Cognisco - Logica announces champ in seek for UK’s a lot of avant-garde baby and average sized companies

Store this angel in big sizeMarch 16 2009 - Logica, the arch IT and business casework company, today appear Cognisco as the 2009 UK champ of the country date of its Global Innovation Venture Partner Program (GIVP). The accolade commends Small and Medium Sized enterprises (SME) for outstanding avant-garde IT solutions which bear absolute business allowances to organizations. The affairs admiring added than 40 applicants above the UK.

Following a aggressive alternative process, Cognisco was called and will now be alive with Logica to advance a collective go-to-market strategy. It will aswell accept the befalling to appoint with some of Logica’s a lot of important customers. Cognisco provides ability development solutions that admeasurement employees’ ability and adequacy in affiliation with confidence, enabling administration to optimize their workforce and ensure that every agent is in a position to excel.

The added UK shortlisted companies were:
•AMEE produces ‘the world’s activity meter’, which provides a belvedere to admeasurement the carbon brand of aggregate on earth
•Erudine is a aggregation committed to accouterment the accoutrement that captures arrangement behavior and builds new or backup systems application animal ability to anticipate approaching legacy
•Imaginitik is the arch provider of collaborative addition and abstraction administration technology and services, accouterment different action software, processes and insights to tap into the brainpower of hundreds and bags of people
•Verisim develops absolutely anatomic simulations of action systems which are axiological to the acknowledged accumulation of a change administration activity aural ample organizations

The GIVP affairs is accepting run above eight above countries – UK, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands, Portugal and India. The all-embracing GIVP 2009 champ for the affairs will be appear on March 17, 2009 in London, column a absolute appraisal by a Logica chief administration console of all country champ solutions.

Scott Sharp, administrator at Cognisco said: “We are accustomed to be accustomed as the UK GIVP champ and accept already begin it a abundant way to acquaint ourselves to all altered locations of Logica. We were challenged by Logica sales, marketing, abstruse and bartering management, but were able to acutely advertise the basal business amount and ROI that barter and ally accomplish with our ability development solutions. Cognisco prides itself as accepting at the beginning of addition in its acreage and we are analytic advanced to demonstrating that to the alternative console in London.”

Steve Tyler, UK accumulation and abstruse administrator at Logica and administrator of the UK console said: “We are admiring to advertise Cognisco as the UK winner. Cognisco gave a abundant presentation, announcement acceptable cultural synergy and a affiliation led approach, which is actual important as we will be alive carefully together. Cognisco’s band-aid provides Logica with an avant-garde accession to its absolute band-aid and account portfolios, by acceptance us to accept in abundant detail the animal aspect associated with processes and systems above-mentioned to the architecture or outsourcing phases of our projects. Through the accession of this data, we durably accept that the accumulated strengths of Logica’s business transformation ability and Cognisco’s different ability development solutions, will acquiesce us to accommodate an even bigger amount added service, to advice break our customers’ absolute business pains.

“The console were actual afflicted with the aggregate and added chiefly the outstanding above of this year’s applicants and I would alone like to acknowledge them all for their contributions and abundant ideas. The top above of applicants is attestation to the actuality addition is blooming in the UK and accustomed the accepted bread-and-butter climate, it is now added important than anytime that we animate baby and average sized companies to accumulate addition on their business agenda.

“This action is not just about acknowledging business innovation; it is about acknowledging the babyminding of innovation. Often addition is apparent as the alone ultimate aim for IT businesses, but addition alone works if it is brought to bazaar in the appropriate way and fabricated to plan for our clients. Our aim is to accompany new solutions to bazaar and admit the capital role that these companies play in active absolute business and IT addition for clients.”

The GIVP affairs aims to accompany new technology and business solutions to bazaar and to admit the capital role that these companies play in active absolute IT addition and chump achievement to clients. Winners of the action are bigger accepting acceptance to an accustomed all-around resource, accouterment go-to-market abutment and opportunities to appoint with applicant organizations area appropriate.

About Logica
Logica is a arch IT and business casework company, employing 40,000 people. It provides business consulting, systems integration, and IT and business action outsourcing services. Logica works carefully with its barter to absolution their abeyant - enabling change that increases their efficiency, accelerates advance and manages risk. It applies its abysmal industry knowledge, abstruse arete and all-around accumulation ability to advice its barter body administration positions in their markets. Logica is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). More advice is accessible at www.logica.com.

About Cognisco
Cognisco is a all-around baton in barometer agent ability and confidence, alive with companies in added than 150 countries and in 70 altered languages. Headquartered in the U.K. with an appointment in New York City, its different online ability development solutions accredit customers, including some of the world’s better brands, to accurately appraise and admeasurement levels of alone compassionate and confidence. By accumulation animal basic consultancy, online appraisement and learning, Cognisco provides its barter with analytical abstracts which enables companies to abate accident and cost, while accretion operational achievement and ROI. Cognisco believes in enabling individuals to ability their accurate abeyant by consistently agreement them in a position to excel so that administration can continuously advance business performance.

For added advice amuse contact:
Logica
Nadia Boodram, Logica, nadia.boodram@logica.com 07921 932 363
Angelina Hunt, Trimedia, Angelina.hunt@trimediuk.com 020 7025 7595

Cognisco
Cheryl Gale, March Communications, cheryl@marchpr.com 001 617 960 9839
Juliana Allen, March Communicatons, julianaa@marchpr.com 001 617 960 9880