2003-07-18: PoINT Software & Systems strengthens market presence in Japan and China
Storage specialist of Siegen, Germany, offers a Chinese and Japanese version of its PoINT Jukebox Manager software — Partner network is expanded
SIEGEN, Germany, July 17, 2003. PoINT Software & Systems now offers a Chinese and Japanese version of its PoINT Jukebox Manager. At the same time the number of distributors in the Asian market is further increased. While the specialist for optical storage systems just signed a partnership agreement with Optical Expert Co., Ltd. in Tokyo the company of Siegen has already been working together with several regional partners in China.
“The PoINT Jukebox Manager is an internationally noted management software for optical storage media. The new Japanese version will open numerous additional doors for PoINT in our country", says Hiroaki Kadono, general manager of Optical Expert, convinced of the software's success. In first test installations the Japanese software version has already demonstrated outstanding results.
“Similar to the US, Asia is an interesting growth market for us”, says Bernd Klee, PoINT’s general manager. “Especially in this region national language versions play an important role. And now we have established the prerequisites in Japan and China to continue the success we have achieved in the US. In addition PoINT Jukebox Manager is gaining increasing interest as standard storage software for corporations with branch offices worldwide.”
PoINT Software & Systems GmbH of Siegen, Germany, specializes in the development of software products and software solutions for optical storage systems and especially CD/DVD technology. Products developed by PoINT are sold by about 50 distribution partners worldwide in over 25 countries and have so far proven successful in more than 1,000,000 installations. The company’s product portfolio ranges from writing and copying CDs to professional audio recording to business critical network solutions such as for the DMS environment or in complex storage environments based on CD, DVD and MO/WORM jukeboxes. The PoINT team has been successfully operating in the international market with optical storage systems since 1985, initially as globally acting competence center for Philips and then as European project and product center for the company Digital Equipment. At Philips and Digital Equipment the PoINT team decisively initiated and continuously influenced the development and standardization of all crucial CD technologies. In 1994 this Digital Equipment sector with all its products and rights became a spin-off and was taken over by the managing employees.