Faz Suleman becomes Tribeka's SVP Worldwide Retail & Content Tribeka is pleased to announce the appointment of Faz Suleman as Senior Vice President Worldwide Retail & Content.
In his new role, Faz will bring together Tribeka’s Digital Rights & Retail teams to ensure the SoftWide® platform’s
success with current and future retail partners through content delivery and in-store operations.
Over the last 18 months Faz has built up the DRM and Retail teams to ensure strong relationships with Tribeka’s partners.
Faz Suleman commented: “I am delighted to be offered this opportunity to assist Tribeka become ready for the huge
growth we expect over the next 18 months. The SoftWide® platform is an amazing technology and with my retail experience
I will help to ensure Tribeka realises its full potential worldwide starting with our existing tier one retailers like
Carrefour, Microsoft, Tesco and Game. “
Daniel Doll-Steinberg, Tribeka’s CEO, said: “With our exceptional current partners, the pipeline of deals for the next few months
and with conventional delivery proving more and more out of place in today’s retail environment, 2010 and 2011 look set to be
huge years for us. Faz is proving an instrumental member of Tribeka’s management team as we grow to meet this increasing demand and
we are delighted to give him this role.”
Tribeka - One of the First to Offer Kaspersky 2011 to Customers On 1st July Tribeka offered the new Kaspersky 2011 products for sale to its UK customers. Due to the mechanisms incorporated by the SoftWide system, Tribeka was able to ensure that their retail partners in the UK were able to offer the products to the customers on day 1 of the product release. This allows retailers such as Tesco the opportunity to offer an unbridled service to their customers, re-enforcing their dominate position in the retail market.
Mark Furtado, Head of DRM at Tribeka, said “The launch of Kaspersky 2011 products, seamlessly to our retail partners around the world, on the Release Day once again emphasizes the way SoftWide can increase its retail partners’ access to products. Our retail partners in the UK, such as Tesco, will be one of the first retailers selling these new Kaspersky products. With unlimited stock the products are always available and retailers are able to serve all their customer demands no matter what volume is required.” Having signed a significant deal with SoftWide last month, Tesco has been transformed from a bit-player
in the software market to a serious contender, with a thousand lines under its belt. The deal looks set
provide a powerful boost to its entertainment division, as well as the technology and electricals side of
the business – both of which have seen significant rises in recent months anyway. Andrew Wooden
finds out more from Rob Salter, category director for entertainment at Tesco…
"SoftWide gives you the
opportunity to open up
a range where you’re
only creating physical
products at the point
where you’ve got an
actual order. There’s no
real limitation on that."
Rob Salter, Tesco
You can find the full interview on page 21 of July's PC Retail Magazine. PC Retail: Tesco steps up its game in the changing technology market PC Retail article by Andrew Wooden: Consumer electronics are 'increasingly big business' for UK's biggest retailer
Electronics and PC sales are rising up the agenda of the country’s biggest retailer Tesco, as it looks to be at the forefront of the 3D and tablet boom in the UK.
While the supermarket has been involved in tech hardware for some time now, it sees this new wave of products as increasingly relevant to the mass market, an area in which it dominates.
“It’s quite clear from the development on our electricals business and what we’ve done there, that we have been serious about this for quite some time,” said Rob Salter, Tesco’s category director for entertainment.
You can find the full article online at PC Retail Magazine
ESET Signs Up to Tribeka’s Retail Revolution Bournemouth, UK (17th June 2010) - ESET UK announced today an agreement with Tribeka that will see ESET’s award-winning software sold by Tesco and other major retailers as part of Tribeka’s revolutionary distribution system, SoftWide. A unique on-site publishing model, SoftWide dramatically reduces warehouse storage and transportation requirements, in addition to cutting down on wastage; making it not only a cost effective distribution method, but environmentally friendly too.
Customers will be able to buy ESET Smart Security and ESET NOD32 Antivirus from participating SoftWide outlets either online or instantly manufactured to order in store. Once the purchase is complete, the product is then manufactured on-site within minutes. By partnering with Tribeka, ESET can guarantee that its boxed products are always available in store, whilst ensuring no loss of quality in the end product.
"One of the biggest challenges in retail is predicting what the public want to buy from one day to the next and ensuring that it is in stock," says Amanda Davies, Retail Channel Manager of ESET UK. "Tribeka’s on-site publishing model eliminates this issue, whilst enabling considerable cost savings on storage and stock management. This, combined with providing an entry point into major high street retail outlets, makes Tribeka’s innovative distribution model a very attractive proposition to ESET."
ESET Smart Security is a tightly integrated anti-malware product designed to protect computers from a range of threats. Built on the award-winning ESET NOD32 Antivirus and its powerful ThreatSense engine, ESET Smart Security provides antispyware, antispam and customised firewall features to protect home and business users from Internet threats. ESET NOD32 Antivirus proactively detects and eliminates more viruses, trojans, worms, adware, spyware, phishing, rootkits and other Internet threats than any program available.
"The principal of SoftWide’s model is to enable retailers to offer a wide choice of key software titles, with constant availability. With a record-setting 62 VB100 awards from Virus Bulletin, the widely-respected independent comparative testing group, we welcome ESET’s internet security products into our rapidly growing software range," says Mark Furtado, Head of Digital Rights at Tribeka.
PC Retail: Tribeka’s software revolution expands to new frontiers PC Retail article by Andrew Wooden: Online and in-store software publishing system continues push to transform distribution
Having signed up key deals with Tesco, Carrefour and Symantec, Tribeka is preparing to further expand its in-store software publishing operation, which it says is set to change traditional distribution models.
You can find the article online at PC Retail Magazine
PC Retail: Tesco launches SoftWide PC Retail article by Matt Grainger: Tesco has begun using the SoftWide system to handle online software orders via its Tesco Entertainment website.
You can find the article online at PC Retail Magazine
Tesco launches SoftWide for Tesco Entertainment Tribeka is pleased to report that Tesco has today started using SoftWide to fulfil PC software orders for its online customers. Tesco is the third largest global retailer with over 2,400 stores in the UK and over 4,800 stores worldwide.
Tesco is backing its launch of SoftWide with a marketing campaign to include amazing introductory offers and clubcard points, followed by customer mail outs. Please use the following link to visit Tesco’s entertainment site for introductory offers: www.tescoentertainment.com
Norton Security to be Delivered on Demand via Tribeka Symantec announce:
Award-winning software to be printed on demand in leading retail stores worldwide
READING UK. – May 20, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC), makers of Norton security software, today announced a partnership with Tribeka Ltd, a leader in delivering in-store manufacturing services for software and entertainment products in retail stores worldwide.
As a result of the agreement, Norton software will be available in several additional key retail chains around the world through Tribeka’s on demand, in-store manufacturing platform, SoftWide. The SoftWide platform is already used by Big W in Australia, Carrefour in Europe, PC Spezialist in Germany, and GAME in the UK, with Tesco in the UK about to launch the solution.
Norton’s top security products, Norton AntiVirus, Norton Internet Security and Norton 360, are now available through all the Tribeka kiosks worldwide. Customers in-store can browse the Tribeka software catalogue, choose a Norton title and have the DVD including full packaging and a quick-start card with license key produced within minutes. The on demand retail model has the benefits of guaranteed product availability and a more environmental delivery, as no product shipping is required.
“With cybercrime on the rise, five new threats are coming online every minute this year. During 2009, Symantec blocked an average of 100 potential attacks per second. By partnering with Tribeka, we’re making security more accessible and helping more consumers to stay safe,” said Aled Miles, vice president of worldwide sales, Symantec. “Tribeka offers us an innovative way to extend Norton’s reach into retail venues such as grocery and computer gaming stores where we would not otherwise have a presence.”
Tribeka CEO Daniel Doll-Steinberg said, “The addition of Norton’s World’s best selling security titles further establishes SoftWide as a complete retail delivery solution and allows us to provide our retail partners with the key titles they expect to offer. We are currently seeing more and more retailers start to include SoftWide in their software and entertainment delivery strategies and Symantec’s support and products will allow us to accelerate this growth.”
Norton’s Internet Security solutions now include reputation-based technology which tackles undiscovered malware and today’s toughest threats head-on. Using this technology, Norton 360 has achieved the top score in third-party testing conducted by UK-based Dennis Labs[1], which were designed to replicate real-world, Web-based attacks such as those that target social networking sites. Of the 10 products tested, Norton was the only one to protect against all of the threats, achieving a 100 percent overall protection score.
The latest version of Norton 360 also includes 2GB of secure online backup and improvements to the features valued most by consumers, such as PC Tuneup, which improves performance and saves time.
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For more details see the Symantec press release.
Carrefour and Symantec offer bundle deal through SoftWide
See the: Carrefour - Kuringen Symantec bundle advertisement
EBP France enters partnership with Tribeka
Tribeka is pleased to announce that EBP France will soon offer its titles through SoftWide®. EBP is a leading provider of management software including business plan, accounting, management and payroll titles. EBP titles are
easy to use and they are always updated with the latest legal developments, to creates high quality professional software titles.
Mark Furtado, Tribeka’s Head of Content, said “I am delighted to have secured this partnership with EBP France. We have some great new releases for our SoftWide® platform which will create a wide variety of titles for the
customers to choose from through our Carrefour partnership”.
Summitsoft Corporation’s Productivity Software Range Added to Innovative SoftWide platform
Summitsoft Corporation, a leading publisher of productivity software for professional and home users, has now entered an agreement to add its range through the SoftWide platform. This agreement allows Summitsoft to make available for sale its productivity range,
for both PC and Mac, through Tribeka’s retail partners and the SoftWide platform.
Mark Furtado, Tribeka’s head of Digital Rights Management says about this partnership “I am very excited about Summitsoft’s range which is very impressive. Summitsoft is an outstanding addition to the SoftWide portfolio”.
About Summitsoft: Tribeka signs landmark deal with Editions Profil
Tribeka Ltd, has signed a landmark deal with leading republisher, Editions Profil.
Edition Profil is to bring its leading range of titles to market through the SoftWide® system in Europe.
Faz Suleman, Director of Retail and Content for Tribeka, says: “We are delighted that the SoftWide® platform is now able to deliver Editions Profil key software titles to our retail partners. Editions Profil offer a key product range
and this partnership brings highly recognised brands and products to our SoftWide partners in Europe”
About Editions Profil: Tribeka partners with Mindscape
Tribeka has now partnered with Mindscape a leader in educational software and popular games based on well-known TV shows. Mindscape’s innovative software will now be offered through SoftWide to customers both in France and Belgium.
Mark Furtado, Head of DRM, says “Mindscape plays an influential role in the educational software market in both France and Belgium, with their key brands. Their titles will be a major boost to Tribeka’s educational offering in Europe.
Educational software is a key offer for our retailers and their customers and this is the beginning of a great partnership for both companies.
This fantastic range of products includes titles from an interactive planetarium, through learning a new language, to even receiving personalized advice from one of the most famous chefs in France. This may be the next big thing on
the software market. Our easy to use SoftWide system allows the full range of Mindscape products to be made available at every store greatly benefiting or customers.”
CakeWalk and Tribeka enter new Partnership Cakewalk Inc, the music software giant, and Tribeka Ltd, the company behind in store manufacture worldwide, have entered an agreement to make Cakewalk titles available through SoftWide. Cakewalk, a world leading developer of
powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, is partnering Tribeka to bring their music creation titles to a worldwide market through SoftWide. This agreement brings Cakewalk’s ever developing catalogue
of music products to SoftWide’s rapidly expanding retail channel. Cakewalk are making available their top 7 selling titles which are set to hit stores in April 2010.
Mark Furtado, Head of Digital Rights Management for Tribeka says “This is a great partnership for us. Cakewalk are leaders in the market for music creation products. I am ecstatic that we are now able to offer their products
as this opens up a whole new customer base for our retail partners and adds another category to the already diverse catalogue we offer.”
MCV: Tribeka to expand into games MCV article by James Batchelor: Tribeka reopening discussions with publishers to sell gaming content via in-store disc replication service.
You can find the article on page 6 of this weeks edition of MCV or online summary at MCV Magazine
PC Retail: Is this the end of boxed software as we know it? PC Retail article by Matt Grainger: In-store software publishing service SoftWide deployed by US Microsoft stores
and Tesco in UK. Parent firm Tribeka poised for store roll-outs across Europe.
You can find the article in the February edition of PC Retail or online at PC Retail Magazine
Tesco SoftWide® launch hits the headlines The press is quick to cover the launch of SoftWide® by Tesco. Please see links below: Tribeka are delighted to announce that Tesco, the largest British retailer and the third largest global retailer, will be launching SoftWide® in the UK in February. The companies will initially launch a massive range of PC software and expect to add further digital media categories to expand the offer. Daniel Doll-Steinberg says “Tesco is a fantastic partner for us with a first-rate digital media approach; we are very excited about the opportunities to become part of this strategy.” Rob Salter, Category Director Entertainment says “We are delighted to be working with Tribeka who are providing us with a hugely efficient and innovative way of expanding our product offering to customers” Now Serif enters partnership with Tribeka in the USA Serif software now available in Microsoft retail stores. NOTTINGHAM, UK & NASHUA, NH , 2009 – Serif, a leading independent design, publishing and creative software developer, is pleased to announce that its software will be sold on-demand in Microsoft’s new retail stores, through its partnership with Tribeka.
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Norton Antivirus 2010, Norton Internet Security 2010 and Norton 360 v.4 will be available through the Tribeka partnership stores worldwide from today. The products are available at Symantec’s normal regional MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price). Retail stores which have adopted Tribeka technology include selected outlets in Big W stores, Australia; Bitcom stores, Luxembourg; Carrefour stores, Belgium; PC Spezialist stores, Germany; GAME and Tesco stores, United Kingdom.
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Summitsoft Corporation is a top ten publisher of productivity software products, creating innovative business solutions for professionals and home users. Summitsoft offers software through major retailers in North America, Australia,
Japan and Europe, as well as on the Internet. For additional information please visit our website at www.SummitsoftCorp.com.
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Established in 1989 by a group of IT engineers, Editions Profil is a self owned company specialised in software development, publishing and distribution. Editions Profil is born from the will to improve the use of computing as a learning
tool for the educational environment. Since 1992, Editions Profil has widened its target to a larger audience by promoting multimedia as a learning material on the consumer market. Editions Profil extended its portfolio with a line of tools
and utilities softwares; this shift came as a natural evolution according to the background of its creators.
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Tribeka’s award-winning SoftWide® platform will allow customers to select Serif software, either as empty boxes on store shelves or by browsing on an in-store kiosk. Retail staff then create high-quality DVD packaging and burn a fully-licensed version of the chosen software, as the customer waits. This only takes a few minutes and significantly reduces the cost and environmental impact of shipping, storing and wastage, as well as ensuring that Serif products are never out of stock.
“Serif is excited to be partnering with Tribeka, whose unique offering allows Serif to have presence within the new Microsoft retail stores. It also alleviates us from having to manage physical inventory and means that our products are available to customers on-demand and within minutes,” says Michael Zavala, Vice President of Sales at Serif (US).
“We’re really pleased to add Serif’s high-quality creative software packages to the Tribeka assortment in Microsoft stores. Their award-winning range offers powerful features and fantastic value for consumer and small businesses alike.” says Mark Furtado, Head of DRM at Tribeka.
The Serif titles available in Microsoft’s retail stores are DrawPlus X3, PagePlus X4, MoviePlus X3, PhotoPlus X3, Digital Scrapbook Artist and WebPlus X4.
About Serif
Serif is the publisher of the award-winning software range that includes PagePlus®, PhotoPlus™, DrawPlus™, WebPlus, AlbumPlus™, MoviePlus™, PanoramaPlus™ and Digital Scrapbook Artist® and more. Founded in 1987 with the aim to develop low-cost alternatives to high-end publishing and graphics packages, Serif has been repeatedly praised for its powerful yet easy-to-use software which has put professional effects and demanding publishing tasks within the reach of ordinary PC users around the world. Now with over 6 million customers worldwide, Serif has over 200 employees at its head office, development and European sales centre in Nottingham, UK and its North American sales operation in New Hampshire, US.
About Tribeka
Tribeka’s SoftWide® platform is revolutionizing the way software and entertainment product is bought and sold, a worldwide market in excess of $50 billion. SoftWide® is currently the world’s only solution for manufacturing software and entertainment categories in store, without stock. The unique solution provides, on site, a full product that is identical to the mass-produced item and the whole process takes just two to three minutes, allowing retailers to offer their customers an unbeatable range of products that are always available.
Tribeka has secured licensing agreements with most leading publishers for worldwide delivery and users of the SoftWide® platform include Carrefour, the world’s second largest retailer, in Europe, Fujifilm and Big W in Australia, and Microsoft in the USA.
Tribeka is based in London, UK.
4 December 2009
SoftWide® at Microsoft Stores: It's Almost Like a Walk-in Amazon.com
“While there are a lot of similarities between the Apple and Microsoft stores, I think that Microsoft distinguishes themselves in key ways, [with] this on-demand approach to software distribution...” See the post on James Stolp's blog
3 December 2009
Tribeka takes software to the world – with help from UKTI and British Airways
UK Trade & Investment announces how, with British Airways, they supported Tribeka’s US expansion. For more details see the UKTI press release
2 December 2009
Ina Fried cites Tribeka in her blog about Microsoft Stores
Ina Fried is a technology journalist for CNET. Ina recently blogged about the new Microsoft Stores where she includes a comment from Tribeka’s COO Stephen Precious. See it on her Beyond Binary blog: Inside the Apple, er, Microsoft Store
1 December 2009
MumboJumbo Joins Content Line Up for Microsoft Stores
Casual game developer teams with Tribeka to offer titles on in-store kiosks.
DALLAS (December 1, 2009) – MumboJumbo, leading developer and publisher of premium casual games, has teamed with Tribeka, the brains behind the on-demand manufacturing offered at the new Microsoft Stores, to distribute a five-game assortment through the stores software kiosk system. Microsoft Stores debuted in October and in-store kiosks offer on-demand manufacturing of PC titles to their customers.
MumboJumbo titles that will be available for on-demand manufacturing, include 7 Wonders Treasures of Seven, Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena, LUXOR: Quest for the Afterlife, Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy and Zombie Bowl-o-Rama. The Microsoft Store has lined up hundreds of software titles using Tribeka’s SoftWide system that customers can download using a touch-screen kiosk—the software disc, cover and manuals are then created on site in minutes for the customer to take home.
“We’re very excited to bring premium casual game content to the Microsoft Store,” said Mark Cottam, CEO of MumboJumbo. “The on-demand capabilities that Tribeka has introduced to the PC audience are cutting edge, and we’re pleased to be included in the line up.”
The assortment from MumboJumbo includes titles from their most popular franchises. 7 Wonders Treasures of Seven is a match three game that tasks players with building the 7 Wonders of the world with building blocks collected by matching colorful runes.
Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena is a hidden-object adventure game that follows a spunky archaeologist on her quest to recover finds for the Museum of Secrets Lost. The game includes seek-and-find game play as well as puzzles and adventure elements.
LUXOR: Quest for the Afterlife is a marble-shooter action game in which players fire colored orbs to create chains of matching colors, which eliminates the orbs from the advancing chain. The player must eliminate all spheres before they reach the pyramid.
Another hidden-object adventure title offered is Midnight Mysteries: The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy. The seek-and-find puzzler takes players on a journey to uncover the truth behind the death of one of America’s greatest writers.
The quirky Zombie Bowl-o-Rama is a bowling game with a twist. The player must bowl down advancing zombies to save the town from a takeover by the undead.
Each title will retail for $19.95 at the Microsoft Stores, and will become available through the on-demand kiosks in the coming months.
About MumboJumbo
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, MumboJumbo LLC™ is a worldwide publisher, developer and mass marketer of premium casual games for PC, mobile, handheld devices and game consoles. MumboJumbo games are downloadable at its website as well as key game portals, or purchased at retail through mass merchants, computer retailers and specialty outlets. MumboJumbo owns and operates studios located in Dallas and Vladivostok, Russia, and publishes and distributes software through its subsidiaries worldwide. For more information please visit our website at www.mumbojumbo.com.
About Tribeka
Tribeka’s SoftWide® platform is revolutionizing the way software and entertainment product is bought and sold, a worldwide market in excess of $50 billion. SoftWide® is currently the world’s only solution for manufacturing software and entertainment categories in store, without stock. The unique solution provides, on site, a full product that is identical to the mass-produced item and the whole process takes just two to three minutes, allowing retailers to offer their customers an unbeatable range of products that are always available. Tribeka has secured licensing agreements with most leading publishers for worldwide delivery and users of the SoftWide® platform include Carrefour, the world’s second largest retailer, in Europe, Fujifilm and Big W in Australia, and Microsoft in the USA. Tribeka is based in London, UK.
24 November 2009
SoftWide® Launch in Australia Attracts Local Press Attention
The local Australian media starts its coverage of the launch of SoftWide® by Big W, Fuji and Digital Lifeware. Please see links below:
- Big W disc kiosk lets customers burn on demand
- Burning boon at Big W
- PRESS DIGEST-Australian Business News - Nov 24
- Retailer pilots on-demand software system
16 November 2009
Fuji/Digital Lifeware install SoftWide® at Big W in Sydney, Australia
BIG W PILOTS ON DEMAND SOFTWARE SYSTEM
The first Digital Lifeware® on demand software system in a retail partner store is now live at BIG W’s Winston Hills store in Sydney. Customers can “browse click burn®” the widest range of PC and Mac software available on demand in any retail store in Australia. The system creates a fully licensed disk and prints a super high quality cover and manual on the spot in minutes. These are put into a DVD case and the customer walks away with an original quality product. The catalogue has around 1,000 titles now, is always in stock and the system is very environmentally friendly. It significantly reduces the need for transportation, storage, real estate and wastage. Digital Lifeware is working with all its partners to further develop the system to include new publishers, ranges and formats, including platform games and movies.
The catalogue currently encompasses language, fun learning, games, multi-media, office software and tools. It has the widest range of language and educational games with over 100 languages available to learn. Customers select the titles they want on the FujiFilm® touch screen kiosk, pay for them at the BIG W on demand counter and the Tribeka SoftWide® on demand platform produces the product, “boxed” in a DVD case, in minutes. The product is the same as the publisher’s original, and is fully licensed and warranted by the publisher. Customers can feel safe in the knowledge that they have a legitimate product that is theirs for life and can be re-loaded in the event of any computer problems or whenever they replace their computer.
Digital Lifeware developed the retail and customer systems and integrated them with SoftWide. FujiFilm Australia developed the kiosk technology and integrated it with the Digital Lifeware systems. Tribeka developed the SoftWide platform. Other global users of the SoftWide platform include Carrefour, the second largest retailer in the world, and Microsoft.
Managing Director, Digital Lifeware, Rhett Sampson said “We are very pleased to be working with BIG W and FujiFilm Australia to provide the best possible retail content shopping experience for their customers. They join some of the biggest and most innovative retailers and software publishers in the world in using our on demand systems to revolutionise the retail content shopping experience.”
General Manager, Hardgoods, BIG W, Charles Davey said “The Digital Lifeware on demand system from FujiFilm allows us to carry a wider range of software than ever before. We don’t have to manage inventory and we are always in stock. Customers can come to BIG W confident that they can find the widest range, always in stock, every day.”
General Manager, Imaging Networks, FujiFilm Australia, Paul Rogers, said “The Digital Lifeware on demand system combines the expertise and experience of FujiFilm Australia and Digital Lifeware in bringing innovative, quality solutions to retail.”
CEO, Tribeka, Daniel Doll-Steinberg, said “We are delighted to be partnered with Digital Lifeware in Australia and New Zealand. They are an innovative company who have helped us gain the critical mass we are now achieving globally with the SoftWide platform.”
Digital Lifeware provides integrated manufacture on demand systems and digital content to retailers and retail partners. www.digitallifeware.com.au
BIG W is Australia’s leading discount department store.
FUJIFILM Australia is a world leader in imaging, information and document technologies.
Tribeka Ltd. is the world leader in on demand manufacture through retail and distribution.
For further information contact:
Mandy Maier
MM Publicity +61 412 891 121
mandymaier@optusnet.com.au
6 November 2009
Microsoft announces that they are using SoftWide® to power their On Demand offer in new Stores
Tribeka is pleased to report that Microsoft has announced its Microsoft Stores in the USA are using SoftWide® to power their software on demand offer:
New Retail Stores Connect Consumers With the Best of Microsoft
2 November 2009
Microsoft lights up the web and is applauded for launching On Demand Manufacture in its Stores
In Store Manufacture took a giant leap forward this week with Microsoft adopting the technology for its stores thereby making the solution a must have for retailers worldwide. Please see links below:
- MS does on-demand software printing at retail
- Microsoft Store Prints Games on Demand
- On-demand PC game buying and packaging at new Microsoft store
- On Demand at Microsoft Stores
16 October 2009
GAME use SoftWide® to offer PC Software
Tribeka is pleased to report that GAME are now offering over 600 software titles, including educational, utilities, business and entertainment products, plus a range of spoken word to its customers. The products are offered through SoftWide® which is the world’s leading technology for the on-site manufacturing of software and entertainment product and produces a full retail product identical to the mass produced item in minutes.
8 October 2009
Kaspersky products are available in PC SPECIALIST via the on-demand SoftWide® service
Die Produkte von Kaspersky Lab werden seit dem 1. September von PC-SPEZIALIST über den neuen On-Demand-Service SoftWide vertrieben. SoftWide wurde von der Firma Tribeka entwickelt. Das Programm ermöglicht Fachhändlern, Software in nur wenigen Minuten zu bestellen, online zu beziehen, direkt zu brennen und zu verpacken. Der Vorteil: Mit SoftWide können Händler ihr Angebot erweitern, ohne zusätzlich Laden- und Lagerflächen einzurichten. Während der fünfmonatigen Testphase bieten die PC-SPEZIALIST Händler in Kassel, Potsdam und Schwerin den On-Demand-Dienst exklusiv in Deutschland an. Derzeit sind über SoftWide Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 & Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2010 zu beziehen.
“Wir sind immer offen für neue, innovative Vertriebswege”, so Daniel Gellissen, Key Account Manager e-Commerce bei Kaspersky Lab. “Daher sind wir sehr erfreut, dass unsere Heimanwender-Produkte über den neuen On-Demand-Service schnell, unkompliziert und direkt an unsere Kunden gehen.”
Weitere aktuelle Nachrichten über Kaspersky Lab erhalten Sie auch unter http://twitter.com/Kaspersky_DACH.
29 September 2009
Sony DADC and Tribeka enter a Groundbreaking Deal to integrate SecuROM into SoftWide® platform
Sony DADC and Tribeka have entered a groundbreaking deal to integrate Sony DADC’s world leading SecuROM Digital Rights Management Solution into Tribeka’s revolutionary SoftWide®
With the launch of key games titles in the pipeline, the integration of SecuROM helps take SoftWide® to the next level of delivery and SecuROM is now available to all publishers wishing to distribute their titles through SoftWide®.
“The digital distribution channel is becoming increasingly important to a broad range of companies to enhance and maintain their retail channel,” commented David Berka, Product Manager for Software Digital Rights Management Solutions at Sony DADC. “We see this partnership with Tribeka and the integration of SecuROM into the SoftWide® platform as an important step forward, as it allows publishers that use the SoftWide® platform to increase their revenues.”
Mark Furtado, Tribeka’s Head of Content, said “I am delighted to have secured this partnership with Sony DADC for SecuROM. This technology will allow us to expand our already huge SoftWide® product offer to seamlessly include protected titles on both CD and DVD. We can now move faster and more confidently into the games market with the key PC game publishers. This is another very exciting step for us and our partner publishers.”
4 September 2009
PC Spezialist now offers huge software range with no costs
PC Spezialist today announced it has launched SoftWide® the revolutionary software delivery solution.
The PC chain PC Spezialist in Bielefeld, subsidiary of the largest IT-Group in Europe Synaxon AG, launched 1 September its five-month pilot of SoftWide®. PC Spezialist has established the exclusive rights with Tribeka for SoftWide® for Germany. In the participating PC Spezialist stores in Kassel, Potsdam and Schwerin customers can choose for immediate delivery over 300 software titles over tenfold more than these stores offered. The number of titles is expected to increase to over 600 titles in the next few months.
SoftWide® has already been in operation since May 2009 with PC Spezialist in Luxembourg which has successfully proved this revolutionary delivery solution for software retailing where the product is manufactured in store as required.
The huge range of software is not only merchandised on shelf, but manufactured on demand or just in time for customers. This means the software does not need to be ordered and delivered in advance, just manufactured within about 2 minutes onto CD or DVD with all the packaging manufactured as required. For PC Spezialist customers this ensures an enormous choice whilst also for the PC Spezialist stores it not only increases the offer but reduces all the costs of managing the stock conventionally.
“The advantage is obvious: we increase the available software-assortment of PC Spezialist stores many times and simultaneously minimize the efforts” says Andreas Wenninger, SYNAXON´s COO. “Our customers will benefit from more choice and comfort in buying software and our stores will benefit from competitive advantages such as reduced capital commitment.”
The software offer already ranges from operating systems, office applications and utility software to commercial software and entertainment. Most key vendors support the project including Abbyy, Avanquest, Buhl Data, Kaspersky, G Data, Roxio and S.A.D.
Daniel Doll-Steinberg, CEO of Tribeka, says “We are delighted to have launched SoftWide in Germany with PC Spezialist and we look forward to these stores being the first of a rapid nationwide rollout. It has been a pleasure partnering with Synaxon to ensure that the installations were on schedule for 1 September and that the SoftWide® offered a compelling product offer of local content from day one. With their high levels of customer service and dynamic vision we will continue to work closely with Synaxon and their stores to deliver a complete solution for software, and in time movies and console games, throughout Germany.”
13 July 2009
Tribeka expands SoftWide® offer with more key products
Tribeka is pleased to announce that key titles from four new publishers will soon be available through SoftWide®, in time for its launch into Germany.
Security software specialist, G-Data; LapLink, developer of essential PC migration and remote access software; O&O Software, one of the world's leading providers of performance and data recovery software; and S.A.D, one of Germany’s principal publishers of entertainment and utility titles, will all be available on SoftWide® within the next few weeks.
Faz Suleman, Tribeka’s director of retail and content, said: “The imminent launch of SoftWide® in Germany’s PC Spezialist chain has further increased our reach and we are delighted to add these key publishers to our compelling channel”.
