PowerPressed© (www.powerpressed.com) is delighted to announce today that BOSSdev Inc© ( see www.bossdev.com ), has signed contracts under which BOSSdev Inc has become a distributor and reseller of the industry-leading PowerPressed© for PowerPoint® product.

BOSSdev is a leading developer of innovative technology solutions that streamline processes and empower business growth.  With operational divisions in North America, Europe and Asia, BOSSdev is able to deliver a broad range of capabilities and global resources utilizing their “BEST SHORE” strategy to help business target to specific needs.  BOSSdev is a leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and also has very strong links with several other leading software suppliers.  BOSSdev has a broad span of corporate clients around the world.

Peter Boswell, CEO of PowerPressed© said “We are delighted to have BOSSdev join the PowerPressed© community.  We are very happy that an organization with their capability and reach have opted to choose PowerPressed© as a strategic business partner.  We see a great synergy between our technology and the expertise and focus that BOSSdev delivers to the marketplace as they solve technology challenges and empower business processes.  PowerPressed© for PowerPoint® is a unique but simple solution to the problem of large PowerPoint® files.  Many users now add high quality graphics, images and photographs to their PowerPoint® presentations.  This makes the presentation even more effective but, at the same time, they are anything from 20Mb to 100Mb+ in size – when there are often email attachment limits of under 5Mb.  This causes a problem in sharing, managing and storing these presentations which PowerPressed© solves by reducing the native PowerPoint® file size by up to 95%.”

Wayne Stober, Executive Director of Sales and Marketing at BOSSdev Inc. said “we are pleased to be partnering with the  professional team at Fortressgate to help launch PowerPressed in North America.  This powerful product will complement our existing products, services and solutions very well and help us continue to deliver the very best in breed to our global client base.

PowerPressed is delighted to announce that Will Westley has been appointed as Managing Director of Fortressgate Ltd with full executive responsibility for the company that brought PowerPressed (www.powerpressed.com) to the market.

Will has over twenty years’ senior board level business leadership experience, mobilising new business ventures and instilling operational excellence across a broad spectrum of organisations.

He joins PowerPressed from BT PLC where he was Director of Operations for BT Livetime, now known as BT Movio.

There he led all development of Operations and Technology of BT Livetime from conception to reality and delivered the first Live Digital TV broadcast streamed services and Digital Radio to mobile phones using DAB technology in June 2005. The successful Pilot in London, the U.K.’s largest live trial, confirmed the consumer appetite for the commercial launch of BT Movio.

Will’s extensive experience includes the development and international distribution of software solutions and ISP services to major enterprises, and high street U.K and U.S brand names through the U.K., Europe and U.S.A.  His Web services included fully interactive training portals for major finance houses including Lloyds TSB and managed server solutions for the music distribution industry including chart information service and special international events.  

Will graduated with a combined business and operational management degree in 1982 and honed his business building skills through grass roots management roles.

He builds teams with the “can-do, will-do” work ethic instilling an expectation of success throughout organizations.

Peter Boswell, Group CEO of Fortressgate and PowerPressed said “I am delighted that we have been able to attract someone of Will’s character and experience to PowerPressed.  He has already made an impact and I look forward to the results and market growth I know he can deliver”.

Will said “Having evaluated PowerPressed – and the marketplace it operates in – I am excited about this opportunity.  PowerPressed can add value to more than 20% of all the desktop PC’s installed worldwide and I look forward to developing the business to match this incredible  potential.”

PowerPressed© (www.powerpressed.com) will be joining BT (the joint event sponsor) on their stand at Inbox/Outbox 2006 which is being held in ExCel, London on 21st and 22nd June 2006.

Inbox/Outbox (www.inbox-outbox.com) is Europe’s leading email event, designed to address every aspect of using, managing and monitoring inbound and outbound email. Over the past five years, email has grown to become a primary means of communication for millions of organisations worldwide. Yet the vast majority of organisations have still to implement adequate systems for monitoring, managing and protecting their email communications.  Inbox/Outbox is the single event that addresses all aspects of this most mission critical and widely used business activity.

BT Wholesale is a distributor and reseller of PowerPressed for PowerPoint, an industry-leading product which reduces the file size (and therefore the associated network load) of PowerPoint files. The PowerPoint presentation remains a ‘.PPT’ and is completely standard and unaltered for the user.  The recipient receives a normal PowerPoint file (just a lot smaller than it was).  A recent White Paper, produced by PowerPressed in conjunction with BT Wholesale identified substantial network cost savings and efficiency benefits which result from the adoption of PowerPressed (available today from www.powerpressed.com).   In addition, storage and other system overheads and costs are also reduced when PowerPressed is used.

Peter Boswell, CEO of PowerPressed said “We are delighted to be attending Inbox/Outbox 2006 with BT.  We look forward to showing how our technology, allied to BT’s capability and expertise, can deliver strong benefits for all PowerPoint/email users.”

PowerPressed© is delighted to announce the launch of a major new initiative – PowerRAP® (Referral Alliance Program).  This program (www.powerpressed.com/powerrap.htm) enables an enormously broad range of websites to gain a new source of revenue from their website traffic and/or email contact networks.

PowerRAP® is not a reseller program and does not require volume commitments or an approval process (apart from a simple suitability assessment check).  PowerPressed© provides all the content, click throughs, reporting and even new web pages for potential associates – they simply install the content they wish and then receive revenues for all ‘click throughs’ or referrals they route that purchase PowerPressed©.

PowerPressed© is a highly effective, market-leading plug-in for Microsoft® PowerPoint®.  It addresses the major concern most users have when they work with PowerPoint® – size.  With the increasing use of high quality images and graphics many presentations are now over 20MB in size – but many mail systems restrict the size of attachments to 2MB or 5MB.  Users struggle to send, receive, build (with the graphics they want to include) and store PowerPoint® files.  PowerPressed© optimizes and compresses PowerPoint® files.  They still remain as true, editable, PowerPoint® files – only reduced in size by up to 95%.  PowerPressed© is, therefore, a utility which benefits – conservatively - perhaps 1 in 10 of all computer users worldwide – as long as they receive, create or send PowerPoint® files.

Peter Boswell, CEO of PowerPressed© said “We are delighted to be making this announcement.  We have already partnered with a number of the world’s largest corporate IT reselling organizations and are achieving great success there.  We also want to help the individual user as well and this program is designed to do just that.  By enabling commercial sites, universities, charities, interest groups and other organizations to help their members or customers find out about PowerPressed© we are able to maximize our ability to touch the whole marketplace and, at the same time, help these associates – with no work on their part – to create additional revenue streams for themselves”.

PowerPressed is delighted to announce today that Computacenter Direct (www.ccdirect.co.uk ), a  division of infrastructure services provider Computacenter plc, has completed an agreement to become a reseller of the industry-leading PowerPressed for PowerPoint product.

Computacenter Direct, which focuses exclusively on the needs of mid-sized organisations, provides a comprehensive set of IT procurement and value-added services for organisations of under 2,000 employees.  As part of one of Europe’s leading independent service providers, Computacenter Direct has access to a level of resource and expertise that has already benefited many government and blue-chip corporate organisations.

Peter Boswell, CEO of PowerPressed said “We are very pleased to be able to partner with Computacenter Direct and to help their customers receive the benefit of smaller, more manageable PowerPoint presentations.  Not only does PowerPressed make it easier to unlock the power of communication, it also massively reduces local and server-based disk storage costs.  In addition, it enables organisations to return to having PowerPoint presentations available for download from their websites.  We look forward to partnering with Computacenter Direct.”

PowerPressed© (www.powerpressed.com) is delighted to announce today that the UK subsidiary of Software House International© ( see www.shi.com ), have reached an agreement under which SHI UK has become a reseller of the industry-leading PowerPressed© for PowerPoint® product.

SHI is a global procurement outsourcing company and leading business-to-business solution provider with 2005 revenues in excess of $2bn.  SHI can fulfill orders for over 100,000 hardware and software products, offers a full menu of services and carries authorizations as an IBM Business Partner, a Lotus Notes Premium VAR, a Microsoft Certified Partner and a Novell Gold Reseller, among others.

Peter Boswell, CEO of PowerPressed© said “We are delighted that SHI have chosen to join with PowerPressed© in developing this fast-growing market.  We understand the marketplace positioning and capability that SHI delivers and we looking forward to a long term relationship between our two organisations.  PowerPressed© for PowerPoint® is a unique but simple solution to the problem of large PowerPoint® files.  Many users now add high quality graphics, images and photographs to their PowerPoint® presentations.  This makes the presentation even more effective but, at the same time, they are anything from 20Mb to 100Mb+ in size – when there are often email attachment limits of under 5Mb.  This causes a problem in sharing, managing and storing these presentations which PowerPressed© solves by reducing the native PowerPoint® file size by up to 95%.”

PowerAnalyzer.  Many organizations promise great results when their products are used.  Far fewer are willing to prove those results before purchase.  The PowerPressed PowerAnalyzer tool is a downloadable software product – available free of charge on www.powerpressed.com – which analyses the current level of PowerPoint (.ppt) and other files on the local system or network drive (including those embedded inside local or network Outlook folders) .  PowerAnalyzer also asks the user a few basic questions about their PowerPoint usage and then delivers detailed reports, based on this data, which outline hardware and other hard savings which will be achieved through the use of PowerPressed. 

ROI White Paper.  PowerPressed and BT Wholesale worked together to create a highly detailed document (available free on www.powerpressed.com)which lays out both hard and soft savings available when PowerPressed is used.  The report considers – and also measures – hardware and network usage, time savings, operational effectiveness and other factors.  The specific numbers and details quoted are all based on real user experience and feedback. The report is available in £, $ and € versions.

Peter Boswell, CEO of PowerPressed said “We want to provide those wishing to evaluate PowerPressed with all of the background information we can deliver.  The ROI White Paper details the extent of theoretical savings available, from real data and research.  The PowerAnalyzer then applies the same analysis to the users own data and files on their system(s) and proves the savings and deliverables before the prospective user has to make any purchase decision”

PowerPressed sign Insight as a UK reseller 02/05/06

Insight Direct UK Limited is a leading provider of information technology ("IT") products and services to businesses, government and educational institutions in the United Kingdom.  Insight UK's offerings span the entire IT lifecycle with more than 70,000 name-brand hardware, software and peripheral items available, along with a full line of services tailored to support the changing and unique needs of technology buyers.

Peter Boswell, CEO of PowerPressed© said “We are delighted to have Insight as a partner and reseller.  Their scale and focus on the market that we address will make for a great working partnership as we move forward.  We view PowerPressed© for PowerPoint® as a productivity solution which delivers substantial and real ROI to every user.  At every stage of the lifecycle of a PowerPoint® presentation, PowerPressed© will deliver value and benefit.  Too often users have to compromise on the content they deliver through PowerPoint® due to storage or email size restrictions.  PowerPressed© removes these barriers and enables users to unlock the power of their communication.”

PowerPressed© is delighted to announce today that Software Spectrum UK (www.softwarespectrum.co.uk), part of Software Spectrum Inc, the world’s largest Microsoft® reseller, have reached an agreement under which Software Spectrum UK has become a reseller of the industry-leading PowerPressed© for PowerPoint® product.

Software Spectrum, a Level 3 Communications (Nasdaq: LVLT) subsidiary, is a global business-to-business software services company dedicated to providing enterprise software asset management solutions to help organizations increase business value from information technology.  The Software Spectrum UK Ltd. subsidiary was formed in 1985 and currently employs over 40 people based in the UK. With support from their European Operations Centre, they supply software services into the UK and Irish markets.  

Peter Boswell, CEO of PowerPressed© said “We are delighted to be able to partner with Software Spectrum as they work to help their customers improve their productivity.  Our solution helps PowerPoint® users in a number of ways and can open up entirely new vistas and possibilities for them.  PowerPoint® can now be delivered to devices that were previously unavailable, such as mobile phones and PDAs.  PowerPoint® can again be made available as the download medium on websites.  All of this is possible as PowerPressed© can optimise the size of native PowerPoint® presentations by up to 95%.  We are delighted to be working with an organization with the Microsoft® credentials that Software Spectrum deliver”.