Augmentum to Showcase Windows Vista(TM) New Capabilities for Engaging User
Experiences
SHANGHAI, China and FOSTER CITY, Calif., Dec. 14 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Augmentum, a value-added software development outsourcing services provider
operating in Asia and the US, today announced that Wayne Hom, Augmentum CTO,
will demonstrate a Vista-based interactive application for Hong Kong's
booming real estate industry, developed in conjunction with Centaline, a
leading local estate agency company in Hong Kong with over 2,600 staff
working in over 180 different branches, at Microsoft's Hong Kong business
launch of the 2007 Windows Vista, Microsoft Office system, and Microsoft
Exchange Server 2007.
"Vista represents Microsoft's first significant advance to the user
experience and the programming model of that user experience since the
release of Windows 95," says Wayne Hom, Augmentum CTO. "Now it is possible
for a small team of corporate developers to quickly develop the kind of video
game quality experiences that used to take large teams of hard core
developers, working with very low level programming abstractions, much longer
to create. Augmentum recognized Vista's capability early on and invested in
creating integrated design and development teams and methodologies to exploit
this new model to deliver a new generation of immersive, engaging, and
interactive, enterprise and consumer applications."
Mr. Hom will be speaking at the sold-out afternoon session
entitled, "Building Differentiated User Experiences with Windows Vista" as
well as at a CIO invitation-only luncheon the same day. Earlier this year,
Augmentum was awarded "Best .Net Consultant Partner" 2006, at the Microsoft
Hong Kong Annual Channel Kick-Off. Microsoft established their award program
to recognize partners who consistently deliver the implementation expertise
and experience required in today's enterprise software deployments.
About Augmentum
Augmentum offers value-added offshore software development services to
its customers worldwide. Augmentum engineers augment their clients' teams as
an extension, utilizing leading edge development tools and technologies, as
well as proven processes, to create commercial-quality software. The
management team has decades of collective experience outsourcing commercial
software and solutions. Augmentum, Inc. is headquartered in Shanghai and
Beijing in China and in Foster City, California. The company has grown to
800 people in China out of 850 worldwide in three years since its founding
and won the inaugural Red Herring Asia Top 100 award in 2005. For more
information, please visit http://www.augmentum.com or call (650) 578-9221.
