eFront at "Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week" of Patras' Science Park

Patras' Science Park organizes a five-day Forum under the general title: «Innovation & Entrepreneurship Week» from 30th June to 4th July 2008. The Forum is organized around several thematic sessions oriented towards innovation, entrepreneurship, carrying innovative ideas and actions.

On behalf of Epignosis, spin-off company of the V.Trip Group, Mr. John Gialelis will present “Methodika” tomorrow,Tuesday 1st of July 2008 between 10:10 – 10:30 am.

The purpose of the Methodika project is the modelling of a distributed operational system in the form of entities, relations and activities. The project developed a standardised methodology which can convert IT enterprises to a virtual and distributed form combining a number of software tools that facilitate this transition. One of these tools is based on the eFront platform: an easy to use, visually attractive, SCORM compatible, eLearning and Human Capital Development system, which is suitable for both company and educational usage.

More specifically, Mr. Gialelis will present the case of eFront WiKi which integrates the following tools: Project Content Management System (CMS), Project Content Management Administration System, Project Management System, Timesheet Planner.

Mobile Marketing Conference

MVNS, spin-off company of the V. Trip Group, participated at the 2nd Mobile Marketing Conference, which took place on Thursday, June 26, 2008 at Hotel Pentelikon (Kifissia, Greece).

During the Conference, on behalf of the V.Trip Group of companies, Mr. Manos Moschous, Technical Director, talked about the latest trends of mobile marketing in a panel coordinated by Dr. Gregory Giovanof, Professor & Head of research group in wireless broadband networks, Athens Information Technology.

Within the trade show, MVNS presented «mVision Ad» and «mVision Social Networking» platforms, that introduce innovative value-added services for the mobile market. As the personalized mobile advertising possibility turns to be the basic characteristic of the mobile business models, MVNS developed the «mVision Ad» platform, fulfilling the need for managing this source of revenue. «mVision Ad» offers overall management of Mobile Advertising Campaigns based on multimedia material for different communicational channels, such as WAP, SMS / MMS, 3G Video Call, Web and Social Networks.

Moreover, MVNS presented its new Facebook Application, «EXODOS», which offers great perspectives for corporate advertising in an easy, targeted and effective way.

NAFTEMPORIKI newspaper about Virtual Trip

One of the top economic newspapers in Greece, NAFTEMPORIKI , wrote about the Greek companies which participated in the Growth Company Investor Show 2008. Among them NAFTEMPORIKI is referring to Virtual Trip, too.

The article is talking about the nine Greek companies, which are planning to enter the Plus market in London and took part in the big roadshow «Growth Europe Event 2008». The show was held in the Barbican Centre of the British capital and attracted more than 100 small businesses - exhibitors, with 1,400 registered potential investors.

Among these companies, there are some which have already been «on the road» for Plus Market, while two or three more are expected to sign with a corporate advisor within the next days.

Virtual Trip Ltd., a company of the Knowledge-based Economy has cooperated with OTE, providing the Conn-X View platform, and also with large companies, such as Scali, Idylic, Siltanet.

The article is available in Greek here.

TechWorld and Open Source Living about eFront

eFront, Epignosis' e-learning and human capital development system, was presented at Open Source Living , as “an easy to use, visually attractive, SCORM compatible, eLearning and Human Capital Development system. It is suitable for both company and educational usage.” Open Source Living is “a community-driven dynamic archive of Open Source software spanning all major platforms”. Read more here.

Moreover, eFront was suggested as one of the best 10 open-source e-learning projects at Techworld. One of the top technological sites commented on eFront:

"As corporate and government organizations embrace the Web for delivering more education and training programs, a wealth of free and open source e-learning applications will help lower the barrier to entry.

eFront claims to be an easy to use e-learning and "human capital development" system, making it suitable for both company and educational usage.

The flagship product of Epignosis, an e-learning company based in Greece, eFront enables "community learning" and supports the principles of "collective knowledge". Organizations using eFront include the Greek Ministry of Public Order, and the Polish Ministry of Interior.

Version 3.5 is in beta and claims improved stability and speed, extended courses management, a new Ajax-based file manager and functionality, and core functions have been rewritten to take advantage of the object oriented features of PHP 5. Also new is a PayPal payment module and the ability to install eFront without any Web server or "Document root setup hassle".



You can download here the open-source eFront v3.5.0beta3.

The sky is the limit!

Planning to enter the PLUS Market, Virtual Trip Holdings S.A. participated at the Growth Company Investor Show 2008 (London, UK).


Our partners discussed with investors about Virtual Trip's impressive growth rate that has achieved in the first 7-year period of organic growth: 4,252.33% in turnover and 3,306% in net profits. For this reason, investors mostly focused on Virtual Trip's enormous growth potentials.

Virtual Trip keeps expanding. The sky is the limit!

Virtual Trip Holdings SA exhibitor at the Growth Company Investor Show, the must-attend event of 2008 for anyone who invests in quoted companies

Virtual Trip Holdings SA participates at the Growth Company Investor Show 2008, which takes place on Wednesday, 11th of June 2008 at the Barbican Exhibition Halls (London, UK), during 10-17:30 pm.

The company plans to enter PLUS Market, in order to keep the impressive growth rate that was achieved in the seven years of organic growth: 4,252.33 % in turnover and 3,306% in net profits.

Virtual Trip Holdings SA owns a group of six technology companies offering IT products & services to the international market. Key products are the "SOLO" small office & home gateway, the "eFront" e-Learning & human capital development platform and the "mVision", mobile services & social networking platform, while customer-list includes a number of Greek and european blue-chip companies such as OTE, WIND, ARMENTEL PLAISIO COMPUTERS, INTRACOM, INFO-QUEST, FORTHnet and LYKOS GROUP. Virtual Trip Group companies have signed reselling agreements with partners in Australia, Denmark Egypt and India.