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Bimonthly newsletter dedicated to innovative entrepreneurship in Luxembourg
N°23 | August – September 2008
Background information
The high-tech business incubator Technoport provides companies with access to resources that entrepreneurs
and small companies typically lack. Our objective is to provide the best conditions in Luxembourg to achieve
growth & success.
As an organisation within the CRP Henri Tudor, Technoport has developed services and infrastructure to
accelerate the growth of promising, high potential projects and companies in Luxembourg. Technoport has a
current network of 24 SMEs.
Technoport News is split into four sections:
Company Profile
A feature on one of the exciting companies in our network
Company News
A condensed version of highlights from the companies within our Innovation Network
Technoport Highlights A brief overview of what has happened at Technoport over the last two months
Incubator Status
How big is Technoport? How many projects, companies and people are involved?
Technoport is always looking for quality projects and businesses managed by determined, proactive
entrepreneurs.
For more information, visit our website at www.technoport.lu.
Table of contents
Company Profile: CodaSystem announces financing round and ISO 27001 certification....................................... 2
Company News............................................................................................................................................... 3
Conostix delivers labelized Secure WiFi to Bakes and Fischer ................................................................................. 3
J-Publisher customers express their satisfaction .................................................................................................. 3
in-edit innovates for the mass publishing industry .............................................................................................. 4
With Synergiums communicate differently! ......................................................................................................... 4
Lumension Security Receives Frost and Sullivan 2008 Global Market Penetration Leadership Award............................. 4
GentleSecurity wins award at the 1,2,3 Go interregional business plan contest ........................................................ 5
Vodafone selects XINTEC’s FMSlite Fraud Management System................................................................................ 5
Technoport Highlights.................................................................................................................................... 6
Technoport welcomes two new companies in the incubator ................................................................................... 6
Technoport welcomes Fiduciaire Générale de Luxembourg as new Senior Partner ...................................................... 6
Real success for the 1st Web positioning conference!............................................................................................ 7
International practical tools presented at the XXV IASP World Conference............................................................... 7
Upcoming events ........................................................................................................................................... 7
Discover CodaSystem at the IP Convergence Fair 2008.......................................................................................... 7
Incubator Status: Facts & Figures of Technoport............................................................................................... 8
Location & development .................................................................................................................................. 8
Technoport Innovation Network Development ..................................................................................................... 8
Companies’ Employment & development ............................................................................................................. 8
Expertise and synergies development ................................................................................................................. 8
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Company Profile: CodaSystem announces financing round and ISO 27001
certification
CodaSystem is proud to announce a successful investment round of 3
million euros with the technological investment fund Seventure
Partners.
CodaSystem provides the first integrated solutions of digital proofs creation. The products are based on the most
advanced security technologies like Cryptography, Steganography, Audiovisual Watermarking, Digital Signature
and Time Stamping. The technology works on latest-generation camera phones (smartphones), PDA phone and
soon on I Phone and Blackberry.
The pictures are geo-localized (via satellite, GSM triangulation or WIFI triangulation) timestamped, tattooed and
signed by the authors. Service providers can use such pictures to have a legal proof of their services or as a
control mechanism when outsourcing activities. The software allows any professional to prove what has been
done, when, where and by whom, by means of a single encrypted and secured picture. Clients can benefit from
the convenience of digital documents while avoiding any risk of divulgation to non-authorised third parties or
modification of the content. The only alternatives to these digital proof pictures to date are heavy and costly
certified or official statements and reports.
The incriminating evidence of CodaSystem's pictures has been certified by several legal and technical audits and
is based on the total control of the production, encryption, archiving and diffusion process, and the conformity
to the most advanced rules and norms concerning the signature, the exchange and the electronic storage of
information. In this way, CodaSystem decided in 2007 to run on the ISO / IEC 27001 certification it obtained in
early September 2008. CodaSystem in now the first organization in Luxembourg to be certified ISO/IEC 27001 to
bring the proof of its safety processes and increase the trust of its customers.
The company's innovation has already been rewarded on the market by quick adoption of its technology in
specific target industries. Already present in the construction, real estate and security business, CodaSystem
enables its customers to gain from the benefits of digital tools while reducing risks and costs often associated
with their usage.
CodaSystem’s solution of digital pictures certification marketed by the company since 18 months enjoys a very
strong growth with the doubling of the park of displays. This round will allow CodaSystem to amplify and to
accelerate its development and to get ready for the international challenges to come. “This new financial round,
allows us to multiply tenfold our efforts. We are particularly going to develop our indirect and international
partnerships with the operators, the manufacturers and the integrators, while strengthening our team of direct
marketing on our flagship product " Shoot and Proof ”which allows all with a simple mobile phone to set digital
pictures”, said Frédéric Levaux, CEO of CodaSystem.
Fields of expertise:
Software Editor
Brand:
CodaSystem, Shoot&Proof, Codamobile
Employees:
16
Clients:
Construction, Real estate and Security business, Merchandising…
Geographical coverage:
Worldwide
CodaSystem SA; 66 rue de Luxembourg; L-4221 Esch-sur-Alzette; Tel: +352 54 55 80-476; FAX: +352 54 55
80-477; www.codasystem.com, www.shootandproof.com or contact [email protected]
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Company News
1st August 2008
Conostix delivers labelized Secure WiFi to Bakes and Fischer
Customers of the Bakes and Fischer bakeries can now benefit of a
secured access to the Internet while drinking a coffee or having a
croissant in the bakery’s degustation lounge. The secured WiFi access is
the first implementation having obtained the label “WiFi sécurisé
suivant les réflexes CASES” delivered by the Ministry of the Economy
and Foreign Trade. On June 24, the Minister Jeannot Krecké himself
opened the first secured WiFi-enabled lounge at rue Phillippe II in
Luxembourg. Bakeries in Luxembourg, Esch-sur Alzette, Ettelbruck and
Wiltz are offering the same services since then.
Protecting the consumers for the Internet access is mandatory for
Bakes-Fischer. That’s why they have chosen the award winning
technology of Conostix to deploy a point-to-point secure architecture.
The systems are continually managed and updated in order to protect
the consumer against the threats from public networks and the
Internet.
For further information visit http://www.cases.lu, http://www.fischer.lu or contact [email protected]
18th August 2008
J-Publisher customers express their satisfaction
Since the beginig of the year, J-Publisher™, the main product of J-Way
has known some important feature improvements. With the aim of
building the coming product strategy of J-Publisher, J-Way launched
in July an important satisfaction survey in order to know the use the
customers make of J-Publisher, their satisfaction and specific future
requirements or expectations.
70% of J-Way customers met between 2 to 8 hours the J-Way appointed consultant. These costumers produced
about 1500 applications using J-Publisher since 2004, including about 15 millions potential users. The results
released from this survey very valuable and proof that a small European Software Company is able to compete
with worldwide giants in the fields of innovation, customer satisfaction and reliability. In spite of the small size
of J-Way the customers, primarily huge governments offices, praise specifically:
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J-Publisher’s ability to create powerfull and smart online services and its ability to fit with general IT
standards
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J-Publisher’s productivity in creating smart forms,
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J-Way’s efficient after sales services with accurate and fast answers
However customers expect J-Way also to release a tool for more non-technical people to create powerful forms
(the project is now launched, first deliveries are scheduled for March 2009!) and suggests also to increase JPublisher installations by expanding J-Way’s partnerships. J-Way would like to thank espacially all those clients
that took their valuable time to give feedbacks during this extremly deep evaluation exercice.
For further information visit www.jway.lu, to receive J-Way audit send a mail to : [email protected]
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1st September 2008
in-edit innovates for the mass publishing industry
in-edit, who recently joined the Technoport, is a B2B service & hightech solution provider in the mass publishing sector. The company
provides innovative solutions in terms of fast and reliable mass
publication generation integrating functionalities such as automated
direct marketing personalization.
All actual invoices empty spaces, being fix or flexible, can now be used to empower the cleverer Up-selling and
Cross –selling direct marketing strategies.
in-edit’s objectives are not only to remove all actual direct marketing boundaries related to recurrent publications
but also to provide tools with a fully integrated workflow enabling publication’s management from its generation
till its diffusion, whatever the channel will be (paper or electronic), also giving the opportunity to interact with
any internal department or external contractor (multi-level users). In order to optimize all client’s published
direct marketing opportunities, in-edit has also recently integrated a full CRM module allowing the most effective
outcome from any integrated marketing campaigns enabling client’s customers follow up and call back. The
application field of in-edit’s tools is large and will, in a first step, mainly target the insurance, fix&mobil
telephony, internet, energy&water sectors in Luxembourg and the great region. in-edit’s short term next step
developments will be an integrated WEB platform and also a module allowing “from scratch” direct mailing for
new customer acquisition.
For more information please visit www.in-edit.lu
1st September 2008
With Synergiums communicate differently!
Founded in 2006, Synergiums is a private service company specialised
in information management. Creating added value for private and public
customers, Synergiums delivers today innovative telematic solutions
addressing B2B and B2C markets and providing: multilingual vocal
access to on-line services: E-government, mobility, infotainment, and
Fleet Management; natural dialogue with any application ; immediate
interaction with newly available information; little preliminary
recognition of the way the users express themselves on a daily basis, in
their everyday language; automatic chaining of the services to meet the
user's needs.
“Our solutions comes "just in time". The number of services are increasing, but are still difficult to be accessed via
their own interface. Now, it's time to commercialize our solutions. It is obvious that we have to address the major
buyers, such as telecommunication operators, equipment manufacturers and content providers who will take
advantage for their own customers“ explains Alain Lefevre - CEO of Synergiums.
For further information visit www.synergiums.com
16th September 2008
Lumension Security Receives Frost and Sullivan 2008 Global Market Penetration
Leadership Award
Lumension Security™ has been Awarded the Prestigious Award for Strong
Market Share Growth, Product Innovation, and Continued Leadership in
Vulnerability Management
Lumension Security™, Inc., announced that global growth consulting company Frost & Sullivan has awarded
Lumension Security the esteemed 2008 Global Market Penetration Leadership Award.
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The Frost & Sullivan award for Global Market Penetration Leadership is presented every year to the company that
has demonstrated excellence in capturing and growing market share within the industry through a combination of
key acquisitions and organic growth. The recipient has demonstrated strategic excellence in product innovation
in marketing, development, and sales strategies that have resulted in the largest gain in market share for the
past two to three years. According to Frost & Sullivan, Lumension Security has strengthened its position within
the Vulnerability Assessment market with the acquisition of Harris Corporation’s STAT Guardian Vulnerability
Management Suite in 2007. With the combination of Lumension Security’s industry leading patch and remediation
capabilities and the STAT agentless scanning technology, Lumension Security is the first in the industry to deliver
a fully integrated Vulnerability Management Solution that is one of the most powerful tools in the market, a truly
integrated solution that combines agentless and agent-based vulnerability assessment, remediation with security
configuration, and compliance reporting.
“Through the convergence of patch management, whitelisting application control, and vulnerability assessment
technologies, and patch management, Lumension Security now boasts one of the most complete vulnerability
management products and has earned a significant increase in market share,” said Frost & Sullivan analyst Chris
Rodriguez.“Industry recognition by firms such as Frost & Sullivan validates our strategy behind our vision and
execution,” said Pat Clawson, Chairman and CEO of Lumension Security.
For a free 30-day trial of the industry leading Lumension Security Endpoint Protection Solution, please
visit http://www.lumension.com.
23rd September 2008
GentleSecurity wins award at the 1,2,3 Go interregional business plan contest
The closing ceremony of this year’s interregional business plan contest
1,2,3 Go took place at the Chamber of Commerce of Luxembourg on
Tuesday 23rd September. 88 projects had been selected to participate
to this edition and 45 were able to submit a formal business plan
following the selection criteria.
An international jury reviewed these business plans and 9 were short-listed with a score of more than 70% of the
possible points. GentleSecurity was one of the two Luxembourg winners and received a 6500 Euro award for his
“LeakWall- data control and leak prevention policy” project in the IT security field.
For further information visit www.gentlesecurity.com, [email protected]
24th September 2008
Vodafone selects XINTEC’s FMSlite Fraud Management System
FMSlite the world’s first lightweight Fraud Management System (FMS)
for near-real-time roaming fraud detection, has been selected by
Vodafone Malta for immediate implementation. Designed to overcome
the challenges of roaming-related fraud, a phenomenon which
continues to erode mobile operator revenues worldwide, the FMSlite
platform is a lightweight, cost-effective and powerful fraud
management system providing a complete set of collection, detection,
reporting and dashboard features to ensure fraud detection and the
near-real-time monitoring of mobile calls.
Vodafone’s choice accompanies the mandatory introduction of near-real-time roaming data exchange (NRTRDE) on
1st October 2008 by the GSM Association – the industry’s global trade body representing more than 750 GSM
operators – urging networks to quickly upgrade their fraud detection capabilities to remain competitive.
This unique FMS will give Vodafone immediate access to critical information at a fraction of the cost of a fullblown “total” FMS. More than just detecting fraud, FMSlite will allow Vodafone to apply different detection
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techniques in near real time, such as suspicious destinations, excessive high usage, hotlist checking and smart
thresholds. In addition to supporting NRTRDE, this innovative FMS offers a growing feature list including MVNO
support, dual-IMSI support, and home network fraud detection.
For further information visit www.xintec.com or contact [email protected]
Technoport Highlights
1st September 2008
Technoport welcomes two new companies in the incubator
Technoport is proud to welcome two new companies in the incubator as of 1st September 2008. These two
companies are in-edit SARL and Synergiums SA. In-edit SARL was launched back in March of this year and could
take advantage of the pre-commercial programme at Technoport to finalise its business plan. Synergiums SA has
formely been created back in 2006 and after two years of R&D it decided now to focuss its efforts mainly on the
commercialisation of the outcomes of their research. Please refer to their respecitve articles for further details
about their activities. With these two new arrivals the number of accepted companies since the creation of
Technoport amounts to 44 out of which 24 are still within the Technoport Innovation Network. 12 success stories
left already the incubator out of which 4 have been acquired by international and/or national companies. You can
find the latest numbers in the table at the end of this document.
For further information visit: www.technoport.lu
16th September 2008
Technoport welcomes Fiduciaire Générale de Luxembourg as new Senior Partner
After ARCELOR-MITTAL, the Town of Esch-sur-Alzette and Broadcasting
Centre Europe it is Fiduciaire Générale de Luxembourg to join
Technoport as a Senior Partner with the aim to support new technologyoriented and innovative companies in Luxembourg. The partnership was
signed on Tuesday 16th September in presence of Mr. Claude Wehenkel,
CEO of CRP Henri Tudor, Diego De Biasio, Manager of Technoport and
Marc Meyers Partner at Fiduciaire Générale de Luxembourg.
This inititiave is a clear bottom-up approach following several requests of entrepreneurs to develop Technoport’s
offer of support in that direction. “The idea has been implemented after a discussion we had with Frank Diederich,
CEO and founder of Mocom. The request of developing our services within the accounting and corporate tax area had
been suggested several times recently and Frank offered to introduce us to somebody he knew. The approach
afterwards was very pragmatic and straigthforward,“ explains Diego De Biasio Manager of Technoport. Sean Killeen,
CEO and founder of Xintec could already take advantage of this new service. “What could a newly established
company ask more than the advice and support of a market reference like the Fiduciaire Générale de Luxembourg?
This partnership was right-in-time for our company. I was pleased by the work they have done with our accounting
and I’m sure other entrepreneurs of Technoport will take benefit out of this.“
The partnership involves three main pillars. Advice in accounting, corporate tax and company creation topics;
proximity with a physical presence in the incubator to be closer to the entrepreneurs and finaly a training aspect
to train and give some advices to entrepreneurs about how to organise and understand accounting and tax
principles. “We wanted to bring our passion and know-how in these field to new technology-oriented companies in
Luxembourg. I’m convinced that the pragmatic and dynamic work environnement we have discovered here at
Technoport will lead to make this initiative successful,“ says Marc Meyers, Partner at Fiduciaire Générale de
Luxembourg.
For further information [email protected], www.fgl.lu
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19th September 2008
Real success for the 1 st Web positioning conference!
On September 19th Technoport hosted a Web positioning conference in
collaboration with e-Teamsys, a Web positioning expert. This first
session gathered more than 50 persons from communication/Web and
marketing as well as entrepreneurs, sensitive to improve their visibility
on Internet.
e-Teamsys focussed this first session on the importance of a good Web positioning by presenting how search
engines work, the importance of a good keyword selection and the impacts of Web 2.0 tools to enhance the
positioning and visibility of a brand. The second session is planned for October 17th at Technoport from 8:30 am
to 11:30 am and will go deeper in the discussion of new trends in web referencing (paying traffic, Buzz, ART
method…). If you are interested join now at http://www.eteamsys.com/form-conference.html
For further information www.technoport.lu and www.eteamsys.lu
21st September 2008
International practical tools presented at the XXV IASP World Conference
Technoport attended the XXV Word Conference of the International
Association of Science Parks, which gathered more than 450 delegates from
59 countries all over the world in Johannesburg, South Africa. Under the
theme “The role of Science Parks in accelerating knowledge economy growth –
contrasts between emerging and more developed economies” 57 speakers
brought about many highly interesting and relevant issues/topics for the
delegates that attended the event.
It was a great opportunity to network and exchange with Science Park and incubator managers at an
international level and discuss services offered to tenant companies among which international soft landing
networking and business boosting services available in Europe through the EuroOffice Service network or
collaborative tools to gradually implement cooperation mechanisms inside and outside organisations and develop
appropriate interaction schemes between partners. As announced in our April/May newsletter Technoport had also
been selected to present a paper of Catherine Delevoye, Business Advisor at the incubator on “Supporting
Innovation and Entrepreneurship worldwide: What Science and Technology Parks can actually do”.
For further information contact [email protected]
Upcoming events
26th September 2008
Discover CodaSystem at the IP Convergence Fair 2008
CodaSystem will be present on the stand of Microsoft at the IP Convergence Trade Fair in Paris from 21st to 23rd
October (Porte de Versailles - Stand: H32 / K31). IP Convergence is the meeting point between the technologies
and the firms, gathered to reflect on the current tendencies and mutations of the IT & Telecom. Frédéric Levaux,
CEO of CodaSytem will present on October 22nd at 1:45 pm “How to improve your productivity thanks to the realtime management of certified pictures and so stands out with a real competitive advantage in your sector”. Its
presentation will be based on real case studies.
More information, visit www.codasystem.com and www.ipconvergence.fr
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Incubator Status: Facts & Figures of Technoport
As of 30th September 2008
Location & development
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Available space for high-tech companies
Occupation rate
Actual average tenancy period
Number of companies accepted by the board of directors since 1998
1,000 m2
85 %
3.9 years
44
Technoport Innovation Network Development
• Number of companies within the Technoport Innovation Network
• Hosted companies
• Success stories
24
12
12
Companies’ Employment & development
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Total positions
New jobs created in 2008
Number of subsidiaries abroad
Total amount of VC money raised until 2008
Cumultated turnover 2007
235 employees
39
10
17.5 M euro
23.5 M Euro
Expertise and synergies development
• University internship positions
• Co-operation with CRP Henri Tudor (R&D projects or other)
• Inter-company synergies created
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