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06 January 2009:

Factonomy, a leading enabler of web-based business solutions, announced today it had created, designed and implemented a knowledge sharing website, for the Scottish Resilience Development Service (ScoRDS), to support the training, exercising and professional development of the civil contingencies community in Scotland.

ScoRDS is the training and development arm of the Scottish Resilience Civil Contingencies Unit.





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with the emergency services and other responder agencies to ensure that Scotland is prepared to respond to any major emergency by having effective arrangements for Integrated Emergency Management. The Factonomy designed website will enable ScoRDS to coordinate information between different groups, passing on the knowledge learnt from the management of various exercises run by different local and national agencies.

Kerry Jardine, Information Resource Manager for the Scottish Resilience Development Service, highlighted the ease of management, power and flexibility of the Framework and speed of implementation as the main reasons Factonomy secured the contract:

'Factonomy's powerful functionality enables me to manage content, data, users and documents efficiently in one integrated system,' Jardine says. 'We've been very pleased with the Factonomy Framework and have found it to be highly suitable for our needs. It has met our requirements of creating an online business application with limited resource and within a short timeframe.'

Factonomy won the contract though the public procurement process, which advertises public sector contracts across the EU.

Factonomy Sales Executive Magnus Bray said that using the Factonomy Framework allows ScoRDS access to a wide range of functionality:

'The site is as much about managing data and users and events as it is about content management,' said Bray. 'The Factonomy Framework allows ScoRDS to communicate effectively with all their external stakeholders. Typically we can design and implement a site with this level of functionality in less than six weeks.'

Factonomy was founded in 2003 by Graeme Bryce and licenses its technology framework to companies to help them reduce the time and cost it takes to develop applications. Factonomy has a broad portfolio of clients, including national and international public companies.