Logica announces winners of the Global Innovation Venture Partner Programme
Appear, Sweden is the global winner and bags the opportunity to partner Logica on a global market strategy
Logica, a leading IT and business services company, today announced that Appear based in Sweden is the winner of the Global Innovation Venture Partner Programme (GIVPP) launched in December 2008. Appear won the award for their innovative context-aware mobile technology. Context revolutionizes how information is delivered, received and presented on mobile devices. No longer do users need to know what they are looking for. The Appear Context Engine analyses each user’s situation (context) and determines what information the user needs, what applications and services, data, voice or video needs to be delivered in real time, on the job. Appear will work with Logica to develop a joint go-to-market strategy, targeting Logica’s blue chip customer base across the world.
The GIVPP was run across eight major countries – UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands, Portugal and India, with the aim of ensuring real innovation is brought to market in the right way to deliver real business benefits to organisations. Appear won the global winner position after a hard fought battle against other country winners in London.
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“We are honoured to be selected as this year’s recipient of the Global Innovation Venture Partner Programme Award”, says Xavier Aubry, CEO Appear. “Receiving this accolade from Logica, the undisputed leading provider of enterprise IT solutions is a significant milestone for us. We have initially been developing our vision of context-aware mobile services in the travel & transport sector with innovative customers such as Dutch Rail or Paris Subway. Now, with Logica’s support, we can reach out to a wide range of industries such as public sector, healthcare or utilities. Tomorrow, thousands of mobile workers and millions of consumers will be using context-aware mobile services through their day without even realizing it”. |
Congratulating Appear on their achievement, GBS Bindra, Global Innovation Director, Logica, said,
“This programme has always been about recognising innovation and talent that exists in different companies. Appear demonstrated a technology that has a myriad of possibilities for our varied base of customers. In today’s environment, organisations need to deliver exceptional value to their customers. With Appear IQ we see tremendous potential in helping organisations better customer service, develop new business and revenue models as well as enhance the overall customer experience. We look forward to collaboratively working with Appear in bringing innovation to the door steps of our customer.”
The country winners will work with the local Logica teams to further develop their solutions. The teams will work together and market the solution in the region and to Logica’s customers in country. Details of the country winners as below:
• 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. Find out more about the UK Innovation Partner Programme.
• 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.
• Portugal – 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
For more information on how the programme was run please view our original press release: Logica launches global search for outstanding innovative products and solutions
About Appear
Appear is the leading provider of context-aware software infrastructure designed to power the next generation of mobile applications and services. Using situational information (context), the AppearIQ suite of products transforms ordinary wireless data networks into rich multimedia channels that deliver information, voice, video and messages to mobile computer users. By collecting and sharing context, Appear’s solutions eliminate information overload and ensure users have exactly the information they need, when and where they need it. Industry leaders in transportation, retail, telecommunications and government use AppearIQ. Appear has an extensive partner network including industry leaders Cisco, Motorola, Orange Business Services, SITA, Thales and Logica in order to deliver innovative, end-to-end wireless and mobile solutions. The company is privately held and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and with offices across Europe.More information is available at www.appearnetworks.com
About Logica
Logica is a leading IT and business services company, employing 40,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business process outsourcing services. Logica works closely with its customers to release their potential - enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates growth and manages risk. It applies its deep industry knowledge, technical excellence and global delivery expertise to help its customers build leadership positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logica.com .
Press Contact:
Mia Falgard, Appear
Phone: +46 8 545 91 370
Email: mia.falgard@appearnetworks.com
Suma Boby, Logica
M: +44 7595 612180
Email: s.boby@logica.com
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