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N°01 | décembre 2004 - janvier 2005 Bimonthly newsletter dedicated to innovative entrepreneurship in Luxembourg N°01 | décembre 2004 - janvier 2005 Background information Technoport, as a high-tech business incubator, provides companies with access to resources that entrepreneurs and small companies typically lack. Our objective is to provide the best conditions 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 26 SMEs. Technoport’s objective is to provide the best conditions in Luxembourg to achieve growth and success. Technoport News is split into five sections: Company Profile In every issue we will be profiling one of the exciting companies in our network. Company News A condensed version of highlights from the 26 companies within our Réseau d’Innovation Technoport. 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? Customer Reference How good are we? Have a look at what our customers have to say 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 des matières Company Profile: CYBERCULTUS ..................................................................................................................................... 2 Company News................................................................................................................................................................. 2 SecureWave: Finalist of Best Security Solution for Financial Services............................................................................. 2 J-Way: Publication multimédia du catalogue de formation de l’INAP ............................................................................. 3 LuxScan Technologies: Set up of the first international subsidiary in the US ................................................................. 3 E-Xtream engineering: Release of DIGIMAT version 1.5.1. ............................................................................................. 3 E-Xtream engineering at the JEC Composites Show ....................................................................................................... 4 Two job opportunities at E-Xtream engineering ............................................................................................................ 4 SPIECE SA: Création d’un nouveau département pour la gestion de l’énergie électrique.................................................. 4 Technoport Highlights ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 Technoport welcomes OneTree Technologies SA ............................................................................................................ 1 Technoport’s highlights 2004 ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Incubator Status: Facts & Figures of Technoport as at 31 st December 2004.................................................................. 6 Location ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Technoport Innovation Network Development............................................................................................................... 6 Employment................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Development of expertise............................................................................................................................................. 6 Synergies ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Customer Reference......................................................................................................................................................... 6 1 Technoport News | N°01 | décembre 2004 - janvier 2005 Company Profile : CYBERCULTUS Cybercultus was created in 1999 and has been accepted at Technoport in June 2002. The company’s main mission is to provide new interactive solutions with media convergence (PC based Internet, Interactive TV, 3G Mobile telephony, Global positioning). The e-Business Solutions for the Art industry (eBSA©) Expo Suite of Cybercultus is a software capable of generating 3D virtual exhibitions for museums, galleries, tourism centres, etc. The software is designed to allow organizations, associations, and institutions, to promote natural and cultural heritage on-line using advanced immersive technologies. Simple user interfaces for non-specialists allow authorized staff to specify the look and feel and the content of a 3D expo and to have it published on different media such as CD/DVD, WEB or iTV. The eBSA© RAMO libraries of Cybercultus provide a range of intelligent multimedia objects capable of advanced interactivity. Such objects are capable of behaving autonomously and of reacting according to their surrounding context. Such objects allow virtual worlds to behave closer to reality and to make the man/machine interaction much more natural. The latest interactive TV show application being developed by Cybercultus opens new possibilities to viewers by converting the TV set to a virtual extension of their home living space. The DVB-MHP (Digital Video Broadcast Multimedia Home Platform) open standard is used to produce these iTV applications. By combining advanced immersion and interactivity solutions, Cybercultus is capable of providing its customers with highly intuitive and user-friendly content applications. Core Applications RAMO ™ concept (Reactive & Adaptive Multimedia Objects) eBSA© iTV suite for immersive TV applications eBSA© suite for immersive culture and tourism applications Target Markets Culture & tourism industry, museums & galleries, tour operators, leisure centres, media & broadcasting industry, TV channels, broadcasters, publishers Last accomplishment In October 2004 the first version of the eBSA© immersive TV quiz show has been tested successfully using live satellite-broadcast. Contact: Cybercultus SA, 66, rue de Luxembourg, L-4221 Esch-sur-Alzette, phone: +352 26 54 56 – 1, fax: +352 26 54 56 – 24, www.cybercultus.com, [email protected] Company News SecureWave: Finalist of Best Security Solution for Financial Services The Sanctuary solutions of SecureWave have been nominated among the five finalists in the highly competitive arena of the US Excellence Awards – Best Security Solutions for the Financial Services Industry. Results by SC Magazine will be disclosed during the RSA Conference in February 2005 (http://2005rsaconference.com/us/) where SecureWave will also be exhibiting. SecureWave will also be presenting its new products for the Citrix Meta-frame environment at the CeBIT 05 from March 10 – March 16 (Hall 7 A11). For further details visit: www.securewave.com. 2 Technoport News | N°01 | décembre 2004 - janvier 2005 Janvier 2005 J-Way: Publication multimédia du catalogue de formation de l’INAP J-Way est fier d'annoncer sa participation au catalogue de formation de l'Institut National d'Administration Publique (INAP). La contribution de J-Way a consisté à extraire, via le produit J-Publisher, des données de SAP et à les publier sous la forme d’un catalogue papier de qualité éditoriale, d’un catalogue diffusable PDF (table d'index dynamique, moteur de recherche) et d’un site Web organisé conforme à la charte de l'Etat. Le processus de diffusion est complètement automatisé et ce de l'extraction des données à la mise à disposition sur les trois media. J-Publisher a permis de produire un catalogue papier d'une qualité équivalente aux processus classiques de pré-presse. Déjà reconnu pour ses capacités à industrialiser le processus de publication d'ouvrages en ligne; J-Publisher n'a maintenant plus rien à envier aux outils de composition manuelle en terme de qualité graphique que ce soit pour le papier ou pour les supports numériques. Pour ce projet l'utilisation de J-Publisher a permis de réaliser les travaux en moins de six semaines, en sachant que le processus industrialisé de publication sera activable par le client lui-même à chaque évolution du catalogue. Contact: J-Way SA, 66, rue de Luxembourg, L-4221 Esch-sur-Alzette, tél. : +352 54 22 23, fax +352 26 53 16 17, Jean-Marc Boueyrie, sales manager, [email protected], www.jway.lu December 2004 LuxScan Technologies: Set up of the first international subsidiary in the US LuxScan Technologies announces the opening of its first US subsidiary LuxScan Technologies Inc, Trourtman, North Carolina, USA. This decision follows the very positive business development that LuxScan Technologies has made in the recent years on the North American market. This positive business development had also a great impact in Luxembourg where LuxScan Technologies grew its staff up to 25 employees (+3 in the US subsidiary) by the end of 2004. For further information on the products or developments of LuxScan Technologies, contact: [email protected] December 2004 e-Xtream engineering: Release of DIGIMAT version 1.5.1. The version 1.5.1. of DIGIMAT has been released in December 2004. This new version enables the modelling of Rubber Matrix Composites (RMC) subject to large deformations. It is the first of several releases that will be dedicated to the advanced modelling of RMC in Automotive and Aerospace applications. In addition to RMC, DIGIMAT continues to focus on the advanced and integrated modelling of Polymer Matrix Composite materials and structures through the development of a series of new micromechanical modelling capabilities and an interface to MOLDFLOW, the leading software in the injection molding of thermoplastic materials. Please refer to www.e-Xstream.com for the complete list of DIGIMAT 1.5 capabilities. 3 Technoport News | N°01 | décembre 2004 - janvier 2005 April 2005 e-Xtream engineering at the JEC Composites Show e-Xstream engineering team will participate at the JEC Composites show 2005 to reinforce its positionning as an innovative high-tech software and service company that is 100% focused on the micromechanical modeling of composites materials. At this occasion, e-Xstream will release the version 1.6 of its DIGIMAT suite of micromechanical modeling software that helps raw material producers, transformers and end-users engineers to design higher quality and more innovative materials and products faster and cheaper. Visit e-Xstream engineering at the SME Discovery Village, Hall 1, Booth J90/K73.8 Porte de Versailles, Paris. January 2005 Job opportunities at e-Xtream engineering e-Xtream engineering has recently opened two positions, one as marketing and administrative manager and se second as software and application engineer. More details about these job opportunities on www.e-xstream.com. SPIECE SA: Création d’un nouveau département pour la gestion de l’énergie électrique Spiece SA annonce la création d’un département « Mesures Energie » dont l’objectif sera d’offrir un soutien professionnel et adapté à ses clients soucieux de respecter certains quotas d’économies d’énergies imposées notamment par le protocole de Kyoto. A travers les services de collecte, de stockage et d’analyse des informations relatives à la consommation électrique de ce nouveau département, il sera possible dans le futur pour les clients de SPIECE SA de contrôler les consommations, de répartir les coûts sur les unités de production, de corriger des phénomènes gênant sur le réseau et d’éviter des amandes pour dépassement de consommation. Pour atteindre ces objectifs Spiece a développé et commercialise l’UPT209 (Universal Power Transducer), produit qui optimise la surveillance de chaque partie d’installation – de l’arrivée à l’utilisation – et ce en haute et basse tension. Ce produit se distingue par rapport aux solutions concurrentes avant tout par des fonctionnalités plus élaborées et à plus forte valeur ajoutée pour le client, et ce pour un prix plus faible. Pour de plus amples informations n’hésitez pas à contacter Spiece S.A.; 30, rue Jos KIEFFER; L-4176 Esch-surAlzette; www.spiece.lu. 4 Technoport News | N°01 | décembre 2004 - janvier 2005 Technoport Highlights 1st January 2005 Technoport welcomes OneTree Technologies SA Technoport would like to welcome OneTree Technologies SA as new start-up at the incubator. OneTree Technologies is a former external member of the Technoport Innovation Network (previously RDML SA). The company decided to apply for Technoport at the end of 2004 and has officially been accepted by the Board of Directors of the CRP Henri Tudor on December 7th. OneTree Technologies helps companies and organizations to improve information management capabilities, enhance productivity, and support modern corporate governance strategies using state-of-the art information technology. Its software products aim at reducing the complexity when dealing with heterogeneous systems and enable smooth information flow among business experts and reporting hierarchies. OneTree Technologies product and services help master complexity and reduce total cost of ownership of IT environments for large corporations, public organizations and SMEs. For further information visit: www.onetreetech.com. December 2004 Technoport’s highlights 2004 2004 was a rich year for the Technoport in terms of activities and new services offered to the companies member of the Technoport Innovation Network. A complete range of workshops has been developed and implemented throughout the year going from Business Development to Branding via Idea Development and Marketing Communications. Thirty-one entrepreneurs from nineteen companies took part at these workshops. These workshops are the result of a close collaboration with the entrepreneurs. They allowed to define a new, more personalised, follow-up strategy for the Technoport. This strategy is nowadays declined in the three programmes of Technoport: the pre-commercial, start-up and high-growth programmes. In addition to these workshops, there has also been in 2004 the development of new services, this in strong collaboration with other departments and services of the CRP Henri Tudor, namely the Technology Watch Centre (CVT) and the Information and Documentation Service (SID). The incubator status section on page 6 of this issue of Technoport News gives a more detailed overview of the development of the companies. Two indicators stands out : the number of positions created in 2004 (52) and the accumulated turnover (14.5 M Euro). These two figures clearly show that the economic potential of such companies is worthwhile to consider in the general innovation policy of Luxembourg. 2004 has also been the year of an important reward for the Technoport who has been awarded the ‘EC-BIC’ licence from the European Commission. Contact: [email protected]; www.technoport.lu 5 Technoport News | N°01 | décembre 2004 - janvier 2005 Incubator Status : Facts & Figures of Technoport as at 31st December 2004 Location • • • • • • • • • Available space for high-tech companies Occupation rate Planned exists by the end of 2005 Actual average tenancy period Growth in terms of new contacts Companies accepted in 2004 File stopped in 2004 Number of companies accepted by the board of directors since 1998 Success rate 1.600 m2 64 % 3 3.3 35 % 6 4 32 59,47 % Technoport Innovation Network Development • • • • • Number of companies within the Technoport Innovation Network Hosted companies Success stories External companies 2004 Cumulated Turnover (data for 20 out of 26 companies) 26 17 5 4 14,5 M EURO Employment • Total positions within the Technoport Innovation Network • Positions created during 2004 168 52 Development of expertise • University internship positions created • PhD theses 23 4 Synergies • Co-operation with CRP Henri Tudor (R&D projects or other) • Inter-company synergies created • Informal clusters 14 11 Open Source Cluster , IT security cluster Customer Reference Pour Luxscan Technologies, le Technoport a été et reste un partenaire stratégique pour son développement. J’ai été impressionné par la facilité et la flexibilité de démarrage qui nous a été offerte à nos débuts. Cet accueil nous a permis de nous focaliser sur les choses essentielles pour le développement de notre société, à savoir le développement de notre produit et la recherche de clients. Raphael Vogrig | CEO LuxScan Technologies | www.luxscan.com Impressum Publication : 6 times per annum, end of odd months | Editing Closure : the 25th of odd months | © Public Research Centre Henri Tudor Distribution : electronic subscription, pdf file and archives on www.technoport.lu, subscription on www.technoport.lu Contributions : non-formatted, maximum length per information unit : 1000 caracters | Contact : [email protected] Subscription for Tudor News (newsletter dedicated to Research and Innovation), Tudorama (monthly agenda of the Centre), Newsletter SPIRAL (thematic newsletter on information technologies) and EcosanLux (thematic newsletter on water management): www.tudor.lu 6