SAP to Mobilize Human Resources With Latest Apps Release

SAP to Mobilize Human Resources With Latest Apps Release

New Mobile Apps, Delivered by Sybase® Unwired Platform, to Make Real-Time Human Resources Decisions on Tablets and Smartphones a Reality

LAS VEGAS - October 03, 2011 - Addressing the needs of human resources (HR) departments that support global workforces in real time, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced a series of new HR-based mobile apps to help managers and employees execute HR-based requests on-the-go. The new mobile apps from SAP will increase employee and manager productivity while connecting people anyplace at anytime, empowering the always-on workforce with real-time mobile capabilities for performing a wide range of HR-related activities, including interviewing job candidates, managing employee performance, entering and approving leave requests and accessing corporate KPIs. The announcement was made at the HR Technology Conference and Exposition, being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from October 3-5.

Today's workplace is no longer made up of a set of desks in an office building. Equipped with smartphones and tablet devices, workers are "always on" and have become reliant on mobile technology to manage their personal and professional lives. HR functions are crucial to the business, and delays in approvals and HR-based requests and workflows can result in lost productivity. Managers will be able to search for and view employee profiles, initiate and act on HR-based processes and workflow, collaborate on decisions and events, and access critical data - all from their mobile devices.

The following new apps are planned for general availability in the fourth quarter of 2011:

  • SAP® Manager Insight: will provide managers with quick access to HR data, reports and KPIs at anytime and facilitate collaboration on HR topics and capture follow-up actions (watch a demo).
  • SAP® Interview Assistant: will allow managers to access documents, capture information during interviews and collaborate to act quickly during the hiring process.

The following apps, originally announced at SAPPHIRE 2011 and also planned for general availability in the fourth quarter of 2011, will allow organizations to mobilize HR processes instantly:

  • SAP® Employee Lookup: will provide access to any employee's details and organizational information residing in the SAP® ERP Human Capital Management (SAP ERP HCM) solution (watch a demo).
  • SAP® Leave Request: will allow employees to create and review leave requests (watch a demo).
  • SAP® Timesheet: will enable time entry to be captured immediately as work is performed (watch a demo).
  • SAP® HR Approvals: will allow managers to approve employees' HR-related requests.

SAP Manager Insight and SAP Interview Assistant will be available on Apple iPad, while the other apps will run on Apple iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones. These apps are powered by Sybase® Unwired Platform.

"With these mobile HR apps, SAP strengthens its commitment to the mobile space and the improved availability of HR processes that allows employees to increase their productivity while working on-the-go," said David Ludlow, group vice president, Human Capital Management, SAP. "We are pleased to offer these apps to our customers, who in turn can help ensure the best possible enablement and support for their workforce."

SAP will host a free webinar, "Mobilizing Human Resources," as part of the SAP Mobile Insights Webcast series to introduce these apps as a means of meeting business goals through productivity and insight. The webinar is planned for October 18 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (register here).

For a closer look at the applications, visit: "Screenshots: HR Mobile Apps from SAP." For more information, visit the Mobility newsroom.

About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device - SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 172,000 customers (includes customers from the acquisition of Sybase) to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

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Extend Security with TITUS Security Suite for Microsoft SharePoint

Extend Security with TITUS Security Suite for Microsoft SharePoint

New suite helps enhance SharePoint security; promotes stronger data governance

Anaheim, CA (Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 – Booth #354) —October 3, 2011TITUS, a leading provider of security and compliance solutions for email, documents and Microsoft SharePoint, today announced the release of  TITUS Security Suite for Microsoft SharePoint. This suite delivers a complete security-enhanced solution designed to provide additional security features to organizations relying on SharePoint for information sharing and collaboration.

The sheer amount of information being uploaded, shared and collaborated on each day within SharePoint means organizations need to take a more proactive approach to protecting valuable data. In addressing security, enterprises need to properly manage permissions and raise awareness of sensitive information across the organization.

“Every day, leading businesses from every market sector choose SharePoint as their enterprise collaboration solution,” said Jared Spataro, senior director, SharePoint Product Management from Microsoft. “With the amount and sensitivity of data in SharePoint environments growing, it is critical for enterprises to implement data governance policies that will secure important information assets.”

TITUS Security Suite for SharePoint is comprised of TITUS Metadata Security for SharePoint and TITUS Document Policy Manager for SharePoint.

·         TITUS Metadata Security for SharePoint helps to protect information in SharePoint by automatically applying permissions to sensitive folders, documents and lists based on their metadata. Security is applied consistently and automatically across content, removing the potential need to manually define access rights for each individual document or library.

·         TITUS Document Policy Manager for SharePoint helps raise awareness of sensitive information in SharePoint by applying visual labels to existing and new documents. By routinely converting documents to PDF, unauthorized editing of documents is prevented.  

“Many organizations require specialized solutions to meet their specific security needs,” said Tim Upton, President and CEO, TITUS.   “Our security suite for SharePoint  provides a practical way for organizations to extend SharePoint  security while driving end-user awareness of how sensitive data should be handled.”

TITUS Security Suite for Microsoft SharePoint is available immediately through TITUS and through authorized reseller partners.

 

About TITUS
TITUS is the leading provider of security and compliance software that helps organizations share information securely while meeting policy and compliance requirements. Our solutions enable military, government, and large enterprises to raise awareness and meet regulatory compliance by visually alerting end users to the sensitivity of information. Products include
TITUS Classification, the leading message, document and file classification and labeling solutions; TITUS Aware, products that enhance Data Loss Prevention by detecting sensitive information at the desktop; and the TITUS family of classification and security solutions for Microsoft SharePoint. TITUS solutions are deployed to over 1.5 million users within our over 300 military, government and enterprise customers worldwide, including Dow Corning, United States Air Force, NATO, G4S, Paternoster, Pratt and Whitney, Australian Department of Defence, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. For more information, visit www.titus.com or the TITUS Talking SharePoint Security blog.

 

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McAfee Highlights Discrepancy Between Data Centre Security Perceptions and Reality


McAfee Highlights Discrepancy Between Data Centre Security Perceptions
and Reality
Report from Gabriel Consulting Group Reflects Need for Clear Security
Standards and Prioritization

Santa Clara, Calif. - Oct. 3, 2011 - McAfee today released the results
of a survey conducted by Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG), an independent
analyst firm, showing a serious disconnect between security perceptions
and reality among IT Enterprise security managers. The 2011 Data Center
Security Survey focused on security issues and solutions among 147
enterprise data centre mangers responsible for data centres of all
sizes. GCG found that the majority of respondents (60 per cent) reported
that management believes security is stronger than it actually is, while
only 22 per cent reported that management is aware of their company’s
true security preparedness.

“It’s astounding that almost two-thirds of our respondents say that
their management is in the dark about their true security status,”
said Dan Olds, principal analyst at Gabriel Consulting Group. “This is
something that should cause a lot of thought both in the executive suite
and in the data centre. Management needs to seek out the truth when it
comes to IT security, and data centre management needs to be frank and
honest when discussing the strengths and weaknesses of their security
mechanisms. Obviously, it’s far better to discuss potential security
issues before they’re exposed by a breach.”

The report also found that although nearly half of the respondents feel
that virtualization and private clouds pose a unique security challenge,
the majority of respondents are using the same tools to secure both
physical and virtualized systems. McAfee’s approach to data centre
security is backed by a belief that advancements with traditional
security models need to occur industry-wide in order to properly secure
data centres and cloud environments. Both private and public cloud
computing architectures rely on the virtualized data centre to deliver
increased business agility and scale. As organizations continue to adopt
virtualization and cloud computing, security technology is often
replicated from physical resources, which results in various obstacles,
such as inconsistent network policies and security loopholes.

Other key findings from the GCG report include:
●   Nearly half of the respondents reported that they are constantly
finding new security holes
●   More than 40 per cent of respondents feel that their
organization’s security pace isn’t keeping up with threats
●   Approximately 70 per cent of respondents are skeptical of public
cloud security
●   Forty per cent of respondents report that day-to-day security
does not conform to the standards required by their official polices

“The move to virtualized data centre requires organizations to
consider their approach to security early in the design cycle,” said
Greg Brown, vice president of Network Security at McAfee. “Using
network and system security solutions that are optimized for virtualized
environments ensures continuity of data centre operations, without
interfering with performance. McAfee's solutions provide seamless
security management across conventional and virtualized data centre
resources.”

McAfee continues to broaden an
d enhance its unified security portfolio
spanning network, servers, data, and storage, as well as controls across
physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. Next-generation data centre
teams can optimize security for each function and efficiently manage and
monitor security across rapidly changing infrastructure. By working with
McAfee, IT can enable secure, elastic, on-demand services, without
compromising on compliance or jeopardizing availability.

For more information on Gabriel Consulting Group’s 2011 Data Center
Security Survey, please visit http://gabrielconsultinggroup.com/. For
more information on McAfee’s data centre security solutions, please
visit
http://www.mcafee.com/us/solutions/data-center-security/data-center-security.aspx.


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is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee
delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure
systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users
to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more
securely. Backed by its unrivaled Global Threat Intelligence, McAfee
creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the
public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance
with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify
vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security.
McAfee is relentlessly focused on constantly finding new ways to keep
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CommVault's New Application Data Management Bundle Eases Adoption and Data Proliferation Challenges for Microsoft SharePoint Environments

CommVault's New Application Data Management Bundle Eases Adoption and Data Proliferation Challenges for Microsoft SharePoint Environments

—CommVault Continues to Equip Channel Partners with Enablement Programs & Standardized Building Blocks to Streamline Backup, Recovery & Archive Operations—

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CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) — OCEANPORT, NJ — October 3, 2011

The rapid adoption of Microsoft® SharePoint underscores the escalating organizational need to share information, collaborate on content creation and work together to improve user productivity and bottom-line business benefits. As SharePoint continues to grow in size and stature, it is becoming increasingly critical for organizations to find ways to optimize, protect and manage vital SharePoint environments. To that end, CommVault's new Application Data Management (ADM) bundle, which is based on award-winning CommVault® Simpana® software and is available in a flexible capacity licensing model, is making it easier for both channel partners and customers to cost-effectively address the challenges of managing massive amounts of SharePoint data while streamlining migrations to SharePoint 2010.

News Facts

  • CommVault has announced an Application Data Management (ADM) bundle that provides integrated backup, recovery and archive in a single solution, eliminating the need to install and manage separate data management applications in Microsoft SharePoint environments.
  • The ADM bundle integrates CommVault® Simpana® 9 software modules for Backup and Recovery and Archive with pre-defined SharePoint reference architectures and operational guidelines to simplify deployment and protection.
  • With CommVault's SharePoint ADM bundle, channel partners now can offer customers the benefits of enterprise-class backup, fast and reliable recovery, as well as low-cost retention of SharePoint databases and systems.
  • Pricing for the software component of CommVault's ADM Bundle begins at $25,000 and includes extensive backup, recovery and archive functionality. The CommVault bundle is available as a software capacity licensing SKU, and includes reference architectures and leading practice guidelines to help channel partners and their customers quickly and easily match backup, recovery and archive needs with appropriate hardware and services for optimal data protection.
  • As a longstanding Microsoft partner and recent recipient of the 2011 Microsoft Server Platform Partner of the Year, CommVault is committed to helping Microsoft customers better manage data in Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Azure and Hyper-V environments.
  • CommVault will be showcasing its ADM bundle at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011, booth No. 238, October 3-6, 2011, in Anaheim, Calif.

Optimizing SharePoint Environments with Award-winning Simpana Software

  • CommVault's award-wining Simpana software platform and advanced functionality, including SnapProtect technology, eliminates complex scripting of snapshots with backup tools to deliver application awareness across all tiers of storage.
  • Moreover, integrated, global data deduplication removes redundant data to increase network efficiency and reduce storage infrastructure costs.
  • With CommVault's archive capabilities, including new Simpana software External Blob Storage (EBS) provider, it no longer matters where SharePoint documents reside as they can be recovered quickly and transparently. Fully automated archive policies drive the movement of stale, infrequently accessed data to secondary, less expensive storage tiers, which is a major consideration for customers with growing SharePoint databases and systems.
  • CommVault's Application Data Management bundle also is ideally suited for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, Hyper-V, Azure and VMware environments. Furthermore, the company's flexible capacity licensing model lets customers change scope, scale and protection methods for little additional cost or management overhead.
  • Additionally, CommVault has further simplified archive data recall, enabling documents to be retrieved quickly in one step for an improved user experience. Migrations to SharePoint 2010 are simplified, thanks to "out-of-place recovery," which enables users to easily use separate, independent backup copies for migrating SharePoint documents to the latest version.

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  • Mark Conley, senior director of North American channels for CommVault:
    "CommVault is making strides in protecting ever-growing SharePoint Server farms by providing our channel partners and their customers with a complete application data management solution. As a result, we're making it easier, faster and more affordable to purchase, deploy, set-up, operate, protect and archive SharePoint systems on a daily basis."

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NEC Develops Hardware Design Technology Providing Real Time Analysis of Stock Information

NEC Develops Hardware Design Technology
Providing Real Time Analysis of Stock Information


*** For immediate use September 28, 2011

Tokyo, September 28, 2011 - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today the development of hardware design technologies that provide real time analysis of large, frequently changing time series data such as stock information.

In recent years, the expansion of financial markets has resulted in a growing demand from the financial field for real time analysis of stock information. Although "complex event processing" (*1) offers extraction and analysis of data, the process is too slow to provide real time results.

NEC's new technologies process information directly through hardware, resulting in speeds approximately 50 times faster than conventional complex event processing. This minimizes delay and enables real time analysis of heavy volumes of frequently changing time series (sequential event) data.

Moreover, the new technologies allow users to quickly implement their own C-based algorithms or operations with respect to data processing and data analysis on fast, programmable hardware.

Key features of these new technologies include:

1) Data analysis and processing at roughly 50 times the speed of existing software techniques

NEC extends the capability of matching strings, referred to as a regular expression, in order to achieve complex event processing with C functions. A newly-developed method enables the extended regular expressions whose elements are C functions to be efficiently mapped to hardware. This results in achieving 50 times better performance than conventional software-based techniques since hardware can directly execute complex event processing that needs to support both matching based on regular expressions and computing based on C functions.

2) Rapid hardware implementation of user data analysis and data processing algorithms

NEC's "CyberWorkBench" (*2) tool enables users to easily program functions using C to analyze and process data directly through hardware. This allows users to quickly implement a variety of independent analysis and processing algorithms, without the need for redesigning conventional logic circuits.

Looking forward, NEC will continue to proactively research and develop hardware-based real time analysis technologies.

NEC presented these developments on September 5, 2011 at the "International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications," in Greece.

***

Notes
*1) Complex Event Processing

This processing extracts and analyzes information from time series data (events) that changes with time in concurrence with certain conditions. Since data is stored in memory, processing speed is dozens of times to hundreds of times faster than methods where data is stored in a database and extracted for processing as needed. This requires both matching and computing for data sequences.

*2) CyberWorkBench

CyberWorkBench is a C-based electronic circuit design platform developed by NEC over the course of twenty years. CyberWorkBench is developed around the "All-in-C" paradigm that allows high level synthesis and verification of any ANSI-C or SystemC program generating high quality circuits. CyberWorkBench also includes software co-simulation environments and source code debuggers.
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About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize the company's experience and global resources, NEC's advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society. For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.

Capgemini Announces Strategic Relationship With Sybase and SAP to Deploy and Develop Enterprise Mobility Solutions

Capgemini Announces Strategic Relationship With Sybase and SAP to Deploy and Develop Enterprise Mobility Solutions

PARIS - September 28, 2011 - Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, today announced it is cooperating with Sybase, an SAP company, to manage the deployment of enterprise mobility solutions. Capgemini will host mobile solutions powered by industry-leading Sybase® Managed Mobility technologies and offer them on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) basis. In addition, Capgemini and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) intend to enter into an agreement to build differentiated mobility solutions, through which Capgemini plans to make mobility solutions from SAP available to customers.

Among corporate users, enterprise mobility is growing as employees increasingly use mobile devices to handle critical tasks and real-time decision-making. Consumer technology is rapidly moving firms' mobility agendas forward as workers look to have similar mobile experiences that they enjoy in their personal lives.

"We believe now is the time to expand into this market in cooperation with SAP and Sybase, leveraging our expertise and knowledge in mobile solutions," said Fernando Alvarez, vice president and Mobile Solutions practice leader at Capgemini. "We are able to offer one of the most complete suites of SAP solutions available on premise or as a service, providing multiple options to meet customers' needs from licensing to implementation, hosting and operation."

Through the agreement with Sybase, Capgemini mobile solutions can be provided via an on-premise environment as well as a hosted environment, through the public or private cloud, including:

"Capgemini Mobile Solutions has been working very closely with us in architecting, designing, developing and implementing the next generations of SAP workflow scenarios, leveraging Sybase Unwired Platform," said Dirk Du Toit, group director, Architecture and Enabling Technologies, The Coca Cola Refreshments Company (CCR). "Standardizing on mobile platforms that support multiple mobile operating systems and bring fast ROI and low total cost of ownership is key to the success of our mobile strategy."

Capgemini will also provide mobile end-to-end solutions through simple monthly fees covering mobility software from SAP, hosting and application support that will benefit customers as follows:

  • Reduce levels of complexity associated with mobility by bundling software and services from installation to operations without any upfront investment required
  • Allow customers to leverage existing technology investments in SAP solutions and execute transactions through new easy-to-use interfaces
  • Accelerate customer ROI through real-time and accurate mobile data collection, streamlining data, and reducing manual intervention
  • Reduce risks from custom program development and avoid drawbacks of proprietary IT applications

Capgemini and SAP plan to develop a structured go-to-market model aimed at promoting greater cooperation between their sales teams. Capgemini and SAP intend to leverage service offerings from Capgemini in support of high-value mobile applications from SAP. These may include the SAP® Mobile Sales application, Sybase® Mobile Workflow application for SAP Business Suite, SAP® Mobile Service application, inventory management, materials management and warehouse management applications, as well as point-of-sales solutions for key vertical markets such as consumer products, oil and gas, manufacturing and retail.

"Mobility is a real game changer for the enterprise, and we anticipate that 1 billion people will be unlocking additional value from their SAP back-office systems via their mobile devices and tablets," said Chris McClain, senior vice president, Global Mobility and Sybase Solutions, SAP. "Working with strategic partners like Capgemini is critical to helping SAP unlock this value for our customers. We look forward to leveraging Capgemini's mobility expertise to accelerate adoption of mobility solutions from SAP."

Capgemini has more than 20 years' experience in providing mobile technology and solutions and has partnered with SAP on a variety of mobile initiatives for more than 14 years. It offers standards-based enterprise mobile software products and best practices that fully leverage the functionalities of SAP® Business Suite software for a number of industries from consumer products and retail, automotive, aerospace and defense, telecommunications through to utilities, pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Capgemini was an SAP Pinnacle Award winner in 2010 and 2011 and has over 11,500 resources in support of SAP solutions and 22 delivery centers worldwide to bring solutions to over 2,500 customers globally. Capgemini was one of the first companies to achieve SAP certification as a global provider of cloud services.

About Sybase
Sybase, an SAP company, is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices. Our information management, analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the world's most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com. Read Sybase blogs: http://blogs.sybase.com.

About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device - SAP empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition. SAP applications and services enable more than 172,000 customers (includes customers from the acquisition of Sybase) to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more information, visit www.sap.com.

About Capgemini
With around 115,000 people in 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services. The Group reported 2010 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business and technology solutions that fit their needs and drive the results they want. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore ®, its worldwide delivery model.
Learn more about us at www.capgemini.com.

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Symantec Releases 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report

Symantec Releases 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report

Symantec focuses on ongoing progress and challenges in multiple areas, including cyber security, diversity, environment and supply chain

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Sept. 28, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today released its 2011 Corporate Responsibility report. The report addresses high-priority issues for Symantec including climate and energy, customer satisfaction, diversity, human rights, talent retention, securing information, philanthropy, and governance and ethics. The report can be found in its entirety at the following link: http://www.symantec.com/corporate_responsibility/.


“In 2011, Symantec made considerable progress toward achieving our corporate responsibility goals,” said Cecily Joseph, senior director of Corporate Responsibility and Compliance at Symantec. “Our commitment is ongoing, and as we work to help our customers and grow our business, we recognize our actions have an impact on our global footprint. Our corporate responsibility governance structure is spread across several committees throughout Symantec, ensuring it stays a corporate priority at all levels of the company. The report is a clear reflection of the way in which we operate – with full attention to and respect for ethics, the environment and a commitment to positive social impact.”


The report outlines Symantec’s progress against its corporate responsibility goals; most were surpassed. Key FY11 accomplishments include:

  • Cyber Security: Symantec focuses significant resources on educating parents, schools and students about safe, secure and ethical practices on the Internet. Norton Online Family -- the award-winning online family safety service – is available for free, worldwide, in 25 languages. Previously available in English only, Norton Online Family gives parents the tools they need to keep their kids safe when they go online.  Not only does it block inappropriate sites, but encourages communication between parents and children.
  • Climate and energy: One way Symantec is working to reduce its carbon footprint is by applying green building practices to its real estate portfolio. In FY11, Symantec nearly doubled the number of U.S. Green Building Council LEED-certified buildings it owns, from nine in FY10 to a total of 16, including an enterprise data center. In FY11, this data center also achieved EPA ENERGY STAR rating under the new data center ENERGY STAR rating system. Having achieved 99 of 100 points, this facility now has the highest score of all 10 of Symantec’s ENERGY STAR facilities.
  • Diversity: Similar to the industry as a whole, Symantec is continually challenged to attract and retain women in technical positions, which is why it focuses on empowering, advancing and investing in women companywide. In FY11, Symantec increased the percentage of women in leadership, crafted career development goals for women technology professionals in the Top Talent program, and almost doubled its Symantec Women’s Action Networks (SWAN) chapters from 10 to 17 worldwide. SWAN provides a forum for personal and professional networking throughout all levels of the company, enabling women professionals to build relationships and share information.
  • Governance and ethics: Ethics and integrity are the foundation of Symantec’s business success, which is why in FY11 Symantec created the Global Supply Chain Manufacturing and Fulfillment Code of Conduct for its Direct Suppliers. This code of conduct is based on the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct (EICC) and International Labor Organization’s core conventions.

This year, Symantec was also awarded Acterra’s 2011 Business Environmental Award for large-company environmental sustainability. The award celebrated Symantec’s model program that encompasses all three tenants of sustainability: Business process, environment and social equity.


About Symantec

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HP Unveils Consulting Services to Advance Information Sharing, Improve Productivity

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HP Unveils Consulting Services to Advance Information Sharing, Improve Productivity

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 29, 2011

HP today introduced consulting services that help maximize client investments in collaboration platforms, such as Microsoft® SharePoint 2010, for greater productivity and information sharing across an enterprise.

Employees today expect familiar social and mobile tools for one-stop access to information and expertise across their personal and work environments. HP services equip enterprises for collaboration in an Instant-On world by creating an interactive working environment where employees can access applications and information anywhere and at any time.

HP Collaboration Consulting Services modernize and extend an existing collaboration infrastructure by streamlining resources, improving governance and reducing infrastructure sprawl. This enables an organization’s employees to retrieve and contribute information, forming interactive communities that improve efficiency and productivity.

“In order to help our customers improve collaboration and information sharing across their organizations, Swisscom decided to launch a managed service for hosted communications and collaboration for large corporations, “ said Michael Kerle, head of go-to-market, Corporate Business, Swisscom. “We were able to launch a solution quickly and cost-effectively enabling our customers to increase productivity by turning to HP and Microsoft, implementing Lync 2010, Exchange Server 2010, and SharePoint Server 2010 as the basis of our service.”

Bridging employees to resources for better knowledge sharing

HP Collaboration Consulting Services enable clients to use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and other tools to help:

  • Enhance productivity with transformation services that provide strategy, assessment, roadmap and design services. This helps clients build an environment that enables employees to work faster and more efficiently through a shared platform while making information and resources readily available.
  • Streamline collaboration with planning, design and implementation services that allow clients to gain control of their SharePoint platform and reduce information sprawl. HP helps clients standardize and migrate data and applications from legacy systems, such as Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise, and consolidate resources.
  • Improve their SharePoint environment with governance assurance and design services that set guidelines for proper use of SharePoint. Clients can also transparently capture, manage and secure SharePoint 2010 content in the HP TRIM enterprise records management solution which manages all other enterprise content to meet compliance obligations and reduce risk.
  • Enhance knowledge sharing by working with HP to classify, store and locate documents, creating an organized structure that increases information usability.
  • Use social networking to build community and collaboration among peers, employees and partners with HP Social Collaboration Consulting Services. Clients also can attract a new generation of employees that are accustomed to working with social channels.

“Employees are often disconnected from the information and resources that help them best navigate their roles,” said Tom Norton, director, Microsoft Corp. and Client Consulting, HP. “HP Collaboration Consulting Services make information personal, relevant and usable, and quickly connect employees to colleagues, boosting the quality of business decisions.”

HP Collaboration Consulting Services build on the HP Virtual Workplace offerings, which enhance a global workforce’s ability to connect, communicate and collaborate to create a competitive advantage. HP Collaboration Consulting Services help businesses and governments in their pursuit of an Instant-On Enterprise. In a world of continuous connectivity, the Instant-On Enterprise embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly.

HP’s premier client event, HP DISCOVER, takes place Nov. 29 - Dec. 1 in Vienna, Austria. The event showcases how organizations can get started on their Instant-On Enterprise journeys.

Pricing and availability

HP Collaboration Consulting Services are delivered globally through HP Technology Consulting. Pricing varies according to location and implementation. More information is available at www.hp.com/services/collaboration

About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.


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Government of Canada Moves to Enhance Privacy of Individuals during Commercial Transactions

Government of Canada Moves to Enhance Privacy of Individuals during Commercial Transactions

Ottawa, September 29, 2011—The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, today announced an important step in further protecting the privacy of Canadians during commercial transactions with the reintroduction of amendments to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) in the House of Commons.

"Canadians have given our government a strong mandate to stay focused on what matters: creating jobs and economic growth. Ensuring trust and confidence through the protection of personal information is essential to the growth of the digital economy," said Minister Paradis. "Our government will continue to help protect consumers and businesses from the misuse of their personal information, thereby increasing confidence in the online marketplace."

PIPEDA sets privacy rules for the collection, use and disclosure of personal information in a way that balances the privacy rights of individuals with measures to maintain the flows of information that are necessary for the conduct of business. The Act has broad support in Canada and is recognized internationally as an effective and balanced approach to privacy protection.

The Bill includes provisions to better protect and empower consumers, clarify and streamline rules for business and enable effective investigations by law enforcement and security agencies. A key amendment would require organizations to report material breaches of personal information to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Affected individuals would also be notified when there is a risk of significant harm such as identity theft, fraud or risk to one's reputation. Notification would permit individuals to take steps to mitigate damages arising from the breach.

In a modern economy, a solid, efficient regime for the protection of personal information is of vital importance to both individuals and businesses.

"Canada already has a solid legislative framework in place to ensure the protection of personal information," said Minister Paradis. "These amendments are based on extensive consultations and will help us maintain a balanced and practical approach to privacy law."

The proposed amendments also allow for the release of personal information to help protect victims of financial abuse and include measures to better protect the privacy of minors online.

For further information (media only), please contact:

Richard Walker
Director of Communications
Office of the Honourable Christian Paradis
Minister of Industry
613-995-9001

Media Relations
Industry Canada
613-943-2502


Backgrounder

Government of Canada Introduces Amendments to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)

The Government of Canada has reintroduced enhancements to private sector privacy legislation in a bill seeking to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). In doing so, the government is implementing the Government Response to the first statutory review of PIPEDA.

In a modern economy, a solid and efficient regime for the protection of personal information is vitally important to both consumers and businesses.

To ensure that PIPEDA continues to keep pace with rapid marketplace and technological changes and their societal impacts, the proposed amendments in this Bill are designed to:

  • protect and empower consumers;
  • clarify and streamline rules for business;
  • enable effective investigations by law enforcement and security agencies; and,
  • make linguistic and other technical drafting corrections.

Empowering Consumers

The proposed amendments will make a significant contribution to the government's efforts to ensure a safe and secure Internet for Canadians. A key proposed amendment would require organizations to report material data breaches of personal information to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and to notify affected individuals when the organization deems the breach to pose a real risk of significant harm, such as identity theft or fraud, or damage to reputation. This amendment will not only provide consumers with the information they need to mitigate harm resulting from a breach of their personal information, it will also encourage better information security practices within organizations. This proposed amendment will complement the government's identity theft law, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (identity theft and related misconduct).

Acknowledging the increasing Internet usage rates among youth, Canada is working with a number of international organizations to develop strategies to better protect children online. The Bill proposes an amendment to PIPEDA's consent regime that will provide further protection for children online by requiring organizations to consider the ability of their target audience to comprehend the consequences of sharing their personal information.

The Bill also proposes additional exceptions to allow for the release of personal information to help protect victims of financial abuse, to help locate missing persons and to identify injured, ill or deceased individuals.

Streamlining Rules for Business

In its October 2007 Response to the Report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, the government committed to supporting business by providing greater clarity and certainty with respect to key provisions of PIPEDA. The Bill proposes exceptions to consent for the collection, use and disclosure of information needed for, among others, managing the employment relationship, information produced for work purposes ("work product") and information used for due diligence in business transactions. Organizations will also be able to share and use business contact information that is required to conduct day-to-day business.

In addition, a new provision allowing the disclosure of personal information without consent for private sector investigations and fraud prevention will replace a regulatory process that has been burdensome for small and medium-sized organizations.

Supporting Effective Law Enforcement

Another key thrust of the Bill is supporting effective law enforcement. The government considers the safety and security of Canadian citizens to be of utmost importance. Proposed amendments will reaffirm the view that the information needs of law enforcement and security agencies can be met while respecting the privacy rights of Canadians. Proposed amendments would make it clear that organizations may collaborate with government institutions, such as law enforcement and security agencies that have requested personal information, in the absence of a warrant, subpoena, or order. To avoid jeopardizing investigations, new provisions would prohibit organizations from notifying an individual about the disclosure of his or her personal information to law enforcement and security agencies where the government institution to whom the information was disclosed objects.

Completing a Parliamentary Process

Part 1 of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) governs the collection, use and disclosure of personal information in the course of commercial activity. It has been in force since January 1, 2001, and is mandated to be reviewed by Parliament every five years.

This Bill acts on the government's October 2007 Response to the Report of the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics arising from the first Parliamentary review of the Act. The Government Response addressed each of the 25 recommendations contained in the Committee's report and committed to amending the Act in agreement with many of the Committee's recommendations.

In its report, the Committee recognized that the Act is working well and does not require major changes at this time. The Committee recommended the "fine-tuning" of some of the Act's provisions and encouraged increased harmonization with provincial privacy laws.

Industry Canada, which administers the Act, conducted formal consultations with stakeholders in order to further develop and define options for implementing the Government Response to the Committee report. The Government received 76 written submissions, and officials held more than 25 meetings involving a wide range of stakeholders including business, consumer and privacy advocates, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, provincial governments and law enforcement authorities.

Where possible, the proposed amendments take into consideration approaches taken in provincial privacy laws.

LiMo Foundation and Linux Foundation Announce New Open Source Software Platform, Tizen™

LiMo Foundation and Linux Foundation Announce New Open Source Software Platform, Tizen™

By Linux_Foundation - September 27, 2011 - 8:00pm

New cross-device and cross-architecture platform will drive standards-based web applications

September 27, 2011 – LONDON, ENGLAND and SAN FRANCISCO, USA – LiMo Foundation™ and The Linux Foundation today announced a new open source project, Tizen™, to develop a Linux-based device software platform. Hosted at The Linux Foundation, Tizen is a standards-based, cross-architecture software platform, which supports multiple device categories including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The initial release of Tizen is targeted for Q1 2012, enabling first devices to come to market in mid-2012.

Tizen combines the best open source technologies from LiMo and The Linux Foundation and adds a robust and flexible standards-based HTML5 and WAC web development environment within which device-independent applications can be produced efficiently for unconstrained cross-platform deployment. This approach leverages the robustness and flexibility of HTML5 which is rapidly emerging as a preferred application environment for mobile applications and the broad carrier support of the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC). Tizen additionally carries a state-of-the-art reference user interface enabling the creation of highly attractive and innovative user experience that can be further customized by operators and manufacturers.

“LiMo Foundation views Tizen as a well-timed step change which unites major mobile Linux proponents within a renewed ecosystem with an open web vision of application development which will help device vendors to innovate through software and liberalize access to consumers for developers and service providers,” said Morgan Gillis, Executive Director of LiMo Foundation. “LiMo will maintain its focus on providing the industry with a broadly backed vendor- and service-neutral ecosystem grounded in the spirit of open and unconstrained opportunity that is embodied by Linux.”

The mobile industry continues to embrace Linux and open source technologies as key factors in lowering device realization cost, increasing flexibility and improving time to market and it is expected that Tizen will further enhance these effects due to its cross-category reach and strong focus on open standards.

“The Linux Foundation is pleased to host the Tizen platform,” said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation. “Open source platforms such as Tizen are good for Linux as they further its adoption across device categories. We look forward to collaborating with the LiMo Foundation and its members on this project.”

To participate in the project, please go Tizen.org.

About LiMo Foundation

LiMo Foundation™ is a dedicated consortium of mobile industry leaders working together within an open and transparent governance model—with shared leadership and shared decision making—to deliver an open and globally consistent handset software platform based upon mobile Linux for use by the whole mobile industry. The Board of LiMo Foundation comprises ACCESS, Panasonic Mobile Communications, NEC CASIO Mobile Communications, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, SK Telecom, Telefónica and Vodafone. A full description of LiMo Foundation can be found at www.limofoundation.org.

About The Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source development community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Linux conferences, including LinuxCon, and generating original Linux research and content that advances the understanding of the Linux platform. Its web properties, including Linux.com, reach approximately two million people per month. The organization also provides extensive Linux training opportunities that feature the Linux kernel community’s leading experts as instructors. Follow The Linux Foundation on Twitter.

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