VisionWT had a successful 3 days with eZ Systems and EMC at Internet World, May 2007, at Earl’s Court in London. The event stand never had a quiet moment and we thank every one who took the time to come and speak to us.

Internet World as a whole has evolved into a grand scaled event over the last few years. There were over 250 company stands with more than 200 keynote speakers and a multi-streamed seminar programme.

eZ Systems logged 2 million downloads of their popular software eZ Publish in March 2007. The increase in downloads has been 100% since late 2005.

Users around the world have downloaded eZ Publish, the popular open source content management system developed by eZ Systems and its community. This product is free of charge and can easily be download from the website www.ez.no. The activity on the web regarding this software and additional products has increased at a high rate in the last few years.

VP Sales and Marketing at eZ Systems, Vidar Top, says:

"The 2 million downloads mark from ez.no emphasizes our strong focus on reaching the right audience. We are currently expanding our product-line with service offerings such as eZ Publish Now, which gets you started right away, easy, fast and secure. Also, eZ Publish Premium is our high-end custom made solution. The traffic on our website and the amount of downloads is a good indicator that we are succeeding with this strategy."

He further says that the growth of the eZ community and eZ events, has played a major role in the steady increase of numbers.

Join the thousands of satisfied clients

Join the thousands of satisfied clients with eZ Publish solutions from around the world and contact Tony Wood at VisionWT (telephone +44 (0)20 7107 2695) for further information on how we can help you define and reach your business goals.

eZ Systems has secured 5 million USD in funding.

eZ Systems closed a deal with the Norwegian-based investment company BTV Invest for this round of financing (through their BTV-Fond investment fund).

"This deal secures our financing needs for our future expansion. With the unique proximity of BTV Invest, we are able work closely in developing the company further. I am also happy that, with this deal, the founders and employees are still majority shareholders of the company, ensuring that eZ's growth continues to be based on the core values that have been the basis of our success so far."
Aleksander Farstad
CEO of eZ Systems

"We look at our investment in eZ Systems as very interesting. The company has a unique global position, with a scalable open source business model. We believe eZ Systems will be one of the major players in this market for the future."
Leif Svarstad
Managing Director of BTV Invest

BTV-Invest is an an investment firm managing total assets of 50 million USD.

VisionWT will be a supporting partner at Internet World in London. The event will be held during 1-3 May 2007 at Earl’s Court exhibition centre in London.

“Internet World is the largest and most important internet show in the UK. I’ve been attending Internet World for six years and you get real conversation. You get what you want.”
Head of Online, Bradford & Bingley
Quote source: Internet World website

Within Internet World, Enterprise Content Management 2007 is designed specifically to answer the questions you have about content management, document management, knowledge management, information management and collaboration.

It’s free to enter Internet World, just register online at the link below for speedy entry on the day.

More information about the event and venue can be found at http://www.internetworld.co.uk/

Award-winning VisionWT win website of the year award for ADIFO site at the eZ publish conference 2006.

Building on their success to date VisionWT are proud winners of the at the 2006 eZ publish conference in Skien, Norway. website of the year award

The award for the
ADIFO website reinforces VisionWT's belief that brand development is a key ingredient in the success of eZ projects and web/technical projects as a whole and underlines the commitment for delivering outstanding eZ publish integrated solutions with our clients.

Highlights from this years eZ conference also included:-

The eZ conference awards ceremony

The eZ conference awards, (bringing together the partners of the eZ publish community) was a musical and visual treat. It celebrated the best in technical development and communication and truly brought together all to share ideas, inspiration and creativity.

The VisionWT stand

The VisionWT stand represented the evolution of the VisionWT brand and acted as a focus for brand and technical discussion for VisionWT as a whole and the rapidly evolving open brand community.

The boat trip

A VisionWT boat trip was organised in proud association with their hosting partner Webdeal and sponsored by IBM. Aboard the boat the winner of the VisionWT ipod was announced from a mass of entries from the previous days at the conference.

The swim

In recognition to their integrity, honesty and determination VisionWT's Tony Wood and James Eichhorn ended up in the Skien river to mark the fact that (whilst experiencing 100% growth ) they had not met their target of 200%.

The people

We wish everyone we met at the conference (you know who you are), the eZ publish team and all those behind the scenes all the best. It was you that made it the success it was and we look forward to next year's event already.
In the meantime, look out for further updates and images from the event coming soon.

The VisionWT team

VisionWT now offer eZ publish training videos for our clients.

"We constantly strive to make working with eZ publish easier and the training material helps us deliver more value to our clients" - Tony Wood

The training material can be found free for our project clients here.

Please contact us for more information on training.

Following our presentation at the recent eZ publish conference in Norway we have been inundated with requests for trial accounts. Unfortunately as a result it is taking slightly longer than normal to set up these accounts. However we fully expect to have cleared the backlog within the next week and look forward to showing what an Enterprise class CMS can do for every user.

We have used this time wisely and will ensure that all new trial accounts will be running the latest and greatest eZ publish 3.6.1 .We have also allocated more space to trail accounts and would like to confirm that we will be setting up all the trial accounts received so far. This popularity confirms eZ publish and VisionWT as the best place to host eZ publish environments on the planet.

Update 3rd August 2005

Great news; As from today the backlog is cleared and all new accounts setup in our environment will be eZ publish 3.6-1. These are configured and ready to go with the lasted system elements configured for you so you do not have to.

To make you site even better we now offer fast (static cache) as standard for all version 3.6-1 sites and can announce that we support eZ publish WebDAV on all accounts where requested.

eZ systems and VisionWT were contacted by Buckinghamshire County Council to tender for the ENCORE National Project. This project would enable Parish councils and other County Council bodies to create community web sites at the push of a button.

The selection process was stringent as 26 Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) were reviewed for the project. Out of the 26 leading CMS environments, 6 were chosen to present to the ENCORE team. Once the presentation had been completed the selection process continued until there were only 3 in the running. One of these was eZ publish backed by VisionWT.

The chosen CMS was one already in use within other projects of the Buckinghamshire County Council and one they had already invested time and effort in, sponsored by the ODPM.

We are proud that eZ publish has been judged in this lengthy 3 month selection process by Buckinghamshire County Council as on of the top 3 content management systems which proved to be user friendly enough and scalable enough to fit their needs.

VisionWT was proud to lead the tender process with eZ publish which greatly impressed Buckinghamshire County Council and we look forward to being first next time.

VisionWT will be at the eZ publish conference in Norway on 2-5 June 2005. As a premier eZ publish partner, Tony Wood of VisionWT will be speaking at the seminar on Friday 3rd June 2005 in the afternoon.

The seminar will cover the multiple language facilities within eZ publish and with the use of a case study will give some tips on good usage and some advice for avoiding some nasty traps.

This presentation will cover all the elements of multi-lingual projects from inception to roll-out.

For more information, visit http://ez.no/camp2005

VisionWT is pleased to announce the eZ CMF Developer extension for eZ publish developers.

This tool has been created by Paul Forsyth and contains time saving features that will help any eZ publish developer.

This extension is released under GPL so that the eZ publish community can work together to better enhance the eZ publish development experience.

Link to http://www.visionwt.com/ezcmfdeveloper to install.