News from 2007

XSOL has been named one of NZ’s 25 most strategically important ICT firms in CIO Magazine’s annual survey - published November 2007.

This list, featuring “vendors that CIOs and their C-suite colleagues can not ignore”, was selected by an International panel of judges.

Appointment to APEC Business Advisory Council - 29 August 2007

Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced the appointment of John Blackham as one of New Zealand's three representatives on APEC's Business Advisory Council (ABAC).

"John Blackham is the Chief Executive of software company XSol Limited. He brings extensive experience of working in the high end information technology sector in New Zealand to ABAC," Helen Clark said.

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Former Microsoft researcher joins XSOL team - 29 June 2007.

New Zealand’s leading process software company, XSOL, has recently welcomed a new senior developer to their team.

Simon Corston-Oliver recently returned to New Zealand after nearly thirteen years living in the United States.

Corston-Oliver spent ten years working at Microsoft Research, Seattle, in the areas of computational linguistics, machine learning and web search.

With a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of California, he holds eight patents and has published more than 30 academic papers.

Corston-Oliver chose to work for XSOL as it would give him a chance to stretch his abilities.

He is excited to join the XSOL team, where he will be assisting with the development of the “next generation of XSOL’s flagship products”.

“The idea of going from a description of a business process to 90,000 lines of SQL code at the push of a button, that’s ambitious,” he says.

Since starting at XSOL, Corston-Oliver has been familiarising himself with the system. “It’s at a far more advanced stage than I thought it would be,” he says.

He looks forward to concentrating on building up an entire system rather than doing a number of smaller projects with no overall view.

Corston-Oliver says XSOL’s software is “incredibly innovative” and expects it will make a “profound impact in the IT industry”.

“What XSOL is doing is very cutting-edge,” he says. “I’ve been impressed by the coherence of it – everyone at XSOL has a very good idea of what they’re trying to achieve.”

XSOL Partner Success in the UK and Holland - 15 May, 2007.

In Holland, XSOL Channel Partner, KMO www.kmo-ict.nl, have made initial sales to several Consulting organisations.

“We began working with XSOL late in 2006, with a focus in the Benelux marketplace,” said Richard Kickert, Director of KMO.

“There’s been a huge amount of interest from organisations looking to manage change and optimise business processes. We’re delighted to see the first of these ‘powering up’ with XSOL software.”

In the UK, the team at Red Admiral Consulting www.redadmiralconsulting.com have been working with XSOL for some time, with a goal of delivering business transformation to their clients.

“From inception, we saw the XSOL proposition as core to delivering on that vision.” said Red Admiral’s founder, John Kopij. 

Recent clients have included companies in the IT sector. “In this area,” John adds, “managers can easily relate to the business benefits of visibility and adaptability that XSOL delivers.”