Major Prospects for @AUSTRALIA Identified at FutureGov

Oct 23, 2012

RNS Number : 2615P

@UK PLC

23 October 2012

 

Embargoed for 7:00am release

23 October 2012

   

 

@UK PLC

("@UK" or the "Company")

MAJOR PROSPECTS FOR @AUSTRALIA IDENTIFIED AT FUTUREGOV

@UK PLC (AIM:ATUK.L), the cloud eCommerce marketplace, has identified a number of highly promising business opportunities for its subsidiary, @Australia, in the Asia-Pacific region at the Futuregov Summit in Chiang Mai in Thailand.

The @UK team met with senior procurement officials in a series of workshops, round-table discussions, one-on-one meetings, and presentations. Their enthusiastic response has enabled @UK to move negotiations forward with a number of organisations, while also identifying and making contact with new prospects.

In its ninth year, Futuregov brings together officials from central government, city administration, universities and hospital management with the public sector to discuss topics, including cloud computing and managing data.

Lyn Duncan,  co-founder of @UK, commented: "This has been an eye-opening trip for @UK. It has allowed us to come face-to-face with dozens of prospects across the Asia-Pacific region, and sense their excitement about the @Australia marketplace. We've created numerous new opportunities."

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Enquiries:

@UK PLC

Ronald Duncan, Chairman

Tel: 0118 963 7000

Westhouse Securities Limited

Tom Griffiths/ Richard Johnson

Tel: 020 7601 6100

Newgate Threadneedle

Caroline Evans-Jones/ Alex White

Tel: 020 7653 9850

 

                                                                                      

@UK PLC

@UK is Europe's leading Cloud Platform with over 1 million users, which is used for Universities' and Colleges' procurement along with Local Authority, Schools and other Government and Private sector procurement.

The GeM marketplace for Universities on Colleges is the only card based national marketplace in the world and was successfully delivered for the 800 Universities and Colleges and the 680 National Suppliers, proving that Cloud Ecommerce delivers large complex projects for Government on time and budget.

Richard Benyon MP Minster for the Natural Environment, launched the @UK Green Ecommerce Marketplace back in October 2010, and it is now the largest repository of product carbon footprints in the World.

@UK was used by the National Audit Office to identify over £500 million in savings for 25% of NHS spend.  The ground breaking SpendInsight system used to identify the savings resulted in the award of 2 PhD's in artificial intelligence.

@UK delivers key government commitments of Savings Sustainability, and SME Inclusion along with support for start-ups.  @UK PLC has now created over 200,000 start up businesses and recently launched a new Cloud-Start-Up.com service to provide a complete suite of cloud business software to start-ups along with the essentials of Limited Company, Bank Account, Domain Name, Email, Ecommerce, Accounting system and membership of the @UK business club.

This has been followed by the announcement of the 2012StartUp.com campaign, which is supported by the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, the Forum of Private Business, and Software Industry Association BASDA.  The campaign aims for a 27% growth of 100,000 start up companies and growth for existing businesses.  It is a practical campaign that will result in companies being formed and growing through @UK's technology.

@UK has 6 key competitive advantages

  • SpendInsight uses unique artificial intelligence to automatically identify savings and is available on a national framework contract
  • Ecommerce Marketplace realises the savings through correct pricing vs catalogue marketplaces which are unable to support carriage, or complex pricing
  • GreenInsight provides unique sustainability analysis and
  • Hybrid Carbon Footprints enabling universal carbon footprints at a price break through of £4 per item
  • High performance cloud technology underpinning the system
  • Start up service allowing start ups to immediately start trading

These services are all immediately available to public sector bodies via the G-Cloud framework where @UK is a provider of services in all 4 lots (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and other services).

@UK is included in the Software and Computer Services Sector (9530). 

For further information please visit the @UK PLC websites

Investor Site http://www.uk-plc.net/invest

Main Site http://www.uk-plc.net

SpendInsight Site http://www.spendinsight.com

GreenInsight Site http://www.green-insight.com

Hybrid Carbon Footprint Site http://www.hybridcarbonfootprint.com

Cloud-Start-Up.com http://cstartup.com

2012StartUp.com http://www.2012Startup.com


This information is provided by RNS

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