Imagitech News
Driving Test Success sales breach the 2.5m barrier
Imagitech’s continuing commitment to driver education and road safety has now been further underlined by the success of Driving Test Success. Over 2.5m copies have now been distributed and sold through Imagitech’s partner Focus Multimedia. Dr Mike Bews said: “We are delighted with the continuing commercial success that our product achieves. This would not have been possible without our partner Focus Multimedia and our own commitment to relevant content, user friendliness, robustness and customer service. The product is a credit to our staff and their attention to detail and quality. Driving Test Success is not only the best selling product in the market — it is simply the best learning aid available.” Driving Test Success has always been created with the learner in mind — and equipping the new drivers with skills that would help them in their whole motoring career — not just to pass the test. This is why apart from all the official content, Driving Test Success contains hints and explanations, a wealth of additional learning material, innovative ways of interacting with the content, and a test, designed to help the learner understand better where strengths and weaknesses may lie.
New Imagitech Fast Track® products launched
Based on Imagitech Fast Track® technology a number of new exciting products have now been launched. The aim of Imagitech’s technology is to create customised learning products, designed to assist learners to pass tests for qualifications. The content, testing methodology, marking and evaluation criteria as well as the associated material can all easily be customised for any application designed as a learning application. Imagitech’s most recent additions to the product portfolio include “Life in the UK” (help to pass the Life in the UK Citizenship test), “Official Theory Test Ireland” (for learner drivers in Ireland) and “Topscore” (for learner drivers in South Africa).
Dr Mike Bews, Director of Imagitech, said: “The Imagitech Fast Track® methodology and technology is a very flexible yet powerful and proven environment to base new learning products on. We are delighted to see the recent additions of products to our portfolio, and to see how well the product works in the new markets. The technology is well proven by millions of users through our flagship product Driving Test Success — and these new products show that we can adapt this technology to very different learning contexts.”
Press Release: Roadmarque® becomes part of RiskAssist
A little under 12 months since launch, Roadmarque® has established itself as the ideal tool for organisations that are looking to stay “health and safety compliant” in relation to their occupational road risk.
Adding to the ongoing success that Roadmarque® has seen since its launch, the most recent version of Roadmarque® is now used as a key element of ING Car Lease’s Risk Assist programme.
Psychometric Test for Qualified Drivers
Imagitech has now completed a research project in collaboration with G. Jerzembek (Cardiff Institute of Society Health and Ethics (CISHE) at Cardiff University). The results are being published at the upcoming conference of the British Psychological Society (BPS) held in April 2008 in Dublin with the title “Predicting risk in occupational drivers: adopting a broader perspective”. The research produced a questionnaire which forms part of the Roadmarque® Driver Risk Assessment and helps to assess the attitude of each driver - and thereby contributes to the overall risk assessment.
Dr Mike Bews said: “This original research paper assists us in assessing qualified drivers and in establishing ourselves at the forefront of Driver Assessment. Together with the other assessments accessible through Roadmarque® this will deepen the understanding of driver risk and show how the various risk elements correlate with one another. It is vitally important that the tools used to assess the road-risk of qualified drivers are based on solid and defensible foundations.”
The research confirms that a unified approach for the assessment of drivers from different driver groups (HGV, Delivery, Occasional, Sales representatives) is oversimplified. The assessment carried out using the questionnaire as developed during the research project takes into account the type of driver.
Driving Test Success scoops yet another award
Imagitech’s flagship Driver Training product scoops yet another award. This ELSPA Gold Award for Driving Test Success All Tests 2007 is the latest in a series of awards received over the past few years. The new version of the product has again been the undisputed number 1 seller over the past six months and in particular during the Christmas period. Driving Test Success is continuing to help more learners than ever to pass their Driving Test and to become safer drivers. Dr Mike Bews said: “These awards show that our training material continues to reach large numbers of learner drivers and thereby contributes greatly to Road Safety in the UK. Our aim has always been to supply the learners not just with the skills to pass first time, but to teach them Road Safety elements in general, helping them to become safer drivers from the start. This can never work in isolation, but the fact that Driving Instructors up and down the country recommend and endorse our package shows the value of the material in conjunction with face to face instruction.”
Driving Test Success - well over 2 million copies sold
Our flagship product for learner drivers has confirmed itself to be firmly in the top spot in the UK, having now sold well over 2 million copies.
Our latest offering has been expanded to include all the new elements stipulated by the DSA, helping learners to become safer, more confident and better educated drivers. We have added a huge number of new hazard perception clips and improved an already excellent user interface. Driving Test Success, All Tests remains the most comprehensive and user-friendly package available. Other new additions include the unique "learn on the move" feature that allows learners to revise whilst travelling.
Dr Mike Bews, Director of Imagitech, said: “Our ongoing efforts to improve the learning experience provided by Driving Test Success help to ensure that we reach a large percentage of all the learner drivers in the UK. Driving Test Success is a complete, user friendly and invaluable training aid for any learner driver. It is designed to help learners become safe drivers and we are proud that through our reach we make a significant contribution to road safety.”
Driving Test Success is available from all good software retailers and online through Amazon, Play and Focus Multimedia. Or click here to download the Express Edition.
Roadmarque® now available
Building on the success of Driving Test Success, Imagitech has now launched Roadmarque® - a unique, comprehensive and cost-effective driver assessment and training solution. Roadmarque® is designed to help employers attain and maintain legal compliance by ensuring that all drivers are risk-assessed and appropriately licensed for their driving duties. The system helps an employer to identify those drivers that are at greatest risk and therefore facilitates the targeting of training resources in the most efficient and cost effective direction.
Dr Mike Bews, Director of Imagitech, said: “The unique combination of assessments and training offered by our Roadmarque system, makes it the most effective and efficient system available in the UK today. We are delighted to extend our contribution to road safety from the training of learners to the assessment and training of qualified drivers - especially those exposed to greatest risk, via their work. We also look forward to working with employers to help them to reduce their legal exposure by adopting policies that will drive down collisions - markedly reducing related costs. Changes in legislation extend the workplace and the employer’s liability in terms of Health and Safety to the vehicle, when it is being driven for work purposes. As a result, all employers have a duty to assess and manage the risk of employees that are required to drive in connection with work - regardless of the distance or nature of those journeys. The legislation is as pertinent to long distance lorry drivers as it is to the employee that occasionally drives to the post office. Roadmarque® assists employers to carry out this risk assessment through a simple, convenient and complete driver assessment.”
Imagitech has already signed up its first partner for Roadmarque® as well as a number of customers. Further partners will be recruited over the coming months.
For more information about Roadmarque® please visit www.roadmarque.com.
KLM Cityhopper chooses EFPAC®
Alongside other premium European Airlines and a leading Aircraft Engine maintenance provider, KLM Cityhopper has now chosen to use EFPAC® to assist with their engine fleet management. This latest announcement illustrates the growing success enjoyed by EFPAC® in the marketplace - due to the quality of the software product and the close collaboration between EFPAC Ltd (a fully owned subsidiary of TES Aviation Group) and Imagitech Ltd.
Imagitech wins yet another ELSPA Award
After winning a Platinum ELSPA and a Silver ELSPA Award for Driving Test Success Theory and Driving Test Success Hazard Perception in 2005, Imagitech has now received another Silver ELSPA Award in February 2007 for Driving Test Success All Tests, only a few months after the product’s launch. This Award underlines the continuing success and market leading position of our Learner Driver product range.
Dr Mike Bews, Director of Imagitech, said: “Our products are designed with two main aims: To help learner drivers to pass their driving theory tests and to improve road safety by delivering comprehensive, easy to use and effective training materials. Winning these awards illustrates our ongoing and continuing success in both of these areas - and we are delighted with this recognition.”
The Driving Test Success range is the UK’s best selling Driving Test software. The packages are published by Focus Multimedia and available throughout the UK via many retail outlets - including WHSmiths, Morrison’s, Tesco, Staples, PC World and Amazon.
For further information about Driving Test Success please click here or contact Imagitech on +44 (0)845 053 0331 or Focus Multimedia on +44 (0)1889 570 156.
EFPAC® enjoys continued growth in the market place
Imagitech continues to work as the technical development and consultancy arm of EFPAC Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of TES Aviation Ltd. The EFPAC® software is enjoying ongoing success in the aviation field around the globe, with recently acquired customers including three major European Airlines. This is in addition to the existing wide EFPAC® customer base which includes Aeromexico, Willis Lease Finance, Monarch, Iceland Air and WestJet.
Dr Mike Bews, Director of Imagitech, said: “We are delighted to see the continued success of EFPAC®. The software is highly specialised and requires excellent engineering and software development skills. All of the end users very much appreciate the benefits that they derive from its use, as well as the quality of the software and ongoing support services provided. This success is testament to the strong commitment and excellent work provided by everyone involved.”
This continued success underlines the ongoing commitment that Imagitech has within this specialist arena and the high quality of the development service that we provide to our customers. As a software system EFPAC® is continually developed to enhance the benefit derived from its use and to ensure that it is kept up to date with the latest technological developments in the aviation and IT fields.
R-Fit™ - the latest versions of this specialist package hit the market
Working in collaboration with Optical Reference Systems Ltd (specialists in the monitoring of the Thin Film Coating Process), Imagitech has launched the latest version of its highly specialised software system R-Fit™, allowing the mathematical modelling and analysis of data, captured through the use of interferometry during the thin film growth process (see also here - R-Fit Product details).
This development work requires a thorough understanding of the underlying physics and mathematical models, as well as their implementation in a user-friendly package. Users of the package do not require any mathematical specialist knowledge, nor any software specialist knowledge to gain a clear understanding of the growth process from the numerical data obtained from the logging equipment.
R-Fit™ is being promoted throughout the world through a network of partners, in particular the commissioning company: Optical Reference Systems (www.ors-ltd.com). The software has been reviewed favourably by a large number of specialists in the field and continues to be developed to keep it up to date with changes in the methods used in this rapidly developing field.
This latest version allows real time in-situ monitoring and modelling of multi-wafer growth processes as well as post-growth analysis. For further details see R-Fit v4 and R-Fit Live.