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01732 759725 14 NEWS : VENDORS Evatic changes name to Asolvi Evatic Group, a European provider of service management software for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has been rebranded ‘Asolvi’, following acquisitions in the last 18 month of Tesseract in the UK and WinServ in Sweden. Asolvi CEO Pål M. Rødseth said: “We wanted a name indicative of the fact that we don’t just supply software. We solve problems. We find solutions to our clients’ service management needs. We’re a partner that helps you become more efficient.” Asolvi is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway and has offices in the UK, Sweden, Germany, France, Holland and Singapore. It will continue to offer service management solutions under the Evatic, Tesseract and WinServ brand names. www.asolvi.com ABBYY reports 25% revenue growth Expanding markets for digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) helped ABBYY increase revenues by 25% in 2017, its highest rate of growth for five years. ABBYY CEO Ulf Persson said: “Businesses understand that to survive in today’s markets, where customers have the expectation of now, they need to change. ABBYY’s AI-based intelligent capture platforms and solutions help them go through digital transformation and robotic process automation as effortlessly as possible. This is why we see a growing interest in our product portfolio.” The provider of intelligent capture solutions also benefited from a number of large-scale projects for corporate clients in the US, Europe and Australia, as well as on-going licensing arrangements with partners like Fujitsu, Epson, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, RICOH and Xerox. Forrester forecasts the AI market to grow tenfold to $29 billion by 2020 and the RPA market to double to $2.4 billion. www.abbyy.com See things more clearly with Mist Mist, a pioneer in self-learning wireless networks, has launched the world’s first AI-driven Virtual Network Assistant (VNA) for wireless operations and integrated helpdesk. Powered by Mist’s AI engine, Marvis, VNA is a cloud-based micro-service that enables IT staff to query the Mist global cloud about Wi-Fi issues and problems. Instead of manually sifting through data in numerous locations, they can ask questions like: n Were there any anomalies between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. on the main campus? n Why is Bob’s smartphone having a problem? n List the three sites with lowest performance. n How many clients are on the guest network? Mist says this approach reduces the time taken to resolve network issues from hours to minutes, improves the efficiency of helpdesk personnel and enables IT to become more proactive. www.mist.com Advanced partner programme Advanced has launched a new partner programme to help resellers of its ERP software accelerate customers’ transition to the cloud and start benefitting from recurring revenues. The Advanced TruePartner programme has five levels of partnership: Reseller, Service, Alliance, Advisor and Software. It provides onboarding, training and marketing support, comprehensive accreditation and generous financial rewards at every level. Alaris has been awarded the Scanner Line of the Year Award by Keypoint Intelligence – Buyers Lab (BLI) for a third consecutive year and a fourth time overall. The independent tester of document imaging products singled out Alaris for the breadth of its range and the quality of its products, including their reliability, productivity, media handling, image quality, ease of set-up, drivers/utilities, OCR performance and value. Lee Davis, BLI editor for scanners and solutions, said: “Alaris continues to set the standard for what a scanner needs to be in the age of digital transformation. The current portfolio, from 20ppm desktop scanners to 210ppm high-volume production units, addresses a growing need for intelligent, connected capture solutions. The opportunity for packaged offerings to be built around third-party software integrations to drive greater efficiency in applications such as invoice processing and customer onboarding is huge.” In addition to four BLI Line of the Year awards, Alaris has won 29 Pick and Outstanding Achievement awards, making it the most awarded scanner manufacturer in BLI’s 60-year history. Its latest awards include three Winter 2018 Picks for Outstanding Departmental Scanner (the Alaris S2000 Series), Outstanding Light Production Scanner (the Kodak i3300 Scanner) and Outstanding Achievement in Innovation (Alaris Passport Flatbed Accessory). Alaris wins scanner line of the year Chargifi partners with ITI Network Services Wireless charging solution provider Chargifi has announced its first managed service partnership (MSP) with telecoms, wireless and infrastructure specialist ITI Network Services. Chargifi CEO and Founder Dan Bladen said: “Consumers are constantly looking for convenient, hassle-free, quick ways of using tech to enhance their everyday lives. We are delighted to partner with ITI to ensure their clients can meet those consumer expectations, early and effectively. Not only will ITI be able to offer customers wireless charging deployments at scale but also valuable insight into their customers’ behaviour – something that power blocks don’t do.” https://chargifi.com/ EVATIC GROUP BECOMES ASOLVI Evatic Group, th e leading pro vider of service management software for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Europe, has been rebranded "Asolvi". It's the latest development for a company that has been at the centre of some big changes over the past couple of years, most notably the acquisitions of Tesseract in th UK and WinServ in Sweden. Asolvi is now helping 800 customers across 30 countries to attain greater flexibility, scalability and profitability in their service operations. Pål M. Rødseth, CEO of Asolvi, explains the reasoning behind the new name: "We wanted a name indicative of the fact that we don't just supply software. We solve problems. We find solutions to our clients' service management needs. We're a partner that helps you Trondheim, Norway 29.01.2018 Ulf Persson