Munich, March 1st, 2012 - K2, the leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and workflow on the Microsoft platform, and ABBYY Europe, a leader in document conversion and intelligent data extraction, today announced their strategic collaboration. The objective of this partnership is to integrate ABBYY's capture solutions with K2 software for BPM and Case Management. Through the cooperation, ABBYY gains a strategic partner who operates in the international market for business process automation solutions. Both companies plan on offering joint, document-based solutions for capture-led business processes. ABBYY's solutions for document capture and the intelligent extraction of data in enterprises are a natural extension of document-driven business processes carried out through K2's BPM software. Paper-based information needed for transaction-driven business processes ... (more)

ISYS® Search Software Announces Release of ISYS:sdk 9

ISYS® Search Software (http://www.isys-search.com/), a global supplier of information access and discovery solutions for mining intelligence and corporate knowledge, today announced the arrival of ISYS:sdk 9, the company’s next-generation enterprise search integration kit for original equipment manufacturers (OEM), independent software vendors (ISV) and systems integrators. ISYS:sdk 9 offers customers several major enhancements, all designed to deliver the performance, scalability and accuracy required for empowering third-party applications with best-of-breed search. Most significantly, ISYS has expanded its core engine’s content mining capabilities using deterministic and reliable methods that help customers better understand their content. Through its Intelligent Content Analysis, ISYS notes key characteristics about a content collection, such as metadata patter... (more)

EE Times Group Announces Finalists for the Sixth Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards; Celebrates Leadership and Innovation in the Global Electronics Industry

SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- EE Times Group, a UBM company and the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry's decision makers, today announced the finalists for the sixth Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) awards. The 2010 EE Times ACE awards celebrate the creators of technology who demonstrate leadership and innovation in the global electronics industry. The ACE Awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday, April 27th at 5:30 PM at the Club Regent Room in the Fairmont, during ESC (Embedded Systems Conference) Silicon Valley. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100414/SF85753LOGO) "The EE Times ACE Awards are the fastest-growing electronics industry recognition event honoring the people and companies behind the technologies that are changing the way we work, live and play," said Paul Miller, ... (more)

Bottomline Technologies’ Banking and Finance Experts Named to Global Finance’s ‘Who’s Who’

Bottomline Technologies (NASDAQ: EPAY), a leading provider of collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions, today announced that Eric Campbell, Bottomline’s chief technology officer and Marcus Hughes, Bottomline’s director of global marketing, have been named to Global Finance magazine’s 2010 “Who’s Who in Treasury and Cash Management.” Eric Campbell, an expert on transaction banking solutions, develops innovative solutions that address customers’ most complex global payments and reporting requirements. In addition to championing Bottomline solutions, Campbell is an evangelist for the use of industry standards such as SWIFT to reduce complexities. He was actively involved in the conception and ongoing development of SWIFT Alliance Lite. Campbell’s vision for developing rich cash management capabilities has resulted in the issuance of multiple U.S.... (more)

Dachis Group Launches Advocate Insight

AUSTIN, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 04/02/12 -- Dachis Group, the world's leading social software and solutions firm, today announced the launch of Advocate Insight, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that identifies brands' advocates across social channels and measures each individual's brand impact. With the enormous opportunity presented by engaging with the millions of fans and followers a global brand has across the social web, many CMOs, brand managers and social community managers are beginning to understand both the promise and the enormous challenges of unprecedented access to customer engagement at scale. With a typical social staff of fewer than a dozen, the continued rapid proliferation of new social networks and platforms, and a current crop of lightweight engagement tools poorly suited to engagement at scale, global brands face a new conundrum: they can... (more)

Tokyo Institute of Technology Venture CBA Japan Offers Use of Its Optical Sensing Technology to Apple Competitors Worldwide

Biometrics pioneer and Tokyo Institute of Technology venture company CBA Japan Inc. (http://www.cba-japan.net/company/), in the wake of Apple's acquisition of AuthenTec, is offering makers of Android products and to Microsoft providers worldwide: Exclusive use of CBA's optical fingerprint sensing technology in Android and Microsoft products Use of its optical fingerprint sensing technology in tablets and notebooks Since Apple's competitors cannot obtain parts from Apple, their only choice is to utilize the optical fingerprint sensing technology from CBA Japan, already being supplied to one million phones made by Sharp. It is against this background that CBA Japan is offering the use of its optical fingerprint sensors and fingerprint algorithms to all Android product manufacturers and all Microsoft-related manufacturers worldwide. This will enable companies worldwid... (more)

Marathon Patent Group's Wholly Owned Subsidiary, Sampo IP, Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Starbucks Corporation, E*Trade Financial, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Others

ALEXANDRIA, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/06/13 -- Marathon Patent Group, Inc. (OTCBB: MARA) ("Marathon"), an intellectual property services and patent licensing company, announced today that its subsidiary Sampo IP, LLC ("Sampo") has filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against E*Trade Financial Corporate Services Inc., Liberty Mutual Group Inc., Aetna Inc., Avon Products Inc., Starbucks Corporation, Yum! Brands Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, and Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., (the "Defendants"). Sampo is asserting three causes of action involving patent infringement related to U.S. Patent numbers 6,161,149, 6,772,229, and 8,015,495, all entitled Centrifugal Communication and Collaboration Method. The lawsuit alleges that the Defendants have infringed, and continue to infringe, the claims of the patents in... (more)

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Citi Trends, IBM, Accenture, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft

CHICAGO, July 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include Citi Trends Inc. (Nasdaq:CTRN-Free Report), IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM-Free Report), Accenture (NYSE:ACN-Free Report), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ-Free Report) and Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT-Free Report). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101027/ZIRLOGO) Today, Zacks is promoting its ''Buy'' stock recommendations. Get #1Stock of the Day pick for free. Here are highlights from Tuesday's Analyst Blog: Citi Trends Kept at Underperform On Jul 8, 2013, we reiterated our long-term recommendation on Citi Trends Inc. (Nasdaq:CTRN-Free Report) at Underperform with a target price of $14.00, based on the slu... (more)

Global Data Center Cooling Solutions Market 2012-2016

NEW YORK, Aug. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Data Center Cooling Solutions Market 2012-2016 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0764719/Global-Data-Center-Cooling-Solutions-Market-2012-2016.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm;_medium=pr&utm;_campaign=HVAC TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Data Center Cooling Solutions market to grow at a CAGR of 11.44 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing deployment of data centers. The Global Data Center Cooling Solutions market has also been witnessing an increasing demand for containerized data centers. However, the increasing density of data center servers could pose a challenge to the growth of this market. TechNavio's report, the Global Data Center Cooling Solutions Market ... (more)

HP and VMware Enable Customers to Unify Data Center Networks

PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 08/26/13 -- HP (NYSE: HPQ) and VMware, Inc. today announced plans to collaborate to deliver the industry's first federated network solution, designed to provide customers unified automation of, and visibility into, their physical and virtual data center networks, enabling business agility and improving business continuity.(1) As companies embrace cloud and mobility, manual network configuration has proven time and resource intensive, as well as error prone. Network virtualization offers a centralized control plane, but does not automate configuration and provisioning of physical network devices. The new HP-VMware networking solution will federate the HP Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller with the VMware NSX™ network virtualization platform to provide customers with an integrated approach to automating their physical and vir... (more)

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Liberty Global

CHICAGO, Aug. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include the Facebook (Nasdaq:FB-Free Report), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT-Free Report), Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO-Free Report), Google (Nasdaq:GOOG-Free Report) and Liberty Global (Nasdaq:LBTYA-Free Report). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101027/ZIRLOGO) Today, Zacks is promoting its ''Buy'' stock recommendations. Get #1Stock of the Day pick for free. Here are highlights from Monday's Analyst Blog: Tech Stock Roundup: Facebook, Microsoft Rouse the Bulls There was a whole lot of excitement last week as Facebook (Nasdaq:FB-Free Report) announced a consortium to increase global connectivity, Microsoft's ... (more)