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Australian cleantech investors Anna and Simon Hackett campaign fundraises $205,000 for Climate 200 in three days

Simon and Anna Hackett with Rainee helping from the back seat A grassroots fundraising campaign set up by Australian cleantech investors Anna and Simon Hackett has raised more than $200,000 to support the Climate 200 initiative in just three days. Based on the belief...

Vic Air on cloud 9 with EBS & Dynamics NAV

Vic Air Supplies Financial Accountant Shelley Hughes Melbourne-based air conditioning company Vic Air Supplies has migrated its business systems to the cloud after replacing its old accounting system with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Vic Air Supplies http://vicair.com.au/ is an Australian owned, family-run business which...

Adelaide hosts myth-busting conference on Albinism this weekend

Albinism Fellowship members including AFA President Elizabeth Beales (second from right)About 100 individuals and family members affected by albinism will gather in Adelaide this weekend for a national conference about the causes, challenges and achievements of this often-misunderstood genetic condition. International...

MIMP delivers affordable gigabit-speed Internet services for businesses in Whyalla and Mount Gambier

MIMP CEO Allan AitchisonBusinesses in Whyalla and Mount Gambier can now access ultra-fast download speeds at affordable prices from $49.90 per month using the GigCity Internet service, deployed by MIMP connecting solutions. Launched earlier this month, the first regional deployments of...

Start-ups hold the key to the future of everything

Pottinger executive chair Nigel Lake will present at this week's Myriad Festival in Brisbane The Australian dream run of economic prosperity is at risk unless the nation supports start-ups to drive a new wave of innovation warns Nigel Lake, executive chair...

Australian eCommerce platform disrupter Ultra Commerce makes latest strategic acquisition for global growth

Ultra Commerce CEO Matthew HylandAfter raising more than $10 million for growth this year, Sydney-based Ultra Commerce has acquired US-based Slatwall Commerce to accelerate the global reach of its end-to-end digital commerce platform. In its second strategic acquisition of 2021, Ultra...

Underwriters Laboratories Selects Redflow for Flow Battery Research Program at Stress Engineering

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Victron aims to cut into global markets with MultiPlus-II

Victron Energy BV Managing Director Matthijs Vader Global energy system specialist Victron Energy is expanding grid-connection approvals globally for its new MultiPlus-II battery inverter-charger, boosting the market for this robust unit that works both on and off-grid. Victron will also use the...

Details: In Simon Hackett; / Published on 24 February 2015

AvSoft CEO Bevan Anderson (left) with award and investor Simon Hackett AvSoft Australia, developer of the internationally successful AvPlan EFB software, has won a major accolade at the National Aerospace Industry Innovation Awards in Melbourne.

AvSoft Australia received the Aerospace Australia Ltd Civil Industry National Innovation Award for 2015, recognising it as at the forefront of commercial aerospace innovation. First presented in 2013, the National Aerospace Industry Innovation Awards are organised by Aerospace Australia Ltd, the not-for-profit foundation that organises the biennial Australian International Airshow and Aerospace & Defence Exposition at Avalon Airport in Victoria.

AvSoft Australia’s flagship product, AvPlan EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) is an iOS app that simplifies the process of preparing aircraft flight plans, letting pilots replace bulky documentation and messy maps with an iPad. An entry-level version of AvPlan EFB is also available for Android devices.

AvSoft Australia CEO Bevan Anderson said the award demonstrated the success AvPlan EFB had achieved during the past two years. “We’ve gone from one product in Australia to apps for iOS and Android used by thousands of pilots in Australia, New Zealand and the US, ” he said.

UltraServe unveils social media-driven scalability

Details: In Ultra Commerce; / Published on 12 February 2015

UltraServe Platforms Manager Troy Fisher UltraServe has unveiled a globally unique innovation that allows its hybris Platform as a Service (PaaS), SmartStack, to scale automatically to meet ramping customer demand based on social media activity.

Coinciding with this week’s hybris Global Summit in Germany, UltraServe’s breakthrough enables its cloud-delivered infrastructure to pre-emptively scale before demand starts growing. SmartStack Social Scaling is made available exclusively for the hybris commerce platform.

UltraServe Platforms Manager Troy Fisher said a complex commerce application configured for traditional auto-scaling could take as long as 10-20 minutes to scale up after a wave of demand started growing. “During high traffic campaigns such as those driven by ads on TV, you have just seconds to respond,” he said.

Film Victoria casts EBS in financial role

Details: In Newsroom; / Published on 09 February 2015

EBS Managing Director Paul Woods Film Victoria has overhauled its ageing financial software by choosing Australian enterprise software specialist Evolution Business Systems (EBS) to deploy Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

EBS deployed Microsoft Dynamics NAV at Film Victoria, on time and under budget, during the final quarter of 2014.

“EBS has been very flexible through the development and implementation process. Their staff have worked hard to understand and meet our needs, and we are confident we now have a much improved system for funding and financial reporting,” said Greg Reeves, Film Victoria’s Head of Finance and Business Services.

Film Victoria is the State Government agency that provides strategic leadership and assistance to the film, television and digital media sectors of Victoria. It supports screen projects, practitioners and businesses to maintain and strengthen the state’s reputation as a competitive centre for screen production.