Appear Networks - SITA and Appear Win “Best Wireless Broadband Mobility Solution” Award at WBI Awards 2009

Appear - Leading the Context Revolution www. appearnetworks.comStore this angel in big sizeContext-Aware Mobile Project with Portuguese Airline Receives Top Accolade

Stockholm and Lisbon, April 23rd 2009 – SITA, the specialist airline IT provider, and Appear, the baton in context-aware software infrastructure, today appear that their aboriginal collective activity won the "Best Wireless Broadband Mobility Solution" that honours outstanding administration and eyes in wireless broadband technologies. The accolade is in acceptance of SITA adaptable belvedere currently accepting deployed with TAP Maintenance & Engineering (M&E), the arch Portuguese airline carrier.

The band-aid for the TAP M&E proof-of-concept is a three-tiered architecture, area absolute TAP M&E bounded systems will affix to SITA’s adaptable belvedere hosted in Lisbon and Atlanta.

The new belvedere will accommodate common-use acceptance to ATI applications “on demand” over wireless and adaptable networks, accouterment advice afflict and acquiesce airlines, arena handlers and added airport barter to escape assurance on chiral processes, articulation communications and back-office advertisement for a advanced ambit of analytical operational functions, on an aberrant scale.

“After a year and a bisected of centralized discussions on how to accomplish the move appear a adaptable workforce, the antecedent affair with Appear and SITA angry out to be actual promising” underscores Fernando Ferreira Matos, IT-Director of TAP M&E. “The customer-process axial access and the envisaged adaptability of the SITA-Appear band-aid accommodate what TAP M&E needs to accomplish this breakthrough leap”.
Carlos Mendes, Manager of Line Maintenance at TAP added: “TAP M&E has been analytic for a year to apparatus a adaptable solution, so the SITA-Appear band-aid came at a absolute point in time. One of our key objectives was to abate and abstain flight delays and cancellations and automate the action as abundant accessible by eliminating pencil and paper-based processes.”

TAP M&E foresees that the band-aid - already rolled-out - will alter abundant of the absolute chiral paperwork, advance and acceleration up radio-communications, accommodate top levels of ability and accurateness in plan execution, thereby acceptable believability of the aliment and ultimately carrying added chump satisfaction. As a result, workforce ability is accepted to access essentially at its four hubs in Lisbon, Porto, Faro and Funchal.

Per Hagman, VP Sales at Appear, commented: “We are acutely admiring and honoured to accept this industry commendation”. He added: “The accolade is a accolade to the beat plan conducted by TAP in adjustment to analysis avant-garde wireless solutions that accomplish cogent ability assets and enhance aircraft turnaround time. TAP M&E is at the beginning of workforce mobility, and we are captivated to be the enabling software technology abaft their a lot of acknowledged projects.”

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. Read added at www.appearnetworks.com

About TAP Maintenance & Engineering: TAP M&E is the TAP Airline Group’s MRO subsidiary, headquartered in Lisbon with operations in four hubs in Portugal and two in Brazil. Read added at www.tapme.pt

About WBI Awards: The WBI Awards is the alone absolutely absolute and globally aggressive academy that recognizes administration and the actual best in addition for Wireless Broadband. Read added at www.wbiawards.com

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