Software provider Mindjet is planning to expand
its European growth strategy by creating three new
sales regions, with a particular emphasis on its core
markets of Germany, France and the UK. It has also
strengthened its European management team by
adding four new managers to control two of the
new departments.
Uwe Richter, Vice President EMEA at Mindjet,
says that the new groups are based around its
biggest European markets. “We have levelled out
the areas around the three languages of UK, France
and Germany. We will now have a better synergy
in the language scale. We will be able to better
ENTERPRISE NEWS
AC-Service parts company with ACCURAT France will train and
GERMANY
“ACCURAT does not provide services for SAP
use cyber-cops
customers, and that is the main reason to sell off
GERMAN SAP system house AC-Service, a this division,” says AC-Service spokesman Dirk
fRANCE
subsidiary of BEKO Holding, is to sell its human Sonntag. “SD WORX is not well known in Germany, PROPOSALS outlined by the French government,
resources division ACCURAT to Belgian player SD and the German market is very complicated for and expected to be amplified in the next few days.
WORX in an all-cash deal. The Frankfurt-listed firm, payroll vendors for legal reasons.” go beyond the previous framework of fighting
which also operates in Austria and Switzerland, The due dilligence process has already begun terrorism on the Internet and tackle criminality
recent opted to focus on its SAP business. and Sonntag says that AC-Service hopes to in the broad sense. Some of these measurements
95-strong ACCURAT provides HR services, such complete the deal in the first half of the year. were already planned, like the installation of a
as payroll, based on its own proprietary software After its acquisition of All for One Midmarket virtual police station, making it possible to the
and posted sales of €10m during 2006. HR services Solutions in February 2006 (which it recently citizens to report things and complain on line, or
provider SD WORX, which employs 1,600 in its merged with stablemate AC Solutions EDV), the recourse by the police to software taps.
native Belgium, hopes to use ACCURAT as a way of Sonntag says the company will focus on organic This electronic espionage would make it
breaking the tough German market. growth. www.ac-service.com possible to spy on computers of people suspected
of serious crimes. Michele Alliot-Marie, Minister
Mindjet extends three main Euro markets
of the Interior Department, plans to define the
concept of illicit content and track down the
EUROPE
our customers and resellers for any queries they authors. A black list of the illicit sites would be also
might have.” drawn up and communicated to ISPs so that they
SOFTWARE provider Mindjet is planning to kick- The first of these regions is DACH, which will block access to them.
start its European growth strategy by creating three cover the German speaking-markets of Germany, To implement all these measures, the Ministry
new sales regions, with a particular emphasis on its Austria and Switzerland. The second sales region will also require new laws. Staffing of the current
core markets of Germany, France and the UK. It has is NEWS, which represents the UK, Scandinavia, OCLCTIC (Central Office against criminality related
also strengthened its European management team Netherlands, Iceland and South Africa, countries to communication and information technologies)
by adding four new managers to control two of very familiar with the English language. There is will be reinforced and the police force will be given
the new departments. also Southern Europe, which encompasses France, new tools of searching on line.
Uwe Richter, Vice President EMEA at Mindjet, Belgium, Italy and Spain, and aims for countries in
OUR ANALYSIS
says that the new groups are based around its and around the French-speaking market.
biggest European markets. “We have levelled out Mindjet also plans to extend its UK market this This comes at a time when the role of ISPs is being
the areas around the three languages of UK, France summer by moving its office to Greater London challenged across Europe - in the UK, Turkey and
and Germany. We will be able to better service and adding 10 new employees. www.mindjet.com Denmark. A clear view from the EC would be good.
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enterprise news round-up
Irish supply chain management specialist Sercom newspapers, maps, books and other documents contact centre workers are becoming difficult
is poised to make 120 staff redundant at its that form part of the Parliament of Greece to recruit and retain and there are not enough
computer facility in Limerick from 2 May. The Library. Spanish-speakers in Canada to meet US demand.
312-strong company says it will be discontinuing
its production and assembly of LCD screens HP has announced the launch of the “Russian French software and services provider Cegedim
for laptop computers, reducing the Limerick Institute of Technology” (RIT) programme, Activ has announced the acquisition of software
branch to 156 employees. Although Sercom has which aims to support higher education and service provider Protectia Software. The
three other worldwide branches, including one the development of IT specialists in Russia. As Lezennes-based company, through its own
in Poland, the cuts follow on from “changing part of the RIT, HP will establish technology software, integrates internet technologies and
customer requirements” which means it handles centres at five Russian universities. They will be manages nearly 1.5 million insurance policy
fewer products. operational by the start of the next school year. holders in France.
Greek IT specialist Globo has signed a €622,000 Russian and emerging European country Vienna-based IT services house S&T is setting up
contract with the Parliament of Greece as part outsourcers may get a boost from the decline an IBM software and hardware solution centre
of a project with a total value of €1.7m. Globo, of Canada as a competitor, as Convergys’ in Russia. The IBM WebSphere centre in Moscow
in partnership with Info-Quest and AMS, will announcement of a scale-back on Canadian is open to S&T customers across Russia and
provide specialised software and services and operations could be the first of many. The the CIS, and provides consulting and planning
equipment for digitalising and documenting decline of the US dollar has eroded profitability, support.
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