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StayinFront Joins HP Partner Program
StayinFront, Inc., a global provider of enterprise-wide CRM applications, decision support tools, data services, sample inventory management solutions, and e-business systems, announced that it has been accepted into the HP Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP). The DSPP is designed to enable ISVs, systems integrators, developers, and consultants to work collaboratively to address customer needs more effectively. As part of the DSPP, StayinFront gains the ability to showcase its products and services via an online catalog that reaches customers, interest groups, and networks. The company can leverage HP’s configuration assistance, technical seminars, and remote and on-site access to customized systems, including help with porting, migration, testing, and optimization. The HP DSPP is aligned with StayinFront’s global presence through offices in the Asia Pacific region, Europe, and North America. For further information, visit www.stayinfront.com.

SPSS Furnishes Corporate Express with Predictive Analytics
Business solutins and services provider Corporate Express US Inc., part of the Dutch-based Corporate Express NV, has selected predictive analytics software from SPSS Inc., a global provider of predictive analytics software and solutions, to improve customer retention for its U.S. operations. Corporate Express defines loyal customers as those who order across multiple product lines and view the organization as their sole source of office products, office furniture, and facility supplies. They also measure loyalty by evaluating the ordering and delivery experience. To help enhance customer retention and loyalty, Corporate Express selected SPSS predictive analytics to give the organization a complete view of their customers’ purchasing behavior, starting at the beginning of the sales cycle. This information will be used by the sales force to better serve customers. For more information, visit www.spss.com or www.CorporateExpress.com.

Companies Join Forces to Focus on Logistics and Procurement Solutions
Asaph Transportation & Logistics Consulting and Vorhoff & Associates announce the merger of the two companies to form LPS, Logistics and Procurement Solutions, LLC. With over 25 years of combined industry experience, LPS founders and industry experts Steve Hogan (CEO of Asaph Transportation & Logistics Consulting) and Carl Vorhoff (CEO of Vorhoff & Associates) have lowered costs and improved product and materials flow for over 40 top-tier national and international companies throughout their careers. Along with their industry knowledge and experience, LPS has key alliances with leading logistics services and software providers. LPS is a privately held company specializing in operational improvements and reducing logistics and procurement costs. Their approach is designed to yield rapid cash improvements by instituting processes that are developed to achieve sustained cost reductions. For more information, visit www.lps-company.com.

Industry Awards & Achievements

Fusión Gains National Recognition
Fusión Technology Partners, LLC was named as one of the “Top 500 Emerging Businesses in the United States (Div500).” The Div500 is the eighth annual listing of the Top 500 emerging businesses in the U.S., in sectors such as technology, manufacturing, food service, and professional services. The Div500 is produced annually by DiversityBusiness.com, a multicultural B2B Internet portal that links large organizational buyers to multicultural product and service suppliers. Chicago-based Fusión Technology Partners is a provider of brand and marketing strategy, creative work, Web design, and development and emerging media expertise, as well as business and IT strategy, process and systems design, implementation and custom development, and outsourcing services. Visit www.FusionTP.com for further details.

QlikView Positioned in Gartner’s Visionaries Quadrant
QlikTech, a mid-market business intelligence software vendor, announced its placement in the Visionaries quadrant in Gartner, Inc.’s “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008.” Vendors in the report were evaluated according to their ability to execute and completeness of vision with numerous criteria for each, including product competitiveness, sales execution and pricing, market responsiveness and track record, customer experience, market understanding, business models, and product, marketing, sales, industry, and geographic strategies. For more information, visit www.qlikview.com.

New Products & Services

Glacier Computer Releases Ridgeline Tablet
Glacier Computer, a designer and developer of versatile, rugged industrial computer systems for harsh environments and for a variety of markets, announced that it is now offering added portability with the Ridgeline Tablet. The portable, rugged tablet computer is designed to offer efficiency for mobile workers in harsh environments. Glacier’s tablet computer solutions are Windows XP devices capable of running any application while withstanding extremes of water and humidity at virtually any temperature. The Ridgeline Tablet has a 10.4-inch display with options for daylight readable functionality. It was designed and tested to withstand repeated three-foot drops to concrete as well as IP 65 sealing mandates. Each unit comes with integrated 802.11 a/b/g radio, Bluetooth, numerous I/O, and many hard drive options. Users can input date via touchscreen or pen. Special software allows for signature capture and character recognition. More information is available at www.glaciercomputer.com.

Enhanced Talent Management Solution
TEDS, Inc., provider of a fully integrated enterprise-wide talent management solution that addresses learning, performance, compliance, competencies, recruiting, and succession, announced the release of the TEDS Talent Management Solutions Suite v. 8.5. TEDS 8.5 brings to the marketplace a stronger succession management capability and a more robust Job Vision product, including succession analytics and the ability to track and identify high-potential associates and critical individual contributors. The suite now provides electronic signatures and automated routing with support for proxy supervisors within its Performance Plan functionality; efficient, automated mass assignment of Roles, Tasks, and Competencies as a background function; and a robust archiving capability empowering any organization to manage the entire life cycle of person records in its database. For more information, visit www.teds.com.

Psion Teklogix Global Service Program
Psion Teklogix announced that it is expanding its service program for its entire line of rugged mobile computers into a comprehensive new global offering named I-Serv. This new solution is designed to simplify the service process in order to make it easier for customers to take advantage of a single global contract and to reduce their TCO by up to 50 percent for both hardware and services. I-Serv combines real-time online global device tracking with guaranteed SLAs, 24x7 live help-desk support in more than seven languages, on-site technical support, and abuse repair into a flexible customer service solution. Psion Teklogix is a global provider of mobile computing solutions that are developed to deliver real-time access to enterprise data at the point of activity in order to improve business efficiency and productivity for enterprises throughout the world. For more information, visit www.psionteklogix.com.

Industry News Makers

Peugeot-Citroen Telematics Manager Joins ATX in Europe
ATX Group announced that Arnaud de Meulemeester has been named senior director in Europe for the company, a large, independent telematics provider to the automotive industry, serving both North America and Europe. He will be responsible for developing plans that integrate customized telematics solutions with the business plans of automobile manufacturers. This includes commercial eCall solutions. As the senior manager of telematics for five years at PSA and, before that, with Citroen, de Meulemeester deployed eCall service to more than nine countries in Western Europe and also defined premium traffic, fleet management, and other location-based services for use in vehicles. He was instrumental in developing the launch of one of the first eCall services deployed in France and Germany. For more information, visit www.atxg.com.

Fin-Scan Names EMEA Sales & Marketing Manager
Fin-Scan announced that it has appointed John Haley as sales and marketing manager for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Haley is responsible for retaining and growing the existing customer base as well as driving growth from new business. He will head up the sales and marketing teams that promote all lines of Innovative Systems, Inc. (ISI) software and services, which include the Fin-Scan line of regulatory compliance screening solutions. ISI delivers enterprise customer information solutions to organizations whose success depends on a complete and accurate understanding of their customers. The expanded geographic focus will allow the company to build on the success already achieved in the U.K. and to advance its partnership program on a global footing. More information can be found at www.innovativesystems.com.

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