Wednesday, 28 April 2010, the 1st Appway Partner Meet-up took place in Gate 68, the new-modeled meeting rooms of Numcom Software’s headquarters at Hardturmstrasse 68 in Zurich, Switzerland. 25 guests from 11 different Partner companies came to meet the Appbirds, to hear about Numcom’s latest news and Partner’s projects featuring Appway.

The air buzzed with chatter and welcome greetings, at 3 p.m. last Wednesday at our headquarters in Zurich downtown. More than 25 people in business suits stood relaxed around the bistro tables, sipping orange juice and sparkling water and wondering about what they had to expect of the afternoon’s program.

The event began with the partners introducing themselves in a short prepared 2-minutes presentation about their company and the role of Appway, our Business Solution, within their strategy. Our Sales Director, René Hürlimann, guided the speakers skillfully through their task and continued with the welcoming of Paco Hauser, who is acting as our new COO and Head of Professional Services since the beginning of the month. After some well received words of Paco, René yielded the floor for our CTO and Head of R&D, Oliver Brupbacher, who made a short and concise overview of the newest Appway features to come – and gained spontaneous applause for his abstract. As last speaker before the coffee break, Philip Schoch, one of our Consultants, gave an online show case of the recently and successfully gone live project for one of our international clients - Banque Louis.

After the delicious strawberry tarts in the coffee break, the attendees were refreshed enough to enjoy the second part of the afternoon beginning with IBM’s show case. Markus Spörri and Alexander Karg presented IBM’s OTMS integration with Appway and a joined project at an international Private Bank. René Hürlimann swiftly took over with an outlook on Numcom’s Partner and Support Strategy. And then it was time for Hanspeter Wolf, our CEO, to open Skype (due to the ash cloud) for an on-line session live from New York City. His Numcom vision update, Hanspeter put the cherry on top of this successful first Numcom Partner Meet-up.

Speaking of cherries: the apéro riche at Shpères subsequent to the event was a success by itself.. Thank you all for coming, we definitively are going to repeat this!