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Industry event for Insurance Agencies
March 2010
Gratex Underwriting Process Management (UPM) deployed at the leading Equipment Insurer – Protecsure
November 2009
As the country’s only licensed underwriting agency for insuring equipment against theft, fire and accidental damage, Protecsure occupies a unique space in the Australian insurance landscape. Gratex has successfully deployed our flag ship product for the Insurance industry at Protecsure – Underwriting Process Management - integrated, modular suite of software applications that delivers true and comprehensive process automation for insurance agencies.
After Leased Equipment Insurance software application, this is the second major line of business application implemented by Gratex at Protecsure.
More info about UPM: www.gtiinsurancesolutions.com
VMware Overhauls Partner Program
October 2009
VMware Inc. is taking its channel efforts to a new level of maturity with the next-generation of VMware Partner Network.
Major changes include the combination of all partner types under one umbrella program, the introduction of partner competencies, new Partner compliance requirements, a revamped Partner University and a revamped partner portal.
Gratex staff has passed required certifications under the new VMware Professional Partner requirements. Moreover, Gratex was also certified to provide capacity planning tasks in designing virtual infrastructure for enterprise organizations using VMware Capacity Planner tools.
Gratex deployed Windows 7
September 2009Gratex has internally deployed new Microsoft Operating System – Windows 7. The upgrade of Vista PCs was straightforward. Users are pleased with few new features of Windows 7 but are mainly impressed with performance and stability of this new OS.
Gratex deployed Microsoft Office Communications Server and Live Meeting
May 2009
In September 2008 Gratex deployed Microsoft Office Communication Server in our Play&Test environment. Since May, we utilise this real time enterprise communication server for all audio, video ad instant messaging communications between our offices worldwide. Our users enjoy instant messaging and presence across the whole organisation and also free calls between our overseas offices.
Gratex becoming VMware Professional Partner
June 2008
Gratex has entered into an important partnership with the world leader in the virtualization technologies – VMware.
Virtualization allows server infrastructure consolidation by increased utilization of existing hardware while reducing hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better.
Virtual infrastructures reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50% and also reduce the time to provision a new server by 70%.
Gratex is active in the field of virtualization, providing design, build, management and support of advanced virtual infrastructure solutions with high availability including hosted Disaster Recovery sites.
Gratex becoming Cisco Select Partner
May 2008
As a part of our commitment to IP Telephony and ensuring that our clients have access to market leading technologies, Gratex has partnered with Cisco Systems and attained Cisco Select Certification. This alliance with Cisco allows Gratex to leverage Cisco robust and reliable hardware and award winning support programs to deliver high quality network solutions to our customers.
Gratex becoming Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
March 2008
Gratex becoming MS Gold Certified Gratex International is proud to announce that the Gratex Australian office has attained Gold Partner status with Microsoft as of March 2008. Microsoft describes the Gold Partner status in the following way: “Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.
Gratex presenting on Voice and Data Conference in Sydney
March 2008
On the 11th of March, 2008, Voice and Data Magazine in conjunction with Alloy Computer Products presented an all day conference on new directions and developments in Voice over IP. The final event of the day was a case study presented by Dave Martyn, Senior Technology Specialist from Gratex International, together with Ben Evans, General Manager of Geoffrey Nathan Consulting (GNC). The case study described the implementation of VoIP at GNC from many different aspects including technical, user experience and most importantly business benefits. The case study was well received by the audience who were mainly business executives and technical staff.
