Audi And Kapow Technologies Host Webinar On Innovative Use Of Web Data Serving To Automate Business Processes

SAN FRANCISCO - May 26, 2009 – Kapow Technologies, the leading provider of Web data services for business applications, and Audi AG will be hosting a free webinar on Thursday, May 28 at 10:00 a.m. ET that will focus on how to optimize business processes with “Modern and Flexible Portal Architectures.” Günter Rauter, IT manager, Audi AG and Anton Kramm, managing director, Valial Solutions GmBH will join Kapow’s CTO and founder, Stefan Andreasen, and VP of marketing, Ron Yu, for an interactive discussion showcasing how Audi broke down the traditional data and application access barriers and transformed its portal architecture to automate business processes across the entire organization in a matter of days rather than months – saving the company considerable resources. 

• Who:  Participants - Günter Rauter, IT manager, Audi AG; Anton H. Kramm, managing director, Valial Solutions GmBH; Stefan Andreasen, CTO and founder, Kapow Technologies; Ron Yu, VP of marketing, Kapow Technologies (Moderator)
• What:  Free webinar on “Modern and Flexible Portal Architectures”
• Where:  To register for this webinar, please visit: http://bit.ly/wW0v
• When:  Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. ET  

Audi needed a solution for quickly prototyping and automating its business processes, while gaining instant access to applications and data which were either outside of the company’s control or too complex to rewrite into reusable components. Audi turned to Kapow Technologies to tackle the integration complexities inherent in the company’s legacy data and Web assets and enable its portal infrastructure for rapid service creation. Working with Kapow, Audi was able to leverage its intranet as well as external partner portals and Web applications to create new applications and portlets in just five days versus nine months. Company executives will be on hand to outline how other businesses can maximize value from their existing portals and enterprise Web data assets to quickly create custom business views, and drive business process automation. 

About the Participants

• Günter Rauter is an IT Manager at Audi AG and is part of the Information Management Team responsible for the auto manufacturer’s Global Portal.
• Anton Kramm came to Audi in 2002 where he first carried out the construction and operation of the portal platform in the Web center area.  Since January 2008, he has been responsible for the BPM, SOA, Portals and WebSolutions unit as Managing Director at Valial Solution GmbH.
• Stefan Andreasen is the founder and CTO of Kapow Technologies. He is an entrepreneur with 20 plus years of experience in software innovation using visual programming methods for point-and-click web data access.
• Ron Yu is VP of Marketing for Kapow Technologies.  He is a Silicon Valley hi-tech marketing executive with 20 years of experience in SaaS, enterprise software and mobile telecommunications with companies such as Salesforce.com, Hyperion Solutions, Portal Software, Openwave Systems, and Oracle.

About Kapow Technologies

Kapow Technologies provides Fortune 1000 companies with industry-leading technology for accessing, enriching, and serving real-time enterprise and public Web data. The company’s flagship Kapow Web Data Server powers solutions in Web and business intelligence, portal generation, SOA/WOA enablement, and CMS content migration. The visual programming and integrated development environment (IDE) technology enables business and technical decision-makers to create innovative business applications with no coding required. Kapow currently has more than 300 customers, including AT&T, Wells Fargo, Intel, DHL, Vodafone and Audi. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. with additional offices in Denmark, Germany and the U.K. For more information, log on to www.kapowtech.com or call toll-free at 1-800-805-0828.