EEPN ADDS BEGANTO’S TIME-SAVING NEEDASAMPLE® AS A FURTHER TOOL FOR DESIGN ENGINEERS

Need a sample? EEPN®, the “time-saving tool for today’s design engineer” offers a new time-saving tool for its readers, and a new management tool for its advertisers. Through an alliance with Beganto, EEPN and its sister eMedia properties, EEPN2™ and eepn, now provide direct links to Beganto’s needasample “buy side” sampling and tracking tool for products from sponsoring component suppliers.

Beganto also serves “the sell side,” carrying sampling support through to the design win tracking process. Bill Baumann, group publisher of Penton Media’s Electronics OEM

Group notes “The alliance is a natural fulfillment of EEPN’s mission, and a valuable informational and logistical supplement to the 250,000 interactions we have with readers each month. Beganto helps the EEPN reader get needed data and samples from a central source – without the need to visit dozens of Web sites or enter the same information repeatedly”.

Sunil Grover, Beganto’s CEO, says the 100,000 primary readers of EEPN join the 80,000 engineers enrolled in BeON™, the Beganto Open Network. The system is free to engineers, and to the representatives and distributors who support a project; it’s funded by the component suppliers who use the Beganto solution to manage and track their new business opportunities, currently Alps, Catalyst, Fox, Hirose, JAE, JRC, Mueller, NEC, Optek, Rohm, Torex, and United Chemi-Con. Baumann expects the list to grow significantly as producers of components featured in EEPN and its eMedia satellites become aware of the new reader service -- the 21st century replacement for, and improvement over, the obsolete bingo card. During its four-year lifetime, Beganto has processed over 60,000 sample requests, resulting in an estimated 6000 design wins and 600 volume production orders.