, said, “The Software 500 helps CIOs, senior IT managers and IT staff research and create a short list of business partners. It is a quick reference of vendor viability. Additionally, the online version, to be posted soon at www.Softwaremag.com, is searchable by category, making it what we call the online catalog to enterprise software.”

Bob Vormittag, President and CEO, VAI, said, “It is a great accomplishment for VAI to rank among the largest software providers throughout the globe. Our inclusion in this year’s Software 500 demonstrates VAI’s presence as a trusted leader in ERP solutions. We will continue to lead the way in ERP technology with our always-evolving S2K Enterprise Software Suite.”

The Software 500 is based on total worldwide software and services revenue for 2009. This includes revenues from software licenses, maintenance and support, training and software-related services and consulting. Suppliers are not ranked on their total corporate revenue, since many have other lines of business, such as hardware. The financial information was gathered by a survey prepared by King Content Co. and posted at www.Softwaremag.com, as well as from public documents.

Source:http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100930005091/en/VAI-Named-Software-Magazine%E2%80%99s-28th-Annual-Software

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Accelrys Advances Powerful Decision Support Software

September 30th, 2010
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Accelrys, Inc., the leading scientific informatics software and services company, today announced the release of version 3.3 of the Isentris(R) data access, analysis, and decision support system (previously Symyx Isentris). Isentris 3.3 drives faster, better informed scientific decisions by enabling scientists to display, manipulate, and compare spectral, chromatographic, and XY graphical data.

With R&D organizations looking for ways to reduce cost by consolidating software applications where possible, adding these new capabilities to Isentris enables customers to circumvent costs of maintaining additional third-party software and also reduces on-going maintenance commitments and training costs.

In addition, scientists can now explore commercial and in-house information along with key chemical sourcing and reaction planning information made available via DiscoveryGate Web Service — all without leaving the Isentris environment.

The Isentris system, and its precursor ISIS system, became part of the Accelrys portfolio of scientific informatics software as a result of the July 2010 merger of Accelrys and Symyx Technologies, Inc.

“Accelrys has made considerable progress in transitioning its ISIS customers,” said Dr. Trevor Heritage, executive vice president, software products, Accelrys. “The new visualization and information access capabilities in Isentris 3.3 are further inducements for ISIS customers to make the switch, and this trend will persist as Accelrys continues to invest heavily in industry-leading decision support software. The company’s planned integration of Pipeline Pilot property calculators, data analytics, and dashboards into Isentris will provide groundbreaking new opportunities for customers engaged in visualizing, exploring, and reporting research results.”

The Isentris 3.3 release with improved visualization and information access is a significant milestone advancing cross-experiment data retrieval, analysis, and reporting in today’s integrated electronic laboratory environment. The Isentris system drives faster, better informed decisions in scientific experimentation — enabling scientists to explore, compare, and report on scientific information captured in the Accelrys Lab Execution and Analysis (LEA) software suite, in electronic lab notebooks, in laboratory information management systems (LIMS), and in other in-house and online information management systems.

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/accelrys-advances-powerful-decision-support-software-2010-09-30?reflink=MW_news_stmp

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New Cadman®-Oee Software Analyzes Equipment Effectiveness

September 30th, 2010
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LVD Strippit announces the addition of an Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) module to its CADMAN® family of offline software. CADMAN®-OEE adds the next level of integration to CADMAN software technology, providing a means to analyze equipment performance in order to fully optimize efficiency and productivity.

CADMAN-OEE examines and reports on equipment productivity and performance. It provides analysis in simple, easy-to-understand graphical charts and uses an intuitive presentation of the ‘real’ shop floor information to systematically improve the production process by increasing uptime and throughput through closely monitoring machine availability, performance (theoretical cycle time versus real cycle), and quality.

CADMAN-OEE is an extension of LVD Strippit’s CADMAN offline software, a PC-based CAD/CAM system that operates on a Windows® platform. CADMAN is designed to streamline the fabricating process through a single, complete offline system for the design, unfolding, punching, laser cutting and bending of sheet metal parts. CADMAN-OEE provides an added integration module to measure equipment effectiveness for a variety of sheet metalworking machinery, laser, punching and bending including non-LVD Strippit machinery.

Source:http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/CAD-CAM-Software-analyzes-overall-equipment-effectiveness-584610

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Tagetik Launches ‘Tagetik 3.0 – Collaborative Disclosure Management’ at Annual User Conference

September 30th, 2010
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Tagetik, a global provider of enterprise software solutions for Performance Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance and Business Intelligence, today announced the release of Tagetik 3.0 – Collaborative Disclosure Management at its 2010 User Conference. This solution adds structure to the highly manual disclosure process by facilitating the teamwork across multiple systems and stakeholders as well as integrating financial information with personal insight. Companies can either use the software as part of Tagetik’s unified performance management platform or standalone on top of existing ERP and consolidation systems.

“Closing the books has never been a fast or simple process but, in the past few years, the work involved with creating statutory filings and fulfilling external and internal reporting requirements has jumped dramatically,” explains Manuel Vellutini, Chief Operating Officer at Tagetik. “Instead of a handful of people in finance, you now also have stakeholders from investor relations, sales, legal and other departments working together to produce a single document. If the systems supporting these processes aren’t connected, a huge gap emerges between the knowledge of the individuals involved and the data itself which, in turn, delays progress and increases the risk of errors. That’s why we have developed Tagetik 3.0 – Collaborative Disclosure Management to structure the process of collecting financial data, integrating background information and personal notes, producing the respective documents and, if desired, even publishing them as XBRL files. No other solution on the market today offers this functionality in a unified system with built-in workflows, powerful controls and full traceability for each filing or report.”

“Despite the vast CPM investments in recent years, most companies still have highly manual and fragmented disclosure processes,” states Marco Pierallini, Chief Development Officer at Tagetik. “By automating tasks, adding controls and improving collaboration, companies can finally reduce the amount of error-prone, manual work to close the books faster and release timely, accurate information to a wide range of audiences.”

Using Tagetik 3.0’s Collaborative Disclosure Management module, companies can integrate information from structured ERP, CRM and CPM systems or data warehouses as well as unstructured spreadsheets, e-mails and instant messaging applications. And due to Tagetik’s unified CPM and GRC software platform, users can then leverage the finalized data in management reports, press releases, CSR reports, notes and exhibits in statutory filings, or even SEC filings with full XBRL support.

“Our goal was to make public disclosure and management reporting processes more efficient and interactive while eliminating hidden costs for a measurable TCO – and we have accomplished just that with Tagetik 3.0 – Collaborative Disclosure Management,” summarizes Manuel Vellutini.

Source:http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/Disclosure-Management-Software-streamlines-data-gathering-use-584619

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WoodWing Software Integrates Vidigo, XDAM Products

September 30th, 2010
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WoodWing Software, Zaandam, The Netherlands, has entered technology partnerships with the Dutch company VidiGo and the U.S.-based developer XDAM to integrate the partners’ products with WoodWing’s Enterprise cross-media publishing system and its Content Station content-management module.

Solutions for cost-effectively planning, designing and producing broadcast-quality audio and video content, VidiGo’s products enable broadcasters, production companies, publishers and news agencies to automate audio and video production workflows. It provides all components, from ingestion and asset management to live production and play-out.

A multimedia submission portal for rapidly uploading, news/live-event editing, approvals and delivery, XDAM offers LiveShoot, a core feature that creates and manages a LiveConnection between the editor and the photographer or submitter. Images and videos are viewed seconds after shooting anywhere in the world. Users can edit in real time and push final content to WoodWing Content Station with one click.

“Especially in the era of tablet publishing, quick production of high-quality video and image content becomes important for any publisher,” WoodWing President Erik Schut said in announcing the integration partnership.

Source:http://www.editorandpublisher.com/Departments/Online/woodwing-software-integrates-vidigo-xdam-products-62803-.aspx

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inContact Brings Leading Cloud-Based Call Center Software to the Growing Philippines Market

September 30th, 2010
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inContact /quotes/comstock/15*!saas/quotes/nls/saas (SAAS 2.28, 0.00, 0.00%) , the market leader in on-demand call center software and call center agent optimization tools, announced today the expansion of its operations into the Philippines. inContact cloud-based solutions are perfectly suited to help meet the service and profitability goals of business process outsourcers (BPOs) worldwide, and particularly those in the Philippines, that need to rapidly scale as the market grows. inContact opened a new Manila office to support existing customers in the country, as well as the five new customers the company won since expanding operations in the country.

According to the Commission on Communications and Information Technology (CICT), the Philippine market has seen exponential growth over the past few years, with 446,000 call center agent seats in 2009, of which approximately 90% handle calls that originate in the United States, according to the Contact Center Association of the Philippines (CCAP). The market is projected to grow to $9 billion in 2010. With the rapid growth of the market in the Philippines, the country is perfectly suited as inContact’s gateway to Asia, and the first location for its international expansion.

“inContact’s cloud-based solutions give BPO operators an extraordinary competitive advantage, as evidenced by our initial success in the Philippine market. We have been working with several outsourcers over the past several months, and are excited to have a physical office presence here now,” said Paul Jarman, inContact CEO. “The BPO market is highly competitive, and client dissatisfaction and low margins can be the end of an outsourcer’s business. Our powerful portfolio of scalable, flexible, pay-as-you-go cloud-based call center outsourcing solutions enable BPOs to better manage their talent, reduce non-billable hours, increase revenue per call and differentiate their service offering. In short, we help them create profitable customer experiences.”

“inContact’s technology is a very well-rounded, integrated and robust solution that was infinitely more scalable and less expensive than any premise-based system,” said Paul Flannery, CEO of Vector BPO, a full-service contact center based in the Philippines. “inContact is a perfect solution for BPOs because ultimately it enables us to deliver more for our clients’ customers, and that’s what’s really important for us.”

The inContact platform combines call routing, workforce optimization and network connectivity solutions with a powerful workflow between the subsystems, making it a very powerful tool for BPOs. Additionally, the platform boasts enterprise-class security, reliability, availability and the industry’s best uptime guarantee of 99.99%. Unlike premise-based solutions, the inContact platform enables BPOs to scale up and down as their business dictates, making it a perfect technology match for their dynamic business model.

The timing of inContact’s expansion is perfect, as cloud-based, or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings are rapidly growing in popularity across the customer service industry. According to industry analyst firm Gartner, “by 2013, at least 75% of customer service centers will use some form of SaaS application as a part of the contact center solution.”(1) Analyst firm Ovum has said that, “given the new investment philosophy, a growing number of enterprises are looking towards hosted contact center services to reduce capital outlay and to access a wide range of technology options.”(2)

Jarman concluded, “We are excited to bring our leading edge cloud-based offering to the Philippines to enable customers to operate more efficiently, optimize the cost and quality of every interaction, create new pathways to profit, and ensure ongoing business improvement and growth.”

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/incontact-brings-leading-cloud-based-call-center-software-to-the-growing-philippines-market-2010-09-30?reflink=MW_news_stmp

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Ways on the cloud computing offers SMEs an advantage

September 30th, 2010
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As an SME, maintaining your own IT infrastructure and department can be a nightmare. Outsourcing the information technology function to another company can make that nightmare even worse! Luckily there is a solution in the form of on the cloud computing. On the cloud computing can provide a low cost and viable solution to an SME.

What does on the cloud computing mean? Quite simply, on the cloud means using the Internet as the platform for all computing activities. Rather than building a computing infrastructure complete with servers and networks, all that is required is a broadband Internet connection from the business computers.

On the cloud computing can be used to host the business software, store the data and to replace the computer infrastructure that the business needs. Web based systems have become a viable reality with the advent of broad-band Internet access.

An example of freely available on the cloud computing is the Google suite of online programs that include Google Docs and Google Calendar. Google Docs provides a complete office suite that includes a word processor, a spreadsheet and a presentation builder. The Calendar can be used to replace Microsoft Exchange.

Of course, it may not be possible to use only free software and Web hosting. Sometimes specific software applications are required to run a business. Most business software solutions are now designed to run on the Web. They are built using a “thin client” type of architecture that means that the software is on the server. As a rule, the system will run on any computer that is connected to the right site. As with Google Docs, all data is stored on the cloud.

The ‘cloud’ or the Internet is therefore used as the host for both the software and for the data. It also replaces the infrastructure requirements of a business.

For an SME, the advantages are huge. The business no longer requires its own IT department. Instead of having to maintain servers and networks, the business just needs desktop of laptop computers and a high speed broadband Internet connection. This can provide a huge cost saving for the business.

Cost is not the only advantage offered by on the cloud computing. Convenience can play a huge part. The system can be accessed from anywhere in the world at any time. The SME is no longer bound by time or geography. An executive can work from New York today and London tomorrow. So can the staff, and if an office move is required it is simply a question of moving the furniture.

Backing-up data and providing for business continuity is another nightmare that every IT department has to face. With on the cloud computing, this becomes the problem of the hosting company. As a rule, the date will be backed up at least once a day!

On the cloud computing therefore provides SMEs with the full benefit of plug and play. It removes the nightmare of providing computer and network infrastructure and is able to produce major cost savings. The only risks lie in the reliability of the service provider and availability of the Internet. When the Internet is down, access to the business systems very quickly disappear.

Source:http://www.helium.com/items/1968625-ways-on-the-cloud-computing-offers-smes-an-advantage

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