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155 million euro ICT orders in Germany, Switzerland and Southeast Asia

October 6th, 2011
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GImtech N.V. (IM-AE, technical services provider in Europe) announces that it recently obtained a large number of new orders in the German and Swiss ICT markets, as well as in the fast-growing Southeast Asian ICT market. The orders represent a total value of some 155 million euro.

Imtech CEO René van der Bruggen: ‘Imtech’s ICT strategic focus lies on integral ICT solutions with strong added value in the specialist ICT fields of Business Intelligence, Data Centre Technology, Managed Services and ERP software. One reason why we are able to deliver this strong added value is our close collaboration with global market leaders like IBM, Microsoft and Cisco. Germany, Switzerland and Southeast Asia each offer positive economic conditions. In these markets, our strategic focus has generated extra growth. The new orders, which primarily relate to new ICT market segments, are an excellent case in point.’

Leading partner in new, fast growing ICT market segments and ICT niches
Imtech is represented in the German ICT market by Fritz & Macziol, a full subsidiary of Imtech ICT that is one of the larger players in the German ICT market. This Imtech subsidiary, which has enjoyed strong growth in recent years, is also active in Switzerland and Southeast Asia. The primary focus of Imtech’s overall ICT strategy is on new, fast growing ICT market segments and ICT niches.

Orders in new German ICT market markets
An excellent example of the firm’s activities in new segments of the ICT market is Cloud Computing, in which shared, configurable networks, applications, servers, data storage facilities and additional IT services are offered to customers, eliminating the need for them to invest in these matters themselves. This in turn generates recurring business, in which work is carried out on a continual basis for a growing group of customers. New services like PaaS (Platform as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) are provided to customers in this fashion.

Another example is Managed Services. To offer these services, a separate IT domain named Managed Dienstware® was set up in Germany, which is used to support customers’ business-critical software applications.

Imtech also focuses on the development of innovative functionalities like Unified Communications and Collaboration, which are utilised to promote communication within and between communities in the context of ‘New Way of Working’ and the use of social media. To ensure the security and continuity of the aforementioned services, Imtech also helps customers to set up and optimise their Data Centres and ICT infrastructure.

Recent orders in these new ICT market segments include the pharmaceutical company Merck Pharma, the German railway operator Deutsche Bahn and the food company Edeka.

The market for Business Intelligence services and products is extremely dynamic. It centres on data relating to production and process flow and the measurement of organisations’ financial performance. Imtech offers a distinctive solution: Imtech Control®, also known as STAS Control®. Over 50 new customers, including the German energy specialist RWE, have currently adopted this innovative software. Imtech also distinguishes itself by supplying NEO Mobile Suite – a range of mobile SAP applications – to new clients, like SMA Solar Technology and Viessmann.

Strong growth in financial public-sector software in Switzerland
Imtech (the business unit Infoma®) is also a leading player in the German and Swiss markets for software solutions in the area of public-sector financial services. The modular Microsoft Dynamics NAV software package ‘newsystem® kommunal’ was developed to offer an integrated, comprehensive solution for both traditional cash accounting and new public-sector accounting, reporting and budgeting. In Germany alone, this ICT application is already being used by 800 customers. The town of Baden-Baden has placed a major new order. In Switzerland, last year 60 Swiss municipalities and regional networks joined this innovative solution. On top of this, the Swiss canton of Graubünden was recently welcomed as a new customer, placing a new order of some substance. These new business relationships generate spin-offs with extra orders in the area of Document Management and Business Intelligence.

Strong growth in Southeast Asia
In Southeast Asia, Imtech recently acquired the 100% interest in F&M Asia, a subsidiary of Fritz & Macziol. F&M Asia, which has local offices in Manila and Singapore, operates in a fast-growing market. A share of its revenue is based on offshoring, in which IT-related tasks for Imtech customers in Europe are handled via a remote service. New contracts were signed with, among others, Globe Telecom and SM Shoemart.

Source:http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/06/idUS47860+06-Oct-2011+HUG20111006

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Google Buys Land to Build Three Data Centers in Asia

September 28th, 2011
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Google has acquired land in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore to build data centers in these three locations, it said Wednesday.

The data centers will be the “first Google proprietary data centers in Asia,” and will be fully owned and operated by the company, said Taj Meadows, the company’s policy communications manager for Asia Pacific.

More people are coming online every day in Asia than in any other part of the world, so locating data centers there is an important next stage of Google’s investment in the region, the company said Local data centers will help the company provide faster and more reliable access to Google’s services, it added.

There is a large surge in Internet use in Asia, particularly for consumer applications, said Jun Fwu Chin, research manager for virtualization and data center at IDC Malaysia.

A number of new data centers are coming up in the region as multinational Internet and hosting companies set up data centers to serve local customers, and also to meet governments regulations in some countries that require data to be handled locally, Chin said.

The costs of setting up data centers in Asia also tend to be lower than in the U.S., he added.

Google already has six data centers in the U.S., with one each in Finland and Belgium, according to its website.

It already has 15 offices and thousands of employees across the Asia-Pacific region.

The company has acquired 2.45 hectares of land in Jurong West, Singapore, and another 15 hectares of land in Changhua County, Taiwan, to build the data centers. It has also acquired 2.7 hectares of land in Kowloon, Hong Kong, for a data center there.

Google expects to invest over US$100 million in each of the facilities in Taiwan and Hong Kong, including the cost of land, construction and technical equipment. It did not specify the size of the investment in Singapore.

Google did not specify when construction would begin at these sites, as it is still working with its local partners and governments to finalize plans. Once construction begins, the facilities could be operational within one to two years, barring major delays, it said.

Google is however facing tough competition from local players in a number of local markets in Asia. In China, for example, it trails Baidu, the largest player, in Internet search.

In Taiwan, Yahoo and Facebook are ahead of Google as the top sites in the country, according to web traffic monitoring service Alexa. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and page views over the past month. In Hong Kong, Yahoo and Facebook are again ahead of Google, while it leads in Singapore.

Source:http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/240728/google_buys_land_to_build_three_data_centers_in_asia.html

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Dell cautiously optimistic on Europe and Asia

September 14th, 2011
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Dell Inc, the world’s second-largest computer maker, is cautiously optimistic that its strong performance in Europe and Asia will continue, but is concerned about U.S. government spending, an executive said.

Steve Schuckenbrock, who runs the U.S. company’s $8 billion services business, told Reuters it was yet to be seen whether a typical September spending surge as U.S. federal budgets close would happen this year.

“We’re continuing to monitor demand big-time, as European issues, U.S. issues continue to get debated and discussed,” Schuckenbrock said in an interview in London on Tuesday.

Dell, which had been predicting 5 to 9 per cent revenue growth this fiscal year, cut its forecast to between 1 and 5 percent last month, even though sales in growth markets outside north America, western Europe and Japan increased revenues by 14 per cent, accounting for 28 percent of sales.

“We’re very happy with the performance of both Asia and EMEA throughout the second quarter … so we’re cautiously optimistic about both of those continuing,” Schuckenbrock said.

Dell, an economic bellwether because of its dependence on government, corporate and consumer technology spending worldwide, has been diversifying from hardware into higher-margin services, but at a slower pace than some rivals.

Hewlett-Packard Co said last month it planned to spin off its PC business and would buy enterprise search software company Autonomy Corp Plc for about $11 billion, in a strategic shift under new CEO Leo Apotheker.

IBM sold its PC division to China’s Lenovo Group six years ago.

NO HARDWARE EXIT

Schuckenbrock said Dell had no intention of following in their footsteps by selling its hardware business and could benefit from HP customers’ uncertainty as the company may take up to 18 months to make a definite plan for its PC unit.

“We’ve never even discussed exiting the hardware business and so we’re quite delighted to go tell customers we’re here for the long haul,” he said.

Dell began offering multi-vendor support for customers running non-Dell hardware or wanting to migrate to Dell two months ago in the United States, and has just begun to offer the same service in Europe.

Schuckenbrock said Dell had already signed up two major U.S. customers, before or around the time of the HP announcement.

Dell has, however, made 10 acquisitions totaling more than $6 billion in the last 18 months to beef up its capabilities in areas like storage, security and database management — and Schuckenbrock said there would be more to come.

The company was particularly keen to expand its services offering in Europe and was interested in software applications companies with expertise in particular industries, or verticals, like financial services, education or retail, he said.

Schuckenbrock said Dell, which has more than $16 billion in cash, was more interested in small or medium-sized acquisitions of up to $1.5 billion than mega-mergers that would come with unwanted legacy technology and could be hard to integrate.

“What I don’t want to buy is a company that has hundreds of outsourcing contracts that are kind of baked in yesterday’s customized services models.

“I think we want to lean very hard into where is the industry going, which is cloud,” he said, referring to cloud computing, in which data and software are stored and processed remotely in large data centers and delivered back to customers over the Internet.

Schuckenbrock said a major barrier to wider adoption of cloud computing was the pain of moving software applications into the cloud, and said Dell was therefore focused on buying companies which were strong in the applications business.

“That opens up the possibilities of companies across Europe a lot, because there are a good number of companies with talent in the applications arena, some of which are focused on one vertical,” he said.

Source:http://www.ciol.com/Global-News/Global-News/News-Reports/Dell-cautiously-optimistic-on-Europe-and-Asia/154374/0/

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New software aimed at making public transit easier

August 4th, 2011
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Cities across Canada are trying to boost public transit use by tackling one of the biggest frustrations for riders, the interminable wait at a bus stop in pouring rain or bitter cold wondering when the heck that bus will come.

Municipal transit services are turning to text-messaging systems, apps for mobile devices and even alerts for your desktop to make riding a bus, train or subway more predictable and user-friendly.

Winnipeg is on the leading edge, using global positioning software on all its buses to provide real-time information across multiple platforms. With a quick click on a computer or mobile device, you can see when your bus will arrive — and not the scheduled time, but an up-to-the-minute estimate based on its current position and traffic volumes.

“We’ve recognized from the onset that providing people with accurate and timely information enables them to take full advantage of the transit system,” said David Wardrop, director of Winnipeg Transit.

Winnipeg has spent more than $4 million on its information system, which includes a program called BusGadget. Designed for a home or office computer, the program lets users monitor one or more bus stops to see when upcoming buses are due. Users can also set up customized alerts.

Let’s say you want to catch the 59 down Main Street at 5 p.m. to get home from work, and the stop is a five-minute walk from your office. You can set BusGadget to remind you, via a pop-up bubble, 10 or 15 minutes ahead of time. The bubble will also tell you whether the bus is running late and provide a new expected arrival time.

Winnipeg has a mobile version of the program, called BusGuide, which lets you monitor all the buses coming to your stop. It’s updated every 30 seconds with the latest real-time estimates and works on the browser of any mobile device. If your preferred bus is late, you can see if another one is coming soon or run an errand until the next bus arrives.

The aim is to help riders avoid long waits on the streets of a city where winter temperatures can dip below -40. The cold weather is one reason why car culture is still dominant in Winnipeg, although that may be slowly changing.

Ridership has been growing by 2.5 to three per cent each year recently, while the city’s population has grown by about 1.5 per cent annually, Wardrop said.

Toronto’s transit authority has also moved to provide real-time arrival information through GPS locators on its buses. The system went on-line last month through a third-party website. The info is also available via text-messaging. Users can send a text that includes their bus stop number and get a message back that outlines the arrival times of upcoming buses.

The Toronto Transit Commission doesn’t have the type of desktop software that Winnipeg does to remind users of upcoming buses, but it is allowing software developers to access its data and come up with their own programs.

Other cities, such as Edmonton and Montreal, have plans to add GPS technology. Edmonton officials started offering scheduled bus times via text messages earlier this year and were surprised by the strong response.

“We projected about 10,000 text messages in January, and we rolled out January 4th . . . and we actually ended up getting over 118,000 messages sent in January,” said Nathan Walters, the supervisor in charge of the project at Edmonton Transit System.

“It was a big wake-up call for us in terms of realizing that the demand is clearly there for mobile information.”

Edmonton also has an open-data policy for developers, and showcases some third-party apps on its website. Programs for Android devices, iPhones and others are featured.

Transit services are also adopting new technology to make it easier for riders to pay their fare. Instead of fishing for exact change or tickets, riders in Regina and some other cities are able to use reloadable smart cards.

Eventually, a wave of a smartphone could be all that is needed to ride the bus, train or subway. People in many parts of Europe and Asia have banking information stored on their phone, so that it acts as a debit card in stores and at vending machines.

Source:http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20110803/public-transit-software-ttc-110803/

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Siemens PLM software presents Asia pacific channel partners awards

December 11th, 2010
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Siemens PLM Software presented awards to various Asia Pacific channel partners at the GO! Conference in Guilin, China, attended by more than 600 attendees from channel sales and strategic alliance partner companies.

The event recognized the exceptional performance of channel partners in categories including Asia Pacific Top Partner, Asia Pacific Top Deal, Asia Pacific Top Channel Partner for Customer Satisfaction, Asia Pacific Top Country Partner and a host of other awards for exceptional sales, marketing, and technical performance.

Information Services International-Dentsu, Ltd. (ISID), Japan, won eight awards in total including Asia Pacific Top Partner, Asia Pacific Top Partner for Digital Product Development, Asia Pacific Top Partner for Digital Lifecycle Management, Asia Pacific Top Deal and Country Top Partner for Japan.

“We are very pleased and honored to have received these awards for our accomplishment this year and appreciate the help and cooperation that Siemens PLM Software’s R&D team and their Japan office team have provided,” said Atsushi Yoshimoto, managing director, member of the board, ISID. “This year’s GO! Conference further solidified our partnership for years to come and set the expectation for joint success.”

ZhiXiang Technology Co., Ltd., China, won the award for Asia Pacific Top Channel Partner for Customer Satisfaction.

“It is a big surprise and a huge honor for us to win this award,” said Zhang Jun, general manager, ZhiXiang Technology Co. Ltd. “This award shows that Siemens PLM Software is focused on customers’ needs. As a Siemens PLM Software channel partner for more than 10 years, we have been measuring our achievement based on the success of our customers. This award is a big motivation to the team. We will continue to work hard to provide the best customer service.”

“This year’s GO! Conference is an important milestone in the recognition of the synergies between Siemens PLM Software and its partners, and demonstrates the ability of this ecosystem to deliver outstanding results,” said Angus Marshall, vice president, Channel Development & Products, Asia Pacific, Siemens PLM Software. “The event has motivated our channel partners to increase the momentum even further in 2011.”

The GO! Conference included a wide variety of enablement sessions and several service centers, where channel partners were able to interact with Siemens PLM Software experts and network to share best practices. In addition, several key collaborative partners, including HP, Cortona3D, CoreTech System Co., Ltd. (Moldex3D) and SIMPOE SAS also attended the event to showcase their products that have leveraged Siemens PLM Software’s solutions.

Source:http://www.cadcamnews.in/2010/12/siemens-plm-software-presents-asia.html

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Pawaa software makes to 2010 red herring Asia award finals

November 18th, 2010
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Pawaa Software, a software product company has announced its nomination as a finalist for Red Herring’s top 100 Asia awards. Red Herring awards the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the Asia business region.

Founded by Prakash Baskaran in 2007, Pawaa Software is an India based technology startup with its operations based in Bangalore. Baskaran said on making it to the top 100, “We are extremely proud to be featured in the list of finalists for the 2010 Red Herring’s top 100 Asia awards. Being a start-up, this nomination comes as a great confidence booster and validates the potential of our products and the innovativeness of our technology. This also gives a chance for Pawaa Software to be visible on the global space as our security solutions can have a global presence.”

The companies were selected from various verticals like mobile, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, and clean tech industries from across Asia by the editorial team of Red Herring. The evaluation of the nominees were done on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

Alex Vieux, Publisher and CEO, Red Herring said, “Pawaa Software shows great promise therefore deserves to be among the finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Winners of the Top 100 Asia Award.”

The final 15 will be selected on the basis of their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. The Finale is scheduled to be held at the Red Herring Asia forum in Shanghai, November 15-16, 2010.

Source:http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Pawaa_Software_makes_to_2010_Red_Herring_Asia_Award_finals-nid-74086.html

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iTKO LISA Software Deployed in Asia Pacific

October 13th, 2010
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iTKO, Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based development, virtualisation and testing software, announced today that ANZ (ASX: ANZ) would use iTKO’s LISA™ End-to-End Testing, Validation and Virtualisation solutions for software development.

LISA has been designed to reduce software development and testing cycle times, and lower infrastructure costs, while improving the quality of enterprise applications. ANZ, which offers a wide portfolio of banking and financial products and services to more than six million customers, completed the selection process for iTKO in the third quarter of 2010. ANZ will use LISA Solutions across its Technology division, which is responsible for software development for the bank.

“After an evaluation process that considered our existing technologies and future IT objectives, we ultimately decided that iTKO’s complete LISA Suite would reduce risk, cycle times and costs across our development and testing cycles,” said ANZ Head of Testing, Environments & Change CoE, Technology Global Solution Delivery, Marcello Martino. “We believe that LISA will allow us to automate more activities, improve our use of existing infrastructure, enhance collaboration, and help us to better meet our customer needs.”

The two largest obstacles to building out today’s complex composite and cloud based applications are the unavailability of dependent constrained systems and knowing where the process is going to break. iTKO’s LISA Test, Virtualize (VSE), Continuous Validation, and Pathfinder solutions are designed to eliminate the dependencies on constrained systems and provide the necessary visibility into architectural changes that hamper communications between development and testing organizations. These capabilities come at a fraction of the cost and effort required of traditional development and testing solutions.

“ANZ’s selection of iTKO is very timely,” said Shridhar Mittal, iTKO CEO and President. “Like many of our other clients in banking, insurance, Telco and retail, we understand the tremendous pressure companies are under to develop more products in less time at a lower cost. Traditional solutions are unable to achieve these goals. iTKO looks forward to helping ANZ drive significant value from their investment.”

Source:http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=230156&type=newswires

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