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SITEFORUM portal software is a turnkey business portal application that combines Website & Personalization, Content- & Document Management, Webmail & Marketing Campaigns, Forums & Conferences, Group events, Contacts & Tasks, Catalogs & Webshop.
SITEFORUM SaaS platform for web-based business processes
Software as a Service (SaaS) gets ahead of conventional software business models. Therefore SITEFORUM offers an approved platform with Web 2.0 functionality.

SITEFORUM and PORTALS + take 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) to another level
Portals + will represent SITEFORUM in the UK market and under a Business Market and collaboration agreement, develop wider solutions at affordable costs in half the time.

First-class service enhancement at the VBL with SITEFORUM
“The new pension calculators are a resounding success“ says Martin Appel, Online Marketing Manager of the VBL, the # 1 supplementary pension institution provided to non civil servant public employees in Germany. The VBL expects about 60,000 generated offers per year with the new system.

HR.com to become SITEFORUM reseller ...
... offering cost-effective real-time portal solutions to HR partners, employee portals and media

Web-based portal platform will allow organizations to maximize Web 2.0 technologies, have a holistic view of employees, clients and prospects and support online user communities.

SITEFORUM Webmail works superbly with Blackberry
Last week T-Mobile delivered a new BlackBerry Pearl, a neat new gadget: small, handy, good-looking. But will it do the job?

Search Engine Optimisation at its best: SITEFORUM SEO 360°
Everyone wants to be near the top of the Google listings without paying extra for the positioning - SITEFORUM SEO 360° can achieve this. We'll prove the case.*

Optimize the handling of documents with SITEFORUM's document management system
Employees of departments like accounting have to pay timely and accurate attention to do their duties. In addition to their normal work duties they have to keep an accurate and complete record of their paper documents. Further, they have to ensure that the many documents they get, have and generate don't get mis-files and / or lost. Finally, they need to assist other employes can find the documents and records that they need in a timely fashion.

Arriva plc relys on the intelligent SITEFORUM Document Management System
Arriva plc is one of the leading transport services organisations in Europe. They operate a fleet of over 12,000 vehicles, employ over 30,000 people and provide more than one billion passenger journeys each year. Arriva plc consists of six firms including passenger traffic, freight transportation, leasing, technology and vegetable oil technology.

PRESS RELEASE: Universal Platform for Publishing Companies
(Suhl / Erfurt, 24/7/2006) Many established publishing companies have avoided moving online because of concerns about cannibalising revenues. Most are now rethinking this strategy as it becomes clear that other online publishers are able to steal substantial business from even the biggest, traditional firms. It is now essential for every publisher to have a proactive approach to online. What is more - the growth in online advertising - compared with printed advertising is a hundred times bigger (Source: Newspaper Association of America, Q1/2006: Print 0,3%, Online 35%) so the market opportunity is huge.

SITEFORUM Releases SalesPlug with Video Chat Capability
Businesses can now have the ability to directly communicate with Prospects and Customers with immediate and real time video conferencing capability.
Salesplug’s new version enhances the current text and audio features with realtime video communication via the web. In addition, this feature is immediate and enabled ‘on-demand’. Vistiors to your website can initiate text, audio, or full video consultation with your sales and/or support team. Salesplug’s features are available without the installation of additional plug-ins or applications. Your visitors and employees are linked via the web and can see, hear, or exchange documents with just a webcam and headset.

SITEFORUM ON_SALE - increase your profitability with a complete online Sales & Marketing system
Many European mid-sized-businesses are facing increasing Sales & Marketing service demands in home markets and from around the world. SITEFORUM ON_SALE provides turnkey business solutions for Sales, Marketing and Support and can be installed and customised in just a few hours. Its scalable technology enables support for more customers, more transactions, more gain and less costs.

SITEFORUM Version 5 – Outlook in the Near Future
After long weeks and months of developing, programming, testing and describing we can give you now an overview of coming functionalities and features in the brand new version SITEFORUM 5. Use SITEFORUM in your company right now and you will get version 5 after publication automatically with the Instant Update Option.

SITEFORUM is recommended by PayPal
PayPal became one of the biggest online payment institutions worldwide with its more than 133 million members in 106 nations. The ambition is to make online payment as easy as possible:

SITEFORUM is characterized from The Initiative Middle-Class
The Initiative Middle-Class, partner and consultant of middle-class companies choosing IT solutions, received this year for the fourth time the “Innovation Price of the Information Technology” award.

SITEFORUM demo movies with sound
For all users and those who are interested in getting a clue of the SITEFORUM functions, we now provide new demo movies.

FieldMedia to Launch New Web2.0 Sites for the Benefits, Compensation and Healthcare Communities
In partnership with HR.com, CDHC and Benefits and Compensations Solutions Publications move into a new interactive online environment.

Aurora, September 19, 2007 - FieldMedia, in conjunction with HR.com, is pleased to announce the launch of their two newly redesigned websites CDHC Solutions (www.cdhcsolutionsmag.com) and Benefits and Compensation Solutions (www.bcsolutionsmag.com). The new sites are built on Siteforum's Web 2.0 platform and will enable FieldMedia to deliver more in-depth content and increase awareness of benefits and compensation issues and consumer directed healthcare initiatives within the human capital management industry.

Social Networking Platform enables HR Executives to connect, share and collaborate online
- SITEFORUM and Spring Messe Management sign a strategic partnership.

(Suhl/Mannheim, 01.08.2007) After several successful partnerships in the North American market, German-based SITEFORUM has announced a strategic partnership with Spring Messe Management, which will enable HR Executives from Europe to collaborate online via their social networking site www.hrm.de.

PORTALS+ announce SMB Edition of their market-leading, eBusiness Platform
London, UK, 18th July 2007: Portals+ announce a Small-Midsize Business (SMB) edition of SITEFORUM - making world-class eMarketing and eCommerce capabilities affordable to any organisation.

HR.com: Leading Global HR Portal Uses Web 2.0 Technology "made in Germany"
With the vision to support HR executives all over the world in their daily business the Canadian entrepreneur Debbie McGrath started HR.com in 1999. Originally designed as an online magazine the portal was continuously expanded to provide a wide variety of HR information and to give executives the opportunity to communicate with their colleagues worldwide via different channels.

Social Networking conquers Businesses
(Suhl/Erfurt, 20. August 2007) A recent survey of 323 organizations, conducted in May 2007 by i4cp (The Institute for Corporate Productivity) entitled "The Social Network Practitioner Consensus Survey," revealed that employees are quickly gravitating toward leveraging social networks for very traditional business uses.

Free eBusiness Seminar from SITEFORUM - June 14th 2006 in Erfurt
We are pleased to invite SITEFORUM customers and others to our public seminar on June 14th in Erfurt.

SITEFORUM® Enterprise as middleware
The Red Hat / JBoss deal has turned the spotlight on middleware. This story highlights the added value of the SITEFORUM platform with respect to middleware.

Use RSS feeds with SITEFORUM - keep your site-users up to date
Forget Bookmarks; use Internal and External Feeds and you and your users don't need to miss any news.

New SITEFORUM products for resellers
ERFURT, Juni 17, 2003 - SITEFORUM Portalbuilder and Webpagebuilder is the ideal lead generation factory, best suited for telcos and internet service providers.

Partner of University of Cooperative Education Eisenach
ERFURT, September 21, 2003 - Interested to study at the University of Cooperative Education Eisenach ? SITEFORUM Software Europe GmbH is another IT company of choice.

New strong entry in Europe's Advisory board
ERFURT, April 9, 2003 - EDS Chief Technology Architect EMEA joins SITEFORUM Advisory board.

SITEFORUM powers F1 driver Alex Yoong's Web portal
KUALA LUMPUR, January 2, 2002 - Alex Yoong and Neuroweb's President Al-Ishsal launched the new look www.alexyoong.com website in a glitzy party amidst a big turn out of Malaysian media and celebrity guests at the All Stars Sports Café in Kuala Lumpur's Midvalley Megamall tonight.

State of Thuringia chooses SITEFORUM to power education Portal.
ERFURT, March 3, 2003 - - The State of Thuringia in Germany, turned to SITEFORUM to provide advanced Portal technology to enable its www.bildungsportal-thueringen.de initiative.

SITEFORUM & MySQL team up to deliver Integrated Portal Solutions
ERFURT, January 5, 2003 - SITEFORUM Europe AG and MySQL AB announced today that the signing of a bundling alliance agreement that enables organizations to easily establish their own specifically-featured eBusiness portals and applications.

SITEFORUM releases Multi-Portal Environment
ERFURT, November 2, 2003 - SITEFORUM announced the release of its all new Multi-Portal Environment, to address the challenges faced by chain or franchise businesses.

Hepatitis C information portal for La Roche-Hoffmann of Canada
ERFURT, August 11, 2003 - Merge Inc., a SITEFORUM system integrator in Canada has built a Hepatitis C information portal for La Roche-Hoffmann of Canada.

Realtime business using SITEFORUM
ERFURT, September 17, 2003 - Realtime enterprise sounds like another great buzzword. We think it will become a solid business strategy.

SAP, MySQL and city of Munich - good news for SITEFORUM customers
ERFURT, June 17, 2003 - SAP, one of the world’s largest business solutions suite providers, announced that they were collaborating fully with MySQL, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, “to jointly deliver a next-generation, enterprise-ready open source database for businesses”.

Finalist for INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AWARD 2003
ERFURT, October 16, 2003 - Year by year Elan Conferences Ltd. issues the prestigious INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AWARD.

SITEFORUM makes foray into Asia-Pacific
KUALA LUMPUR, June 17, 2002 - Interactive Business Portals Sdn Bhd., of the SITEFORUM Group, an e-business solutions provider, is projecting revenues in excess of RM30 million from sales of its collaborative content management solution in Asia Pacific within the first three years of operations.

SITEFORUM is sponsor of "1. Düsseldorfer E-Mail-Day"
"From best-of-breed to integrated solutions - an example for ERMS (email response management system) in a multi-channel mix" - under this headline, Dipl.Ing. Juergen Schlenzig, CEO of SITEFORUM Group, will present at 1. Duesseldorf E-Mail-Day at June 1, 2005.

Stopping virus attacks successfully
ERFURT, Februar 1, 2004 - It's well known that MS Outlook is a multiplier for viruses, enabling major attacks, and that virus protection software is not really going to stop them.There are alternatives, before the next attack comes up:

SITEFORUM supports education at Technical University of Ilmenau / Germany
Since winter semester 2002/2003 already the SITEFORUM platform is used for education purposes in "Information and knowledge management".

Turning a Website into a business center: SITEFORUM 4 Business Suite
Positioned between Office and Financial software, many everyday business processes are left without software support, particularly, without integrated software support. SITEFORUM offers its Business Suite as the solution to fill the gap and to improve productivity.

The health insurance company VBL is very successful with online bookings of seminars

VBL, a great german institute for provision for the Federal and Länder Authorities, delivers the operational elderly benefits for employees in the public service for more than 75 years. At present about 950 staff members service 2 million compulsorily insurants, 2 million non-contributory employees, and 1 million retirees.

Most recently, VBL is using the SITEFORUM seminar manager. More than 30 online bookings were accepted in just the first 60 minutes.



Germany's leading IT service provider for the building industry is "powered by SITEFORUM"
BRZ Deutschland is the leading IT service provider for the building industry with 450 employees and 25 branch offices in Germany. Using innovative, information technology and efficient solutions for organizations, BRZ Deutschland supports companies in the building industry to improve their end-to-end business processes. These controlling and project management solutions are optimized for the building industry. They enable these businesses to run more effectively and more efficiently. BRZ has been a huge success with more than 13, 000 customers adopting their solutions over the past 40 years.

SITEFORUM: On Demand for the newspaper industry
(Suhl/Erfurt, 13. Oktober 2005) Just in time for the industry’s tradeshow, IFRA 2005 in Leipzig, SITEFORUM presents an industry-specific solution, based on Internet marketplace technology.

SITEFORUM announces a complete solution for publishers
IFRAexpo, the ,leading tradeshow for publishers, is being held in Leipzig/Germany, on October 17th through 20th.. SITEFORUM is pleased to present its industry-specific EPO² solution, based on SITEFORUM MARKETPLACE, to the publishing professionals attending this important tradeshow.(www.ifra.com)

Today's Proven Product, not Tomorrow's Product Promises
Today's companies need more than just CRM

We read about hosted software, or what is now sometimes called, business on demand, every day. Products and services, based on this business model, are announced, piloted, introduced, and are gaining more and more market share.
SITEFORUM Group, with about 100 satisfied customers, has long since departed from the pilot software phase.

SITEFORUM portal sends mails, appointments and tasks via SMS
(Austin, TX, June 14, 2005) In the latest issue, German weekly magazine Computerwoche reports about some possible security issues with the Blackberry service. SITEFORUM announces that there are alternatives.

SITEFORUM in Fraunhofer Market survey Portal software 2005
The "Portal Software Market Survey 2005", published by Fraunhofer IAO gives orientation in the portal software jungle, with 51 products comparison and an introduction into enterprise portal architecture. 51 products, including SITEFORUM Enterprise; were analyzed by the Fraunhofer IAO experts.

Catpilot.com - e-procurement powered by SITEFORUM
Catpilot.com, an international platform to exchange electronic product catalogues in BME-cat format, is online.

SITEFORUM 4.3 Released : New helpdesk application (ERMS) and improved Webshop
SITEFORUM is pleased to announce the release of Version 4.3. The SITEFORUM Enterprise has been improved with new features and expanded with a new application.

SITEFORUM SUCCESS STORY - Sony Germany Advances Online retail support


SITEFORUM Enterprise Suite - Whats new in Version 4
SITEFORUM 4 comes with many new features. Many existing features has been improved or redesigned to better meet your expectations and business scenarios. Here is a detailled list of the biggest changes.

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