Raining Data Germany have returned from a very successful CeBIT 2007. The organisers reported an increase in visitors from all over the world and an increased level of business achieved by exhibitors, and we were delighted with the number of genuine contacts and new customers committing to Omnis we managed to acquire at the show.

Talking to prospects at the show, once again the strongest arguments for choosing Omnis were the Omnis Web Client technology and the Cross-platform development, but in several other cases also the strong and flexible database connectivity. We were also pleased to be joined on our booth by several Omnis partners, who are featured below.

The overall mood among exhibitors and visitors alike was very encouraging and shows there is an upturn in business IT spending, as well as significant growth in the technology and consumer electronics markets in general. This all bodes well for software developers and consultants for the months ahead.

Node BV and Fred Brinkman Consultancy: Long term Omnis developer Fred Brinkman provides tailor-made applications and Omnis programming consultancy. Dirk Verstraten was there representing Node BV, a Dutch software development and consultancy company. For more info: www.node.nl

Master Object Consultancy: was showing their MasterStudio framework, containing a rich collection of reusable components for building Omnis Studio applications and used by several Omnis developers. They also provide PlanBoard, a graphical scheduling and planning component. For more info: www.masterobject.com

VDA Informatiebeheersing: have some great tools for converting Omnis 7 applications to Studio which are now being used successfully by many other Omnis developers. If you want to convert your Omnis 'Classic' app, you should contact VDA. More info: www.vda.nl

MainSkill Technologies: specialise in products and services for IT security, including enterprise-wide security to on-site inspections for security assessment, and on-line training. For more info: www.mainskill-technologies.com

About CeBIT: The CeBIT trade fair in Hannover is the largest IT trade fair in the world with over 6000 exhibitors and 600,000 visitors from more than 50 countries. For more information about the show, please go to: www.cebit.de, or for more info about Omnis or next year's CeBIT (yes, we have already booked our place), please contact Birgit Jaeger: ge.sales@rainingdata.com

We have recently added several new Omnis success stories (Case studies) to the Omnis web site, and we have just released a new version of our Case Study book which contains over 20 of the most recent stories. We would like to highlight some of the newest ones here: they are from totally different market areas, including travel, online purchase, accounting, and servicing, and all feature very interesting Omnis applications. Together with the new ones, we have recently updated some of the existing stories to bring them completely up-to-date with the latest developments in the product.

Online Travel  based in Zurich, has built up an impressive suite of applications for the travel market, supporting all aspects of the travel business including CRM for operators and agents, online booking for holiday packages, hotel and flight reservations, back-office support, and so on. They are in fact the market leader for travel agency software in Switzerland. Read the story

comTeam  ElectronicPartner is Europe's leading alliance of consumer electronics and electrical retailers, representing over 6000 dealers and retailers in 12 countries. They asked their own IT and system house, comTeam, to build a solution to help its members get timely product and price information. The result is a very powerful and easy to use Omnis web client solution, hosted at www.bestbuyonline.de (members only). Read the story

Kälte + Shop Service  Located in South-west Germany, Kälte + Shop Service GmbH handles the servicing of refrigeration, climate control, and shop display equipment for many retailers across Germany, including all maintenance and repair work in over 1,100 Shell fuelling stations. They have built an Omnis solution, for desktops and web access, that manages all servicing, purchase orders and warranties. Read the story

JustSoftware  has been supplying accounting and general management software to SMEs for many years, first with a system called Cockpit, written in Omnis 7, and more recently a package called Dave, which was developed in Omnis Studio using FrontBase as the back-end SQL database. Both packages are truly cross-platform running under Mac OS X, Windows as well as Linux. Read the story

Infomega Race Results are a long-term Omnis developer based in Athens and a specialist in motorsport solutions. Their most recent application iRally has been selected to manage all race results for the 2007 World Enduro Championship (WEC) which is a form of off-road motorcycle sport whereby stages are raced against the clock. The system collects the data during the event and provides live results via SMS and directly to a dedicated web site (www.wec-live.com). Read the story

Go to our Success Stories web page to read all these great new Omnis success stories and many others.