Friday, May 31, 2013
Nuance Swype on Google Play Expands Global Availability
Nuance Press Release:
Nuance Swype on Google Play Expands Global Availability
Swype Expands Reach across Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia with Support for Eight New Languages, Hotwords for Polish and Arabic, as well as More Accurate Next Word Prediction and Improved Dragon Dictation Experience
Burlington, MA – May 31, 2013 – Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced updates to its successful living, learning Swype keyboard for Android smartphones and tablets that brings Swype to even more consumers around the world – specifically Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia. Swype’s latest round of updates also features an improved Dragon Dictation experience and even faster next word prediction.
Swype is the most personal, powerful and customizable four-in-one keyboard for Android, allowing people to quickly glide their finger from one letter to the next to input text – or simply tap, speak or handwrite letters, numbers and symbols. Just one month after its debut on Google Play, Swype is rapidly expanding its language support. Swype is now available in 65 downloadable languages and offers eight all new languages including Afrikaans, Irish, Sesotho, Sundanese, Swahili, Xhosa, Zuluo and Javanese to give people in Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia the ability to transform their input experience with Swype’s unmatched continuous touch technology that started it all.
Swype has also increased dialect support to 22 languages and is bringing the power of its crowd-sourced Hotwords feature to its Polish and Arabic keyboard users, so trending words in phrases in each of those languages will automatically become available as part of their personalized language database.
“The response to Swype’s debut on Google Play has been amazing – propelling Swype to the number one new paid app in just three days,” said Aaron Sheedy, vice president of text input, Nuance Mobile. “And we’re committed to continuously expanding Swype’s innovations. This latest update brings Swype to new regions of the world and expands our crowd-sourcing capabilities – ultimately getting the most powerful keyboard for Android into the hands of even more millions of people worldwide.”
Additional items in this latest update for Swype include:
- Updated French, German, Russian, Italian and Spanish databases and word models
- Increased accuracy of next word predictions
- Simplified UI and better performance with Dragon Dictation
- New keyboard theme
Availability
Swype is now available for download on Google Play with a limited time price of $0.99. To learn more, visit http://www.nuance.com/products/swype.
Some items listed are opt-in connected features and are not required to use the Swype learning, living, keyboard. They include crowd-sourced updates (Living Language dialect support), hot words, Backup and Sync, and Dragon Dictation.
Swype is a part of Nuance’s portfolio of voice, touch and natural language understanding innovations that are defining a new generation of intelligent systems and personal assistant technologies, which include Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Dragon Dictate for Mac, Dragon Assistant for Intel-inspired Ultrabooks, Nuance Voice Ads, Dragon Dictation, Dragon Go!, Dragon Mobile Assistant, Dragon Drive, Dragon TV, Dragon ID, and Dragon Voicemail to Text. With Nuance technology, people experience more humanized interactions with the world’s best phones, tablets, computers, cars, TVs, apps and services from leading manufacturers and operators. To learn more visit www.nuancemobilelife.com.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Synaptics to Showcase Industry Leading SmartPhone, Tablet and PC Solutions at 2013 Computex Taipei
Synaptics News Release:
Synaptics to Showcase Industry Leading SmartPhone, Tablet and PC Solutions at 2013 Computex Taipei
Demonstrations to Include Innovative Human Interface Solutions That Drive Next-Generation Touch-Based Computing in Consumer Electronics
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – May 30, 2013 – Synaptics Inc. (NASDAQ: SYNA), a leading developer of human interface solutions, today announced it will be showcasing the latest in touch technologies at the 2013 Computex Show in Taipei, Taiwan. An expansive mobile device lineup equipped with Synaptics’ ClearPad® family of capacitive touchscreens solutions will be on display alongside the latest TouchPad™ and ThinTouch® solutions designed for the PC and tablet markets.
Synaptics harnesses its innovation-driven culture and deep systems-level engineering expertise to deliver the industry’s most advanced touch technologies, enhancing how consumers interact with today’s electronic devices. These technologies have now shipped in more than one billion devices from the world’s top-tier OEMs. Devices featured at Computex will include:
Notebook PC
- Lenovo Z400 featuring Synaptics TouchPad and 14.1” ClearPad touchscreen solution
- TouchPad family of interface solutions in devices from Dell, HP, and Samsung
- External TouchPad solutions from Dell, HP and Logitech
- ForcePad™ and ThinTouch keyboard implementations
SmartPhones and Tablets
- Samsung Galaxy S4 featuring Airview
- Huawei Ascend P2, Pantech Vega Iron and Oppo R809T featuring In-cell technology
- Nokia 820 and 920 Lumia smartphones, featuring glove support
- Google Nexus 4 and HTC One flagship smartphones
- Samsung Note 8, Sony Experia Z and Razer Edge tablets
To experience the latest in human interface technology, customers and suppliers are encouraged to contact their Synaptics partner to arrange a meeting time in Synaptics’ private suite at Computex in Taipei from June 4-8, 2013 (Grand Hyatt Taipei, Suite 1141). Media are encouraged to contact synaptics@text100.com to arrange a meeting time.
For up-to-the-minute Synaptics news, follow @SynaCorp on Twitter. For more information on Synaptics’ products and solutions please visit www.synaptics.com.
About Synaptics
As a leading developer of human interface solutions which enhance the user experience, Synaptics provides the broadest touch solutions portfolio in the industry. The ClearPad™ family supports touchscreen solutions for devices ranging from entry-level mobile phones to flagship premium smartphones, tablets and notebook PCs. The TouchPad™ family, including ClickPad® and ForcePad™, is integrated into the majority of today's notebook PCs. Synaptics’ wide portfolio also includes ThinTouch® supporting thin and light keyboard solutions, as well as key technologies for next generation touch-enabled video and display applications.
(NASDAQ: SYNA) www.synaptics.com
As a leading developer of human interface solutions which enhance the user experience, Synaptics provides the broadest touch solutions portfolio in the industry. The ClearPad™ family supports touchscreen solutions for devices ranging from entry-level mobile phones to flagship premium smartphones, tablets and notebook PCs. The TouchPad™ family, including ClickPad® and ForcePad™, is integrated into the majority of today's notebook PCs. Synaptics’ wide portfolio also includes ThinTouch® supporting thin and light keyboard solutions, as well as key technologies for next generation touch-enabled video and display applications.
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Synaptics, ClearPad, TouchPad, ClickPad, ForcePad, ThinTouch, and the Synaptics logo are trademarks of Synaptics in the United States and/or other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
SCANSOURCE, INC. REPOSITIONS CISCO PRACTICE FOR INCREASED FOCUS ON COLLABORATION PORTFOLIO
ScanSource News Release:
GREENVILLE, SC - May 30, 2013 -
SCANSOURCE, INC. REPOSITIONS CISCO PRACTICE FOR INCREASED FOCUS ON COLLABORATION PORTFOLIO
GREENVILLE, SC - May 30, 2013 -
ScanSource, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCSC), the leading international value-added distributor of specialty technology products, announced today that it has moved its Cisco practice from the ScanSource Security business unit to its ScanSource Catalyst business unit. ScanSource Catalyst is a specialty distributor that has been focused on voice, video and networking solutions and support for more than 15 years.
ScanSource Catalyst’s reseller partners will realize significant benefits by having access to Cisco’s collaboration and networking products, while Cisco resellers will benefit from ScanSource Catalyst’s specialty focus, including its people, tools and solutions. Specialized team members, including Enablement Specialists to help resellers embrace collaboration products and Design Engineers to help create solutions, are armed and ready to support resellers with their Cisco practice.
Tools provided by ScanSource Catalyst include its Collaboration FastQuote Tool, which helps speed up the quoting process for resellers, as well as internal tools and support to assist the Cisco field sales force. In addition, ScanSource Catalyst provides complementary solutions from many of its industry-leading manufacturer partners to round out its collaboration offering. Resellers have access to professional services that can enhance their product offerings, including network assessments, provisioning, staging and pre-programming of collaboration solutions. ScanSource Catalyst also offers a focused and highly trained Unified Communications and Collaboration sales force that is 100% Cisco certified and has an average of more than ten years’ experience.
“We are very excited to add Cisco’s Collaboration and Networking solutions to the ScanSource Catalyst line card,” said Mike Ferney, vice president of merchandising, ScanSource Catalyst. “Cisco’s industry-leading technologies and market presence in the communications space is an ideal match for our established expertise and experience in this space.”
“ScanSource is a valued distribution partner within Cisco’s channel ecosystem. With ScanSource Catalyst now providing its partners access to Cisco products, partners will be well-positioned to provide industry-leading product offerings and capitalize on enhanced support and expertise from ScanSource,” says Richard McLeod, senior director, collaboration sales, Worldwide Channels, Cisco.
About ScanSource, Inc.ScanSource, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCSC) is the leading international distributor of specialty technology products, operating from dedicated business units in North America, Latin America and Europe. ScanSource POS & Barcode delivers AIDC (automatic identification and data capture) and POS (point-of-sale) solutions; ScanSource Catalyst and ScanSource Communications provide voice, video, data and converged communications equipment; ScanSource Security offers physical security solutions; and ScanSource Services Group delivers value-added support programs and services. Founded in 1992, the company ranks #711 on the Fortune 1000. For more information, call the toll-free sales telephone number at 800.944.2432 or visit www.scansourceinc.com.
Voonami Helps Enterprises Transition from Private Cloud to Hybrid Cloud with VMware Network Virtualization
Voonami Helps Enterprises Transition from Private Cloud to Hybrid Cloud with VMware Network Virtualization
Network Virtualization Helps Simplify the Provisioning and Replication of Complex Application Environments
PALO ALTO, Calif., May 29, 2013 —VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced Voonami, Inc., is using VMware network virtualization to help enterprise customers transition from private clouds to hybrid clouds. VMware network virtualization enables Voonami to make applications and networks portable for customers by simplifying the creation of complex environments in one data center. These environments can then be programmatically replicated multiple times in other data centers without having to touch the underlying physical network infrastructure. This capability helps Voonami provide customers greater flexibility in choosing between public, private and hybrid cloud models.
“With our existing infrastructure, moving applications around and deploying new applications can be costly and time consuming,” said Ben Bush, president, Voonami. “To meet the speed and agility requirements of our customers, we deployed network virtualization to decouple the network from the underlying physical infrastructure. Now we can instantly and programmatically create complex multi-tier application architectures. In our experience, there was no other way for us to accomplish this without network virtualization.”
Voonami offers services ranging from traditional co-location services to fully hosted, managed cloud applications. The ability to streamline the setup and replication of application environments has proven to be a key differentiator for the company. Often, customers could not easily replicate their production environment in their staging and development environments. Voonami is now able to create one self-contained environment that uses network virtualization to connect virtualized web servers, app servers, database servers, remote access and VPNs that all tie back into an application. This fully virtualized application environment is then mirrored in three different instances for DevOps, staging and production. This process takes minutes or hours rather than the days and weeks it would take to deploy these scenarios physically.
“With network virtualization, Voonami is delivering enterprise-class architectures at cloud speeds,” said Hatem Naguib, vice president, Cloud Networking and Security, VMware. “This demonstrates the power of network virtualization to fundamentally change how applications and networks are deployed and illustrates how forward-thinking businesses such as Voonami can use network virtualization to capitalize on the cloud opportunity.”
Additional Resources
- Learn more about the Software-Defined Data Center
- Learn more about VMware Network Virtualization
- Connect with VMware on Twitter and Facebook
About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2012 revenues of $4.61 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 55,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2012 revenues of $4.61 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 55,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
VMware is registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective organizations. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
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Nuance to Accelerate Its Successful Automotive Business with Acquisition of Tweddle Connect
Nuance Press Release:
Nuance to Accelerate Its Successful Automotive Business with Acquisition of Tweddle Connect
Nuance to Expand Dragon Drive with Voice-Powered Connectivity to Popular Content and Apps for a Safer, Smarter Connected Car
Burlington, MA – May 30, 2013 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced it has signed an agreement with Tweddle Group to acquire the Tweddle Connect business. Tweddle Connect is an application and content service delivery platform for in-car infotainment systems, including the acclaimed Toyota Entune and Lexus Enform App Suite. Tweddle Connect aggregates popular third-party applications and content, such as Bing, iHeart Radio, OpenTable and Pandora, and delivers it safely and securely into the driving environment. The combination of Dragon Drive, Nuance’s world-class automotive-grade voice platform, and Tweddle Connect provides automakers with a single, powerful set of services to create branded personal assistant experiences for a safer, smarter connected car.
Already shipping in more than 20 million cars each year, Nuance’s voice, text-to-speech and natural language understanding solutions power Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Hyundai, Toyota and many other automakers’ innovations. Nuance’s Dragon Drive voice solution supports a range of functionality like voice dialing, message dictation, navigation, local business search, music search, climate control and more.
The combination of Nuance’s Dragon Drive and Tweddle Connect bridges the current gap between voice, on-board applications, and connected third-party applications and content. Tweddle Connect’s end-to-end service delivery platform will be combined with Dragon Drive’s hybrid embedded-connected voice platform to provide automakers a single, turn-key solution that offers voice, natural language understanding, dialog management, expressive text-to-speech, in-car connectivity, apps, content and dynamic application user authentication – all integrated as part of one holistic offering.
Tweddle Connect provides a communication link between its cloud-based services and the car’s electronic system, as well as an integration layer for smart phone applications. Consumers, dealers, or automakers can manage apps and content through an online secure user portal. Dynamic authentication gives drivers the ability to automatically connect to their favorite apps and services as soon as they enter the car.
This acquisition accelerates and broadens Nuance’s participation in the large and rapidly growing connected car market. According to ABI Research, the number of US connected car subscriptions will grow at a 30% compound annual growth rate from 16 million in 2012 to 53 million in 2017. Automotive News estimates that the global installed base of connected cars will reach 210 million by 2016. At the heart of this rapid growth is strong consumer demand for in-car access to voice-enabled personal assistant capabilities they have come to love on their smartphones, coupled with additional car-specific applications, such as roadside assistance, real-time traffic and location-based services. The JD Power 2012 U.S. Automotive Emerging Technologies Study on consumer demands for in-car technology found that 69% of respondents want natural language voice activation and 68% want wireless connectivity in the car.
The purchase price for the acquisition is approximately $80 million in cash. Nuance expects to close the transaction in Q3 2013; fiscal year 2013 revenues are expected to be immaterial. In Nuance’s fiscal year 2014, the acquisition is expected to generate approximately $25 million in non-GAAP revenue and to add approximately $13 million to cash flow from operations. Nuance will acquire Tweddle Connect’s existing revenue streams, as well as the cash flow and revenue streams associated with ongoing shipments. Nuance expects to drive growth by leveraging existing relationships with the top auto makers and Tier 1 suppliers, as well as Nuance’s operational expertise in managing high-volume hosted services.
“We see explosive growth in the connected car market, and there is clear demand from automakers to deliver safer and more intuitive access to the content and apps that people know and love,” said Michael Thompson, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Nuance Mobile. “The strategic combination of Nuance and Tweddle Connect will greatly improve the ability to bring an important category of content – third party applications and web services – into connected car systems. With this acquisition, Nuance is leveraging an opportunity to increase the value and usability of connected car systems, while accelerating Nuance’s ability to give automakers the elements needed for branded, differentiated connected car experiences.”
Following Nuance’s acquisition of the Tweddle Connect business, the parent company Tweddle Group will continue its more than 60 year history of providing vehicle- and owner-related information and publishing solutions to automotive OEMs and their suppliers.
Conference Call Advisory
Nuance will hold a conference call that will begin at 8:30 a.m. EDT and will include brief comments on the deal followed by questions and answers.
To access the live broadcast, please visit the Investor Relations section of Nuance’s Website atwww.nuance.com. The call can also be heard by dialing (800) 230-1096 or (612) 288-0329 at least five minutes prior to the call and referencing code 294628. A replay will be available within 24 hours of the announcement by dialing (800) 475-6701 or (320) 365-3844 and using the access code 294628.
About Nuance Communications, Inc.
Nuance is a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications and professional services. For more information, please visit: nuance.com.
About Tweddle Group
With offices in Detroit, Mich.; Mechelen, Belgium; Lugo, Modena, Torino, Italy; London, U.K.; and Shanghai, China; Tweddle Group is a leading provider of information and publishing solutions for automotive OEMs and their suppliers. Tweddle’s unique combination of services encompasses content development, management, and delivery of products that support OEM service and owner information initiatives. For more information, please visit www.tweddle.com.
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Berkeley Lab Announces Director's Awards: Physicist, Big Data Expert Recognized for Lifetime Achievement
News Release:
Nygren was honored for his distinguished development of instrumentation in particle physics, the most famous being the Time Projection Chamber. The TPC has been a mainstay of particle and nuclear physics experiments and lies at the heart of major projects including ALICE at the Large Hadron Collider.
Shoshani’s award citation noted that his “work has proven essential to establishing the data-driven approach as a new paradigm of scientific discovery.” He has revolutionized the way scientists in high-energy physics and other sciences have managed their Big Data.
The Lab’s Exceptional Achievement honorees this year include Ron Zuckerman (Safety), Warren Byrne (Service), Nathan Hillson (Tech Transfer), Roy Kaltschmidt (Outreach), Jill Fuss and Elizabeth Bautista (Diversity), David Kestell (Operations), and Haimei Zheng, Kevin Einsweiler, Rebecca Abergel, Peter Nugent, Kam-Biu Luk, and Kristin Persson (Science). Team awards went to Evan Mills, Norman Bourassa, Leo Rainer, and Gregory Homan (Societal Impact), and the HR Recruiting/Hiring Technology Improvement group (Operations). Go here for more on the Berkeley Lab Prize, and here for Achievement Awards.
MAY 30, 2013
Science Short
The recipients of the Berkeley Lab Director’s Lifetime and Exceptional Achievement Awards have been announced. David Nygren (Physics) and Arie Shoshani (Computational Research) are the recipients of the Berkeley Lab Prize Lifetime Achievement Award.
Lifetime Achievement Award winners David Nygren (left) and Arie Shoshani.Shoshani’s award citation noted that his “work has proven essential to establishing the data-driven approach as a new paradigm of scientific discovery.” He has revolutionized the way scientists in high-energy physics and other sciences have managed their Big Data.
The Lab’s Exceptional Achievement honorees this year include Ron Zuckerman (Safety), Warren Byrne (Service), Nathan Hillson (Tech Transfer), Roy Kaltschmidt (Outreach), Jill Fuss and Elizabeth Bautista (Diversity), David Kestell (Operations), and Haimei Zheng, Kevin Einsweiler, Rebecca Abergel, Peter Nugent, Kam-Biu Luk, and Kristin Persson (Science). Team awards went to Evan Mills, Norman Bourassa, Leo Rainer, and Gregory Homan (Societal Impact), and the HR Recruiting/Hiring Technology Improvement group (Operations). Go here for more on the Berkeley Lab Prize, and here for Achievement Awards.
Mobile Solutions from SAP Help Feeding America Deliver Food to Families in Need
SAP Press Release:
Mobile Solutions from SAP Help Feeding America Deliver Food to Families in Need
Now Truck Drivers for Distribution Centers Can Track Food Picked Up and Delivered on Mobile Devices, Freeing Resources to Help More Directly Serve 37 Million Food-Insecure Americans
CHICAGO - As part of its mission to help the world run better and improve people's lives, SAP AG(NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has donated mobile technology and professional services toFeeding America, one of the nation's leading hunger relief organizations. This donation will to help speed the flow of food across Feeding America's nationwide network of more than 200 food banks and 61,000 partner agencies.
With SAP® Mobile Platform, truck drivers at food distribution centers across the country can use mobile handheld devices to track their daily inventory versus demand from food pantries and shelters. Armed with this information, drivers can more quickly divvy up food proportionally among their clients and deliver balanced, healthy meals. Improved stock management and route planning frees up resources so Feeding America can direct more energy to helping people in need.
Currently, Feeding America provides food to more than 37 million people through 61,000 food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in communities across America. They do this by "rescuing" food from retailers that is surplus, near the expiration date or in damaged packages but still edible. Truck drivers are critical to this operation — every day they collect food and bring it to the partner agencies, making sure food goes from grocery stores to families' dinner tables.
In the past, truck drivers had to manually fill in forms to document every item that they picked up at a retailer or delivered to an agency, which then had to be loaded into the Feeding America system for inventory management. Using mobile technology from SAP, Truck drivers can now capture all items electronically on a mobile device that automatically delivers the information directly into the back-end system. Feeding America and SAP worked together using SAP Mobile Platform and its application development tools to create the custom solution. Deploying SAP Mobile Platform will help the organization eliminate time-consuming paperwork and allow Feeding America to devote more time to helping people.
"Our mission is to feed America's hungry through our nationwide network of member food banks, and the technology from SAP will revolutionize the way we rescue and distribute food," said Kevin Lutz, vice president of technology, Feeding America. "The efficiencies we gain from SAP mobile technology translate to more food on the table for hungry families. With every dollar we save, we are able to help secure eight more meals. Using mobile technology helps reduce our operating expenses, which will ultimately enable us to put more trucks on the road that can pick up and deliver more food."
Feeding America started with a pilot program using SAP Mobile Platform to build a custom app at Forgotten Harvest in Detroit, where the depressed automotive industry has resulted in an exponential increase in hungry citizens. The solution is already helping drivers. For example, handheld devices show them what food has already been "pre-loaded" into their trucks before the day starts so they can determine what other pick-ups are required to complete a nutritious meal for agency recipients. Feeding America plans to roll out the app built on SAP Mobile Platform more broadly across its network in the fall of 2013.
"Our collaboration with Feeding America is a perfect example of how mobile technology from SAP helps the world run better and improves people's lives," said Rich Padula, senior vice president, Mobile Strategy, SAP. "This project shows the impact technology can have on the life of one individual. It's the difference between going to bed hungry or not, and for a child that's a world of difference. SAP understands that a sustainable future for our planet relies on using technology innovation to bridge the gaps in society to make sure basic needs are taken care of — and beyond."
For this project, SAP donated custom services, free training and mentoring over the life of the project. The company also included enough software licenses to cover Feeding America's entire network. "SAP really went the extra mile to better enable us to exceed our goals going forward," continued Lutz. "The team designed and developed the solution to our exact specifics, which has enabled us to help feed more people in a shorter amount of time more efficiently. With the technology and mentoring, our drivers now receive and process their orders, record donations and deliveries in the moment on their handheld devices."
SAP has provided technology donations to over 5,000 non-governmental and non-profit organizations. A combination of software, training, and other services from SAP helps recipients improve critical business areas such as performance management, fundraising operations and donor reporting.
About Feeding America
Feeding America is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that leads the fight against hunger in the United States. Together, we provide food to more than 37 million people through 61,000 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters in communities across America. Feeding America also supports programs that improve food security among the people we serve; educates the public about the problem of hunger; and advocates for legislation that protects people from going hungry. Individuals, charities, businesses and government all have a role in ending hunger. Donate. Volunteer. Advocate. Educate. Together we can solve hunger. Visit http://www.feedingamerica.org/. Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FeedingAmerica or follow us on Twitter atwww.twitter.com/FeedingAmerica.
Follow Feeding America at @FeedingAmerica and Forgotten Harvest at @ForgottnHarvest.
With SAP® Mobile Platform, truck drivers at food distribution centers across the country can use mobile handheld devices to track their daily inventory versus demand from food pantries and shelters. Armed with this information, drivers can more quickly divvy up food proportionally among their clients and deliver balanced, healthy meals. Improved stock management and route planning frees up resources so Feeding America can direct more energy to helping people in need.
Currently, Feeding America provides food to more than 37 million people through 61,000 food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in communities across America. They do this by "rescuing" food from retailers that is surplus, near the expiration date or in damaged packages but still edible. Truck drivers are critical to this operation — every day they collect food and bring it to the partner agencies, making sure food goes from grocery stores to families' dinner tables.
In the past, truck drivers had to manually fill in forms to document every item that they picked up at a retailer or delivered to an agency, which then had to be loaded into the Feeding America system for inventory management. Using mobile technology from SAP, Truck drivers can now capture all items electronically on a mobile device that automatically delivers the information directly into the back-end system. Feeding America and SAP worked together using SAP Mobile Platform and its application development tools to create the custom solution. Deploying SAP Mobile Platform will help the organization eliminate time-consuming paperwork and allow Feeding America to devote more time to helping people.
"Our mission is to feed America's hungry through our nationwide network of member food banks, and the technology from SAP will revolutionize the way we rescue and distribute food," said Kevin Lutz, vice president of technology, Feeding America. "The efficiencies we gain from SAP mobile technology translate to more food on the table for hungry families. With every dollar we save, we are able to help secure eight more meals. Using mobile technology helps reduce our operating expenses, which will ultimately enable us to put more trucks on the road that can pick up and deliver more food."
Feeding America started with a pilot program using SAP Mobile Platform to build a custom app at Forgotten Harvest in Detroit, where the depressed automotive industry has resulted in an exponential increase in hungry citizens. The solution is already helping drivers. For example, handheld devices show them what food has already been "pre-loaded" into their trucks before the day starts so they can determine what other pick-ups are required to complete a nutritious meal for agency recipients. Feeding America plans to roll out the app built on SAP Mobile Platform more broadly across its network in the fall of 2013.
"Our collaboration with Feeding America is a perfect example of how mobile technology from SAP helps the world run better and improves people's lives," said Rich Padula, senior vice president, Mobile Strategy, SAP. "This project shows the impact technology can have on the life of one individual. It's the difference between going to bed hungry or not, and for a child that's a world of difference. SAP understands that a sustainable future for our planet relies on using technology innovation to bridge the gaps in society to make sure basic needs are taken care of — and beyond."
For this project, SAP donated custom services, free training and mentoring over the life of the project. The company also included enough software licenses to cover Feeding America's entire network. "SAP really went the extra mile to better enable us to exceed our goals going forward," continued Lutz. "The team designed and developed the solution to our exact specifics, which has enabled us to help feed more people in a shorter amount of time more efficiently. With the technology and mentoring, our drivers now receive and process their orders, record donations and deliveries in the moment on their handheld devices."
SAP has provided technology donations to over 5,000 non-governmental and non-profit organizations. A combination of software, training, and other services from SAP helps recipients improve critical business areas such as performance management, fundraising operations and donor reporting.
About Feeding America
Feeding America is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that leads the fight against hunger in the United States. Together, we provide food to more than 37 million people through 61,000 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters in communities across America. Feeding America also supports programs that improve food security among the people we serve; educates the public about the problem of hunger; and advocates for legislation that protects people from going hungry. Individuals, charities, businesses and government all have a role in ending hunger. Donate. Volunteer. Advocate. Educate. Together we can solve hunger. Visit http://www.feedingamerica.org/. Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FeedingAmerica or follow us on Twitter atwww.twitter.com/FeedingAmerica.
Follow Feeding America at @FeedingAmerica and Forgotten Harvest at @ForgottnHarvest.
To learn more, watch a video: "Feeding America: Customer Testimonial." For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom.
About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 197,000 customers (includes customers from the acquisition of SuccessFactors) to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.
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Red Hat Announces Beta Availability of Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0
Red Hat News Release:
Red Hat Announces Beta Availability of Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0
May 30, 2013
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team
Developers rely on the right development tools in order to take advantage of technology innovations in next generation applications. For those developers, Red Hat is pleased to announce the Beta availability of Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0. This latest version bridges development agility with production stability by delivering the latest stable versions of essential development tools to enhance developer productivity and improve deployment times.
Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 introduces new tools to its content set – including the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) – and updates key packages to help developers deliver new applications and functionality faster. Red Hat Developer Toolset enables C and C++ developers to compile once and deploy to multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Moreover, Red Hat Developer Toolset can be used to develop applications for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and on OpenShift, offering customers exceptional flexibility.
Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 introduces new tools to its content set – including the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) – and updates key packages to help developers deliver new applications and functionality faster. Red Hat Developer Toolset enables C and C++ developers to compile once and deploy to multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Moreover, Red Hat Developer Toolset can be used to develop applications for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and on OpenShift, offering customers exceptional flexibility.
Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 delivers the following capabilities and enhancements:
- Eclipse 4.3.0 weaves together a full set of tools required for software development in the most popular programming languages into an IDE, thereby enhancing developer productivity.
- Dyninst 8.0 delivers a powerful application program interface (API) that aids the development of performance measurement tools, debuggers, and simulators by permitting the insertion of code into a running program.
- Strace 4.7 helps developers more efficiently debug programs and identify the root cause of crashes or other unexpected behaviors by tracking the system calls made and received by a process.
- MEMSTOMP provides tools to help identify code with undefined behavior at a lower runtime cost than other tools such as Valgrind.
- Updated GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) 4.8 offers significant enhancements including:
- Improvements in generated code quality on ia32 and x86-64 targets via a new, Red Hat contributed Local Register Allocator;
- Support for the latest C++ language specification;
- Ability to compile extremely large functions with smaller memory consumption in less time; and
- Support for Hardware Transactional Memory on upcoming CPU architectures
- Additional updates, including elfutils 0.155, SystemTap 2.1, Valgrind 3.8.1, OProfile 0.9.8 and DWZ 0.10.
In addition to these enhancements, Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0 also continues to deliver software collections functionality, which enables the concurrent installation of multiple versions of the same RPM packages on a system.
Red Hat Developer Toolset is available for users who develop applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 who are currently subscribed to one of the following offerings. Interested parties with active subscriptions can access and download the Beta for Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0today from their RHN account:
Red Hat Developer Toolset is available for users who develop applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 who are currently subscribed to one of the following offerings. Interested parties with active subscriptions can access and download the Beta for Red Hat Developer Toolset 2.0today from their RHN account:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Support Subscriptions
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Workstation
- NFR subscriptions for qualifying Partners
To learn more about Red Hat developer offerings, visit the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Program page.
Troup County School System Chooses Dell to Support Personalized Learning
Dell Press Release:
Troup County School System Chooses Dell to Support Personalized Learning
Date : 5/29/2013
Round Rock, Texas
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