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 services to inspire or “disrupt” t ... 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 impressed by the MFPs' powerful multi-core Intel® Atom™ processor, customizable 9-inch ... 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 processes,” said BOARD International CTO Pietro Ferrari. “This way t ... Read more »

LUXEMBOURG -Mercredi 15 Mars 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)--Le ministère de l'Économie du Luxembourg a annoncé ce jour que des experts de renom de Chine et de Corée du Sud ont rejoint le Conseil consultatif international, qui oriente le gouvernement luxembourgeois dans le façonnement et le développement de l'initiative SpaceResources.lu, qui vise à promouvoir l'utilisation commerciale de ressources recueillies sur des corps célestes tels que des astéroïdes, ou sur la Lune. Le Prof. Wu Ji est directeur scientifique et chef de projet du Programme stratégique prioritaire sur la science spatiale de l'Académie chinoise des sciences, où il occupe un poste de titulaire depuis 1996. En 2016, il a été élu président de la Société chinoise pour la recherche spatiale. Le Prof. Wu Ji est également directeur général du National Space Science Center, vice-président du Comité pour la recherche spatiale et membre titulaire de l'Académie internationale d'astronautique. Le Prof. Seung Jo Kim es ... Read more »

La deuxième plus grande banque d’Espagne, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., déploie Fenergo pour une gestion efficace du cycle de vie des clients DUBLIN-Mercredi 15 Mars 2017 [ ME NewsWire ] (BUSINESS WIRE)--Fenergo, l’un des principaux fournisseurs de solutions logicielles de gestion du cycle de vie des clients pour les banques d’investissement, les banques commerciales et les banques privées, a annoncé son arrivée en Espagne via la fourniture de sa plateforme logicielle phare à une banque européenne majeure en vue de garantir la conformité du cycle de vie avec un large éventail d’obligations réglementaires locales et mondiales. La plateforme de gestion du cycle de vie des clients de Fenergo centralisera toutes les données client et de contrepartie et la documentation, et lui permettra de réutiliser ces attributs à diverses fins réglementaires, éliminant le besoin d'obtenir à maintes reprises ces informations auprès des clients. Son moteur de règles réglementaires garantira ... 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 expedites the rules-driven compliance and subsequent o ... Read more »