Thursday, 12 November 2009

Yet more exam success...:-)

On Tuesday the 10th November two more Eventura employee's, Aaron and Chris (MD), passed four Sage exams between them! With a session that started at 14:00 and ended at 19:00 the two employees (one impaired with a viral infection!), managed to breeze through the Sage Business Partner Certification for Sage 50 Accounts 2010 and Sage Business Intelligence. This now means that Eventura are again OFFICIALLY certified to sell, implement, train, configure and support the Sage 50 Accounts software (aka Line 50). To complete the Sage Business Intelligence certification, the two employees will be attending a three day course in Sage's home city, Newcastle, followed by yet another exam! Here's hoping we catch up to Will and his numerous Microsoft Specialist Qualifications.

-Aaron

Monday, 2 November 2009

Eventura International Press Release


Eventura Announces Strategic Alliance with Visual 2000 International.

Bolton, England. - November 1st, 2009

Eventura, the UK Fashion ERP Supplier has signed a strategic alliance with Visual 2000 of Montreal, Canada for the provision of Visual 2000.Net across EMEA region.

Eventura now has an end to end offering for small and medium sized organizations in the Apparel, Footwear and Accessories (AFA) industry. In conjunction with their Sage 200 Fashion offering, the new Product Life Management (PLM) offering provides clients with capabilities to manage the design, sourcing and collaboration of their suppliers and customers. This is achieved through the powerful browser based Product Lifecycle Management tool “Visual PLM.net™.”

News Facts

The agreement allows Eventura to sell Visual PLM.net™ throughout Europe and both companies have agreed on a process to allow Visual PLM.net™ clients to operate support through Eventura’s European operations backed by the author, Visual 2000, based in Montreal, Canada.

Speaking on behalf of Eventura, Chris Houghton, Managing Director says ‘We are delighted to be announcing our partnership with Visual 2000. This relationship started some time ago following an excellent score from WhichPLM?™ which had benchmarked the system against the PLM competition. Since then, we have successfully proved the integration with our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) offerings to the market. The enhanced functionality compared to its competition, combined with the thin client architecture gives our clients an easy and powerful method to deploy across the supply chain.’

Charles Benoualid, Visual 2000’s VP of Research and Development, added ‘This alliance only strengthens our global coverage and helps us provide a consolidated approach to the product life management process of the industries we serve. There are strong resources available to both companies and a lot of knowledge is to be shared between us. We see this as a positive step forwards for the industry and believe it will bring great benefit to each of us. Eventura has developed as a strong association in the Apparel, Footwear and Accessories industry and we see the synergy of the two organizations only increasing.’

About Eventura

Eventura is a business systems supplier to the Apparel, Footwear and Accessories (AFA) industry within the UK and mainland Europe. It is a fully accredited Microsoft™ and Sage™ business partner and offers a wide range of computer services to its clients in the small and mid market sectors. It is headquartered in the northwest of England and it can boast previous clients spread throughout Europe including such names as Ashworth, Jimmy Choo, Diadora, Jockey, Pringle of Scotland, Rectella and Umbro to name a few. For more information please visit our website at http://www.eventura.com.

About Visual PLM.net™

Visual PLM.net™ is a best of breed, full featured Product Lifecycle Management software solution. A multi Platform browser based client, Visual PLM.net™, includes PDM, Merchandise Planning, Multi level Project Management, User and Role based Calendars, Automated internal and external Notification System, Field Based Workflow management, Formulas (Validations, Costing), PDM Interface Designer, Search Designer, Data Integration Manager, Dynamic Reporting Tool

About Visual 2000 International

Visual 2000 International Inc is a leading provider of Software Solutions to the AFA, Apparel, Footwear and Accessories industry. For more information about Visual 2000 International, please visit our Web site at http://www.visual-2000.com

Trademarks

Visual PLM.net™ is a registered trademark of Visual 2000 International.

Contact Information

Farhat Awan

Visual 2000 USA
+1.888.386.4006
farhat@visual-2000.com

William Isherwood

Eventura
+44.1204.392900
isherb@eventura.com

Alain Perez

Visual 2000 International
+1.888.386.4006
alain@visual-2000.com

More Qualifications

Just a quick blog note to report of exam success in the field of Microsoft Certification. Today I achieved (deep breath) Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Server Administrator. This involved lots of late night studying, and was completed over 3 exams, scoring 95%, 100% and 90%. Here's laying down a challenge to the rest of the team to get some more certification - it's really very achievable!

Next up on the agenda is going to be the Windows 7 one I think, now it is released Microsoft have issued exams for it. We're all using it in the office (apart from the straggling sticks-in-the-mud amongst us) and we are really happy with it, so time to get some certifications I feel. Here's a challenge to the rest of the team, "Let's have a race!" :)

-Will