Exhibition guide
Stand Company
Stand Company
01 Ganesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 10
27 Safewhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 19
02 Caspian Learning Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 4
28 Intamac Systems Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 12
03 Comrange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 5
29 Blucasa r.s.l. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 4
04 Skinkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 20
30 Alborán Informática S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 3
05 Mydeo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 15
31 3d-id . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 2
06 Volutio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 26
32 Living Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 14
07 Avoco Secure Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 3
33 PCSYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 17
08 metaio GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 15
34 Paris Développement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 16
09 VMscope GmbH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 25
35 Provence Promotion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 17
10 SYNCING.NET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 21
36 Constellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 5
11 HIGH-DEF Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 10
37 rEVOLUTION Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 18
12 evidanza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 9
38 Xapt Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 27
13 tellmewhere.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 22
39 EUGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 7
14 Excentive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 9
40 econet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6
15 Criteo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6
41 Telelogos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 22
16 Intrasense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 13
42 SME Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 21
17 Seanodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 20
43 S2B program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 19
18 Otodio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 16
44 JA-YE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 14
19 Zebtab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 27
45 AIESEC International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 2
20 Tribeka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 23
46 Europe’s 500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 8
21 Softedge-Systems
47 EurActiv.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 5
22 visor, accountsIQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 24
48 IAMCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 12
23 Indisys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 11
49 Jade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 13
24 TreeMetrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 23
50 VFI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 25
25 Q-GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 18
51 Employability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 7
26 Wisekey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 26
52 Unlimited Potential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 24
45. AIESEC International
31. 3d-id
AIESEC is the international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential to have a positive impact on society. AIESEC’s core activity is a unique leadership development program (AIESEC Experience) which is comprised of international internships, leadership opportunities, various team activities and projects and personal and professional development conferences.
3d-id is a company from Holland whose main activity is the design and development of web based applications. We developed a communication platform with domain name system, data pages, search-engine and spam-free communication facilities. With our service you can very easily find people, companies and organizations. Moreover, we provide a structure were publishers and providers of information are constantly matched with people who want to receive information. Those who receive information can easily manage their account and are prevented from receiving spam. This service is patented and research was done by Telematica Instituut (NL) and Expertise centre for Digital Media, EDM, (BE).
The AIESEC Network AIESEC engages around 23,000 young people in over 100 countries and 1,100 universities at any point in time, or about 60,000 every five years. Each year AIESEC provides its members with: • 5,000 leadership opportunities • Over 350 conferences • 4,000 professional work abroad experiences • Virtual and physical Learning Networks
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30. Alboran Informatica S.A.
Avoco Secure Ltd The innovation that Avoco Secure displays in extending and enhancing the Microsoft platform allows banks like Citi to provide trusted digital signatures to the global community using the forms capability within Microsoft Office and the IdenTrust rule set. This capability enables legally enforceable contracting in over a hundred countries. Avoco Secure's software enables users to sign, secure and control document content. The linking of security and identity is extremely important for secure document collaboration between different parties. Avoco’s Access control uniquely supports multiple authentication including Active Directory, digital certificates, eID cards and biometric cards. Avoco Secure lowers the fortress walls and raises the bar.
During this year Alborán Informática S.A. has launched two software products: CSYT and CDCE. CSYT enables you to maximize your company’s resources: Assign and organize employees’ tasks and invested time, control time invested in each project, employee availability and work load, project date line supervision, and much more; anytime, anywhere in your web browser. CDCE is a tool that allows office building managers to control energy expenses (air-conditioning and heating systems). With this tool managers can issue invoices based on a pay-per-use basis instead of including them as a fixed cost in their tenants’ bills. Alborán Informática S.A. was founded in 1983 as a HewlettPackard dealer.
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29. Blucasa r.s.l.
Caspian Learning Ltd Caspian Learning is a world leader in the development of 3D learning based games. In Caspian applications, delegates are immersed in 3D learning worlds, similar to those they experience via games consoles, and must actively direct events in support of learning goals. The applications deliver improved learner engagement and thinking skills irrespective of the subject matter.
BLUCASA produces computers dedicated to the supervision of home and building automation. The coordination of home automation allows us to create breakthrough innovations in the areas of security, comfort and savings. Blucasa improves these features thanks to new devices, designed in our Research & Development Area. Eos is the heart of our solution. It is a complete micro computer the size of a business card with the power of a desktop.
Caspian’s core technology, Thinking Worlds™, enables training organizations and even HR departments to create, edit, play and share their own training games that are specific and relevant. The tool allows users to update their games as and when procedures or scenarios change in their organization, massively reducing the costs and time traditionally associated with game development.
Our computers are dedicated to the control of Konnex system, the European standard followed by the most important producers of home automation.
Caspian have already developed over 30 different learning based games using this technology and approach, in sectors as diverse as education, pharmaceuticals, motor, finance and technology.
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36. Constellation
Comrange
Constellation® is the leader in Destination management Systems. It’s 100% web-based platform is designed for professionals in the tourist destination trade and is used on networks between the public tourist authorities and the private sector on-site (hotels, bed and breakfasts, outdoor activity organizers, etc). Thanks to the Constellation® DMS, every territory can communicate and trade on the internet, manage client relations, analyze business and engage on the main IDS and GDS. To date, Constellation® counts over 900 public tourism authorities in France (Brittany, Midi Pyrenees, Versailles, the Caribbean, etc) and is starting development in Europe by creating a number of strategic partnerships.
Comrange specializes in creating hosted software solutions that give organizations a complete understanding of all their online visitor and prospect behaviour leading to increased sales and pipeline conversion. Comrange, a Microsoft Partner, has two products based on Microsoft .net technology: Demand Converter - a fully integrated demand conversion suite - and Comrange AppProducer - a web based rapid application development platform. Almost any kind of business application can be built using Comrange AppProducer in a fraction of the time and cost of bespoke development. Typical applications include sales billing, marketing, e-commerce, reporting solutions as well as more sophisticated applications such as decision tree processes, business rules processes and quotation aggregators.
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40. econet
15. Criteo (member of IDEES)
econet is a multi-domestic grants consultancy established in 1991, with more than 600 clients covering all sectors: Private, Public, and Private Public Partnerships (PPP).
Criteo is the worldwide expert in real-time personalized recommendation solutions and the only one to deliver a cost-effective and scalable turnkey solution to e-tailers, content portals and community sites, allowing them to realize the long-promised sales benefits of the long tail.
After a successful internationalization process in Europe, econet counts 3 excellence centers (Madrid, Brussels & Vienna) and 15 offices with more than 100 specialized consultants, and 200 associated consultants covering all EU member states.
Criteo’s solution is a new technology mixing the best of collaborative filtering and behavioural analysis. This techinology helps clients optimize their search and allows users to interconnect with their “twins” – other users with similar affinities – thus helping people with the same interests to rapidly find relevant and compelling information, products or services. A private, venture-backed company, Criteo was founded in 2005.
econet services include all processes related to public financing (identification, application & compliance) and the company has a 75% success rate in grants applications. econet works with Microsoft in the development of the EU Grants Advisor (EUGA) project, managing and developing the grants databases, project management and grants application services in all EU member states.
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39. EUGA
51. Employability
The EUGA initiative has been developed by Microsoft, in partnership with HP, Intel and a diverse group of local participants, to help Europe’s small and medium-sized businesses and local and regional governments, to increase their awareness and understanding of EU funds for which they may be eligible. They can then take advantage of a process that has been simplified to make applying for funds easier. Demonstrating the power of successful multi-sector partnerships, Microsoft, HP and Intel have worked with a diverse group of local banks, telecoms providers, Chambers of Commerce and other trade groups, as EUGA consortium members in EU countries.
Microsoft is committed to enhancing the employability opportunities for Europe’s workforce in the 21st century. Working with governments, NGOs and industries to accelerate skill development and help employers find qualified candidates. The IDC study commissioned by Microsoft in January revealed that e-skills are the key to employment and inclusion, as they are increasingly “THE” entry-ticket to the job market and better jobs. E-skills are something like a social elevator and a key to employability as computer literacy is becoming the fourth key skill required by employers. Microsoft is a founding member of the European Alliance on Skills for Employability, whose aim is to provide technology opportunities and training to 20 Million people by 2010.
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46. Europe’s 500
47. Euractiv
Europe’s 500 – Entrepreneurs for Growth - is the only panEuropean membership and networking association for growth entrepreneurs (fast-growing small and medium entrepreneurs or “gazelles”) dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and growth in Europe.
EurActiv.com is the independent media portal fully dedicated to European policy reporting. With 1.3 m. page views and 250,000 readers per month, EurActiv brings together daily EU news, in-depth monitoring of selected policy topics (LinksDossiers), external analyses, and interviews. The content is available free of charge in English, French and German + localized versions in 7 national languages (Central and Eastern European countries).
Europe’s 500 runs three key activities to achieve its goals: • The Europe’s 500 Listing is an annual listing of the top 500 fastest-growing companies in Europe to honour and award them for their outstanding achievements in creating new jobs and economic growth. • The Europe’s 500 Roundtable for Growth meets with EU high-level decision-makers to contribute to achieve the goals of the revised Lisbon Agenda. • The Europe’s 500 Growth Summit is the annual conference for growth entrepreneurs, politicians and decision-makers to exchange their experiences and work out recommendations for the Europe’s 500 Roundtable for Growth activities.
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14. Excentive (member of IDEES)
12. evidanza (member of Unternimm Was) evidanza – Business Intelligence @ Work Companies today depend on the right information at the right time for successful operation due to rising competitive pressure, increasingly more complex structures and challenging business conditions. Business intelligence solutions from evidanza supply this information, ensuring success under all conditions.
Excentive helps companies align their variable compensation plans with their strategic goals.
One BI platform—many solutions evidanza develops – based on state-of-the-art Microsoft technology – tools which improve acting and reacting as entrepreneur or manager.
Excentive offers a complete software solution that optimizes and automates the complex process of individual performance assessment and compensation packages management.
Created in 2002, Excentive has become the clear leader of the EIM* market in France. Our solutions enable companies to align their compensation strategy with their criteria of performance.
• Variable compensation management • Performance assessment • Individual pay raise planning
BIS.center can be connected to any common ERP front-end system via standard interfaces. BIS.AX is our BI-tool especially for Microsoft Dynamics AX: fully integrated both in application and database level.
*(Enterprise Incentive Management)
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11. HIGH-DEF Technology (member of Unternimm Was)
Ganesh Ganesh Technologies was formed in 2004 to create innovative and compelling value-added services for the mobile industry. We use the power of Smartcard technology coupled with Microsoft’s .NET platform to deliver new and innovative solutions to Mobile Operators. The four founders each have 15+ years in the telecoms industry having successfully delivered solutions for fixed and mobile Tier 1 and Tier 2 operators across the globe.
HIGH-DEF Technology is a leading provider of integrated IT standard technology based networked-home solutions for the digital home.
Ganesh operates across Europe in partnership with tier-1 SIM vendors, offering our solutions in their application partner programmes. We are headquartered in London and our design, test and support centre is based in Yorkshire.
Customers use HIGH-DEF Technology solutions for: • Home-Network distribution • Centralized AV integration and home automation control • Multi-Room audio/video HIGH-DEF Technology stands for maximum in design, high quality products and advanced functionalities. HIGH-DEF Technology has the creative and technical knowledge to make industry standards public. Jointly develops products with the industry-leaders for forward-looking solutions and communicates and matches the needs and requirements of the dealers and consumers.
HIGH-DEF focuses on software products, total solutions based on soft-/hardware and related project-services for custom home-entertainment and home automation installations.
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IDEES 23. Indisys
19. IDEES
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IDEES is a Microsoft France initiative to sponsor, promote and support local high potential software startups. 25 startups are sponsored every year and receive special technological, marketing, sales and funding support from Microsoft and its partners. The objective of this program is to identify (with our VC partners) and promote the next generation of software leaders in France, and to help them realize their potential.
Intelligent Dialogue Systems emerged from the University of Seville as the natural outcome of its successful participation in several European research projects. Better known as INDISYS, this enterprise brings together disciplines such as Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science and Telecom Engineering to provide intelligent virtual agents. These characters can perform complex tasks and hold conversations in natural language, delivering natural, flexible and efficient business solutions for customer care. Indisys provides telephone operators, virtual assistants for automated homes and intelligent avatars over the internet that use non-verbal communication to support the interaction.
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48. International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners
28. Intamac Systems Intamac Systems Ltd the global leader in Internet based monitoring, messaging and control services. Founded in 2000, and based in Northampton UK, the company has developed an Internet-based communications platform that allows consumers to remotely monitor and control devices in their home. Intamac have signed contracts with major corporate partners who use their broadband services to increase ARPU, leverage broadband and reduce customer churn.
IAMCP is the global business community for Microsoft partners. Our mission is to maximize the business potential of our members. We are present in 24 countries with 4,000 member companies.
With an established customer base on 3 continents, Intamac have been recognised for market leading innovation: Winner of the 2003 British Security Industry Association Excellence Awards for Best Innovation, winner of Digital Home Magazine 'Best online home service' and a Red Herring “Top 100� company for 2006. Intamac is committed to innovating with new technology products and services to improve the lives of people at home and at work.
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16. Intrasense (member of IDEES) Intrasense develops and markets Myrian® medical imaging software, an innovative suite of solutions to review and analyze images from all modalities (CT-scan, MRI…). Myrian® helps radiologists and clinicians analyse medical studies, plan therapy and perform patient follow-up. Advanced features include 3D reconstruction, complex image processing, and precise and reproducible measurement.
JADE, founded in 1992, is a student-run, pan-European network representing more than 20.000 young entrepreneurs in 225 local non-profit organizations, called Junior Enterprises. By running professional consulting studies and managing small- to medium sized enterprises, the students add practical experience to their theoretical skills, develop entrepreneurship at an early stage, broaden their skills as well as horizons and of course prepare themselves for challenging careers throughout Europe. JADE helps to set up new organizations and furthers the exchange of knowledge and management skills between its members.
Myrian® is available in many languages including English and Chinese and is sold directly to end-users or OEM industrial partners. Intrasense is a CEIIa, FDA and ISO 13485 & 9001 certified global company with 20 people and offices in Montpellier, Paris and Shanghai. Prestigious users include large university hospitals.
JADE provides the framework for cross-border co-operation on multinational studies. JADE organises international congresses and meetings that facilitate exchange of knowledge and experience, intercultural understanding and promote the European idea.
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32. Living Skills
44. JA-YE
Living Skills is educational partner to a large number of Danish businesses. Our main focus is on Sales and Marketing courses, as well as advanced IT courses. Our clients are medium to large sized private companies, and various governmental institutions. We strive for high quality, both concerning the subject matter, the teaching materials and the presentational skills of our instructors. All our instructors are subject to an extensive teaching skills programme. To ensure optimal classroom efficiency, we have implemented a blended learning environment, which provides supports for all phases of the learning experience.
JA-YE Europe is Europe’s largest provider of enterprise education programs, reaching 2,2 million students in 40 countries in 2006. Funded by businesses, institutions, foundations and individuals, JA-YE brings the public and private sectors together to provide young people in primary and secondary schools and early university with high-quality education programs to teach them about enterprise, entrepreneurship, business and economics in a practical way. The JA-YE Company Program is recognized by the European Commission Enterprise Directorate General as a ‘Best Practice in Entrepreneurship Education’.
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metaio GmbH (member of Unternimm Was)
Mydeo Mydeo provides high-quality streaming video hosting for individuals, communities and businesses. The site provides easy-to-use online tools that help users upload and distribute videos to friends, family, customers and prospects, as well as live statistics to track how popular videos have been. Founded in 2004 by Cary Marsh and Iain Millar, Mydeo won a UK Government grant for Technical Innovation. In 2005 Mydeo became Microsoft’s first European Movie Maker Hosting Partner.
metaio conceives and develops solutions based on Augmented Reality (AR). Using this innovative technology, virtual 3D-information can be superimposed seamlessly into the real environment at real-time. As the leading provider of AR-systems today, the company offers software and hardware for industrial companies such as automotive, aeronautic and defence, as well as for Virtual Reality businesses. Another key market is E-Commerce. Our software allows end-consumers to embed products in their individual environment, using standard components like a digital camera and PC.
Mydeo was nominated for ‘Best Streaming Service’ at the 2005 UK Internet Service Provider awards and Real Business Magazine picked Mydeo as ‘a start-up to watch for 2006’.
metaio was founded in 2003 and has customers that rank among the most renowned companies in industry and commerce such as BMW, Volkswagen, Bosch and Siemens.
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34. Paris Développement
18. Otodio
Created as an initiative of the City of Paris and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris, Paris Développement, the Parisian economic development agency, fosters the economic outcome of the Capital.
Otodio is a universal system which enables publications and corporate documents to be listened to with a massively improved user experience compared to Podcasting. It is also much more cost effective and flexible for the content owner. Otodio is designed for multitasking, for example to easily and safely use while driving. Also, it is fantastic for learning applications because most people’s retention is far higher when they listen, and for some people reading isn’t an option. Generally content is delivered to mobile phones and navigated with a highly tactile Bluetooth remote control.
Our mission: • Ensure the economic and international promotion of Paris • Welcome and advise foreign enterprises searching for xxxxxx • Foster the creation and development of innovative enterprises
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35. Provence Promotion
33. PCSYS Transforming valuable data assets into truly efficient business solutions
Provence Promotion is the economic development agency of the Provence.
PCSYS is a market leading systems integrator and vendor of solutions that make your valuable data assets truly accessible and fully integrated in your business-critical applications. PCSYS, the creator of DVS®, a versatile solution for preventive maintenance, now introduces ReportByEmail®, an email scheduler for automated distribution of database extracts, integrated with Microsoft Excel.
The Start in Provence program dedicated to start-ups provides personalized support for your company, your staff and their families by setting up your business in the Provence. This program has already helped 50 start-ups with a high potential to develop their business in the Provence since 2003. Start-in-Provence is financed by the European Social Fund and managed by Provence Promotion.
PCSYS solutions are sold in 25 countries and available in 14 languages. Singapore Airlines, Danfoss A/S, Rockwool A/S, ABB Schweiz AG, and Novozymes Biopharma are but a few of the many global enterprises that put their faith in a solution from PCSYS.
Provence Promotion is a main partner of the world-class competitiveness cluster “Secured Communicating Solutions” dedicated to innovation in the domains of microelectronics, networks and software.
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37. rEVOLUTION Software
25. Q-Go
rEVOLUTION Software is one of the leading Hungarian Dynamics NAV consultant and developer companies, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and winner of the Excellent Hungarian Dynamics Partner Award in 2005 and 2006. rEVOLUTION has several NAV vertical add-ons specially tailored to financial management needs. These include NAV addon modules for the business planning, liquidity tracking and contract management needs of the construction industry.
Q-go is a fast growing European software company, which is internationally specialized in Customer Interaction Management applications, based on natural language technology. With the Q-go software, website users or employees within an organization can formulate questions in their own wordings. Q-go then gives the correct answer and provides customer insight for the organization. Q-go offices are located in Amsterdam, Bonn, Munich, Z眉rich, Madrid and Barcelona. In these offices, Q-go works for companies such as Deutsche Post, ING, ABP, UWV, Deutsche Postbank, CZ, Fortis, Deutsche Telekom, La Caixa, BBVA and Telef贸nica.
rEVOLUTION develops and supports ERP, CRM and BI software (including Dynamics NAV) for its 14,000 SME clients. Its experience of more than 15 years coupled with the firm background, international experience and excellent references makes it one of the best choices when it comes to ERP introduction.
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27. Safewhere
43. S2B
Safewhere develops and markets authorization and access control products for Service Oriented Infrastructures and providers of Software as a Service. We deliver solutions based on prevailing security standards, separating user-centered identity entirely from resource-centered access control. Our unique and innovative design provides for an inherently secure infrastructure with centralized oversight and management, while at the same time gaining the performance and robustness of a completely distributed architecture. With Safewhere an organization may truly deliver on the agility of the open Service Oriented Architecture while at the same time staying fundamentally secure and manageable.
The S2B program is a Microsoft Community Initiative, connecting Microsoft partners and customers with universities to provide students real world experience and establish the skills and competencies needed to fuel innovation, broaden the recruiting process and aid employability of the next generation of students. The S2B program is being introduced in nine additional communities including (Norway?), Portugal, Spain, Sweden, (Switzerland?), South Africa, Turkey and Poland. Upon the success in these select countries, the expectation is to expand the project to non-science related disciplines, and extend the program to more countries.
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17. Seanodes (member of IDEES)
Skinkers Skinkers is the market leader in information broadcast technology. Our solutions ensure ShouldKnow information is delivered to your customers, partners and employees with visibility and impact. ShouldKnow information is priority information that is time dependant and important to your audience, for example breaking news, offers and promotions, corporate communications and service outages. Skinkers technology is used by many of the world's leading brands.
Inventor of the Shared Internal Storage (SIS) concept, Seanodes has broken new ground in the shared storage world, extending the principles of commoditized distributed open systems to the world of data storage. Exanodes, the first product released by Seanodes, makes it possible to drastically reduce storage system costs while significantly improving performance. Seanodes has received several awards since its creation including first prize in the 5th Concours National de CrÊation d’Entreprises de Technologies Innovantes which awards the most promising young innovative French startup of the year in the technology sector - for its patented technology and revolutionary product, Exanodes.
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10. SYNCING.NET (member of Unternimm Was)
42. SME Union
SYNCING.NET Technologies is a German software developer specialized in Peer-to-Peer synchronization solutions for small companies. The first product SYNCING.NET for Outlook is the first full featured solution for easy and convenient synchronization of Microsoft Outlook data between multiple computers.
SME UNION (Small and Medium Entrepreneurs Union) of the EPP (European People’s Party). The main objective is to help in shaping EU policy in a more SME friendly way. SME UNION’s top priority is to reform the legal framework for SMEs and promote the economic growth all over Europe.
The Berlin based company was established in June 2006 and is funded by the High-Tech Gründerfonds. The 8 people team works with an international partner network and is heading for a second financing round in autumn 2007 to expand in new markets.
The SME UNION supports and promotes the interests of Small and Medium sized businesses in their dealings with the policy institutions of the European Union. On the basis of clear analysis of the situation, the challenges and the problems of SMEs, the SME UNION presents proposals for solutions that can improve the business environment. The President of the SME UNION team is Christoph Leitl.
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13. tellmewhere.com (member of IDEES)
41. Telelogos
tellmewhere.com offers a free, user-friendly, online interface to create, browse and share information about places: • It’s an easy collaboration tool to create geographical information – moreover, for non-commercial use our user-generated content is available at no charge. You can use it on your site, blog, GPS, mobile, and so on! • It’s a local search platform - based on user-generated content, you can find the right places for all your everyday activities. • It’s a social network – discover your friends’ advice on where to go out, shop or go on holiday.
Telelogos is a leading provider of Management and Synchronizations solutions of remote computing. Our software solutions are used by more than 2,000 business clients from SMEs to major international corporations such as Dalkia, Danone, Kraft Foods, L’Oréal, Mattel, McDonald’s, etc on more than 180,000 remote devices. Telelogos’ MediaContact product provides companies with a unique centralized management environment for its remote and mobile devices (PDAs, Smartphones, Laptops, Digital Signage, POS, M2M...). It includes all the services required: software distribution, inventory, monitoring, alarms, data synchronization, etc. MediaContact technology dedicated to variable bandwidth networks (GPRS, UMTS, HSDPA, Wifi...) ensures optimized, reliable and secure communications.
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20. Tribeka
24. TreeMetrics TreeMetrics is a software product and service provider to the Global Forest Industry. We identified a real need for better information and decision making systems within the “Wood Supply Chain”.
Tribeka is the innovator behind SoftWide: a revolutionary and world leading solution to the retail selling of software, whereby discs and full products are manufactured to order at point-of-sale.
The innovative use of leading edge technologies such as 3D graphics and artificial intelligence describes the growing forest as “The Catalogued Warehouse”.
Awards include the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award, Deloitte European Retail Solution of the Year and Real Business 50 to Watch.
This enables increased profitability to all stakeholders, whilst creating a greater sustainable use of this important natural renewable resource.
SoftWide eliminates logistics, warehousing and stock; it collapses to just 6 the 20 steps, and associated costs, required by traditional distribution, whilst providing an identical product at a fraction of the cost thereby increasing net margins over four-fold. A new flagship store at London Heathrow Airport will launch in June.
In 2005, TreeMetrics was awarded the “Schweighofer Prize” a leading European award for forest innovation. Having partnered and collaborated with various Universities and Research Agencies throughout the EU and North America, TreeMetrics launched “AutoStem” in February 2007. Since then TreeMetrics have deployed the system in eight European countries and the U.S.
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22. Visor-accountsIQ
52. Unlimited Potential With Microsoft® Unlimited Potential, we are expanding our efforts with new business models, technology solutions, and advanced research, all focused on solving critical pieces of the economic development puzzle in developing and developed countries. We will pay particular emphasis to young people, as they represent the future of all our communities.
accountsIQ is designed to provide Accountants, Business Process Outsourcers and Franchisors a complete online platform for servicing their clients/franchisees. It replaces their current accounting packages, offering them a full-feature accounting and fulfilment system, together with unparalleled business analysis and reporting functions, via a standard Internet browser. Built on a Microsoft platform using SQL Server and Reporting Services, accountsIQ allows multiple companies to be stored on a centrally hosted platform. This means that accountants and franchisors can standardise processes and workflows, thereby improve productivity, while giving their clients and franchisees simultaneous access to their accounts.
This combination of advanced technologies and strong partnerships with governments, partners, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), educators, and academics allows us to take an innovative approach to enabling new avenues of social and economic empowerment. Unlimited Potential is focused on delivering relevant, accessible and affordable solutions in three interrelated areas that are crucial to developing economic opportunity: • Transforming Education • Fostering Local Innovation • Enabling Jobs & Opportunities
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50. Voices For Innovation
50. VMscope GmbH (member of Unternimm Was)
How influential is a voice if it is never heard? How much impact can ideas have if they are never expressed? How innovative is change if no one is willing to create it?
Beyond the scope of microscopy. VMscope is a spin-off from the institute of pathology, university hospital CharitĂŠ Berlin. The basic idea is the implementation of a broad digitalization in light microscopy: The Virtual Microscopy.
Voices for Innovation is a global online community in which communication, learning, change, and innovation are the driving forces. Supported by Microsoft, Voices for Innovation is a collaboration of professionals comprising business leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs. We are an open community – anyone can join, so we represent a diverse spectrum of knowledge, experience, opinions, and expertise. Your Innovation is Your Future. Use Your Voice.
Virtual Microscopy allows for histology expertise on a computer monitor, even at great distances, by high resolution scanning of glass slides and real-time communication of large images over networks.
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26. Wisekey
Volutio
WISeKey S.A. is a Swiss registered company, with headquarters in Geneva. It formed in February 1999 as a result of five years of university research work into Internet security undertaken by Carlos Moreira and Malcolm Hutchinson founders of WISeKey.
ikordo is an intelligent free service that works to organize your meetings, web and teleconferences using the ubiquitous communications medium of e-mail, leaving you free to do more important things. Unique features of ikordo are that there are no software downloads, no shared calendars, no particular system requirements and no compromise of privacy. To use ikordo to negotiate and schedule a meeting, organizers need only a web browser and attendees need only an e-mail address.
WISeKey promotes the use of digital certification for both authentication and authorization. Through its partnership with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), WISeKey is providing e-commerce solutions based on the mass usage of certification by Internet users for authorized access to intranets and restricted web based sites.
ikordo is the initial software service brought to market by Volutio; a UK software company, founded in 2006, with the mission of harnessing technology to make peoples’ lives easier; changing the way they meet and work.
This approach changes the entire dynamics of how the Internet is used and will propel its transactional based usage into the 21st century through the creation of the world’s largest virtual network used by 188 countries.
Ikordo…organize less…do more.
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19. Zebtab
38. Xapt Hungary
Zebtab is the direct-to-desktop content channel that helps media and content owners drive awareness, traffic & revenue by delivering their rich media direct to the desktop of their users. Zebtab launched as the first aggregated desktop channel in late 2006 with clients such as Maxim Magazine and Sky’s At the Races. With 18 content deals done to date, including the likes of Chelsea FC, Lycos, Emi, Haymarket publishing & City AM, market readiness and willingness to adopt has proven positive. Zebtab presents no barriers to engagement with a performance based commercial model and plug & play technical integration.
Microsoft Dynamics™ AX Excellence Partner of the Year 2006 XAPT, as one of the most respected and experienced international Microsoft Gold Partners, strongly focuses on Dynamics products. XAPT is the leading Dynamics AX partner in the CEE region and the leading NAV Partner in Hungary. Its customers benefit from unmatched experience throughout 15 countries in CEE and North America. It has carried out over 100 AX and NAV implementations including international clients e.g. Wizz Air, Bunzl, Lindab, SSL, Riello. XAPT has been recognized by Microsoft for its outstanding overall performance with Microsoft Dynamics™ AX Excellence Partner of the Year 2006 Award.
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Coull
Elea
Coull is based in the UK and offers content owners a customized managed online interactive video distribution platform. Coull enables video content owners to monetize online videos by providing technology that identifies objects within the video, linking these objects to contextual advertising and/or ecommerce opportunities.
With over 20 years experience working with public and private companies and organizations, Elea is the top-ranking player on ICT education market in Italy and the leading provider of knowledge management services. With 90 employees, a network of more than 500 professionals and 8 offices in Italy, Elea counts more than 2,000 customers, in both private and public sectors.
The customizable video player can be embedded within social networks and blogs, retaining the interactivity and branding.
The new needs arising from enterprises and organizations are fulfilled by Elea, thanks to its wide range of services: elearning Training Solutions; foreign languages training; I.C.T. training; consultancy & education for Quality and Processes management; consultancy & education for Human Resources Development.
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TimeBI TimeBI created time2me, a free traffic and location sharing network on the Web and for mobile devices. With time2me, you can predict your travel time reliably, avoid traffic jams, share your location with family or colleagues when you want to, and coordinate business and personal meetings in ways never possible before. TimeBI is a startup company created to save time for people’s lives by reducing the amount of time lost in traffic. TimeBI invented the Time Tags concept and developed a patent pending data mining algorithm that provides the best travel time predictions and route recommendations in real time.
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