April CLO Summit in Florida

April 09 CLO Summit - What an event! Intense timeframes, multiple meetings, overlapping attendance on the stand and great fun! I really believe we did a fantastic job as a team and worked well to achieve the unofficial "Most Talked- About Company" award. And lets not forget the dance of century, on stage with Thanos and those beautiful Polynesian grass skirted girls! (George set that YouTube up as soon as possible ok?)

However, apart from he self congratulatory emotions I must say that the event contained a staggering number of Fortune 100 companies and C level executives who may not have the technical buying power but certainly have the internal needs and therefore influence, in other words they are the internal customer for IT.

I fervently believe Epignosis is building a good reputation in the US now, its the 2nd CLO event and clearly we were recognized by some and welcomed by others. Commitment to the industry and these high profile customers is a key action at this stage of our development and go-to-market plan. We must be seen and heard at all levels starting from the top so that when our network of VARs is selling they are met with confidence.

It was clear from the CLO that the market is growing, developing and open. Our competitors have had a head start but by no means blocking entrance for us and perhaps even paving the way for the next gen platform of which we are. It was commented many times that our Features and Benefits far out weigh many of the others and if there was any way they could switch to eFront they would there and then!

We met with VARs too. Both from the technical and content standpoint, which is healthy mix to extend the reach from all sides and we will be perusing them with equal vigor. VARs will be the weapon of choice to increase the sales delta as rapidly as possible as they are keen to leverage our understanding, easy to use next generation platform.

Here is to great success in the States!

Thank you to all who participated and supported us.

Multirama becomes the first Solo Gateway Platinum VAR

The Greek IT retail giant Multirama (MULr.at) is the new VAR for Solo Gateway, and the first one to be awarded the Platinum Partner level.

Solo Gateway is a Unified Communications solution that can fully address the ICT needs of organizations of every size, since the different versions of the product range from the Small Business Edition for SoHo environments starting at €600 for up to 5 users, up to the Enterpise Maximum Security Edition that can cover for multi-point VPNs and high-availability Data Centers.

All versions include Security packages (antispam, antivirus, backup), Collaboration tools (address books, calendar, instant messaging), various Server functions (File / Web / Mail / Proxy Server), while the proposal stands out by incorporating a complete PBX (Analogue, digital and VoIP with full Fax Server) and CCTV + DVR system (that records and transmits the signal from IP cameras to the Web, and mobile at all times)

"We are very proud that through the B2B channel, as well as the country-wide retail network of 70 Multirama stores, Solo Gateway -the flagship product of the v.trip Group- will cover the needs of Greek small businesses and beyond. It is a great opportunity to provide a complete solution that confronts the current recession period, with very low initial investment and immediate cost savings", said Georgios Glinos, Solo Gateway Sales Manager for Solo Gateway.

"By adding Solo Gateway to the B2B product range of Multirama, we indicate once more our persistence in choosing leading edge technologies to cover the needs of Greek businesses. We hope to kick-start the fruitful collaboration with v.trip Group by bundling of Solo Gateway with branded Server hardware" said George Kassiteropoulos, Senior Product Manager of Multirama.

Virtual Trip moves in new HQ bulding in Athens

The Athens-based team of Virtual Trip has recently moved in a new building which will serve as Group HQ. This brand-new, six-floors, 480 m² establishment is one more major milestone to the Group's development path, which keeps on steady growth, even during this challenging crisis-era.

The interior design is based on the concept of open spaces and designed to boost team-members collaboration. Providing a high-end working environment in terms of usefulness, easiness and design remains a key-objective for Virtual Trip which is greatly materialized in this exciting new workspace.

EPIGNOSIS partcipates to the Chief Learning Officer Summit 2009

Epignosis will participate to the Chief Learning Officer Summit 2009 that will take place in the Sawgrass Golf Resort & Spa, Ponte Vedra, FL from 1-3/4/2009. The aim of the CLO Summit is to provide the CLO executives the opportunity to interact with pioneering providers of technology solutions and services, geared entirely to the needs of the CLO. In this context, Epignosis was invited to present its flagship product "eFront" to the CLO Summit, attend the conference sessions to keep informed on the latest developments in the eLearning business, implement new strategic partnerships and pursue business opportunities in the pioneering US eLearning industry.

Virtual Trip joins the Hellenic Semiconductor Industries Association

Virtual Trip recently become a member of the Hellenic Semiconductor Industries Association, a very dynamic, non-profit, organization for the promotion of Greek Semiconductor Industry by facilitating Contacts, Interaction and Coordinated Activities among partners, with a target to further develop hi-tech and semiconductor industry in Greece.

In 2007 Virtual Trip had announced its decision to enter the semiconductor market through the creation of the Integrated Systems Group as a part of its Division of Services. The ISG personnel includes five in-house engineer, highly skilled, with solid theoretical background and broad practical experience gained during their involvement in large scale projects for customers such as Hewlett Packard Labs, Sun Microsystems, ST Microelectronics and AMCC.

Professor Christos Nikolaou honours Virtual Trip Group undertaking the position of the Group Non- Executive Chairman

Professor Christos Nikolaou, is joining Virtual Trip as the Non-Executive Chairman. Christos Nikolaou, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Crete, with an outstanding academic and research career, has between others chaired the National Council for Education, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) and has served as Rector of the University of Crete.

Such a significant academic, will play a vital role to the Group’s strategic growth plan. Vtrip is already close to finalize agreements with private investors, while recently has established a branch in Spain in order to expanded its activities.

Moreover, the group is preparing for the necessary procedures in order to enter Britain’s stock market, PLUS. A key role is played by the non-executive board which will be chaired by Christos Nikolaou. He will be responsible of ensuring the Group’s strategy in compliance with his personal principles and values.

In welcoming Prof. Nikolaou, Dimitris Tsigos Virtual Trip’s Chief Executive Officer, has noted “In Virtual Trip, we are putting a great effort into creating a Greek Group of cutting edge companies which will find the path to success towards the Global market. I believe that our core values, venture, innovation, quality, worth and commitment, comprise a strong foundation to help us achieve this difficult goal, which Professor Christos Nikolaou will crucially fortify by undertaken the role of Non-Executive Chairman.

V.trip Group Visit to Sri Lanka and India: A Great Success for Business and Pleasure

The call was quick and the stakes were high, eFront was shortlisted for the eLearning bid of a SriLankan Airlines. The team comprising of George Kalfas, eFront Sales Manager and Sakis Papangelis, Technical Director, Epignosis was mobilized immediately. Taking into consideration the large number of requests for partnerships from neighboring India, made it logical to also visit this great country, as well.

Of course Solo Gateway, the flagship product of the group could not be missed out on a venture to an area where small businesses - the main target group of Solo - are counted in millions, so Georgios Glinos, Solo Gateway Sales Manager was to follow along.

Since there was little room for Solo to prepare for Sri Lanka, the team was initially split and while the eFront team were supporting their bid in the uproar of Colombo, Georgios visited Mumbai (Bombay), where he met with teams of Tata Communications a member of the Tata Group, as well as Reliance Globalcomm, a member of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. The Solo Strategy for India is to gain acces to the vast and ever-growing small business market of the country, both via retail channels as well as a value added product for the broadband product lines of ISPs.

The two teams joined up in N. Delhi, where the took the chance of a sunny Sunday to also pay a visit to one of India's marvels, the mausoleum of Taj Mahal.

The week started off with marathon meetings with local eFront partners Deeksha Systems and newly agreed C2 Workshop, as well as many other potential partners for Solo and/or eFront. Tuesday continued with meetings with @Soft Services that we had met in Patras as well as e-learning giant NIS Sparta, another member of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

Tuesday evening was concluded with the celebration of Georgios's 35th birthday and then Wednesday was sightseeing day until we had to part with that charming and welcoming country.

The TIGER project awarded CELTIC-Gold

The TIGER PROJECT Receives CELTIC GOLD!

[21/1/2009]

The TIGER project ("Together IP, GMPLS and Ethernet Reconsidered"), a EUREKA-CELTIC international industrial cooperation project, in which Virtual Trip has participated through GSRT and recently successfully completed, has been awarded the gold CELTIC Excellence Award.

The TIGER (EU) project has been considered a very successful project by the CELTIC organization and its sequel, TIGER-2, has been strongly favoured and encouraged by CELTIC.

Virtual Trip has participated in the European consortium of the TIGER project as partner and work-package (WP4) leader, having contributed innovative network simulation and analysis tools and methods, incl. one conference paper publication. The consortium included partners such as Alcatel-Lucent, Orange - France Telecom, Nokia-Siemens, FORTH, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, RAD Data Communications, ENST, IBBT, etc.

The "TIGER Tool", an Approximate Mean Value Analysis Solver tool, has been presented in the 8th IASTED Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks (PDCN 2009), in Innsbruck, Austria (16-18 Feb. 2009), by Dr. Fotis K. Liotopoulos, Director of Virtual Trip's RTD dept., who also co-chaired the "Algorithms" sessions of that conference.

The "TIGER Tool" is a unique and very flexible, high-level performance analysis tool, which can be used for the design and sizing of large Metropolitan Ethernet networks, consisting of several thousands of network nodes and millions of customer services.

The tool is highly parametric and solves very complex, closed, fixed-queueing network models of large metropolitan networks in only a few seconds!

Virtual Trip Spain S.L. materialized!

In the end of January Vangelis Zeginoglou and Dimitris Tsigos visited Spain once more and have completed the process of the official establishment of Virtual Trip Spain S.L.! Mr. Andrew Hughes, a very experienced consultant in the fields of marketing and telecommunications honors us undertaking the role of Country Manager in Virtual Trip Spain S.L.

Virtual Trip Group office in Madrid is the first of the "antenna offices" that we plan to establish around the globe trying to analyze local markets, adjust the marketing mix of our products to meet local requirements and, over all, to select the appropriate value-added resellers.

The Madrid office is of strategic importance both for the Iberian peninsula and for the Latin American countries. Beyond these very interesting territories, which do offer huge growth potential, Virtual Trip Spain S.L. will also be responsible for the emerging markets of Northern Africa.

The Virtual Trip Group has already established partnerships in Spain with prestigious companies such as Cystelcom and Dialcom. In the first steps of the office focus will be to promoting eFront, Solo and mVision while the rest of the Group products are going to be adjusted to the needs of its target market.

The establishment of Virtual Trip Spain S.L. is the first step to the international expansion of our Group, a strategic choice for achieving our vision: to materialize innovation.

Virtual Trip Group celebrates the traditional cake for 2009

On February 4th, the people of Virtual Trip Group gathered to celebrate the traditional 

greek cake for the New Year. 

The venue was the cosy restaurant "Mushrooms" (Μανιτάρια) which as expected specializes

in mushroom cuisine in all its forms. Salad with mushrooms, mushrooms on the pan, boiled mushrooms, and 

shrimp with mushrooms were some of the dishes served. 

Some photos from the event:

The pie

Katerina (HR)

Dimitris (CEO)

Eating and drinking 

Periklis (Infomap) and John (Solo)

Overall a very pleasant night.

Best wishes for the new year!

Epignosis was elected as the Greek based portal collaborator

The elearningeuropa.info portal is a European Commission initiative which forms part of the eLearning Programme, managed by the Directorate-General for Education and Culture; Geographical Impact of Programmes; Comenius –Grundtvig Unit.

elearningeuropa.info is the main medium established by the European Commission to promote the use of multimedia technologies and Internet at the service of education and training.

elearningeuropa.info has established a network of e-learning practitioners who will act as the portals "correspondents" in their country and region. Collaborators contribute by promoting and animating forum discussions, recommending eLearning experts to be contacted and interviewed, address actual eLearning topics to discuss and highlight, inform and send resources for portal’s directory and do article peer-reviews for eLearning Papers.

Epignosis (represented to this medium from Mr. Athanasios Papagelis) was elected as the Greek based portal collaborator. For a current list of collaborators check: http://www.elearningeuropa.info/main/index.php?page=fix&id=12

Under this role, Athanasios Papagelis represented Greece on the Workshop that was held on Brussels at 30 October 2008. The aim of this workshop was to bring together portal collaborators at a European level to discuss and exchange ideas about the current and future status of distant training.

For more info on the workshop and a personal view on what was discussed you may check our detailed forum post at: http://forum.efrontlearning.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=364

Next Generation Learning Services (NGLS)presents its innovative elearning services & tools at the 4th People Management Executive Seminar.

NGLS a member of the V.Trip Group of companies, is participating at the 4th People Management Executive Seminar that takes place on October 20, 2008 at the Athens Concert Hall, Vas. Sofias & Kokkali, Athens.

During this prestigious event NGLS will present its full range Human Capital Development Solutions.

NGLS brings together technology, educational methodologies and synergies through strategic partnerships in order to offer unique services in the fields of education and training making use of advanced methods of mixed education/training and technologies of information and communication .

NGLS's solutions are aiming to help companies to:

• Test the knowledge of (candidate) employees (gap-analysis)
• Organize training materials as training courses
• Build user-tailored training paths based on organization needs
• Minimize the organization's training costs
• Pin-point the best candidates for tasks
• Fulfill the inner-organization communication needs
• Preserve the company knowledge
• Certify the employee knowledge
  

Virtual Trip announces commercial distribution of its flagship product SOLO Gateway

Virtual Trip, leading company of the V. Trip Group, announced that its flagship product, Solo Gateway, is commercially available and distributed through a network of certified partners. The announcement was made in the Infosystem 2008 exhibition, where Virtual Trip also presented the Telecom version of Solo Gateway.

On behalf of Virtual Trip, Mr. Vangelis Mihalopoulos, Solo Product Manager, said: "We are proud to present the Telecom version of Solo Gateway. Its innovative design and compact size offers a complete broadband experience for consumer and business Telco users. The Solo Telecom Gateway materializes both the Fixed-Mobile and Telco-IT convergance to the direct benefit of the end-user".

Solo Gateway is a unified software solution offering not only a powerful computational infrastructure combined with IP PBX and fax server facilities, but also a flexible collaboration environment, a complete security framework and a reliable applications deployment platform.

Solo Gateway comes in three version: Small Business, Enterprise and Telecom. It is distributed through certified partners and bundled with broadband subscriptions.

Solo is Simple. Solo is Complete. Solo is All You Need.

NGLS presents its innovative e-learning services and tools at the IT Directors Forum.

NGLS a member of the V.Trip Group of companies, is going to participate to the IT Directors Forum, which is taking place on October 10, 2008 in Athens, Greece.

On behalf of NGLS, Mr. Papagelis Athanasios, Technical Manager, is going to present the views of the company on “Business Transformation & Human-Capital: Managing Change through Learning”.

NGLS brings together technology, educational methodologies and synergies through strategic partnerships in order to offer unique services in the fields of education and training making use of advanced methods of mixed education/training and technologies of information and communication .

The tool for the educational program implementation is e-Front, the platform for distanced asychronized education and training .

It can be used as:

• Communication and briefing tool
• Tool for education and training
• Tool for assessment, output control and as a “machine” that creates trainees improvement proposals
• A report data base

In three sectors:

1. continuing employee’s education
2. preliminary control of knowledge of candidates
3. certification of knowledge skills of the employees
   

Virtual Trip Silver Sponsor at the GD 2008 Symposium

Virtual Trip Ltd, the leading member of the V.Trip Group, is a Silver Sponsor at the GD 2008 Symposium, which will be held during 21-27 September 2008 at Heraklion, Crete (Greece).

The range of topics that are within the scope of the International Symposium on Graph Drawing includes:

• Visualization of networks, Web maps, software engineering diagrams, database schemas, chemical structures and molecules
• Graph algorithms
• Geometric graph theory
• Geometric computing
• Software systems for graph visualization
• Topology and planarity
• Graph theory and optimization on graphs
• Interfaces for interacting with graphs
• Applications that need graph drawing solutions including Biomedical Informatics, Data Mining, Networking, and Security

Virtual Trip is a network-centric software development company founded in September 2000 by a team of Computer Engineers and "Critical Publics". Its activities are extended in high technology software products, technological works in the private and public sector, as well as, industrial researches in collaboration with leading European inquiring institutions

Virtual Trip is the vendor of the SOLO Gateway platform and also provides services for network-centric information systems, voice portals, enterprise security, systems and network consulting and integrated systems design.

eFront ‘s new reselling agreements in India, Egypt and Denmark

Epignosis, spin-off company of the V.Trip Group has achieved new reselling agreements for eFront, an easy to use, visually attractive, SCORM compatible, eLearning and Human Capital Development system.

Our new partners are:

• DEEKSHA SYSTEMS PVT LTD, the only IT Company in India which focuses only and purely on education sector. DEEKSHA SYSTEMS PVT LTD was founded 4 years ago and is backed by the Technology Innovation Center of UNIKEN INC (the parent company based out of Tampa, USA) where the technology components are developed – it has some of the leading figures on its Advisory Board who have more than 30 years of experience in technology industry.

• CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS, a Middle East based company established in Egypt Since 1987, offering turnkey IT solutions. Its purpose is to provide high quality end-to-end solutions and offer organizations of all sizes a trusted source for all their current and future communication requirements. CC has alliances and strategic partnerships with major software and hardware manufacturers. Utilizing the diversified recourses and know how, CC provides turnkey solutions in automation, Learning management systems, and multimedia broadcasting.

• OPTIMON, a Danish company who has collected a battery of open source digital service tools for the demanding organization. Optimon provides services as: e-learning development planning, courseware flash, scorm and video productions and various knowledge logistics solutions for mainly the Scandinavian Healthcare sector and other e-learning consumers.

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.

Athens International 2008 ...

MVNS and Virtual Trip , spin-off companies of the V. Trip Group, participated at ATHENS INTERNATIONAL 2008, which was held on May 15-18 at the International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos (Greece).

The exhibition was dedicated to Defence-Security-Technology in SE Europe and the Middle East.

V.Trip Group launched innovative value-added services in the telecommunications and security market implemented by the platforms: mVision and SOLO Gateway. mVision Surveillance, fully integrated with SOLO Home Gateway, offers a number of value-added features such as video recording, sms / phone notification, 3G Video-Call access, integration with alarm systems and event logging. The mVision Surveillance platform is already the technological underpinnings of the Conn-X View service of OTE and My Show of WIND.

Virtual Trip, also introduced the Integrated Systems Group, which offers integrated systems designing services. Virtual Trip ‘s ISG has high expertise and experience in the field of System S / W, Digital Design, Modeling & Simulation, Validation & Verification, Prototyping and Testing.

Our latest cover story: Dimitris Tsigos : “Virtual Trip is Materiazing Innovation”….

Mr. Dimitris Tsigos, Founder & CEO of the V.Trip Group, was interviewed by NETWEEK magazine (business magazine for the technology strategist).

Take a glance at the greek version of Virtual Trip's cover story here. Don’ t miss Mr. Tsigos talking about his vision and objectives for the company, and explaining how Virtual Trip evolved from the first successful start-up company of student entrepreneurship into a Group of IT companies with a turnover which exceeds 5.000.000 €.

Mr. Tsigos focused on V.Trip Group's products and services underlining that SOLO Gateway platform (small business and residential gateway) is the flagship product of the Group, while mVision (streaming video& mobile social networking platform) is the key solution for mobile surveillance and has already cooperated with OTE, providing underpinnings for the Conn-x View service. Other products of the Group referred are: eFront (e-Learning and human capital development platform), Insurance Manager (Integrated information system for insurance agencies & brokers), Diagramma (Integrated information system for education & training organizations), OpenVote (Secure Internet Voting System).

He also analyzed the needs of the Greek IT market, as he has been elected member of the board of the Hellenic Association of ICT Professionals and has been nominated the Special Prize of the University of Crete for Continues Entrepreneurial Development.

Finally, he announced Virtual Trip’s new opening in the Spanish market and revealed the secret of Virtual Trip’s success!

Next Stop : Dubai...

Following the successful participation in CeBIT Hannover 2008, V.Trip Group is focusing on the Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. An expedition was organised to visit Dubai, a centre of trade and technology activities in the Middle East.

On board were our international business development team, Vangelis Zegkinoglou and Thanos Alafogiannis, and the key-persons for each flagship product of the VTrip Group: Manos Moschous of MVNS, with the "mVision" Mobile Streaming Platform; Sakis Papagelis of Epignosis, with the "eFront" eLearning and Human Capital Development Platform; Vangelis Mihalopoulos of Virtual Trip, with the "SOLO Gateway" Server Platform.

Dubai is the hub of the Middle East. Besides being a commercial and retail heaven, it is also an important business centre, attracting hi-tech international enterprises. Dubai is the fastest growing Business Location in the GCC countries, and certainly in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai has world class communications, high speed Internet Access, a superb GSM Mobile Phone Network, International Hotels, Foreign Ownership, excellent Conference and exhibition facilities.

The expedition involved a series of presentations to some of the largest established corporations of hi-tech industries. Some of the meetings involved: Eti-Salat Academy, an important eLearning solution provider; Du Mobile, the newly-established alternative mobile operator; Cellucom, a technology retailer; UAE Mobiles, mobile content providers; Axiom Plus, mobile handsets retailer.

Overall, the expedition was a good hit, leading to secondary discussions and, hopefully, possible cooperations with Dubai-based firms. We are currently planning our next visit to the most beautiful of the Emirates, to advance our contacts to the next level and negotiate on our local representation in Dubai, which will enable us to provide high-quality services in the Emirates and surrounding countries. Dubai was only the beginning.

SOLO Gateway's latest publications ....

VIRTUAL TRIP presents the SOLO Gateway platform, which fulfills the need for flexible, easy to use, safe and complete ICT solution for Small Small Office and Home Users (SOHO).

Catch up with SOLO Gateway's latest publications in greek magazines presenting SOLO's four flavors :

The Economist March 2008, issue 49, pg. 31 read more...

KEFALAIO April 2008, pg. 45 read more...

SOLO Home Gateway is the ideal solution for home automation, security and entertainment, including all necessary tools for managing your files, even from a mobile phone. Also, it offers VoIP services, video-conferencing, and wireless access management (WiFi). It provides an easy and flexible environment for surveillance using digital video streams, accessible either through mobile phones (GPRS / 3G), or through internet-connected computers, while including video recording, burglar-alarm connectivity, and sms/phone notifications. SOLO Home Gateway, also, includes a simple-to-use application for storage, retrieval and direct access to multimedia content (images, audio, video), either locally or remotely, or even through mobile phones.

SOLO Small Business Gateway is the answer to the need for secure, reliable and flexible infrastructure for small and medium enterprises. Between the services offered are Email, File & Web Server, Back-up, Proxy, VPN, Firewall, IDS, Anti-spam & Anti-virus. Additionally, a full-fledged Fax Server is provided for fast and easy management of all incoming and outgoing faxes, along with an innovative VoIP PBX, through which SOLO Small Business Gateway implements a complete telephone exchange of up to 50 extensions, without special equipment. This makes it the most affordable and reliable solution on the market for communicational and computational infrastructure.

In order to meet the growing needs of large enterprises established in with more than one placed, we designed SOLO Enterprise Gateway. It provides high availability and high performance characteristics, like replication between two or more SOLO Enterprise Gateways and hot-stand-by for uninterrupted service. Additionally, it offers advanced bandwidth management for all broadband internet connections, network traffic shaping and advanced security technologies (firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam, IDS και IPS).

Moreover, SOLO Telecom Gateway is suitable For all DSL broadband connections and is a brand new form of CPE (Customer Premises Equipment). It can be fully integrated with any ISP infrastructure, re-using datacenters by, e.g., hosting Web and Email services centrally.

Virtual Trip & MVNS at the Telecommunications Management Conference

Virtual Trip and MVNS, companies-members of the V. Trip Group, participated at the Telecommunications Management Conference, which was held on April 17, 2008 in Greece.

On behalf of the V.Trip Group of Companies, Mr. Dimitris Tsigos, Group Founder and CEO, presented, among important speakers from the international community of Telecommunications, the views of the Group on «Innovation in Telecom-VAS based on Innovation in IT» . Take a glance at Mr.Tsigos' presentation here!

V. Trip Group introduced innovative value-added services in the telecommunications market implemented on the mVision and SOLO Gateway platforms.

Specifically, we launched mVision Surveillance II, which turns remote surveillance to commodity, allowing inexperienced

users to acce

ss surveillance cameras at home or office in a very easy & flexible way, without any requireme

nt for specialized infrastructure,

connectivity or handheld devices.

mVision Surveillance, fully integrated with SOLO Home Gateway, offers additional features like video recording, sms / phone notification, 3G Video-Call access, integration with alarm systems and event logging. The mVision Surveillance platform is already the technological underpinnings of the Conn-X View service of OTE and My Show of WIND.

Both platforms are flexible and scalable. The mVision platform also offers Mobile Marketing and Mobile Social Networking services, through a unified access from Web, Wap and 3G Video Call, while the SOLO Gateway platform is distributed in Small Business and Enterprise versions, providing user-friendly, secure ICT infrastructure.

mVision Network Solutions exhibitor at ExpoSec 08!

mVision ® Network Solutions, Spin-Off company of the V.Trip Group, is pleased to announce that the second edition of mVision Surveillance™ platform was presented at ExpoSec 2008 which was dedicated to "Homeland & Corporate Security". The ExpoSec 08 was held on 1-2 April 2008 at Zappeion Megaron, Athens (Greece).

The first international event of its kind in Greece, ExpoSec is an annual Security Conference and Exhibition staged in Athens since 2002, aiming to examine the most recent views, findings and technologies regarding security and safety issues.

The mVision Surveillance™ service allows everyone to effectively surveil their area even if they are absent, by delivering real-time video to handheld devices. For the safety of your private area, security companies may not be enough as they cannot provide the best and safest solution. MVNS has already launched WIND My Show and Conn-X View along with OTE providing local recording via 3G Video Call.

On behalf of MVNS, Manos Moschous, Technical Director, presented the Remote Mobile Surveillance in the 7^th Security Conference on Wednesday 2^nd of April 2008.