Last year's winner
Logica announces 2007 winner of new Partners in Innovation programme
17 October 2007
Logica, one of Europe’s leading IT and business services companies, today announces Virage as the inaugural winner of its Partners in Innovation award, a programme commending niche technology companies for outstanding innovative IT solutions. Virage was chosen as the 2007 winner for its outstanding Rich Media Management and Security and Surveillance software suite, a decision which followed a competitive selection process, culminating in two days of ‘Dragon’s Den’ style presentations to a panel of industry and commercial experts within Logica.
Virage’s Rich Media Management software and Intelligent Video Analytics bring together complementary technologies from multimedia, security and infrastructure specialists. The product suite provides a solution to a raft of television, video, audio and CCTV challenges, such as making television content fully searchable and accessible via IPTV and supplying and managing complex security systems.
Virage’s Security and Surveillance software allows users to monitor vast quantities of intelligence from multiple content sources and by using advanced analytics capabilities the solution delivers conceptual intelligence-based associations between multiple pieces of data. The software’s intelligent behavioural analysis can also be deployed to provide enhanced real-time scene analysis and detection capability – tools that complement Logica’s existing security offerings and will help to ensure the faster identification of suspect packages and activity in a surveillance environment.
Virage’s solutions will now be fast tracked to some of Logica’s key customers with a requirement for advanced rich media management and intelligent video analytics in the areas of knowledge management, compliance and security. The end result will be to deliver business innovation to Logica’s clients and expansion into new markets for Virage, facilitating significant revenue generation opportunities.
Established earlier this year, the Partners in Innovation award builds on Logica’s reputation as a leading innovator in IT and business services and its role as a champion of bringing innovation back into the IT industry. The programme aims to bring new technology solutions to market and to recognise the essential role that these companies play in driving real IT innovation and customer satisfaction to clients. Winners of the initiative are effectively getting access to an established global resource, providing go-to-market support and opportunities to engage with client organisations where appropriate.
Kevin Duffey, Logica’s UK Sales and Marketing Director, said: “Often innovation is developed for innovation’s sake, particularly in the world of IT. Real innovation only works if it is brought to market in the right way and delivers actual business benefit to an organisation or user. Our focus on applied innovation puts us in the best position to work alongside companies, like Virage, to make sure that their ideas become a commercial reality, and indeed success.”
David Humphrey, Managing Director, Virage Security and Surveillance, said on winning the award: “We are delighted that Logica’s Partners in Innovation programme has acknowledged Virage for its leading rich media and security and surveillance solutions. We look forward to further strengthening our relationship with Logica, as we work closer together in the future.”
The British Computer Society (BCS) has welcomed Logica's new initiative. Anna Duckworth, Head of Corporate Marketing at BCS, added: “We applaud programmes such as the Partners in Innovation programme which encourage real world business opportunities and foster a new generation of innovation in IT.”
The four other short-listed companies that presented alongside Virage comprised Active Navigation, Erudine, Focus Solutions and Quantum Storage UK.
About Logica
Logica brings deep domain expertise to the delivery of business consulting, systems integration and IT and business process outsourcing solutions worldwide. For more than 40 years, we've helped our customers build or maintain their leadership positions in their markets. With over 39,000 people in 36 countries, we have the scale and track record to help our customers solve complex business problems, improve their operating efficiency, deliver higher quality services and build their competitive edge.
About Virage
Virage Rich Media is at the forefront of Rich Media Management, developing the world's first technology to automatically capture, encode and index television, video and audio content from any source, dynamically. By automatically generating a comprehensive range of metadata, including keyframes, face recognition, speaker information and a full transcript of the audio stream, Virage ensures that rich media is immediately fully searchable and accessible by any user.
Virage Security and Surveillance (formerly Neurodynamics) provides world-leading security monitoring solutions which enable all organizations to respond to increasingly complex security concerns at a corporate, national and global level. By providing the technology which allows organizations to understand and interpret the potential significance of large volumes of data, Virage Security and Surveillance facilitates superior real-time surveillance, detection and protection operations in all security environments and is already trusted by some of the most prestigious intelligence and security agencies in the world. www.virage.com