January 13, 2011. Evident Point CES 2011 Report
Pierre Burns, VP Marketing Evident Point Software

This was the second year in a row Evident Point decided to visit the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and we were not disappointed.

The show is a massive event with over 140,000 industry attendees, over 2700 companies and over 20,000 products on display.

The talk of the show was the sheer number of new tablets demoed. Over 75 tablets were on display, not surprisingly, since Forrester has just amended their previous estimates on tablet adoption. The new estimate is that tablet sales will double this year in the US to 24.1 million units with Apple still holding a commanding lead. Full article here.

Evident Point was there to speak to the vendors and discuss the latest developments in the areas of our expertise: e-publishing software, conversion software, e-reading and e-paper. The timing was right as Evident Point Software had just completed very significant Window 7 tablet applications for the most recognized names in the e-publishing industry: Newspaper Direct and Zinio.

Additionally we had several opportunities to talk about our new Active Textbook product for the Educational industry. Active Textbook is a truly innovative way for teachers, instructors and professors to enrich the experience of a traditional digital textbook.

While there were some rumors that we may get a mention from Steve Balmer at the Microsoft opening keynote speech at the CES, unfortunately we did not get our moment of fame. However, considering the huge amount of innovations Microsoft reported on during the keynote it is not a surprise that Kinect, Surface computing, and Windows 7 phone product announcements took center stage during the hour long display. If you missed it you can catch all the keynotes, including Microsoft's on the CES website.

Other items for fans looking to attend next year were the impressive spectacles put on by the large consumer electronic vendors. SONY especially had an impressive pavilion with a 2 story 3D monitor and music/video light show.

Lastly, celebrity spotters were not disappointed as rapper 50 Cent made an appearance at the CES promoting his own line of headphones called SLEEK.

Evident Point will most likely be back again next year, and we will again have a full report.

For more info on the CES 2011 show visit www.cesweb.org

For more information about Evident Point Software please visit www.evidentpoint.com

November 1-4, 2010. Eugene Nizker, CEO of Evident Point Software, www.evidententerprise.com, is a Conference Chair for "Much Ado About Agile 2010" conference.

This fifth annual conference, a sold out event five years running, features speakers that are the "who's who" in the software development industry. Featured speakers at the conferences present and past have included Martin Fowler, Eric Evans, Josh Kerievsky, Michael Feathers, David Andersen, Linda Rising, Johanna Rothman, Mary Poppendieck, Esther Derby, Sanjiv Augustine, Gerard Meszaros, Philippe Kruchten, Ken Schwaber, Jonathan Kohl, Jim Shore, Janet Gregory and David Hussman. This popular international conference is attended by agile practitioners from BC, Canada, other provinces and the Western United States.

Conference attendees say:

Dr. Nizker and Evident Point are honoured to continue to bring this conference to Vancouver for the continued benefit, learning and networking opportunities it provides to the local and international software development community.

October 16, 2010. Eugene Nizker, CEO of Evident Point Software, www.evidententerprise.com, conducts "Agile 101" workshop at University of British Columbia.

This full day workshop was attended by about 40 IT practitioners and academics from all areas of the industry: developers and QA specialists, analysts and technical writers, project managers and executives. The philosophy of agile development methodology was introduced to seminar attendees, followed by practical example of the methodology implementation: participants were working on the same task in several teams using different processes and discussed the differences in the results instigated by these processes. The participants expressed their excitement with the knowledge they received and the prospects of practical implementation of this knowledge. "I learned a lot about team dynamics" reported one participant. Ron Guentgher CTO of Bayleaf Software added: "I found Agile 101 session on Saturday to be an excellent introduction. I was skeptical, but it was very instructive. I'll definitely be attending more such events in the future."

May 26, 2010. Evident Point Software Corp. is pleased to announce the official release of its Active Textbook eLearning application

VANCOUVER, May 26 /PRNewswire/ - The announcement was made at the recent Learning Impact 2010 conference in Long Beach California this week held by IMS Global Impact, an organization dedicated to the development and adoption of innovative technologies to improve and transform education worldwide.

Active Textbook lets educators, authors and publishers create electronic textbooks that offer learning experiences enhanced with multimedia and interactivity.

Features of the application were demoed live at the conference including the ability to:

• Automatically convert to Active Textbook from a textbook XPS or PDF
• Inclusion of High-res media, video and animations
• Bookmarks, notes, scribbles and support for interactive quizzes
• Easy navigation with chapter list, media list
• Free Web-based Silverlight interactive viewer
• Keeps all author intent on content and layout
• Vector representation supports unlimited zoom
• Attachment: Office documents, HTML pages

"The Active Textbook solution empowers the strategy of distributing electronic books in a format which provides both students, publishers and educators with new benefits and possibilities." comments Luis Fernando del Signo from Tralcom http://www.tralcom.com

Active Textbook has already proven to be a robust application with the recent integration into several established Learning Management Systems such as IQ:on learning management system, Class Coordinator(Tralcom) and EDW International toolset.

Apr 15, 2010. Evident Point announces the completion and launch of International Financial Transactions Processing system for PeerFX

Evident Point is pleased to announce the completion and launch of the new mission-critical international payment system for their client PeerFX. After gaining traction in the foreign exchange (FX) market PeerFX, an innovative company that offers online currency exchange and payment platform, decided to further advance their technology and entrusted the implementation of this critical project to Evident Point Software.

The new system will offer rich set of features and scalability PeerFX requires for its aggressive growth. Among other benefits, the new platform provides complex pricing structures and flexible conditions for partnership and channeled sales that will secure future expansion into international markets.

Evident Point's experience with FX development is invaluable to PeerFX's operation. Asked about her thoughts on this project Florence Leung, President of PeerFX said, “We are impressed by the quality of the work produced in this project, the efficiency Evident Point demonstrated and new opportunities they opened up for our company”.

About Evident Point :
Evident Point (www.evidententerprise.com) was established in 1995. Our track record includes many successful projects for Apple, Microsoft, SONY, Bombardier, Central 1, Ritchie Bros, ICBC, BC Hydro and other leading corporations in US, Canada, Europe and Asia. Evident Point has extensive experience in Foreign Exchange and International Payments domain. We deliver value added solutions for medium-sized and large financial institutions that want to create competitive advantage through technology, improve efficiencies in booking, and settlement processes and to attract new clients.

About PeerFX :
PeerFX (www.peerfx.com) is an online peer-to-peer concept currency exchange. PeerFX is changing exchanging by cutting out unnecessary fees in the process and saving up to 80 percent in transaction fees on every transaction. We strive to build an online financial service for small businesses and individuals that eliminates bottlenecks in the existing financial system. We take pride in providing responsive customer service and access to the most competitive exchange rates possible for small-to-medium sized businesses and individuals.

For further information please contact:

Evident Point
Pierre Burns, VP of Marketing and Business Development at:
pierreb@evidentpoint.com or 1–877-641-2711

PeerFX
Julien Phipps, Director of Marketing and Business Development at:
julien.phipps@peerfx.com or 1-800-890-7029

Mar 22, 2010. Evident Point Software and EDW International announce an alliance to promote Evident Point's Active Textbook

Evident Point, the leading Canadian developer of e-Reading software and XPS tools, and EDW International, a leading Italian provider of corporate publishing and e-learning, announced a partnership to promote XPS-based interactive corporate publishing and interactive textbooks for Education, based on the Interactive XPS toolset. “Combining the tools developed by Evident Point for Microsoft, with EDW's expertise in corporate publishing and e-textbook development is a win-win proposition”, says Marco Meli, President of EDW. “The coming world of E-books in all domains of reading, including schools worldwide, requires the merging of publishing skills for paper and media, something which EDW has extensive experience having been in this business for over 11 years. We see Evident Point’s experience with current e-reading standards and leading publishing technologies as a unique competitive advantage offering for our leading educational and corporate customers in Europe”. “The alliance with EDW International will further strengthen our position on e-Reading market and facilitate Evident Point’s expansion in Europe”, says Yuri Khramov, President of Evident Point Software.

Mar 15, 2010. PMI invites Eugene Nizker to deliver a workshop.

Canadian West Coast Chapter of PMI signed the contract today with Evident Point Software. According to this contract Eugene Nizker of Evident Point will deliver the workshop to the audience at Project Management Institute on Introduction to Agile for Project Managers. The date of the workshop is Apr 30. The details can be found at http://www.pmi.bc.ca/Default.aspx?tabid=856.

Feb 1, 2010: Evident Point signs contract with Sony (www.sony.com), one of world's largest and well known producers of commercial electronics.

Evident Point continues to expand into the flourishing e-Ink domain with this new contract with Sony and will develop an important and industry leading product for Sony.

"Adding Sony to our list of customers is a very important step for us. It is not surprising that Sony, one of the leading companies in the e-Ink market, chooses Evident Point as its vendor. This move is a testament to the achievements and depth of expertise of our team, and a recognition of our success in the flourishing e-ink marketplace. We are proud of our team and believe it will take the company to new heights." says Pierre Burns, Evident Point's VP of Marketing and Business Development.

About Sony: Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its motion picture, television, computer entertainment, music and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world.

Nov 23, 2009: Evident Point transfers the rights to RecordShare™ to Ocean Road Software Inc.

Richmond, BC – Evident Point Software Corp. and Ocean Road Software Inc. are pleased to announce the creation of a strategic partnership. The partnership incorporates the transfer of rights from Evident Point to Ocean Road Software to RecordShare™, a SharePoint-based Records and Document Management product developed by Evident Point. The agreement also establishes a services partnership between the two firms to provide deep technical and domain expertise to the marketplace.

“We believe there are natural business and technology synergies between Evident Point and Ocean Road, whose core competency is in the Records and Information Management domain” says Yuri Khramov, President of Evident Point. “We are excited to be partnering with Evident Point,” says Douglas Onofrychuk, President of Ocean Road Software Inc. “We were looking for a well architected, functionally rich system to add to our suite of offerings. We were also looking for a partner with whom we could establish a services relationship to provide technical expertise to optimize solutions for our clients. The team at Evident Point meets both these objectives”. “Together we offer a compelling value proposition for firms looking to implement an effective SharePoint Records Management solution that is DOD5015.2 compliant and provides email and electronic records management, advanced physical records management, federated retention policy management and imaging that can be deployed on-premise or on-demand”.

About Ocean Road: http://oceanroadsoftware.com
Ocean Road Software is an innovative provider of Records and Information Management solutions that assist organizations of all sizes achieve legal, regulatory and industry compliance requirements. For more information please contact info@oceanroadsoftware.com.

Aug 19, 2009: Evident Point signs the contract with Netronix, world's second largest developer of the E Ink screens.

The software will offer functionality to the end user that is beyond the usual set of functions for this type of devices. Evident Point has been selected by Taiwan-based Netronix for this pioneering project that will open new opportunities and broaden the market for the new Netronix's E Ink device.

About Netronix : Netronix Inc. (http://www.netronixinc.com) is the designer and manufacturer of network products and multimedia peripherals, headquartered in Hsinchu/Taiwan. Netronix provides network and multimedia applications for customer's various demands including: Ethernet applications, Wireless products, NAS, and Multimedia products.

July 16, 2009: Evident Point gets the source code license for interactive XPS tools from Microsoft.

Redmond, WA – Microsoft grants the source code License for the Interactive XPS tools to its original developer, Evident Point Software Corp. This license allows Evident Point to develop applications on top of interactive XPS tools for third parties, as well as customize these tools for customers. The deal positions Evident Point as the top expert for development of interactive learning materials based on the existing textbooks and manuals. Potential customers benefit from using the expertise of the original code developers.

May 8, 2009: Evident Point signs another Document Management contract.

In co-operation with Quay Communications Inc., Evident Point is working on a contract to develop a document management system for Bombardier. We are pleased to use our RecordShare expertise for developing a custom Document Management system for Bombardier; such contracts are the "heart" of our business plan, says Eugene Nizker, founding partner of EP and project lead for the Bombardier project.

Mar 27, 2009: Evident Point delivers release 3 of the Internal Planning System to Ritchie Bros.

Auctioneers In this version, Ritchie Bros introduces electronic Score Card system for its sales force, developed and deployed by Evident Point. "We are very pleased with the quality of the project that we delivered on time and on budget; we have no issues reported by the customer so far, after 2 month of the use of the system – it shows the quality of our work", says Yuri Khramov, president of EP.

Jan 29, 2009: Microsoft promotes the interactive XPS tools, developed by Evident Point.

Microsoft's Education division issued a press-release describing the benefits for publishers and learning public offered by a new set of tools, developed by Evident Point. These tools allow easy and inexpensive usage of rich media objects and interactive learning methods within regular electronic textbooks. See the full text of the press release.

Oct 27, 2008: Evident Point presents cloud computing solution at Microsoft PDC.

Evident Point presented its Record Management solution based on a pioneering Microsoft Azure technology at PDC, as one of the first applications that uses Sequel Server Data Services. This pioneering solution offers basic set of functionality generally expected from a Records Management system. The essence of the offering is that a potential user does not to pay significant chunk of money for a solution, and then deal with costly and time consuming implementation. Cloud-based solution frees a user from expenses on hardware and additional personnel, worries over system availability, disaster recovery, etc. Virtually infinite system availability and nominal licensing cost, removing a product vendor from the picture and replacing it by one of the industry giants – Microsoft in this case – is the appealing part of the offering.

Sep 4, 2008: CIO Magazine publishes Eugene Nizker's Agile 2008 conference report "7 Agile Leadership Lessons for the Suits".

(http://www.cio.com/article/447712). "Eugene Nizker has returned with several suggestions for CIOs, IT managers and programming team leaders. This isn't the geeky stuff that developers talk about amongst themselves; rather, he explains the strategic adjustments that would-be Agile companies need to adopt," says CIO's Esther Schindler. The report discusses a wide range of topics including management of self-organized teams, the new role of an IT manager, the destructive effect of existing appraisals systems, and last but not least, the issue of trust that every IT manager should be concerned with. The report has been re-posted by a number of reputable Internet sources, such as ComputerWorld, ITWorld and NewsWeek. According to www.dzone.com, and www.reddit.com the article is rapidly becoming one of the most popular resources of its kind on the Web.

Aug 26, 2008: Evident Point's Envisage is promoted in Microsoft Application Development Catalog.

The summer issue of the prestigious MS Application Development Catalog features Evident Point's Envisage as the only tool in the “Project Management” category. Microsoft Application Development Catalog, published quarterly by Extension Media, is an essential resource for development organizations around the world using the .NET Framework and the Visual Studio family of products. Envisage is Evident Point's project life cycle tool that spans all phases of the development process. For the details please see here.

June 24, 2008: Evident Point and Microsoft start cooperation on SQL Server Data Services.

Evident Point developed RecordShare Light, an ultra-light-weight system for records management and document control, which uses SSDS as the backend. The system delivers much-needed functionality to this market including (for details see here ): Company-wide storage system with clear classification for electronic documents; Combined management for electronic and physical documents and records; Powerful search through all documents; Flexible reporting tools.

June 9, 2008: Evident Point and Microsoft start cooperation on SQL Server Data Services.

Evident Point's efforts to port its flagship product RecordShare to SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) is endorsed by Microsoft. The quotation on the subject from Yuri Khramov, President of Evident Point, is placed on SSDS webpage: "We are very pleased with Microsoft's announcement of SSDS; we believe in the "commodization" of the web services in that area, and are excited about SSDS' road map. We also like the simple and schema-less interface that Microsoft team designed for these services."

May 20, 2008: Evident Point Software announces signing two more contracts with Microsoft.

"Evident Point is proud to cooperate with Microsoft in several breakthrough areas. Our expertise is sought after by leading teams at Microsoft due to the strength we demonstrated developing and implementing technology innovations. Working with this industry giant, we develop software that is of high demand around the world. This is an honour as much as it is a responsibility. Our team is fully prepared and equipped for this challenge." - Yuri Khramov, President and CEO of Evident Point Software.

February 25, 2008: Evident Point Software announces signing new contract with Apple.

"Working with Apple's innovative approach is always a pleasure for our elite team. This contract also means high level of responsibility, because we will develop software that will be used by millions of people around the World. We are proud to be part of Apple's efforts to bring innovation into everyday's life." - Yuri Khramov, President and CEO of Evident Point Software.

January 14, 2008: Evident Point Software is pleased to announce that it was selected by Microsoft and has started to develop components for Microsoft® Expression® Studio product.

Expression Studio, a professional design tools, released in 2007, allows the flexibility and freedom to bring user's vision to reality - whether designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop, or managing digital assets and content. "This contract is very important to us. Recognition by Microsoft re-asserts our reputation as an elite team, developing software used by millions of the developers all over the World. We are proud to be a part of Expression Studio team effort." - Yuri Khramov, President and CEO of Evident Point Software.

January 7, 2008: Ritchie Bros Auctioneers (RBA) is pleased to announce the successful deployment of the first release of their electronic system for annual action planning.

The system was developed by Evident Point Software in cooperation with a RBA team. This new system enables development and reconciliation of Ritchie Bros' worldwide annual action plans as a series of top-down and bottom-up interactions. The team utilized agile development methodologies. RBA's Vice President of Auction Operations, Karl Werner commented on the achievement, stating: "Evident Point has been able to deliver a very feature rich application on a very tight deadline, in time for our 2008 action plan campaign. The system has proven itself during this campaign and we are impressed with the way Evident Point performs. We are very pleased that the Evident Point team continues to provide excellent service and product development for us as we continue development and deployment of our M07 initiates". Yuri Kharmov, President and CEO of Evident Point, is proud of what his team was able to accomplish. "We enjoy working with Ritchie Bros Auctioneers. RBA is a very dynamic company, which means that the deadlines are always tight, and the requirements may change on the fly. A challenging and demanding environment is what makes the cooperation appealing to us. We are happy that we proved the strength of our team and our vision in these trying conditions. Our specialists enjoy working with highly knowledgeable business and technical team of RBA."

About RBA : Ritchie Bros Auctioneers (RBA, NYSE-RBA) conducts over 180 unreserved industrial auctions every year at locations throughout North and Central America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. This year the company will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Company headquarters is located in Richmond, BC.

November 5, 2007: Evident Point announces RecordShare™ at meeting of American Records Management Association in Vancouver.

RecordShare is a new full-featured Records Management System developed on top of Microsoft SharePoint 2007. It is an easy and simple, yet powerful alternative to complicated systems that can cost up to a hundred thousand and require several months for installation. Yuri Khramov, Evident Point's President: "With the announcement of RecordShare, Evident Point becomes a real player on the hot RM market".

August 10, 2007: Evident Point and Microsoft have teamed up as Visual Studio Integration Partners on the revolutionary Envisage project.

This software is seamlessly compatible with the Visual Studio Team System and Microsoft Office. It simplifies and supports all phases of the development process by automatically generating test cases, project task lists, providing a customizable report system, and preventing document disconnection. Envisage is perfect for Analysts, Solution Architects, Developers, Project Managers, and Testers working with Visual Studio Team System.

April 04, 2007: CIO Magazine opens a blog space for Dr. Eugene Nizker.

This blog gives Evident Point's executive an opportunity to discuss Agile Development and get feedback from a broad audience.

March 01, 2007: CIO Magazine publishes Dr. Nizker's articles

Prestigeous online CIO Magazine publishes a series of articles about Agile software development written by Eugene Nizker, co-founder of Evident Point:

• An Argument for Agile Software development
• Agile Development: One CIO's Conversion to a True Believer
• First Three Steps to Improve Software Development Process
  
  

December 03, 2006: Evident Point to develop software for a Fortune 100 company:

Apple Inc., a software industry leader, signed a contract with PRJ Software Ltd. (now Evident Point), for software development.

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