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Yesterday the big news was the UK economy grew a WHOLE 0.1% last quarter! This means the official end of the worst recession in peace time history, although there are many warnings that we're not completely out of the woods yet.

So does that mean we'll be returning to business as usual? Of course not! Recessions bring change, and while businesses will hopefully start to grow again, some long term trends have been accelerated by the recession and will start to become very obvious from 2010 onwards:

• Remote working - Offices have become increasingly mobile over the past decade, but with businesses looking to save operating costs on office space during the recession, even more businesses are starting to encourage home working for their staff. Forrester predicts that in the next 5 years, 43% of staff will be telecommuting regularly.

Hi everyone, just wanted to give a quick update on the exhibition we've been attending the last couple of days, IMS 2009. We've had an excellent 2 days meeting loads of interesting people and companies, and fortunately getting a lot of positive feedback and interest in SambaJAM! Here's a blurry picture from my iPhone of our stand below - credit on graphics goes to Clarence, who did an excellent job with our banners!

Also, today I was interviewed for China's largest TV news network, talking about SambaJAM and our experience at IMS. I'll post a link to the story when its available, but apparently my face and our product will be going out across China to millions of people in the next few hours! Fortunately Zhijun had already prepared a logo for SambaJAM in Mandarin, so we had that in the background too! Check it out below...looks like we'll have to go sell in China next!

So if you're free tomorrow, make sure you get your ticket and visit us at Stand 283 before its over!

London - Working in the cloud has never been more exciting. SambaStream, the newest company to ascend into the cloud, will be revealing SambaJAM, the first extensible collaborative content management platform in the cloud, at the IMS 2009 Exhibition. The exhibition takes place at the London Olympia from 1st to 3rd December and this will be the first chance for visitors to see the future of cloud content management.

With businesses increasingly working with distributed teams and external partners, the demand for secured information sharing services has never been greater. SambaJAM provides secure workspaces that allow teams to collaboratively create and share content such as documents, rich media, wikis and calendars. Built on a powerful Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform, SambaJAM brings together rich Web2.0 collaboration tools and social networking on top of a powerful, extendable ECM platform.

The three founders of the venture worked in Accenture Information Management Solutions as experts in collaboration software before pursuing SambaStream. “We were delivering complex and expensive collaboration solutions for clients that weren’t getting the adoption rates and ROIs promised,” states co-founder David Gildeh, “we took the lessons learned and produced SambaJAM. No more complex roll-outs and an AJAX user interface that ensures users easily pick up the application and actually save time using it”.

So what makes SambaJAM so different from all the other cloud start-ups fighting for a stake in the collaboration market? “You can build bespoke custom solutions on top of SambaJAM exactly the same way as an on-premise solution” says co-founder Alessandro Giannone. “Customers get the rapid deployment and cost savings of using a cloud solution, without losing the extensibility and customization of an on-premise solution”.

This would allow customers to quickly roll out SambaJAM for immediate business benefits, but easily extend the platform as their business requires to provide a powerful alternative to more expensive and complex solutions such as Microsoft SharePoint.

After a year of passion, ingenuity and commitment, the three entrepreneurs are ready to create a storm in the clouds. As co-founder Clarence Sittampalam says “We hope to become the SalesForce.com of ECM in the cloud. The market is rapidly maturing and we are poised to capitalize on this with SambaJAM.”

SambaStream will be located at stand 283 at the IMS 2009 exhibition in London Olympia. To learn more about SambaJAM, please visit www.sambajam.com or contact us.

We've just reserved our place (very last minute) to exhibit SambaJAM at the Online Information Exhibition 2009 in London this December in 19 days!!!

We'll be there for the 3 days demoing SambaJAM and letting the 9500 people expected to attend understand just why SambaJAM is the future of online collaboration (if it wasn't obvious already?!). You'll find us in the Content Management area on Stand 283 near the Seminar Theatres so make sure you make your way over to come see us and give us some support!

If you're interested in coming you can register for free here in about 2 minutes. It should be a great exhibition only enhanced by our Samba Girls*!

* Subject to us actually finding the girls and Samba costumes we need in time - watch this space (or let us know if you can help!)