30th June 2005

Following the success of its Chordiant Developers' Forum, eCentric Media has launched an online Ab Initio Professionals' Disscussion Forum for those implementing the general purpose data processing platform for enterprise class, mission-critical applications such as data warehousing, batch processing, clickstream processing, data movement, data transformation, and analytics.

The Forum's interactive technical discussion message boards focus on Ab Initio configuration and deployment, GDE, and component/DML configuration and run time execution. eCentric Media's Ab Initio experts have agreed to contribute to technical answers, sharing their expertise and experience. The Forum also includes an Ab Initio recruitment zone for employers and those looking for their next career challenge.

The Ab Initio Professionals' Discussion Forum can be accessed at http://www.ecentricmedia.co.uk/abinitio

15th June 2005

eCentric Media has launched the first dedicated Chordiant RSS feed on its web site (http://www.ecentricmedia.co.uk/rss.asp), that collates up-to-date news and information about Chordiant, the CRM business process operations and management software solutions company.

The live Chordiant news RSS feed provides the wider Chordiant developer community with an easily accessible single location from which all the latest Chordiant headlines and news summaries can be viewed, provides one-click links to the original news sources and the story in full, and is freely available for syndication.

The Chordiant RSS feed continues to demonstrate eCentric Media's commitment to using its resources and technical expertise to advance knowledge and best practice amongst the Chordiant Developer community, and is preceded by the company's Chordiant Discussion Forum, the first to be hosted and supported by Chordiant professionals for Chordiant professionals, that was launched back in April.

19th April 2005

At the start of its fifth year of operations, eCentric Media has reported a 24% increase in turnover for 2004

"The Directors of eCentric are absolutely delighted with the financial results for last year. The challenge now is to ensure that we continue this year-on-year growth trend as a specialist Chordiant systems integrator. We have an exciting and robust strategy in place for 2005 that we are extremely confident will build on our successes of last year", said Graeme Edgar, eCentric's Company Secretary.

04th March 2005

eCentric Media has contributed to a special CRM feature in the March - April issue of European CEO journal discussing the pivotal decision factors involved in the selection of a CRM systems integration specialist. The article "Making the Most of CRM", which is based on an interview with Nick Holt, a founding Director of eCentric Media, addresses the common pitfalls that companies should avoid when sub-contracting the integration phase of their CRM implementation and advocates that the key to successful CRM systems integration is in the selection of an systems integration specialist who is willing to take ownership of the integration exercise and applies a holistic philosophy to the CRM opportunity.

eCentric Media's contribution to the CRM feature in European CEO magazine is the latest in a series of initiatives, which includes the publication of a best practice CRM systems integration white paper and the hosting and support of a Chordiant developers' technical discussion forum, that eCentric Media has undertaken to demonstrate its commitment to promoting best practice in the Chordiant and Ab Initio systems integration industry.

"The request for an interview by a publication such as European CEO underlines the importance of the contribution eCentric Media is making to the CRM systems integration sector and we were delighted to be able to share the insights we have gained when implementing CRM for major blue chip clients with European CEOs readers", explained Nick Holt.

To obtain details for ordering a re-print of the article "Making the Most of CRM" contact pr@ecentricmedia.co.uk.

28th February 2005

eCentric Media today announced the launch of a new online Chordiant Developer Discussion Forum. This is the first Chordiant Developers' forum to be hosted and supported by Chordiant professionals for Chordiant professionals.

The forum provides a community platform for technical discussion and knowledge exchange about Chordiant's CRM suite of software products. Through the interactive message boards, the forum will advance best practice for the installation, configuration, deployment, development and integration of new, evolving and current Chordiant products. Experienced Chordiant Developers from eCentric Media have agreed to participate in the discussions, contribute to technical answers, and give free expert support and advice.

"As a specialist systems integration consultancy, with over four years of experience in integrating and extending the Chordiant software suite in clients' existing systems, eCentric Media is ideally placed to host and support this forum for Chordiant Developers", said Graeme Edgar, a founding Director of eCentric Media. "We are committed to using our technical expertise to assist the Chordiant Developer community in discussing and understanding the many issues arising when deploying Chordiant software applications, customising to fulfil specific business process operational needs, and integrating with core back end systems."

The technical discussion message boards are complemented by a recruitment zone providing access to vacancies for Chordiant technical architects, business analysts and application developers from leading employers, and an online Chordiant developer directory offering those seeking their next contract or permanent position the opportunity to promote their skills, experience and availability.

The forum can be accessed at http://www.ecentricmedia.co.uk/Chordiant.