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+Bluetab appointed by leading UK government procurement specialist

Bluetab has been retained by EGS Group, the UK's leading provider of e-commerce exchanges for trading with the public sector, to develop a dashboard solution to provide essential business data to the company’s management team.

As a rapidly growing technology-intensive business, EGS’ management and board need timely and accurate data to inform their decision making. Bluetab has developed a solution to provide a centralised dashboard to report key management data, including electronic trading activity, commercial and financial metrics, and operational data such as server performance and helpdesk events.

Ian Busby, CEO of EGS Group, said: "As we enter an ambitious growth phase it is absolutely critical that we can effectively track our key business metrics. Our customers are public sector authorities transacting multi-million pounds of business on our electronic marketplaces. We simply cannot afford to have inaccurate or outdated information".

"Our raw data resides in a number of separate silos and previously we relied on a series of disparate, manually compiled reports to provide a view of our KPIs. Our new dashboard allows us to accurately track business trends and rapidly identify opportunities or potential problem areas using a single information source".

Matthew Goodsall, Director at Bluetab, said: "We are delighted to be working with EGS to develop some of their key business decision tools. This engagement leverages our ability to work with our customers on both technical and strategic issues".

About EGS

EGS is the UK’s leading e-commerce provider to the Public Sector. EGS provides leading electronic marketplaces servicing Local Government including Police (IDeA:marketplace) and higher education (Unity).

The combined e-marketplaces service over 100 public sector buying organisations with a total annual spend of over £4 billion. Some £1 billion in transactions are planned to pass through these e-marketplaces during 2006, making them by far the biggest providers of e-commerce services in the public sector in the UK.

About Bluetab

 Bluetab is a technical and business consulting company with particular expertise in building state-of-the-art solutions for billing & settlement and Business Intelligence applications.

With offices in London and Madrid, Bluetab offers bespoke software, technical support and business consultancy to clients across a wide range of industry sectors including mobile telecoms, Internet services, consumer goods and finance. More information at Bluetab.net