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Stb and Bestuurderscentrum.nl decide to work together

Houten, March 6th, 2012 – Administrators place greater and greater importance on the ability to offer digital services to members. A suitable setup of the organization and the needed ICT is instrumental to that end. This is the idea behind Bestuurderscentrum.nl and Stb Automatisering & Advies bv's decision to start working together. As of March 2012, Stb is Bestuurderscentrum.nl's knowledge partner in the field of ICT.

Higher expectations from ICT
"Administrators will have to take digital steps within their own organizations," explains Bestuurderscentrum manager Mariette van Wingerden. "Associations are demanding more and more from their ICT environments. Another important aspect is that the fast-paced evolution the ICT field increases the vulnerability of member organizations in that aspect. Social media is also gaining momentum. This is reason enough to join forces with Stb as our ICT knowledge partner for our members. Stb is a leading ICT company that focuses on associations and umbrella organizations."

Aim of the cooperation

The aim of this cooperation is for Bestuurderscentrum to create a vade mecum for member organization administrators regarding their ICT questions.
"We bring our own expertise into this cooperation," says Stb account manager Jochem Rupert. "We can see the good reputation that Bestuurderscentrum's services enjoy on the market. Combined with our 20-year ICT experience on the market, this will help build a good ICT consultancy platform."

Stb Automatisering & Advies profile
Stb delivers a complete solution for member organizations regarding their ICT issues. The Stb Members solution addresses the automation of the core process, the creation of online cooperation relations between members, and the setting up of member portals. Social media has an important part to play here.

The organization is financially sound, has been around for 20 years, and currently employs over 45 people.

Bestuurderscentrum profile
Bestuurderscentrum is a knowledge and networking organization of, for, and by chairpersons, managers, and supervisors of professional sector organizations, trade unions, member organizations, and foundations. It offers organization management support by providing information, an administration register, a product and service register, and (free) job advertising. It also organizes network meetings such as the Meet-and-Lunch event, the Administrators' Golfing Event, and workshops such as "The Art of Administration".

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Ambius North America chooses Stb

Houten, September 27, 2011 – Following the example of Ambius Europe, Ambius North America has also signed a contract with Stb Automatisering & Advies for the implementation of the Stb CRM system. The system is going to be deployed in 40 North-American offices, to be used by the marketing, sales, pre-sales, and after-sales staff.

Ambius North America, a division of Rentokil Initial PLC, is implementing the new system in all its 40 offices spread throughout the United States and Canada. Stb has already implemented the Stb CRM system in the countries belonging to Ambius's European organization.

Synergy
"The broad applicability of this solution to the sales and after-sales activity, combined with its flexibility, was a crucial argument for our choice. Other important criteria for choosing Stb were their knowledge of our business, their international experience, and their proven practical approach. Stb has proved to be a very innovative and, most of all, a very reliable partner for our European business," said Ambius Finance Director Trisha Haughey.

"This choice offers many synergy advantages between our North American and European operations and generates a significant degree of consistency in the sales and after-sales processes on both continents," Haughey went on to say.

"We are very happy with this contract. It confirms the robust functionality of the package, Stb's good relationship with Ambius, and the added value our organization can bring to them," said Stb Account Director Jochem Rupert.

"This contract is in line with Stb's strategy to continue to expand internationally," added Stb General Manager Rob Goijen.

About Stb Automatisering & Advies
Stb Automatisering & Advies (www.stb.nl) provides sector-oriented business software for service, care, and government organizations. Stb's vision is to deliver standard packages with the flexibility of tailored work. The packages are available both as on-premises and cloud-based (SAAS) software. In its 19 years of existence to date, Stb has built a network of over 300 clients. The company employs 40 people in the Netherlands and Romania.

About Ambius
Ambius (www.ambius.com) is an international company and a part of Rentokil Initial PLC. The company is the world's largest supplier of interior plants, which form its core business. It creates a fascinating workplace environment for companies, retailers, hotels, and care institutions. This is achieved, among other things, by indoor plants, artwork, and fresh flowers and fruits. Ambius also supplies workplace air fresheners (Microfresh). Their latest development involves vertical gardens. These gardens are designed, installed, and fully maintained there. Ultimately, Ambius creates an environment that stimulates all the five senses.

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Stb develops a human trafficking tracking system

Houten, September 2010. Advisor and ERP and CRM software provider Stb Automatisering en Advies has developed a tracking system for managing human trafficking victims. The software suite is to be delivered to the Regional Information and Expertise Centre (RIEC) in Rotterdam. The software is based on the Human Trafficking Taskforce manual. In that document from February 2009, Dutch municipalities made agreements regarding the shared approach to human trafficking.

The suite contains tools based on which any service or instance that comes across signals of human trafficking can decide how to record these signals, as well as when and under what circumstances they can exchange such signals with other services. Privacy issues play an important part in this process.

The suite supports the efficient exchange of information among all stakeholders such as the police, justice department, and social workers. In this case, it is about cooperation in the field of criminal and administrative law, as well as social care.

The implementation of the system is expected to reduce human trafficking. The provider: "The human trafficking tracking system is part of a modular and integrated system that also offers other care facilities." The software company added that municipalities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Schiedam are currently using modules that help with the person- or group-related approach regarding multiple offenders, problem youth, problem families, as well as the follow-up of ex-convicts and radicalists.

The software is based on a person-oriented approach: an individual approach is planned for suspects or victims. The plan can focus on criminal law measures, on social care, or a combination of these.

Stb was founded in the early 90's and currently employs forty people. These are software developers, implementation advisors, project managers, as well as research and development professionals.

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Stb launches the first product based on a new development methodology

Houten, October 9, 2007. Today, Stb is launching the first product based on its new "COBRAIN" development concept: Stb CRM.

COBRAIN is a development methodology created by Stb that makes it possible to deliver standard up-to-date applications with no compromise as to flexibility or applicability. Applications are thus built using no more than 3 layers:

• The 1^st layer contains the core modules. These core modules contain those functionalities that are identical for each client.

• The 2^nd layer contains the sector-specific modules. These modules seamlessly add sector-specific functionalities to the core layer modules.

• The 3^rd layer contains the individual modules. These modules add tailored functionalities to the modules at the core layer and the sector layer.

"Since Stb was established in 1992, we have been advertising our ability to deliver affordable tailored solutions based on our software." R&D Manager Rutger Slager explains, "The flexibility that characterizes us and our software is thus an important factor that sets us apart on the market."  We are going to take that even further in the future. That is why we have chosen the Servoy development environment. It enables us to offer a wider range of functionalities, broad tailoring capabilities, multilingual support, Internet-based solutions, further integration with web services and SaaS (Software as a Service).

The COBRAIN methodology makes sure that each layer can be maintained separately, that updates can be rolled out proactively, and that modules can be added easily."

Stb CRM is the first product launched based on COBRAIN. It is a complete CRM application delivering the following standard features: integration with Microsoft Word, DirectMail, document management, a very powerful search function (Query Builder), reporting capabilities, and interaction with Google Maps. IMAP synchronization with all popular email solutions, such as Outlook/Exchange, GroupWise and Mail from Apple, is also included as standard.

Just like all future product lines, Stb CRM is what we call multi-multi. This designates multi-chain, multi-office, multi-currency, and multi-language features (simultaneously available), also supporting complex languages such as Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese.

As the first CRM supplier in the Netherlands, Stb gives you the unique option of purchasing its CRM platform as a service (SaaS) through a central server, allowing you to subsequently run the software on your own server.

The use of JAVA makes the Stb software multi-OS compatible, so that both the client and the server can run on all popular operating systems such as Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, as well as Solaris, HP/Unix, and even IBM mainframes. In its standard form, the Stb software runs on an included Sybase database, but it can also run directly on existing Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server or IBM DB/2 databases.

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The Amsterdam municipality chooses Stb for keeping an eye on at-risk youth

Houten, November 2006. The Amsterdam municipality approached software company Stb Automatisering & Advies BV (Stb) with the request of improving the information exchange between all the parties involved in dealing with juveniles-at-risk. The system developed by Stb enables the authorities involved to share information regarding these young people's personal circumstances and the decisions concerning the approach and guidance of this at-risk group. The purpose, within the framework of the municipal Youth and Safety policy, is to prevent at-risk 12-24-year-olds to slip into the criminal circuit.