2010 Winners

The Global Winner of the Global Innovation Venture Partner programme 2010 is Eurostep.

Eurostep - Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) collaboration company headquartered in Sweden, is the global winner of Logica’s GIVP Programme 2010. Eurostep competed with eight other companies/ country winners to become the Global Winner.

Eurostep won the award for their Share-A-space® product which enables networks of organisations to effectively share information from disparate systems and platforms, enabling them to collaborate across domains and organisation borders. Collaboration partners can follow their internal processes and IT systems while easily connecting to other networks.

Andy Green CEO, Logica (left) hands over the award and certificate to Håkan Kårdén, CEO, Eurostep (right).

Share-A-space® provides a standards based collaboration hub that, minimises start up efforts and enables companies to collaboratively work on consistent change management, quality control and analysis of product data throughout a product’s lifecycle. Share-A-space® also provides a high level of security in the collaboration hub. With this, organizations that compete in the market can collaborate on joint projects, sharing only data that is relevant for the collaboration while protecting their respective IPR.

Håkan Kårdén, CEO, Eurostep, had this to say on winning, “It is indeed an honour to be this year’s winner. Today's product development and innovation performance is a complex and continuous process in which networks of suppliers and knowledge teams interact and share information. The same needs exist throughout the complete life cycle of products including the need to link closer to the end user’s business. This win clearly reiterates the importance of our solution in today’s business environment. With this award, we will be able to leverage Logica’s technology and business acumen as well as marketing reach. We really look forward to building a long term and mutually beneficial partnership.”

Congratulating Eurostep on their achievement, GBS Bindra, Global Innovation Director, Logica, said, “Eurostep’s product addresses the information management challenge that clients face today. They have a product that is both innovative and collaborative in nature. At Logica we have always believed that we are part of an ecosystem and the only way we can bring real benefit to our clients is by leveraging the strength of partners and technologies. By working together with Eurostep, we will be able to offer clients an improved service and solution that would not have been possible otherwise.”

The Eight Country Winners:

• Portugal- ISA- Intelligent Sensing Anywhere, a leader in remote monitoring solutions applied to the areas of Energy, Environment, Safety, Mobility and Health, won the award for their solution to monitor energy consumption and increase energy efficiency
• UK- AVEVA - won the award for innovative engineering technology. Employing a highly flexible data model, the AVEVA NET solution enables complex engineering projects and operational lifecycle management to be carried out efficiently in a collaborative environment that delivers consistent and accurate information. AVEVA Solutions are helping organisations improve information quality, reduce risk, and control costs in the plant, production and marine industries worldwide
• France - Normind - won the award for their solution Intègre, a solution that supports professionals to support their expertise during decision making, special documents’ edition, operations planning or complex scenarios’ simulation
• Denmark - ABC Softwork - won the award for their innovative approach on how to collect and work with complex data. Their solution is open and easily adaptable – and provides a unique visual overview in real time of extremely complex procurement problems, helping companies to optimise their business
• North America - DataRaker- the North America Country winner, applies analytics to the terabytes of data generated by Smart Meters to rapidly extract the value and present it within a business framework
• Finland - MHG Systems Oy - won the award for a biomass supply chain management and quality control solution for coal-fired power stations. The solution can help power stations plan and organize their bio mass sourcing more efficiently and greatly reduce the amount of residual moisture in it significantly lowering transportation costs
• India - ConnectM Technology Solutions – won the award for their Energy Management Solution that delivers savings in electricity bills, fuel consumption, and overall optimisation of energy operations. The solution effectively leverages wireless technology for retrofit solutions and provides for energy management services remotely

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