07/26/2010. The Silicion Valley JavaFX User Group (SVJUGFX) is a community forum for developers in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn, discuss, and extend the JavaFX platform. The community members meet monthly in person with presentations on JavaFX tutorials, topics, and bleeding edge news. The meetings are always free to attend, and now also available online on the ubivent platform. Here, not only participants from the Bay Area, but from all over the world have the opportunity to watch all the sessions, to comment on them, or just to chat with each other in the platform's lounge. Here is a link to the SVJUGFX home page with all information about the virtual community meetings on the ubivent platform.
- Jens

07/08/2010. We are one of the top prize winners of the the "Mittelstandsprogramm 2010" initiative! Jury of this award is the Council of Innovation with its well-known chairmen Prof. Dr. Peter C. Lockemann (University Professor and holder of the German Federal Cross of Merit), Mr. Michael Louis (Germany's Entrepreneur of the Year 2004) and Mr. Kurt Sibold (Board member of BITKOM - the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media). Prizes are awarded to innovative products and services which are deemed to strengthen the competitive edge of small and midsized companies. We are very proud to be one the top prize winners of this initiative!
- Michael

04/12/2010. The Chambers of Industry and Commerce (IHK) of Baden-Württemberg have selected ubivent as platform for virtual training. Gunther Quidde, who is responsible for E-Government at the IHK Rhein-Neckar, states that the step towards a new and complementing training concept was successfully achieved thanks to ubivent. They could not only reduce travel cost but also enhance the reach of their training sessions. Here is a detailed project report which gives you more information about this concept and its achievements: Virtuelle Schulungen der IHK Rhein-Neckar (in German).
- Michael

03/19/2010. The ubivent virtual event platform has been selected by the German "Inititiave Mittelstand" as one of the three most innovative products of 2010 in the category "Internet Services". More than 2.000 products have been evaluated by a jury of well known IT industry veterans and university professors. Main criterias have been a high degree of innovation and a clear value for the customer, especially for small- and mid-sized companies.
- Michael

01/11/2010. Microsoft Germany takes new paths with a virtual customer event and has chosen ubivent as virtual event service provider. Microsoft was very satisfied with both the ubivent platform as well as the event itself, as the following statement by Arno Schnelle (Technology Strategist at Microsoft) confirms: „We were able to reach that many customers with minimal effort from our side. We can only recommend both the idea of a virtual event, and ubivent as partner for successfully realizing it.“ Jointly with Microsoft, we have published a success story which gives you further information about this project. You will find it here: Microsoft Germany takes new paths with virtual customer event.
- Michael

12/18/2009. SAP has chosen the ubivent virtual event platform for the first virtual software event at SAP. The project was a huge success, as Reiner Schmitt (Head of SAP’s Global License and Asset Management team) states: “The ubivent guys were of great help for the event. The platform was running really stable in all parts of our global network. For the first time we were able to inform so many employees about software licensing.” We have published a success story together with SAP which gives you further insights into this project. You can download and read it here: The first virtual software event at SAP.
- Michael

12/10/2009. Recently two well-known blogs have reported about our company. Both blog articles base on an interview we gave Dennis Shiao, a virtual event strategist who worked on numerous virtual trade show campaigns for several B2B technology advertisers and other corporate clients. The main topics of this interview have been a short analysis of the focus market for virtual events, the technology platform we are offering, and a comparison of virtual events with immersive virtual worlds. You can access both blog articles via our in the press page.
- Michael

12/02/2009. Yesterday we've been interviewed by Chhandomay Mandal, Senior Marketing Manager at Sun Microsystems, for "Reviews Interactive". On this platform, development experts blog about their experiences with newest Sun technologies. They share their insight and examples, and thus help other developers better understand these new technologies. Our talk is focusing on how we use JavaFX for the development of our platform. Among others, it covers how we increase our flexibility through JavaFX, how it integrates into the development toolset we use, and how we're planing to leverage it in the future. If you're interested in the talk, you can find it here: JavaFX enables ubivent to develop customized virtual event platform.
- Jens

11/20/2009. Yesterday the ubivent team has been awarded the prize for the most promising young company in Mannheim. In a tight competition of more than 20 companies which have been carefully pre-selected by different institutions in the Rhein-Neckar area, ubivent has emerged as winner. Especially the innovative ideas and concepts, their professional realization, paired with structured planning and, last but not least, the highly successful launch of the first ubivent product have convinced the professional jury to award ubivent with this prize. Read more here or in the press coverage...
- Jens

11/04/2009. Accessibility is a prime concern for software nowadays. Various countries and organizations have passed accessibility laws (section 508) or guidelines that regulate how accessibility for computer software should be achieved. We're also making our platform accessible - mainly by assisting visually impaired people in using our software through a Screen Reader. You can find more details here. We have also published the code as open source. You can access it here.
- Jens

10/12/2009. We are now partnering with JavaFX and are listed in the application and content developers section of the JavaFX Partner page. JavaFX is an innovative software development framework. Through its technical features our virtual event platform is way ahead of the products of our competitors. The flexibility we have in developing on JavaFX guarantees that we keep this competitive advantage.
- Michael

08/18/2009. We have joined the Mircosoft BizSpark program. In this program Microsoft provides software, support and visibility to innovative start-up companies. This means we get access to an ecosystem of peers, partners and support resources around the globe. Here is our entry in the BizSpark database.
- Michael

07/24/2009. Today we got featured in the JFXStudio blog. JFXStudio is a site specifically for sharing JavaFX creations and to get feedback from the JavaFX community. Our blog entry describes the architecture of the text chat we use in our platform. So if you are intersted in this topic click here and read the full blog entry.
- Michael

07/08/2009. For the last two days we have hosted the virtual information day for the University of Mannheim. We had over 100 concurrent users and the virtual nature of the event brought one huge advantage compared with past information days, which were always physical: People from across the world (Europe, Asia, and America) attended the event - which was obviously not possible in the past. Armin Heinzl, professor and chair holder at the University of Mannheim, concluded "This was the first time we could directly interact with prospective students across Europe and beyond without the need for intense traveling. It helped us to propagate the strengths of our University and especially of our bachelor and master programs in business informatics."

Those of you who understand German might be interested in reading through both the announcement and the news coverage of the event. We have also published a success story (in German) which you can donwload and read here: Virtueller Studientag der Universität Mannheim.
- Jens

06/19/2009. Today, we have received good news! We are one of the selected start-up companies which get support from EXIST, a program of the European Union and the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. This program is designated to support the realization of innovative services. Our idea (click here for more information on virtual events) in combination with our strong scientific background has convinced the jury to grant us funding for the next 12 months!
- Michael