Logica

Logica has announced the winner of the Global Innovation Venture Partner (GIVP) Programme for 2009. The global winner that competed with seven other country winners is the Swedish innovation company Appear for their context-aware mobile technology.

The technology changes the way information is delivered, received and presented on mobile devices as it analyses each user’s situation (context) and determines what information, applications and services the user needs. This technology was selected because it has a myriad of possibilities for our varied base of customers and can enable them to deliver better customer service, develop new business and revenue models as well as enhance the overall customer experience.

Appear the global winner will now embark on a collaboratively working relationship with Logica to bring innovation to the door steps of our customers through a joint go-to-market strategy, targeting Logica’s blue-chip customer base across the world. Read the press release here.

GBS Bindra, Global Innovation Director presents the global winner award to Xavier Aubry, CEO Appear

The GIVP also identified great innovation partners as country winners. They will work with the local Logica teams to further develop their solutions and then market the solution in the region and to Logica’s customers in that country. The seven country winners include:

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.
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.

More about Logica’s Global Innovation Venture Partner (GIVP) Programme

The GIVP programme was launched in Q3 2008 to find innovation partners for Logica in 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. Nominations for partners were received from Logica employees as well as applications made from the companies directly.

GIVP 2009 emphasised Logica’s support for the governance of IT and Business Innovation by ensuring real innovation is brought to market in the right way. This reiterates our reputation as an enabler of change, and our continuous efforts to spark new possibilities for the future through partnership.

Why partner with Logica?

At Logica, we make Innovation an intrinsic part of the individual and collective organisational psyche. We work together with our partners to leverage benefits of Innovative solutions to help the world leading organisations achieve their business objectives. We deliver innovative solutions, and we believe that we can further the success of our customers’ businesses through the targeted search for new talent and interesting developments in IT.

What does this mean?
For you as our partner it can mean ‘becoming visible’ in a highly competitive industry and working at the forefront with one of the most respected leaders in the IT market. You will have the opportunity through this partnership to capitalise on Logica’s global market reach. You will be Logica’s distinguished Global Innovation Venture Partner for the year.

For Logica, it’s the opportunity to offer partner products as a joint proposition to our existing and new customers. As we strive to achieve the highest levels of success and meet the needs of our customers, you as our Innovation partner will be able to support us along the way with new talent and interesting technological developments, helping to deliver the best innovative solutions to world leading organisations and thereby helping them achieve their business objectives.

Who should be at GIVP?
If you are an Innovative company who has been in business for three or more years and have proven innovative products/solutions, then GIVP Programme is for you.

If you think you should not miss this key event that is setting the pace for creating innovative options for the world’s industrial and technological future, then GIVP Programme is a real opportunity for you.

What should you do?
If this excites you and you would like to be part of the programme for 2010 and bring in change, please fill in the Future Participation and submit it to us.

If you have a query, contact us today.