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unable to access their organisations IT systems using their mobile devices or dont know whether they can access them or not, only 9 per cent of these were aware of their companies plans to enable mobile access to IT systems. Buck added Enabling secure, mobile access to IT systems at any time and from anywhere delivers efficiency benefits, enhancing productivity. Having to wait for staff to be sat in front of their PCs before they can access corporate systems is an archaic approach which is stifling for business.

BBC Worldwide, Statoil, DNB ASA, UCB Pharma SA, United Healthcare Insurance, Arqiva, Premier Farnell, GDF Suez, CPP Group, Capgemini, West Midlands Police, KPN Corporate Market, Accenture, MTN South Africa, Flemish Government, Swedbank, LDS Church, IBM, Travis Perkins, PostNord, ONeill and Printemps. Keynote presentations include Aaron Zornes of the MDM Institute, Clay Richardson of Forrester, Gwen Thomas of the Data Governance Institute, Rick van der Lans of the R/20 Consultancy, Jill Dych of DataFlux and Anwar Mirza of TNT Express.

ganizations identify the managing of information as being critical to their long-term growth and ability to scale, said Wendy Maurer-Linsky, vice president of Peripherals Product Marketing for Tech Data. Document recognition and document capture technologies are critical to the information management process, making ABBYY technology a natural addition to our offerings. Partnering with ABBYY further extends our world-class solution portfolio, enabling our network of resellers to increase the value they provide their customers. Tech Data says its advanced logistics capabilities and value-added services enable more than 125,000 resellers worldwide to efficiently and cost-effectively support the diverse technology needs of end users. Under the new distribution agreement, the company believes it will be able to better meet the demanding document management and OCR needs of its resellers in the Apple and document imaging market segments, as well as through the StreamOne platform. Tech Datas pre-established network of resellers in the Apple and Document Imaging communities allows us to increase the distribution of our solutions significantly, said Bill Kouzi, vice president of sales, distribution and VAR group at ABBYY USA. The new relationship with Tech Data allows us to further provide industry-leading, affordable document processing, automation, capture and linguistic technology to users across numerous verticals, including the often underserved Mac user community. Additionally, involvement in the new StreamOne Solutions Store allows us to deliver our software electronically, extending ABBYYs solutions to a new group of resellers.

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Master Data Management & Data Governance Summit Europe 23-25 April, 2012
Europes only co-located conferences on Master Data Management and Data Governance are not to be missed, according to the organisers, IRM UK. The co-located conferences are described as Europes leading independent conferences on MDM and Data Governance and are neither analyst nor vendor led. Delegates will be able to choose from nearly 60 conference sessions and 10 pre-conference tutorials from leading independent speakers and major users of MDM and Data Governance, taking an inside look at the successes and challenges behind real-world MDM and Data Governance implementations including Rolls-Royce, International Finance Corporation the World Bank, GlaxoSmithKline, Royal Dutch Shell, ING Bank, British American Tobacco, Transport for London, TNT Express, Standard Life Assurance, Royal Mail, Bank of America, Volvo IT, Forrester,

New Strategic Distribution Relationship Between Partners

ABBYY announced in February that it has entered into a new strategic distribution relationship with Tech Data Corporation. Under their agreement, Tech Data will distribute selected ABBYY products and software support services through its established network of value-added Apple and document imaging resellers in the United States. In addition, selected products will be available from the new StreamOne Solutions Store an end-to-end supply chain platform that, according to Tech Data, revolutionizes how the channel sells and distributes software and cloud-based services. Included within the distribution agreement are the ABBYY FineReader line of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) products, ABBYY Recognition Server, the ABBYY Lingvo line of dictionary solutions, and ABBYY PDF Transformer. Document imaging is one of todays most in-demand solutions, and many or-

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