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Lior ofer

Lior Ofer is the Director of Global Support at the software company Ex Libris. He is responsible for the service organization worldwide.
Until 2002 Lior was the Director of Business Development ? Professional services at ECI Telecom and before that he was director of Customer Services at ECI
Between 1988 and 1996 Lior held various positions at Scitex, including:
* Managing the support organization in the Pacific Rim, which served over 500 customers and 20 agents,
* Regional Support Manager at STA, responsible for the service operation in southeast USA,
* Installation Manager
The Ex Libris Group is a worldwide supplier of software solutions and related services for libraries and information centers. The Company’s product line has been customized to serve users’ functional and linguistic needs in more than 20 languages. Staff resources currently consist of more than 280 employees worldwide, with a core development team that includes both highly qualified librarians and expert software engineers. Ex Libris is represented in 24 countries across six continents. Local distributors provide sales, project management, and support operations.

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The ExScite Thomas Metzeler has founded Arados Consulting in December 2006, operating from Brussels.
Thomas is a professional IT consultant specialized in the area of data management, identity management and information lifecycle management and architects solutions to meet the complex strategic and technical challenges of today’s data and storage management.
Thomas joined STE as application engineer in 1996, after working for several years at Druma, a Scitex reseller in Austria. He then moved to Israel in 2000 where was the technical product manager for the server and data-management products. After Creo had merged with Scitex, he moved back to Europe and started as a storage management consultant for several large enterprises, primarily in Central and Northern-Europe. Since December 2006 he is the general manager of Arados Consulting and provides his expertise and experience in consultancy engagement.
Arados Consulting provides consultancy in the following areas: Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) , Storage Management, Storage Infrastructure Strategy and Architecture, Storage Consolidation, Business Continuance, Audits.
Arados partners with the best providers of data storage infrastructure and of data security content, such as Hitachi Data Systems and Sun Microsystems.

Scitex/Kodak Israel is relocating to Petach Tikva

Agfa chose Magicomm (Littrell) to develop a campaign

2007 PODi Best Practices Award

to the ExScite Rick Littrel, founder and president of Magicomm

Amesbury, MA – FEBRUARY 19, 2007 – PODi, the Digital Printing Initiative, has presented Magicomm with its 2007 Best Practices Award in the Relevant Marketing category for an innovative multi-touch targeted direct mail campaign developed for their client Agfa Graphics, an international supplier of integrated prepress solutions to the printing industry. Agfa chose Magicomm to develop a campaign to increase market awareness and generate qualified leads for their ThermoFuse offset plate line. The 120 day campaign included 5 key components and drew an impressive response rate of 5.67%, which exceeded the projected goals by 360%.

Magicomm’s proven leadership in integrated variable data marketing campaigns continues to gain industry recognition for their approach – and for delivering bottom line results for their client’s. “We are thrilled to receive this prestigious award from PODi,” said Rick Littrell, President and CMO of Magicomm. “As early adopters of digital variable data printing (VDP) technologies, we take pride in our ability to create effective and successful multi-touch campaigns for our clients. Our use of leading edge tools and strategies allows us to communicate our client’s message with improved relevance, which increases results.”
PODi’s annual Best Practices international competition is judged by a panel of industry experts in the field of digital printing. Awards were chosen based on relevance in copy, imagery, and offer, in combination with the overall creativity of the campaign.

Mike Ross’ digital art

The ExScite Mike Ross has Emailed us a link to his latest art from San Diego CA.

Click here to watch a video of a creative dynamic rendition of a similar picture.

You can see more of Mike’s digital art at his personal website

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Dror Haroush is the Chief of Operations at Marketbee technology; California based company that provides Product Lifecycle Management and Portfolio Management solutions that supports the enterprise product development processes. In his role Dror is responsible for the company business and technology development, clients? services and field operations activities. He is also involved in all sales and consulting activities within the company.
Before joining Marketbee Dror was a Vice President of professional services at Noosh Inc. A California based cross-enterprise e-business software solutions Company that focused on enterprise supply chain. Before that Dror held several positions in R&D management and Services management during his six years with Scitex in Israel and Europe, between 1993 and 1999.. In his last position, as part of the management team of Scitex digital printing division, he managed the division?s International Services groups in Europe, North America and Japan.
Marketbee of San Mateo CA, is a part of Eshbel Technologies, an enterprise software solution provider and represents its solutions in the U.S. Marketbee applies Eshbel’s domain expertise and technology to provide integrated software management solutions for commercial and industrial business organizations worldwide and to support the unique needs of research and development organizations. Eshbel Technologies is a provider of Enterprise Resource Management solutions.

Startup Zlango received a serious boost today, in the form of $12 million funding by two leading venture capital funds, Benchmark and Accel. The company’s valuation for the purposes of its financing round could not be elucidated.

In the past Zlango, which was founded by the ExScite Yoav Lorch, raised a million and a half dollars from private and angel investors.

Founded in 2003, Zlango developed a whole new language of icons for short messaging by cellphone. The language consists of more than 200 icons, each of which stands for a word and which can together create sentences.

Zlango uses Java or small Brew, which works with most cellphones that operate on GSM or CDMA networks. ZMS (Zlango) messages are transferred over SMS or cellular Internet infrastructure using a designated server.

Lorch said the money will be used to advance use of Zlango to many environments. “We are operating along three avenues,” he said. “On the mobile avenue, we want as many people as possible to download the Zlango application and use it on their cellphone. We also want as many cellular carriers as possible to market the language. Another channel we want to develop Zlango around, is the web.” It could be customized into a private language, he adds.

Maarten Strack founds Tight Digital Marketing & Print.

After leaving STE in 1997, Maarten Strack founded Tight Digital Marketing & Print. Believe it or not, the company is already 10 years young.

The company is well known for its quality digital printing in Belgium serving the major ad-agencies in the country. Tight Digital services include digital photography, prepress layout and quality digital printing.
The image here reflects the spirit of the company as it celebrates its first decade.
The ExScite community wishes Maarten and his colleagues many more years of success.

SCITEX at Wikipedia (first entry 2006)

Since early 2006, several people have been contributing and editing the subject: SCITEX at Wikipedia.

Here are some interesting quotes from the fairly extensive article:

“…Scitex was founded in 1968 by Efraim Arazi, Scitex’s president, and CEO, Arie Rosenfeld joined the company at that time, established Scitex’s European subsidiary headquarters in Brussels in 1974, and went on to become COO (1987) and CEO (1988).

Scitex’s initial products included a computer based design system for the textile industry and various military projects.

Scitex literally stunned the printing industry in 1979 by introducing the minicomputer-based (HP1000 utilizing a proprietary OS) turnkey Response 300 color prepress system. Instantly beating it’s two main competitors (Hell Graphic Systems and Crosfield Composition Systems Inc.) to market, thereby filling an enormous need, and serving a labor-intensive, and costly niche–gathering graphic elements, correcting color separations, then preparing photographic film of the resulting page to be run on a press. The company’s sales increased and technology improved every year for the next eight and by 1984 sales reached $104 million. Scitex also developed a sister product line, the Response 280 for use by the mapping industry.

In 1995 former Scitex employees established the ExScite website- http://wwww.exscite.net…”

“…Interesting Side Notes, 1991:
Two instances of unusual and unexpected publicity arrived at Scitex’s doorstep in 1991. The first occurred amidst the Gulf War, when schools shut down throughout Israel. Although a Scud missile landed 1,000 yards from company headquarters, Scitex continued business as usual, and hired 150 teachers to set up makeshift classrooms in a sealed bomb shelter on corporate grounds so parents could still come to work. The second surfaced near the end of the year, in November, when British tycoon Robert Maxwell died mysteriously at sea. His holdings in Scitex were considerable, amounting to some 27 percent of the company stock…”

you can find much more of this by logging into: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scitex .
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The ExScite Asher Leshem founded VPS more than a decade ago. Prior to establishing VPS, Asher worked at Orbotech Ltd. for nine years, serving as the Chief Engineer at the company?s CCD image acquisition group.
Asher also served as Senior Engineer at Scitex Corporation’s Opto-mechanical Division (plotters and scanners), for about nine years, and was in charge of developing complicated analog electro-optic systems for Scitex’s digital printing and scanning products.
Established in 1995 by Asher Leshem, VPS of Petach Tikva Israel provides complete design solutions for complicated analog and digital electro-optical systems. The company also offers comprehensive solutions for various security systems. The VPS team designs optimal system solutions for complex applications, See sample of recent projects here.
VPS’ clientele include leading companies such as: Orbotech, Applied Materials, Indigo, Scitex, El-Op, NICE, Motorola , IAI (Israeli Aircraft Industries), Kulick & Sofa Intex, Combact, Denx, Envision, Robomatics, Elpak, Racoom, Cognitense, Fruitonics, AVT, Spectral Diagnostics, Romidot, Sagita, and numerous others.