Focus on developing innovative satellite-based business solutions

LUXEMBOURG -Tuesday, March 14th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SES S.A. (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today that it has signed a partnership agreement with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).

The new cooperation framework with LIST complements the existing SES partnership agreement with the Luxembourg University Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), and widens the scope of SES’s international research activities together with other reputable universities. Under the agreement, SES and LIST will cooperate through their international network of research partners with unique expertise in satellite communications (SATCOM), to transform basic research into innovative space applications. LIST will therefore become another close technology partner of SES in the development of pioneering SATCOM commercial products and ... Read more »

 Better Buys Recognizes Toshiba's Premium e-STUDIO7506AC Color Series 

TOKYO -Wednesday, March 15th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Tec Corporation (TOKYO: 6588) announced its latest trio of color e-STUDIO multifunction printers (MFPs) have earned Better Buys 2017 Innovative Product of the Year Award. Toshiba's e-STUDIO7506AC series' premier hardware, software and exceptional value impressed the leading independent authority on office equipment during side-by-side comparisons with other manufacturers' high-volume MFPs.

“Toshiba continuously upgrades its devices with newer and better features and the e-STUDIO7506AC is no exception," said Better Buys editor Melissa Pardo-Bunte. "With their products' variety of paper-handling features, strong security and other features, Toshiba's powerful devices improve workflow within virtually any environment."

Better Buys staff was particularly im ... Read more »

By combining cognitive technologies, storytelling and in-context collaboration BOARD 10.1 augments business users’ capabilities to unleash new intelligence from data and instantly translate insights into action.

CHIASSO, Switzerland & BOSTON -Tuesday, March 14th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BOARD International, the world’s leading supplier of Decision Making software for enterprises, today announced availability of BOARD 10.1, the new release of its all-in-one platform for Business Intelligence, Enterprise Performance Management and Predictive Analytics.

BOARD 10.1 is the first step of a transformative journey that will progressively extend the reach of the BOARD platform to decision-making tasks traditionally performed by humans, creating disruptive business advantages for organizations.

“In BOARD 10.1 we are enhancing the platform with cognitive technologies that mimic human understanding and thought pr ... Read more »

LUXEMBOURG-Thursday, March 9th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Luxembourg Ministry of the Economy today announced that leading experts from China and South Korea join the international Advisory Board, which guides the Luxembourg Government in shaping and developing its SpaceResources.lu initiative which aims to promote commercial use of resources gathered from celestial bodies such as asteroids or from the Moon.

Prof. Wu Ji is chief scientist and project leader of the Strategic Priority Program on Space Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences where he has been a full Professor since 1996. In 2016, he was elected President of the Chinese Society on Space Research. Prof. Wu Ji also is Director General of the National Space Science Center, Vice-President of the Committee for Space Research and a full member of the International Astronautics Academy.

Prof. Seung Jo Kim is Professor Emeritus of Seoul National University, from which he retired in 2015 ... Read more »

 Spain’s second biggest bank, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., deploys Fenergo for efficient Client Lifecycle Management

DUBLIN -Tuesday, March 14th 2017 [ ME NewsWire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fenergo, the leading provider of Client Lifecycle Management software solutions for investment, corporate and private banks, has announced its foray into Spain by providing its flagship software platform to a major European bank to ensure lifecycle compliance with a broad range of global and local regulatory obligations.

Fenergo’s Client Lifecycle Management platform will centralize all client and counterparty data and documentation and allow them to re-use these attributes for a number of different regulatory purposes, eliminating the need to repeatedly source this information from clients. Its Regulatory Rules Engine will ensure that all compliance obligations are identified, actioned and evidenced as quickly as possible. This greatly ... Read more »