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A third partner will join and strengthen the HPV team on the 1st of January 2010. Yaron Valler has been working as a VP during four years for Giza Venture Capital. Yaron brings over ten years of industry experience. His area of expertise lies on the sectors of Software, Information Technology and Internet with special expertise in the area of Enterprise Software.
In the article issued on Globes Online, specialist in Israel’s business arena, Yaron represents an opportunity for Israeli companies looking for investment, as HPV plans to increase its exposure to Israel.
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VOIPFUTUTRE’s RTP Monitoring performance has been tested and certified by the highly respected European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) certification lab. The EANTC offers vendor-neutral network test services for manufacturers, service providers and enterprise customers.
“The VOIPFUTURE Smart RTP Monitoring Probe showed excellent analyzing performance at full Gigabit Ethernet line rate,” EANTC says. “It detected network service quality impairments like packet loss or IPDV for each stream individually.”
The test center consider that VOIPFUTURE “provides the customer a very helpful tool to identify network related problems of its VoIP service and at the same time it provides tools to find the source of the problem and shows details and statistics about such events”.
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For the third time, eZ Systems is listed amongst the top 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry.
Econtent is one of the most respected sources for information about the digital content industry. They choose our portfolio company alongside flagship brands like Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft or Twitter.
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Previously named InnovaShare, PLMplus was founded in 2008 with the vision of helping small and medium manufacturers to benefit from the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) technology. Reluctant to purchase and use PLM systems, small and medium sized companies faced system complexity, implementation difficulty together with high costs. PLMplus is the only solution that provides SMBs with the ability to start with a small and simple system implementation and grow only according to their needs. PLMplus combines on demand technology together with a rich user experience to provide customers with a system that requires no implementation or training in order to get going and provide immediate benefits.
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Service-Community.net is a Software-as-a-Service involving customers and employees who can solve their issues based on a self-service and collaborative approach. The solution is fully customizable and whitelabel enabled, so that corporations can seamlessly open up their websites to open and honest dialogues. Nowadays these discussions are often left to Facebook, Twitter or external forums, which often show up on top of google’s search results. Therefore the search engine optimization within our software creates very valuable content and an optimized google indexation that drives new users to the site. In addition call-center agents and product managers become directly and openly involved in the community. They communicate more often with the end customers leading to more efficient product improvements.
Learn more! Watch the short video tutorial
Download the documentation here
Discover Forrester study about customer service communities or the ROI of Social Media
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The “datango performance suite” or the solution to escape from the software-jungle
datango will attend the largest most comprehensive UK & Ireland conference for SAP users, the SAP UK & Ireland User Group Conference and Exhibition. This event is designed by SAP users for SAP users and will be supported by a trade show gathering 75 exhibitors. datango will be present and will offer their support to SAP users around the topic "Gain a better understanding of SAP".
Read the full press release here (in German).
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The service community developed by hiogi received good press by the Gründerszene, also known as “The magazine for founders”. The press release highlight the advantages for start-ups who use the hiogi "questions-answers technologies". In few steps, companies can create a separate service community to help each others, offer support to customers, solve problems, gather ideas and share feedback for only 29 Euros per month.
Read the full press release here (in German).
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The results of successful joint work of BrightView Systems and Signet Solar were published on pv-tech.org, the dynamic new media platform that is designed to give real-world manufacturing information to decision makers and implementers responsible for producing solar cells, modules and thin films.
The Israeli start-up BrightView Systems says it has successfully integrated and validated its wide-area metrology (WAM) system for thin-film photovoltaic’s producers at Signet Solar's amorphous-silicon Thin-Film Photovoltaic (TFPV) manufacturing line in Germany.
"The BrightView solution fills a major gap in the industry's transition from pilot to mass production, providing true 24/7 inline process monitoring while saving long and tedious offline cycles and test panels," said Gunter Ziegenbalg, managing director of Signet Solar GmbH.
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The software manufacturer VIOSO has won the Viscom Innovation Award 2009 in the "Signmaking Point of Sale (PoS)" category. The company is being honoured for its smartprojecting software. The prize rewards outstanding innovations in visual communication. VIOSO GmbH is the only award winner in this category.
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VIOSO and AV Stumpfl are very satisfied with the joint road show they organised through Germany and Austria. The feedbacks received in Berlin, Munich, Vienna and AV Stumpfl headquarters were excellent and participants are now convinced by Wings VIOSO product.
Impressions from the road show and Wings VIOSO projections demos are available here in video (German).


