Mr. Guirgis brings to Santeon more than 22 years experience in finance, treasury, M&A and capital markets transactions. Most recently, Mr. Guirgis served as Treasurer and Vice President, Planning & Analysis at Primus Telecommunications Group, Incorporated (“Primus”), a $1.3 billon facilities-based provider of integrated communications services, where he spent more than 12 years. During his tenure at Primus, Mr. Guirgis helped the company grow from $400 million in revenues to more than $1.3 billion in revenues in less than 4 years through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth. In addition, Mr. Guirgis was part of the core management team that raised more than $2 billion in debt and equity, in both the public and private capital markets, over twelve years. He was responsible for a number of operational and strategic finance projects that were critical to Primus’ success. Prior to his time at Primus, he worked at MCI Communications Corp. for six years as Manager of Consolidations Planning & Financial Analysis. Mr. Guirgis has a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Investments from The George Washington University in Washington, DC and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from The State University of New York at Stony Brook.
"We are very pleased with the addition of Mark to our core management team. The combination of Mark's experience in corporate finance and capital markets coupled with his strong business acumen will help Santeon to realize its growth potential and execute on its strategy to become a major player in software development, eBenefits Network outsourcing and Agile Services Providers for Fortune 500 companies”, said Dr. Ash Rofail, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Santeon. “Mr. Guirgis has been very instrumental in bringing our audit process to closure and ensuring that the company will be in compliance with all of its SEC filing before the end of the year."added Dr. Rofail.
About Santeon Group, Inc.
Santeon Group is a technology company Headquartered in Northern Virginia with offices strategically located in San Diego, Los Angeles, London, Cairo and Dubai. Santeon offers products and services in Healthcare, Energy, Media and Agile Development. Santeon Group's goal is to serve emerging markets by providing technically superior products and solutions while reducing the cost of ownership and deployment of these solutions through a strong channel partner and distribution model. For more information please visit the web site at http://www.santeon.com/.
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RESTON, VA--(Marketwire - 01/19/11) - Santeon Group, Inc. (OTC.BB:SANT - News) today announced that it has been awarded a contract with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (www.aamva.org) to perform an Agile IT transformation.
Under the contract, Santeon will be offering AAMVA a variety of services including Agile Training, and Agile Project Mentoring and Coaching. The contract was awarded to Santeon based on a competitive bid process that included more than a dozen leading Agile organizations.
AAMVA is the association of the state and provincial officials in the United States and Canada who administer and enforce motor vehicle laws. AAMVA is an innovative organization that utilizes software and technology to provide specialized information sharing services to its members.
"We are very excited to be working with such a forward-looking organization and are privileged to be selected as the vendor for AAMVA to provide Agile services," commented Dr. Ahmed Sidky, Executive Vice President, Agile Services and Delivery.
"AAMVA is looking forward to its partnership with Santeon to deploy Agile practices. Our team is enthusiastic and ready to embrace a new approach to doing business. We are confident that Santeon will guide us through every step of the transformation process," commented Philippe Guiot, CIO AAMVA.
Santeon management believes that its contract with AAMVA will continue to strengthen Santeon's leadership position in Agile Transformation and software development services.
About Santeon Group, Inc.
Santeon Group is a technology company Headquartered in Northern Virginia with offices strategically located in San Diego, Los Angeles, London, Cairo and Dubai. Santeon offers products and services in Healthcare, Energy, Media and Agile Development. Santeon Group's goal is to serve emerging markets by providing technically superior products and solutions while reducing the cost of ownership and deployment of these solutions through a strong channel partner and distribution model. For more information please visit the web site at http://www.santeon.com/.
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Jason Sunstein
Vice President
Phone: 703-970-9200
jasonsunstein@santeon.com
Santeon and RadioactiveGiant plan to collaborate on content monetization and promotion strategies for the collective content offerings. Santeon Media plans to integrate RadioactiveGiant's independent content and ad network with UBFilm.com's content management and authentication platform that will provide reliable and secure content delivery supporting a variety of business models.
"We believe signing the agreement with RadioactiveGiant will bring significant and immediate value to the UBFilm.com customer as well as film viewers who will soon have instant access to over 20,000 films in addition to our growing library of films. We are very excited to have a partnership with RadioactiveGiant and believe that it will bring mutual value for both organizations," commented Ash Rofail, CEO, Santeon Group, Inc.
"Digital media has opened direct distribution channel opportunities to develop new business models, content discovery, and audience development programs for both established and emerging independent filmmaker. We are pleased to have formed this alliance with Santeon's UBFilm, which we believe will provide independent filmmakers more opportunities to fund, produce and promote their films with worldwide distribution," commented Albert Sandoval, CEO, RadioactiveGiant.
About Santeon Group, Inc. Santeon Group is a technology company Headquartered in Northern Virginia with offices strategically located in San Diego, Los Angeles, London, Cairo and Dubai. Santeon offers products and services in Healthcare, Energy, Media and Agile Development. Santeon Group's goal is to serve emerging markets by providing technically superior products and solutions while reducing the cost of ownership and deployment of these solutions through a strong channel partner and distribution model. For more information please visit the web site at http://www.santeon.com/.
About RadioactiveGiant RadioactiveGiant provides end-to-end solutions to brands, producers of entertainment and platform developers seeking audiences, consumers, distribution and business opportunities in the digital entertainment ecosystem, through strategic business development, integrated digital marketing programs and integration on entertainment consumer brands in today's emerging digital entertainment markets. For more information please visit http://www.radioactivegiant.com/
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jasonsunstein@santeon.com
"We are very excited about UBFilm.com. Our objective was to develop a comprehensive platform to support the Film production lifecycle. UBFilm.com is the result of our commitment to innovation and creativity. Our site/platform offers support throughout the full lifecycle of a film's production. All film makers have an opportunity to obtain funds necessary to produce their films, connect to a community of film makers talent to develop the film and release it to our online network as well as to millions of devices through our content distribution partners," commented Ash Rofail, Chairman and CEO. "We are limiting the access to the full site for the next 30 days to ensure the richness of the content. On February 1, 2011 all sections of the site will be open without any restrictions," continued Ash Rofail.
"UBFilm.com provides filmmakers with one platform that will provide access to potential funding resources, production support, and distribution to customers on all levels of multi-media and has the potential to be a cost-effective approach to motion picture production worldwide," commented Ford Austin, President of Santeon's Media Film Division
Santeon's goals are to continue to expand the UBFilm.com site with tools and utilities to assist film makers enhance their skills, achieve a large scale distribution reach as well as host their own film portal using the Santeon Media Content Management Platform.
Our main objective is to fulfill a need that as of recently can only be fulfilled through traditional venues. "We believe that UBFilm.com will transform the industry and support the next generation of Film Makers," commented Ash Rofail.
About Santeon Group, Inc. Santeon Group is a technology company Headquartered in Northern Virginia with offices strategically located in San Diego, Los Angeles, London, Cairo and Dubai. Santeon offers products and services in Healthcare, Energy, Media and Agile Development. Santeon Group's goal is to serve emerging markets by providing technically superior products and solutions while reducing the cost of ownership and deployment of these solutions through a strong channel partner and distribution model. For more information please visit the web site at http://www.santeon.com/.
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Santeon and MIG expect to close the Transaction in early January 2011. The MIG has indicated to us that it has signed additional Media projects to launch this new partnership that will be jointly announced in the very near term after the closing of the Transaction.
The Santeon board of directors is scheduled to meet after the closing of the Transaction to discuss the growth of the Company, as well as a potential stock buy-back program. The company currently has no significant debts and plans to use the proceeds from the Transaction for building value and accelerating the growth of the other divisions to meet expanding market needs in Healthcare, Energy/Environment and Agile Software Development.
"We believe that this Transaction provides significant opportunities for Santeon and its new Media partner. The Transaction will give the Company capital infusion over the next year to assist the Company in its expansion and address the growing market demands, as well as drive new media projects and revenue to the Company," commented Dr. Ash Rofail.
"We believe that our shares are undervalued and that this Transaction is a positive step towards increasing our share value," continued Dr. Rofail.
As previously announced, the Company will be holding a special shareholders meeting on Wednesday December 29nd, 2010, at 4PM Easter Standard Time (EST) to discuss our plans and strategy for 2011, as well as provide an opportunity for all its shareholders to participate and ask questions. The meeting will outline the direction that the company has chartered; discuss in detail the current business opportunities available to the Company and the Company plans for each of its subsidiary divisions.
To register for the meeting please go to the following link and follow the simple instructions.
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About Santeon Group, Inc. Santeon Group is a technology company Headquartered in Northern Virginia with offices strategically located in San Diego, Los Angeles, London, Cairo and Dubai. Santeon offers products and services in Healthcare, Energy, Media and Agile Development. Santeon Group's goal is to serve emerging markets by providing technically superior products and solutions while reducing the cost of ownership and deployment of these solutions through a strong channel partner and distribution model. For more information please visit the web site at http://www.santeon.com/.
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Santeon, a leading BPO technology and service provider which has been operating and growing the eBN service for over 5 years , has recently made a significant investment in the automation, infrastructure and features, spurred on by increasing demand. The company has signed several contracts with new partners that it will announce separately. The new eBN service is built on Santeon's advanced XIP Business Process Management Platform and automation framework.
Santeon recently hired Tom Tillman as Director of the eBenefits Network business to expand the service with new partners. Tom brings to Santeon over 30 years successful track record in marketing and managing information technology, including 13 years in the HR/Payroll/Benefits industry with Sage Software.
"We are considered one of the leading providers of Automated Benefits Management and in 2011, we are focused and determined to provide the most competitive service, and the highest value to our partners and customers," commented Dr. Ash Rofail, Chairman and CEO. "Our edge continues to be our innovative technical approach, our reliable infrastructure, our process efficiency and our network of several hundred benefits providers. We are looking forward to a very healthy 2011 that is already off to a very strong start," continued Dr. Rofail.
The company continues to focus its strategic growth in Healthcare, Environmental, Media and Agile Development Services. The Santeon eBenefits Network is one of the core Healthcare offerings.
About Santeon Group, Inc. Santeon Group is a technology company Headquartered in Northern Virginia with offices strategically located in San Diego, Los Angeles, London, Cairo and Dubai. Santeon offers products and services in Healthcare, Energy, Media and Agile Development. Santeon Group's goal is to serve emerging markets by providing technically superior products and solutions while reducing the cost of ownership and deployment of these solutions through a strong channel partner and distribution model. For more information please visit the web site at http://www.santeon.com/.
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"Transparency is key to our business operations and we want to give every shareholder the opportunity to learn about the company and the direction that we are taking as we bring this year to a close. We also want to wish every shareholder a happy holiday and personally thank them for their contribution and support," commented Dr. Ash Rofail, Chairman and CEO. "This is the first of a pattern of communication that we intend to practice by providing an open forum for everyone to voice their feedback and be aware of our direction. We intend on holding our quarterly meetings using the same venue. I strongly encourage each shareholder to join the conference call by registering using the link below. We have made this process easy and as straight forward as possible," commented Dr. Rofail.
To register for the meeting please go to the following link and follow the simple instructions.
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About Santeon Group, Inc. Santeon Group is a technology company Headquartered in Northern Virginia with offices strategically located in San Diego, Los Angeles, London, Cairo and Dubai. Santeon offers products and services in Healthcare, Energy, Media and Agile Development. Santeon Group's goal is to serve emerging markets by providing technically superior products and solutions while reducing the cost of ownership and deployment of these solutions through a strong channel partner and distribution model. For more information please visit the web site at http://www.santeon.com/.
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"We are very pleased to have signed this agreement with Blackboard and are looking forward to growing our relationship," commented Dr. Ash Rofail, Chairman and CEO. "This agreement not only confirms our leadership position as a world class software development outsourcing organization, but also highlights our key differentiator in providing Agile based development with emphasis on quality, reliability and focus on value as well as the user experience," continued Dr. Rofail.
"We have chosen Santeon for their demonstrated Agile development skills and leadership in the Agile community," said Al DeGregorio, Director of Systems Operations & Integration for Blackboard Managed Hosting(SM).
As a founding member of the International Consortium for Agile, Santeon is aggressively growing its software development outsourcing line of business including Agile training, consulting and coaching. As the need continues to grow for Agile based software development initiatives so is the need for organizations to rely on Agile service providers such as Santeon to offer experience and proven capabilities.
"We are very focused on Agile development. Our roots in process automation and process improvement compel us to continually revisit our Agile practice and enhance it with new tools, processes and controls to ensure that Agile is both a value focused initiative as well as a repeatable and disciplined execution approach focused of value creative and solution acceleration," commented Dr. Ahmed Sidky, Santeon EVP of Agile Practice and Solution Delivery
About Santeon Group, Inc.
Santeon Group is a technology company Headquartered in Northern Virginia with offices strategically located in San Diego, Los Angeles, London, Cairo and Dubai. Santeon offers products and services in Healthcare, Energy, Media and Agile Development. Santeon Group's goal is to serve emerging markets by providing technically superior products and solutions while reducing the cost of ownership and deployment of these solutions through a strong channel partner and distribution model. For more information please visit the web site at http://www.santeon.com/.
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"We are pleased with the results of our quarterly filing and continue to hold ourselves accountable to meeting our revenue targets," commented Dr. Ash Rofail Chairman/CEO of Santeon Group, Inc. ("Santeon"). "Realizing profits in challenging economic conditions is a strong validation to our strategy and execution plan. We continue to grow in our four (4) strategic markets and are on track to repeating our success next quarter as well," stated Dr. Rofail.
The company continues to focus its strategic growth in Healthcare, Environmental, Media and Agile Development Services with specific focus next quarter on launching our new eBenefits Network product and service with several strategic customers and partners. "We are looking forward to closing 2010 strong and kick-off our 2011 growth plans," continued Dr. Rofail.
About Santeon Group, Inc. Santeon is a technology company headquartered in Northern Virginia with offices strategically located in San Diego, Los Angeles, London, Cairo and Dubai. Santeon offers products and services in Healthcare, Energy, Media and Agile Development. Santeon's goal is to serve emerging markets by providing technically superior products and solutions while reducing the cost of ownership and deployment of these solutions through a strong channel partner and distribution model. For more information please visit the web site at http://www.santeon.com/.
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Santeon, Inc. a leading provider of rich Internet and media applications and platforms through its media division iVu Media (now ubroadcast, inc. OTC BB: UBCI.OB) today announced its support and commitment to Microsoft Silverlight 4 and Internet information Systems (IIS) Smooth Streaming by extending its Video Content Management Platform (vCMS) with support for Silverlight 4 and IIS Smooth Streaming allowing customers to choose the streaming technology that fits their users needs and bandwidth availability.
Dr. Ahmed Sidky, Santeon EVP, Delivery and Solutions commented, “Servicing the demand for seamless online media without constant buffering is a top priority for Santeon. Implementation of this technology in conjunction with iVu Media will allow us to enhance the user experience of viewing online content without interruptions. Based on our independent testing and review, we believe that Silverlight 4 and IIS Smooth Streaming is the best choice for our customers to provide a rich user experience with exceptional delivery quality. Santeon has implemented multiple online Video portals in the Middle East, Europe and the United States using its Arabization components and will migrate many of these sites to Silverlight 4 using IIS Smooth Streaming. Our customers want to see all of their content running on Smooth Streaming,”
“Santeon’s extension of its Video Content Management Platform enables developers to take advantage of the latest features in Silverlight 4,” said Brian Goldfarb, director of the developer platform group at Microsoft Corp. “Microsoft is excited about the opportunity this creates for our mutual customers to unleash their creativity using the features of vCMS and Silverlight.”
“We are excited for what this means for our new and future customers, as well as having this technology available for current and future ubroadcast.com and ubroadcast Entertainment Group websites. I think it further demonstrates we are working towards giving the highest quality user experience both in terms of video content and playback technology. We look forward to more advancements like this in all areas of our business” commented John Castiglione, President, ubroadcast, inc.
About Santeon, Inc
Santeon is a technology company that enables organizations to optimize
performance and maximize revenues through its business process
management (BPM) software products and services- solving complex
business process, compliance and integration challenges from both a
system integration and a human process perspective. Santeon also offers
rich media content management solutions and platforms as well as
business process outsourcing (BPO) services as to medium and large
enterprises. For more information please visit the Web site at
www.santeon.com.
About ubroadcast, inc.
UBCI's ubroadcast.com allows users to produce and broadcast LIVE and On
Demand television and radio in high quality. By blending this
user-generated content and UBCI's own original programming in a single
application, UBCI bridges the gap between Internet video and traditional
network radio and television.
Rolling Stone magazine, About.com, TechCrunch.com, and ABC News have all given ubroadcast media attention, and The San Diego Business Journal headline stated that the market for ubroadcast programs could be "Larger than MySpace and YouTube."
UBCI encourages interested businesses and others to visit www.ubroadcast.com to get a free account and try its exciting new broadcasting platform.
Please visit www.ubroadcast.com for more information, and follow us on
Twitter: www.twitter.com/ubroadcast;MySpace: www.myspace.com/ubroadcast; and on Facebook.
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[Santeon, Inc.] a leading provider of rich Internet and media applications and platforms today announced its continued commitment to Microsoft Silverlight by ensuring Silverlight right-to-left (RTL) compatibility with Silverlight 3. Silverlight 3 provides a sophisticated platform for building rich, engaging and interactive user experiences, with exciting new features and capabilities like out of browser support, hardware acceleration, and H.264 video support. Santeon developed the first Silverlight 2 Arab language library adding bi-directional text support to Silverlight, then merged with the Silverlight RTL open source project, and published under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL) on CodePlex at http://silverlightrtl.codeplex.com, ensuring full compatibility with Silverlight 3.
“We have embraced Silverlight since its inception and realize the value it brings to users seeking the rich and powerful experiences they are used to having in desktop applications for their Internet-based systems. Santeon will continue to invest in research and development efforts to further the success of rich internet applications by being at the forefront of innovation in media and enterprise applications,” said Mouneer Rabie, director of development for Santeon. “We are also very proud that one of our senior architects, Yasser Makram, has been the top technical contributor to the Silverlight technical form since its inception.” You can visit the forum at: http://silverlight.net/forums.
“Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides a platform for building applications offering incredibly rich user experiences that integrate media, animation, documents and 3D. Microsoft ASP.NET provides a platform for building cross-browser, cross-platform data driven web applications,” said Yasser Makram, senior software architect for Santeon. “As part of Santeon’s commitment to the developer community, we are releasing this set of components to enable Arab developers to develop rich Internet applications with Silverlight for Arab users.“
“It’s clear Santeon is committed to enabling the development of rich Internet applications with Silverlight 3 for developers worldwide,” said Brian Goldfarb, director of the Developer Platform Group at Microsoft Corp. “Santeon’s development of the Arab language Silverlight library will help deliver a new class of cutting-edge and engaging applications on the Web.”
Santeon, Inc. a leading provider of Rich Internet and media applications and platforms today announced its support and commitment to rich media application development by offering Arabic support for Silverlight 2. The components will be available for download for free to users who wish to develop Arabic or multi-language business enterprise and media applications. Microsoft® Silverlight™ is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web and Santeon is considered one of the leading expert organizations in the architecture, design and development of Silverlight based applications.
Mr. Mouneer Rabie, Santeon director of development, states, “We have embraced Silverlight since its inception and realize the value it brings to users seeking the rich and powerful experience they are used to having in desktop application for their Internet based systems”. “Santeon will continue to invest research and development efforts to further the success of internet application by being at the forefront of innovation in media as well as Enterprise Application”, commented Mr. Rabie. “We are also very proud that one of our Sr. Architects Mr. Yasser Makram has been the top technical contributor to the Silverlight technical form since its inception. You can visit the forum at http://silverlight.net/forums” continues Mr. Rabie.
“We are very excited to have Santeon contribute to the Arabic support for Silverlight 2 and we believe that this will encourage more local as well as regional adoption of Silverlight 2” commented Mr. Sherif El Touny, ISV Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Egypt
Silverlight 2 Arabic support is currently in Beta testing and will be available to developers to download early Q2-2008. The components will be available for free, however, organizations seeking to use the components royalty free will have to adhere with the standard licensing terms and conditions. “We will make the process very easy and seamless and readily available to anyone who wishes to use it free of charge, while we continue to protect our intellectual property” comments Dr. Ash Rofail, President of Santeon.
“Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) provides a platform for building applications offering incredibly rich user experience that integrates Media, Animation, Documents, and 3D. ASP.NET provides a platform for building cross-browser, cross-platform data driven web applications. However, there was a gap in the .NET technology continuum, Silverlight came to fill this gap and provide a rich user experience cross-browse, and cross-platform. Unfortunately Silverlight 2 did not include built in support for Arabic text. As part of Santeon’s commitment to the developers community, we are releasing this set of components in order to enable Arab developers to develop rich applications for Arab users.“ commented Mr. Yasser Makram, Santeon Sr. Software Architect.
In an independent survey of 2775 qualified respondents, Research and Markets, the world largest market research resource, recently published the results of the Brown-Wilson Group ranking of 140 comprehensive BPO services suppliers. This study covered over 700 contractual relationships, revealing seven functional segments of Top Insurance Industry Business Process Outsourcing as part of the Black Book annual survey.
Brown and Wilson, who focus on the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) practice and provide one of the world’s most comprehensive reports, estimates the insurance industry outsourcing to reach $4B in 2008 representing a 70% increase from the previous year. The goal of reducing margins and increasing competition in recent years has forced many companies to outsource in order to stay competitive and become more efficient.
For Santeon it is an honor to be ranked 8th in the category of Trust and among the top 20 in Overall Performance. “This is not an easy market or industry. The list of vendors represents the ‘who’s who’ of the world’s largest and most established organizations. It is a great honor for Santeon to be listed, and it is a significant achievement to pull ahead of many traditional names.” --Ash Rofail, President of Santeon. “We are honored by the placement and are committed to our customers and partners. The insurance industry, specifically in healthcare, represents one of our main lines of business and we will continue to innovate to bring costs down for our customers while increasing efficiency and giving them a much higher ROI year after year.”
For more information about the survey and the detailed report please visit Research and Markets at http://www.researchandmarkets.com or Link to the article here
Santeon, Inc. a leading provider of business process management technology and business process outsourcing services today announced an agreement with Sage Software to deliver electronic benefits enrollment to current and new Sage Abra HRMS customers. The service, being distributed and marketed by Sage Software as Sage Abra Benefits Messenger, automates the communication of employee benefits enrollment data with insurance and benefits carriers, thereby eliminating the need to submit paper enrollment forms or manually file carrier forms online, and helping to eliminate costly errors associated with duplicate data entry and missed enrollments. The service especially saves time and effort for companies working with multiple carriers.
The agreement allows Sage Software to license the Santeon Direct Enroll service and distribute it as an add-on to the Sage Abra HRMS suite of products, as well as process Sage Abra HRMS customers’ employee benefit enrollment information through the Santeon HR Benefits Clearinghouse.
“The addition of Sage Abra Benefits Messenger helps strengthen Sage Software’s leadership position in bringing innovative products, solutions and services to their growing customer base at the right time,” said Jessica Simmons, VP and General Manager for Sage Abra HRMS at Sage Software. “With annual benefits enrollment quickly approaching, it is absolutely the best time to address benefits management and streamline the enrollment activities by fully automating the open enrollment process, as well as the ongoing benefits management and administration through Sage Abra HRMS and Sage Abra Benefits Messenger.”
Sage Abra Benefits Messenger supports virtually all benefits carriers, and securely transmits employee benefits over the Internet through the Santeon clearinghouse.
Ash Rofail, President of Santeon, states, “We are very pleased to have partnered with Sage Software on this technology and service. Our business process outsourcing infrastructure and automated business process management technology enables us to support the Sage Software customer base and offer innovative approaches to support the company’s forward-thinking direction to bring valuable solutions to their present and future customers through Sage Abra Benefits Messenger.”
Xerox Egypt is introducing a series of new, sensible products for document lifecycle in various business areas. In collaboration with Santeon, Inc., Xerox will build the products using Santeon's XIP Collaborative Workflow Platform to provide customers with a robust and extensible solution for delivering additional value and services without added overhead.
Consequently, companies do not have to discard legacy systems to purchase an entirely new IT set up. This is costly, time-consuming, and requires retraining of personnel. A separate server is linked to the customer's current network to complement, or "overlay" the current system. Newly installed systems will also use these tiers to streamline the process. Archiving and saving data will no longer delay operation time.
This partnership is complementary to Xerox's innovating direction for advanced document lifecycle systems. The outcome of this partnership between Xerox hardware and Santeon's process management software will be the ability for customers to add enriching products to printing systems. This, in turn, will add explicit value and benefits to the processes that link document creation and usage. XPAonline is Santeon's and Xerox first product and offers two editions: Professional and Standard.
Existing Xerox customers will directly benefit from the opportunity presented in this collaborative project. In addition, new clients who previously were not served by current technology may now have the ability to integrate and upgrade systems they thought were unmovable. All customers who realize and take advantage of this partnership and explosion of technology between Xerox and Santeon will increase expediency. A major hurdle surmounted with the new product line is the time-consuming task of reprinting customers'historical data and the inability to archive typical documents that are produced from the printers.
Xerox and Santeon are confident that organizations caring about their customers'satisfaction will be eager to employ this product. Customers will better service their own clients while keeping at the head of the innovation with the utmost efficiency.
Moreover, this product tool will add value to the new prospected printing systems introduced to the market. The "what's new" in Xerox's latest generation of printing tools is the addition of services Santeon will bring to the products. This is a true collaborative effort between hardware, software, and process to bring ease and increased profitability to users.
Dr. Ash Rofail, Santeon, Inc. founder and author of various IT books and articles, has been invited and accepted to join the Software Economic Council (SECO) chartered under the Business Performance Management organization. Together with large, international software engineering firms and innovators, Dr. Rofail participates in research, dialog, consensus, and trend analysis for information technology uses in all aspects companies around the world. Guided by the leadership committee and with sponsorship from industry providers and stakeholders, the Software Economics Council keeps a hand on the pulse of technology.
The Software Economics Council (SECO) is an independent organization that serves as a forum for constituents to learn from and contribute to better enterprise software economics, development and performance. The BPM Forum, whose membership includes senior level executives in finance, planning, IT and operations in a cross section of industries, formed SECO with the intent of executing the following:
- Identify and categorize challenges, concerns, characteristics, consistencies and commonalities in the software development lifecycle
- Formulate and articulate opinions, research and recommendations around the availability, quality, and criticality of using, managing, maintaining and supporting software across the organization
- Develop and disseminate white papers, opinion pieces, media alerts, etc. based on the outcomes of SECO membership interactions and provide commentary as circumstances and events warrant
- Host or participate in online events to present SECO findings
- Host or participate in industry and media roundtables-in locations such as Boston, New York and Silicon Valley-to enable direct discussions on local and current trends, topics, developments, and threats with appropriate media exposure
Members of SECO will meet and communicate virtually and in-person on a regular basis to discuss software industry issues such as: development gaps between software design and delivery; how to best manage quality throughout software lifecycles; building on the potential of open-source technology; and new strategies that enable organizations to elevate the value of software with today's licensed, open-source, and on-demand models.
Membership includes executives from Adobe Systems, Aztec Software, Azul Systems, BEA Systems, Borland Software, BroadVision, Cognizant, Deloitte, Dendrite International, EDS, IBM, Informatica, Leverage Software, Mercury, Novell, Oracle, Salesforce.com, SAP, Siebel Systems, and Sybase.
Santeon founder, Dr. Ash Rofail, was recently invited to speak in a Pan-Arab forum held in June 2005 in Downtown Cairo. Santeon's participation in this event by providing a key-note speaker solidifies Santeon's reputation for innovation and technology leadership. The economic summit for banking, finance and insurance in the Arab world objectives were to highlight its reform necessities and challenges. Dr. Rofail's incite provided useful and paramount information for theses industries, and reflected the very objectives and services Santeon has innovated for the region over the last half-decade. For the Arab World to compete on a global level and best service its own constituency, technology will hold the key. Santeon, led by Dr. Rofail, will be at the forefront of innovation. Egypt's International Economic Forum has targeted Santeon as a key go-to resource for answers and solutions facing its industries today.
Other key speakers at this event included Dr. Youssef Boutros Ghali, Minister of Finance, Arab Republic of Egypt; Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, Minister of Investment, Arab Republic of Egypt; H.E. Dr. Bassem Awadalla, Minister of Finance, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; and Teymour Kooros, Vice President, Africa & Middle East, Global Government Banking, Wachovia Bank, USA.
Dr. Ash Rofail, founder of Santeon, Inc., together with
- Hussein Al Kholy, Chairman, National Telecom Company, Egypt
- Aly Moselhy, Chairman, National Post Organization, Egypt
- Moderator: Mohamed Magued, Chairman & Managing Director, Egyptian Banks Co. for Technological Advancement, Egypt
Enlightened and provided a roadmap of avenues for the Middle East to secure its foothold in banking, finance and insurance. Held in Downtown Cairo, the heart of innovation in the Arab world, this forum breathed new life into an ancient industry.
February 2005- Cairo, Egypt- Xerox Corporation announced a partnership with Santeon, Inc. to provide Business Process Management software and services using Santeon's XIP Business Process Management platform, serving customers in the financial, government, pharmaceutical, insurance, and manufacturing sectors for Xerox customers in the Middle East and Africa. The announcement was made at Xerox Egypt's "Performance Accelerated" regional conference held in February in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
Santeon's President, Dr. Ash Rofail, was a keynote speaker at the conference describing the financial, operational and strategic benefits of process management. The Santeon BPM software supports Xerox's global strategic initiative called Free Flow to improve organizations' workflow processes. Xerox chose Santeon because Santeon BPM software provides unparalleled capabilities for Xerox customers to integrate people, processes, data, internal and external systems with ability to optimize process performance and improve operational profitability and customer service. The conference was attended by over 100 different multinational companies, representative of a dozen countries, in multiple industries.
Business Integration Journal, a publication on technology integration solutions, recently wrote an impression on Santeon's BPM product, XIP. Author S.M. Hoole describes the functionality of XIP as well as its notable features among competitors, including XIP's unique environment to quickly and effectively implement and manage process workflow and integration. "Santeon XIP BPM provides a "one-and-all," fully inclusive environment that promotes real collaboration between business analysts and technical teams to design business process integration between multiple systems and people." - S.M. Hoole.
The article outlines how XIP allows customers to achieve compliance, integration and collaboration from a single product and describes Santeon's ability to help customers optimize business processes before and during implementation. "XIP allows changes to business rules to occur "on-the-fly" without stopping the process flow or requiring IT intervention." - S.M. Hoole.
xiom Systems and Santeon, Inc. partner to bring process efficiency to managed healthcare organizations. Axiom boasts expertise and success in the healthcare industry with leading solutions for HIPAA, integration, and a variety of solutions for managing healthcare administrative data. Axiom Systems adds Santeon's XIP Business Process Management (BPM) platform to the suite of its own products to offer additional capabilities to its customers.
Santeon's XIP BPM gives Axiom the ability to quickly implement, update and maintain solutions, as well as offer its customers solutions that adapt rapidly to business rules changes in the dynamic healthcare industry. Axiom also chose Santeon BPM because the product is a fully integrated life-cycle solution from modeling processes, to process automation and integration, to business activity monitoring. Santeon's suite includes a comprehensive library of pre-built functionality and features, giving Axiom's customers a quicker-to-market solution.
Santeon XIP BPM suite provides the capability for Axiom customers to integrate people, processes, data, internal and external systems with unparalleled ability to optimize process performance by using components for:
- Process modeling
- Simulation
- Integration, workflow and automation
- Dynamic business rules management
- Business activity monitoring and reporting
Additionally, the BPM platform offers an Embedded Development Environment (EDV) giving Axiom developers and architects total flexibility to customize the solution for each of its unique customers. Axiom and Santeon look forward to a teaming relationship that solves managed healthcare challenges of compliance, transactions, adjudication, and other complex systems integration challenges facing an industry under tremendous scrutiny to reduce costs and increase services.
Xerox Global Services chooses Santeon XIP Business Process Management (BPM) platform to offer innovation in process efficiency to its financial, government, pharmaceutical, insurance, and manufacturing customers in Africa and the Middle East. In choosing Santeon, Xerox now offers best-in-breed BPM solutions in line with the quality of service Xerox is known internationally to provide.
Santeon XIP BPM suite provides the capability for Xerox customers to integrate people, processes, data, internal and external systems with unparalleled ability to optimize process performance by using components for:
- Process modeling
- Simulation
- Integration, workflow and automation
- Dynamic business rules management
- Business activity monitoring and reporting
After reviewing many products, Xerox chose Santeon for its ability to rapidly tailor solutions to the variety of Xerox customers in an easy-to-use tool. Xerox worked with existing customers and Santeon to prototype solutions for credit card pre-authorization processes. The processes demonstrated value for improved accuracy of processing, standard processing, faster processing, fraud reduction, increased customer satisfaction and revenue.
In February, Xerox and Santeon will host a conference for regional Xerox customers and partners, continuing in its tradition of bringing innovation and smart processes to help businesses.
