Zurich Insurance PLC Deploys Accenture Duck Creek Policy for Core Processing of Multiple Lines of Business in the UK

From Accenture:

January 12, 2015

Zurich Insurance PLC Deploys Accenture Duck Creek Policy for Core Processing of Multiple Lines of Business in the UK

New software supports seven property and casualty lines of business, increasing speed of product development and deployment

NEW YORK; Jan. 12, 2015 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced that Accenture Duck Creek Policy is now in production at global insurer Zurich, supporting its general insurance business in the United Kingdom. The new system will enable Zurich to streamline processes and deploy insurance products faster, assisting the insurer’s efforts to more efficiently manage its business as it continues to expand its offering within the small and medium enterprise (SME) insurance marketplace. Duck Creek Policy is powering ZTrade, a new trading platform that delivers new products, pricing and self-service all from one place. Details about Zurich’s ZTrade platform can be viewed at http://www.tradeupwithztrade.co.uk/about-ztrade.php.

Accenture Duck Creek Policy supports the complete policy lifecycle for seven of Zurich’s lines of business with additional lines to be added over the coming months. Implementation of the software was managed by Syntel, a strategic delivery partner for Accenture Duck Creek software.

“We needed a system that would help us differentiate our insurance proposition in the market and Accenture Duck Creek had the best product definition and rating engine,” Adam Warwick, Director Business Change and IT at Zurich UK General Insurance. “With this software, we have used the ability to configure the platform to deliver unique features of our own design, which is a significant benefit and will help us to continue to provide better customer service as we grow our SME business.”

“Zurich is focused on expanding its presence and our software offers the flexibility and scalability to meet their business demands now and in the future,” said Michael A. Jackowski, global managing director of Accenture Duck Creek. “It is designed to provide the rapid response needed to develop and deploy products and to define workflows that will improve operational efficiency and the sales distribution channel.”

Accenture Duck Creek Policy is one of the core components in the suite of software that also includes rating, billing, and claims solutions. Each component can be implemented independently or combined for an integrated approach to manage all aspects of the P&C insurance lifecycle.

About Zurich
Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) is a leading multi-line insurer that serves its customers in global and local markets. With more than 55,000 employees, it provides a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services. Zurich’s customers include individuals, small businesses, and mid-sized and large companies, including multinational corporations, in more than 170 countries. The Group is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1872. The holding company, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd (ZURN), is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has a level I American Depositary Receipt (ZURVY) program, which is traded over-the-counter on OTCQX. Further information about Zurich is available at www.zurich.com.

*Zurich’s UK Life business is operated primarily through two entities: Zurich Assurance Ltd and Sterling ISA Managers Ltd. Zurich Assurance Ltd is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Sterling ISA Managers Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 319,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$30.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2014. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Accenture Duck Creek is a software suite offering comprehensive, full-featured property & casualty insurance software and SaaS solutions. Its configurable solutions are designed to work as a full end-to-end suite or as individual standalone components that adapt quickly and seamlessly to handle the unique needs of insurers of all sizes. Duck Creek software enables carriers to make better decisions in a real-time environment, streamline operations and improve their level of customer service. For more information, visitwww.accenture.com/duckcreek.

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New Samsung Chip Makes Phone Faster Than Laptop

Samsung is set to make mobile devices bigger, faster, and more brilliant in the very near future. The company announced that it has begun mass production on the very first 8-gigabit LPDDR4 Mobile DRAM mobile memory module.

The new chip marks a new benchmark for mobile devices aimed at being the best. In fact, Samsung’s innovation means the best mobile devices likely will have more memory than a lot of laptops and desktop computers.

New Samsung Chip Makes Phone Faster Than Laptop

SAP CRM Rapid-Deployment Solution for Citizen Contact Center Helps Cities Run Better Than Ever

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SAP CRM Rapid-Deployment Solution for Citizen Contact Center Helps Cities Run Better Than Ever

SAP NEWSBYTE - August 02, 2012 | SAP - Industries

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the release of the SAP CRM rapid-deployment solution for citizen contact center as part of the SAP Urban Matters program. The solution, now generally available, helps simplify and accelerate the implementation of a government multi-channel contact center, enabling governments to provide services and information to citizens in a consistent manner while providing the highest levels of customer service. The solution also allows governments to more efficiently manage and monitor their organizations and operations.

The SAP CRM rapid-deployment solution for citizen contact center is a combination of software, pre-configured content and pre-defined services specifically tailored for government multi-channel contact centers. The solution supports phone, email, online and chat channels, and is delivered with low upfront cost thanks to fixed-price and timeframe implementation services that mitigate financial risk and uncertainty. As a result of pre-configuration and the rapid-deployment methodology, governments can deploy in less than 12 weeks.

"Governments everywhere are looking for ways to increase efficiency, improve services and get citizens more engaged," said Jens Romaus, senior vice president and global head, Public Services Industry Solutions, SAP. "The rapid deployment of citizen contact center with CRM enables our customers to quickly benefit from superior functionality combined with industry best practices. The solution can be deployed quickly for a fixed cost, helping them achieve quick results while minimizing the risks typically associated with a new software project."

The SAP Urban Matters program focuses on helping urban governments improve the lives of citizens. The SAP CRM rapid-deployment solution for citizen contact center enables governments to increase engagement with citizens, improve efficiency, deliver better services, address social inclusion and become more open. The solution is built using a shared service model concept that enables the core customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities to be reused for future projects, helping further increase return on investment (ROI). SAP has additional public sector solutions for social services, public security, tax and revenue management, citizen services and grantor management that can leverage this framework. Customers can also support social channels and mobile deployments as an extension of the solution as their needs evolve.

"At a time when governments worldwide are grappling with shrinking budgets, there is still a need to improve the level of service to constituents," said Steven Birdsall, senior vice president and general manager, SAP Rapid Deployment solutions. "The SAP CRM rapid-deployment solution for citizen contact center helps to unlock hidden efficiencies and resources through a proven and predictable solution that will deliver benefits in weeks. This modular approach opens a path to ongoing improvements, extending the functionality into new service channels, such as social or mobile, or new business needs, such as analytics."

SAP Rapid Deployment solutions combine pre-configured content, best practices and pre-defined services to quickly deploy a wide gamut of enterprise technology with rapid cost-savings. Enterprises achieve full visibility over their deployments thanks to a defined scope with predictable costs. The average timeframe for a typical deployment is less than 90 days, which helps customers lower the cost of implementation, speed time to value and extend the solution when needed. In addition to this solution, SAP Rapid Deployment solutions are available to public sector customers across the full SAP portfolio, including all environments – on premise, cloud and mobile – to quickly and incrementally adopt new business functionality and innovative solutions for in-memory computing, analytics, mobility and more.

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High-Definition Video-Enabled Web Conferencing Improves Medical Care and Access to Specialists in Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 31, 2012 – The Stamboulian Group announced that it has implemented a Cisco® collaboration solution that allows healthcare specialists to consult with each other, improving the quality of medical care for HIV patients who live in remote cities such as Neuquén, Córdoba and Salta. The solution, based on Cisco WebEx® web conferencing technology also helps specialists to discuss solutions for infectious disease pathologies as well as other treatments and facilitates researchers' collaboration and medical training.

WebEx® enables one Stamboulian clinic and two Helios Salud clinics to perform specialized consultations among professionals working remotely, demonstrating that geographic distance is no longer an obstacle to providing high-quality medical care.

Key Facts:

• This system facilitates the interaction between specialists, no matter where they work or live. It improves the quality of patient care and the efficiency of medical attention.
• It allows for case discussions and "grand rounds" among HIV specialists
• It accelerates access to specialists for interconsultations.
• It optimizes resources in an efficient way.
• This solution also enabled Grupo Stamboulian clinics to collaborate with the University of Miami using a new medical protocol for training.
• This telemedicine project is an initiative of the Stamboulian Group and is part of the group's strategy for telemedicine and telehealth. It has been promoted by Dr. Daniel Stamboulian, and defines a new modality of services to improve the quality of HIV and infectious disease treatments using teleprocesses in medical administration. The project consists of Web-based solutions and integrates electronic joint consultations and trainings, connecting remote sites to three specialty centers, maintaining efficiency in clinical decision-making and therapeutic resolution.

Supporting Quotes

Dr Daniel Stamboulian, general director of Stamboulian Group

"We strongly believe in telemedicine and are innovating in this field as part of our long term strategy. Health is one of the great concerns, and this service will shorten waiting times, facilitate opportune diagnosis, and keep illnesses from getting worse."

Marta Garcia, executive director of Helios Salud

"The telemedicine project in Helios Salud is in line with the corporate e-health program whose objective is to make high-end technologies available for the existing health care system."

Alejandro Cambours, general manager of Helios Salud

"We needed a powerful communication tool with excellent-quality video and audio that could share visual references from a variety of media. It was also important that we be able to connect people from multiple locations, and that the tool be easy to learn and use. Cisco WebEx technology met all of these requirements."

Gustavo Menéndez, managing director, Cisco Latin America, Business Transformation

"The use of Cisco WebEx technology brings about more equitable and more effective access to health care for patients, regardless of where they live, which has generated a change in the traditional paradigm of health care delivery."

About Stamboulian Group

The Infectology Center was created by Dr Daniel Stamboulian in 1974, to carry out co-ordination and systematic management of an infectious disease service for the country.

About Helios Salud

For more than 25 years, Helios Salud has been caring for HIV patients helping them to improve their quality of life.

We believed HIV presented an opportunity for quality care, research and study so we created a Center of Care and Support based on a firm ethic line and the highest professional standards, prioritizing the patient and his/her family and providing them with a worm human consideration and quality of care.

Our "Helios Salud" ambulatory center was founded in September 1997 and today it provides integral HIV care to more than 3500 patients per month

Our multidisciplinary team is highly committed and passionate about helping our patients, doing research and providing continued medical education.

Nowadays, "Helios Salud" has a network of professionals around the country and has developed professional research links in several countries around the world.

About Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com and http://newsroom.cisco.com/latam.

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SAP to Extend Country Road Map, Offer Solution Development Kit for SAP Business ByDesign Solution

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SAP to Extend Country Road Map, Offer Solution Development Kit for SAP Business ByDesign Solution

SAP NEWSBYTE - July 26, 2012 | SAP - Cloud Computing

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the second 2012 release of the SAP Business ByDesign solution. The cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is moving to a quarterly release cycle and is scheduled for availability in four additional countries: Denmark, Italy, Netherlands and Spain. The announcement follows the news of the company's largest SAP Business ByDesign customer win to date with the New South Wales Department of Trade & Investment in Australia.

Additionally, a software development kit (SDK) for SAP Business ByDesign will enable partners and customers to extend solution functionality and build one-off cases for customer-specific requirements. As part of the kit, SAP will provide developers with various capabilities, including Web services, which will allow the newly created partner add-on to exchange information with existing SAP or third-party cloud applications. Reusable building blocks — so called templates — will enable partners to create customer-specific add-ons much faster. Improved usability, including advanced documentation and examples, will help partners understand and start working with the SDK instantly — reducing the need for extensive training. More than 20 partners have already signed the contract, which enables them to begin working with the SDK.

To address increased customer and partner interest in creating country-specific content, SAP will also provide a localization kit to help them fulfill specific local requirements. Some customers have already started to use the kit to build additional country versions for their subsidiaries.

Co-innovation with customers and partners is a key part of the design process of cloud solutions from SAP. To help facilitate this approach, SAP installed an idea forum a year and a half ago for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with a global forum in English following about six month later. The forum serves as an easy-to-use and highly impactful tool for customers and partners to provide requests and ideas for additional functionality. Out of a total of 1,400 entries, SAP has realized 800 and plans to make more available with the new version of SAP Business ByDesign, including:

• Additional services, manufacturing and distribution functionality: Service industry enhancements, including improved ability to combine both products and services on projects, which links material in sales orders to project tasks. Through this extended functionality, SAP Business ByDesign is planned to support service industries outside of the professional service core. The extended ability to sell service contracts supporting billing, service level agreements, execution and escalations are intended to provide greater support for managed services agreements common in IT, media, marketing and other consulting services. Planned enhancements for manufacturing and distribution include support for customers that manage and track onsite and in-house repair scenarios.
• Mobile extensibility: SAP intends to enable key users able to customize the view for processes within SAP Business ByDesign on their preferred mobile devices. This will extend the existing standard support for over 15 mobile scenarios, including time and expense, customer relationship management (CRM) and reporting.

To learn more, visit the Cloud Computing page on sap.com and the SAP Newsroom. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

Synopsys Mixed-Signal IC Design Solution Qualified for TowerJazz Power Management Reference Flow 2.0

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Synopsys Mixed-Signal IC Design Solution Qualified for TowerJazz Power Management Reference Flow 2.0

Collaboration Delivers Comprehensive Power Management Solution

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing, and TowerJazz (NASDAQ: TSEM, TASE: TSEM), the global specialty foundry leader, today announced that they have qualified Synopsys' unified mixed-signal IC design solution for TowerJazz's power management analog/mixed-signal reference design flow (Reference Flow 2.0) and 180-nanometer (nm) Power Management (PM) interoperable process design kit (iPDK). Synopsys' tool suite, the foundry iPDK and reference design flow are verified to seamlessly work together to enable designers to quickly become productive.
Synopsys' unified mixed-signal IC design flow includes the IC Compiler™ and Galaxy Custom Designer® physical co-design implementation solution, HSPICE® circuit simulation, CustomSim™ FastSPICE simulation, CustomSim-VCS® mixed-signal co-simulation, IC Validator physical verification, and StarRC™ parasitic extraction tools. The TowerJazz PM Reference Flow 2.0includes a reference design based on a 180-nm iPDK for the bipolar CMOS DMOS (BCD) process. The TowerJazz BCD power management process platform offers the combination of 180-nm CMOS logic density with a wide range of high-voltage power devices on a single chip to enable the design of complex power management integrated circuits (ICs).
"TowerJazz and Synopsys have an on-going collaboration to create and promote iPDKs as a standard for the custom design community," said Ori Galzur, vice president of design center and design enablement at TowerJazz. "This collaboration has now been extended to our new TowerJazz Power Management Reference Flow 2.0 and further expands our relationship to include a qualified Synopsys mixed-signal design solution that addresses the needs of power management IC design."
"As ICs become more heterogeneous with a mix of cell-based and custom implementation, designers require a unified implementation and verification solution to stay productive and competitive," said Bijan Kiani, vice president of product marketing at Synopsys. "With this foundry-qualified solution, our mutual customers will be able to more easily manage the increased complexity and aggressive development schedules of mixed-signal designs."
About SynopsysSynopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA), supplying the global electronics market with the software, intellectual property (IP) and services used in semiconductor design, verification and manufacturing. Synopsys' comprehensive, integrated portfolio of implementation, verification, IP, manufacturing and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions helps address the key challenges designers and manufacturers face today, such as power and yield management, system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. These technology-leading solutions help give Synopsys customers a competitive edge in bringing the best products to market quickly while reducing costs and schedule risk. Synopsys is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and has approximately 70 offices located throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. Visit Synopsys online at www.synopsys.com.
About TowerJazzTower  Semiconductor  Ltd. (NASDAQ: TSEM, TASE: TSEM), the global specialty foundry leader and  its fully owned U.S. subsidiary Jazz Semiconductor, operate collectively under the brand name TowerJazz, manufacturing integrated circuits with geometries ranging from  1.0  to  0.13-micron. TowerJazz provides industry leading design enablement tools to allow complex designs to be achieved quickly and more accurately and offers a broad range of customizable process technologies including SiGe, BiCMOS, mixed-signal and RFCMOS, CMOS image sensor, power management (BCD), and non-volatile memory (NVM), as well as MEMS capabilities. To provide world-class customer service, TowerJazz maintains two manufacturing facilities in Israel and one in the U.S. with additional capacity available in China through manufacturing partnerships. For more information, please visitwww.towerjazz.com.

SAP Addresses and Simplifies Global Business Travel Woes With Cloud Solution

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SAP Addresses and Simplifies Global Business Travel Woes With Cloud Solution

SAP NEWSBYTE - July 23, 2012 | SAP - Cloud Computing

As the pain and expenses associated with global business travel continue to increase, companies and business people alike are seeking effective and integrated software to help simplify the end-to-end process. SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced new cooperation with partners and solution providers and increased availability of the SAP Travel OnDemand solution, part of the company's growing portfolio of cloud offerings. The announcement was made at GBTA 2012, being held July 22-25 in Boston.

SAP Travel OnDemand is designed to let financial officers and business travelers deftly handle the end-to-end process of travel and expense management faster and with lower cost while staying in compliance with corporate policies. The cloud-based solution is already available in the U.S. and Germany; 14 additional country-specific versions are now also available, including: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, France, India, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Country-specific versions adhere to national tax and statutory requirements, allowing for a seamless user experience for large, multi-national companies.

"Our main criteria was finding a fully integrated, one-stop travel solution, taking us all the way from pre-trip approval and online booking to expense reporting," said Tony Velleca, chief information officer, UST Global. "It also had to be easy to use and mobile. We looked at others, but ultimately SAP is the only one with three decades of experience in this area. SAP Travel OnDemand gave us a trustworthy and effective way to handle one of the most complicated processes in the company."

SAP has widened its ecosystem to offer customers more flexibility to choose leading local providers for their specific business travel needs. Building on its existing ties with Paymetric for payment card industry (PCI) compliance, SAP today announced new collaboration with best-in-breed technology players in areas such as mobile payment processing, smart receipt management and global online booking tools.

• Smart Receipt Recognition with OpenText: The leader in receipt recognition services, OpenText's solution interprets multi-lingual/multi-currency receipt images sent to SAP Travel OnDemand. It turns the images into machine-readable information and automatically pre-populates the expense report, saving time and reducing steps for busy travelers.
• Online Booking Tools with e-Travel by Amadeus and cytric by i:FAO: Adding to its existing successful cooperation with GetThere, SAP, is also working with the two leading online booking tools from Amadeus and i:FAO, which can now offer customers even greater flexibility to choose among multiple tools based on their specific requirements, all while staying within the SAP Travel OnDemand system.
• Mobile Credit Card Payment with AirPlus International: For business travelers short on time, SAP and AirPlus International plan to provide automated, near field communication (NFC) mobile payment processing to help reduce costs and simplify the credit card clearing process on the back-end, while also streamlining and drastically reducing the effort required by the traveler.

Already a leader in on-premise financial and expense management, only SAP provides an integrated travel and expense solution to enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, including SAP ERP Financials and SAP ERP Human Capital Management. As a standard feature, SAP Travel OnDemand delivers add-ons for the SAP ERP application to the customer's on-premise SAP system that automatically enables the integration from the cloud-based SAP solution.

Since the March 2012 launch of SAP Travel OnDemand, SAP has doubled investment and committed to a faster pace of innovation, now delivering quarterly release cycles with new updates, features, partnerships and country versions to help ensure its customers take full advantage of the benefits of cloud applications.

Visit SAP at GBTA 2012, booth #2748. To learn more, visit the Cloud Computing page on sap.com and the SAP Newsroom. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

EMC "Certified Solution" Partner Program Heats Up

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EMC "Certified Solution" Partner Program Heats Up

Demonstrates Traction with 45 Certified Partner Solutions with Information Intelligence Group Products in First Year of Program; Announces Partner Innovation Awards for Solution Excellence

EMC WORLD, LAS VEGAS - May 22, 2012

News Highlights:

• EMC announces 45 partner solutions achieved "EMC® Certified Solution" status
• Certification validates the solution for performance, scalability and interoperability with Information Intelligence Group products
• EMC awards Americas' partners for Innovation in solution development and best practices in implementation, and the first President's Award for Customer Satisfaction

Full Story:

At EMC World 2012, EMC (NYSE:EMC) today announced significant progress with its global partner ecosystem, validating 45 partner-generated "EMC® Certified Solutions" in the first year. The certification is for tested, proven solutions that extend the functionality of products from the Information Intelligence Group (IIG) division of EMC. The Certified Solution program demonstrates a shared commitment for EMC and its partners to deliver solutions that drive direct business value for customers.

EMC Certified Solution Program

Announced at EMC World 2011, the EMC Certified Solutions program has quickly become a competitive differentiator for information management companies looking to innovate and build solutions and enabling technologies across the IIG product portfolio. These partner solutions are validated by EMC® Proven Professional Certified Architects as well as an independent third party organization for functional completeness, performance and scalability, security and interoperability. Certified status instills high standards of customer confidence in the solution architecture and foundation.

With more than 45 solutions certified globally, EMC is pleased to recognize recently EMC Certified Solutions and Enabling Technologies from the following partner organizations:

• 6pm Holdings PLC
• Arizen Systems Pte. Ltd.
• Daeja Image Systems Ltd
• enChoice, Inc.
• euroscript
• Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC)
• INFOTEHNA Group LLC
• International Turnkey Systems (ITS)
• Nantian Software Co., Ltd.
• Perficient, Inc.
• Reveille Software
• Trinity Technologies Corp
• Wave Technology Solutions Group
• Wipro Technologies

Partner Innovation and Customer Satisfaction Awards

EMC also announced the winners of its IIG Partner Innovation Awards for the Americas. These awards recognize partners for excellence in innovative solution development, design integration, and best practices in implementation and deployment. The partner award winners are:

• Best ApplicationXtender Solution: Business Imaging Systems for Life Insurance Policy Processing Solution
• Best Capture Solution: Information Capture Solutions for ICS Dental Claims Processing Solution
• Best Case Management Solution: BRT, Inc. for Accounts Payable Automation Solution
• Best Customer Communications Solution: ACS, a Xerox Company, for Enterprise II MMIS Solution
• Best eDiscovery Solution: eMag Solutions for eDiscovery Processing and Review Solution
• Best Pervasive Governance Solution: Paragon Solutions for Information Analytics & Remediation Solution
• Outstanding Industry Solution for Energy and Utilities: Trinity Technologies for Trinity Suite
• Outstanding Industry Solution for Financial Services: Paragon Solutions for New Account Opening Solution
• Outstanding Industry Solution for Healthcare: Gimmal LLC for Healthcare Information Management Imaging Solution
• Outstanding Industry Solution for Public Sector: Wave Technology Solutions Group for Tax Processing Management Solution
• Excellence in Services Integration: Flatirons Solutions for Application Retirement Solution
• Excellence in Design Integration: Pitney Bowes for Digital Mailroom Solution

Lastly, EMC announced its first-ever IIG President's Award for Customer Satisfaction, which recognizes partners for delivering high levels of customer satisfaction in a services or solution implementation. The award was presented to Capgemini.

Partner Quotes:

Christian Becht, Global ECM Lead, Capgemini France

"We are honored to be the first recipient of the President's Award for Customer Satisfaction from EMC's Information Intelligence Group. This validates our long-standing client focus and Collaborative Business Experience approach, which is the essence of how we work. We look forward to continued success, teaming with EMC to drive business value with the high standards of service and satisfaction our customers expect."

John Middleton, Vice President, BRT, Inc.

"We are delighted to receive the Best Case Management Solution award from EMC for our Accounts Payable Automation solution. Our customers continue to be faced with challenges in automating and streamlining complex processes. By leveraging EMC Documentum xCP and EMC Captiva technologies, we've built a solution that delivers significant efficiencies for customers. Our BRT Accounts Payable Automation solution was one of the first to achieve the EMC Certified Solution designation, which allows us to ensure higher degrees of customer confidence."

Executive Quote:

Chris McLaughlin, Vice President of Channels and Alliances for EMC's Information Intelligence Group

"The EMC Certified Solution program continues to gain momentum, with 45 solutions and enabling technologies certified to date. This program ensures customers will continue to achieve the solid business benefits they expect from EMC and its valued partner community; realizing efficiencies across their organizations' complex business processes, while achieving quicker time to value than ever before."

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about IIG Global Partner Program.
• Learn more about EMC Certified Solutions and Enabling Technologies
• Stay connected with Momentum on Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
• Follow the @EMC_Momentum account and join the #mmtm12 conversation on Twitter.
• Watch Live video streams and participate in Q&A during Momentum Keynotes and Buzz Talks:http://bitly.com/mmtm-live

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

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New Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0, The Only SaaS Endpoint Solution with Device Control Technology

• Panda Security’s new cloud-based service is the only SaaS endpoint solution with device control technology, enhancing security and productivity
• New Malware Freezer quarantines detected malware for a week, protecting the system in the event of a false positive
• For more information about Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0, please visithttp://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/cloud-office-protection/

Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, today announced the release of Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0, the only Software-as-a-Service endpoint security solution that includes Device Controltechnologies designed to prevent the spread of malware through the improper use of external devices. These controls allow organizations to improve productivity by enforcing policies to deny access, force read-only access, or grant total access on multiple device types (USB flash drives, digital cameras, DVDs and more) through the PCOP Web-based console.

The new version also includes Malware Freezer, a module that ‘freezes’ detected malware for seven days by placing it in quarantine. This tool ensures system stability, restoring false positive files.

Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0 is a cloud-based security service for PCs, servers and corporate laptops managed remotely from anywhere through its Web-based console.

Panda Cloud Office Protection’s infrastructure is fully hosted in the cloud, eliminating the difficulties managing remote users and hardware costs associated with a client-server security model. As always, Panda’s endpoint security service can be installed remotely, either through a distribution tool or email, without requiring the installation of a remote access add-on. The solution also offers group policies for advanced configuration of protection levels; concise and informative malware and threat reports; and a unified, centralized quarantine.

The new version is hosted in Windows Azure, a cloud platform hosted in Microsoft data centers and designed to support highly available, scalable and reliable applications. Windows Azure uses a set of privacy and security controls that ensure maximum protection of its hosted data and applications.

For more information, please visit http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/cloud-office-protection/

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Oracle Unveils Sun ZFS Backup Appliance for Oracle Engineered Systems

New Backup Solution Can Deliver up to 4x Faster Restore Performance than NetApp and EMC; Enables Efficient Test and Development on Oracle Database with Hybrid Columnar Compression

Redwood Shores, Calif. – April 30, 2012

News Facts

Oracle today announced the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance, an integrated, high performance backup solution for Oracle engineered systems, including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4.

Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance delivers up to 20 terabytes per hour full backup and up to 9.4 terabytes per hour full restore throughputs, the fastest published recovery rates among general purpose storage systems for Oracle engineered systems data protection.

The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance’s extremely fast backup throughput is based on backups of unique data, and does not require additional host-side software or CPU resources.

Tested, validated and supported with Oracle engineered systems, Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance provides superior speed, simplicity and savings.

The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance can decrease recovery time by up to 4x, compared to published Oracle Database backup performance rates from NetApp and EMC(1).

The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance also offers up to 3.9x lower total cost of ownership (TCO) over a three year period, versus comparable NetApp and EMC Data Domain solutions(2).

Oracle Hardware and Software Engineered Together Provides Superior Data Protection and Return On Investment

The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance helps reduce the risk of failed restores by optimizing availability with predictive self-healing features and a fault management architecture that automatically detects and diagnoses underlying problems. End-to-end data check-summing also automatically checks and repairs corrupted data down to the bit level.

Using Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) direct connection via TCP/IP over InfiniBand, the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is more efficient and cost effective than competitive solutions and can eliminate the need for additional servers and expensive third-party backup software.

The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance also helps eliminate complex and costly changes to data protection procedures by delivering full performance and optimal space savings while implementing Oracle recommended RMAN full and incremental backup procedures.

Oracle Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) on the Sun ZFS Backup Appliance allows better return on investment through efficient data and system usage. Oracle storage, including the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, is uniquely able to clone and enable full system operation on HCC-compressed database copies. Snapshots of HCC-compressed tables can be cloned without decompression overhead, and used for test and development, quality assurance, reporting, or additional data protection.

Quick and easy to configure, deploy and manage, Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is available in two configurations, High Performance and High Capacity, and comes pre-racked and cabled, helping to eliminate hardware tuning.

Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is engineered with Oracle’s complete software stack, from Oracle Applications to Oracle Database and Oracle VM, as well as the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4.

Supporting Quote

“Business operations are highly dependent on database availability, making fast backup and recovery an enterprise imperative,” said Phil Bullinger, senior vice president, Storage, Oracle. “Oracle's Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is purpose-built to work with Oracle engineered systems, taking advantage of hardware and software engineered together to deliver the speed, simplicity and savings customers need to protect their data and meet stringent recovery time objectives.”

Supporting Resources

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Oracle Engineered Systems

Storage magazine’s Quality Awards for NAS

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Footnotes

(1) NetApp FAS3170C aggregate throughput for a single clustered system. Read only: 1.5GB/sec (1500MBPS) and Write Only:.75GB/sec (750MBPS). From performance data for four clustered systems in “Extreme Throughput with Oracle RAC, 10GbE and NetApp Storage” presentation by NetApp at Oracle OpenWorld, September 2010: http://openworld.vportal.net/?auid=12838

Data Domain 880 performance rates:http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/technical-documentation/h6835-backup-recovery-oracle-clariion-data-domain-ra.pdf, pp 18-19, February 2010.

(2) Comparison based on current U.S. list price for initial investment and cost over three year period for the NetApp FAS3270C, EMC Data Domain 890 and Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance.