COMPANY NEWS

Health Sector Consultancy
JANUARY 2007 - a large public sector department have chosen SBS to provide intranet consultancy and development. The role is wide ranging, but a significant focus is on a core development Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server

UK Local Government Partner
SEPTEMBER 2006 - SBS have been retained for provision of .NET consultancy and .NET development by a major local government partner.

Intranet For UK Building Group
MAY 2006 - SBS have been engaged to provide intranet consultancy for a leading UK building group involved in refurbishing and constructing residential and education establishments

Airline Software Development
MARCH 2006 - SBS have been requested by a North American carrier to develop and operate a system to process and manage interline eTicket data as part of the IATA ticketless interline initiative . The system will also provide interfaces to their existing scanning system.

Information Portal Development
FEBRUARY 2006 - SBS have been awarded a contract for the development of a prototype information portal for use internally by a leading UK construction company, specialising in the provision of property refurbishment services to the public and private sectors.

Portal Consultancy
JANUARY 2006 - SBS have been retained to provide consultancy and services with respect to the development of a store-wide portal development project for a major regional US restaurant group.

Content Management Consultancy
NOVEMBER 2005 - SBS have been retained to provide technical consultancy on the development of a US professional and college sports officiating portal.

Information Portal Development
JULY 2005 - SBS have been awarded the contract for the development and supply of a client facing information portal by a leading UK based company in the provision of R&D metrics to the global pharmaceutical industry. 

SBS Provides Information Publishing Expertise
MARCH 2005 - SBS have been retained by a leading company in the provision of R&D metrics to the global pharmaceutical industry. The scope of the role is to provide technical consultancy on a number of projects in the web, portal, data and information publishing domains.

Specialist UK Car Dealer Signs On
FEBRUARY 2005 - S200-4U, the UK specialist S2000 car dealer is the latest organisation to have signed up to SBS's web design and hosting service designed for SME's.

The couponvault Gets A Makeover
FEBRUARY 2005 - SBS release v2.8 of its successful airline information management system, couponvault. Following a user interface redesign that freshens the user experience as well as improves productivity, feedback from users has been extremely positive. In addition this latest version provides the ability to store and search for all scanned paper or electronic (PDF, WORD, EXCEL etc) documents.

US Mobility Supplier Signs On
JANUARY 2005 - Kustom Ability of South West Florida have signed on to be the launch customer for SBS's new web design and hosting service designed for SME's.

US Data Centre Opens
JANUARY 2005 - SBS announce the opening of a new US Data Centre in Tampa, Florida, USA. As a result our users in the North and South America and Canada now have access to increased bandwidth and performance of their vault services.

Major UK Data Centre Upgrade Completed
DECEMBER 2004 - SBS announce the completion of a major technology refresh at its UK and European Data Centre in London, UK. As a result our users in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa now have access to increased bandwidth and performance of their vault services.

New SME Web Services Launched
NOVEMBER 2004 - SBS announce the launch of their new web design and hosting services for the SME market. "By leveraging our existing significant investment in technology, infrastructure and people we can provide SME's access to our world class internet-based services", comments SBS CEO & President, Paul Bedford. "This makes available to SME organizations world class resources, knowledge and experience previously only accessible to large corporations".

Central Asian Airline Success
OCTOBER 2004 - Air Astana are the latest airline to select Straight Banana Software's couponvault technology under the RAS Mercury Vault brand.

European Airline Success Continues
SEPTEMBER 2004 - Following the completion of a successful three years of service Air Luxor, in Lisbon, Portugal, have renewed their commitment to  couponvault for a further three years.

US Expansion Continues
AUGUST 2004 - Following a successful first year of operations in the US Straight Banana Software Inc are consolidating their success by moving to a new, larger, office facility in South West Florida.

New Features Added To The couponvault
JULY 2004 - Straight Banana Software announce the integration of electronic data from GDS, TCN, BSP, DCS and eTicket sources into the latest release, v2.0, of their couponvault product and service. "As airlines continue the move to 100% electronic ticketing the couponvault continues to maintain its established position as the premier solution for business continuity, document management and information storage in the airline market.", comments SBS CEO & President, Paul Bedford. "This development opens up new possibilities for airlines to access and utilize the information locked away in their data". 

African Airline Success
JUNE 2004 - Air Ivoire of The Ivory Coast in Africa  are the first airline to benefit from SBS's couponvault technology under the OEM relationship with Revenue Accounting Services. The airline will make use of the RAS Mercury Vault passenger revenue accounting document management system integrated with the Mercury PRA system.

North American Airline Success
APRIL 2004 - Canadian North of Yellowknife, Canada, are the latest airline to sign up to couponvault, SBS's premier document management solution for airline passenger revenue accounting. The airline will make use of SBS's hosted couponvault service to provide management of all PRA related electronic assets.

OEM Agreement
FEBRUARY 2004 - Straight Banana Software Ltd announce an OEM agreement with Revenue Accounting Services Ltd (RAS), of Burgess Hill, UK to provide RAS access to their vault technology to be used in future RAS products and services marketed as mercuryvault.

Airline Consultancy
JANUARY 2004 - World Network Services have retained Straight Banana Software Ltd to provide strategic consultancy with respect to the evaluation of document management in support of offshore outsourcing opportunities within the airline market.

37th IATA RASC Meeting In South Africa
SEPTEMBER 2003 - Straight Banana Software Ltd announce it will be attending the 37th IATA Revenue Accounting Steering Committee conference and exhibition in South Africa as an exhibitor The organization will demonstrate its airlinevault suite of service and product offerings.

Health Sector Consultancy
JULY 2003 - The UK National Health Service has retained Straight Banana Software Ltd to provide technical consultancy with respect to the evaluation of products under development by external suppliers to the Health Service.

European Airline Success
JULY 2003 - Hellas Jet, based in Athens, Greece, have chosen couponvault, the premier document management solution for airline passenger revenue accounting. Straight Banana Software Ltd will provide access to its managed couponvault service to both the airline as well as Kale Consultants offshore MPS facility in Mumbai, India who undertake PRA services for the airline.

Telecommunications Consultancy
JUNE 2003 - Energis in the UK have retained Straight Banana Software Ltd to provide both strategic and tactical consultancy to the senior management team  as parto of their project to evaluate the use of Business Process Outsourcing in the organisation.

UK Local Government
FEBRUARY 2003 - Straight Banana Software Ltd delivers secure application form processing system for use in UK local government elections.

UK Local Government
SEPTEMBER 2002 - Winchester City Council have retained Straight Banana Software Ltd to provide technical consultancy in relation to the management, storage and delivery of public service information.

36th IATA RASC Meeting In Mexico
SEPTEMBER 2002 - Straight Banana Software Ltd announce it will be attending the 37th IATA Revenue Accounting Steering Committee conference and exhibition in South Africa as an exhibitor The organization will demonstrate its airlinevault suite of service and product offerings.

Partnership With ATPCo
AUGUST 2002 - Straight Banana Software Ltd and the Airline Tariff Publishing Company announce their partnership to deliver the IATA approved interlinevault paperless billings solution to the global airline community.

interlinevault Gains IATA Approval
JUNE 2002 - Straight Banana Software Ltd announce that their interlinevault solution has gained approval of the IATA Paperless Billings Working Group and is the only online service to have been acknowledged by IATA as providing the features and levels of service mandated by the airlines themselves.

WNS Selects SBS for Data Services
MAY 2002 - World Network Services, a leading provider of BPO services to the airline industry have selected Straight Banana Software Ltd to implement, deploy and manage a mission critical data archive on SBS's vault technology for use by both the organization's Mumbai, India operation as well as the data ownder, SABENA Brussels Airline.

interlinevault Presented to IATA
APRIL 2002 - Straight Banana Software Ltd has been invited by IATA to present its interlinevault product and service offering for evaluation by the industry wide Paperless Billings Working Group.

Complete Asset Management
APRIL 2002 - The Complete Group have selected Straight Banana Software Ltd to provide consultancy and technical architecture services for the development of an electronic asset management and delivery system.

Simulation &  Modeling
JANUARY 2002 - Straight Banana Software Ltd has been selected by MASS Consultants Ltd to provide simulation and modeling expertise to the UK Ministry of Defence.

European Airline Success
SEPTEMBER 2001 - Air Luxor, based in Lisbon, Portugal, have chosen couponvault, the premier document management solution for airline passenger revenue accounting. Straight Banana Software Ltd will provide access to its managed couponvault service to both the airline as well as Kale Consultants offshore MPS facility in Mumbai, India who undertake PRA services for the airline.

Partnership With Kale Consultants
JULY 2001 - Straight Banana Software Ltd and Kale Consultants announce their partnership. Kale will integrate couponvault document management technology in to their REVERA PRA system. Kale will also utilize the couponvault technology at its offshore BPO facility in Mumbai, India.

Electronic Publishing
JUNE 2001 - Straight Banana Software Ltd successfully delivers new electronic publishing product to Barbour Index. The product provides the construction and architectural industry with access to information from both a CDROM library as well as dedicated web sites and portals.