Technology Reseller - v19 2019

01732 759725 NEWS : VENDORS 16 Brother UK has successfully retained its Investors in People (IIP) Platinum status, first achieved in 2016, improving its performance across all nine indicators, including empowering and involving people, recognising and rewarding high performance and creating sustainable success. Phil Jones MBE, managing director of Brother UK, said: “People are at the heart of our sustained business success and are our most important asset. That’s why this recognition means so much to us. By investing in our people, we’re able to give them the skills they need to help our channel partners succeed too. “Our position as a leading technology solutions provider is intrinsically linked to our status as a top employer, and the innovative approaches we take to both products and people. We know that it’s working because our employees stay with us, on average, for an industry-leading 13 years, which means there’s a huge amount of knowledge, expertise and loyalty within our workforce.” Investors in People estimates that just 0.5% of organisations could achieve Platinum status. In the last 12 months, Brother has also won a second Queen’s Award for Sustainable Development and a second Princess Royal Training Award. Brother retains IIP Platinum rating for another 3 years Advanced gains social housing expertise with acquisition of Kirona IT provider Advanced has enhanced its ERP offering with the acquisition of Kirona, a developer of workforce management and resource scheduling software for field-based service teams, which counts Balfour Beatty and Carpetright amongst its customers. Kirona’s full range of workforce management software, from task planning and resource scheduling to analytics and support services, can be integrated with other IT systems, such as finance and HR. The company, based in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, has vertical expertise in the social housing sector, which accounts for 80% of its revenue, as well as central and local government and the infrastructure, retail, utilities and healthcare sectors. Its partner network includes Aareon, Civica, Northgate, BT, Vodafone and social housing partners Orchard and Capita. Advanced MD Gordon Wilson said: “We’ve been very clear about our plans to become a market leader in vertically aligned ERP software solutions, both organically and through acquisition, and this deal is further evidence of our strategy in action.” Advanced is a Sunday Times Top Track 250 Company and was ranked in the Deloitte UK Fast 50 of fastest growing UK technology companies. www.oneadvanced.com UKFast to double size of DDoSX network British cloud technology firm UKFast is making a £4 million investment to more than double the size of its DDoSX distributed denial-of-service mitigation network, opening new points of presence (POPs) in Amsterdam, Seattle and Manchester, alongside its existing ones in the UK, EU and US. The company’s global DDoSX infeastructure uses complex algorithms and AI to analyse malicious online behaviour and defend organisations against the significant impact of DDoS attacks by absorbing traffic and filtering it away from the target’s server. It also provides clients with content delivery network (CDN) and web application firewall (WAF) services. UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones said: “The rise in the intensity and regularity of DDoS attacks in recent years is alarming. A decade ago we might have seen one DDoS attack a year. Nowadays, it can be three or four a day. The latest investment in DDoSX enables greater performance and resilience for clients, whilst giving us the capacity to absorb attacks of even greater strength. The new POPs are also strategically positioned to allow our CDN to deliver content at incredible speed to our clients’ end users around the world.” Resellers and white-labellers can take full advantage of DDoSX by means of a fully featured API. www.ukfast.co.uk ID verification via smartphone ReadID, the flagship software of Dutch company InnoValor, is being used by the Home Office to enable EU citizens to verify their identity by smartphone as part of the EU Settlement Scheme. The EU Settlement Scheme will enable 3.8 million EU citizens and their family members resident in the UK to obtain the UK immigration status required to live and work in the UK post-Brexit. ReadID’s NFC-based mobile ID verification technology supports the reading and verifying of chips in epassports and identity cards via the EU Exit: ID Document Check Android smartphone app. The service is provided with the support of UK facial recognition provider iProov and in partnership with WorldReach Software, a Canadian specialist in border management. InnoValor’s CEO Maarten Wegdam said: “We are proud and privileged to be part of this new service for the UK Home Office. Large European banks such as ING, Rabobank, Volksbank and the Norwegian bank DNB already use ReadID for mobile onboarding, combining user convenience with trusted identity document verification capabilities.” www.gov.uk/guidance/using-the-eu- exit-id-document-check-app https://innovalor.nl/ Jabra cashback Running until June 30, Jabra has launched a Q2 cashback promotion for popular models of headset and speakerphone including the Jabra Engage 65, Jabra Speak 710, Jabra Evolve 40 and Jabra Biz 2300 QD. Depending on the model, customers can claim between £10 and £30 cashback on every purchase from an authorised Jabra reseller partner. www.jabra.co.uk/offers