The main strategy of the SIAB Business Solutions is to offer SAP in the ERP field ERP cost effective and time saving as well as easy to handle SMEs in the Austrian market. Therefore, SIAB addresses the SME segment successfully with it is pre-fabricated (Productization) and simplified (Simplification) components.

After the successful participation in the i2b & go business plan competition in 2007, the BistroBox startup team from tech2b participates in a Knut Ogris Film which launches a three documentary series reporting from young founder teams in Austria. The movie will be broadcasted on the Austrian national television (ORF).

First round of AICO invest will be held in April. AICO is a business angel investment club in Linz, Austria and concentrates on early stage investment, mainly in the Austrian as well as bordered area.

This year PROLOGICS will be partner at the ECM-Day in Vienna. For the event on 5 May 2009, the company concentrates on launching the newest generation of the product series called Firestart, business process software. The ECM-Day is an initiative of PENTADOC, a strategic consulting, and concentrates on Enterprise Content Management and Document Management. The event will take place in Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria

Three new startup teams are part of the incubation program at tech2b after paasing the technology commission. Each team is working in different technology field. One concentrates on green tech, the others more on IT related topics with a time tracking software as well as an interactive sensors located system.

Microsoft opens “Microsoft Innovation Award” 2009 in Austria. In two different categories prize money of total of 14,000 euros can be won. Preconditions for the submission are that the software must be run and actually implementated on Microsoft technology. Virtually anyone can participate: Microsoft partners or customers, participants in the BizSpark program or Imagine Cup, students or members of research institutes, universities or colleges.

Submission until April, 3 – more Infos on Microsoft website

After the great success of  Summer Academy 2008 a further event called Winter Academy 2009 will be organized in March 2009 in cooperation with tech2b. The event is part of the Entrepreneurs Academy which concentrates on national as well as international business preparation.

In various workshops participants will learn and experience issues such as…

• International entrepreneurship: scaling up your business (English-speaking pitch, expanded business model, an overview of and dealing with international investors to optimize the yield model)
• Team building and team stability
• Train your presentation style, discussion and negotiation tactics
• Presenting to investors roundtables

SPANTEC presented their entire product portfolio in Vienna, and demonstrated the first live version of their NEON technology to a selected pool of experts.

NEON is a generic, efficient and wireless sensor platform and can be used in fields where enormous amount of data being collected as well as processed and interpreted. Based on special network technology and modular structures of the network nodes, the system is easy to install and upgradeable at any time. Additionally, it is easy to configure for any user.

CEO Armin SPANTEC Blaha hosted the event and presented the innovative technology together with Thiemo Hunger and Stefan Leipte, the two technical experts. It was followed by an open discussion concerning status quo and future steps of the company. With this event SPANTEC set an important step for building a succesful company.

Expert Pool:
DI Alexander Revesz (Wissenschaftlicher Mentor),  LKT-Laboratory for  Plastoc Engineering
Dr. Andreas Schrempf, University of Applied Sciences for Medical Engineering
Dr. DI Arnold Baca und DI Philipp Kornfeind, ISW-Institute for Sports Science, Department for Biomechanic and Sport Information Technology
Dr. Werner Kurschl, University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg

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