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Ixxus Future of Publishing Conference

Natalie Guest — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:57:00 GMT

You’re invited to explore the critical decisions facing the publishing industry as technology and user demands subvert the traditional models of content creation, discovery, distribution and consumption.

Ixxus Improve Search for Associated Newspapers

Natalie Guest — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:58:00 GMT

LONDON, UK – January 25, 2012 – Ixxus today announced that it has undertaken two phases of work for the Associated News & Media Group. Their subsidiary, Associated Newspapers, is one of the UK’s largest publishers of national newspapers and consumer websites, publishing The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and Metro

The Economy of Content Management - Alfresco ECM Pays for Itself in 10 Months

Natalie Guest — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:25:00 GMT

A new study highlights a number of economic advantages to investing in Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and finds that the platform pays for itself after just 10 months.

UCA and Ixxus Launch New Document Management System, Docshare

Natalie Guest — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:32:00 GMT

Ixxus today announced that it has successfully developed and implemented a new Enterprise Document Management system for the University for Creative Arts (UCA). UCA is a specialist creative arts university, and is one of the biggest providers of art and design education in Europe, with over 7000 students from 76 countries.

Alfresco named one of the companies that matters most in the digital content industry

Natalie Guest — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:47:00 GMT

Alfresco, the leading open source platform for content management, have been named as one of the companies which matter most in the digital content industry by EContent.

Big Data and Mobile Win the Day at Alfresco DevCon

Natalie Guest — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:49:00 GMT

Alfresco held its exciting conference for European developers, DevCon London, last week. Taking advantage of all the talent attending, Ixxus conducted a survey to get the developer community’s thoughts on Alfresco’s current product focus and where they’d like things to go next.

Ixxus Consultant Martin Bergljung named as an Alfresco ‘Community Star’

Natalie Guest — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:57:00 GMT

A Principal ECM Architect at Ixxus, Martin Bergljung, was recently named as a ‘Community Star’ at Alfresco DevCon 2011. The title was awarded by Alfresco Chief Community Officer Jeff Potts, in honour of Martin’s contributions to the Alfresco community.

UK Coalition Government plans further investment in Open Source Software

Natalie Guest — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:49:00 GMT

The Coalition Government has been vocal in its support for open source software (OSS) and states that it believes OSS “can deliver significant short and long term cost savings across Government IT”; such savings which are of crucial importance in this time of austerity and cuts.

Ixxus appoints Paul Champion as new Client Engagement Director

Jonathan Paul — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:21:00 GMT

Ixxus today announced the appointment of Paul Champion as a Client Engagement Director. With a strong background in business management and application development, Paul’s skills will be of great advantage to the company moving forward

Using Lucene in Grails

Jonathan Paul — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:18:00 GMT

Apache Lucene is the leading open source search engine and is used in many businesses, projects and products. Lucene has sub-projects which provide additional functionality such as the Nutch web crawler and the Solr search service. This article gives an introduction to Lucene, a tutorial on three Grails Lucene plugins and a comparison between them.

Ixxus solution helps fight against malaria

Jonathan Paul — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:20:00 GMT

Ixxus today announced that it has successfully developed a flexible workflow solution for the WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN). The system was built using Alfresco software, chosen by the group as the best fit for their requirements. Ixxus were selected as they are the largest pure Alfresco consultancy in the world today, the only Alfresco Platinum partner in the UK, and as such were perfectly placed to provide a content solution.

Ixxus to deliver five speaking slots at Alfresco DevCon 2011

Jonathan Paul — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:57:00 GMT

Ixxus today announced that they have been awarded an impressive total of five speaking slots for the upcoming Alfresco DevCon 2011, to be held at Prospero House in London on 9-10th November 2011. As the only Alfresco platinum partner in the UK, Ixxus are proud to have the chance to share some of their experiences with conference delegates.

NHS Education Scotland selects Mouchel Consortium to provide open source ECM solution

Jonathan Paul — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:50:00 GMT

NHS Education for Scotland (NES) has awarded the Mouchel Consortium a £250,000 contract to provide an Enterprise Content Management Solution (ECMS) based on an open source Alfresco solution

Ixxus names Kevin Ludford as Sales Director

Natalie Guest — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:36:00 GMT

Ixxus today announced that it has strengthened its sales force with the appointment of Kevin Ludford as Sales Director. Kevin is a highly skilled individual with several years’ experience and is expected to become a huge asset to the company. Kevin has a significant breadth of sales experience and a proven track record in expanding successful sales organisations.

Magazine article - Unplugged with Marc Palmer

Jonathan Paul — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:16:00 GMT

‘Unplugged with Marc Palmer’ by our very own architect, Robin Bramley features in this month’s GroovyMag.

Ixxus a Gold Sponsor of Apache Lucene EuroCon 2011

Natalie Guest — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:40:00 GMT

Ixxus is proud to announce that it is a gold sponsor at this year’s Apache Lucene Eurocon, a three-day conference held for the European Apache Lucene/Solr open source search community.

Ixxus presenting at Apache Lucene EuroCon 2011

Natalie Guest — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:34:00 GMT

Robin Bramley, Senior Architect at Ixxus, has been accepted to present a session at the Apache Lucene EuroCon 2011, entitled “Solr at Virgin Money Giving”.

Ixxus Utilises Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) to Deliver Global Solution

Natalie Guest — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:48:00 GMT

Ixxus today announced that they have successfully utilised the Amazon Elastic Cloud Computer (EC2) web service to deliver a global solution for a large publishing company.

Paul Samuel discusses managing social content

Jonathan Paul — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:49:00 GMT

Businesses are facing increasing pressures when it comes to managing their social content, with data in danger of spiralling rapidly out of control. The answer may lie in a social content management system – here, Paul Samuel of Ixxus discusses how and why businesses should take greater ownership of what is published via their social media channels.

Ixxus Social Content Platform Demonstration

Jonathan Paul — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:29:00 GMT

The Social Content Platform is a brand new module which seamlessly integrates into Alfresco Share allowing content to be published to multiple social media sites as well as providing centralised management of content feedback, popularity scoring and reporting.

Ixxus Social Content Platform creating buzz already

Natalie Guest — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:12:00 GMT

The Ixxus Social Content Platform launched this week, and response from the Alfresco community and the technology blogosphere has been overwhelmingly positive.

Ixxus launches Social Content Platform for Alfresco Enterprise Content Management customers

Jon Paul — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:11:00 GMT

London – 20 July 2011 – Information management specialist Ixxus today announced the launch of its Social Content Platform for users of the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system. Alfresco is the leading global open source ECM provider with nearly 2,000 customers in 55 countries and Ixxus is the first company to develop a specific module for managing and creating social content across the platform.

Magazine article: Browser Push

Robin Bramley — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:47:00 GMT

An article on Browser Push by one of our architects, Robin Bramley, features in this month’s GroovyMag

Ixxus Announce Build of New Digital Asset Management Platform for Prestigious Global Educational Publisher

Natalie Guest — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:25:00 GMT

Ixxus today announced that they have successfully developed and deployed a global Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform for a prestigious global educational publisher based on their Ixxus Publishing Platform (IPP). The IPP is built on Alfresco technology which was chosen by the publisher as a candidate for their new system.

The University for the Creative Arts Selects Ixxus and Alfresco to Build New Document Management System

Natalie Guest — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:19:00 GMT

LONDON, UK – July 11, 2011 – Ixxus today announced that it has secured a contract to deliver and implement a new Enterprise Document Management system for the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) which is one of Europe’s leading arts and design institutions and boasts around 7000 students enrolled on more than 80 different courses.

Magazine article: Using JMS in Grails

Judy lennox — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:16:00 GMT

The Java Message Service (JMS) API is one of the cornerstones of the Java Enterprise Edition that allows applications to reliably communicate using asynchronous messages sent via a message broker.

New Fashion label launches online presence on platform built by Ixxus

Ixxus — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:42:00 GMT

Ixxus is very excited to announce the launch of www.xanacollections.com, the online presence of new fashion label, Xana. The company, founded by Ana Lesiak, former Managing Director at Zara (UK), aims to combine beautiful fashion with strong ethical principles, under the logo Fair Fashion™. Fabrics are chosen for their looks and environmental impact and purchased at fair trade prices; vintage features are incorporated in many designs. The clothes are produced in a factory that takes special care in human welfare, and the business aims to directly help people in the production line.

Ixxus Client Is Honoured With MarkLogic Excellence Award

Judy Lennox — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:08:00 GMT

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 (http://www.dodslegislation.com). The publishing platform was developed by Ixxus using their Ixxus Publishing Platform™.

Bloomberg Businessweek: MarkLogic UK Summit and Dods Parliamentary Service

Amy-Clare Dick — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:08:00 GMT

Bloomberg Businessweek writes about the MarkLogic UK Summit and how Dods Parliamentary Service has launched a new information application powered by MarkLogic and developed by Ixxus. The new information application, Dods Legislation allows customers to follow specific clauses or entire bill through parliament.

Yahoo!: Dods announces the launch of its newest service, developed by Ixxus.

Amy-Clare Dick — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:32:00 GMT

Article on Yahoo! news about the launch of Dods Legislation, a new legislation tracking service, developed for Dods by Ixxus. The service enables subscribers to monitor UK Bills of Interest.

Magazine article: Using Enterprise Content in Grails

Judy Lennox — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:17:00 GMT

An article on the compelling combination of Grails, CMIS and Alfresco by one of our architects, Robin Bramley, features in this month’s GroovyMag

Book release: Alfresco 3 Business Solutions

Judy Lennox — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:51:00 GMT

We are pleased to announce that one of our resident architects, Martin Bergljung, has released a book titled "Alfresco 3 Business Solutions".

Ixxus Is Honoured As Medallist In The BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards

Judy Lennox — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:53:00 GMT

The BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards provide a platform for the entire profession to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence. In total, the Awards feature 24 categories which cover: project, organisation, technology and individual excellence. The categories are open to organisations and individuals involved in IT across the public, not for profit and commercial sectors.

The University of Westminster Builds Intranet 2.0 with Alfresco and Ixxus

Judy Lennox — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:39:00 GMT

LONDON, UK – December 02, 2010 – Today, Ixxus announced a major project to implement a University wide Enterprise Content Management “Intranet 2.0” for the University of Westminster.

Ixxus Is Named As Finalist For Prestigious BCS Award

Judy Lennox — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:45:00 GMT

Ixxus has been named as a finalist in the BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards under the Community Project of the Year category, for the technical design and management of the Virgin Money Giving platform. Ixxus worked with partners Arrk, to build a world class technology platform in extremely tight timescales

Lucene & Solr Commercial Enterprise Support Webinar

Judy Lennox — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:28:00 GMT

This webinar will provide you with a comprehensive overview as to what you can achieve with Lucene /Solr and will also provide you with an overview of what services are on offer and the features functionality. It will also explain the benefits and give examples of how other business have succeeded when using Lucene / Solr enterprise search.

Ixxus And Opsera Enterprise Services Division Agree To Merge, Growing UK Open Source Powerhouse

Judy lennox — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:28:00 GMT

LONDON – September 14th, 2010 – Ixxus and Opsera today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Ixxus will acquire Opsera’s Enterprise Services division for an undisclosed sum.

Lucid Imagination, the World’s Leading Supplier of Lucene/Solr Commercial Solutions, Appoints Ixxus as UK Based SI Authorised Partner

Judy Lennox — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:20:00 GMT

Lucene and Solr are state-of-the art search technologies available as open source from The Apache Software Foundation. Lucene is a powerful search library; Solr is the Lucene Search Server, providing an enterprise platform built on top of Lucene that makes it easy to build search applications

The Miller Group Builds on Open Source Foundations with Alfresco

Steve Odart — Wed, 26 May 2010 11:45:00 GMT

Today, Alfresco Software announced that The Miller Group, the UK’s largest privately owned House-building, Property Development and Construction Business, has selected Alfresco, the leading open source enterprise content management system, to provide it with a new content management system across its business. As an Alfresco Platinum Partner and chosen systems integrator, Ixxus was involved in the project from the beginning.

Alfresco announces Ixxus as its first UK based Platinum Partner

Paul Samuel — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:41:00 GMT

Today Alfresco Software announced that its certified partner Ixxus has achieved Platinum status in recognition of its considerable success with the implementation of the Alfresco ECM solution. This status has only been granted to two other European partners and Ixxus is the first partner globally to receive this accolade for work completed in a single country.

UK’s online business directory picks Ixxus and Alfresco for powering their online presence

Ixxus — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:06:00 GMT

Yell.com – part of international directories business Yell and one of the main sources of business leads in the UK – attracting over 10 million unique visitors a month, has chosen Alfresco, the leading open source enterprise content management system to provide content publishing for their on line presence and Ixxus as its preferred Alfresco systems integrator partner.

docGenix, L.P. Utilizes MarkLogic Server to Deliver its Powerful Risk Management Solution for Derivatives Markets

Ixxus — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:18:00 GMT

Mark Logic® Corporation, a leading provider of software for information-centric applications, today announced that docGenix, L.P., an innovative supplier of legal risk management solutions to participants in the international financial markets, has implemented MarkLogic Server as the delivery mechanism for XML content generated by its inSight service.

Leading Publishing House chooses Ixxus for Architecture review

Ixxus — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:00:00 GMT

One of the oldest UK publishing houses has selected Ixxus to provide an architecture review to help them determine a roadmap for increasing efficiency and productivity in their extensive use of content, both online and in print.

One of Largest plastic products manufacturer in World chooses Ixxus to provide and support Alfresco solutions

Ixxus — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:04:00 GMT

One of the largest producers of plastic products in the World has chosen Alfresco to provide its ECM requirements and Ixxus as its systems integration partner. The company supplies over 300,000 tonnes of products each year from plants across the UK, Europe, China and North America.

Ixxus to present at the Alfresco Meetup in the UK

Ixxus — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Ixxus today announced that it will be presenting at the Alfresco Meetup at Sun Microsystem’s campus in Camberley, UK on April 23^rd, 2009. During this event, which is the premier Alfresco community event in the UK, Ixxus will demonstrate one of the many innovative solutions that it has developed for its customers.

Ixxus release a new Alfresco dashlet

Ixxus — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:13:00 GMT

Ixxus release a Todo list Alfresco Share Dashlet.

Ixxus Deliver the First Percussion User Event in 2009

Ixxus — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:38:00 GMT

On Tuesday 17th March 2009, Ixxus held an event in London to explore with Percussion customers, the future of Percussion in the UK. The objective of the event was to provide a forum for customers to discuss Percussion’s transition to a Partner Channel in the UK and Europe and help shape how Ixxus can help make this transition as smooth as possible. Customers were able to speak directly with Peter Webster, Percussion’s Vice President of Operations who is responsible for all UK and European customers and partners and to meet the Ixxus team.

The latest version of the Ixxus Web Framework is released

IXXUS — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:55:00 GMT

Ixxus announce the release of the latest version of the Ixxus Web Framework. This is a robust framework that can be used to help build cost effective content managed websites rapidly with all the 'Web 2.0' features that are expected in a modern website.

CEO of Alfresco presents at the Ixxus open source enterprise content management conference for UK Government

IXXUS — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:30:00 GMT

John Powell, CEO of Alfresco presents at the Ixxus open source enterprise content management conference for UK Government.