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TERMINALFOUR and iFactory Announce Transatlantic Parnership
TERMINALFOUR, one of the world’s leading web content management companies, and iFactory, the award-winning U.S. provider of digital media solutions, today announced a new transatlantic partnership. The agreement builds upon both companies' internationalisation strategies – iFactory's expansion into the UK and TERMINALFOUR’s growing presence in the U.S – and has already yielded a major success with one of the largest universities in the Midwest, U.S.The combination of TERMINALFOUR and iFactory’s competencies, market presence and reputations in their respective higher education markets will create a powerful partnership. The two companies’ first joint customer is the 51st university client for TERMINALFOUR, which has also worked with the University of Oxford in the UK and the University of Virginia in the U.S. Additionally, iFactory has implemented innovative digital media projects for close to sixty institutes of higher education and received an MITX Interactive Award for the past two years for its work in this industry.
TERMINALFOUR and iFactory won the contract to provide the Midwest-based university that has a student population of nearly 40,000 and a faculty of 9,000 with a holistic web development solution. As the website had become the primary research, student recruitment and communications source, a decision was reached to overhaul the entire site. The scale of the project, coupled with the breadth of specialisations required to fulfil the website objectives, prompted the university to select a partnership model proposition.
The combination of both providers’ specialist capabilities best matched the university’s communication, interactive and design expectations. TERMINALFOUR provided the web content management including workflow, publishing and functionality, while iFactory focused on the design and project management aspects of the project.
David Miller, Chief Operations Officer, TERMINALFOUR, said, “The partnership of TERMINALFOUR and iFactory is part of our broader partner strategy in the U.S. We’re committed to increasing our U.S. workforce and capitalising on growing opportunities in the higher education space. iFactory has a very compatible client base and reputation in its market, and our joint forces will result in a compelling value proposition for the .university sector.”
Jose Fossi, chief executive officer, iFactory, said “TERMINALFOUR’s history parallels our own in many ways. We’ve both spent over a decade building a loyal customer base and specialist competencies unique to the higher education sector. We are excited about leveraging their capabilities to complement our own and benefit our clients.”
About iFactory
Since 1992 iFactory has provided Web design and Web application development for more than 150 organizations in a variety of industries including publishing, higher education, healthcare, and non-profit. iFactory has developed award winning online publishing platforms for the last ten years for many of the top publishers. The company brings together design vision, engineering knowledge, and project management skills that result in the highest quality digital media solutions every time, on-time. Based in Boston, Mass., iFactory is a division of RDW Group, a leading integrated communicationsfirm. For more information, visit www.ifactory.com.