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Avery Dennison to Sponsor Emerging Fashion Brand Award at WGSN Global Fashion Awards 2013

Emerging Designer will Receive €12,000 in Funding to Build Collection Brand

Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:00 am PDT

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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avery Dennison Retail Branding and Information Solutions (AD/RBIS) the world’s leading apparel branding solutions provider will sponsor the WGSN Global Fashion Awards, including offering a new award in support of emerging apparel designers and the successful development of their independent fashion brand. The Avery Dennison Emerging Fashion Brand Award will not only give these rising talents the opportunity to showcase their work in front of an international jury of 50 prominent fashion designers, opinion leaders and journalists, but will also fund €12,000 to help the winners further develop their brand.

A global leader in apparel branding solutions, Avery Dennison empowers designers with the latest innovative product branding solutions which enable design creativity, brand integrity, and ultimately the ability to tell a compelling brand story. With these solutions, Avery Dennison works with leading global apparel brands to enable designers to create high-impact brand graphics and distinctive finishing touches as part of a garment’s design.

Branding is essential to the appeal of a garment to the consumer and the success of any apparel company, and the more integral branding becomes to the apparel design process, the more effectively a company can communicate its brand values. This is why Avery Dennison has challenged the WGSN finalists to unleash their creativity and create an inspiring brand story for their collection by considering the conceptual application of the company’s full complement of branding solutions and tools – from woven and printed labels, to standout heat transfer embellishments, and sustainable hangtags and packaging solutions.

To qualify for the awards, brands or designers must have their own independent label, which should be no more than two years old as of 30 June 2013. Entries are welcome from around the world; however, the award is not open to currently enrolled students. The best submissions will also benefit from being posted on Arts Thread™, the only creative graduate website which aims to promote new talent on a global scale. Through their partnership with Arts Thread, Avery Dennison and WGSN will increase visibility of the award among the emerging designer community.

Judges will consider not only the independent designer’s collection branding but also his or her collective brand vision, from the website through to their marketing. The brand with the most coherent and creative vision will win the award.

“Converting hard-earned recognition on the catwalk into building a successful brand is the biggest challenge facing every designer,” says Tim Voegele-Downing, global creative director, Avery Dennison RBIS. “We are looking for a designer who is not only capable of creating an inspired fashion collection, but who also truly understands the importance of product branding and is capable of telling a compelling brand story.”
Lauretta Roberts, WGSN Global Fashion Awards director, says: “Avery Dennison is a leading expert in apparel branding, something that is key to success in modern retail. Together we’re looking for someone we believe has a long future in fashion demonstrated by the vision they have for their brand.”

“We work on a regular basis with design teams from some of the world’s largest apparel brands, and we are excited to partner with WGSN and Arts Thread to bring our insights to emerging designers and help them understand the importance of product branding in realizing their vision,” said Tracy Van Hoven, vice president, global marketing communications, Avery Dennison RBIS. “Branding is such a vital part of the fashion industry, and we are excited to see how these talented designers integrate our unique branding solutions into their collection and their marketing vision to effectively compete.”

The Awards take place on October 30, 2013 in London. Entries for the award are now open at www.globalfashionawards.com/categories with a closing of Wednesday, June 12th.
Judges for this year’s WGSN Global Fashion Awards include designers Giles Deacon, Bora Aksu, Stephen Jones and Rebecca Minkoff, model and writer Laura Bailey, Eco-Age founder Livia Firth, blogger Bip Ling, singers VV Brown and Kate Nash, Tim Voegele-Downing, and Mr Porter editor-in-chief Jeremy Langmead.

About Avery Dennison RBIS
Avery Dennison RBIS, a global leader in apparel and footwear industry solutions, is a $1.5 billion division of Avery Dennison (NYSE: AVY). Avery Dennison RBIS provides intelligent, creative and sustainable solutions to elevate brands and accelerate performance from design to retail store floor. The company’s industry leading, end‐to‐end solutions include innovative heat transfer technology, RFID and price management supply chain solutions and sustainable packaging services. Based in Framingham, Massachusetts, Avery Dennison RBIS has 115 locations in 50 countries and across six continents. For more information, visit www.rbis.averydennison.com.

About Avery Dennison
Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) is a global leader in labelling and packaging materials and solutions. The company’s applications and technologies are an integral part of products used in every major market and industry. With operations in more than 50 countries and 30,000 employees worldwide, Avery Dennison serves customers with insights and innovations that help make brands more inspiring and the world more intelligent. Headquartered in Pasadena, California, the company reported sales from continuing operations of $6 billion in 2012. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.     

SAP Positioned as Leader in Leading Industry Analyst Firm’s 2012 Data Quality Tools Magic Quadrant

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SAP Positioned as Leader in Leading Industry Analyst Firm’s 2012 Data Quality Tools Magic Quadrant

SAP NEWSBYTE - August 13, 2012 | SAP - Database Technology

SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced it has been named by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the “Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools” report1. The positioning is based on evaluation of the SAP real-time data platform, which includes SAP® Data Services and SAP® Information Steward software. SAP is recognized as a market leader for both its “ability to execute” and “completeness of vision.”

The report highlights that, “Organizations of all sizes and in all industries are recognizing the importance of high-quality data and the critical role of data quality in information governance and stewardship, driven by broader EIM initiatives.” Gartner forecasts that the data quality tools market will show a compound annual growth rate of 14 percent over the next five years, according to the report, “Forecast: Enterprise Software Markets, Worldwide, 2009-2016, 2Q12 Update.”

SAP Data Services provides a complete foundation to integrate, improve and manage all relevant information regardless of data type or location. The improved access and quality management extends not only to any transactional system but also to analytical and “big data” sources such as social media and machine-generated and geographic data. This provides a complete view of the enterprise that is essential for more effective decision-making and business operations. SAP Information Steward extends these insights to everyone by providing both end users and IT professionals with easy-to-use metrics and dashboards that enable everyone to continuously monitor the composition and trustworthiness of the data sources available to them.

According to the report, “Leaders demonstrate strength across a full range of data quality functions, including profiling, parsing, standardization, matching, validation and enrichment. They exhibit a clear understanding and vision of where the market is headed, including recognition of non-customer data quality issues and delivery of enterprise-level data quality implementations. Leaders have an established market presence, significant size and a multinational presence (directly or as a result of a parent company).”

“As businesses confront the challenges of managing massive volumes of big data in real-time, ensuring high quality information has emerged as one of the biggest inhibitors to providing trusted insights,” said Steve Lucas, global executive vice president and general manager, Database & Technology, SAP. “We believe providing data quality management solutions that seamlessly embed into every application, dashboard and data warehouse is the best way to help ensure that each employee, decision, and business interaction is powered by trusted information.”

For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.

Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools,” Ted Friedman, Aug. 8, 2012

About the Magic Quadrant
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

CA Technologies Named Market Share Leader

CA Technologies Named the Worldwide Network Management Software and Appliance Market Share Leader by Market Research Firm

ISLANDIA, N.Y., March 19, 2012 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced it has been named the market share leader in the worldwide network management software and appliance market by IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice.

According to the market analysis report entitled Worldwide Network Management Software and Appliance 2012-2017 Forecast and 2010 and 1H11 Vendor Shares*, worldwide revenue for the network management software and appliance market in 2011 was $2.5 billion, growing 9.1 percent over 2010. IDC expects this market to grow at a CAGR of 7.5 percent to $4 billion from 2012 to 2017. CA Technologies owned 14.1 percent of the market in 2010 and 13.1 percent in the first half of 2011.

The report’s author, Lee Doyle, group vice president and general manager, Network Infrastructure and Security Products and Services, summarized CA Technologies offering, “CA Technologies believes that the relationship between the performance and the availability of infrastructure and applications is the fundamental key to ensuring consistent, high-quality business service operations management. As such, CA Technologies network/infrastructure management offering has a strong focus on unified proactive performance management, intelligent infrastructure fault isolation and root cause analysis, network flow analysis, application delivery, physical/virtual systems management, and unified communications monitoring. In combination with CA Application Performance Management (for end-user experience management, cloud and transaction monitoring, and deep-dive application analytics) and CA Service Operations Insight (for IT and business service modeling and event management), CA Infrastructure Management is a cornerstone in CA Technologies Service Assurance portfolio of solutions.”

“CA Technologies innovative and comprehensive service assurance portfolio allows customers to realize Business Service Innovation,” said Mike Sargent, general manager, Enterprise Management, CA Technologies. “Our integrated offerings enable CIOs and IT executives to focus on delivering new, innovative business services instead of managing and maintaining IT. This recognition by IDC as the network management market share leader validates our success in helping enterprise and service provider customers accelerate cycle times, reduce IT costs, improve service quality and ensure service performance.”

* IDC, Worldwide Network Management Software and Appliance 2012-2017 Forecast and 2010 and 1H11 Vendor Shares, Doc #233296, March 2011.

LMT VP Sonya Stewart Named Top Minority Business Leader

Lockheed Martin Vice President Sonya Stewart Named A Top Minority Business Leader in D.C. Region

ROCKVILLE, Md., March 16, 2012 – Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] is proud to announce that Sonya Stewart, a vice president within the company’s Information Systems & Global Solutions–Civil division, has been named a Washington Business Journal (WBJ) Minority Business Leader. The 25 WBJ honorees are recognized for their entrepreneurial drive, creativity, and decisive leadership.

Since joining Lockheed Martin in 1992, Stewart has led several critical initiatives. She initially supported the U.S. intelligence community – helping to design and deploy web-based interfaces among multiple classified agencies. Stewart also served as the vice president of diversity workforce management, and helped develop many corporate-wide leadership forums. Stewart, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro.

“Sonya exemplifies leadership at Lockheed Martin,” said Stephanie Hill, president of Lockheed Martin’s Information Systems & Global Solutions-Civil business. “She has always stepped up to every challenge before her – and encourages others around her to meet their true potential.”

“I am honored to be recognized as one of the D.C. region’s top minority business leaders,” said Stewart. “Throughout my 20-year career at Lockheed Martin, I have had the opportunity to work with highly intelligent and motivated people who inspire me each and every day. Together, we are committed to supporting federal agencies in their missions to providing important services to citizens around the world.”

Lockheed Martin’s IS&GS-Civil division serves various non-defense U.S. government agencies, international governments and regulated commercial industries. It is responsible for IT systems and services in areas such as energy, healthcare, transportation, information and cyber security, citizen protection and space exploration.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 123,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation’s net sales for 2011 were $46.5 billion.

News Release from Compuware - New eBook

Compuware Launches New eBook: Java Enterprise Performance

DETROIT, March 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced the availability of Java Enterprise Performance, a new online eBook authored by technology experts at the Compuware dynaTrace^® Center of Excellence. Java Enterprise Performance is a free resource for IT senior managers, team leaders and practitioners responsible for the performance of business-critical applications. To start reading, visit: http://book.dynatrace.com.

The online book is a comprehensive compilation of state-of-the-art approaches, best practices and pragmatic solutions to support application performance management and optimization initiatives throughout the lifecycle of systems from pre-production to production, encompassing all stakeholders: architecture, development, test, deployment and production teams.

"As businesses rely more than ever on applications, application performance management (APM) has become a top operational priority; performance delays of just two seconds can cause a revenue loss of 4 percent," said Alois Reitbauer, co-author and dynaTrace Technology Strategist. "As interest in application performance grows, more people want to further their careers in this field. Our eBook provides a pragmatic reference for those who are passionate about application performance and accountable for improving it."

All key topics covered in Java Enterprise Performance — from application performance concepts and memory management to hot issues such as cloud, virtualization and more — will empower architects, developers, test and operations teams to understand, measure and optimize the performance of Java-based technologies and meet the challenges they currently face in complex enterprise environments. The eBook is being published online with new chapters added monthly. 

The first two chapters are available today:

·         Chapter One —Application Performance Concepts: considers how to become performance experts. Besides technical expertise, IT leaders need a solid understanding of how performance and scalability works. The chapter reviews how to collect and interpret data properly and which performance data is needed in a variety of use cases.
 

·         Chapter Two —Memory Management: addresses the fact that memory management is often a major contributor to application performance problems. It highlights the inner workings of memory management and garbage collection to help understand memory-related performance problems such as memory leaks or excessive garbage collection, where they come from and how to optimize applications accordingly.

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The authors, all members of the dynaTrace APM Center of Excellence, include: Alois Reitbauer, Andreas Grabner, and Michael Kopp. They regularly share insight and expertise with a community of over 100,000 performance professionals at about:performance (http://blog.dynatrace.com). This online book contains more than 30 years of their combined knowledge in the application performance field. The authors have worked building large-scale applications and performance tools, developed numerous training courses and are regular speakers at leading software conferences worldwide on performance-related topics.

News Release from AT&T - Enterprise-Class Cloud Services

Analyst Firm Recognizes AT&T as an Industry Leader for Enterprise-Class Cloud Services

Industry Recognition Underscores AT&T’s Vision and Execution in Enterprise Cloud Services

Dallas, Texas, March 13, 2012

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Prominent analyst firm Gartner Inc. has named AT&T* a Leader in its 2012 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting.¹

“We feel this recognition is further verification that our strategy of embedding cloud solutions into our network is translating into more reliable, innovative solutions for our business customers,” said Steve Caniano, Vice President, Hosting, Application & Cloud Services, AT&T Business Solutions.

The Magic Quadrant evaluated 17 different global enterprise service providers on their ‘ability to execute’ and ‘completeness of vision’ in managed hosting, which combines data center facilities with managed network, storage and computing services and includes cloud services.  Companies named in the “Leaders” quadrant “have proved they have staying power in this market, can frequently innovate on their existing products and can be relied on for enterprise-class needs. They have proved their technical competence and ability to deliver services to a wide range of customers. They address multiple use cases with stand-alone or integrated solutions,” according to Gartner.

“As we continue to evolve our cloud services for businesses, Gartner’s recognition of our strengths inmanaged hosting, cloud, and support services underscores our commitment to delivering industry-leading enterprise-class solutions,” said Caniano.

This latest announcement follows AT&T’s recent launch of new solutions and updates to its roster of cloud services, designed meet the needs of a wide variety of users – from large and medium enterprises to developers and internet-centric businesses – including:

• AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service^SM with VMware vCloud^® Datacenter Service: news release; sign up here
• AT&T Unified Communications Services: news release; sign up here
• AT&T Cloud Architect: news release; sign up here
• AT&T Platform as a Service: news release; sign up here

AT&T’s portfolio of cloud services also includes AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service^SM, and AT&T Synaptic Hosting^SM and a full array of dedicated and virtualized hosting and applications solutions.

¹Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting, 2012, Ted Chamberlin, Lydia Leong, March 5, 2012.

*AT&T products and services are provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.