Peach Aviation Selects Oracle’s Cloud-based Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management

New airline embraces innovation in human capital management with embedded social network in Japan

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SAP Launches SAP ActiveEmbedded and SAP Rapid Prototyping Services

SAP Launches SAP ActiveEmbedded and SAP Rapid Prototyping Services

March 21, 2012 | SAP - Newsbyte

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the availability of SAP ActiveEmbedded services as a new support engagement. SAP today also launched SAP Rapid Prototyping services, a new premium engagement service.

SAP ActiveEmbedded was created to enable customers to implement and operate better, and be prepared for accelerated adoption of game-changing technologies and other innovations from SAP. The offering provides a unique combination of an embedded support team at the customer site for specific projects and engineering services supported by expertise in tackling customer challenges.

"By providing on-site access to SAP experts for solution improvement and rapid prototyping through an agile, as-needed model, the SAP ActiveEmbedded offering helps customers who are wrestling with complex requirements and provides short-term, tangible business value," said Stuart Williams, software practice director, Technology Business Research (TBR).

SAP ActiveEmbedded is intended to remove barriers to innovation. The services place an emphasis on accelerating knowledge and skills transfer by helping customers to maximize their existing investments and make them manageable, supportable, scalable, and optimized. The offering also aims at high levels of data consistency and operational efficiency.

SAP Rapid Prototyping gives customers the unique opportunity to test drive and experience the value of new innovations from SAP, such as the SAP HANA platform and mobile apps, With the service, customer should be enabled to do so in an easy and accelerated way prior to making a full investment. SAP Rapid Prototyping is available through the premium engagements SAP ActiveEmbedded or SAP MaxAttention support.

"We have learned how to accelerate innovation, supportability and knowledge transfer by working closely with our customers," said Uwe Hommel, executive vice president of SAP Active Global Support. "With SAP HANA and game-changing technologies from SAP, this is more important than ever. Mergers and acquisitions need to be managed with as little disruption as possible, and custom developments need to be upgradeable and supportable at minimum cost, or eliminated completely where possible. These are among the critical aspects SAP ActiveEmbedded directly addresses."

To learn about SAP ActiveEmbedded, SAP Rapid Prototyping and the overall SAP Services portfolio, visit www.sap.com/services. For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom. Follow SAP on Twitter at@sapnews.

Avnet Embedded to Hold Free, Solid State Drive Virtual Summit

March 15, 2012 - Avnet Embedded to Hold Free, Solid State Drive Virtual Summit

PHOENIX -- The worldwide solid state drive (SSD) market is experiencing unprecedented growth. Avnet Embedded, the largest distributor of SSDs and a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), has teamed up with 13 leading suppliers to offer a free, two-day virtual summit covering the rugged, durable, energy efficient benefits of SSDs. Registration is open now at Avnet's website.

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On April 3 and 4, 2012, Avnet Embedded will spend an entire 48- hour period examining the intricacies of SSDs. Beginning at 12:01 a.m. PDT on April 3, representatives from Adaptec by PMC, Dell OEM, Hitachi GST, Intel, LSI Corp., Kingston, Micron Technology, OCZ Technology, Rorke Data, an Avnet Company, Smart Storage Technology, Seagate, STEC and Toshiba will participate in more than 25 on-demand technical courses regarding SSDs. Attendees can choose from courses that delve into:

• SSD tiered storage solutions;
• Data security in SSDs;
• SSDs in rugged embedded computing;
• High-performance caching;
• Calculating SSD endurance and performance;
  And more.

For a full listing of courses visit the Solid State Drive Virtual Summit webpage.

In addition to technical courses, Avnet's Solid State Drive Virtual Summit will also feature presentations from industry analysts Jim Handy, director of Objective Analysis and Jim Feldham, president of Semico Research. Both Handy and Feldham will give an industry insider's perspective of the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities presented with SSDs.

Attendees of Avnet's SSD Virtual Summit can also participate in 30-minute, live chat sessions with technical experts from each supplier. Engineers are invited to use these sessions to pose questions, discuss current trends and get real-time design assistance direct from the source. The schedule of sessions is posted on the Solid State Drive Virtual Summit page.

"SSDs are quickly becoming an appealing alternative, offering our customers throughput improvement and near real-time response times for applications delivered across cloud and mobile devices," said Chuck Kostalnick, senior vice president, Avnet Embedded. "Our SSD Summit helps engineers navigate through the nuances and complexities of SSD technology, ultimately providing the right resources to choose the right solution for each attendee's particular product or service."