Document management and imaging software author, Version One is launching Release 2.2 (R2.2), the latest version of its cutting-edge document management product suite – VersionOne.co.uk.

R2.2 will offer a complete modernization of Version One’s paperless office solutions, securing the company’s market-leading position and ensuring even more business efficiencies for customers.

Julian Buck, Version One’s Managing Director says,“Release 2.2 is a significant product release for us and will provide our customers with a complete technology refresh, including significant new functionality and an improved and consistent look and feel across all products.

The new technology will also provide a solid platform allowing us to be more responsive to customer needs and enable us to bring new products to market much more quickly.”

Customers will benefit from new features including ‘one-click’ scanning and new ‘drag and drop’ manipulations of documents, which will save time and increase ease of use. R2.2 will also offer a brand new search tool, DbWebRetrieve, which will enable end-users to personally tailor their viewing experience, enabling them to view documents more quickly and efficiently. The new DbLogin function will also provide centralized user management and support for Windows logins.

R2.2 is multi-lingual and will be used in more than 30 countries. The software can also be used throughout the whole organization, in areas such as HR and CRM. The styling features will offer a familiar user interface particularly when tightly integrated with other systems and in OEM environments.

The product suite will run on the latest platforms including Windows 7, MS Server 2008 R2 in line with the expectations of UK Business.

Version One (versionone.co.uk) consistently wins awards and recently scooped Paperless Office & Document Management provider of the year at the prestigious Software Satisfaction Awards (SSA) for a third time, making Version One the most successful document management software provider in the Software Satisfaction Awards history. Version One has also been a winner in the Green IT Awards winner for the past two years.

Central Desktop announced it is donating its online collaboration service platform to THE Breast Cancer Fundraiser and KaptureVision, a national event planning firm that plans and executes fundraising events around the country.

According to a release, through its CD Gives initiative, Central Desktop helps nonprofits connect to their communities and improve communication within their organizations in an effort to allow them to focus on their causes and less on team and volunteer management.

THE Breast Cancer Fundraiser is an organization whose primary focus is to promote philanthropic involvement among a generation of young professionals ranging in age from 21 to 35. The team accomplishes its mission through organizing nationwide events that honor breast cancer survivors and fighters and help raise money for local breast cancer organizations, some of which are affiliates of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The nonprofit advocates the importance of value-added services to newly diagnosed and young breast cancer patients and families and joins with corporate partners whose passion for young professionals match THE Breast Cancer Fundraiser’s mission.

“With so many projects going at once and multiple events booked in cities across the country, we will use Central Desktop as a way to understand what each team member is working on, share files and work together on projects,” said Nilo G, founder of THE Breast Cancer Fundraiser. “We have so many moving parts – from calling on sponsors to raffle and donation items to negotiating contracts with vendors – and Central Desktop will help us stay more organized, increase efficiency and ultimately raise more money for this cause.”

“We are thrilled to donate our service to a company that influences so much of what drives the breast cancer awareness movement by bringing people with common interests together in their local communities,” said Isaac Garcia, CEO and co-founder of Central Desktop. “We are confident that through the use of Central Desktop, THE Breast Cancer Fundraiser will be more successful than ever and will meet their goal of reaching more than 20 metropolitan cities by 2015.”

More information: www.centraldesktop.com

Intronis, a world class cloud backup and recovery solution for the IT Channel has been awarded and recognized as the Best Revenue Generator for the sixth consecutive time at the ASCII Success Summit in New Jersey / New York.

The ASCII Group, Inc. is the world’s largest IT Solution Provider community and gives the opportunity for IT Channel resellers to be recognized for their excellence in respective categories. This prestigious award for Best Revenue Generator is presented to the technology company that is deemed the best in this area in the IT industry. These esteemed awards are voted on by the Solution Provider attendees at the ASCII Success Summits 2011 in New Jersey/New York.

Jonathan Sneedse, Princeton Computer Support, Inc., and current partner believes in the Intronis solution, and the team behind it. Jonathan stated, “We are very happy with the service and especially the daily report we receive on how are backups are doing. I was surprised when one of the Intronis techs proactively emailed me regarding a backup issue with one of our customers. I felt Intronis always goes that extra mile to provide good customer service and continually exceeds my expectations for a cloud backup provider.”

About Intronis

Intronis is a cloud provider of backup and disaster recovery services for the IT channel. Intronis utilizes 256-bit AES security and multiple data centers located on opposite coasts to ensure data protection and availability. Intronis offers IT service providers a secure data solution combined with a robust partner program, the efficiencies of full web-based account management, and an industry leading technical support team. http://www.intronis.com.

About the ASCII Group

The ASCII Group, Inc., headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, was established in 1984, with additional offices in Canada, India, and the UK. ASCII is the largest paying community of independent computer resellers in the world with more than 2,000 members and system wide end-user sales of approximately $10.5 billion. ASCII provides technology tools, products and services to assist independent information technology resellers increase profits, reduce costs, and grow their respective businesses. For more information, please visit http://www.ascii.com orhttp://www.asciievents.com for more information on the ASCII 2010 Reseller Success Summits.

Today, Balihoo (http://www.balihoo.com), the premier provider of Local Marketing Automation technology and services to national brands with local marketing needs, announces the availability of their newest offering, CORE Digital.

Balihoo’s CORE Digital combines all of the critical elements of online local marketing in to a bundle that is easy to execute and cost-effective for both national and local marketers. Masco Cabinetry and Pearle Vision are two of the first customers to incorporate CORE Digital in to their local marketing strategy.

“Adding CORE Digital to our local marketing efforts enables us to increase channel partner participation and provide our channel partners with a co-branded, turn-key solution easily customized for their geography and their unique business needs. Balihoo’s CORE Digital helps our channel partners increase their local market presence and sales. The bundle-approach allows our local partners to launch comprehensive digital campaigns, even if they are not experienced with digital media,” said Steve Rogal, Senior Manager, Channel Marketing / Lead Management, Masco Cabinetry.

CORE Digital includes SEO-enabled content microsites customized for each local affiliate, local search set-up, email marketing tools, online advertising and reporting and analytics. National brands work with Balihoo to determine the right mix of media to include in their custom CORE Digital bundles.

“Balihoo’s local marketing automation technology is the engine behind CORE Digital,” said Pete Gombert, Balihoo CEO. “In order to meet the varying needs of local affiliates, many of our national brands provide a mix of CORE Digital bundles to their local affiliates. We work closely with our customers to help them design the bundles that best meet both the national brand’s needs and the needs of their affiliates.”

For more information about Balihoo’s CORE Digital, visit http://balihoo.com/products/core-digital. To learn how local websites help national brands improve local marketing and increase sales revenue, download Balihoo’s newest whitepaper, “Local Websites: Driving Sales Growth for National Brands.”

About Balihoo

Balihoo is the premier provider of Local Marketing Automation technology and services to national brands with local marketing needs. By automating local marketing, Balihoo gives national brands unprecedented control over local marketing execution and the ability to control the customer experience closer to the point of purchase.

About Masco Cabinetry

Based in Ann Arbor, Mich., Masco Cabinetry manufactures three national cabinetry brands, KraftMaid, Merillat and QualityCabinets, and the DeNova countertop brand. The company has manufacturing plants and branches/service centers located throughout the United States. Offering an unmatched selection of stylish, high-quality products at a variety of price levels, Masco Cabinetry brands are favored by builders, dealers, distributors and home centers throughout North America. A leader in environmental stewardship, Masco Cabinetry has been granted an Environmental Stewardship Program certificate by the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association. The company is a division of Masco Corporation of Taylor, Mich., one of the world’s largest manufacturers of brand-name consumer products for the home and family. http://www.mascocabinetry.com

About Luxottica Group S.p.A. 

Luxottica Group is a leader in premium fashion, luxury and sports eyewear, with approximately 7,000 optical and sun retail stores in North America, Asia-Pacific, China, South Africa, Latin America and Europe and a strong and well balanced brand portfolio. Luxottica’s key house brands include Ray-Ban, the best known sun eyewear brand in the world, Oakley, Vogue, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Arnette and REVO, while license brands include Bvlgari, Burberry, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Polo Ralph Lauren, Prada, Tiffany and Versace. In addition to a global wholesale network covering 130 countries, the Group manages leading retail brands such as LensCrafters and Pearle Vision in North America, OPSM and Laubman & Pank in Australasia, LensCrafters in Greater China, GMO in Latin America and Sunglass Hut globally. The Group’s products are designed and manufactured in six Italy-based manufacturing plants, two wholly-owned plants in China and a sports sunglass production facility in the U.S. In 2010, Luxottica Group posted consolidated net sales of approximately EUR5.8 billion. Additional information on the Group is available at http://www.luxottica.com.

Most companies today face severe performance issues due to traffic congestion in their Wide Area Network (WAN).

Large corporations and multinational companies may be able to afford to buy more equipment and increase bandwidth but SMBs do not have this luxury. Still, this is a very expensive option over the long term and if there is a cost-effective alternative even the large corporations can save valuable resources by implementing a smarter solution. Exinda provides solutions that enable network managers to address these and other challenges, helps maximize network resources, control operational costs, and improve the user experience.

Founded in 2002, Exinda is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and is led by technology industry veteran Michael Sharma. The company’s Unified Performance Management (UPM) approach applies to each of its WAN optimization solutions. Its solutions are built ‘from the ground up’ on an industry standard platform that fully integrates all of the elements required to manage its client’s network amidst the fast – changing IT landscape. With UPM, its clients has full visibility into every application traversing their network, who is using it, where it is originating from, how much bandwidth it is consuming, which user, device or element on the network is using the application and more.

“The growing number, complexity and bandwidth demands of applications today means that network managers need to make smarter decisions to manage their networks. It is no longer enough to blindly accelerate all of the traffic in your network, nor to simply monitor usage to justify bandwidth upgrades,” says Sharma, CEO, Exinda.

Each its appliance is backed by a comprehensive technical support program delivered by Exinda and its global network of distributors and resellers. “Exinda Direct” offers on-demand support and services including pre and post-sales technical support and customer enablement on a 24/7 basis. The company serves over 2500 customers in 80 countries and from sectors including enterprises, education, government, insurance, retail, hospitality, healthcare, utilities, service providers, travel, mining, and more.

There’s quite a lot of interest in SharePoint this week with SharePoint-based compliance from NextDocs, compliance for those who are using SharePoint as an enterprise CMS from HiSoftware and a discussion on SharePoint governance from Symon Garfield.

EMC has also upgraded SourceOne e-Discovery Kazeon to v4.6, while Check Point has bought Dynasec.

EMC Upgrades SourceOne

EMC has announced the availability of EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon 4.6, an integrated solution that provides e-Discovery, litigation support and other event-driven investigations.

EMC says that with this release, Kazeon delivers advanced ECA capabilities, simplified e-Discovery and expanded event driven investigations.

The continuous growth and complexity of ESI, combined with the need to rapidly and accurately respond to discovery and investigation requirements, dictate a comprehensive approach to governance for organizations of all sizes. EMC says it offers that with the new features, which include:

• With Kazeon 4.6 enterprises can manage information across numerous geographical locations while taking local laws and regulations into account.Predefined and customized persona and role management
• Any time, in-place Investigation
• Extensive search and analytics with added language support
• Expanded repository connector enhancements

NextDocs Offers SharePoint Compliance

NextDocs, which provides SharePoint-based compliance software solutions for life sciences industries, has announced a partnership with GimmalSoft to offer a content and records management solution for pharmaceutical, oil and gas industries.

Together, GimmalSoft and NextDocs solutions enables companies to work with a familiar software platform that increases their efficiency in finding, using and managing documents throughout their lifecycle, as required by governing bodies.

NextDocs’ solutions offer life sciences companies SharePoint-based document and quality Management software. NextDocs solutions simplify and automate business processes for organizations that need to comply with industry regulators such as the FDA and ISO.

Combined with GimmalSoft’s governance and records management solutions for the enterprise, organizations can provide centralized tracking and content management for critical business processes that adhere to records management policies.

As a result, the software provides regulated industries with a governed and managed content repository using Microsoft SharePoint.

HiSoftware’s Compliance, Security

There’s more good news for SharePoint users this week from HiSoftware. Use of SharePoint as an enterprise CMS platform has reached upward of 70%. The content compliance issues are huge, which makes the release of HiSoftware’s Security Sheriff SP and the upgrade of its compliance offering timely.

HiSoftware says it has addressed concerns by integrating its upgraded and new software with and within SharePoint 2010. This means that it audits data for compliance with privacy, information security, accessibility, site quality and brand integrity.

Within both sets of software there are checkpoints built into the proprietary rules engine for this, such as HIPAA and FISMA, and the capability to scan documents moving in and out of the environments to catch policy violations and reclassify offending content with the addition of new SharePoint metadata.

SharePoint Governance Strategy

If you didn’t see it earlier in the week, Symon Garfield of ICS solutions continues his series on SharePoint with a discussion around SharePoint governance. A robust SharePoint governance model should address three key elements:

 

Monetate, the leading provider of testing, targeting and personalization solutions for websites today announced a record 387% increase in revenue over the last year.

Delivering on the promise of quick and easy website optimization, Monetate is realizing significant adoption of its cloud-based platform that improves the customer experience and maximizes conversion. Additional achievements during the same time period include:

•     A 300% increase in customer acquisition.
•     Recent client portfolio additions including Best Buy, Cooking.com, Edwin Watts Golf, and     PC Connection, joining a long list of leading brands like Urban Outfitters, Godiva Chocolatier, PETCO, and QVC.
•     The addition of 50 new employees, with a focus on engineering and service.

“Monetate’s growth is a direct result of our unique ability to empower marketers with new levels of agility, easily changing anything on their website, for any customer, at any time,” said Monetate founder and CEO David Brussin. “We are committed to ending the ‘one-size fits all web’ by enabling our clients to deliver personalized website experiences that drive improved conversion.”

With Monetate, marketers can quickly and easily run A/B and multivariate tests, leverage powerful tools like geographic and weather-based targeting, and deliver unique experiences based on user behavior. Core features like built-in analytics, behavioral profiling, and automatic content scanning empower marketers to move even faster, without having to rely on IT resources or hire specialized staff. And with Monetate’s new tablet optimization product, marketers can easily deliver a customized tablet-specific experience including: finger-swipe support; swap-out Flash elements; and implement unique layouts.

“The world of ecommerce is evolving at a rapid pace, and marketers must continually strive to deliver a personalized experience, regardless of whether customers are shopping from their laptop, an iPad, or a mobile device,” said Bob Myers, CEO of Sheplers. “Monetate provides us with the speed and knowledge required to make smart marketing decisions.”

“We are giving marketers new levels of control over messaging and promotions, working with today’s top brands to serve up a more relevant online experience and drive revenue,” added Brussin. “Growth for Monetate means that we can provide greater service, better products, and ensure that our customers can accelerate their marketing efficiency and website ROI.”

Monetate is the leading web-based platform for website testing, targeting and personalization. The company’s cloud-based platform empowers marketers to test and target product offers and site features, and convert successful tests into personalized messaging and promotional campaigns, instantly, anywhere on the website. Monetate removes the IT bottleneck and is quick and easy to install using just a single JavaScript tag, inserted only once, and requiring no internal IT resources. Some of the best known brands in the world use Monetate to make the most of their online marketing dollars, increase conversion rates, and personalize the website experience, including Best Buy, Aeropostale, Urban Outfitters, Altrec, The Sports Authority, PETCO, QVC and more. Based in Philadelphia, Monetate serves a growing list of B2C websites around the world. For more information about Monetate, visit http://www.monetate.com.