Amsterdam, 11am: Marina logs on to Evermore’s Campfire chat room and begins the daily Scrum catch-up. As the project manager, it’s her task to make sure everyone knows what they’re doing, and when.

Macau, South China, 3pm: Stelios, founder of Evermore New Media, away on business, receives a message from Marina asking for clarification on some of the day’s issues. Immediately, Stelios gets to work.

Athens, 7pm: Alexandros refines the latest designs and discusses with the IamExpat Team to ensure that the IamExpat brand identity is well incorporated in and clearly reflected on the website.

Amsterdam, 10pm: Panos logs on, approves the day’s work, and switches out the lights in the office.

The wheels never stop turning at IamExpat.nl — a successful collaboration between Projekt 45, G Design Studio and Evermore New Media. Designed by expats, for expats, the site was envisioned by four business students when they met in Amsterdam and brought to life over the course of the next year, using talents from all around the world.

IamExpat.nl serves the needs of the Netherlands’ thriving expatriate community acting as a vital hub and bulletin board for its 3.500 English-speaking, active members.

Power under the hood – Evermore New Media’s role in the development of IamExpat.nl

Evermore’s role in this project was to convert the designs provided by G Design Studio into a fully functional website. While Evermore offers design services too, its role in this project was to incorporate cutting-edge technology, social media integration and cross-platform discussion forums, enabling connectivity with services such as Facebook and Twitter.

All in all, Evermore built a scalable, stable website with plenty of power under the hood, with the kind of clear, clean user interface and minimalist design that benefits a successful, feature packed website that’s easy-to-use and to navigate. Behind the scenes, Evermore’s development team produced a site capable of handling multiple databases, daily uploads of content, user forums and an ever-growing base of content and traffic. Using collaborative tools of the trade such as BaseCamp and the Scrum methodology, Evermore were able to work in collaboration with teams and individuals around the world to deliver a complicated, custom website using CakePHP, an open source web application framework, to create a resilent content management system.

It’s hard work building, maintaining and developing a site the size of IamExpat.nl. That’s where Marina, Evermore’s project manager, comes in. Her role is to organize the team and ensure work gets done on-schedule. Using the Agile approach, the team is able to work on the project incrementally, while still working on the same goal, deliver critical and strategically important functionality first, and ensure that communication is always the top priority. Evermore has used the same methodology to produce other large websites to ensure work gets done — but working with so many people across the world has been Marina’s biggest challenge and an extremely fun adventure at the same time!

IamExpat.nl – created by expats, for expats.

IamExpat.nl was established by four friends who came to the Netherlands for different reasons but found the same reasons to work together. Starting out as students at the Rotterdam School of Management and Tilburg University, they decided to demonstrate their entrepreneurial side and give something back to the country they’d fallen in love with. As they graduated and found work across the globe, they invested their capital in forming the first version of IamExpat.nl, which has gone from strength to strength since then. Now, with the launch of the new version, IamExpat.nl is ready to become the most popular media platform for internationals in the Netherlands and even further..

Using the latest technology, the team has created an easy-to-use, intuitive, user-friendly website that enables customisable user profiles, commenting options, as well as social media integration. It was designed based on feedback from its members, who were consulted at every step of the design process.

Redesigning the site was based on the team’s decision to provide content on a daily basis – in other words, making sure iamexpat.nl never gets old. But building a more active site required a substantial update to the site’s framework. Evermore’s role was to create a reliable website capable of handling a diverse and active user base and a regularly updated database of content, as well as converting G Design Studio’s innovative design into a working website using the CakePHP framework.

Working with people across the globe, the Evermore team’s development, project management and coding skills helped to ensure the future success of IamExpat.nl, giving expats in the Netherlands an online community that will continue to grow and thrive in the years to come.

Following a period of sustained growth that has seen us move from strength to strength in the IT sector, Evermore New Media have announced an important development in the evolution of their company. Due to exponential growth in the demand for cloud computing services in the region, Evermore’s IT services will now be headquartered in Nassau, Bahamas, and operate under the name Cloud Carib Ltd.

This rationalization of Evermore’s business will enable Evermore to go on providing high quality digital solutions such as web design and development, while also offering dedicated IT solutions and cloud computing services under the Cloud Carib Ltd. brand name, with both organizations offering mutual support and sharing resources.

The market for cloud computing is expanding rapidly: from $14bn in 2010 to an estimated $56bn – $160bn (Source: IDC and Merril Lynch) by 2014. Evermore New Media and Cloud Carib Ltd. believe the Caribbean is excellently placed to take advantage of this growing market, due to the geographical proximity of the US mainland, relatively low costs, and thriving IT sector fuelled by the substantial expat community.

Cloud Carib Ltd. has already secured professional partner status with VMware in the Bahamas, and Silver ProPartner status with Veeam, and is currently expanding its strategic partnerships.

Cloud computing offers a wide range of advantages to organizations of all sizes, from enabling collaborative working and remote working to reducing a company’s carbon footprint and driving greater efficiency in IT.

Evermore will continue to provide cutting-edge new media services to its global clientele, while Cloud Carib Ltd. will focus on the growing sector of Cloud Computing, through established partnerships with VMware and other leading organizations in the field.

This significant move reflects Evermore’s – and now Cloud Carib’s – confidence in both the market for cloud computing, and in the bright future of the Caribbean IT sector.

July 19, 2011 – Evermore New Media has become the latest digital agency authorized to resell Google Apps™ communication and collaboration tools.

Instrumental in launching a number of successful projects for organizations like IFS Hellas SA, the Hellenic Army, Athens Olympic Games official retailer Venue Retailing SA, and IamExpat.nl, the Netherlands online media platform for the expat community, Evermore New Media has announced it has become an authorized reseller of the Google Apps™ suite of communication and collaboration tools.

Evermore is dedicated to delivering unique cost savings to its clients via every possible method, averaging a reduction in costs between 40-60% for clients whose email was previously self-hosted.

Google Apps will deliver cost savings for Evermore customers

Being a Google Apps reseller enables Evermore to reduce costs even further while delivering a vastly improved service via plug-and-play integration with Google’s suite of productivity apps.

Says director Stelios Xeroudakis, “We’ll be able to provide better solutions and reduce our costs, passing on the benefits to our customers. It’s a win-win situation for everyone.”

Cloud computing delivers more efficient productivity solutions.

He went on to say: “Cloud computing is changing the way the web works. Google is committed to leadership in the field. There’s never been a better time to switch.”

Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations of any size – all hosted by Google to streamline setup, minimize maintenance, and reduce IT costs. With Gmail (including Google email security, powered by Postini), Google Calendar, and integrated IM, users can stay connected and work together with ease. And, using Google Docs and Google Sites, which include word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and website creation tools, they can share files and collaborate in real-time, keeping versions organized and
available wherever and whenever users work.

Cloud computing delivers environmental benefits

The benefits are not only financial. Evermore is proud to support sustainable development, and Google’s data centers are among the most efficient in the world. Cloud computing “lowers carbon footprint 30% or more” according to a recent report by Microsoft, Accenture and WSP Environment & Energy.

The Google Apps Reseller Program

The Google Apps Reseller program includes resellers, consultants and independent software vendors that sell, service and customize Google Apps for Business for theircustomers. Evermore received training, support and deployment services from Google, as well as access to APIs for integrating Google Apps into their customers’ business operations. Evermore is able to retain a close relationship with their customers in order to provide additional service and support. The businesses receiving Google Apps will benefit from the additional attention to their specific
needs.

For more information on Evermore’s recent work please visit http://www.evermore.eu and to learn more about the Google Apps Reseller program, go to http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/resellers/

About Evermore
Evermore New Media, founded in 2004, is a full-service digital agency specializing in solutions for Small Businesses. Evermore New Media – Providing cutting edge web solutions across the globe. For more information on Evermore, visit http://www.evermore.eu

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