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In connection with the First International Pragmatic Web Conference call for papers I recently mentioned that Nathan Houser (in a piece titled "Peirce in the 21st Century" in a recent Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society" volume) noted John Sowa's work in Conceptual Graphs (CG) based on Peirce's Existential Graphs (EG) as having "begun to show great promise in the competitive marketplace of ideas" and was queried off-list as to an example of CGs being employed in this way. The following announcement was posted to the CG list a few days ago by Gerard Ellis, the Chief Scientist of the group which developed the Sonetto product based on CGs and CG search and rule engines. There are, of course, other applications of CGs in the "marketplace of ideas" (mainly European), but this appears to be the latest and most promising one. Gary Richmond
Please check
out the attached press releases that
were published yesterday. The first is Microsoft’s release and the
second
is our own press release. It is worth
mentioning that there were several
Microsoft clients and partners who made the finals but did not win
awards
despite having higher profile relationships with Microsoft than we do.
Sonetto
not only won both the Multi-Channel
Retail
Award and the Special
Award for
Innovation, but beat competitors with cutting edge solutions
in
promotions management, RFID, point of sale and customer loyalty. This
validates
both the Sonetto product strategy and our vision for its place at the
heart of
multi-channel retailing. Microsoft’s
release is at http://www.microsoft.com/emea/presscentre/pressreleases/rad2006winnerspr_1522006.mspx Our press
release: IVIS GROUP SECURES TWO WINS AT THE MICROSOFT EMEA RETAIL
APPLICATION DEVELOPER AWARDS IN Sonetto Affiliate Channel Management Wins
Multi-Channel Retailing Award and Special Award for Innovation The
Multi-Channel Retailing Award category rewards
solutions that enhance retailers’ ability to offer a better, more
integrated customer experience across multiple channels such as stores,
online,
kiosks, catalogues, telephone, TV and collaborative partnerships with
search
engines, shopping comparison sites and affiliate marketing networks. The Special
Award for Innovation is a discretionary
award given by the judges that recognises the most creative,
comprehensive,
integrated use of Microsoft technology and products to deliver tangible
business value to retailers. Qusai
Sarraf, CEO, IVIS Group, said, "We are
extremely proud to win these two awards. This endorsement from
Microsoft and
the RAD Award judges validates our vision of business driven PIM
applications
that enable true multi-channel retailing. It is a clear acknowledgement
of the
years of product development that have gone into our Sonetto solutions
working
closely with clients including Tesco.com.” Sonetto
Affiliate Channel Management enables
retailers to manage multiple dynamic relationships with shopping
comparison
websites, affiliate networks and search engines and align these
collaborative
channels with their direct sales efforts. Sonetto gives product,
category and
marketing managers the agility to control the supply of large product
data
feeds to affiliates on the fly and without the need for IT support. It
optimises marketing campaigns and the promotion of products to
consumers
through affiliate channels, thereby increasing sales, optimising
affiliate
marketing ROI and minimising the IT cots of managing multiple partners.
The
Microsoft EMEA RAD Awards are in their 6th year
and have become one of the leading events on the retail technology
calendar.
Since its inception, the RAD Awards programme has recognised and
celebrated the
independent software vendors (ISVs) and retailer IT departments that
make the
best use of Microsoft technology to provide business value to retail
organisations in Europe, the “This year’s
RAD winners are focused on
helping retailers achieve greater customer intimacy irrespective of
channel,
with a more integrated and collaborative business approach,” said Dilip
Popat, managing director, EMEA Retail Industry Unit, Microsoft. “The
winning companies demonstrate that a connected environment can maximise
the
potential of existing systems and link with those of external partners
to help
deliver the optimum shopping experience.” Microsoft
believes that honouring innovative software
developers is good for the retail community: it stimulates creativity
in delivering
genuine business value, and it continues to “raise the bar” for
application development. In this way, Microsoft believes that the RAD
Awards
programme benefits the industry as a whole. Ends About IVIS Group IVIS Group
has been at the forefront of developing
leading edge, strategic e-business solutions for retailers for 12 years
and is
the development partner behind Tesco.com, the world's most successful
online
grocery retailer. With a solid understanding of the opportunities and
challenges facing retailers today, IVIS Group helps its clients to
‘make
data make sense’ by providing an innovative mix of customer-centric
Product Information Management solutions for multi-channel retail,
consulting,
training and Professional Services. IVIS Group is a Microsoft Gold
Partner, a
member of W3C, GS1 UK and a pioneer of XML, .Net, Web Services,
Accessibility
and Semantic Web technologies. About Sonetto Sonetto is
IVIS Group’s flagship Product
Information Management solution. It is a business user-driven suite of
applications that enables multi-channel retailers to manage their
product
information across channels. Sonetto reduces costs, improves customer
satisfaction and increases revenue by delivering highly relevant
categorised
product information at every channel.
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