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Why update to HTML5?

HTML 5 brings your website compelling multimedia advantages, no matter which browsers or devices your customers use. Don't risk missing out on the latest multimedia designs and features to attract and retain customers. HTML 5 offers a wealth of technical improvements, including:

• Video, audio and animations that work – embedded media support so your multimedia content  works first time for all your customers.
• Elastic code = mobile ready – no problems if your customers are using their phone or tablet to view your site.
• Accessibility – HTML5 is the most accessible for your website.
• Storage  – makes web apps easier as no third-party plug-ins are needed.
• Games  – offers the ability to build games into your site.
• Geolocation support – makes your customer's location available to browser-based apps.

Does your website need a makeover? UiBS offers expert web design and development, bringing a wealth of experience to optimising web design for business. Leave the code to us - talk to UiBS now about your website – obligation free.

Sunrise Hotels Group has selected UiBScrs Central Reservation Solution, a Microsoft® .net platform system for its group of four hotels in the resort of Protaras. Sunrise Hotels replaced its Micros Fidelio 'myfidelio' online reservation system because of the exceptional benefits of UiBScrs solution offers for its clients, including:

• consolidated search results across the four Sunrise Group hotel websites
• seamless online booking in the look and feel of the group's websites
• real-time availability of accommodation online
• online confirmed reservation bookings
• secure and robust  Microsoft®  platform and Microsoft® SQL Server database technology

A Sunrise Group representative said, 'We selected the UiBScrs Microsoft® solution for the efficiency it offers our business. With real-time availability and booking, it reduces enquiries and support cost, and enables us to focus on our core business.'
UiBScrs system is simple to use, flexible and easy to implement. It streamlines reservations, making the most out of your pricing policy and turning your website into an effective sales and customer service tool.
UiBScrs allows multiple hotel staff to update reservation information centrally, efficiently  updating availability across all properties and the Internet in real-time.

Microsoft® Lync is a simple to use unified communications platform

Microsoft® Lync brings together video, audio and web conferencing,  instant messaging, chat, telephony and voice mail and Microsoft® office applications.
Benefits for your business:

• Be there without going there – Lync offers multi party HD video & content sharing, mobile and web clients, integration across Office apps and federation with Skype so your business can stay in touch and work smart  
• Communicate in real time with colleagues, customers and partners from anywhere – pre-planned or on the fly. User presence instantly shows availability and location.  Lync is available with privacy settings and customisable settings
• Telephony - Lync combines the telephony features of a traditional IP PBX with instant messaging and conferencing to improve communication and lower costs
• Communicate directly from within Microsoft® Office and Sharepoint – enables your employees to work smart without the delay and distraction of multiple applications
• Mobile productivity  - work from anywhere, and improve productivity
• Simple to use single interface
• Connected experiences - enable new ways of collaboration with voice and video using a single unified client, share ideas and keep teams in sync, reduce costs related to video conferencing, telephony and travel. Offers ability to whiteboard ideas in a conference, save the idea for later, or share applications and desktops
• Simpler to manage - reduces costs through simplification and consolidation, common and familiar tools,  integration and shared infrastructure
• Deployment flexibility  - accelerate adoption of online services, reduce IT operations costs, enable a path to unified communications
• Fits into your existing IT infrastructure

Lync offers a choice of customer deployment - private cloud, hybrid or online. Lync slots into your existing infrastructure, becoming a natural part of everyday workflow.
UiBS has implemented Lync in 14 countries. Whatever the size of your business, you can be confident dealing with UiBS, a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner.  Talk to UiBS today about your communications needs.

UiBS delivered an on-premise and Microsoft Cloud solution offering the customer: unparalleled data redundancy backed with Microsoft's 99.997% uptime,

• Microsoft Hyper-V Visualization flexibility roles
• Microsoft Office 365 Platform
• Microsoft Lync Communication
• Microsoft Licensing Delivery

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Harness the power of SharePoint and improve your business' productivity.

Reduce IT infrastructure costs and maximise your company information and knowledge. Microsoft® SharePoint is the gold standard for corporate intranets.

This dynamic intranet solution brings numerous benefits to your business:

• Access and analyse the same information and data across your company – avoid silos of information
• Familiar enhanced user experience improves productivity
• Social tools to connect your employees and share knowledge
• Connect with peers online or offline
• Powerful enterprise search scalable to millions of documents
• Advanced document management capacity and records management
• Store and sync your docs – improves control
• Metadata for user generated  and tagged content with the ability to infer metadata from content
• Workflow support
• Mobile support
• Rich media integration
• Business intelligence
• Platform for intranet, extranets and websites
• Strategically aligned to your business – create dashboards to show and update key business metrics
• Easy to use

UiBS is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Talk to our local Microsoft® solutions expert about Microsoft® SharePoint today.

The Four Seasons now with UiBS CRS Central Reservation Solution 2012 has a flexible, easy-to implement and use solution for streamlining their reservations, making the most out of their pricing policy and turning their web site into an effective sales and customer service channel.

A new online brand identity is released with Nicos Christou website www.nicoschristou.com powered by UiBS CMS 2010 including latest release of property management module.

Private cloud is an in-house cloud computing option that offers hosted services to a limited number of people from behind an organization's firewall. Enterprises are showing greater and greater interest in private clouds, as concerns about cloud computing security have led many organizations to value the dependability of an on-premise cloud option.

What is a private cloud?
It resides inside your data center (on-premise), giving IT managers complete control over the available resources. A typical private cloud relies on the security measures available within the cloud and the data center. It automates workflows and takes out human tasks like configuring routers and load balancers.

"UiBS United Business Solutions team practically proves their dynamic presence through their upward trend and projects. Inextricably linked with concepts, such as progress and effectiveness, UiBS is one of the most reliable and acknowledged companies in the technology sector in Cyprus. Their consultative role and ability to apply technology in order to assist companies in making decisions based on facts and not theories."
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Like every year, this year UiBS attended Tech.Ed Europe 2010 a premier technical education event providing the most comprehensive technical training on Microsoft’s suite of products, technologies, solutions and services.

All Delegates received deep technical content, hands-on learning experiences, and opportunities to connect with industry and Microsoft experts one-on-one.
The UiBS team had the opportunity to:

• Hear about the future of Microsoft’s products, technologies, solutions and services directly from Microsoft’s leaders
• Attend technical sessions delivered by Microsoft and industry experts
• Participate in Hands-on Labs and Technical Learning Centres designed to give practical experience with the latest tools and technologies
• Network with Microsoft and industry experts, and fellow delegates that share the same technology interests and business challenges
• Plan the features and architecture to support its product and business goals and to prepare its skills for the future

More information at http://europe.msteched.com

UiBS designed and implemented long-time partner’s www.aphroditehills.com website combining creativity with latest Microsoft web technologies to reflect Aphrodite Hills’ corporate image and meet its business objectives.
Its online Hotel, Rentals and Golf reservation modules have become increasingly popular over the years, accommodating thousands of user requests through a direct , efficient and user-friendly interface.
Worth noting is the new “Advanced” Property Search & Google Maps integration module - providing better user/guest orientation of the property location & distance in relation to the resort.

By embracing innovative, cost-effective new Microsoft technologies, Divine Advertising was able to boost productivity & accelerate sales...

• Re-evaluating & streamlining all company processes.
• Restructuring the process of all document production, editing, storage & maintenance
• Enabling the employees to work together more efficiently, effectively & faster
• Improving efficiency in all internal & external communications
• Assessing productivity and performance faster, resulting in improved client relationships.
• Outlining and identifying business performance trends

IHTF 2010 included keynote presentations and workshops delivered by immanent speakers and panellists made up of industry experts as well as room for extensive networking opportunities & generation of business.
This event once again proved to be both informative and extremely fruitful since delegates benefited from presentations & workshops on the latest strategic thinking, business model evaluation and technological advances such as CRM, PMS and RMS. These in their turn enhance presence & competitiveness in the Hospitality marketplace by enriching the quality of our products & services.

A Microsoft^® partner helps businesses evaluate, plan, deploy and manage any type of system—from a small business implementation of Windows Server 2008 R2, to supporting the largest enterprise applications built on the latest technology.

However, finding the right partner to suit their need, timeframe, and budget, can sometimes be challenging.

Microsoft^® Windows Server 2008 website now lists all certified partners filtered by region, industry, business focus and company size, so that results are matched based on individual Business & IT projects needs and requirements.

UiBS is proudly listed as a Gold Certified Windows Server 2008 partner.

OnWindows.com focuses on enterprise business-level use of the Microsoft^® Windows operating system, Windows Server System and associated software from partner companies that deliver solutions and applications on the Windows platform.

The purpose of providing visitors with this information is to help them understand the capabilities of the Windows platform in their industry.

The site focuses on the financial, communications, manufacturing and retail services industries.

Users can search the site's directory to find the right Microsoft partner to meet their enterprise technology needs by company name, country, industry or solution area.

Visit & see us on http://www.onwindows.com

Join us at the 18th annual Cyprus Hotel Association Products & Services Exhibition, which will be held at Hilton Park on Thursday the 18th of February, 2010.

We are eager to present our latest products & solutions for the Hospitality Industry, as well as answer any questions you might have about your business needs.

You may visit us at stand 53 from 9:00 to 16:00.

See you there!

UiBS is co-sponsoring a premier recital evening with acclaimed Baritone Constantinos Yiannoudes
“From the Lights of New York”- at Rialto Theatre this Friday 19th of February, 2009 from 20:30-22:00. 

Visit the Rialto Theatre website for recital & ticket information here

Digital Ship Cyprus is one of the world's largest maritime communications, IT and technical conferences, held annually in Cyprus and organised jointly with the Cyprus Shipping Chamber ICT Subcommittee. It washeld for the 7th time in February 2010.

UiBS attended the Digital Ship Cyprus 2010 at St Raphael Hotel & Resort at stand 16 & the event was considered to be a great success.

View conference agenda information.
View exhibition floorplan.

Leptos Estates agrees to migrate entire E-Business Infrastructure from PHP MySql to UiBS CMS 2010 - in Microsoft^® .NET and SQL 2008 environment.

All domains are now hosted & managed by UiBS:
http://www.leptosestates.com
http://www.leptosestates.de
http://www.leptosestates.ru

UiBS announces the signing of a service agreement with Cyprus leader in advertising, "Divine" Advertising.
“Divine” is an award-winning advertising agency in Cyprus that maintains clients on a world-wide basis. With over 14 years of success and a history of countless effective campaigns, they represent brands such as wd40, bison, Electrolux, proton, laz-boy, chino and service some of the islands most successful business's.

UiBS will provide Managed IT, Microsoft Licensing Delivery & Consultancy services to Divine Advertising.

UiBS launched successfully the new Chesterfiled Group website. The Chesterfield Group provides a full range of trustee, and corporate advisory, formation and management services and invites enquiries. Their brand new web site is solely based on UiBS CMS. You can visit the new Chesterfield Group web site at http://www.chesterfield-group.com/

UiBS is featured on Microsoft Global Print Partner Guide Retail Speak 2010 page 96. 
This guide will be availaible at all Microsoft Global events such as Teched, Dynamics & other Partner Global Events free of charge for 100,000 users or more.

Click here to visit the onWindows Partners UiBS page

Retailspeak, Microsoft’s customer publication for the retail industry, provides retail technology and business executives with a digest of the key challenges in the industry, and the technology solutions that can address them.

Featured topics range from store systems and managing the supply chain through to business intelligence and enterprise collaboration. Retailspeak also provides a round-up of industry news, case studies, commentary, interviews and analysis. In addition to our team of in-house journalists, experts from all areas of the industry provide their insight on the retail industry.

The magazine is published every quarter.

The Retailspeak Partner Guide provides a single source of information about a wide selection of partners operating in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. In addition, it includes commentary articles from a selection of our partners and profiles of technology in action within the retail industry.

Microsoft® congratulates our organization in achieving the Desktop Platform Competency! Microsoft® Competencies allows the promotion of our specific capabilities to customers through the use of tailored logos and a wide range of customer-facing directories. Because our organization’s competency achievement, UiBS now has access to resources and tools that can help our customers drive profitability for their business.

Gold Certified Partners represent the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft® technologies, and have the closest working relationship with Microsoft®.

At this level, Gold Partners have access to the resources and support they need to stand out in the marketplace, including a technical services coordinator, access to the Partner Knowledge Base, priority listing in Microsoft® directories, and other top-level benefits.

View UiBS' microsite in the Microsoft® partners' marketplace.