Last week we had opportunity to be one of 34 companies selected from 300+ around Europe to attend the Innovate Europe masterclass in Zaragoza Spain.

http://www.innovate-events.com/2009/04/master-class-program-highlights-best-practices-from-business-leaders/

The event was an amazing experience for us and we got to network and meet with so many people of incredible calibre.

We’d like to thank Chris and Mike especially for organizing the event and bringing so many european start ups together with so much incredible advice.

Yesterday I heard the sad news that unfortunately Coghead will be ceasing operations. At least the technology has not gone to waste and many of the team will be moving to SAP along with it.

I’m personally very sorry to see them go as they really did blaze a trail in this space and massively raise awareness across the media.

I’ve spoken with a handful of current coghead users who were interested in moving to Iceberg as not only are our pricing models similar or less but the overall model of objects with a visual workflow behind it will allow easy translation of apps from coghead over to Iceberg.

As sorry as I am to see Coghead go I’m even more sorry that some companies will be left hanging so we are offering free migration and consultancy to any Coghead customers who wish to migrate their applications over to Iceberg.

Users will have the choice of signing up for our hosted onDemand service or opting to run their applications from their own server. But no matter what happens we will never leave users with just an empty backup, our software will always be available for customers to download along with their backups.

Please email Cmigration@getIceberg.com to sign up or enquire about the offer.

I wish all involved with Coghead the best in the future and hope I can shake the hands of those of made it happen some day.

Last week we were covered in the print edition of The Economist

From the article

“WANT to become a programmer in 20 minutes? With the program from Iceberg, a start-up, you can. Just open the “getting started wizard” and pick the type of application, say “project management”. Type in its “business objects”—things like “client”, “team” and “members”—and tell the tool how they relate to each other. Then design some input forms and define the process for getting a project done. Another click and you are ready to go.”

You can read the whole story in full here :

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12411908

Sarah Perez at Read Write Web has written an amazing review of the new release, check it out here!

New Features in Iceberg 2.1

Watch this quick video of an application being made painlessly in a couple of minutes

1. Getting started wizard walks users through getting started and building their first application. Users can now make custom applications just by answering simple questions about their business and needs
2. More flexible interface allows you integrate dashboards right into your applications to put everything a user needs right at their fingertips
3. Mashup with the new embed feature. You can now embed snippets from any site or widget right into your forms and applications and power them with Iceberg data.
4. o For example you can have a map shown of a leads address on a map

New applications

1. Design House Project Manager
2. A project management application for any design or development agency. Manage projects, get intelligent estimates based on history, interact with clients, view charts. Plus this it is fully integrated with our first killer app - full email integration, get emails, send emails, create tasks by email – PLUS iceberg keeps track of all your emails on a project automatically
3. Bug Tracker
4. Manage the full workflow for a helpdesk or service organization, with multiple levels and stages of workflow this is a very powerful tool.

Recent News

1. Just this week Iceberg broke the 2000 downloads mark
2. We got a really cool report of a high school in Scotland is using Iceberg to teach kids how to program

About Iceberg

Iceberg is a Dublin, Ireland, company founded by Wayne and Robert Byrne (no relation). The developers formed a company after high school and began developing Iceberg out of frustration with the state of software. Now when you plan an application it’s done, and done better – iceberg adds enterprise features like scheduling, workflow and tracking automatically.
Our mission is to create a language of intelligence by empowering everyone to turn their knowledge and requirements into living applications.

Iceberg (www.geticeberg.com) announced on April 28th the release of their version 2. The Iceberg platform is designed for building high-quality, dynamic business software. The company now offers its industry changing technology via a free download from Iceberg 2. The Web platform essentially allows anyone to create business class applications in minutes rather than days - without the need for code of any kind. This latest release is significant because, apart from the additional features of version 2, it is free for up to 5 users. Non-profits and academic organizations can now utilize the power of Iceberg for free for any size project.

Creating powerful business solutions is now a task anyone can accomplish with Iceberg’s “no code needed” solution to virtually any application. With Iceberg, users can accomplish in hours what programmers might take months to do. Iceberg also performs better as a platform by automatically adding enterprise features including web services, permissions and workflow.

With Iceberg You Can Create:

• An ERP application for thousands of users
• A simple CRM tool for a small business
• A blogger+AdWords/twitter mashup
• and everything in between

Main Iceberg 2 Features

Web services - Call any web service with Iceberg and access Iceberg from external web services.

Application download - Instantly download applications from geticeberg.com

Power - Super powerful group, role and profile based permissions system allows almost any controls to be implemented in minutes.

Extensions - Developers can easily extend the Iceberg platform by contributing their own functions to Iceberg and sharing them on geticeberg.com.

Iceberg 2 is software evolved into drag-and-drop/form fill simplicity. A brand new website, a library of functional applications and refined user controls are just some of the enhancements to the platform. Users can share and/or sell their applications on the Iceberg Application Directory as well.The free download and install takes less than 5 minutes and the application can be skinned to the user’s taste too.

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