November 2008
TeamBinder Selected for Wiggins Island Coal Terminal
QA Software’s flagship product TeamBinder has been selected by the Gladstone
Ports Corporation to provide its online project collaboration solution for
the $A3.5 billion Wiggins Island Coal Terminal. After reviewing several
systems, including QA Software’s LAN based document management system QDMS,
TeamBinder was selected by GPC to service the Wiggins Island Coal Terminal.
Located near Gladstone in Queensland, Australia, construction of the first
greenfield coal terminal in the region in over 20 years will take place over
3 stages, the first due for completion in 2012.
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October 2008
TeamBinder Enters New Territory, in West Africa
After an extensive evaluation process Guinea Alumina Corporation Ltd. has
selected TeamBinder as the collaborative document control solution for one
of the largest greenfield alumina refineries in the world. TeamBinder was
selected to facilitate the exchange of the large number of documents and
correspondence the project would generate. Companies involved in the alumina
refinery project’s joint venture, located in the West African country of
Guinea, include BHP Billiton, Global Alumina International Ltd, Dubai
Aluminium Company Limited, and Mubadala Development Company PJSC.
With the project already in feasibility stage and critical path
infrastructure and site work underway, TeamBinder will allow for
up-to-the-minute collaboration between offices in Conakry, Sangaredi, London
& Brisbane.
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September 2008
TeamBinder Version 3.81 has arrived!
The ability to add contacts on the fly, an enhanced document review summary,
a mail preview pane, and the ability to revise documents in bulk have been
keenly sought after by many users.
Thanks to customer suggestions these enhancements, plus over 30 others, have
been delivered with this upgrade. User feedback is an integral part of
TeamBinder’s on-going advancements.
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June 2008
TeamBinder project wins Urban Design Awards
QA Software would like to congratulate Wycombe Group on their success in
winning the Australian Institute of Building, ‘Excellence in Building Award,
2008’ in the $50 - $100 million category of Commercial Construction
(Victorian chapter) for the International Centre and Business Building (ICBB)
at Deakin University's Burwood campus. TeamBinder was chosen in 2004 to be
the project collaboration solution for the ICBB project which has also had
success at the City of Whitehorse Urban Design Awards, walking away with 3
top awards - Best New Institutional Building, Best Landscape Design
(Commercial) and the Environmental Sustainability Award.
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May
2008
QA
Software wins Tender for Changi Airport Upgrade
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has awarded a tender
for the implementation of QA Software’s flagship product TeamBinder project
collaboration solution for the $A 375 million upgrade of Changi Airport
Terminal 1.
The TeamBinder solution was selected after stringent tender criteria to meet
the needs of the CAAS with tenderers from the UK, Singapore and two from
Australia all bidding for the contract.
Construction of the Terminal 1 upgrade started May and is expected to be
completed by mid 2011.
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Faster, Enhanced Defect Manager
IDMS
Defect Manager version 2.0 released. It has a much faster and streamlined
interface with PCs and QA Software’s TeamBinder Document Collaboration
System Companies such as Brookfield Multiplex Constructions which use IDMS
globally will benefit from this release which will now make it possible to
capture, send Defect Lists and receive confirmation of fixes to/from
contractors faster than ever before.
This has been made possible with the latest Microsoft .Net version 3.5
technology available to QA Software Pty Ltd who have been a Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner for over three years.
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March 2008
TeamBinder Version 3.7 Rollout. New Features requested by users like the automatic loading of the preferred “Management Summary”, setting of default filters, ability to use wildcards in searches, enhancements to automatic notifications and the selective release of redline markups are some of many new benefits of this upgrade. Also, the extremely popular XL-Upload utility for Bulk upload of documents, now supports user specified custom fields for the Document Register.
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Feb
2008
Leading Malaysian Contractor selects QDMS and QTRAK. as corporate solution for project document control. After extensive evaluation of available systems on the market, Zelan Bhd, one of Malaysia’s leading EPC Contractors has selected QA Software’s QDMS and QTRAK
Systems for project document management on their future projects. Two primary factors in their decision were the close fit QDMS and QTRAK provided to the existing business process at Zelan, and depth of experience and understanding of the industry demonstrated by QA Software during the evaluation process.
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October 2007
New
Office in
Dallas
, USA
Due to the increasing demand for QA Software products in
USA, a new office has been opened in
Dallas,
Texas
. Customers in the
U.S.
are now able to obtain localized support, training and consultation. “We
are continuing to grow in global markets and look forward to providing a higher level of service to our North American
customers” said
QA Software General Manager Russell Mortimer.
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New TeamBinder
Project in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
Ruwais Fertilizer Industries is using TeamBinder as their project collaboration
solution on the Urea De-bottlenecking Project. The Abu Dhabi-based company chose
TeamBinder to facilitate the exchange of information between project members in
U.A.E., Pakistan and Switzerland.
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September 2007
QA Software Welcomes New Staff to Melbourne Office
The QA Software team is growing to support our ever-expanding customer
base. We’re pleased to welcome new team members to several departments:
Client Relations, Administration, Training and Support. Welcome Allison,
Dida, Joe, Victor, and Rodney!
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Microsoft Gold Certification
QA Software, was upgraded to Gold Certified status in February 2006 in the
Microsoft Partner Program recognizing QA’s expertise and total impact in the
technology marketplace. As a Gold Certified partner, QA has demonstrated
expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet customers’
needs. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners receive a rich set of benefits,
including access, training and support, giving them a competitive advantage in
the marketplace. QA also attained Microsoft ‘Designed for Windows Mobile’
certification for the popular IDMS (inspection and defect management application
used with a PDA).
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