Transformation Services Laboratory receives a SERVICE COMPUTATION 2009 Award

A research paper on "Enhancing Service Network Analysis and Service Selection Using Requirements-Based Service Discovery", which had been submitted to the "SERVICE COMPUTATION 2009 - The First International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing" by Konstantinos Zachos, Christos Nikolaou, Pantelis Petridis, George Stratakis, Manolis Voskakis, and Eyaggelos Papathanasiou, has received an award by the reviewers.

The research team is composed by members of the Transformation Services Laboratory at the University of Crete in cooperation with the S-Cube Network of Excellence, lead by Prof. Christos Nikolaou while the paper which received the award is part of the TSL efforts to link requirements engineering to service value networks.

Virtual Trip is a research partner of TSL and proud to support one of its major activities, The Second Service and Software Architectures, Infrastructures and Engineering (SSAIE) Summer School.

Dimitris Tsigos interview on away.gr for the transformation of Virtual Trip to an Angel Investment Fund

[Interview]Dimitris Tsigos' interview on away.gr for the transformation of Virtual Trip to an Angel Investment Fund

Virtual Trip starts Actech LLC, as a new venture in Ohio, US

Virtual Trip Group has announced that Actech’s LLC activity is evolving with great success in Akron, Ohio USA. Actech is a new Virtual Trip venture to act as the distributor of the SOLO Gateway products family Solo Gateway in North America. The company was founded in September 2009 and is developing a rapidly expanding network of Value-Added Reselling Partners. Moreover, it is expected that soon a number of SOLO Telco Gateway deployments will be launched at Internet Service Providers in Ohio and the rest of US.

Actech LLC has a staff of seven professionals with significant experience in the industry of IT and Telecommunications in USA.

At the same time, SOLO Gateway SA, member of Virtual Trip Group and manufacturer of the homonymous product family has announced the expansion of the international VAR Partners network in Argentina, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka and Poland, along with the addition of IAS Application Systems, IT Works Nigeria, Spike Systems, Weldacy Initiatives, CIRITE Technologies και Danbit Systems.

SOLO Gateway is one of the leading Unified Communications solutions of the international market both for SMEs and SOHO users.

Fujitsu Australia- New Zealand chooses eFront to be their LMS

A recent significant addition to the rapid expansion of Epignosis international customer base is the agreement with Fujitsu Australia- New Zealand. In the context of this project, Fujitsu will use eFront platform for managing its human capital, starting with 2,500 users while it is expected that the total amount of users will have reached the 7,500 users by the end of 2010.

Fujitsu Australia- New Zealand is a provider of integrated information and communications technology solutions. Ranging from strategic consulting to application and infrastructure solutions and services, Fujitsu has earned reputation as the single supplier of choice for leading corporate and government organizations. Therefore, Fujitsu has developed a network of over 10 million customers and 160,000 professional staff in 60 countries around the world. In Australia and New Zealand Fujitsu has 10,000 staff.

EPIGNOSIS Ltd is a fast growing, young, dynamic, and technology oriented ELearning Company. Based in Athens – Greece, it’s a member of the Virtual Trip Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, together with other twelve high-tech companies in Greece, Spain and the US. EPIGNOSIS Ltd, is the vendor of “eFront” e-Learning platform, envisages e-Learning 2.0 as the dominant approach for human capital development, education & training services.

Lefteris Trimintzios nominated as "Vtripper of the year 2009"

Lefteris Trimintzios, Senior Software Engineer at Virtual Trip, was nominated as "Vtripper of the Year 2009" at a party which took place at Virtual Trip Group HQ in Athens, Greece on Thursday February 4th 2010.

Being part of the vtrip team from its very early steps, in 2002 at the Science & Technology Park of Crete, Lefteris contribution for materialing the vtrip vision in 2009 has been absolutely great, serving as an outstanding example of appying the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem's corporate values: Entrepreneurship, Usefulness, Innovation, Commitment and Quality.

Lefteris follows Periklis Venakis, Chief Software Engineer of Epignosis Ltd who was the "Vtripper of the Year 2008", and George Dramitinos, Director of Services in Virtual Trip, who was nominated the title of "Vtripper of the Year 2007" in January 2008 when the "Vtripper of the Year" award was introduced for first time.