Centra Significantly Expands International Presence with New Sales Offices and Strategic Distribution Partners Across Europe.Business/Technology Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2000 Provider of Live eBusiness Collaboration Affirms Commitment to Customers and Meets Growing Market Demand for Company's Products and Services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa Centra (Nasdaq:CTRA CTRA Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association CTRA College Terrace Residents' Association CTRA Canadian Telecommunications Resellers Alliance CTRA Committee To Restore America ), a provider of solutions for live eBusiness collaboration, today announced significant international expansion with the addition of three new European sales and service facilities, and 10 strategic distribution partner agreements with leading consulting, systems integration, software, hardware, and training services companies. These new distribution partners will extend visibility for Centra in a variety of vertical markets through the sales and marketing of Centra 99(TM), Centra's flagship Web-based enterprise collaboration software See collaborative software. , to corporate customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government, marketing and business purposes. It is particularly common amongst North American based companies, who often divide their international operations into the . In addition to established European headquarters in the U.K.'s Thames Valley This article is about the Thames Valley in southern England. For New Zealand's Thames Valley region, see Thames Valley, New Zealand, or for the ITV region in the United Kingdom, see ITV Thames Valley. , Centra also recently opened direct sales and service facilities in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, enabling the company to meet explosive market demand for its live eBusiness collaboration solutions and to strengthen support for the company's fast-growing list of European customers. Through powerful distribution partnerships with Futuremedia, Next Learn, Two-M, Glass Multimedia, InfoSpec, 01, Cegos Interactive, DS Group, Edutec and Tracy International, Centra will further extend its reach to customers in the U.K., Benelux, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. "A product must be a leading application that is both one-of-a-kind and flexible before Futuremedia (Nasdaq:FMDAY) will embrace it," said Mats Johansson Mats Johansson, born in 1951, is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. He has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006. External links
Already in use at over 180 organizations worldwide, Centra 99 enables live eBusiness collaboration among customers, partners, and employees for customer interaction, collaborative commerce, virtual teamwork (product, software, tool) Teamwork - A SASD tool from Sterling Software, formerly CADRE Technologies, which supports the Shlaer/Mellor Object-Oriented method and the Yourdon-DeMarco, Hatley-Pirbhai, Constantine and Buhr notations. , and online learning. Unlike other ways that business professionals collaborate online, Centra 99 enables large groups of people to assemble, interact, discuss, collaborate, share content, and work together in real-time over intranets, extranets and the Internet. Instead of simply automating information flow, Centra augments human interaction and provides capabilities aimed at generating revenue, getting closer to customers, and improving productivity, while dramatically reducing travel, facilities and telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. costs. "We partner for success by choosing companies who realize the tremendous value that live eBusiness collaboration can bring to an organization when it is integrated with a company's business processes," said Lawrence Whittle, Vice President of European Sales Operations for Centra. "In building cooperative Building co-operatives are co-operative housing corporations where individuals or families work together to directly construct their own homes in a cooperative fashion. relationships with leading system integrators See systems integrator. , training companies and content developers, we hope to create successful, on-going engagements for our partners and our customers." New Partners Focus on the Customer Two-M (The Netherlands) As learning consultants, Two-M has one main philosophy; to ensure that customers and their learners receive quality learning solutions, effectively and attractively designed to promote retention, and delivered in a format enabling learners to quickly master the tasks at hand. Two-M's consultants assist organizations with a range of consultancy services, from streamlining existing learning objectives to designing and creating a complete learning strategy to fit each organizations needs. Visit Two-M at http://www.two-m.com. Futuremedia PLC (Nasdaq:FMDAY) (U.K.) Since 1982, Futuremedia has taken a partnership view in respect to relationship with customers. Futuremedia has extensive experience in providing organizations with a total eLearning solution. In order to do this Futuremedia has developed the learning management system Solstra together with British Telecommunications PLC and has announced the learning hub easycando.com. Futuremedia's key expertise lies in the areas of eLearning consulting, product development and integration. As a team, Futuremedia provides complete solutions, by combining appropriate technologies such as online learning solutions by Centra with its own products and services for a sustainable business A business is sustainable if it has adapted its practices for the use of renewable resources and holds itself accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of its activities. value. Visit Futuremedia at http://www.futuremedia.co.uk. Tracy International (Portugal) Tracy International offers clients solutions that enhance productivity, performance and profitability by offering the best business solutions through products, training services including distance learning over the Internet, performance improvement and information systems. Tracy International's solutions include Tracy Technologies, Tracy Consulting and Tracy Performance Solutions. Select clients include Banco de Portugal The Banco de Portugal is the central bank of the Republic of Portugal. Established by a royal charter of 19 November 1846 to act as a commercial bank and issuing bank, it came about as the result of a merger of the Banco de Lisboa and the Companhia de Confiança Nacional, an , BP/Mobil, Cadbury, Danone, DHL DHL abbr. 1. Doctor of Hebrew Letters 2. Doctor of Hebrew Literature , Effem, Jeronimo Gist-brocades, Iapmei, 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) , Kodak, Lever lever, simple machine consisting of a bar supported at some stationary point along its length and used to overcome resistance at a second point by application of force at a third point. The stationary point of a lever is known as its fulcrum. , Peugeot, and Reckitt & Colman. Visit Tracy at http://www.tracy-international.pt Next Learn (Sweden) Next Learn develops and delivers eLearning solutions for clients in the Scandinavian countries Noun 1. Scandinavian country - any one of the countries occupying Scandinavia Scandinavian nation European country, European nation - any one of the countries occupying the European continent , offering professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , customized training and technical infrastructure. Visit Next Learn at http://www.nextlearn.com. Glass Multimedia (Spain) Glass Multimedia offers technology-based training solutions. Visit Glass at http://www.glassmultimedia.net/ 01 PLIROFORIKI (Greece) 01 PLIROFORIKI is a pioneer in Greece in the sectors of education and vocational training. Their experience in education combined with high-level technological capabilities provides a competitive advantage regarding the usage of state-of-the-art technology in the education process. Moreover, this experience has already been used in the design and development of educational Software using multimedia technology. 01 has the know-how and technology in areas concerning synchronous Refers to events that are synchronized, or coordinated, in time. For example, the interval between transmitting A and B is the same as between B and C, and completing the current operation before the next one is started are considered synchronous operations. Contrast with asynchronous. and asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. distance learning. Visit 01 at http://www.01p.gr/ Infospec (Cyprus) Infospec offers technology-based learning solutions. Visit Infospec at andreas@infospec.com.cy Cegos Interactive (France) Cegos has been providing training and consultancy for 50 years and has led training and change initiatives for some of the world's largest employers. Cegos Interactive is part of the Cegos Group, Europe's largest training consultancy. Recognized as market leaders in the field of management training, Fielden-Cegos are known for providing uniquely thorough services. An unbeatable series of courses ranging from primary workplace skills through to comprehensive management development programs has secured their position as a leading training provider and HR consultancy. Visit Cegos at http://www.cegos.fr/ DS Group (Italy) DS group is a computer consulting company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a which offers solutions about inside and outside business communication. The DS Group tenders services in the integration of diverse communication media, the realization of "front office" applications, and the monitoring of internal workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. . Founded in1991, DS Group is headquartered in Milano, with a branch in Rome, working throughout the whole of Italy. Visit DS Group at http://www.dsgroup.it/ Edutec (Switzerland) Edutec is the leading technology-based learning solution provider. Edutec delivers eLearning solutions to the large enterprises mainly in the finance and insurance arenas. Founded in 1988, Edutec belongs today to Tertia AG, the biggest privately held training company in Germany. Visit Edutec at http://www.edutec.ch About Centra Centra is a provider of Internet solutions for live eBusiness collaboration. Products include Centra 99, an enterprise-class, Internet software application for sales, marketing, services and training, and the innovative CentraNow network service - a convenient Web destination for live, voice-enabled business meetings and events featuring the Centra Business Collaboration Network (CentraBCN(TM)). Centra's customers include Fortune 1000 companies such as Armstrong, Kraft, Nationwide, Compaq, and Viacom. Centra has business and software partnerships with Deloitte Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Microsoft, Oracle, Ariba, and Global Knowledge Network. Headquartered in Boston's technology corridor, Centra has sales offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe. For more information, visit Centra at www.centra.com. |
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