Pipeson will participate at this year’s Plastic Pipes Conference (PPXVIII) in Berlin together with our partner IPT. We invite you to come check out our latest software developments and get a sneak peak of the new test program functionality that we are developing in collaboration with IPT. Learn how this new functionality takes our Pipe Data Flow solution to the next level.

At PPXVIII we will also tell you all about the new Approval Management functionality that we have been developing in close collaboration with Kiwa over the past two years. Currently we are also developing new services pertaining to approval management that will be available exclusively for Kiwa clients and we will share information about that at the conference. We invite you to have a sit down with Pipeson and Marco Mekes at Kiwa to learn more.

Pipeson will attend the following events during 2016. We hope to get a chance to meet with many of our customers and partners at the:

• ASTM F17 in San Antonio, April 11-14th.
• Plastic Pipes XVIII in Berlin, September 12-14th.
• K 2016 in Düsseldorf, October 19-26th.
• ASTM F17 in Orlando, November 14-17th.

I am very proud to announce that as of September this year Pipeson’s solutions are available as cloud-based services. For you as a customer it means that the initial implementation will be a lot easier than it was before, as it will not affect your local IT-environment. It also means that it will be easier to be a customer over time, as Pipeson will handle all of the central system updates, maintenance and backups for you.

But can this new technology really be trusted? The short answer is yes. Cloud services are well inside the box these days and adhere to ISO/IEC 27018 that sets the standard for the protection of information in the cloud. And as a matter of fact, most of us have already been using services such as cloud storage; webmail and Office 365 for quite some time, and cloud-based services will continue to become more important for our lives and businesses. In fact, Forbes predicts that 57% of the business’ databases and 60% of their applications will be hosted on a cloud platform in two years.

Currently, Microsoft and IBM are the two leading suppliers of cloud infrastructure and we have chosen Microsoft’s Azure Cloud platform, hosted in Microsoft datacenters, as their service was a better fit for the needs of both our clients and us. It is a high availability solution that delivers excellent performance and it has the highest possible level of security.

If you are not already a Pipeson customer, then this is the time to take the plunge. It has never been this easy to get started. And if you already are a Pipeson customer, who wants to enjoy the benefits of the Pipeson cloud solution, we will help you migrate to the cloud at no charge. Our goal is that 80% of Pipeson applications and databases are hosted in the cloud by the end of 2016. Just give us a call or send an e-mail and we’ll make it happen.

Daniel Lindqvist