2009 Winners

The Global Winner of the GIVP Programme 2009 was Swedish innovation company Appear Networks.

Appear competed with seven other country winners to become the global winner. It won the recognition for its context-aware mobile technology. The technology changes the way information is delivered, received and presented on mobile devices as it analyses each user’s situation (context) and determines what information, applications and services the user needs. This technology was selected because it has a myriad of possibilities for our varied base of customers and can enable them to deliver better customer service, develop new business and revenue models as well as enhance the overall customer experience.

Appear the global winner will now embark on a collaboratively working relationship with Logica to bring innovation to the door steps of our customers through a joint go-to-market strategy, targeting Logica’s blue-chip customer base across the world.

The GIVP programme also identified great innovation partners as country winners. They will work with the local Logica teams to further develop their solutions and then market the solution in the region and to Logica’s customers in that country.

The Seven Country Winners:

• UK – Cognisco - won the award for a solution that provides unique, insightful and precise data about employees’ knowledge, behaviour and decision-making capabilities. The solution will enable organisations to identify their behavioural and operational risks as well as system and process deficiencies
• Netherlands – Pallas Athena - won the award for a solution that enables clients to quickly adjust business processes to dynamic business objectives, market conditions and the regulatory environment on a strategic, tactical and operational level
• Denmark – WPA Mobile - won the award for a mobile service platform that covers the entire service process with innovative, easy-to-use tools based on real life experience. The solution proves to be a cost saving and profit enhancing one
• India – KLG Systel - won the award for a revolutionary web based energy management system that allows the power consumer to measure, visualise, analyse, control and save electricity consumption in real time anywhere, anytime across the enterprise
• France – Netfective - won the award for their solution BLU AGE®, a MDA workbench that helps reduce development time of an application. Blu Age certified & agile method professionals operate throughout all stages of an IT application life cycle, and provide the following services: development of customized enterprise business (JEE and/or .Net) applications, maintenance of MDA-based applications, legacy application modernization and industrialization of agile developments
• Portuga l– OutSystems - won the award for a technology solution that speeds up the delivery and management of web-based business applications using agile methodologies. The solution will help IT organisations deliver new business solutions based on end user feedback to ensure that they meet business needs effectively and efficiently
• Finland – Ravensoft Oy - won the award for an application for centralised control and monitoring on a workstation’s electricity consumption. The solution can help organisations reduce energy consumption by as much as 50% resulting in significant cost savings