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LONDON, May 6 /PRNewswire/ —

Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information
for businesses and professionals, today published two issues of World IP
Today, analyzing global patent activity and technology innovations for the
year 2007. Both reports draw on data mined from Thomson Innovation(SM), the
new standard in IP research and analysis, and give a highly detailed view of
recent IP developments across the globe.

“Thomson Reuters extensive data covering patenting activity across the
world allows us to track new trends and technology developments as they
emerge,” said Ben Lansbury, Patent Analyst, Thomson Reuters. “As countries
become important players on the world stage, we can see spikes and increases
in their patenting activities. Our reports reveal the dynamic nature of the
IP sector and its vital importance to both global and national economies.”
World IP Today: A Thomson Reuters Report On Global Patent Activity in
2007 highlights patent output from the G8 countries (Canada, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) plus China
and South Korea. Findings indicate:

— Global patent activity has grown by 21% between 2003 and 2006, with
2007 proving to be yet another year of growth for patents.
— Japan is still the world’s leading filer of patents, but continues to
decline slowly. Its lead over the U.S. and China is eroding as their
patenting activity increases. China’s output has almost doubled in the
last 5 years.
— Academic innovations are at their highest ratio in China and Russia
where they represent nearly 25% of total patenting activity.
— South Korea safeguards more inventions worldwide than ever before,
while the U.S. has greatly decreased the number of patents it files
across the key patent regions.

World IP Today: A Thomson Reuters Report On Global Technology Innovations
in 2007 reviews technology innovations developing globally in 2007,
highlighting tri-lateral inventions or inventions that have been filed in the
U.S., Europe and Japan. Among the key findings:

— Four areas of technology are truly exemplary in protecting high volumes
of inventions: consumer electronics, computing, telecommunications and
entertainment and business services technology.
— Protection for computing inventions in the three largest markets,
Japan, the U.S. and Europe, has been more prevalent than in other
technology sectors.
— Innovation within the computing industry is far more evenly distributed
between countries than with other technologies.
— Of the top ten patent assignees based on innovations filed in the
United States, Europe and Japan during 2007, most are from Japan.
— There has been a significant drop in innovation within the industrial,
audio/visual and data recording sectors between 2001 and 2007, as well
as a dramatic fall in the semiconductors field which decreased by 26%
during the same period.

For complete copies of the Thomson Reuters World IP Today reports,
including the methodology behind the findings, please visit:
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LITTLETON, Colo., May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Time Warner Telecom Inc. , a leading provider of managed voice and data networking solutions for businesses, will present at the following conferences:
Morgan Stanley 13th Annual Communications Conference
Washington, DC, Wednesday, May 14th, 8:45 am EDT
Speakers: Larissa Herda, Chairman, CEO and President
Mark Peters, EVP and CFO
Michael Rouleau, SVP, business Development and Strategy

Lehman Bros. Worldwide Wireless & Wireline Conference
New York City, Wednesday, May 28th, 10:45 am EDT
Speakers: Larissa Herda, Chairman, CEO and President
Mark Peters, EVP and CFO
Michael Rouleau, SVP, business Development and Strategy

Cowen 20/20 Technology Media Telecom Conference
New York City, Thursday, May 29th, 11:00 am EDT
Speakers: Larissa Herda, Chairman, CEO and President
Mark Peters, EVP and CFO
Michael Rouleau, SVP, business Development and Strategy

The presentations will be webcast. Please visit , “Investor Relations” to listen to the webcast and access the conference materials.
About Time Warner Telecom
Time Warner Telecom Inc., headquartered in Littleton, Colo., provides managed network services, specializing in Ethernet and transport data networking, Internet access, local and long distance voice, VoIP and security, to enterprise organizations and communications services companies throughout the U.S. As a leading provider of integrated and converged network solutions, Time Warner Telecom delivers customers overall economic value, quality, service, and improved business productivity. Time Warner Telecom will change its name to tw telecom on July 1, 2008. Please visit for more information.
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PHOENIX, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Honeywell announced today that its Aerospace business has unveiled a new high temperature Silicon On Insulator electronic component with dual applications in the aerospace and oil industries.
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The chip can withstand high temperatures and be used in aircraft engines or in deep drilling operations to enhance the nation’s energy supply. It was designed and developed as part of Honeywell’s diverse suite of aerospace and industrial electronics.
“The aerospace and oil and natural gas industries each require high performance components that operate over wide temperature ranges,” said Brian Link, business Director, Honeywell Defense and Space. “Honeywell’s Silicon On Insulator technology is critical for instrumentation and sensor measurements in these environments. The dual precision chip will be used in high temperature zones on jet engines for instrumentation and control, as well as operating in temperatures up to 225 degrees C and at depths exceeding 20,000 feet in deep drilling operations.
Honeywell’s high temperature electronics improve system reliability and help to reduce operators’ equipment downtime and weight.
The circuits can operate continuously under extreme conditions, and enable instrumentation for measuring parameters such as temperature, vibration, pressure, positioning, inclination and strain.
Honeywell’s new high temperature dual precision operational chip model HTOP01 was developed with several industrial partners as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Deep Trek Program.
Honeywell International is a $37 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials. Based in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell’s shares are traded on the New York, London and Chicago Stock Exchanges. For additional information, please visit .
Based in Phoenix, Honeywell’s $12 billion aerospace business is a leading global provider of integrated avionics, engines, systems and service solutions for aircraft manufacturers, airlines, business and general aviation, military, space and airport operations.
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PARIS, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that a major industry analyst research firm has ranked Alcatel-Lucent’s Services business No. 2 in market share in critical segments of its market. Technology business Research (TBR) ranked Alcatel-Lucent No. 2 in 2007 global telecommunications services market share.
“In the emerging post-merger market, Alcatel-Lucent has steadily increased its share of revenue derived from services, tightening the competition among telecom and IT suppliers,” said Michael Sullivan-Trainor, Executive Analyst, Network business Quarterly, Technology business Research.
According to a recent report issued by TBR, global suppliers of services for telecom operators saw revenue increases across the board in 2007 as the total market grew to US$70 billion, an 8% increase over 2006. The TBR report said that Alcatel-Lucent ranked No. 2 and held 9% market share in global telecommunications infrastructure services in 2007, noting that in 2007 Alcatel-Lucent and other vendors stepped up their focus on the services businesses.
“This study shows that Alcatel-Lucent is one of the most experienced and knowledgeable services vendors in the industry,” said Andy Williams, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Services business. “We are positioned to become the largest global services business in the communications industry because we intimately understand the requirements of our customers who need a ‘network integrator’ with IT experience and network expertise.”
Alcatel-Lucent has one of the most experienced and knowledgeable network services organizations in the industry, with more than 20,000 technicians, network designers, consultants, engineers and project managers. With assets that include ten Network Operations Centers, four IP Transformation Centers, and more than 90 Technical and Welcome centers, Alcatel-Lucent is positioned to become the largest global services business in the communications industry.
To grow the company’s overall business, Alcatel-Lucent has been aggressively pursuing the Services business. Focusing on five strategic growth areas, IP network transformation, Network Outsourcing, Multi vendor maintenance, Applications Integration and Industry and Public Sector, the company has announced several key wins over the past year. These contract wins show that the company has a pulse on the macro changes in the market and that carriers have confidence in their ability to solve complex network challenges.
“Network complexity is driving the need for Services,” Williams noted. “Conversations with our customers have become more complex. To address these new needs, we have announced new and enhanced solution offerings such as Wireless In-Building and End-to-End Service Availability Support as well as Integrated Turnkey Communications Solutions focused on the Transportation, Energy and e-Government sectors.”
About Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprise and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the largest research, technology and innovation organizations in the telecommunications industry. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues of Euro 17.8 billion in 2007 and is incorporated in France, with executive offices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on the Internet:
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ORLANDO, Fla., May 5 /PRNewswire/ — Revelation Software Concepts Pty Ltd (RSC), an SAP(R) software partner, and Panaya Ltd., a provider of on-demand impact and upgrade analysis for use with SAP solutions, today announced they will integrate the capabilities of their two flagship products. The combination will allow each to leverage the strengths of the other, providing powerful and unprecedented levels of visibility and control to IT departments running large SAP solution-enabled systems.
Both RSC and Panaya have achieved and maintain SAP certified integration status for their respective products — Rev-Trac(R) 5.0 and Panaya 1.0.
The integration between RSC and Panaya solutions will, for the first time, eliminate unpredicted system impacts from changes made to a system running SAP solutions. Panaya’s unmatched system visibility will become an integrated part of the automated and enforced change control process provided by RSC’s Rev-Trac change control technology.
One of Rev-Trac’s key benefits is how it tracks the relationship of transports to their associated business issues. Enforcing impact analysis as part of the change process will produce a full understanding of the effects of changes made to resolve business issues. Before change requests are released, the user can review and approve the impact analysis, using its clarification of all affected modules and transactions to identify and eliminate risks of harmful business disruptions.
Panaya will continue to be available and fully supported as a stand-alone product but with Rev-Trac and Panaya, RSC customers who wish to eliminate unforeseen side effects and reduce cost through impact analysis will have a ready-made solution. The Panaya impact analysis solution is a Web-hosted application offered as an on-demand solution through its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) architecture. The integration with Rev-Trac will make impact analysis a seamless part of the change control process and ensure that configuration teams automatically carry out the analysis at the appropriate stage.
“We are delighted to work with RSC to bring combined capabilities to IT solution teams and to systems integrators using SAP solutions,” said Yossi Cohen, founder and CEO of Panaya. “RSC’s change control technology has become an essential aspect of the IT environment for many large customers, and leveraging our two technologies will give our customers the ability to analyze the impact of configuration changes efficiently, using enforced change control to target proposed changes very precisely within even the largest systems. The combination will accelerate time to completion and reduce the cost of implementing, maintaining and upgrading SAP solution-based systems.”
“At RSC, we watched Panaya advance its technology steadily over the past couple of years and quickly realized our two companies could make available an unprecedented integration of impact analysis and end-to-end change control in SAP solution-based systems,” said David Drake, president of RSC. “We are very excited about this opportunity to work with Panaya to create that rare achievement, a truly synergistic combination of powerful technologies to the benefit of customers of both of our companies.”
The combined technologies will maximize benefits for Panaya customers while adding important new capabilities to the Rev-Trac change control process. Together, they will provide a single solution that enforces any combination of change request, approval, and migration processes, with the ability to enforce an impact analysis on any customized system change.
Today’s announcement was made at the SAPPHIRE(R) 2008 Orlando conference, SAP’s premier business technology event being held May 4-7 in Orlando. More on Revelation Software Concepts and its products, including Rev-Trac 5, can be found at and at SAPPHIRE, Booth 778.
For more information about Panaya’s impact analysis technology, see .
About Panaya, Ltd.
Panaya’s on-demand impact analysis solution identifies the impact of customization changes to functional behavior of SAP solution-based systems by automated analysis of SAP code and configuration. Panaya enables an in-depth cross-application overview of systems and thus enhances SAP solution-based system comprehension. Its Panaya 1.0 technology has been tested and certified by the SAP Integration and Certification Center. Panaya’s on-demand architecture provides customers with practically zero time-to-value, clear and controllable ROI, a cash-flow friendly subscription payment model, and has no overhead on IT resources.
About Revelation Software Concepts
Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, Revelation Software Concepts (RSC) has earned the trust of some of the world’s largest corporations since 1997 with its change control technology for use with SAP solutions, Rev-Trac. RSC’s business strategy is 100% focused on reducing the risks and lowering the costs associated with managing changes to SAP solutions. The ongoing evolution and extension of Rev-Trac as a web-enabled application and the extension of change control to include support for SAP non-ABAP(TM) technologies demonstrate the company’s commitment to creating solutions that are technologically superior, simple to use and achieve their objectives for customers. Revelation Software Concepts is an SAP software partner. Rev-Trac 5 has achieved “Powered by SAP NetWeaver” status. For more information, visit .
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NEW YORK, May 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, today launched the “IT Clan” (), a vibrant new online information resource dedicated to exploring the impact of next-generation Internet technologies focused on enterprise IT. The IT Clan is part of Internet Evolution (), TechWeb’s provocative Website with a keen perspective on the future of the Internet.
The IT Clan’s readership will comprise senior IT professionals and CIOs working within large enterprise organizations. Site users will receive access to exclusive, in-depth intelligence about the future of the Internet and its impact on the enterprise and their jobs.
The IT Clan also features an active social network where its virtual staff of world-famous IT and Internet experts will blog and interact every day with the site’s audience via message boards.
“The IT Clan is a natural extension of InternetEvolution.com’s franchise, and a way for our sizable IT management audience to interact with their peers, futurists, and other big thinkers,” says Terry Sweeney, Editor-in-Chief of Internet Evolution (). “The IT Clan’s assemblage of bloggers brings unmatched expertise in management, security, wireless, storage, and other technologies that shape how enterprises use the Internet.”
The first dozen contributors to the site were announced today:

— Tony Bishop - Bishop is CEO of Adaptivity Inc. and previously served
as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s corporate investment banking
technology group.

— Russ Edelman - Edelman is Founder, President, and CEO of Corridor
Consulting, a systems integration and consulting firm focused on
Microsoft SharePoint and enterprise content management (ECM).

— Jon Emmons - Already blogging on Life After Coffee, Emmons writes
about everything from Oracle database administration to the challenges
of working from home.

— Aaron Roe Fulkerson - Fulkerson co-founded open-source project
MindTouch Inc. in 2005; as CEO, he’s fostered its ascent to the No. 1
downloaded enterprise wiki in the world.

— Broward Horne - Broward Horne is a software consultant who does
contract work for Unigard, Nike, JPMorgan, Verizon, Transcore, and the
U.S. Department of Transportation.

— Greg Hughes - As an IT and Security Executive Manager, Hughes brings
more than 12 years of experience in the financial services and
software development markets.

— Mike Karp - An industry analyst for Enterprise Management Associates,
Karp has also worked for Prime Computer, Symbios Logic, and Belcore.

— David M. Lynch - A 30-year IT industry veteran, Lynch has written
widely on authentication, access control, and public key
infrastructure (PKI), among other topics.

— Oded Noy - Noy is CTO and Co-Founder of Zag, where he helped create a
better way to buy and sell cars more transparently on the Internet.

— Marc Osofsky - Osofsky is Vice President of Marketing for Optaros and
has over 15 years of experience in helping businesses leverage new
technologies.

— Warren Shiau - Shiau is a technology analyst and research consultant
at The Strategic Counsel, where he oversees market analysis and
forecasting, and competitive analysis.

— Dave Vellante - Vellante is Co-Founder of ITCentrix, and more
recently, the Wikibon Project, a community of IT professionals
dedicated to the sharing of storage and IT best practices.

Topics covered on IT Clan include the potential and pitfalls of technologies as varied as lightweight “mashup” applications; software as a service (SaaS); platform as a service (PaaS); server virtualization; Web services/Services Oriented Architectures (SOAs); and rich media applications. The site also provides regular broadcast-quality broadband video technology tutorials on everything from how to build a green data center to the best way to thwart botnets.
The IT Clan is co-produced with Light Reading (), the world’s leading authority on telecommunications, and InformationWeek (), the largest, most influential community of IT buyers and providers in the world.
About TechWeb ()
TechWeb, the global leader in business technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today, more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in our communities created around our global face-to-face events Interop, Web 2.0, Black Hat, and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network, Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and The Financial Technology Network; and the market-leading, award-winning InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, Wall Street & Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services ranging from next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United business Media, a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion.
*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on number of monthly connections
Contact
Amy Averbook
TechWeb’s Internet Evolution
212-925-0020 x112

TechWeb

MAYNARD, Mass., May 5 /PRNewswire/ — Stratus Technologies hosted IT executives and technologists from 54 countries and every major industry at the April 16-17 Virtual Availability Summit 2008, the only event focused exclusively on the IT technologies and best practices for ensuring infrastructure uptime.
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Keynote speakers and 12 breakout sessions dissected the hottest issues in business continuity, including virtualization; performance management; fault tolerant storage; and VoIP as a business continuity tool. Keynote addresses from Gregor Bailar, CIO at NASDAQ during 9/11 and CapitalOne during Hurricane Katrina, and Gary Beach, publisher emeritus of CIO Magazine, highlighted the two-day program. Additional presenters included Microsoft, the Burton Group and Sightline.
Bailar’s talk, “Where the Wild Things Are,” used humor and colorful anecdotes to make a serious point. Disasters, he said, come in all shapes, sizes, and can occur anywhere. Companies that accept that reality and expand their thinking to encompass a wide range of scenarios will be better prepared to bounce back regardless of what shape or size the disaster comes in.
“There’s no situation you shouldn’t have a plan for,” Bailar said. For emphasis he described hitching a ride on a farmer’s plantain boat to get him and his family off an island in Lake Nicaragua when high winds had grounded all planes and kept most boats at the docks. “Always have a Plan B.”
Beach provided a futuristic look at the CIO’s evolving role in the enterprise in light of seismic events like 9/11 and the dotcom crash. He also discussed the results of CIO Magazine’s annual CIO survey. Beach said business continuity was consistently on CIO’s list of top three issues. However, he said, very few of them are actually putting time and resources into business continuity strategies.
“If you think of all IT as a bell shaped curve, a lot of execs are in the middle hump. They have a plan, they know what to do, but the best way to describe it is that they’re talking the talk but not walking the walk,” Beach said.
The Availability Summit and its presentations are available on-demand until July 18, 2008 at .
The April event was the second Availability Summit. Stratus founded the event last year to spotlight the growing need in every industry for continuous application availability, business continuity and disaster recovery.
About Stratus Technologies
Stratus Technologies is a global solutions provider focused exclusively on helping its customers achieve and sustain the availability of information systems that support their critical business processes. Based upon its 28 years of expertise in server and services technology for continuous availability, Stratus is a trusted solutions provider to customers in healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, public safety, transportation & logistics, and other industries. For more information, visit .
Stratus and ftServer are registered trademarks of Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd. The Stratus Technologies logo is a trademark of Stratus Technologies Bermuda Ltd. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
Contacts:

Ed Marshall Ken Donoghue
Beaupre & Co. Public Relations Stratus Technologies
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 5 /PRNewswire/ — JasperSoft Corporation, the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI), today announced that the company and global systems integrator Unisys Corporation have extended their alliance. Through this extension, Unisys becomes a reseller of JasperSoft’s business Intelligence Suite.
Unisys will add JasperSoft’s suite of business intelligence and reporting applications to its enterprise-class open source solutions offerings. As part of the expanded relationship, Unisys will now offer its customers systems integration services, deployment services and technical services for the JasperSoft BI Suite. Unisys will also incorporate JasperSoft-based reporting and analytics into projects that include several JasperSoft prepackaged applications.
“Unisys has seen increasing demand for the price and performance that open source solutions deliver,” said Anthony Gold, vice president and general manager, Open Source Business, Unisys. “We’ve recently concluded rigorous performance testing of the JasperSoft business Intelligence Suite in real-world conditions and proven its enterprise readiness. We’ve also deployed JasperSoft’s products at several enterprise customers, including federal agencies and global telecommunications providers.”
Jose Morales, vice president of business development at JasperSoft, said, “As larger enterprises and government organizations increasingly turn to open source to take advantage of its reliability and price performance, they are relying on world-class systems integrators such as Unisys to deliver the solutions they need. Together Unisys and JasperSoft can bring customers highly scalable enterprise-caliber business intelligence solutions BI.”
JasperSoft and Unisys will kick off their reseller partnership with a webinar on May 6, entitled “A Better Solution for business Intelligence.” To register, please visit .
About Unisys
Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. We provide consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and infrastructure services, combined with powerful enterprise server technology. We specialize in helping clients use information to create efficient, secure business operations that allow them to achieve their business goals. Our consultants and industry experts work with clients to understand their business challenges and create greater visibility into critical linkages throughout their operations. For more information, visit .
About JasperSoft Corporation
JasperSoft is the market leader in open source business intelligence (BI). With more than 3 million downloads worldwide and more than 8,000 commercial customers in 96 countries, JasperSoft offers the most widely used open source business intelligence software in the world. The JasperSoft business Intelligence Suite is comprised of an interactive reporting server, graphical and ad hoc report design interfaces, OLAP analysis, an ETL tool for data integration, and a Java reporting library for use with either stand-alone or embedded business intelligence applications. JasperSoft is based in San Francisco and is backed by leading venture capital firms Morgenthaler Ventures, DCM, Partech International, Scale Venture Partners and SAP Ventures. More information is available at and .
For media inquiries:

Jennifer Cloer
Page One PR for JasperSoft
Direct: 503-746-7577
Cell: 503-867-2304

JasperSoft Corporation

MUMBAI, India, June 20 /PRNewswire/ — - Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) Partners With International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA) to Showcase business Games and Simulations.
Global e-learning provider, Tata Interactive Systems announced its newly formed partnership with the International Simulation and Gaming Association to promote the use of gaming and simulations in India Inc.’s business acumen skill development.
The present focus of the partnership is an event, the 5th International Summer School in Gaming Simulation, where Dr. Willy Kriz — Professor for Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior and Gaming Simulation Methods at The University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, and TIS will conduct a workshop for the design and development of simulations for socio economic systems. This workshop will be attended by international and Indian participants and will be held at the Institute of Integrated Learning in Management (IILM), Gurgaon from June 21-30, 2008.
Dr. Kriz notes, “Our aim is to bring together experts, professionals, and students from different areas of Gaming Simulation. After several successful events across Europe, the ISAGA will be hosted in India for the first time this year. Through the strong support of TIS and IILM, we are sure to provide a fruitful and professional Summer School and support the foundation of IndSAGA to encourage building networks of Gaming Simulation experts in India.”
TIS will also be conducting a workshop using the TOPSIM(R) platform, which simulates business processes in all their complexity. TOPSIM(R), a German company acquired by TIS a few years ago, is a world leader in the range of off-the-shelf and custom simulations. TIS plans to fly down a German facilitator to conduct the workshop, and participant teams will have the opportunity to experience a few cycles of the TOPSIM(R) simulation - typically TOPSIM(R) simulations are played out over a period of 2-5 days.
According to Rupesh Goel, Practice Head - Simulations at TIS, “More than just skill development, simulations and gaming are fully immersive, real-life experiences. Their impact is intense and enduring; it is not surprising that corporations worldwide have taken to simulations in a big way, and learners are embracing them eagerly because of the high engagement levels they evoke to impart real acumen in risk free surroundings. In terms of maturity, Indian companies are now set for the next level of learning, and as pioneers of e-learning and simulation design, TIS has taken the first step by partnering with ISAGA to bring this goal closer. It will be a beneficial partnership for all the stakeholders, including the International Simulation and Gaming Association - ISAGA and the Institute for Integrated learning in Management (IILM) India, who are also contributing to this event.”
The workshop is designed for corporations looking to be a part of the simulation revolution, as well professors and students seeking a career in business modeling. Adds Rupesh, “Business games and simulations are set to revolutionize the way India Inc. looks at developing business acumen skills.”
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About Tata Interactive Systems (TIS)

Tata Interactive Systems (TIS), a global leader in e-learning, is a part of the $45bn Tata Group. Truly international, TIS has a presence across the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, India, and mainland Europe. TIS offers corporations, universities, schools, publishers and government institutions a diversified and innovative bouquet of learning and training solutions including Simulation-based Learning Objects (SimBLs(R)), Story-based Learning Objects (StoBLsTM), courseware and curriculum design, special-needs education, assessments, electronic performance support systems (EPSS), mobile learning, game-based learning along with other corporate training and consultancy services. Our multi-disciplinary expertise and 17 years’ experience across domains helps us design e-learning programs that are unique to clients’ requirements and specifically crafted to boost knowledge retention and application.
TIS is the only e-learning organization in the world to be assessed at Level 5 in both the SEI-CMM and P-CMM frameworks. TIS’s quest for excellence is reflected in numerous prestigious industry awards, including a Performance Centered Design Award, an ASTD Award, IT Training Awards, Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards, APEX Awards of Excellence, BETT Awards, and business World-NID Design Excellence awards.
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Further information from:

Sonal Chhaya
Tata Interactive Systems
91-22-6643-8000

Tata Interactive Systems, A Div. of Tata Industries Ltd.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 25 /PRNewswire/ — TechWeb (Formerly CMP) and O’Reilly Media, Inc., co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Expo, today announced the winner of the Launch Pad start up program. Triggit, one of six on-stage presenters, took home the title of People’s Choice Winner on Thursday, April 24th during Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco at Moscone West.
This year Web 2.0 Expo hosted a Venture Capital Edition of the Launch Pad program, showcasing the best Web 2.0 startups and providing a unique public forum for unveiling new companies and products. Web 2.0 Expo, in its second year, is the leading global gathering of developers, designers, marketers, and business professionals building the next generation Web. .
Triggit (), the winning startup, helps bloggers and small website owners make money. This simple WYSIWYG editing tool uses just one line of JavaScript to enable instant drag-and-drop publishing of AdSense, Amazon and other affiliate programs and ad networks. Triggit can source, integrate, optimize and track ads on the site, making ad management and monetization pain-free.
“We’re thrilled with being titled People’s Choice Winner at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco,” said Zachery Coelius, Triggit CEO. Voting was conducted at Launch Pad via a real-time SMS system where the audience was asked to play the role of VC and select the company of their choice.
“Competition was tough this year because of all the interest in the new Launch Pad: VC Edition format,” said Brady Forrest, Web 2.0 Expo Co-Chair. “Triggit was one of 160 companies that vied to be on stage this year so they deserve a big round of applause for winning over the VC judges and audience with their live demo presentation. We’ll be watching this promising company.”
A forum for creativity, engineering, and innovation, Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco includes a multi-track conference, an “unconference” program called Web2Open, a major tradeshow, and many networking events. Web 2.0 Expo will hold its first New York event September 16-19 and will return to Berlin for Expo Europe in late October 2008. Both events will feature Launch Pad.
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