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Press releases and news for 2006.

Post-graduate planning student sponsorship competition (2006/7): announcement of winner

[8 Dec 2006] IDOX group , owners and operators of the UKPlanning Managed Service, launched a competition offering one lucky post-graduate planning student undertaking an RTPI accredited course £4,000 towards education and/or living costs, as well as free membership of the IDOX Information Service for one year.

IDOX group launches competition to sponsor a post-graduate planning student for a year

[7 Sep 2006] IDOX group , operators of the UKPlanning Managed Service, are offering one lucky post-graduate planning student undertaking an RTPI accredited course £4,000 towards education and/or living costs, in a unique competition designed to get people thinking about the future of online planning services.

IDOX group set to release new e-Forms product

[27 Jun 2006] IDOX group has today announced its intention to release a new e-Forms product which will be targeted at systems integrators and resellers. Whilst the Server component has been in use for 12 months, the Builder component will be available from Monday 17 July 2006.

IDOX Information Service Beats Google

[23 Mar 2006] The IDOX Information Service recently had a student on site to undertake some research to assess the quality and extent of the output of the IDOX Information Service against Google. He looked at the relevance of the search results, how up-to-date and authoritative the materials found were, and how easy it was to estimate the relevance before actually opening the document.

Is Local Government embracing Knowledge Management?

[13 Feb 2006] The IDOX Information Service has today published a report on a study conducted for, and on behalf of, its Members entitled "Embracing Knowledge Management – a Local Government study'.

IDOX group achieves ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System Standard

[3 Feb 2006] IDOX has always understood that, while business success is a primary driver for the company, customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and environmental responsibility are also important fundamentals for the business. IDOX is pleased to announce therefore, that it has now been accredited with the ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System Standard which, together with its ISO 9001 and Investor in People accreditations, demonstrates that IDOX is well on its way to becoming a Total Quality firm.

IDOX group publishes a marketing guide for e-Planning Services

[31 Jan 2006] The latest Pendleton Survey of e-Planning services has yielded much greater improvements than ever before – many more Councils have achieved all twenty-one points. A large proportion of authorities will therefore be turning their attentions to the take-up of e-Planning Services in 2006.