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The Future of Computer Trading According to Her Majesty’s Foresight Report with Professor Dave Cliff

Golden Networking hosts the World’s Most Influential High-Frequency Trading Conference Series, High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 London “Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges”, March 21 (www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com).

New York City, NY, USA (March 8, 2013) — “What the Foresight Report Tell us About the Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets” is the topic of closing keynote speaker professor Dave Cliff, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol and Foresight Project Member of the Lead Expert Group on Algorithmic Trading, at the most influential high-frequency trading conference in the world, Golden Networking’s High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 London, “Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges”, March 21 (http://www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com).

Advances in technology continue to transform how our financial markets operate. The volume of financial products traded through computer automated trading taking place at high speed and with little human involvement has increased dramatically in the past few years. For example, today, over one third of United Kingdom equity trading volume is generated through high frequency automated computer trading while in the US this figure is closer to three-quarters.

The new two-year Foresight study The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets – An International Perspective, sheds new light on technological advances which have transformed market structures in recent years. The independent and international study has involved 150 leading experts from more 20 countries to provide the best possible analysis on computer trading to date. The aim of this project is to make a significant contribution to the challenges computer-based trading brings in the coming years and capitalize on the opportunities it has to offer.

It assembles and analyses evidence on the effect of HFT on financial markets looking out to 2022. A High Level Stakeholder Group, comprised of senior individuals from relevant institutions, provided strategic oversight for the project and advised on the key issues to be addressed.

Sponsored by Her Majesty’s Treasury, the project was led by the Government Office for Science under the direction of the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Sir John Beddington. It has involved leading experts, among them, Professor Cliff, member of the computer science team at the University of Bristol and Director of the UK Large Scale Complex IT Systems Initiative. Professor Cliff is the inventor of the seminal “ZIP” trading algorithm, one of the first of the current generation of autonomous adaptive algorithmic trading systems, which was demonstrated to outperform human traders in research published in 2001 by IBM.

High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 (http://www.High-Frequency-Trading-Conference.com) “Strategic and Tactical Insights for Investors, Speed Traders, Brokers and Exchanges” will bring insights for investors and speed traders, who need to protect and refine their competitive advantage in a world dominated by algorithmic and high-frequency trading. Recognized practitioners, regulators, experts, and strategists will return to High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 to provide attendees with the information they are looking for in an open and unbiased environment, highly conducive to the most efficient and effective networking:

– Professor Alex Preda, Professor of Accounting, Accountability and Financial Management, King’s College

– Ms. Arlene McCarthy, Vice Chair – Economics and Monetary Affairs Committee and Draftsperson, Market Abuse Directive, European Parliament

– Mr. Axel Pierron, Sr. VP, Securities & Investments, Celent

– Ms. Carol Clark, Sr. Policy Specialist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

– Mr. Chris Skinner, Chairman, Financial Services Club

– Professor Daniel Beunza, Lecturer, London School of Economics

– Professor Dave Cliff, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol

– Mr. David Mills, Sales Director EMEA, Azul Systems

– Mr. Edgar Perez, Author, The Speed Traders

– Mr. Giovanni Beliossi, Managing Partner, FGS Capital

– Mr. Hirander Misra, Chairman, Forum Trading Solutions

– Ms. Izabella Kaminska, Blogger, FT Alphaville

– Professor Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Lecturer, London School of Economics

– Dr. Magrino Bini, Statistical Arbitrage Portfolio Manager, Millennium Partners

– Mr. Philip Stafford, FT Trading Room Deputy Editor, Financial Times

– Professor Philip Treleaven, Director, PhD, Centre in Financial Computing, UCL

– Mr. Philippe Guillot, Executive Director of the Markets Division, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF)

– Mr. Sam Tyfield, Partner, Vedder Price, P.C.

– Mr. Stuart Theakston, Head of Research and Automated Trading, GLC

– Dr. Tommi A. Vuorenmaa, Head of Research & Trading, Valo Research and Trading

– Mr. VJ Angelo, Director, Global Markets Exchange Group

– Professor Walter Distaso, Professor of Financial Econometrics, Imperial College London

High Frequency Trading Leaders Forum 2013 is produced by Golden Networking (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs and investors. Panelists, speakers and sponsors are invited to contact Golden Networking by calling +1-414-FORUMS0 or sending an email to info@goldennetworking.net.

Media Contact:
Julia Petrova
Media Relations Coordinator
Golden Networking
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Raptivity along with its Partner to Participate in ‘Learning Technologies 2013’ – Focus on ‘HTML5 & New Innovative Interactions’

January 18, 2013

On January 29th and 30th, 2013, the Raptivity team will be at Olympia, London, participating for the 3rd consecutive year in Europe’s leading showcase of technology supported workplace learning, Learning Technologies 2013.

Raptivity team will showcase various HTML5 interactions models to create interactions for various eLearning stages. These interactions, which have been designed to create interactive learning, can be used seamlessly in both eLearning and mLearning environments. The team will also showcase a couple of new innovative interactions such as Mind Map, Rapid Check, Mine the Gold and Character Dialog, recently released for Raptivity’s premium customers.

Raptivity along with P4You will be exhibiting at stand number 14; Visitors will be able to get a glimpse of some of Raptivity’s most innovative solutions and also stand a chance to win a Microsoft Surface in an exclusive raffle draw, which will be announced towards the end of the second day.

For more details and free registration visit – http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/register-now/

To setup an appointment with the Raptivity Team at Learning Technologies 2013, visit http://www.raptivity.com/company/events?view=events.

About Learning Technologies – L & D Exhibition and Conference

The Learning Technologies Exhibition and Conference, now in its 14th year, is Europe’s leading showcase of technology supported workplace learning. And it continues to grow in importance, value and attendance year on year.

About Raptivity

Raptivity® is a rapid interactivity builder that allows you to quickly and easily create learning interactions. It has a diverse variety of 180+ interactions to select from. Raptivity helps the educators and trainers to enrich their content with the well-designed interactions from various categories like games& simulations, presentation aids, visual aids, brain teasers, assessments and many more.

Raptivity® is a much awarded product and has been appreciated by various learning bodies. It was recently adjudged the ‘the “Best Rapid eLearning Tool” award at Africa Learning & Development Leadership Awards 2012. It has won LearnX Learning and Technology Impact Awards for Games and Simulations Category. Raptivity has also bagged the 2012 reader’s Choice Award by eSchool Media. Along with this, the product was also honored with 18th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIE). For more information, please visit the website www.raptivity.com or contact Harbinger Knowledge Products at 425.861.8400
About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA) and through its partner network worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies. Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.

Media Contact:

Seema Chaudhary
President, Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc.
Tel: 425.861.8400  Fax: 425.671.2641
16770 NE 78th Street, Suite 100,
Redmond, WA 98052
seema@harbingergroup.com

Raptivity launches ‘Character Dialog’ – the next Raptivity Evolve interaction

January 16, 2012

Raptivity, the leading rapid interactivity builder tool from Harbinger Knowledge Products, is proud to announce the release of the Character Dialog interaction. This new interaction will be a part of the Raptivity Evolve series of interactions.

Character Dialog uses a combination of characters and dialog boxes with which a user can create powerful and engaging scenario based learning interactions.

Character Dialog consists of 17 different types of characters in various poses which are a part of the Raptivity Asset Library. It gives the user an option to insert audio and dialog boxes along with characters, in addition to all the other Raptivity features like media toolbox, color palette, image scaling and many more. In other words, Character Dialog will enable users to communicate in interactive and innovative ways with their audience.

This new interaction is also a perfect example of co-creation efforts, where customers’ ideas for new interactions posted on the Raptivity’s Community are brought to life by the Raptivity team.

“Raptivity Evolve is a way for us to create value for our customers by developing new interactions based on their ideas and suggestions. The launch of Character Dialog is a testimony of the same. A user posted an interesting idea on the community of developing an interaction that allows users to incorporate characters and dialogs, and we took it up under Evolve. We look forward to more of such interesting collaborations in the future that will help us serve our customers even better,” said Seema Chaudhary, President, Harbinger Knowledge Products.

Character Dialog can be used creatively in a variety of ways to build engaging scenarios and learning aids.  Applications could range from simply a character introducing a course, to a more complex scenario involving multiple characters, such as a customer service training module in an organization.

To view the Character Dialog samples and get more information on the interaction, please visit http://www.raptivity.com/elearning-product/raptivity-evolve/character-dialog.

About Raptivity

Raptivity® is a rapid interactivity builder that allows you to quickly and easily create learning interactions. It has a diverse variety of 180+ interactions to select from. Raptivity helps the educators and trainers to enrich their content with the well-designed interactions from various categories like games& simulations, presentation aids, visual aids, brain teasers, assessments and many more.
Raptivity® is a much awarded product and has been appreciated by various learning bodies. It was recently adjudged the ‘the “Best Rapid eLearning Tool” award at Africa Learning & Development Leadership Awards 2012. It has won LearnX Learning and Technology Impact Awards for Games and Simulations Category. Raptivity has also bagged the 2012 reader’s Choice Award by eschool Media. Along with this, the product was also honored with 18th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIE). For more information, please visit the website www.raptivity.com or contact Harbinger Knowledge Products at 425.861.8400

About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA) and through its partner network worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies. Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.

Harbinger Knowledge Products partners with Tices Inovação em Tecnologia in Brazil

January 04, 2013

Harbinger Knowledge Products is proud to announce its partnership with Tices Inovação em Tecnologia in Brazil. This partnership will further strengthen the presence of YawnBuster in the Latin American market. YawnBuster is a product that allows users to easily create and embed Group Activities in their PowerPoint presentations.

“This is a strategic partnership as both the companies are focused on innovation and committed to bringing quality solutions to their customers. Tices Inovação em Tecnologia has been in the business of providing technological solutions for over 10 years in the Latin American market. Our partnership with them takes us a step closer to fulfilling our commitment to offering innovative and interactive learning solutions to customers worldwide,” said Seema Chaudhary, President, Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc.

YawnBuster enables presenters to bring alive their presentations and engage their audience by incorporating group activities such as polls, games, exercises and more. YawnBuster activities also have a web based audience response system component that enables presenters to conduct group activities just as easily in an online synchronous meeting.

“Our partnership with Harbinger Knowledge Products will enable us to start delivering first class interactivity products to our customers. The first one being, YawnBuster, which allows trainers to incorporate group activities in PowerPoint presentation in order to achieve a higher level of involvement in the class room,” said Vinicius Jose Grein, Technology Director, Tices Inovação em Tecnologia.

Harbinger views channel partners as an extended arm of the organization. Harbinger works closely with the partners to support them on various levels so that the partners feel well equipped to serve their own customers who are looking for interactivity solutions.

About YawnBuster

YawnBuster is the path-breaking software for adding high-impact group activities to PowerPoint. With YawnBuster, you can easily add high-impact group activities to your PowerPoint slides. YawnBuster brings alive your PowerPoint slides with Group Activities such as audience polls, games, group exercises and competitions. Now you can get your audience to think, enjoy, participate and identify key takeaways quickly and easily. With YawnBuster, you always have undivided attention of your audience: after all, they aren’t just watching PowerPoint slides any more – they are interacting with you

For more information, visit www.yawnbuster.com

About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA) and through its partner network worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies. Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.

About Tices Inovação em Tecnologia

Tices is a Brazilian technology company focused on innovation. Our difference is to combine innovation with very high quality standards, achieved through professional experience in the area of technology. This meant that we could develop a different perspective on the technology market.

For information, visit http://www.tices.com.br/

TRACE Urban and Yamgo TV Collaborate To Bring Urban Culture to Mobile TV

Global TV Channel TRACE Urban has now launched a selection of its content on Yamgo TV, bringing select cuts of the best in all things Urban to Mobile, Android, iOS and tablet devices.

With a combination of exclusive interviews, original features and the latest celebrity gossip, TRACE Urban brings you the deep into the world of Urban Culture. With TRACE Urban viewers can expect to see highlights of TRACE Urban at it’s best, featuring the biggest celebrities from the best in urban music, dance, fashion sport and more. R&B, Hip-Hop, Dance, rhythmic pop, reggaeton – TRACE Urban has it all.

The #1 Urban culture channel in the world, TRACE Urban gives a unique insight into the world of urban culture, treating millions of Yamgo viewers to exclusive, fresh content featuring stars such as Niki Minaj, Jay Z, Rhianna, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and more of the hottest, biggest celebrities on the planet. With TRACE Urban the focus is clear: No reality shows, no drama, no fiction – Simply the best urban sounds and features!

The Yamgo TV network streams television to any Internet enabled mobile or tablet device worldwide using 2.5G, 3G and Wi-Fi connections. TRACE Urban is the latest in a long line of high profile additions to an extensive line-up of Music & Entertainment channels that feature on the service alongside an exciting offering of, Fashion, Bollywood, Sports and News channels.

Through the collaboration between TRACE Urban and Yamgo, millions of viewers across the world are treated to a collection of TRACE Urban features such as “Guest Star – A special date with your favourite Urban Stars”, “Thematic countdowns – Energetic rundowns of the latest trends in Urban Culture”, Music Playlist, Gossip and more.

Yamgo TV is available on all leading mobile platforms and devices including iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch via the app store), Android (phones and tablets via the Google PLAY store), Nokia, Blackberry, HTC, Samsung and HP webOS.

Discussing this new partnership CEO and Founder of Yamgo Ian Mullins stated, “As a brand dedicated to the best in Urban Music, Entertainment and Fashion, TRACE Urban can take full advantage of the Yamgo network to entertain millions of viewers with the most exciting and up-to-date music, features and celebrity news available on mobile devices.  It’s great to have them on the network and allow consumers anywhere and at anytime to watch high quality performances from the world’s biggest artists.

TRACE Urban will be available 24/7 on smartphone apps and mobile devices worldwide with Yamgo at http://yamgo.mobi/tracetv-urban

Raptivity Bags the Chief Learning Officer Award, 2012

September 6, 2012

Raptivity, the leading rapid interactivity building tool from Harbinger Knowledge Products, recently received the prestigious Chief Learning Officer Award, Asia Pacific, in the Rapid eLearning Tool category. The awards were announced during a gala night held on 30th June, 2012 at World HRD Conference in Mumbai.

The event organizers aimed to give due recognition to the individuals and organizations who have worked hard towards revolutionizing the learning industry and making a significant difference in how learning is perceived today.

On this achievement, Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director of Harbinger Group “It was a proud moment for us to accept the Chief Learning Award in the ‘Best Rapid eLearning Tool’ category at the Asia Pacific level.” He adds, “Such awards reflect our commitment to create a world class eLearning interactivity builder like Raptivity. Course designers feel empowered with a tool which can help them create learning interactions quickly and easily and we are pleased to support them in this endeavor.”

The product was evaluated on its uniqueness and the value proposition it creates for users. The other parameter that was taken into consideration was the appreciation it received from the eLearning fraternity. Raptivity stands successful in making a mark in these areas.

Seema Chaudhary, President of Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc., says, “We take pleasure in receiving this award and would like to thank the organizers who gave us an opportunity to showcase our exceptional product to all. Keeping with our commitment we continue to develop ground breaking HTML5 compliant interactions and deliver on the expectations of our customers.

To know more details about the award winners, visit: http://www.worldhrdcongress.com/BLD_award_winner.html

To know more about Raptivity, visit www.raptivity.com.

About Raptivity

Raptivity® allows you to quickly and easily create learning interactions such as games, simulations, brainteasers, interactive diagrams, virtual worlds and more. Instructors can add the interactions conveniently to their eLearning content.

Raptivity® has won numerous awards in various categories, including the 2011 Best Educational Software Award in the Online Technology Tool category and three 2011 LearnX E-learning & Training Awards from Training Australia Magazine. For more information, please go to www.raptivity.com or contact Harbinger Knowledge Products at 425.861.8400.

About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA) and through its partner network worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies. Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity®, innovative YawnBuster®, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer® and TeemingPod®.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.

Centerstage’s THE IMPROV – Bangalore’s First Insanely Funny Improvisational Comedy Act

CENTERSTAGE’s Improvisational Comedy Production – August 25th and August 26th, 2012. Alliance Francaise, Bengaluru. THE IMPROV: NO SCRIPT. 6 Actors. For and By the Audience. Shut Up & IMPROV.

Bangalore, India, September 11, 2012 — CENTERSTAGE ( http://www.centerstageindia.com ) – A New Wave Media Movement founded by film maker Saad Khan, presented over the weekend their unique improvisational comedy show titled “THE IMPROV”. Held at Alliance Francaise, Bangalore, the show conceptualized by Saad Khan & Siddhanth K.S brought together 6 actors on stage to perform many scenes from situations given for and by the audience. The production showcased 4 houseful shows with audience laughing their hearts out at the quick witted actors’ antics on stage.

Centerstage founder Saad Khan essayed the role of a host & a quirky mediator making actors Vibhinta Verma, Kenneth Sebastian, Richa Kapoor, Naveen Kumar, Noella Ferrao, Sundeep Rao and Siddhanth K.S perform THE IMPROV.

The shows created a terrific buzz and was very well received by audiences, most of whom came back to watch repeat shows as every show was unscripted and improvised, thus different. Spotted among the happy audience were Cricketer Yuvraj Singh, Choreographer Sheetal Sharma, designer Raj Shroff and many other eminent Bangaloreans from various fields of business, theater and film.

About CENTERSTAGE:
CENTERSTAGE ( http://www.centerstageindia.com ) is a New Wave Movement that promises passionate Bangaloreans a platform to learn and pursue a career in media without having to rush to Mumbai! In the past 10 months, Centerstage has produced 2 feature films shot on film cameras, 12 shows of THE IMPROV, many Ad films for National Television and Theatrical productions. The movement’s artistic pool now consists of film actors, theater performers, communication specialists, film producers and movie enthusiasts gaining real-time experience in film direction and production.

Centerstage is founded and creatively spearhead by film maker Saad Khan. Partnering with Saad in this odyssey are fellow Bangaloreans – Partner & Independent Filmmaker Siddhanth K.S, Managing Partner & Producer Hardik Sha and Partners Sumit Ghosh, Vibhinta Verma & Maaz Khan handling Business Operations & Public Relations.

For more information on the Movement please visit http://www.centerstageindia.com or call Mr. Maaz Khan (Partner, Business Operations Centerstage) on 9880445430. You can also follow Centerstage’s group on http://www.facebook.com/groups/centerstageblr/.

Press & Media Contact:
Mr. Maaz Khan, Partner
CENTERSTAGE
3-11, 2nd Main Road
Hanumiah Layout, Sanjay Nagar
Bangalore-560094 India
+91 98804 45430
info@centerstageblr.com
http://www.centerstageindia.com

From Spreadsheet Hell to Data Heaven

Businesses can suffer or enjoy the data mining process depending on their business strategy. They can suffer information hell when they still depend on spreadsheets to make business decisions or enjoy data heaven with a business analytics solution.

Valencia, Spain, Wednesday – August 15th, 2012 — In today’s increasingly global, complex and competitive world, companies looking for profitable sustainable growth need to constantly invent new competitive advantages. A large number of firms still depend on the thousands of spreadsheets generated every minute in their company to make decisions. A common solution offered to this kind of organizations is to implement business intelligence (BI) solution, so they can make decisions based on information that is reliable. However, in a moment that the economic recession mischance rules, the hidden costs of BI solutions are not affordable.

Businesses can suffer or enjoy the data mining process depending on their business evolution strategy. They can suffer information hell when they still depend on spreadsheets to make business decisions. They can feel like in purgatory, a situation where they are in between hell and heaven, with traditional BI software, or they can feel like in heaven, with a cloud computing business analytics solution.

The Internet has become a place where massive amounts of information and data are being generated every minute. Every day, every company needs to analyze its business information to be able to answer to all its business questions. Organizations need to make difficult decisions based on data that must be reliable. However, most companies spend large hours making manual calculations, sorting out their information and trying to find out what figures say.

CEO, COO, CFO and CTOs feel like in hell. Information is scattered all over the different reports and spreadsheets. That is the moment when frustration, waste of time and money knock at the door of their office asking for a BI solution.

Business intelligence has been presented to help organizations do more with less. But it is also possible that a BI implementation will cost organizations more than they expect. In a recent Aberdeen Group study, analyst David Hatch has outlined some potential cost factors likely to arise in a BI initiative:

– Year-after-year budget increases and companies can witness growths in BI expenses that range from 2 percent to 9 percent.
– Cost per user, generally increases ranging from 1 percent to 7 percent.

The cutting-edge alternative to get full control of businesses is to opt for a cloud computing business analytics solution. Cloud computing alternatives allow companies to deploy a full business analytics solution in a fraction of time, with zero investment on hardware or licenses and with a provider that needs to keep CEOs happy because of the pay-as-you-go model.

The current economic difficulties are creating even greater interest in business analytics solutions because of the potential it offers to analyze data to identify opportunities to cut costs or increase sales. With IT budgets essentially flat this year cloud computing business analytics solutions allow companies from any industry and any size to increase their performance. It helps users from any department make better business decisions by giving them access to powerful and easy to use business analytics tools so they are able to extract value from the data they need.

While Traditional Business Intelligence can provide of “Information”, Business Analytics offers “Knowledge” to answer needs and make the most of organizations.

Press & Media Contact:
Ana Molés
LITEBI
Valencia, Spain
0034 – 902 027 198
press@litebi.com
http://www.litebi.com

Raptivity wins LearnX 2012 – Learning and Technology Impact Award

Raptivity®, the leading rapid interactivity building tool from Harbinger Knowledge Products, recently bagged the prestigious Learning and Technology Impact Award for the Best eLearning Design in the Game or Simulation category, at the 2012 award program organized by LearnX Foundation.

 

The purpose of the awards was to identify and honor individuals, teams and organizations that have leveraged learning and development in order to significantly advance workforce productivity and performance.

 

“We take great pride in accepting LearnX 2012 award for the “Game or Simulation” category, comments Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director of Harbinger Group. He adds, “Gamification is a much talked about and popular concept in the eLearning world today. It is no surprise because eLearning developers have not only proven the pedagogical significance of serious games, but also established that games are one of the most effective ways to create interactive courses. Games help improve learner engagement, strengthen recall and reinforce learning.”

 

The LearnX award was presented for the games on the Philips Online Learning Center. Raptivity was used to develop and publish the over 100 standalone interactive games for this portal. Raptivity enabled Philips to deliver continuing healthcare education content in a fun and interactive manner thereby improving learner engagement and retention.

 

Seema Chaudhary, President of Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc., says, “LearnX 2012 offered us a platform to share one of our success stories with the world. We are excited that Philips Online Learning Center games developed using Raptivity have won the award. We look forward to meeting our customers and attending the award ceremony on August 30th, at the LearnX conference in Melbourne. ”

 

To know more details about the award winners, visit http://learnx.net/2012/awards2012Winners.html.

 

To know more about Raptivity, visit www.raptivity.com

 

About Raptivity

 

Raptivity® allows you to quickly and easily create learning interactions such as games, simulations, brainteasers, interactive diagrams, virtual worlds and more. Instructors can add the interactions conveniently to their eLearning content.

 

Raptivity has won numerous awards in various categories, including the 2011 Best Educational Software Award in the Online Technology Tool category and three 2011 LearnX E-learning & Training Awards from Training Australia Magazine. For more information, please go to www.raptivity.com or contact Harbinger Knowledge Products at 425.861.8400.

 

About Harbinger Knowledge Products

 

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA) and through its partner network worldwide.

 

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies. Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

 

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit

http://www.harbingerknowledge.com