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"Strategies for Success in the New Reality" is the title of the SAP World Tour 2009. The business world has reached an inflection point, presenting your organization with contradictory challenges. On one hand, you face increasing complexity in the form of changing business processes, global competition, and unprecedented economic conditions. On the other, you are required to operate with greater efficiency, openness, and transparency.
But when challenges are at their greatest, so are the opportunities to find new and transformative solutions. In today's economy, "Best-Run" businesses must be transparent and accountable, lean and agile, customer-centric and collaborative. Now more than ever, meeting these challenges requires a highly focused business strategy and streamlined execution.
And that's what SAP World Tour 2009 is all about. SAP World Tour 2009 events are an essential stop for every professional who wants to harness technology to run lean operations, capture greater market share, and gain business openness and transparency.
The datango performance suite explains SAP user like a navigation system for software applications what he sees and shows him the next steps. You can find out more on the product on: http://www.datango.com/
datango press release (in German)
Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in the Norwegian enterprise content management software company eZ Systems. The existing Norwegian investors BTV Fond, a Norwegian venture capital investment found (www.btv-invest.no) and Dynam also participated in the financing round. eZ Systems is in the expansion stage, active mainly in Europe and growing internationally with success both in USA and Japan. eZ’s main product, eZ Publish focuses on the vertical media segment and enables its users to manage their digital content and use them in web publishing, media portals, intranets, e-commerce and extranets. It runs on multiple platforms and is adaptable to all enterprise infrastructures. Large Media groups like Lagardere Active, Prisma Presse, Schibstedt, and Swiss Broadcasting Corporation use eZ Publish for publications like Elle, National Geographic, DinMat and Swiss TV online portal.
Eran Davidson, CEO of Hasso Plattner Ventures: “eZ combines an excellent technological solution with the advantages of an open source business model, as a look at their top tier clients shows. We are confident that eZ Systems will continue to grow on a global scale during the next years.”
Aleksander Farstad, CEO of eZ Systems: “With Hasso Plattner Ventures we have gained a strong international partner, who will help us to roll out our product successfully in new regions. The capital inflow will give us the necessary push to get into the next expansion stage.”
Through the partnership zoo.gr, the biggest Greek social network, will be able to offer its users all the Smeet communication possibilites in a 3D world. The technological solutions provided by Smeet include voice chat, telephony and the streaming of videos.
The complete press release.
OpenSynergy, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has joined the Infotainment Alliance GenIVI, a group founded by leading car makers and suppliers, bringing its experience on infotainment to the table.
OpenSynergy is joining Infotainment Alliance GenIVI as an associate member. OpenSynergy develops and markets the universal car operating system COQOS. This operating car system allows a safe execution of infotainment applications and AUTOSAR functions on a single hardware through virtualization. Based on a modular concept COQOS can be used in head units, instrument cluster and body control modules. Additionally OpenSynergy offers consulting and software engineering in the areas like infotainment, connectivity and AUTOSAR.
The “GenIVI Alliance“ is a consortium founded by leading car manufacturers and suppliers who want to speed up the development and the overall use of a standardized automotive infotainment-platform (In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI)) in the car. The goals of that consortium are reducing development cycles, faster time-to-market and reducing development costs for IVI-based devices and software. The founders of the GenIVI Alliance are BMW Group, Delphi, General Motors Corp., Intel, Magneti Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Visteon Corp. and Wind River.
The personalized starting page allyve adds a hiogi-widget to their offer. This offer features a web based question box which enables spontaneous questions to the hiogi community.
Reat more about it in the hiogi blog.
Even though companies in Brandenburg can feel the effects of the global financial crisis they are still looking optimistically into the future. Thanks to the regions' InvestionsLandesbank Brandenburg (ILB) also medium sized companies are still getting investment. Further growth is being owed to the ongoing construction of the airport Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) which is bound to open in 2011. Also Hasso Plattner Ventures and its’ surrounding technology cluster contribute to the positive economical effects in Brandenburg.
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On June, 18, D-LABS GmbH offers it’s one-day workshop "Design Led Innovation for decision makers – Don’t leave your success to chance!”
The Design Led Innovation (DLI) approach differs fundamentally from common methods of software development and optimization. This approach is combining user awareness, business objectives, and technological feasibility instead of revolving around technological components only.
Participants learn to use the DLI process and its methods in their own business environment in order to create innovative software solutions.
The workshop and all reference material will be in German. You will find further information on the workshop and how to register here: http://www.d-labs.com/dli-workshop/
The wellknown tech news site Heise online offers a free download of VIOSO's smartprojecting software as a demo version.
SmApper Technologies is teaming up with Iron Mountain Digital to jointly market and integrate their file archiving solutions. Smapper complements Iron Mountain Digital’s Virtual File Store service by transparently integrating cloud storage services into the customers’ primary storage architecture to improve the cost, management, security and compliance of unstructured data. Joint customers benefit twice: They achieve file archiving as a cloud service integrated into their tier 1 storage and can save storage costs of more than 40% by using the Smapper solution.
Hasso Plattner Ventures, Media Ventures and A-Z Beteiligungen have secured a third investment round for hiogi. With the fresh capital hiogi will be able to start its new solutions in the business customers' segment.
