The event generated over 75 pages of tweets using the event’s #g2010 hash tag – indeed #g2010 was a UK trending topic on Twitter on the day of the event. 

Speakers included Peter Kellner of YouGov; Adam Afriyie MP, Shadow Minister for Science and Innovation; William Heath, founder of Kable; and Tom Steinberg of MySociety.org

Government 2010 has only just started – we’re already hatching plans for next year.  Watch this space.  Oh and you may wish to watch Peter Kellner’s keynote address while you’re here.  The rest of the presentations and panel sessions can be found here.

Belfast October 28, 2009 – Replify – one of the first companies to introduce an all-software based WAN optimisation and application accelerator – today announced Version 3.4.1 of its accelerator software designed to enhance integration across enterprises and increase bandwidth speeds and reduce latency across WANs.

With three quarters of the world’s workforce estimated to be mobile by 2012, technology to improve remote working is needed now more than ever. This new software will make it easier for enterprises to reduce frustration with slow download at branch offices and for remote workers, as well as to avoid expensive proprietary hardware installations.

Replify’s Reptor Accelerator architecture further enhances Replify’s XDR bi-directional data reduction technology so that both data centres and branch offices require one virtual appliance instance.  The news comes in light of recent analysis by Gartner Group that identifies business resiliency as critical for effective operations management.

The new version will enable businesses to rapidly deploy the solution and to manage users through its ‘client awareness’ functionality.  Replify also augments Disaster Recovery (DR) procedures – critical for any business.

Joe Boyle, Head of Sales at Replify comments: “This collection of improvements further streamlines the Replify Accelerator Suite and makes the product more refined for enterprise implementation.  We have recently implemented the solution in large, distributed enterprise environments and have better understood – from the customer perspective – how to make the product more elegant from an implementation and systems integration point of view.

“In many respects our solution is coming of age.  Our virtual appliances are deployed in branch offices and data centres – so we now have just one product that can be configured for both scenarios – rather than dedicated virtual servers for each scenario. 

“Similarly we have made it easier to roll out multiple client-end instances of the product.  We have also recognised that application server transparency is essential for backup and DR implementation.  And we have taken the opportunity to make the charting functionality more compelling, as well as improve the host identification and naming.  The result is an improved product in many operational areas, recognised in the market with really positive feedback from our customers and resellers.”

Version 3.4.1 of Replify’s Reptor suite is available to download for trial today.  Network managers can see for themselves the improvements that can be achieved through Replify’s Reptor solution by visiting http://www.replify.com/downloads/

Incisive Media, one of the world’s leading B2B information providers, has selected MediaCore, a Digital Asset Management system from Belfast-based software company Aetopia (www.aetopia.com).  Quadriga worked with Aetopia during its earliest days helping with marketing and business planning. 

Incisive is using MediaCore to manage and monetize its vast digital archive. The publisher employs over 750 staff across 3 continents and serves the financial and professional services markets globally. It publishes over 100 print titles including some of the most recognised brands in the sector including Computing, Accountancy Age, Investment Week and Legal Week. They also run over 100 websites, including Clickz.com, Legalweek.co.uk and Yourmortgage.co.uk generating in excess of 35 million page impressions a month.

Incisive took the MediaCore product on trial and after 9 months have decided to roll it out throughout all their divisions and titles.

David Worsfold, Group Editorial Services Director said:

“We are using the MediaCore system to store, display and sell the thousands of photos from our many events. We are impressed with its ease of use and scalability. It gets great feedback from our readers”

Aidan McGrath CEO of Aetopia commented:

“We are delighted to have such a prestigious customer as Incisive. This implementation allows us to demonstrate that MediaCore can handle huge, multi divisional organizations and is truly scalable”

Aetopia was founded in Belfast in 2005. It won the N.I. heat of the Intertrade Ireland Seedcorn competition in 2006 and secured private investment in 2007. It supplies Digital Asset Management software to the Publishing, Photographic and Archiving sectors.

Quadriga Consulting Ltd and Siddhi Management (SMC) are forging a partnership designed to support UK and Ireland based companies get into the Indian market.  Siddhi Management has been working with UK companies for the last 3 years .

Over recent years UK companies have looked to India as an outsourcing centre rather than a market in its own right.  However the Indian economy is growing fast – with GDP growth averaging around 8% over the last few years.  Many UK companies are now establishing sales and marketing presence in India – but need support setting up operations and finding channel partners.  Researching the market is also an issue – the Indian market is vast, and ensuring the right entry strategy is critical.

According to Jeffrey Peel of Quadriga Consulting, “We have been receiving a greater volume of enquiries regarding India as an investment location and place to do business.  Many local companies have established successful operations in India.  Therefore we were keen to find a like-minded firm that had our mix of skills – marketing and finance – and could be our eyes and ears in India.  SMC’s principals are from both marketing and operational finance backgrounds and match the skills that Liz and I bring to clients.  Therefore, it made sense for us to create this partnership.”

Pankaj Muthe, SMC’s Principal Consultant, agrees that there are great mutual opportunities.  “We are excited to be working with Quadriga Consulting and hope to be meeting some potential clients over the next few weeks in the UK and Ireland.  But in addition to the local services that we hope to provide – through Quadriga Consulting – to UK clients we also hope to be able to help Indian companies to get more up to speed on the way UK companies do business.  Therefore it’s a 2-way process.

“Over the last few months we have been involved in an initiative supported by UK Trade & Investment focused on opportunities for UK companies in the Indian security market.  We know there are equally strong opportunities in other vertical markets.”

UK or Irish companies interested in meeting with Jeff and Pankaj to discuss the Indian opportunity should contact us.  They plan to be holding meetings in London, Belfast and Dublin in early November.

Peel to Speak at Microsoft ISU in London

Jeffrey Peel, Managing Consultant at Quadriga Consulting, is to speak at Microsoft’s Industry Solutions University (ISU) in London in November. 

ISU is Microsoft’s largest global internal training event that targets the improvement of Microsoft Enterprise Field Teams’ capacity by providing up-to-the-minute customized training from leading customers, partners, and industry experts.

Jeff will be focusing on the opportunity in local and regional government. 

Microsoft’s ISU takes places just 2 weeks after Quadriga Consulting’s major Government 2010 Event in London.  Government 2010 features once of the most extensive line-ups of speakers focused on next generation government ever assembled for a live streamed event.

It’s canonical URLs…that’s right.  You read correctly.  Here’s the deal.  If you own a domain sometimes your host provider may not have automatically created canonical URLs.  What does that mean?  Well it means that your site may have duplicate versions.  For example Google may be indexing http://yoursite.com as well as http://www.yoursite.com – this is hardly ideal from an SEO point of view.  Even worse, it may be that your root URL goes nowhere…i.e. is redirected to oblivion. 

Canonicalisation means ensuring that all your various URLs go to the same place using 301 redirects.  That means everything is tidy and Google only has to index one site.  Ask your host provider if you don’t know how to do it.  But it’s a basic SEO principle that many web site owners miss.

Quadriga Consulting has worded with Realwire for years.  If you’d like to discuss your online media strategy please contact us. 

YouGov partnering the first Government 2010 Event in London

YouGov are pleased to be partnering the first Government 2010 Event in London on October 22nd, 2009. Peter Kellner, President and Head of Political and Social research at YouGov, will be giving a keynote address.

The event will bring together parliamentarians, civil servants, technologists, bloggers and researchers to discuss and debate what we should do in response to the changes facing government and public service.

In his keynote address, Peter will use YouGov’s research data to show that so-called web 2.0 technologies are transforming the way people communicate, interact and entertain themselves. He will demonstrate how YouGov’s online survey tools, where respondents engage with web 2.0 technologies, produce consistently accurate results when predicting election outcomes.

He will argue that if government is to remain current and relevant it needs to open up to a society that is more information savvy than government itself. People of all ages are, increasingly, by-passing traditional media and creating their own. They are communicating via a myriad of new social networking tools. They have the ability to build better web based information portals than government itself.

For more information on the Government 2010 event, please click on the link below:

http://quadrigaconsulting.co.uk/gov2010

Harry Metcalfe

Harry Metcalfe will be chairing a discussion on how web 2.0 technologies are transforming the process of public consultation with citizens.  We’ll be announcing his panel members shortly.

Harry is the founder of The Dextrous Web, a startup founded to help organisations – mostly in the public sector – get things right on the web. The Dextrous Web’s clients include The Cabinet Office, The Central Office of Information, The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills and Guardian News & Media.

 Harry is also on the boards of the Open Rights Group, an NGO which campaigns to protect and preserve our digital rights, and the FreeLegalWeb, a community interest company with plans to make the law easier to find, read and understand.

 He is particularly interested in making public sector information discoverable and resuable, reforming copyright law, making the public consultation process more transparent and accountable and strengthening the Freedom of Information Act.

Following our hugely successful event earlier in the year we plan to adopt a similar format of conversations with industry experts that will be video recorded in front of a live audience.  As before, the conversations will be chaired by Jeffrey Peel of Quadriga Consulting. 

Conversations #2 will focus on Broadcasting 2.0 – how web 2.0 technologies are transforming the process of communications.  Sessions will focus on what traditional media organizations need to do to embrace broadcasting technologies.  How new media can augment existing channels – for traditional marketers.  How viral techniques can transform the marketing process.  How media organizations are themselves embracing broadcasting 2.0 to provide niche content.  How streaming media is transforming the live event. 

Senior members of the FRONT team will also be available to provide advice and guidance for delegates that need to better understand how to approach their next Broadcasting 2.0 project.

Just use our contact form to register for the event.  Be sure to tell us why you are interested in broadcasting/video content on the web – and we’ll try to ensure the content on the evening covers your interest area.