Categories: General
Date: Jun 14, 2009
Title: Vololink wins at CeBIT
One of webtactics clients, Vololink won at CeBIT this year.
I think webtactics was as proud as Vololink. Good work to all.
Below is a blog post from Vololink about the event.
CeBIT 2009. We Won!
Well wasn’t CeBIT an event?
More than 35000 visitors and 700 exhibitors, all in three very big days.
I saw lines out of the conference centre at opening time each day, and the crowd didn’t seem to abate no matter the lateness of the afternoon.
Sydney’s CeBIT Technology Fair is a very big deal.
And Vololink walked off with one of the major awards.
Vololink was awarded with the 2009 CeBIT.AU Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence, recognising outstanding achievement by Australian or New Zealand company less than three years old. The CeBIT Awards are considered to be the most prestigious technology awards in the Asia Pacific.
Other finalists in the 2009 CeBIT.AU Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence were:
MyNetFone: A specialist in cost-effective business communications products for small andmedium sized enterprises.
SportsPassion: Australia ’s leading community sports-focused social networking service.
Full Circle Group: An independent Australian owned company based in Melbourne specialising in reducing and managing all aspects of Telco costs and solutions.
Even including that highlight, the rest of the show went off better than we had planned.
We weren’t able to get many quiet moments as the Vololink stand seemed to be permanently busy. Judging by the amount of catalogues that visitors took with them, Vololink are in for a very high growth year.
One of the periphery advantages of an event like CeBIT is the chance to network with the fellow exhibitors. Interestingly, I think we may have some good news in the pipeline after some pretty advantageous meetings we stuck-up at CeBIT.
Another thing that I particularly like about an event such as CeBIT is to see which way the technology industry is heading. Looking around the room it isn’t too hard to pick the trends and technologies the majority of new businesses are banking on.
Wireless technologies and Software as a Service (SaaS) appeared to be the two big “hot buttons” at this year’s event.
Neither is surprising really, and both to a degree cater to similar desires. That is, to be freed from direct connections, and to be able to work and enjoy wherever you are.
What will be interesting is if we start to see a real convergence between wireless and SaaS applications.
The SaaS hype has ebbed and flowed for a number of years. Essentially SaaS is providing your business applications via the Internet rather than having them in-house on a server you need to manage. The more time you spend online, the more the advantages of a SaaS system are obvious.
For an example of a very basic – yet remarkably complex SaaS system, think Google.
At Vololink, we run a significant portion of our business on one of the SaaS pioneers, NetSuite.
NetSuite is complete business application combining both backend – ERP, accounting, inventory and frontend - CRM (customer relationship management) and ecommerce applications.
So at Vololink we have already cornered the two biggest trends in technology. Whilst out of the office and working wirelessly with our VoloFone, interacting with our online database and business applications in NetSuite, we just hadn’t realised how cool we were.
All in a days work for Vololink.