Jam Warehouse Announces Verification of BrandDirector™ for Windows Server 2003

Jam Warehouse, a South African enterprise software vendor, announced today that its Consumer Goods Product Lifecycle Management Suite, BrandDirector™, has been verified for Windows Server 2003 by VeriTest®, a division of Lionbridge Technologies (NASDAQ: Liox) and the only lab authorized by Microsoft to independently test applications for the “Certified for Windows Server 2003” program. BrandDirector™ reduces the administration around consumer goods new product development project tracking and approvals, and generate process performance metrics to drive continuous improvement.

Forecasting widespread implementation of Windows Server 2003 across enterprises by the end of this year, leading IT industry analysts have hailed Windows Server 2003 as an evolution over Windows 2000, citing new and improved functionality, performance, security and stability in this infrastructure platform designed to support connected applications, networks, and XML Web services.

Compliance with Microsoft’s stringent standards for Windows Server 2003 verification confirms BrandDirector™’s seamless integration with the next-generation server platform and technology, ensuring that the application is secure, available, scalable and reliable.

Brand owners face significant and growing challenges in managing brands and new products consistently. BrandDirector™ is a web-based enterprise software application that meets these challenges head-on, allowing the management of brand-related materials and new product development projects across organisations and geographies with ease. BrandDirector™ helps organisations drive benefits in cost reduction, consistency of brand execution, time to market and improved supplier management.

About Jam Warehouse

Jam Warehouse is an innovative enterprise software application vendor based in Cape Town, South Africa. It specialises in applications for Marketing and Business Process Management. It entered the offshore development arena two years ago and has already implemented a major brand management system at Tesco Stores, and also built the core reprographics and production workflow system for Kestrel, one of the UK’s biggest reprographics houses.

Its Open Source document management system, originally built for the South African Medical Research Council, is currently being taken up at the rate of 600 copies per month by organisations in sectors including professional services, government, manufacturing, biotechnology and aerospace.