Dods, a leading political information, publishing, events and communications business operating in both the UK and Europe has received the 2011 MarkLogic Excellence Award. Dods won the award for the publishing platform it is using to power its online business and launch new products; including the recent Dods Legislation. The publishing platform was developed by Ixxus using their Ixxus Publishing Platform™.

The Ixxus Publishing Platform™ couples the enterprise content management capabilities of Alfresco with the unstructured publishing power of MarkLogic as an integrated platform. The combination of these technologies integrated together provides enterprise-grade, publisher-specific functionality which efficiently solves many common challenges found during the management, transformation and publication of valuable content in a scalable and extensible way.

Simon Thompson, Managing Director at Dods stated “Our new publishing platform from Ixxus has transformed our business. We have been able to rapidly launch two new online services to date, and have many more in the pipeline. We are creating new revenues, have streamlined our production processes, and have a faster, dynamic, flexible and efficient company as a result. I am delighted with the platform.”

"The MarkLogic Awards Program recognises customers, partners, and individuals that are leveraging MarkLogic for true innovation on mission-critical applications," said Ken Bado, president and CEO, MarkLogic. "The recipients of this year's awards represent some fantastic implementations that are leveraging unstructured information and big data in a way that will create a competitive advantage. Organisations and individuals that have shown this type of technological leadership will reap the benefits for years to come."

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About Ixxus

With headquarters in London, Ixxus is an experienced global consultancy and systems integration organisation. The Company specialises in the design, development and operational support of enterprise content management and search solutions, with a modern and innovative approach to project delivery.

Ixxus is Alfresco’s only UK based platinum partner and has gained unrivalled implementation experience over the last five years with a team now of over 35 consultants. The company has worked across all industry sectors; including publishing, finance, higher education, government, legal and manufacturing. Customers include Yell.com, Virgin Money, Amnesty International, Clifford Chance and 118.com.

About Dods

Dods specialise in providing services designed for organisations wishing to understand and engage with Parliament, the Civil Service, the wider public sector and the public affairs community. Dods deliver a range of services including information, monitoring, training, events and integrated communications.

They have a long and successful history built upon providing contact and biographical information about and to the Houses of Parliament and the Civil Service since 1832. Renowned for the quality, accuracy and relevance of the political information it provides, Dods is one of the oldest political publishing and communications houses, offering some of the most regarded and respected political products and services in the UK and Europe.