Arbortext Appoints Michael McGrath Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand; Continues Global Expansion Into Asia/Pacific.ANN ARBOR Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich. -- Arbortext, the leading provider of enterprise publishing software, today announced the appointment of Michael McGrath Michael 'HOPPER' McGrath is a former Irish sportsperson who played hurling with Galway in the 1980s. Michael Mc Grath, was born on the 30/6/1963 who hails from the Sarsfields club in County Galway, was an outstanding score-getter during his inter-county career. as Country Manager for Australia/New Zealand. In this role, Mr. McGrath will be based in Sydney and is responsible for developing and executing plans to help Arbortext achieve its growth objectives in this area. Two key elements of the plan center around this region's Channel Partnerships and extending the company's support to new and existing customers. Mr. McGrath brings more than 15 years of extensive experience successfully managing channels and key accounts in developing and implementing innovative strategies to address the changing market environment. He joins Arbortext after serving in various senior channels and marketing positions with Citrix Systems Citrix Systems' (NASDAQ: CTXS) is an American technology company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, with additional development centers in Australia, India and the UK. - most recently as Manager, Government Business Unit. In these positions he successfully built and implemented channel partnerships, partner training and business development programs. Commenting on his new position, Mr. McGrath stated, "I am excited to join a company recognized as the market leader. Enterprise publishing initiatives are critical to organizations that must create and publish large amounts of product and customer specific information while also reducing total publishing costs and improving customer satisfaction. I look forward to being part of the Arbortext team as we help these organizations develop enterprise publishing strategies to improve their publishing processes." This region offers Arbortext new market opportunities as the need for enterprise publishing grows. Organizations are finding it increasingly important to provide customers with localized software, support and services. Current Australian customers currently using Arbortext Enterprise Publishing software include: Aerospace Technologies of Australia, Boeing Aerospace Technologies of Australia, Department of Defence, Lexis Nexus, Qantas Airways Limited Qantas Airways Limited Australian airline, the oldest in the English-speaking world, founded in 1920 as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd. (later abbreviated as Qantas). By 2002 it had more than 140 destinations in over 30 countries. , Thomson Legal & Regulatory Limited, University of Queensland The University of Queensland (UQ) is the longest-established university in the state of Queensland, Australia, a member of Australia's Group of Eight, and the Sandstone Universities. It is also a founding member of the international Universitas 21 organisation. , Brookers and New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. Parliamentary Counsel. "Michael brings great experience, management and leadership strength to Arbortext," said Graham Freeman, Vice President of Worldwide Channel Partnerships. "He has demonstrated strong focus on customer satisfaction, product quality and channel management, all of which are critical to building the Pacific region to become one of Arbortext's top worldwide market areas. Michael will work to build upon the solid foundation and customer base developed by our Australian Partner, Absolute Data Group." About Arbortext (www.arbortext.com) Arbortext is the leading provider of enterprise publishing software that automates the assembly and publishing of information, helping companies to improve authoring productivity; reduce authoring, translation and publishing costs; enhance information quality; and speed time-to-market of new and improved products. Companies around the world use our software to publish in multiple languages to multiple audiences in multiple hardcopy and electronic output formats. Arbortext's software is installed at over 1,700 organizations worldwide. Current customers include American Express Financial Services, Audi, Boeing, Bombardier, British Aerospace, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson Telecom, Ford, General Electric, GM, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , International Thomson Publishing, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Pfizer, Ricoh, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, United Airlines, Volkswagen and Volvo. Arbortext is a founding member and active participant in both the XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Activity of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan  “Ann Arbor” redirects here. For other uses, see Ann Arbor (disambiguation). Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. , USA, Arbortext has offices around the world. |
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