AUGUST 2010:
Dreamtech Opened a New Office in Singapore
"An office in Singapore will strengthen our expansion in Asia" commented Helena Athoussaki, Dreamtech's acting CEO, during the opening ceremony. "As one of Asia’s foremost financial centres, Singapore offers good investment opportunities and has a well-developed financial infrastructure. The Maritime sector is a major industry in the country, making it possible to aggressively expand our business".
Andre Sion has been appointed as Asia Area Manager.


MAY 2010:
DREAMTECH welcomes ICAP Shipping & INTERMODAL Shipbrokers
DREAMTECH have recently installed their state-of-the-art shipbroking and messaging software, COMPASSng, into two major shipbroking offices, ICAP Shipping and Intermodal Shipbrokers.

At ICAP Shipping, COMPASSng is now fully operational with the Sale & Purchase and Research desks, providing both a unifying communication platform and a powerful, shared, database. The Head of ICAP Shipping Sale & Purchase department, Greig Macpherson noted: “Switching to COMPASSng has improved the efficiency of the daily tasks we do as brokers, as well as improving our ability to globally share the enormous amount of information generated by a company of our size“. The Head of Research department James Leake added: “Adoption of COMPASSng allows greater leverage of market intelligence both within and between departments“. COMPASSng is operational in ICAP Shipping headquarters in London as well as its offices in Germany and China.

Intermodal Shipbrokers is the most recent company to adopt COMPASSng, both at its headquarters in Greece as well as in China. Intermodal’s Newbuildings Director, Theodore Ntalakos commented: "COMPASSng is a very powerful software with limitless capabilities. We are happy to use this cutting edge technology and do our work more efficiently. Equally important is the support that DREAMTECH is offering; we are very satisfied with their customer support."

Brokers on COMPASSng make use of the powerful search and matching features of COMPASSng database, coupled with data retrieval capabilities from mobile devices, such as BlackBerry and iPhones.

DREAMTECH has become one of the leading global vendors of shipping software. DREAMTECH currently services clients in Greece, the UK, the USA, Germany, Norway, Cyprus, Dubai, India, China and Singapore.

APRIL 2010:
Posidonia 2010 Exhibition, Stand 562
DREAMTECH Software Ltd is pleased to announce our presence at the Posidonia 2010 Exhibition which will take place 07-11 June 2010. Posidonia is one of the leading exhibitions in the maritime industry attracting visitors from all over the world.

At Posidonia 2010, DREAMTECH will be launching its brand new COMPASSng Auto-Update module for Dry and Tanker Chartering desks. The new module enables COMPASSng to extract vessel positions and cargo orders from incoming emails and automatically update the database. The service has a very high success rate, rendering COMPASSng a unique software tool which allows shipbroking companies keep their own local database of vessels and cargoes up to date in a much simpler and cost-effective way than in the past.

We are looking forward to meeting with you at Stand Nr 562!

MAY 2009:
Ten Years Anniversary
This month, DREAMTECH celebrates 10 years in the marine software industry, providing solutions to shipping companies around the world. We would like to thank our clients for their continuing loyalty over the years and the feedback they provide to help us make COMPASSng a better tool for all its users.

We are happy to welcome Pacmar Shipping Pte and Batroun Shipbroking, marking the anniversary of our foundation. We are pleased to announce that we have expanded our client base to more locations across the globe. COMPASSng is now installed in: Piraeus, London, New York, Mumbai, New Delhi, Dubai, Singapore and Limassol.


The latest version of COMPASSng sports the following new features:

• Integrated MSN and Yahoo! Instant Messaging functionality capable of sending Vessel particulars, Address book details and attachments to anyone on your contact list. All past conversations can be saved and fully searched from within COMPASSng. New skins have been added to change the look and feel of COMPASSng according to each individual’s preference.
• New Fixture screen available for charterers as well as new customisable Areas and Ranges (grouping several areas together) to make finding appropriate vessels for respective cargoes more efficient.
• New Calendar features allow users to share their tasks with colleagues helping office synergy.
• More than 200 Vessel subtypes added to make your searches more specific and faster. 
  

JUNE 2008:
Dreamtech steals march on Strategic
A Greek broking-software developer is adding to the pressure on the market leader. Greek shipbroking- software supplier Dreamtech has made a breakthrough in the US, bagging a contract off struggling market leader Strategic Dataworks.
Piraeus-based Dreamtech has succeeded in selling its unified messaging and broking system to New York sale-and-purchase (S&P) shop Compass Maritime Services. Dreamtech is also understood to be close to a deal with an S&P outfit in London, where it has set up an office, after breaking out of its mainly Greek business base by signing up offshore S&P unit DSB Offshore.
Cyprus-based marine-survey and management group Chrysanthou Maritime Services also recently become a user of Dreamtech's Compass Next Generation (CompassNG) system. Strategic laid off a large number of staff in the autumn of 2007 and more have since left. The London-based company has delayed delivery of its long-awaited new products (see story below).
Dreamtech claims a major advantage over rival systems is that it can combine messaging and broking functions on one screen. The ability for brokers to access in-house vessel databases with an email from mobile-communications gadgets like a BlackBerry has also just been introduced. Further Strategic staff exits late last year and in early 2008 have included personnel in the US, Denmark and Singapore, according to sources. The company has concentrated its activities in Athens as a part of cost-cutting moves.
By Paul Berrill London, TRADEWINDS, published: 20 June 2008

MAY 2008:
Our latest features of COMPASSng are: 1) Integration with mobile phones and PDAs (including Blackberry and Windows Mobile phones). 2) Mobile Queries enable users to have vessel particulars, positions, time charter descriptions and much more information automatically forwarded to their mobile devices by simply sending an email to their COMPASSng system at the office, anytime, from anywhere in the world.

MAY 2008:
We are delighted to announce that DREAMTECH will participate at Posidonia 2008 (2nd-6th June) in Greece. Do visit our stand # 569, where we will be happy to see you and to demonstrate the new features of our maritime messaging and shipbroking software, COMPASSng. DREAMTECH staff attending the conference this year will also include our Directors Mrs. Helena Athoussaki and Dr. Yannis Manolessos as well as our UK & Northern Europe Director Mr. Alexander Bjorkheim. We are looking forward to meeting you at stand # 569.

APRIL 2008:
COMPASSng now enables users to handle second-hand vessels, newbuilding and contract resales interchangeably in the latest feature of our SNP module. This allows SNP brokers to locate sale or purchase opportunities with much higher accuracy than before, and to be able to suggest to their clients not only second-hand vessels but also newbuildings and contract resales.

JANUARY 2008:
Our new London-based office is established and is now fully operational. The newly appointed regional director for the UK and Northern Europe is Mr. Alexander Bjorkheim. Alexander has a thorough knowledge of the shipping market. He served as Sales Director at Tradewinds for 7 years. Our new office in London will be DREAMTECH's center for the Northern Europe market, including some of the most dynamic maritime centers in the UK, Norway, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and France.