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Logica Selects Appear as Overall Winner of the Global Innovation Venture Partner Programme 2009
Stockholm, Sweden – 24 March 2009 – Logica announced today that Appear was this year’s winner of the Global Innovation Venture Partner Programme (GIVPP) 2009, a key global event that occurred across eight countries, where Logica sought to identify the best Innovation Partner after reviewing 520 technology companies around the world.
“This programme has always been about recognising innovation and talent that exists in different companies”, says GBS Bindra, Global Innovation Director, Logica. “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 to save costs, 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 customers.”
Appear has already developed success stories such as the mobile workforce deployments of Dutch Rail and Paris Subway. As GIVPP 2009 Global Winner, Appear will work closely with Logica teams around the world in order to develop similar business opportunities across various industries.
“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 mobility solutions, is a significant milestone for us. We have initially been developing our vision of innovative context-aware mobile services in the travel and transport sector. 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”.
GIVP 2009 emphasises Logica’s support for the governance of IT and Business Innovation by ensuring real innovation is brought to market in the right way and delivers actual business benefits to an organisation. This reiterates Logica’s reputation as an enabler of change, and continuous efforts to spark new possibilities for the future through partnership.
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 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
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Suma Boby
+44 7595 612 180
s.boby@logica.com
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