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The Supervisory Board of Netviewer AG has appointed Robert Gratzl to be the company's new Chief Financial Officer.

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Best Western Hotels Great Britain, part of the world’s largest hotel group Best Western International, has selected Netviewer’s one2one for remote IT support to increase system uptime for its member hotels and significantly reduce support overheads.

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Netviewer Single Event Edition, available from today, provides the ability to deliver presentations with live audio and video, from the desktop of a standard PC, to audiences of up to one thousand participants.

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Project management software provider Projectplace and Netviewer, Europe’s leading provider of web collaboration solutions, today announced an agreement to renew their partnership. Netviewer’s latest generation of VoIP and video enabled web collaboration tools will be seamlessly integrated with Projectplace’s service to extend the ability of project management teams to collaborate dynamically using desktop sharing, audio and face-to-face communications.

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Global Customer Support at SAP supports more than 42,000 customer organisations that use over 320,000 systems worldwide. To effectively support the customers in a timely and cost-efficient manner, SAP decided to augment the collaboration functions in SAP Solution Manager with Web collaboration tools from Netviewer. When a customer needs assistance, Netviewer enables rapid interaction with the customer by making Web conferences as natural as picking up the telephone.

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Netviewer AG will launch significant new services at this year's CeBIT on booth C63 in hall 3. Building on the recent release of Netviewer five (an extensively enhanced version of their award winning web conferencing solution), Netviewer will reveal a portal for interactive live video events, new web extensions and integration with Microsoft OCS. Netviewer will be joined on its booth by its partners: Projectplace, Inneo Solutions, Aviconet, and Samsung who will be exhibiting solutions and products which enhance or benefit from virtual collaboration over the Web.

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Following its recent successful funding round, Netviewer has boosted its senior management team and changed its legal structure to become a public limited company. These changes provide the flexibility and expertise the company requires for its next phase of international expansion.

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Netviewer has issued the results of a survey into the current and future use of web conferencing technologies by European business.  The research, which questioned 332 enterprise IT managers across the UK, France and Germany, shows that time and cost savings are still believed to be major benefits of web conferencing (cited by 82 per cent of respondents) but that the ability to reduce travel requirements thereby cutting carbon emissions is largely overlooked.  The UK led on recognition of environmental benefits of web conferencing with 54 percent of respondents citing it as a benefit as opposed to only 37 per cent across Europe as a whole.

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Netviewer has been recognised as a leading technology supplier in the 2007 British Computer Society’s annual Organisational Excellence Awards. The company beat an impressive field to pick up a medal in the Technology Supplier Organisation of the Year category which recognized the customer benefits of Netviewer’s market-leading real-time collaboration software, innovative approach and localised customer support.
Netviewer was also recognised as a finalist in the category Organisational Excellence, SME Organisation of the year.
The BCS IT Industry awards are the leading hallmark of success amongst practitioners in the IT industry today. These cross-industry awards recognise, promote and acclaim excellence, professionalism, innovation and the outstanding achievements to which individuals and groups contribute.

With multi-user full duplex Voice-over-IP, Netviewer five from Netviewer AG is making expensive teleconferences a thing of the past. The new versions of Netviewer’ real-time collaboration solutions one2one and one2meet, launched on the 30th of November, will offer users significantly enhanced speech transmission through VoIP, eliminating telephone charges which add substantial cost to online meetings. Other highlights of Netviewer five are multi-video display, a survey creator, a Skype plug-in, and an individually customisable user interface with floating windows.

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Netviewer is continuing to advance its international strategy by establishing two new subsidiaries in Barcelona and Milan. The aim of expanding into Southern Europe is to tap the enormous growth potential of web collaboration locally and rapidly adopt a leading role. The current Deloitte ranking once more acknowledges Netviewer as one of the fastest growing technology companies in Germany: Netviewer ranked 6th in the Fast50 Ranking which was published today.

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Netviewer has received one of the coveted Frost & Sullivan Awards. The award in the ‘Business Development Strategy Leadership 2007’ category recognises Netviewer as an organisation which has distinguished itself in its sector by demonstrating exceptional business development, excelling in the creation of products and services that are perfectly tailored to the needs of its target groups.

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Invision Private Equity AG and TVM Capital are taking a €9 million stake in Karlsruhe based Netviewer GmbH, Europe’s leading web conferencing and remote access vendor. The new financing will be used to accelerate international growth and fund further development of Netviewer’s internet-based real-time visual communication tools.

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Research firm Gartner has evaluated and placed Netviewer GmbH in the Visionaries Quadrant within its Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing 2007 (1).  

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Communicating more efficiently, saving travel expenses and protecting the climate at the same time: On World Environment Day, the 5th of June, Netviewer, Europe’s leading provider of real-time collaboration software, committed to take action to reduce greenhouse gases. With each licence sold in June Netviewer will offset half a ton of emissions by supporting the climate protection projects of Swiss non-profit organisation myclimate.

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Netviewer today announced strong growth in the UK market of web collaboration. During the last twelve months, Netviewer has seen an increase in companies taking up web conferencing software. Large corporations in the UK, such as Toshiba, Best Western, and Capita integrate Netviewer’s collaboration and desktop sharing tools into their business. 

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At this year’s CeBIT, Netviewer will be presenting version 4.1 of its Web collaboration solutions one2one and one2meet, the latter being a promising candidate for the European Union’s ICT Grand Prize. Netviewer will be located in hall 3, stand C63. At the stand, potential users from every industry can see the flexibility of Netviewer solutions for themselves. For 2007 the company also plans to launch the Netviewer Academy, an Internet-based platform which third parties can use to conduct training sessions.

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Netviewer has reached the final rounds of the ICT Grand Prize awarded by the European Union: during a tough elimination process, a jury of sixteen selected 20 ICT Prize Winners from 70 nominated companies. EU Commissioner Viviane Reding will present the three ICT Grand Prize Winners at the CeBIT in Hanover on 16 March.

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Netviewer now supports Windows Vista. At the CeBIT trade fair, Netviewer of south-western Germany will present the latest updates to its real-time communication solutions Netviewer one2one and Netviewer one2meet (hall 3, booth C63). Other important functions included with this latest version 4.1 include individually configurable system diagnosis and plug-ins for common programs. With these features users can now start sessions directly from another application, ranging from Office applications such as Outlook to programs like MindManager.

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Netviewer today announced that it ranked number 9 on the 2006 Deloitte Technology Fast 5005 EMEA, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years, from 2001-2005. Netviewer achieved a growth rate of up to 14,000% during this period.

Netviewer today announced that it has received an award in innovative management amongst SMEs in Germany, ranking the company now one of the top 100 most innovative organisations

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Netviewer, a leading provider of web collaboration, desktop sharing and web conferencing software, today announced the expansion of its European management team with Rachel Lane as Managing Director for the UK.

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The web conferencing tool allows now both, synchronous and asynchronous communication within the web based project management service by Projectplace.com

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