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Vamosa in the News
Over the years Vamosa's products, customers, success stories, expansions and innovations have grabbed the attention of the global press. Here are some of the articles that had people talking:
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2009
Vamosa Tools for Fixing the Enterprise Content Governance Mess
CMS Wire
26 June 2009
2008
Vamosa Joins CMIS Technology Committee
CMS Wire
5 Dec 2008
Vamosa Endorses CMIS
EContentMag.com
2 Dec 2008
2007
Vamosa Announces Content Migrator for IBM Lotus Quickr
The Gilbane Group
18 Sept 2007
Vamosa Content Migrator for IBM Lotus Quickr released.
EContentMag.com
21 Sept 2007
Vamosa Launches Free Content Analysis and Migration Software for SharePoint 2007
The Gilbane Group
1 May 2007
Vamosa Labelled Cool in the ECM Social Chain
CMS Wire
19 Mar 2007
Vamosa Launches Content Migrator Version 2.9
The Gilbane Group
15 Jan 2007
2006
Vamosa Content Migrator Lauded by Analysts
CMS Wire
25 Oct 2006
Vamosa wins £1Million UK Government Project
EContentMag.com
13 June 2006
Success Stories
Union Privilege to migrate content with Vamosa
September 2008
Vamosa is to help Union Privilege move their MS Word documents into XML, in 3 weeks.
Union Privilege has a requirement to move to a more XML based content management process. With Vamosa's automated solution and commendable customer base they were selected to help drive this project towards success.
Sanofi Aventis to drive productivity with Vamosa
August 2008
Sanofi-aventis, a leading global pharmaceutical company, discovers, develops and distributes therapeutic solutions to improve the lives of everyone.
Vamosa is to help Sanofi Aventis improve the results of their site analytics. This in turn will help to drive productivity of all web authors.
SWIFT Select Vamosa as their Content Specialists
September 2008
SWIFT have chosen Vamosa to assist them with their migration of 10,000 internet pages and assets into Interwoven TeamSite within an 8 week timeline. Vamosa's expertise and toolset will allow SWIFT to analyze the content they own, enhance the content by adding rules and finally migrate the content into Interwoven TeamSite.
News
Vamosa Unveils First Product To Monitor and Maintain Enterprise Content Governance
24th June 2009
Analyst recognition for Vamosa's enterprise strength migration software
2nd October 2008
Vamosa Content Migrator selected to migrate Defra Website and Intranet
15th October 2005
Success at Department of Health and Ageing - Australia Cements Vamosa and IBM Partnership
16th May 2005
Events
Vamosa Executive Briefing Series – Accelerating Time to Value from Your CMS
Chicago, IL Tuesday 18th November 2008 (in partnership with Acquity)
London, Thursday 20th November 2008 (in partnership with WTG)
The Executive Briefings will take place on the 18th November in Chicago & the 20th November in London and will discuss 'Accelerating Time to Value for your Enterprise Content Management Initiatives'.
Attendees at this event will:
- Gain insight into how to squeeze the maximum value from ECM investments, as well as an overview of ECM best practices and trends.
- Find out how accelerated time to value can be a reality, regardless of the volume of content you have to manage.
- Learn how some of our customers, such as Symbian, Health Protection Agency (at the London event) and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and BC Hydro (at the Chicago Event) have implemented new ECM solutions and significantly shortened their time to value.
Who should attend?
- If you are involved in the planning or implementation of a new content management initiative
- If you have responsibility for content management in your organisation, but have problems with content volumes and performance
- If you have multiple content management implementations, and are looking to consolidate or replatform
Then you should register now!
The discussion of best practices and trends, with relevant use cases, make these events invaluable for attendees.
If you are interested in attending one of our events please click here and one of our events team will be in contact with more information for you.
Vamosa & Acquity Group Event
Vamosa & Acquity Group Event
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'Accelerating Time to Value for your Enterprise Content Management Initiatives - Quality Built In'Executive Briefing: Tuesday 18th Nov 2008 8:00 - 10:00am |
Vamosa & Acquity Group would like to invite you to their forthcoming Executive Briefing on Tuesday 18th November 2008. The agenda will provide you with the opportunity to:
- Gain insight into ECM best practices and trends with Andy McMillan (International Authority on Enterprise Content Management)
- Find out how accelerated time to value can be a reality, regardless of the volume of content you have to manage
- Learn how Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu & BC Hydro implemented a new ECM and significantly improved their content quality
- Understand how Vamosa and Acquity can help you improve the content quality within your organization without breaking the bank
- Network with like-minded individuals, all of whom understand the importance of content quality in ECM solutions
To register for this free event email karen.slaven@vamosa.com, call 1 888 4VAMOSA or click here.
A member of our event team will be in contact to confirm your attendance and to answer any questions you may have.
Vamosa Webinars
FREE Webinars: Migration to SharePoint 2007
Vamosa helps drive innovation for competitive edge by enabling faster team collaboration with automatic content transformation and migration tools. Vamosa is the market leader in document and web content analysis, transformation and migration software and reduces the time, cost and risk of moving to a new Enterprise Content Management system.
In this webinar you will learn how to analyze and migrate document stores, intranets, web sites and legacy content management systems using Vamosa Content Analyzer and Vamosa Content Migrator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
To sign up please click here
Company Background
Vamosa's Vision
Vamosa is a pioneer in the information management practice of Information Logistics.
Information Logistics encompasses a wide range of solutions for the movement and manipulation of data - but not just any data. Documents and images, web pages, links - the type of data termed 'unstructured content'. The type of data engulfing organizations and that exists in such large volumes as much as 80% of all corporate data is believed to exist in this format.
Managing this content is difficult at the best of times and, due to its very nature, is often downright impossible. Unstructured content is:
- created by many different roles within an organization
- tends not to be fully standardized
- not fully tracked nor traceable
- the primary information source of every single organization
Information Logistics exists at the point of convergence between content management and data management - the application of data management principles to content allowing for its optimal management.
By applying the principles of Information Logistics to content Vamosa enables organizations, large and small, to control the beast - to utilize the full capabilities of content and document management systems and enterprise portals and realise their maximum potential.
Vamosa are pioneers of structured solutions for an unstructured world.
Vamosa's Business
Vamosa is a highly focused solution provider offering best practice information management consulting, software and processes in Information Logistics.
Information Logistics is the practice of maintaining, moving, monitoring and manipulating enterprise content utilizing a framework of policy based rules to enable organizations to realise the highest benefit from their information assets.
Vamosa's solutions deliver measurable business benefit to organizations as they address the real life data issues surrounding most corporate content programmes and include:
- Policy based information management processes AstraZeneca
- Knowledge management system design UK Department for Education and Skills
- Web content management strategies UK Home Office, UK and Australian Departments of Health
- Re-engineering of existing web data for portals AstraZeneca, Alltel
- Content re-platforming - moving content from one management system to another Cable and Wireless, IBM
- Legacy application consolidation and integration Major US Wealth Management Group, Mouchel Parkman
- Business intelligence - incorporating web 2.0 capabilities StatoilHydro
- Enterprise search optimization Land Registry, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
- Information architecture and navigation Clifford Chance, AstraZeneca
- Web Usability Best Practice Land Registry
Vamosa is unique in having unparalleled experience of delivering Information Logistics solutions throughout the world to both Fortune 500 corporations and world government organizations.
Key Facts
- Formed: 2003
- Offices in the UK and the US
- Key Investors: led by Bank of Scotland Corporate Finance
- Key Focus: to deliver Information Logistics solutions enabling the world's largest organizations to quickly and efficiently move, migrate and manipulate any amount of unstructured content (typically web pages, business documents, digital assets, spreadsheets and presentations).
- Key Customers: include The Club (consortium of UK Government departments), Cable & Wireless, Vodafone, AXA, StatoilHydro, Volkswagen North America, Alltel, IBM, Deloitte, Oracle and AstraZeneca.
- Unique technologies include Vamosa Content Migrator, the world's leading automated content migration application, and Vamosa Content Analyzer enabling businesses to gain a clear understanding of their current content inventories and content management activities.
Why Vamosa?
Vamosa designs and builds solutions to manage the movement, analysis and re-structuring of business content. Business content is all around you, in emails, documents and websites, but due to its volume and disparate nature is difficult to manage, to extract value from or in many cases to even know that it exists.
Bearing this in mind your organization needs tools and methods to help you get to where you want to be. Vamosa has developed a set of tools, methods and solutions which can uniquely help your organization to achieve its business objectives.
Turning content into knowledge, assuring corporate compliance to regulatory and legal requirements or even simply letting you know what you have and where it is - without Vamosa you are faced with considerable challenges. Vamosa offers success because we have built our business on it - because content matters.
Why Vamosa?
Vamosa creates Enterprise Content Quality software to manage the standardization, movement, analysis and re-structuring of business content. Business content is all around you, in emails, documents and websites, but due to its volume and disparate nature is difficult to manage, to extract value from or in many cases to even know that it exists.
With this in mind your organization needs tools and methods to help you get to where you want to be. Vamosa has developed a set of tools, methods and solutions which can uniquely help your organization to achieve its business objectives.
Turning content into knowledge, assuring corporate compliance to regulatory and legal requirements or simply understanding what you have and where it is - without Vamosa you are faced with considerable challenges. Vamosa's comprehensive Enterprise Content Quality solutions allow organizations to address these issues and succeed in optimizing the business value of their content investments- because content quality matters.
Key Facts
- Formed: 2003
- Offices in the UK and the US
- Key Investors: led by Bank of Scotland Corporate Finance
- Key Focus: to deliver Enterprise Content Quality solutions enabling the world's largest organizations to standardize, enhance, monitor and maintain any amount of unstructured content (typically web pages, business documents, digital assets, spreadsheets and presentations) whether it is internal or external
- Key Customers: include GSK, BCHydro, Cable & Wireless, Vodafone, AXA, StatoilHydro, Volkswagen North America, Alltel, IBM, Deloitte, Oracle and AstraZeneca.
- Unique technologies include Check & Fix, the world's only web monitoring tool for guaranteeing governance, accessibility and brand monitoring, Content Migrator, the world's leading automated web content and document migration application, and Content Analyzer enabling organizations to gain a clear understanding of their current content inventories and content management activities. These tools are underpinned by Vamosa's high performance rules based content transformation engine - Content Quality Builder.
Vamosa's Vision
Vamosa is a sector defining software and solutions company specializing in the emerging area of Enterprise Content Quality (ECQ). Vamosa's ECQ offerings allow the world's largest enterprises and governments to standardize, enhance, monitor and maintain all business content, whether internal or external. Vamosa's unique content solutions enable the auditing, migrating, cleansing, monitoring and maintaining of enterprise, web, intranet and document based content.
Vamosa's vision of ECQ ensures that organizations across the globe are getting the highest return on investment from their content assets. Vamosa achieves this by helping enterprises to attain findable, cost-controlled, valued, governed and re-usable content.
Findable content is achieved by ensuring that it is categorized, tagged and stored correctly. This in turn makes the content searchable and consequently findable. Content owners and users can then quickly and easily access the required page or document, without wasting time searching through all document repositories |
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Cost Control of content is achieved by assessing the content, tagging it correctly and identifying any duplicates. By doing so storage costs can be controlled and the most suitable content platform can be selected.
Valued content is fit for its purpose and resonates with its audience. This ensures that the content is a valuable asset to the organization and is without redundant, unused or duplicate components.
Governed content complies with all legal, industry specific or corporate policies and publishing guidelines.
Re-usable content within the corporate information architecture, exists only once, is fully described and is shared amongst the content users. This helps to reduce the time and storage costs associated with the continuous creation of documents that already exist.
Vamosa's efforts are focused on providing comprehensive enterprise content quality solutions designed to provide relief for the myriad of frustrating and complex content issues that large enterprises face.
Our Team
Management Team
George Knox - Chief Executive Officer
In 2000, George Knox became CEO of Vamosa. In this role, George seeks to deliver customers with control and structure to all enterprise content in a fully automated way with the broadest and most technologically advanced range of products and professional services. His vision for the customer has helped to define a software and solutions sector focused on the emerging area of Enterprise Content Governance (ECoG).
George has particular strengths in starting, growing and building innovative technology companies that understand the value proposition and requirements of large enterprises. George is evangelical in his commitment to building companies that are of exceptional value in their fields. He brings considerable entrepreneurial vision and management experience to talented teams, having established three technology companies which have all helped to shape technology to solve particular business issues for large enterprises.
During his twenty years working in the IT industry, George has gained experience in the Information Technology Services industry by providing CRM, Business Intelligence and e-business consultancy. He has developed strong partnerships with companies such as Business Objects, Oracle and Siebel Systems and also worked for Computer Associates for six years.
George has been able to establish a successful Scottish business and has grown it to become an international company with offices in London, New York and Boston.
He received his Bachelor's degree in Electronics from Glasgow Caledonian University.
Nic Archer - Senior Vice President
Since joining Vamosa in 2001, Nic has helped transform the company into a sector-defining software and solutions company specializing in the emerging area of Enterprise Content Governance (ECoG). Nic has led the expansion of Vamosa in the US, while continuing to work closely with the UK team on Vamosa's strategy and vision for the recently launched suite of products.
Nic has had involvement with all of Vamosa's major customers helping to identify solutions for challenging problems. He's enabled major investment and insurance companies to move content away from legacy applications using his in-depth understanding of the way enterprise applications work behind the scenes. He's quick to understand the underlying business issue and help customers choose and implement the correct technology solutions in the most cost-effective and beneficial manner.
Nic has over 25 years of experience working in the IT industry in areas such as mainframe systems management and enterprise software. He has also built and run a successful business intelligence and CRM consultancy.
He received his MBA in 2001 from University of Strathclyde and a BSc in Chemistry from Kingston University.
Ger Burns - Global Services Director
Ger has extensive consulting experience in CRM, business intelligence and enterprise content management. Ger leads our global consulting organization, focused on delivery excellence and subject matter expertise.
Ijonas Kisselbach - Chief Technology Officer
Ijonas, always at the forefront of technology, has spent the last ten years in pioneering roles within various technology organizations - from start-ups through to global corporations. Ijonas blends his technology insight with business savvy, to lead the technology agenda for Vamosa.
John Canavari - SVP North America
John has more than 20 years of sales and management experience in the information management industry. John is leading the growth of the American team in their expansion across the North American Market.
Alistair Manson - SVP - Business Development - EMEA
Alistair leads the business development team in EMEA. Alistair has broad and deep experience working with large corporate customers implementing enterprise systems.
Ceri Jones - VP - Marketing
Ceri has over 20 years experience in marketing for both start-up and world renowned technology companies. His role as Vice President of Marketing- focuses on developing and coordinating Vamosa's go-to-market strategies.
Sam Simpson - Chief Financial Officer
Sam has responsibility for corporate development and is a member of the Board. He is a KPMG trained chartered accountant.
Chairman's Message
Vamosa's many unique capabilities make it unlike any other organization of its size, anywhere in the world.
I am constantly amazed by Vamosa's ability to find and retain world class customers. Looking at our customer list is like looking at a Who's Who of 21st century business giants - IBM, Oracle, AstraZeneca, BT and many more. Our government customer list is just as impressive.
Our unique capabilities fall into three major areas - technology, experience and method.
Vamosa consultants deliver imaginative and innovative information logistics solutions that utilize Vamosa's own unique and innovative software. This technology brings unheard of value to large information management projects enabling content and documents to be in the right place, in the right format, for the right person, at the right time.
Secondly, Vamosa's track record in working within large complex projects is unparalleled. The customer list speaks for itself - whatever it is that we do, we do it right and our customers value our experience and skilled team of consultants.
Thirdly, Vamosa has ensured that the knowledge gained by customers, partners and consultants is preserved and analysed to provide a real, repeatable method entitled VIA. VIA makes our customers confident that we can do more of the same, only for bigger projects and with more complexity, making a bigger business difference for our customers.
This combination of people, process and technology makes Vamosa the only option for Information Logistics solutions.
John Pocock
Chairman of Vamosa
Key Contacts
Sales:
Email: sales@vamosa.com
Marketing & PR
Email: marketing@vamosa.com
Webmaster
Email: webmaster@vamosa.com
Finance
Email: finance@vamosa.com
Product Support
Email: support@vamosa.com
Board of Directors
John Pocock - Chairman
With a background in IBM and Andersen Consulting John Pocock has worked in the IT industry for the last 20 years. For four years he was Chief Executive of Druid Group plc leading its sale to the FI Group plc in January 2000. He subsequently became Chief Executive of MI Services Group where he worked until last year. Since then John has become Chairman of Vamosa. He runs his own music production business, Crazeltown, and is also a non-executive director of Electric & General Investment Trust PLC.
George Knox - Chief Executive Officer
George has over 15 years of successfully working within the software technology sector. Notable were his senior positions within Computer Associates where he worked for six years.
In 1994 he was co-founder of Gamut Technologies, a software services and consultancy focused on selling customer management and business intelligence software. The company was sold in January 1999 to Druid plc, the stock market listed IT services group. As part of the acquisition George joined the Druid senior management team with responsibility for running the worldwide 200 person Siebel CRM and e-business practice across the London, New York and Singapore offices. Xansa subsequently acquired Druid in March 2000 allowing George to leave under the terms of his contract.
In late 2000 George became CEO of what is now Vamosa, an e-business services company. As CEO, George brings considerable entrepreneurial vision and management experience to talented teams and is evangelical in his commitment to building companies that are of exceptional value in their fields.
Contacting Us
European Offices
Glasgow Office
Vamosa
Ailsa Court
121 West Regent Street
Glasgow
G2 2SD
Tel: 0141 574 2500
Fax: 0141 574 2501
London Office
Vamosa
Regents Place
338 Euston Road
London
NW1 3BT
Tel: 0207 544 8661
Fax: 0207 544 8401
North American Offices
Boston Office
Vamosa
4th Floor, 470 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, MA 02210
Tel: 617 273 8398
Fax: 617 249 0461
New York Office
Vamosa
19th Floor, 5 Penn Plaza
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 646 378 2269
Careers
Sales and Marketing
At Vamosa we always value being approached by individuals who feel they would like to work in the dynamic, hard working and exciting atmosphere that is Vamosa.
If you have sales or marketing experience in the following areas we would welcome your CV/resume and guarantee to review and include you in our recruiting process when positions do arise. The areas of expertise we require are:
- Selling content management, web services or enterprise applications
- Marketing communications, marketing services and marketing operations
Vamosa works with the largest organizations around the world and no two days are the same. If you relish the prospect of working in a high pressure environment where new prospects are the norm and travel is demanded then please email your details to:
Engineering
Whilst we are not recruiting in this area at present we always value being approached by individuals who feel they would like to work in the dynamic, hard working and exciting atmosphere that is Vamosa.
If you have skills which you feel could contribute to Vamosa's further growth please email your CV to:
Consulting
At Vamosa we always value being approached by individuals who feel they would like to work in the dynamic, hard working and exciting atmosphere that is Vamosa.
If you have consulting experience in the following areas we would welcome your CV/resume and guarantee to review and include you in our recruitment process when positions arise. The areas of expertise we are looking for are:
- XML, document management, content management
- Python/Jython, Application Architecture
Vamosa works with the largest organizations around the world and no two days are the same. If you relish the prospect of working in a high pressure environment where new problems are the norm and where hard work, working away from home and flexible hours are a necessity, then please email your details to:
Other
Whilst we are not recruiting at present we always value being approached by individuals who feel they would like to work in the dynamic, hard working and exciting atmosphere that is Vamosa.
If you have skills which you feel could contribute to Vamosa's further growth, please email your CV to:
