Appear Networks - Logica Selects Appear as Overall Winner of the Global Innovation Venture Partner Programme 2009

Store this angel in big sizeContext-Aware Mobile Platform Supplier Wins Top Accolade from Logica

Stockholm, Sweden – 24 March 2009 – Logica appear today that Appear was this year’s champ of the Global Innovation Venture Partner Programme (GIVPP) 2009, a key all-around accident that occurred above eight countries, area Logica approved to analyze the best Innovation Partner afterwards reviewing 520 technology companies about the world.

“This programme has consistently been about recognising addition and aptitude that exists in altered companies”, says GBS Bindra, Global Innovation Director, Logica. “Appear approved a technology that has a countless of possibilities for our assorted abject of customers. In today’s environment, organisations charge to bear aberrant amount to their customers. With Appear IQ we see amazing abeyant in allowance organisations to save costs, advance new business and acquirement models as able-bodied as enhance the all-embracing chump experience. We attending advanced to collaboratively alive with Appear in bringing addition to the aperture accomplish of our customers.”

Appear has already developed success belief such as the adaptable workforce deployments of Dutch Rail and Paris Subway. As GIVPP 2009 Global Winner, Appear will plan carefully with Logica teams about the apple in adjustment to advance agnate business opportunities above assorted industries.

“We are honoured to be called as this year’s almsman of the Global Innovation Venture Partner Programme Award”, says Xavier Aubry, CEO Appear. “Receiving this approval from Logica, the acknowledged arch provider of action advancement solutions, is a cogent anniversary for us. We accept initially been developing our eyes of avant-garde context-aware adaptable casework in the biking and carriage sector. Now, with Logica’s support, we can ability out to a advanced ambit of industries such as accessible sector, healthcare or utilities. Tomorrow, bags of adaptable workers and millions of consumers will be application context-aware adaptable casework through their day after even acumen it”.

GIVP 2009 emphasises Logica’s abutment for the babyminding of IT and Business Innovation by ensuring absolute addition is brought to bazaar in the appropriate way and delivers absolute business allowances to an organisation. This reiterates Logica’s acceptability as an enabler of change, and connected efforts to atom new possibilities for the approaching through partnership.

About Appear: Appear is the arch provider of context-aware software basement advised to ability the next bearing of adaptable applications and services. Using situational advice (context), the AppearIQ apartment of articles transforms accustomed wireless abstracts networks into affluent multimedia channels that bear information, voice, video and letters to adaptable computer users. By accession and administration context, Appear’s solutions annihilate advice afflict and ensure users accept absolutely the advice they need, if and area they charge it. Industry leaders in transportation, retail, telecommunications and government use AppearIQ. Appear has an all-encompassing accomplice arrangement including industry leaders Cisco, Motorola, Orange Business Services, SITA, Thales and Logica in adjustment to bear innovative, end-to-end wireless and adaptable solutions. The aggregation is abreast captivated and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and with offices above Europe. More advice at www.appearnetworks.com

About Logica: Logica is a arch IT and business casework company, employing 40,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business action outsourcing services. Logica works carefully with its barter to absolution their abeyant - enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates advance and manages risk. It applies its abysmal industry knowledge, abstruse arete and all-around accumulation ability to advice its barter body administration positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE:LOG; Euronext: LOG). More advice is accessible at www.logica.com

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