Press Release

JOHN POMEROY BECOMES THE NEW BUSINESS UNIT DIRECTOR FOR SWORD SOFTWARE

SWORD, the international specialist IT Products and Services Provider and a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, are delighted to announce that John Pomeroy has become the new Sales & Marketing Director for the software businesses within Sword, in addition John will be the Business Unit Director for SWORD SOFTWARE. John joins SWORD at a time of exceptional growth, both here in the UK and internationally as far afield as China.

Fusion, the software product from SWORD SOFTWARE, is a highly scalable Enterprise Content Management application specifically designed for managing the complex and regulated procedures prevalent in the construction and facilities operation industries. The functionality inherent in SWORD’s Fusion product has been developed over years of collaboration with some of the largest construction and operations companies. SWORD Fusion with proven integrations with SAP, Microsoft Office, Outlook and SharePoint significantly reduces the cost and risk associated with managing technical content and provides significant advantages over more generic ECM vendors.

With over 25 years experience in the content management sector John Pomeroy joins SWORD from EMC Corporation where he was responsible for driving the international expansion of the software group managing over half of the EMEA software group revenues. Formerly as European VP for Documentum Inc prior to their acquisition by EMC, John was responsible for building the Northern Europe region into their largest region in Europe.

On his decision to join SWORD John said: “The SWORD Group whilst having grown significantly over recent years has retained an incredible focus on delivering customer value within both their product and services business units. Each business in the group is highly specialised in their particular market, delivering extremely high customer value compared with more generalist organisations. As the market matures I believe customers will move away from large generic platforms with expensive, highly customised applications built on top, to a focus on fit for purpose business applications with interoperability of these across an SOA environment. SWORD are in a unique position to take advantage of this market maturity and have a depth of business understanding and product functionality in their chosen markets that will both delight customers and differentiate them from any competition. In addition to this, the SWORD Group has demonstrated consistent growth and with the successful share offer earlier this year are now perfectly positioned to achieve their strategic growth objectives well into the future. When you fuse these two attributes together it becomes a truly compelling proposition.”

For more details about SWORD Fusion or to enquire about channel partnership, please CLICK HERE for our Contacts page.

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NOTE TO EDITORS

About SWORD Group

The SWORD Group is an International IT Products and Services Company that was founded in December 2000 by its Chairman, Jacques MOTTARD.

Jacques’ vision is for SWORD to become the best performing global Product and Services Company by identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements whilst delivering profitability year on year and returning exceptional value to all stakeholders.

As at the end of July 2007 SWORD employed 1,700 staff across 14 countries, with a 2006 turnover of €142m.

For more information about the SWORD Group please visit www.sword-group.com or contact:

Tim Kitchener
SWORD UK
International House
1 St. Katharine’s Way
London, E1W 1UN

+44 (0) 207 553 2500
Tim.kitchener@intechsolutions.co.uk

All company and product names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. The information in this document is summary in nature and subject to change without notice.