Swedish company - Eurostep wins Logica’s Global Innovation Venture Partner Program 2010
Eurostep to partner with Logica on a global go-to-market strategy
Logica, a leading business and technology service company, today announced Eurostep as this year’s winner of its Global Innovation Venture Partner (GIVP) Program. Eurostep, a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) collaboration company headquartered in Sweden, won the award for their Share-A-space® product. Share-A-space® enables networks of organizations to effectively sh are information from disparate systems and platforms, enabling them to collaborate across domains and organizational borders. Collaboration partners can follow their internal processes and IT systems while easily connecting to other networks. This is the second consecutive year that a Swedish company has won the global award - last year’s winner was Appear Networks also from Sweden.
Share-A-space® provides a standards-based collaboration hub that minimizes start up efforts and enables companies to collaboratively work on consistent change management, quality control and analysis of product data throughout its 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.
Logica ran the GIVP Program across eight countries – UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands, Portugal, India – and North America. The program launched initially in 2008 is part of Logica’s client intimacy strategy that revolves around collaborative innovation and partnership for the benefit of clients. All winners will have the opportunity to partner with Logica in a country-specific, go-to-market strategy. Logica will also work with Eurostep on a global strategy that will touch key markets and clients primarily across Europe.
Delighted with the win, Håkan Kårdén, CEO, Eurostep, said, “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 to 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.”
NOTES TO EDITORS
The country winners will work with the local Logica teams on a go-to-market strategy. The teams will work together and market the solution in the region and to Logica’s clients in country. Details of the eight 2010 winners as below:
- 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 - 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 organizations improve information quality, reduce risk, and control costs in the plant, production and marine industries worldwide
- France – Normind – Normind won the award for Intègre, a solution that supports professionals and their expertise during decision making, special documents edition, operations planning or complex simulation scenarios.
- Denmark - ABC Softwork – ABC Softwork won the award for their innovative approach to collecting and working 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 optimize their business.
- North America –DataRaker – DataRaker applies analytics to the terabytes of data generated by Smart Meters to rapidly extract the value and present it within a business framework. The resulting dashboards highlight practical, actionable steps that utilities, businesses and customers can take to control costs from the power plant to the light switch.
- Finland - MHG Systems Oy – 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 to 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 – ConnectM Technology Solutions won the award for their Energy Management Solution that delivers savings in electricity bills, fuel consumption, and overall optimization of energy operations. The solution effectively leverages wireless technology for retrofit solutions and provides for energy management services remotely.
- Netherlands – Total Immersion – Total Immersion won the award for a proprietary Augmented Reality Technology platform. This technology integrates 3D objects into live video. Total Immersion is currently providing various Augmented reality solutions to more than 500 clients
About Logica
Logica is a business and technology service company employing 39,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing to clients around the world, including many of Europe's largest businesses. Logica creates value for clients by successfully integrating people, business and technology. It is committed to long-term collaboration, applying insight to create innovative answers to clients’ business needs. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More information is available at www.logica.com.
About Eurostep:
Eurostep delivers software and consulting services for product lifecycle management with a particular focus on the exchange and sharing of data within and between enterprises. Services range from pre-studies to the implementation and support of systems. Eurostep’s flagship product, Share-A-space® is software that supports collaborative engineering across the lifecycle of products. Eurostep has subsidiaries in Sweden, the UK, Finland, France and the US and has blue-chip customers in a variety of industries including automotive, aerospace, defense, high tech/telecom, building & construction and process industries. Eurostep Group has been an international venture from its inception in 1994.
Press contacts
Logica: Mimi Reilly, mimi.reilly@logica.com , +1 713 954 7018
Eurostep: Håkan Kårdén, CEO Eurostep Group, hakan.karden@eurostep.com, +46 8 4101 3150
