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London, UK, March 9, 2010 -- EuroCloud UK, the fast growing industry body for SaaS and Cloud vendors is holding its third meeting on Thursday, March 18th at SAP UK headquarters near Heathrow Airport. Through its regular monthly meetings, EuroCloud UK brings together leading players to network and exchange best practice advice.   

The theme of this half day meeting is "How ISVs Make the Transition to SaaS" and it will feature expert speakers and open panel discussions.

The keynote speaker will be Chrysoula Christopoulou, Senior Director from the SAP Business ByDesign team, which is the vendor's flagship SaaS product for SMEs.

The meeting will look at SaaS partner strategy, pricing and packaging insights, as-a-service infrastructure choices and maintaining and improving customer relationships. The speakers will talk openly about their experiences in transitioning to the SaaS platform and there will be an open panel session and plenty of opportunity to network with industry peers and influencers.

The other speakers will be Ian Smith, Xceliant; John Cheney, Workbooks.com; James Elkington, Esker UK; Matt Deacon, Microsoft developer & platform group; Aidan Finn, C Infinity; Chris Purrington, CohesiveFT; Phil Wainewright, Procullux Ventures and Ian McDonald, Symbian Foundation.

This event, which runs from 12.00 noon until 6.00pm, is free to EuroCloud members and a warm welcome will be extended to potential new members, who will be able to offset the non- member meeting registration fee if they decide to join. You can register for the event at the EuroCloud events webpage.

About EuroCloud
EuroCloud (http://www.eurocloud.org/) is the first pan-European network of SaaS and cloud computing vendors and industry experts, with a presence today in more than 16 European countries.  
EuroCloud UK brings together companies engaged in cloud computing or SaaS-related business activity to network together, share best practice and build the profile of the industry.

The EuroCloud UK Board includes members from C Infinity, CohesiveFT, D2C, Esker, Mimecast, Salesforce.com, SAP, Synverse, Webroot and Procullux Ventures.

For more information please contact Phil Wainewright, Chairman Eurocloud UK, email pw@pcxvs.com