Corel Painter X - New Product
New Corel® Painter™ X is the world’s most powerful Natural- Media® painting and illustration software - features unique digital brushes, art materials and textures that mirror the look and feel of their traditional counterparts. It delivers an impressive array of new features: New RealBristle™ Painting System heightens the responsiveness of the brush; Enhanced Photo-Painting System; Windows Vista Support; New Universal Mixer palette; and New composition tools.

Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional
Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional, formerly Macromedia Breeze is a scalable, rapid e-Learning and web conferencing solution. Training materials are created in PowerPoint where animations, audio and video can be added and published to the web where it can be viewed in any Flash enabled web browser. The product can also be used for web conferencing, enabling live online meetings or training sessions. The online meetings include audio; video; desktop and application sharing; and VOIP. The meetings may be recorded for later viewing.

Microsoft Windows Vista Business Upgrade
New features includes Windows Aero interface with Desktop Search, Search folders, and live icons in Document Explorer, taskbar thumbnails, Flip and Flip 3D to navigate and find your documents more easily. User Account Control, Windows Defender and parental controls for increased security. Gadgets and the Sidebar for better productivity. Performance is improved with technologies such as SuperFetch for faster loading of apps, ReadyDrive for fast booting from a hybrid drive or ReadyBoost for using your memory stick to add memory.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom – New Product
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the perfect complement to Adobe Photoshop software. Use Lightroom to quickly transfer raw photo data from camera to computer, manage and adjust large volumes of photographs, and present photographs in print, slide shows, or on the web. Adjustments you make to images in Lightroom won’t alter the original data, whether you’re working on a JPEG, TIFF, DNG, or camera raw file.Switch to Photoshop at any time to perform detailed editing, and then return to Lightroom to see the changes automatically applied in the Library.

Autodesk Maya 8.5 - New Version
Award-winning Autodesk Maya software is a powerful, integrated 3D modelling, animation, effects and rendering solution. With new features quickly direct and control cloth in entirely new ways with Maya nCloth. Use Python, one of the two Maya embedded scripting languages, to manipulate, customise and automate Maya. Maya 8.5 also delivers Intel-based Macintosh computer support and productivity-enhancing tools that let you complete complex animation tasks faster.

Microsoft Forefront Security – New Products
The Microsoft Forefront comprehensive line of security products provides greater protection and control through integration with your existing IT infrastructure and through simplified deployment, management, and analysis. Forefront is a solution that helps provide protection for the client operating system, application servers, and the network edge.

Microsoft Forefront Client Security - Provides unified malware protection for desktops, laptops and server operating systems.

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server - helps protect your exchange messaging environments from viruses, worms, and spam.

Microsoft Forefront for SharePoint - helps protect Microsoft SharePoint collaboration environments by eliminating documents containing malicious code, confidential information, and inappropriate content.

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 – is an integrated edge security gateway that helps protect your IT environment from Internet-based threats while providing your users fast and secure remote access to applications and data.

Sony School Collections - New Product
Sony has announced two new School Collections to inspire creative expression in the classroom with its award-winning line of products for digital video, music, DVD and audio production.

Primary School Collection* – £350.00 ex VAT
Includes: Super Duper Music Looper, ACID XMC and Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software. For up to 100 users.

Secondary School Collection* – £750.00 ex VAT
Includes: Sound Forge Audio Studio, ACID Music Studio, Vegas Movie Studio+DVD
Platinum Edition and ACID XMC. For up to 350 users.

*Schools can purchase Sony Media software using their eLearning Credits.

Adobe Robohelp 6 – New Version
Adobe RoboHelp 6 software empowers technical communicators, help authoring professionals, and web developers to build, manage, and publish engaging content for help systems for desktop and web applications and standalone knowledge bases, websites, and intranets. Quickly single-source help content in a range of popular output formats, work in your preferred authoring environment, leverage existing content and multimedia assets, customise content for different formats and purposes, and collaborate with others on the same project.

Ulead PhotoImpact 12 – New Version
Ulead PhotoImpact 12 is a complete image editing suite for managing, editing and sharing all your digital images. Handy ExpressFix mode makes common photo enhancements fast and easy. Choose from a full range of effects and powerful yet easy-to use tools for outstanding results. Create and share photo projects, calendars, prints or slideshows, on disc, Web or email.

Symantec Antivirus Enterprise Edition 10.2 – New Version
Symantec AntiVirus™ Enterprise Edition provides proactive threat protection for client systems, content filtering, spam prevention for groupware servers and gateways, and malware protection for workstations and servers. New Features for 10.2 include Client Firewall and Vulnerability based protection provides proactive protection against crimeware and complex threats. Also provides Microsoft® Windows Vista™ antivirus support.

Google Sketchup Pro 6 – New Offering
Google SketchUp Pro 6 is a powerful, intuitive 3D modeling software that allows designers and planners to explore, communicate and present complex design concepts. The intelligent drawing system makes it easy to create and modify models, while the import/export capability gives you the flexibility and functionality required in a professional workflow. With new features, create 3D models from photographs, match existing models to background photos, render sketchy effects and fog and mark your models with 3D text, logos and watermarks.

Parallels Desktop for Mac – New Offering
Parallels Desktop for Mac is the first solution for Intel-Macs that gives you the flexibility of running Windows on a Mac OS X simultaneously without rebooting. You can use Parallels Desktop for Mac on any Intel-powered iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, & Mac Pro Towers.

DocsAlive – New Offering
DocsAlive is an all-in-one multimedia content creation software product, which allows the user to create video, audio, animation, text, drawing, and pictures in one document without the need for any other software.

SmartDraw 2007 – New Offering
SmartDraw is a complete graphic design solution created for non-designers. SmartDraw delivers professional-looking results right from the start. In minutes anyone can create clear, compelling graphics. SmartDraw’s point-and-click drawing method makes it easy for anyone familiar with basic computer tasks to easily create professional-quality business graphics. It all begins with a professionally designed SmartTemplate.

Minitab 15 – New Version
Minitab Statistical Software gives you the tools you need to analyse your data and make informed decisions about how to improve your business. Its power and ease of use make it the leading package used for quality improvement and statistics education worldwide. Minitab 15 contains nearly 50 enhancements with minimal changes to the interface, making it simple for current users to access all the new features.