Canterbury Scientific’s New Biotech Lab Set For Expansion

Press release, 18 February 2011, Canterbury Scientific, Christchurch, New Zealand:

Biotech firm, Canterbury Scientific, has invested significantly in new world-class laboratories in Addington Christchurch with the aim to expand the innovation and production of its globally recognised haemoglobin controls. The Minister for Science and Innovation, Hon Dr Wayne Mapp, opened the new facility on 18 February, 2011.

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Emendo invests in new five-strong Clinical team to assist hospitals

Press release: 19 January, 2011, Emendo Ltd, Christchurch, NZ

Health IT company, Emendo Ltd, has created a new five-person Clinical team to help hospitals meet increasingly challenging operational targets and achieve better patient outcomes with CapPlan. The newly formed Emendo Clinical team will be based in and support hospitals in Australia/New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. The strategic investment follows recent large regional wins in Australia and Canada, and readies the company for an anticipated global surge in demand.

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Hand Multimedia in Global e-Learning Spotlight

Kiwi learning innovation floors the big guns at international learning awards ceremony in San Francisco

Press Release: 9-December-10, Hand Multimedia, Christchurch, New Zealand

Hand Multimedia has won a major international award for Excellence in Learning from Brandon Hall Research, one of the world’s leading research firms in training and development, for their e-learning development product Roleplay^TM.  The awards celebrate the best in e-learning and are highly regarded by many of the world’s largest corporations, including Microsoft, Time Warner, IBM and Pepsi.  Roleplay’s potential to save clients months of time and thousands of dollars in developing online “people skills” training resulted in their Best Innovation in Learning Technology category win – an accolade coveted by top global software development teams.

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TVNZ Tunes into Savings with Activate Technologies

Press Release: 7-December-10, Activate Technologies, Auckland, New Zealand

New Zealand media giant TVNZ has implemented an Activate Technologies software solution to streamline its user management system. Activate automates technology processes such as new user setup, email distribution lists and shared data management, so that managers and staff can manage their own environment. TVNZ has benefited from better usage of valuable IT resources, lower software licensing costs and the reduction of security and compliance risks as a result.

TVNZ has over 1000 permanent, casual and freelance staff spread across the country, with 8 people managing and servicing the IT infrastructure. The new system has saved over 40 hours per week of manual administration for the IT services team according to TVNZ Technology Service Manager Lisa Arthur.

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Aiotec acquires Bluewater Systems

Press release, 30 November 2010, Aiotec Ltd, Christchurch, NZ: Premier electronics design house, Aiotec Ltd, has acquired embedded systems and ARM technology specialist company Bluewater Systems. The acquisition is a coup for husband and wife team, Shayne and Jeanne Crimp, as it enables them to extend their innovation powerhouse with highly sought after specialist skills, complementary technology, and a more diverse and international customer base.

Aiotec is a privately owned company established in 2002 to provide electronic engineering consultancy services and product solutions to Australasian export manufacturers. It has been profitable from day one and has grown organically ever since.

In spite of the global economic downturn, Aiotec achieved 275% percent growth in the last two years and has been recognised in this year’s Deloitte Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500.  The acquisition of Bluewater Systems, founded in 1996 by ARM specialist Simon Glass, doubles Aiotec’s skilled team to 22 staff and contractors.

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Letstrade creates new wave with entry-level ERP II solution for SMEs

Press release, Letstrade, Lyttelton NZ, 22-Nov-2010: Letstrade International, founded by respected kiwi entrepreneur, Peter Montgomery, is launching a revolutionary online ERP II application for small to medium businesses. The Letstrade SaaS (Software as a Service) application is designed to meet increasing market demand for an online solution that allows staff, suppliers and customers real-time shared access to the same system data.

Challenging age old methods with new labour saving solutions is becoming a bit of a habit for Montgomery.  His first innovation – the vacuum mooring system – is replacing traditional rope mooring in ports around the world. Mooring Systems later merged with Cavotec, a European engineering company and is now trading on the NZX under Cavotec MSL.

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Canterbury Software Summit rescheduled to 26 October

Press release,  5-Oct-2010, Canterbury Software Cluster, Christchurch, New Zealand: The earthquake postponed Canterbury Software Summit is now rescheduled for Tuesday 26 October.  This must attend business technology event, which is organised by the Canterbury Software cluster, will be held from 12.15pm on 26 October at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Christchurch.  Attendees will get valuable insights and lessons from successful technology entrepreneurs from Dynamic Controls, Tait Radio Communications, Sonar6, TracMap, Greentree and Shape Technology.

Download the full press release and programme here:  CSI Summit 2010 rescheduled release, or register at www.canterburysoftware.org.nz.

Emendo sales accelerate with another major export win

- Six urban hospitals in British Colombia Canada to implement CapPlan

Media release, 19 August 2010, Emendo Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand: Within weeks of securing two major multimillion dollar deals with SA Health and WA Health in Australia, Emendo has been awarded a milestone regional deal with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) in Canada. Six hospitals in the Vancouver region will be linked using Emendo’s CapPlan technology to predict inpatient demand and staffing requirements. The new tool will directly benefit patients by increasing their access to an acute care bed.

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Emendo in top three NZ Health IT firms to make it big in the US

Media release, 16 July 2010, Emendo Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand: Six months of participation in the Focus on Health Challenge run by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has resulted with high-value international recognition for Emendo and its healthcare operations management solution, CapPlan.

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Emendo Ltd has signed major regional contracts with both SA Health and WA Health in Australia to rollout its award winning CapPlan capacity planning software to key public hospitals across the two regions.

Eleven metropolitan hospitals in South and Western Australia – which together manage some 4700 beds and service approximately 3,700,000 people or 16% of the Australian population – will be relying on CapPlan to forecast patient demand, prevent bed bottleneck, and help improve patient safety.

The deals are the largest multi-hospital wins to date for Emendo, with a combined value of several million dollars over the next three years. They are also significant endorsements of the positive contribution that CapPlan is making towards the on-going improvement of operations within hospitals.

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