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First TAS Select Live! U.K. Customer
The TAS Group, a global provider of sustained sales effectiveness solutions, announced that London, England-headquartered Tideway Systems, a provider of application dependency mapping for enterprises, has deployed TAS Select Live!, the company’s recently released tool for enhancing the sales effectiveness of sales organizations. TAS Select Live! is an end-to-end sales opportunity management subscription service solution designed to deliver immediate and sustained revenue growth through a combination of sales process, sales methodology, enterprise-class technology, and ongoing performance metrics insight. Visit www.tideway.com or www.thetasgroup.com for more information.

STS to Centralize European Operation
Surface Technology Systems (STS), a supplier of plasma etch and deposition technology to the semiconductor industry, announced their intention to close their local office in Ulm, Germany. The customer service function now will be coordinated through the company headquarters in Newport, U.K. The decision was made in efforts to ensure more rapid direct response to customers and to provide customers access to the entire customer support organization’s resources. Centralizing the support offered in Europe gives STS three strategic locations for spare parts and service—Taiwan, the U.S., and th e U.K. Visit www.stsystems.com for further details.

Alcatel-Lucent Selects Colubris Networks
Colubris Networks, a global provider of intelligent wireless LANs for enterprises and service providers, has been selected by Alcatel-Lucent and SFR, a major French telecom operator, to provide WiFi equipment for the “Paris Wi-Fi” project. The project is the largest municipal WiFi network in Europe, offering Internet access to the greatest number of Parisians and tourists using WiFi technologies. Since July, Parisians and visitors have enjoyed free wireless high-speed Internet access services thanks to Colubris access points distributed throughout 100 city sites. The Paris project falls on the heels of Colubris’ public WiFi deployments covering the City of Luzern, Switzerland, and Singapore. For more information, visit www.colubris.com.

Infomill PartsArena Rollout
International software house Infomill announced that 1st Saxon-Clenmay has rolled out Infomill’s PartsArena to their 100 maintenance engineers. The gas-heating engineering firm, which operates across Surrey, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, and Kent, has chosen the solution to provide their engineers with the ability to identify and order replacement parts from their PDAs. 1st Saxon-Clenmay had been using PDAs for a number of years for their service management application. They wanted a parts identification and ordering solution that would run on their existing devices. Visit www.infomill.com for more information.

New Products & Services

New Destiny Suite Set
U.K.’s mobile data solutions provider Destiny Wireless announced the launch of three new integrated modules designed to help services organizations with mobile workforces to transform their operational efficiency and improve their carbon-neutral performance. The new modules are designed to meet the needs of field service companies for accurate and reliable real-time information, collected rapidly from mobile teams and used to empower faster decision making for improved productivity and enhanced customer service. Customers now can take advantage of Destiny View for full visibility of workforces on the move, Destiny Guide for efficient job allocation and resource management, and Destiny Talk for assistance in selecting the right mobile devices and communications package. They can be fully integrated with Destiny’s existing services: Collect and Manage. For further information, visit www.destinywireless.co.uk.

Supply Chain Optimization Solutions
Greycon Ltd., a supply chain optimization solutions provider, announced the release of D-Opt, a patent-pending product cycle optimization solution designed specifically to increase planning productivity and schedule efficiency and to decrease inventory and stock outs. By using D-Opt, manufactures are able to simultaneously generate optimized schedules (product wheel) and any necessary replenishment orders and reservations across multiple machines. The solution was developed to help users achieve cost savings while maximizing complex production efficiency, balancing switchovers, and meeting inventory and customer service targets. For further details, visit www.greycon.com.

BBH Truper Scanner Enhancements
BÖWE BELL + HOWELL Scanners (BBH) announced recent enhancements to its Truper Series scanners. Truper scanners now include long-document scanning as a standard, user-selectable feature. BBH developed long-document handling for its low-volume production scanners so that healthcare institutions can convert vital long documents into sharp electronic images. The technology eliminates the labor-intensive process of cutting long documents into measured sections or mounting them on standard-size sheets prior to scanning. The enhancements were designed to allow healthcare users to activate the technology through the scanner’s interface easily and without help from an IT professional. For more information, visit www.bbhscanners.com.

Zurich Targets Mid-Market Tech Coverage
Zurich, a large commercial property casualty insurance company, announced efforts to target the needs of technology customers by providing a range of coverages designed specifically for mid-size businesses. Zurich’s focus is on the creators and builders of technology products rather than end users. Zurich’s new specialized solutions for electronics manufacturing, information technology, digital and electronic communications, factory automation, and medical technology companies include proprietary products such as its Property Portfolio Protection form and coverages for errors and omissions, as well as standard coverages for general liability, business auto, umbrella, and workers compensation. Zurich’s global network ensures that these coverages and related risk-management services are available throughout a customer’s technology supply chain. Additional details are available at www.zurich.com.

Industry Achievements

Synergy Wins European Outsourcing Award
Synergy Outsourcing announced that it was presented with the “Most Innovative Relationship” Award at the European Outsourcing Awards in Milan for its unique in-house, outsourcing business model. The company was also short-listed for two of the other European Outsourcing Awards. The Synergy model provides a complete self-managed team of local scientists to work directly in the client’s laboratory, alongside permanent staff. Clients range from small SMEs to FTSE 100 pharmaceutical companies, in which the teams are installed to perform routine laboratory work, thereby freeing up the resident staff for the more creative and innovative tasks. This model is designed to guarantee higher IP security, enhanced transparency and responsiveness, improved knowledge retention, easier contract management, and more competitive pricing. For further information, visit www.synergyoutsourcing.com or www.europeanoutsourcingawards.com.

2007 MicroStrategy Italy Honors Awards
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, honored two companies for demonstrating best practices in their business intelligence deployments. The MicroStrategy Honors Award recognizes organizations for outstanding corporate performance improvements as a result of their MicroStrategy-based BI applications. The MicroStrategy Italy Honors Award winners for 2007 are Intesa Mediofactoring and University of Bologna. Banking group Intesa Mediofactoring was recognized for the high level of innovation in its BI applications, resulting in excellent service to both internal and external customers, and the University of Bologna was recognized for its enterprise-wide BI application, which helps users identify trends, control costs, and make analytically-based decisions. Visit www.microstrategy.com for more information.

Autonomy Recognized Among Europe’s Growth Companies
Autonomy Corporation plc, a global provider of infrastructure software for the enterprise, announced that it has been recognized 85th in the top 500 “growth champions in Europe” by Entrepreneurs for Growth (formerly known as GrowthPlus). Europe’s 500 is an independent, pan-European ranking of dynamic and entrepreneurial-driven companies that have achieved substantially boosted employment and sales over the last three years. This is the second consecutive year Autonomy has been acknowledged with this award. For further information, visit www.autonomy.com.

2007 DuPont Safety Awards
Science-based products and services company DuPont announced the recipients of the DuPont Safety Awards at the 2007 DuPont Leaders Forum on Safety and Sustainability, a conference hosted in partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Institute for Management Development (IMD). The 2007 DuPont Safety Award winners by category are as follows: E.ON Benelux (The Netherlands) in the area of Performance Improvement, ScottishPower Energy Networks (Scotland) in the Innovative Approach category, Sonae Sierra (Portugal) for Visible Management Commitment, ENDESA (Spain) in the Sustainable Business impact category, and Addax Petroleum (Switzerland) for Cultural Evolution. For additional details, visit www.dupont.com.

Industry News Makers

ACCO Names GM and Engineering VP
ACCO S.A., an analog and RF semiconductor design company, has appointed Jean-Luc Bouvresse, former executive of TransEDA, Philips-Semi (NXP), and VLSI Technology, as general manager and vice president of engineering. Bouvresse will be in charge of building and deploying the engineering teams so as to capitalize on the fundamental technology elements proven in standard CMOS, allowing ACCO to develop very competitive RF CMOS products in the wireless world. His main challenge will be to execute all of the engineering programs and provide products responding on time to current customers’ expectations. As general manager, he will be in charge of running the French and Italy offices in all operational aspects. For more information, visit www.acco-semi.com.

IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Welcomes New Exec
IDENTEC SOLUTIONS announced the recent appointment of Herbert Hohmann as vice president of automotive solutions. IDENTEC SOLUTIONS is a global provider of wireless tracking and tracing solutions that include intelligent long-range active RFID technology. In this new role with the company, Hohmann will be responsible for all aspects of the growing automotive sector, including the further deployment of IDENTEC SOLUTIONS patented OIS and ILR technologies. With a career that spans over 30 years, previous accomplishments include 25 years of industrial automation experience at a number of international companies such as Rhode & Schwarz, Texas Instruments, and Honeywell. Since 2003, Hohmann has led the automotive division for Rockwell Automation with a focus on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. More information is available at www.identecsolutions.com.

Databarracks Appoints U.K. Sales Manager
Secure online backup solutions provider Databarracks announced the appointment of Jeremy Gray to the position of U.K. sales manager. His role will focus primarily on the development of a new sales team that will support Databarracks’ resellers, as well as growing direct sales in core sectors such as legal, financial services, healthcare, and entertainment. Gray previously served as business sales executive at Databarracks for nearly two years. Gray joined Databarracks from Motorola where he was a financial analyst. Additional information can be found at www.databarracks.com.

Amtel Appoints SMS Managing Director
Atmel Corporation announced the appointment of Christian Fleutelot as the new head and managing director of the Secure Microcontroller Solutions (SMS) Product Line. Atmel’s SMS Product Line includes advanced secure microcontrollers for smart cards and embedded security systems. Fleutelot has more than two decades of valuable experience in the electronics industry. Early in his career, he worked as a development engineer and manager for a France-based company specializing in embedded microcontroller systems. Later on, he joined AMD to serve as business development manager for IBM and HP, and from there he held several important functions in sales and marketing for European Silicon Structure (ES2), which was acquired by Atmel in 1995. It was during this time that he became head of the smart card ICs and ARM-based microcontrollers. For more information, visit www.atmel.com.

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