DataKraft is pleased to announce a partnership with QBS Software, one of the largest specialist software resellers and distributors in the UK. DataKraft will be launched in the UK with the release of the next QBS Direct catalogue in September 2010 and will also be available from the QBS Web Site.

DataKraft CEO Carol McKeon is excited about the new partnership. “DataKraft, together with QBS, can now offer customers and system integrators a whole new way of doing business, with applications that can be built quickly, easily and cost-effectively. We are also offering customers a quick, easy and standards-based platform that can be used to convert Access databases, Excel spreadsheets and old databases onto a more scalable, secure and multi-user platform.”

Customers and System Integrators will be invited to a series of free seminars and webinars to be held in October and November. These events will aim to show how easy it is to build a customised database application - without the need for any coding. “DataKraft can be used to build applications 20 times faster than traditional approaches”, says DataKraft CTO Jacques Lefebvre. “By the end of the one-day seminars the attendees should have a working prototype of an application that they wish to build - perhaps even the full application!”.

For more information see http://www.qbssoftware.com/datakraft

Cost reduction

Profit optimisation

Instant insight

In an unprecedented economic environment, DataKraft is a timely offering that is aligned with the current objectives of senior management in maintaining/increasing NPD activity with less resources, maximising efficiencies, automating where possible and delivering complete visibility across all activity and spend and ROI.
DataKraft offers reduction of costs, combined with the tracking and measurement of spend and the measurement of ROI.

This solution has been developed with feedback from over 70 leading food companies and has been described as

“Extremely Impressive”
“A 21st Century Product”
“Obviously very easy to use”
“There is nothing we need that is not already included in your product”

DataKraft NPD is a very flexible solution that has the following modules and functionality available in one easy to use solution.

• Project Management and Costing
• Gantt Charts
• R&D Budget Tracking
• Project ROI Measurement
• Management Dashboards
• Recipe Development
• Recipe Costing
• Ingredients Database
• Allergen Tracking
• Nutritional Calculation
• Workload Forecasting
• Calandars
• Email Notifications
• Support for multiple databases
• Complaints Tracking

DataKraft are delighted to announce the launch of their new software release that is now fully certified for Vista. This new Vista release like its predecessor allows us to build database applications with no coding whatsoever and includes all of the same fantastic productivity features, e.g. calendars, charts, dashboards, reminders, audit etc.

This product is available from the 1st August 07.

Willie Maxwell, Programme Director of The InterTradeIreland Acumen program is already using this new release of DataKraft with Vista inhouse.

“Acumen now engages with over three thousand businesses across the island and directly supports two hundred and fifty companies explained Willie Maxwell. “We have very exacting support and monitoring procedures. It is critical that our information management system Datakraft is fully certified for our existing and new Vista systems. Knowing that DataKraft is certified for our new Vista machines, gives us an essential level of confidence that we need as we move forward and further invest in our in-house systems.”

The InterTradeIreland Acumen Programme is Live with their custom designed Program Management/CRM solution.

Our business is Cross Border Business Development. We have a range of client companies and a significant volume of communication and other client traffic and detail. As a public funded programme we have to adhere to robust reporting and accounting standards. We have no in-house IT expertise.

We needed a system that could allow us do a better job with existing traffic and enable us to build additional capacity. Meanwhile we had a business to run and we could not afford time out or disruption. After examining several possible solutions we opted for DataKraft . The deciding factor for us was an analysis that suggested that The dataKraft team more quickly identified our business fundamentals and our needs quicker than their competitors.

Installing and introducing any new system is tough but the DataKraft team helped us all the way. We now have a system that has advanced our ability and our capacity to serve our clients better than before .

http://www.acumenprogramme.com

If you aren’t measuring, you aren’t managing! DataKraft are delighted to launch their Key Performance Indicators, giving up to the minute visual measurement to management instantly!

The DataKraft Studio platform is now even more powerful with easy to configure key performance indicators that can be designed to present the most important key performance indicators to your business users, (e.g. sales pipeline analysis, sales rep performance, etc.)

DataKraft are continuing to deliver cutting edge information visibility within their revolutionary platform.

To enquire about a custom DataKraft solution for your business, contact +353 1 440 3750.

Phone 01 2393270 to book a meeting with a design consultant during your visit, and find out how DataKraft Studio could address your information management, reporting and integration pain points this year.

DataKraft will be demonstrating the power of their revolutionary platform “DataKraft Studio” to developers, IT managers and anyone interested in learning how to build solutions 20 times faster!
They will also be demonstrating some of their fully customisable solutions including the recently launched Dealer CRM, A CRM solution that is guaranteed to increase spend per customer for dealers and distributors.

DataKrafts unique platform gives them the ability to respond to market needs immediately, so they can build custom solutions for their own clients as well as designing niche vertical solutions that respond to strong areas of need identified in certain markets.

DataKraft Studio is a no coding platform, allowing the company to react to customer needs immediately, unlike other code dependant vendors that may take months or even years to sufficently respond to their customers’ needs.

Special Offer / Competition
The inventor of the DataKraft Studio platform and chief founder of Datakraft is Jacques Lefebvre, born in France. We thought it fitting to give away another fantastic invention from France Champagne! Please drop your business card into us at stand C27 to enter our draw.

December 2006

Over 2000 people visited Croke Park, Dublin (Ireland) for Microsofts launch of Vista and Office 07. DataKraft were delighted to participate and, and take the opportunity to premier the new release of DataKraft Studio that will function totally INSIDE MS Outlook. This release also supports Vista and Office 07.
Visit Microsofts Get Ready Site

Now customers that use MS Outlook will have one integrated information and communicaiton platform! no more flicking back and forth between Outlook and other applications.

Benefits of using DataKraft inside Outlook
• The Information management system our customers are already using is MS Office, and Outlook in particular (Most of our customers sit in front of Outlook all day)
• We are bringing the powerful functionality they need into the environment they already know how to use
• No learning curve, increased adoption
• Increased efficiency (one information management environment, no flicking back and forth)

We are the only software platform that can host any custom built application inside MS Outlook without programming

The Sunday Times: November 26, 2006

It is an expert setting up bespoke systems, but DataKraft needs to produce a business model to ensure its own growth, writes Sandra O’Connell.

In a market where every company trumpets its products as “the next big thing”, how do you communicate the fact that you believe your product really is? That’a the conundrum facing DataKraft, a firm set up in 2004 on the back of software so good it can create commercial applications 20 times faster than its rivals -or so its creators say (…)

Read the full article in the Sunday Times!

July 2006 DataKraft, an innovative rapid software development house, has joined Microsoft’s Touchdown programme. Touchdown is designed to provide Microsoft ISV partners with in-depth training, insight and support while developing applications on the Microsoft platform including hands-on training and extensive guidance throughout the early adoption process.

DataKraft are already working towards supporting Windows Vista and 2007 Office system.

“One of our key focuses in the run up to the introduction of new products to ensure that our partners get the latest information, knowledge and training,” commented Mike Hughes, Windows Business Group Leader at Microsoft Ireland. “Partners like dataKraft play a key role in the success of our new products and we’re delighted they are joining the Touchdown programme.”

DataKraft is the brainchild of Jacques Lefebvre and was borne out of a frustration of not being able to create database applications quickly. “I wanted to develop professional database applications quickly that could be amended and extended without any coding or development,” says Lefebvre.

At the heart of the company is dataKraft Studio, a software platform based on Microsoft .NET technology, which is used to design database applications without coding and development. Designing any database solution with dataKraft Studio is 20 times faster than traditional development.

DataKraft has recently been attracting attention from large International Companies that need a platform for integration, data management and reporting in one easy to use solution. The application supports multiple databases (Microsoft Access, SQL Server, SQL Server Express, My SQL, Oracle) ensuring that clients are not tied to any one database vendor and allowing for future migrations.

Carol McKeon, Account Manager, DataKraft, says: “We were delighted to join the Touchdown programme. This is a world class Microsoft programme which allows us to learn from Microsoft experts, obtain detailed training and gain access to advanced hands-on development labs, events and testing tools.

“We will be taking advantage of Microsoft VSTO 3 to further integrate our product with Microsoft Office and we are using WinFX to significantly improve the User Experience. We believe that participation on this programme will leapfrog our development and ensure commercial success for our software.”

In addition to training, early access and support, DataKraft will also benefit from increased visibility and reduced time to market. As early adopters, Touchdown participants will be among the first partners recognised for building and deploying applications and taking advantage of these new products and technologies. This in turn will lead to lower development costs as dataKraft has the opportunity to build the best and most stable applications using Microsoft’s latest tools and technologies.

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June 2006 DataKraft, an innovative rapid software development house, today announces the appointment of Jacques Lefebvre to the position of chief executive officer (CEO) with responsibility for research and development. Previously, Lefebvre was the project manager for three years for implementing HR/payroll solutions in the Institutes of Technology and before that a project manager with Cambridge Technology Partners, also for three years.

Lefebvre holds a engineering Masters from ESIEA, Paris, was the runner up in the post grade diploma from DIT faculty of Business 2005, and is a Siebel and Sybase Certified Consultant.

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For more information, please contact:

Carol McKeon DataKraft 01 239 32 70
Jillian Godsil PRG 055 294 55