BERTRANGE, Luxembourg & BERLIN - Dimanche 18 Novembre 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)--En 2010, euroscript a collaboré au sein d’un consortium solide à taraXŰ, un projet de R&D extrêmement ambitieux ouvrant la voie à une utilisation à grande échelle de la traduction automatique dans des applications métier concrètes.

À ce jour, le projet a abouti à la création du premier environnement avancé de traduction automatique à déployer notamment les fonctions suivantes :

    Gestion de corpus et de traduction
    Évaluation automatisée de la qualité langue source/langue cible
    Sélection automatique de la meilleure traduction grâce à des méthodes innovantes
    Interface web permettant à des traducteurs humains de corriger les données de traduction automatique et d’en évaluer la qualité

Pa ... Read more »

Virtual Celebration Supports Charity, Employee Values

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - Saturday, November 17th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Quintiles announced today that it has been recognized as one of the World’s Best Multinational Workplaces by the Great Place to Work® Institute, finishing 23rd on the list. The ranking is the world’s largest annual study of workplace excellence and identifies the top-25 best multinationals in terms of workplace culture. This is Quintiles’ second appearance on the list.

"As a healthcare business services company, employee engagement is an imperative,” said Quintiles’ Chief Executive Officer Tom Pike. "We have found a very clear correlation between employee engagement and customer loyalty, satisfaction and quality. This recognition is not only an honor, it is proof of our competitive differentiation.”

"It’s important to understand that the work we do every day helps to improve patient health around the globe,” Pi ... Read more »

NEW YORK - Friday, November 16th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Executive Chairman William P. Lauder and President and Chief Executive Officer Fabrizio Freda of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (NYSE:EL) today announced an organizational evolution which reflects the outstanding global growth of the Company, and strengthens its historic brand focus to become even more locally relevant. This evolution also creates further exciting growth opportunities for the Company’s talent worldwide.

Mr. Freda stated, "Great organizations are dynamic, evolving as markets change and as skills of the organization grow. In 2009, we strengthened our Company by creating roles that enabled our leaders to best leverage their expertise. The results have been far-reaching. Today, we work even more collaboratively and decisively, and this evolution will drive our future success.”

Specifically, under the enhanced organizational design, the Company will expand its number of Group ... Read more »

MINNEAPOLIS - Thursday, November 15th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- European invoice audit, processing, financing, and payment is highly complex and difficult to manage, varying by country, currency, and payment category. Corporates, governments, and their suppliers often must work with multiple banks in different countries. Today, Syncada from Visa enhanced its patented system to assist organisations operating in Europe address these challenges.

In Europe, logistics invoices represent 6% of all corporate spend, according to a recent study, "E-Invoicing/E-Billing: Opportunities in a challenging market environment”, by Billentis. As regulation increases the complexity of globalisation, organisations achieve best-in-class by collaboration, visibility, and data analysis at every stage of the transaction. Thus, organisations require agile partners who provide flexible tools, robust knowledge, and constant innovation.

A typical scenario would be a Poland to Portu ... Read more »

BERTRANGE, Luxembourg & BERLIN - Thursday, November 15th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In 2010, euroscript teamed up with a strong project consortium in the highly ambitious R&D project taraXŰ to pave the way for a wide-scale use of MT in actual business applications.

The project has by now resulted in the first advanced machine translation environment that deploys amongst other things:

    Corpus and translation management
    Automated source- and target-language quality assessment
    Automatic selection of the best translation through innovative methods
    A web-interface allowing human translators to correct machine translation output and assess its quality

In comparison with other MT-related R&D projects, taraXŰ reaches a high practical relevance. The taraXŰ system further supports the use of corrections resulting from post-editing for the controlled improvement of ... Read more »

**Expansion into Emerging Markets with Courtagen’s Molecular Diagnostics Menu**

DUBAI & WOBURN, Mass. - Thursday, November 15th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Courtagen Life Sciences Inc. announced today they have signed an exclusive strategic distribution agreement with the Alliance Global Group (AGBL) to help clinicians in emerging markets diagnose and manage a number of genetically based disorders. Courtagen’s test menu currently offers clinical tests for mitochondrial disorders (mtSEEK™ and nucSEEK™) and a newly released panel for epilepsy and seizure (epiSEEK™). Courtagen plans to add a number of key tests for other importantneurological disorders.

"Building this relationship with AGBL is a critical component of Courtagen’s international business expansion,” said Brian McKernan, CEO, Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc.

Courtagen’s CLIA Laboratorygenetic tests use next generation sequencing (NGS) technology, propriety bioinformatics platform, ZiPhyr ... Read more »

SAN FRANCISCO - Samedi 17 Novembre 2012 [ME NewsWire]

Pour l'année du 20e anniversaire de Great Place to Work, SAS Institute est au premier rang du palmarès réunissant 25 sociétés

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aujourd'hui, Great Place to Work®, une société internationale de recherche, de conseil et de formation, a annoncé son second palmarès mondial annuel des entreprises multinationales où il fait bon travailler lors d'une cérémonie de remise de prix à l'Asian Art Museum de San Francisco. SAS Institute occupe la première place du palmarès, suivi par Google, NetApp, Kimberly Clark et Microsoft qui sont les cinq premières sociétés. En outre, Marriott, Federal Express, W.L. Gore & Associates, Diageo et Autodesk se distinguent parmi les dix premières sociétés.

En parallèle à l'annonce du palmarès, Great Place to Work® célèbre également le 20e anniversaire de sa cr&e ... Read more »

NEW YORK - Thursday, November 15th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Turkish Airlines (www.turkishairlines.com) has secured the number one spot according to the Official Airline Guide in terms of the number of countries it services. The airline now flies to 90 countries around the globe, more than any other airline in the world. More than thirty new routes have been added this year alone and with 205 destinations to date, the airline continues its expansion plans into Europe, Russia, Central Asia, the Far East, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas.

In addition to this recent announcement, Turkish Airlines today reached another milestone after adding its 200th aircraft. The Boeing 737-900 – the airlines’ ninth - is the newest addition to its continuously expanding fleet.

The new 737 – adorned with a special "200” sticker - recently debuted at Turkish Airlines’ main hub at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Turkish Airlines executives, employees, and members ... Read more »

In Great Place to Work’s 20th Anniversary Year, SAS Institute Tops the List of the 25 Companies

SAN FRANCISCO - Wednesday, November 14th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Great Place to Work®, a global research, consulting and training firm announced its second annual Top 25 World’s Best Multinational Workplaces List at a gala awards ceremony at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. SAS Institute topped the list at no. 1, followed by Google, NetApp, Kimberly Clark, and Microsoft rounding out the top five. In addition, Marriott, Federal Express, W.L. Gore & Associates, Diageo and Autodesk took honors in the top 10.

In conjunction with the announcement of this list, Great Place to Work® also celebrates the 20th anniversary of its founding – marking 20 years of helping companies to foster a dynamic, trust-based workplace. Supporting the awards ceremony, where the 25 companies received their awards, was the Great Place to Work® Presenting Sponsor ... Read more »

IT professionals say "bring your own device”(BYOD) risk outweighs benefits, but many enterprises in Africa are embracing it

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill - Thursday, November 15th 2012 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Global nonprofit IT associationISACA today released findings from its 2012 IT Risk/Reward Barometersurvey. Respondents in Africa report a growing acceptance of "bring your own device” (BYOD) in the workplace—a practice in which employees use their personal devices for work—while also acknowledging that they believe the risk still outweighs the benefit.

The IT Risk/Reward Barometer surveyed more than 4,500 IT professionals worldwide about the risks and rewards associated with BYOD and cloud computing, among other topics. When it comes to BYOD, companies in Africa tend to allow employees to use their own device for work purposes more than companies in other regions do. Thirty-eight percent of responding enterprises in Africa freely allow it, and an additional 31 ... Read more »