The company has been working in the Canadian and North American marketplace for a number of years and has gained key customers and partners including Heenan Blaikie, Wolters Kluwer and WatServ ERP Cloud Computing.

Keith Wood, the new CEO of pTools who took over from Tom Skinner, pTools founder, in September last year and has driven the new Canada operation comments:

“We have in the past made tentative steps in international markets without the commitment in terms of people and resources needed to grow business and gain long term partnerships and customers. This has changed and we are now a company working equally in Toronto and Dublin. I am excited to be working again with pTools at this important time and believe strongly in the future of our plans for Canada and other international markets.”

Commenting further on the initiative, Dee Allott, the recently appointed pTools General Manager, Canada said:

“pTools has been working quietly over the past two years to build a foothold in the Canadian marketplace. I am struck by the highly developed software the company can deliver to partners here and I believe there is a real opportunity to grow a strong Canadian business. pTools has already built a reputation for working with top level customers and this is something that is clearly appreciated here.”

Dee Allott is former President at Lexmark Canada and General Manager of Lexmark Europe. He brings a wealth of experience to the pTools team and company plans for growth and development.

pTools has a highly advanced software and established partner development record. The company works with partners to exploit market opportunities and helps partners to successfully deliver high value projects. pTools focus is on high value content customers in Finance, Banking, Health, Government, Security, Utility and Energy Sectors.

In addition to industry standard, enterprise level CMS features pTools has deep functionality for Multi-Language Content, Accessibility Compliant Content, Digital Asset Content, and Learning Content Management.

pTools is an enterprise level CMS software vendor with European headquarters in Dublin Ireland. Customers include: AXA Insurance, Allianz Insurance, The Irish Stock Exchange, Enterprise Ireland, The Department of the Irish Prime Minister, The Irish Energy Authority, Strathclyde Police Force.

About pTools™ Software:

pTools is a leading provider of enterprise level web content management software and solutions with offices in Toronto, Canada and headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. pTools software is used to develop enterprise web content management solutions for Intranet, Extranet and Internet systems for customers in private and public sectors in Canada, UK, Ireland and internationally. pTools software combines powerful content management functionality with user-friendly interface and enterprise application architecture.

More information at http://www.ptools.com/

A key element of the website is the delivery of rich media and social networking content, in addition to providing a comprehensive range of advice and information for Enterprise Ireland’s various audiences. With over 30 international locations pTools CMS also provides multi-language functionality for administration of international regional content.

Frank Ryan, CEO, Enterprise Ireland, who is featured on the video presentation on the site, comments:

“Enterprise Ireland’s new website is a comprehensive single point of information on all of the services and supports that are available to export-focused Irish companies and entrepreneurs. The successful completion of the project required a strong partnership approach between all members of the extended team and we are satisfied that the new website will significantly enhance our clients’ ability to engage with us online.”

Commenting further on the pTools deployment, Deirdre McDonough Head of IT at Enterprise Ireland said:

“The pTools CMS team worked proactively with us from the start of the project through to implementation of a new, technology-enabled and modern corporate website. Their platform proved to be reliable and flexible and we are confident it will serve us well as we further develop our online presence.”

Key features of the content solution include:

· Extensive usage of multimedia files providing engaging interactive online content management

· Multiple languages for International Office Websites

· Implementation of social media networking and content sharing via ’Share this’ module

· Calendar output for events listings and events calendar searching

· Multi-server Enterprise CMS deployment

· Complex multi-template information architecture with rich visual elements

· Multi-level workflows & publishing approval levels

Tech-wise, the initiative is about delivering and managing content across the multiple sectors and international offices of Enterprise Ireland worldwide. Speaking about the project, founder of pTools Software, Tom Skinner, said: “The work done by Enterprise Ireland internally has really ensured this deployment and we’re indebted to the team there. This is a landmark deployment for us and another example of the business critical content management solutions we deliver to our customers.”

He continues: “pTools makes it easy to manage content for websites of significant business scale and scope. This content is often critical to the business and its customers. In the case of Enterprise Ireland the value and efficiency of timely and accurate content and information is even more evident.”

Delivered on Microsoft SQL database the solution is designed to fit with Enterprise Ireland’s overall IT strategy and Microsoft.net based architecture and includes future proofing for integration with Microsoft SharePoint and other framework solutions.

pTools is a leading enterprise web content management software developer providing easy-to-use, rich feature functionality that delivers powerful content management for critical enterprise initiatives.

To download full case study on the pTools CMS deployment for Enterprise Ireland go to www.ptools.com

A key feature, pTools ‘TwitterDocs’, allows users to post to Twitter as they publish content through the CMS. There is no need to separately login to Twitter, and the content-related Tweet is controlled and managed within the CMS and its workflows.

In addition to Twitter, customer content is presented on Facebook, LinkedIn, and indexed in live search engine results such as Google & Bing with no pre- or post-publishing tweaking required.

The new features, which will be launched at the Digital Media Conference in Dublin at the end of the month, mean that businesses can now manage multiple online campaigns for different demographics through one content management engine.

Commenting on the development, Lee Annett, customer relationship and business development manager at pTools says: “Content is at the heart of the social networking experience and pTools Content Management Software (CMS) is helping customers get the most from their online content without the need to manually republish content to every ‘current’ social media site.  From within the CMS, content can be pushed out to potentially thousands of online locations and draws visitors back in to the central website.

pTools is a leading enterprise web content management software vendor providing high level feature functionality that delivers powerful content management for critical enterprise initiatives.

By making documents more searchable and readily available, the solution guarantees compliance with accessibility and transparency legislation. Organizations can now seamlessly transform PDF, Microsoft Word, and all Microsoft Office documents into compliant html web pages in pTools without the need for manual migration. Documents of 100 pages or more that can take three to five days to manually convert, let alone publish, can be tackled in a matter of hours and made available to online systems.

pTools was involved in development of the document Transparency Initiative at the Irish Stock Exchange earlier this year and Managing Director Tom Skinner commented: “We continue to build our Enterprise Content Management suite of applications and solutions and, together with Riverdocs, we can now provide an instant solution to exchanging document information online in a manner that traditionally required dedicated investment in technical skills and resources. This makes large scale document conversion and publishing easy.”

The solution solves the long standing problem of easily representing documents online as searchable, useable and accessible web pages. Issues of document retrieval, lost attachments, and inability to search are all handled by transformation to HTML and automated publishing to browser.

An immediate benefit of this approach is that it eliminates the need for manual migration. While other services offer conversion, this solution differs in that documents are also automatically publishable for web.  By simply dropping a PDF or document into a folder in pTools content management software, the document is transformed into web pages in the pTools application using the Riverdocs service.

Commenting on the development Peter Acton, Managing Director of Riverdocs says: “Riverdocs and pTools have a natural technology fit that results in a single solution for customers. For CMS users it’s a trouble free solution to an age-old problem and it really solves all the issues for people trying to easily access information that’s embedded in Office documents and PDFs. The savings in time and effort are significant and the results in controlling and sharing information accurately can’t be underestimated for financial services and government.”

The development is part of the ongoing extension of pTools suite of applications and is already in deployment with customers in Ireland and the UK.  Key benefits delivered by pTools Riverdocs document transformation solution include:

• Rapid conversion of Pdf and Microsoft Office Documents to managed web pages
• Managed, controlled and auditable access to documents and web pages
• Managed approval and sign-off of documents and web pages
• Fulfilled governance and compliance document transparency guidelines
• Guaranteed accessibility web content compliance and fully text searchable
• Reduced document and policy circulation costs and risks
• Increased document and policy efficiencies
• Guaranteed synchronisation of circulated information
• Improved information search and retrieval

The solution helps Financial Services and Government Organisations synchronise and share information in manner that is fully controlled, traceable and secure. Most of all it’s easy to adopt and deploy and results are immediately quantifiable and measurable for all.

Learn more at pTools.

pTools

Organizations can now use the enhanced web content management (WCM) capability of pTools directly within the SharePoint interface and framework.

The latest release will be launched at Microsoft’s worldwide SharePoint conference in Las Vegas this October 19th to 22nd, where pTools will also link up with partners and customers from the North American market.

Paul Rellis, Managing Director of Microsoft Ireland, commenting on pTools participation at the conference, says: “pTools has very successfully developed their web content management software on the SharePoint platform. Through participating in the SharePoint event the company will gain access and exposure to a vast number of customers and partners interested in connecting, sharing and collaborating on some of Microsoft’s fastest growing product lines – including SharePoint Server, SQL Server and Office 2007.”

The development is part of the ongoing extension of pTools suite of CMS products and alignment to Microsoft’s .NET applications framework.

Key enhancements delivered by pTools embedded WCM for SharePoint include:

• Enterprise level out-of-the box WCM functionality
• Seamless SharePoint-to-web replication and publishing
• Guaranteed accessibility web content compliance
• Multi-language web content management
• Multi-channel web content personalisation
• Rich media web content applications
• Improved SEO web optimisation
• Linked-up social networking and web content syndication.

Commenting on the development Tom Skinner, Managing Director of pTools says: “Continual product development based on customer and partner expectations is a key strategy for pTools and this extension puts our software at the leading edge with Microsoft SharePoint and web content management. Not only is our software now better integrated with
SharePoint, but the out-of-the-box capabilities of pTools web content management are now greatly improved. This development of an embedded application gives an over-the-horizon view of what’s coming in web and enterprise content management for pTools and pTools customers on the SharePoint platform.”

pTools embedded WCM for SharePoint gives the flexibility, rapid deployment and enhancements necessary for rich web
content management initiatives within the overall SharePoint application architecture. Organisations can extend content management functionality to enhance SharePoint web content management deployment and integrate content management tasks easily within a single application user interface.

Furthermore it allows seamless interoperability between pTools, SharePoint and other Microsoft server and desk-top applications. pTools content element architecture allows presentation of content across multiple delivery channels from a single repository, while maintaining all the necessary workflow and compliance rules demanded of enterprise level initiatives.

Content compliance within pTools uses sophisticated audit trail functionality that allows pTools customers to validate all events in the life of the content developed. pTools deploys to Microsoft SQL database and enables content management professionals to use the pTools application programming interface and development tools to deliver solutions for Intranets, Extranets and Internet applications.

Key features include: advanced workflow and content compliance; rapid deployment and in-built Web 2.0 features; Microsoft SharePoint integration; clean code accessibility standard; pTools ‘content element model’; content security marking; SEO
optimisation; and multi-site content syndication.