The Gasell is a competition in growth and awarded to the fastest growing companies in all Swedish regions by Sweden’s leading financial newspaper Dagens Industri. A Gasell has to have doubled its turnover through organic growth, shown a positive result the last four years, and have solid and stable finances among other criteria’s. Hansoft has been awarded the Gasell of the year in Uppsala 2011, meaning it was the fastest growing company in the region.

“It feels great to be acknowledged with such a prestigious award two years in a row. We are expanding in many ways right now, not only geographically with a large growth in China and Japan, but also across a number of new industries in North America and Europe, for example telecom, it, banking, space, aerospace, electronics and defense. 2012 will be a really exciting year with a lot of new things coming up and if things continue to go well I’m pretty confident we will be on the Gasell Award stage for the third time next year,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

About Di Gasell

The Gasell is a yearly award to Sweden’s fastest growing companies given out by Sweden’s leading financial newspaper Dagens Industri. This year’s awards show was held in Stockholm’s concert hall on November 28, 2011.

A Gasell has to fulfill the following criteria:

- Have a turnover of 10 million SEK or more

- At least 10 employees

- Published at least four annual reports

- Doubled its revenue over the last four years

- Increased its revenue each year the last four years

- Have shown a positive result over the last four years

- Grown organically, not through acquisitions or fusions

- Have stable and solid finances

Read more about Di Gasell (in Swedish): www.dagensindustri.se/DI-Gasell

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"Hansoft has provided us with an extensive set of tools to manage, track, task, report and streamline linear and non-linear dependency based workflows. The suite of features offered within Hansoft is straight forward, and highly effective in agile or scheduling project styles. We have incredible flexibility to edit and globally update tasks via pipelines and workflows, which reduces administrative time substantially. Hansoft elegantly simplifies the process of project coordination, tracking, and deliverables while keeping information in a live and dynamic environment. These new features truly empower the production process!", said David Austin, Lead Artist at Eyemaginations.

Hansoft simplifies complex software development programs by integrating different agile, lean and scheduling methodologies, QA, resource allocation, document management and more in one single solution. Its intuitive interface, speed and flexibility make Hansoft easy to use, despite the many powerful features under the hood.

“For a tool to be truly agile, it doesn’t only need to be intuitive, but also really fast. Our users don’t like the typical click and wait pain of today’s standard tools, they have been waiting for the real-time experience of Hansoft’s interface, performing even in environments with large, globally distributed teams. When the tool is actually liked by the teams, it gets updated regularly and management has more accurate data at hand, which in the end really matters to the bottom line. Eyemaginations is an exciting company providing an innovative solution that helps many patients and doctors around the world, and I’m really glad to have them onboard as a customer,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

About Eyemaginations

Eyemaginations, Inc. is a healthcare media company focused on solutions that support professionals, patients and corporations in communicating and understanding complex topics. The company’s in-depth experience with animation, design and software has enabled Eyemaginations to create integrated systems that provide clear and concise education solutions. Eyemaginations has a portfolio of products that are focused on eyecare, ENT, audiology and facial aesthetics. The company has offices in the United States and Europe. Eyemaginations may be reached by phone at 1-877-321-5481, email at info@eyemaginations.com or online at www.eyemaginations.com.

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With the recruitment of Samuel Ranta-Eskola as Senior Production Expert, Hansoft further strengthens its productivity consulting services.

Samuel Ranta-Eskola recently started as a Senior Production Expert at Hansoft with the primary role of helping game developers around the world leverage their Hansoft usage, taking their productivity to new levels. Samuel has been working with large scale game and software development and project management for 8+ years in various roles within engineering and production. Most recently he worked as a Senior Producer at Starbreeze, where he was leading large productions in association with EA.

“I have used Hansoft in production for many years now and always admired the strength and flexibility of the tool as well as their genuine understanding of the challenges many developers are facing in their everyday work. I really look forward to be working with the team here in Uppsala as well as top developers at various studios around the world,” said Samuel Ranta-Eskola.

Hansoft is still recruting for another Senior Production Expert.

Read more and apply here.

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Hansoft Certified Trainer Program

To further satisfy the demand for Hansoft training and productivity consulting, Hansoft is proud to announce two new Certified Trainers. The Certified Trainer program is open to independent consultants with a deep experience and understanding of the production of software. They are carefully selected for their pragmatic approach to productivity improvement and focus on team empowerment best practices.

Petra Skapa was taught Scrum by Ken Schwaber in 2002 and has been a developer, Scrum Master, Iteration Manager and Agile Project Manager. She has been an Agile coach and consultant for the last 8 years with leading Agile consultancies and now as her own company. Petra has worked in 5 countries with over a dozen clients and numerous projects and products in a great diversity of domain: from airlines to retail, and medical to telecom.

Roland Bäcklin currently works as an agile mentor and coach at Jaybis, Hansoft’s latest Solutions Partner (see below). He has previously held posts as Head of IT and CEO and has more than 25 years of experience with software systems. His experience is broad and includes everything from development to operation of complex systems. He has since 2003 focused on agile methods and is a Certified Scrum Master and on course to become certified as Scrum Trainer.

Read more about Hansoft Certified Training program at: www.hansoft.se/certified-trainer

Hansoft Solution Partner

Hansoft has entered a partnership with Swedish Consulting firm Jaybis. As a Solution Partner, Jaybis will represent, sell and implement Hansoft to the Scandinavian market. Their experienced consultants will provide specialist services to customers, before, during and after their implementation of Hansoft. Jaybis is specialised in improving efficiency by developing people, software and processes and they will offer help to all Hansoft’s customers with all aspects of successful software and systems development.

“Partnering with a best of breed solution like Hansoft is a perfect match for Jaybis and our customers. We have the same high ambitions – to provide the best combination of tools and services that help developers increase their productivity and get the most out of their talented teams,” said Roland Bäcklin, agile mentor and coach at Jaybis and Hansoft Certified Trainer.

“The demand for Hansoft in Scandinavia is rapidly increasing and we are very happy to have found such a competent partner as Jaybis that can act as an extended arm to our current and future customers. Jaybis has an impressive track record in Agile and Lean consulting and I am confident that they will do a great job living up to the high Hansoft standards,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

Read more about Hansoft Solution Partners at: www.hansoft.se/solution-partners

About Jaybis

Jaybis Konsult AB is one of Sweden’s leading consultant companies within system development processes. Jabis develops software, people and processes for their customers, which are typically organizations where IT plays a central part for implementing business strategies. Many leading companies are today successful customers to Jaybis.

Jaybis’ own employees are continuously developing through feedback from customers and co-workers. All Jaybis’ consultants are experienced within their own specialty: system development, project management, change processes and business development. Jaybis differs from its competitors by their well-developed concept of having experts from different areas collaborating to achieve maximum benefits for every single customer company. For more info, please visit: www.jaybis.se

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"As a consulting company with activities in several business areas, we were looking for a flexible project management system that can handle projects of various sizes and characters; a system that will aid project managers and team members in planning, managing and keeping track of timelines. On top of that, it must be easy and intuitive to use. We found that Hansoft has it all and look forward to implementing it in the organization," said Marianne Mæhle-Schmidt, Director of Biostatistics, Ph.L., at Statisticon.

Hansoft is a collaborative tool that, with its fast and intuitive interface yet powerful features, helps software development teams, managers and executives around the world to manage their projects, programs and portfolios. Hansoft handles agile, lean and Gantt-scheduling methodologies side by side together with bug tracking, portfolio allocation, document management and more, all in a true real time environment.

“We are dedicated to help simplifying complexity of software development at all levels, for the team members as well as managers and executives. To ship cutting edge software on time you need everybody involved and Hansoft is easy to use for everyone in the team. The very live nature of Hansoft also provides for reports based on more accurate data,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

About Statisticon

We are statistical experts, dedicated to our work. For us, statistics is literally a question of life and death. Our work demands great proficiency and accuracy, whether it is a population forecast, a public survey or a clinical trial. Our greatest asset is the combination of high academic qualification and long practical experience and the methods we use are in the forefront of statistical research. But, this does not mean that the information we provide is hard to grasp, we take pride in our reports that are always easy to understand and use.

Statisticon can help you with all stages of a statistical study or a clearly defined part of the statistical process. Our skilled consultants are available for you short or long term, onsite or offsite, all in accordance with your needs. Regardless of how we end up working together, you can always expect quality, precision and dedication from us. www.statisticon.se

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“Hansoft has helped us become more productive by letting our teams become more empowered and our managers have easy access to accurate, real time data. Less time has to be spent updating the tool and more focus can be put on releasing on time with top quality. In addition, the implementation went very smoothly and the buy-in has been big. I would recommend Hansoft to anyone involved in game or software production,” said Sylvain Croteau, Studio President.

Hansoft is a flexible project management and bug tracking tool that bends to the specific needs of an organization, instead of dictating processes. Project managers always have a real time updated view of the progress and team members are empowered with a tool that naturally becomes a part of their daily work.

“The collaborative nature of Hansoft empowers teams to manage very rapid development. The talented developers at Ludia in Montreal are in a very fast paced business where time to market is key to success. We are very happy to start working with yet another great studio in the creative melting pot of Montreal,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

About Ludia

Ludia creates and distributes cross-platform interactive entertainment with mass consumer appeal. Located in Montreal and founded by experienced industry players, Ludia's innovative and high-quality product portfolio consists of original and branded properties including The Amazing Race™, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?®, The Bachelor & The Bachelorette, Family Feud®, Hell's Kitchen™, Hole In The Wall™, Hollywood Squares™, Press Your Luck, The Price Is Right™, Pyramid, Where's Waldo?® and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. www.ludia.com

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Glenn Stiemens, from Britain, is a new Software Engineer at Hansoft. Most recently, Glenn has worked as a Software Engineer at Sports Interactive in London.

American Kirsti Wennberg has been hired as an Office Assistant at Hansoft. Kirsti has previously been working as Office Manager/Human Resource Manager at telecom strategic planning company Northstream AB.

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Export Hermes is an annual prize awarded by the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and the International Chamber of Commerce, ICC, to two companies with a stable and growing export to many countries based on a well thought-out marketing strategy and with good profitability.

The jury’s reasoning behind its selection of Hansoft reads: “Hansoft has with qualified competence and outstanding understanding for their customers’ special technical demands become a leader in their niche in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.”

“We are really proud to get such a prestigious award and it’s especially fun that Export Hermes has acknowledged our marketing strategy. Hansoft is a small company with a leading product, but we fight with big competitors with enormous marketing budgets and sales forces. Export Hermes is not only an honor to receive and hopefully it will make even more people discover our products here in Sweden,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

This year’s prize is given out by Sweden’s Minister of Trade Ewa Björling at the World Trade Day, an annual event organized by Stockholm’s Chamber of Commerce and the International Chamber of Commerce, ICC.

About Export Hermes

The Export Hermes award is given out by the Fund for Export Development. The criteria are that the companies should have a stable and growing export to many countries based on a well thought-out marketing strategy and with good profitability. Export Hermes was established in 1981, and 49 companies have received the award. The Export Hermes prize itself is a statuette by the artist Thomas Quarsebo and a diploma by the artist Lennart Forsling. www.exporthermes.org

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“Several of our team members looked at Hansoft while evaluating a number of other popular pieces of project management software. We were ultimately sold on Hansoft’s speed, flexibility, and intuitive interface, as well as the responsiveness and knowledge of the Hansoft team. The available SDK has also allowed us to begin valuable customized integrations of Hansoft with some of our other internally developed tools and technology.”

“From setting up pipelines and workflows to planning sprints or even simply entering data in the backlog, we have continually said, “that’s exactly how I’ve always wanted to do that”. For us that translates into more time focusing on cutting-edge game development,” said Marty Stratton, Executive Producer, id Software

Hansoft is a project management and defect tracking tool for lean and agile projects, developed in close collaboration with leading developers around the world. The tool is designed to be fast and easy to use for everyone in the organization and flexible to the teams’ specific processes.

“The Hansoft integration SDK is designed with the most demanding teams in mind. Since the SDK can access all Hansoft functionality and data, it allows for tight integrations with other systems to create a powerful development environment of best of breed solutions. We are very proud to be working with such a legendary developer as id Software, inspiring us to keep developing Hansoft with uninhibited energy,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

About id Software:

id Software, part of the ZeniMax Media Inc. family of companies, has provided technical, design and artistic leadership as a world-renowned game developer and technology innovator since its founding in 1991. id Software’s iconic brands such as Wolfenstein, DOOM, QUAKE and Enemy Territory have become staples of popular culture for generations of gamers. More information on id Software can be found at www.idsoftware.com. id Software, Wolfenstein, DOOM, QUAKE, QUAKE LIVE, RAGE, Enemy Territory, and QuakeCon and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of id Software in the U.S. and/or in other countries. All Rights Reserved.

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“Our company focuses on an innovative approach in everything we do and we have found Hansoft to be a great project management tool to support our processes. It has a simple, intuitive interface and our staff members were able to master it without special training. At the same time, it allows us to make complex plans, as well as collect comprehensive statistics on the project progress. We were especially pleased to see the excellent implementation of Agile and Kanban practices in Hansoft. In addition, Hansoft has excellent and friendly customer support,” said Alexander Lavrov, Head of R&D at VIZERRA.

Hansoft is a project/program management tool for particularly demanding teams using development methods such as Agile and Kanban, but also traditional Gantt scheduling. The tool has an integrated defect tracking database to capture escaped bugs, and the fast and easy interface allows for a smooth implementation, getting teams up and running in a day without special training.

“Combining Agile and Kanban practices side by side in one project or program is getting increasingly common and the ability to manage different methodologies in parallel is very appreciated feature of Hansoft. If you want to encourage a creative atmosphere, your tools have to be flexible enough to support your working processes rather than forcing teams to work in a certain way. VIZERRA’s talented teams have managed to combine high productivity with creative innovation and I am excited to follow their future progress," said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

About VIZERRA:

VIZERRA is a team of professional developers building photorealistic, interactive 3D content and applications for architects, urban/city planners, product design and virtual tourism. VIZERRA projects allow our clients to make their decisions, attract new investments, win tenders, influence design process to avoid costly mistakes and attract new customers. The company’s head production office is in Skolkovo, Moscow Region, Russia, while Marketing and Business development departments are USA-based. VIZERRA also has its partners’ network in Brazil and Europe. Among our clients are City Government of Barcelona, a Foundation for Development of the Center of Research and Commercializing of New Technologies in Skolkovo, Moscow School of Management “Skolkovo”, “Gazprom”, Organizing Committee of the XXII Olympic Winter Games and XI Paralympics Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi etc. The unique selling proposition of VIZERRA is a perfect balance between speed of rendering, photorealism, rich functionality, file’s size and interactivity of a 3D model. www.vizerra.com

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”An agile project management tool should be easy to use, fast and well equipped to perform the daily management tasks required. Hansoft excels in all three areas. It is obvious that the team at Hansoft is well acquainted with the challenges that real life projects face when doing agile project management. This has enabled them to create an excellent tool which I gladly recommend,” said Niklas Knutsson, ScrumMaster, ASSA ABLOY - Shared Technologies

Hansoft is a project management and defect tracking tool used in agile and lean software development programs by teams in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. The tool has rapidly become popular for its speed, ease of use and team empowering features.

“Working closely with our customers helps us to get an in-depth understanding of the true challenges in complex development projects and programs across various companies, industries and cultures worldwide. Hansoft is designed to be flexible to the needs of different organizations and help teams find real agility. ASSA ABLOY is a great example of how fast a talented team, with mature agile processes and practices, absorbs the benefits of using Hansoft. I’m excited to have them on board as a customer and to follow their future work,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

About ASSA ABLOY

ASSA ABLOY is the global leader in door opening solutions, dedicated to satisfying end-user needs for security, safety and convenience.

ASSA ABLOY is represented on both mature and emerging markets worldwide, with leading positions in much of Europe, North America, Asia and in the Pacific. In the fast-growing electromechanical security segment, the Group has a leading position in areas such as access control, identification technology, door automation and hotel security.

Since its founding in 1994, ASSA ABLOY has grown from a regional company to an international group with around 37,000 employees and sales of around SEK 37 billion. As the world’s leading lock group, ASSA ABLOY offers a more complete range of door opening solutions than any other company on the market. http://www.assaabloy.com

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The new version of Hansoft contains, among other things, features for improved collaborative reporting which allows users to share reports with hyperlinks and transfer ownership of shared reports.

“Sharing reports via hyperlinks makes it easier to show reports to, for example, executives who don’t use Hansoft on a daily basis. This is yet another feature that facilitates collaboration in every part of the organization,” said Hans Andersson, Chief Development Officer at Hansoft.

Hansoft 6.6 also contains a number of other new features, such as accumulative time columns to track total time spent on tasks and support for more fine-tuned estimates on defects committed to sprints.

A full list of the new features in Hansoft 6.6 and screen shots can be found here.

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“Hansoft helps our teams to make software the way they want to. It increases efficiency and communication on all our projects allowing us to produce multiple simultaneous projects over multiple platforms on time, every time. The agility of Hansoft and the way it promotes self-organising teams allows us to make boxed, episodic, downloadable and iterative products in a way in which no other project management software can,” said Stuart Dodman, Operations Manager at Relentless Software.

Hansoft is a project management and QA tool, flexible to suit different project management methodologies, best practices and production situations. The real time nature and intuitive interface helps to simplify global collaboration, communication and team management in complex software and game development projects worldwide.

“Hansoft is designed based on principles of team empowerment, increased communication, transparency and collaboration - values that over and again have proved to be the backbone in successful project management and efficient production. When working on several complex projects in parallel, it is important for team managers to always have an updated overview, to be able to maximize efficiency and avoid critical bottlenecks. I’m glad to hear that Hansoft has been of such great help to Relentless and I am really excited to keep on working with them in their future projects,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

About Relentless Software:

Relentless Software is a BAFTA award winning company founded in 2003 by Andrew Eades and David Amor. Each with a long track record in the industry they set out to develop new and exciting games for the mass market; games that anyone can enjoy, without a steep learning curve. The company is based in Brighton, UK.

Relentless released their first title, DJ: Decks & FX (SCEE), in late 2004, which was subsequently nominated for a BAFTA. They followed up with Buzz!™: The Music Quiz and Buzz!™: The BIG Quiz; games which featured innovative buzzers and demonstrated Relentless' commitment to making world class videogames that appeal to everyone and are simple to play. In 2006, the studio collected three prestigious awards, jointly with SCEE, two Develop Industry Excellence Awards and a BAFTA for the creation of Buzz!™.

Since Relentless’ launch in 2003 they have developed over 10 games in the Buzz!™ franchise in over 15 languages. Relentless has launched its first self-published title, Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle on PC and PSN and is developing other, as yet unannounced, projects. Relentless announced their first iPhone game, Quiz Climber, in February 2011. For further information please visit the company website: www.relentless.co.uk © 2011 Relentless Software. All Rights Reserved.

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“Hansoft has helped us to implement Scrum in an efficient way, by being a flexible and adaptive tool with an impressive set of built in tools for agile planning, bug tracking and reporting, but also by giving us guidance through its extensive support of the agile principles of Scrum,” said Andreas Åström, Development Teamleader at Netadmin Systems.

Hansoft is a project management tool, used by software development teams all over the world. Hansoft contains a number of powerful features for lean and agile development as well as collaborative Gantt-scheduling, defect tracking, resource allocation, reporting and more. Yet, Hansoft is known for its flexibility, smart interface design and ease of implementation and usage.

“A tool for agile development needs to be agile itself, otherwise the tool becomes an impediment for success. Hansoft is truly fast and easy to use, allowing managers more face time with the teams instead of spending time in the system. Furthermore, Hansoft doesn’t dictate the process. It’s flexible for different adaptions of agile and continuous change - it allows for improvements over time. It has been a pleasure working with Netadmin Systems and to see how well they have implemented Hansoft and I look forward to following their work and our continued collaboration,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

About Netadmin Systems

Netadmin Systems develops and markets NETadmin, an end-to-end OSS/BSS system automating the service fulfillment and service assurance processes in Next Generation Networks - hardware vendor and access technology independent. Customer self-activation and multi service provider support are key features. Netadmin Systems is the market leader in the Nordics and grows rapidly on the international markets with today more than 100 customers in 15 countries. www.netadminsystems.com

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Swedish Game Awards started in 2002 as a sub-project to Excitera, the student-driven entrepreneurship association at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The competition has since grown to become Sweden’s largest game development competition, targeting students from schools all over the country.

"We're really glad to have Hansoft sponsor us with such a great tool. Developing games demands great planning nowadays and Hansoft will definitely give the participants the tools needed for easier development and increase the productivity and quality of the projects," said Ronald Pompa, Project Manager at Swedish Game Awards 2011.

Hansoft is an integrated solution for agile and lean development, collaborative scheduling, real-time reporting, bug tracking / QA, workload coordination, portfolio and document management, used by the most demanding software developers in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America.

“It is not only fun to be working with young and upcoming talent. We have seen great benefits for all parties when previous winners of Hansoft-sponsored student awards have grown commercially successful publisher-signed projects. It’s a win-win situation. Swedish Game Awards has a reputation of high quality and I’m excited to follow the teams and see the final expo in June,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

All participants are free to use Hansoft during the competition and members of the twelve finalist teams are awarded one Hansoft license each, including 10 users to use for projects for a year. The final winners of the four categories are announced during the awards ceremony in Stockholm in June.

About Swedish Game Awards

Swedish Game Awards is the largest game development competition in Sweden, targeting students all around the country. It aims is to stimulate the development of new and original games and inspire students to entrepreneurship and creative thinking, with entries being judged on execution, innovation and market potential.

For more information visit www.gameawards.se and follow the latest developments in Swedish Game Awards on twitter and Facebook: http://twitter.com/sga, www.facebook.com/swedishgameawards.

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“We wanted to get our community of Hansoft users aware and involved in our new forum, and at the same time support the IGDA Foundation and all their great projects. We have been working with the IGDA for a long time and it feels like a natural thing to take our partnership one step further and help spread the word about the Foundation,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

Hansoft will donate $20 to the IGDA Foundation for every person who makes a post about their favorite Hansoft feature in Hansoft’s new web forum, before the end of March 2011. The winner of a drawing from among the participants will also receive a $200 Amazon gift card.

"The IGDA Foundation is pleased and honored to have the generous support of Hansoft, one of the IGDA's premier partners. It is great to see a company committed to giving back to developers through the IGDA Foundation and its charitable works," said Tom Buscaglia, Chair, IGDA Foundation

The donated money will go to some of the projects the IGDA Foundation supports, for example: “Gamers with Disabilities”, “the Patrick Downey Cancer Fund”, “the Romero Archives” and “the Annual Eric Dybsand Memorial Scholarship for AI Development”.

The Hansoft forum is open for everyone to view, and for Hansoft users holding a valid license to register and create posts. The campaign is up and running and Hansoft customers can enter today by visiting: www.hansoft.se/webforum and post their favorite Hansoft feature in the assigned forum. Non Hansoft customers can also get a valid license by signing up for a free evaluation key by contacting: solutions@hansoft.se. The winner of the $200 Amazon gift card will be notified by e-mail in the beginning of April.

About the IGDA Foundation

The IGDA Foundation is a charity by Game Developers for Game Developers. It supports the mission of the IGDA, “To advance the careers and enhance the lives of game developers by connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating on issues that affect the developer community,” through Educational, Scientific and Charitable works. The IGDA Foundation is managed by an all-volunteer team with little or no administrative overhead. This means that Contributions to the Foundation go directly to our projects and as a 501(c)(3) charity all contributions are fully deductible under US tax law. More information at: http://foundation.igda.org. You can also join our Facebook group:

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Virtuos development centers take responsibility for an ever-growing range of projects: from standalone projects involving a few specialists for a few months all the way to large multi-platform full game co-developments requiring thousands of man-months.

In 2011, Virtuos teams are rolling-out “The Virtuos Experience” program, which aims to provide extra levels of reliability and visibility to their clients. The company was looking for a solution which could help it take a new step in agility while providing real-time transparency to clients. Encouraging more initiative and improved team-work by enabling each team member to contribute to project management was also a requirement.

“We tested Hansoft alongside other solutions for many months before making our choice. Hansoft spared no efforts to demonstrate that their software offered the key functions Virtuos needed combined with ease of deployment,” said Pan Feng, Virtuos Production Director.

Hansoft recently introduced version 6.5, localized in mainland Chinese and Japanese, to simplify global collaboration. The real time updated data, user friendly interface and easily customizable restricted access for external partners, in combination with a flexible licensing model, make Hansoft a great tool for outsourcing and remote collaboration.

“With the implementation of Hansoft, Virtuos is leading the way among offshore services providers by showing the importance of great communication and collaboration not only within their talented teams but also directly with their demanding clients. Virtuos is a good example of how easy Hansoft is to implement, also in very large organizations. We are very excited about working with them,” said Patric Palm, Hansoft CEO.

About Virtuos

With offices in Shanghai, Chengdu, Vancouver, Paris and Tokyo, Virtuos is one of the largest and most international providers of digital entertainment offshore production services, specializing in 3D Art and Co-development. Virtuos’ international management team includes experts from more than 10 nationalities. Virtuos clients include 15 of the top 20 games publishers worldwide as well as renowned developers. www.virtuosgames.com

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