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AlltradersFast-growing online software specialist Alltraders tomorrow hosts the October meeting of the Adelaide Joomla! User Group at its Albert Park premises.

Joomla! is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build websites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla! the most popular website software available.

Starting at 6pm on Tuesday, October 26, the Adelaide Joomla! User Group is part of a global open source movement to encourage professionals in sharing their experiences with the Joomla! software.

Steve KirkbyInnovative website analysis software developed in Adelaide by Maxamine - now owned by Accenture - will be deployed on the Windows Azure software-as-a-service platform.

In early 2008, Accenture bought Maxamine, the SA-founded company that had developed the website diagnostic software since the late 1990s. The digital diagnostics engine scans websites to identify performance problems and structural deficiencies.

Maxamine co-founder Dr. Stephen Kirkby is now a senior Accenture executive, leading a large engineering team working on 15 enterprise products, including 23 engineers in its Adelaide office.

Accenture is deploying the diagnostic engine into the Windows Azure platform through Accenture Interactive, the company's digital marketing, marketing analytics and media management business.  The Windows Azure platform is a flexible, high availability cloud–computing platform that offers pay-as-you-use computing services without upfront investment on expensive infrastructure.

Allan Aitchison on the first i-Commute busAustralia’s first Internet-enabled bus and a wireless network that’s making Darwin streets safer have delivered a hat trick of awards to Adelaide-based networking leader MIMP in the annual NECA awards.

The South Australian finals of the National Electrical and Communications Association (NECA) awards, announced last Friday evening, acknowledged MIMP with a Perpetual Award as well as gongs for the i-Commute Internet-enabled bus and the Darwin Street Cameras multicast mesh wireless network.

MIMP General Manager Allan Aitchison said the three awards were a great recognition of two outstanding projects. “The i-Commute bus has attracted interest from all around Australia,” he said.

EBS director Paul WoodsAustralian financial software specialist Evolution Business Systems (EBS) has scored an outstanding 95.68 per cent customer satisfaction rating in the Australian Achiever Awards, held last month.

In the category for Victoria's Computer Systems & Software Services, Melbourne-based EBS received the highly recommended 95.68 per cent rating, based on seven assessment criteria: Time Related Service; Addressing Client Needs; Care and Attention; Value; Attitude; Communication; and Overall Perception.

In the Australian Achiever Awards, each criterion is rated individually in percentage terms and the final score is an amalgam of these. Anything above 80 per cent overall is regarded as exceptional and reflects outstanding customer service. A complete list of all businesses who have achieved over the last five years can be viewed at www.achiever.com.au/

Now into its 13th year, the Australian Achiever Awards provide an independent, unbiased award system based on assessment ratings from a business's own customers - an indication of a well-run business where satisfied customers are a sign that a business is healthy, worthy of praise and increased custom.