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Top U.S. manufacturer invests support savings into customer-facing digital initiative that has already contributed $120 million in revenue over the past two years

LAS VEGAS - Wednesday, November 30th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rimini Street, Inc., the leading global independent provider of enterprise software support services for SAP SE’s (NYSE:SAP) Business Suite, BusinessObjects and HANA Database software and Oracle Corporation’s (NYSE:ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, Hyperion, Oracle Retail, Oracle Agile PLM and Oracle ATG Web Commerce software, today announced that NCI Building Systems, the leading manufacturer of metal buildings in the commercial and industrial markets in the United States, Mexico and Canada, switched to Rimini Street for support of its Oracle E-Business Suite systems. The switch to Rimini Street support in 2014 immediately saved NCI 50% on its annual maintenance fe ... Read more »

OSAKA, Japan - Saturday, December 3rd 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Panasonic Corporation, today announced it has developed a new model of its IPS liquid crystal panel that achieves a contrast ratio[1] of over 1,000,000:1, which is 600 times*2 that of conventional liquid crystal panels. With Panasonic's unique IPS[2] liquid crystal technologies that feature wide viewing angles, high brightness, and high reliability, the new IPS panel has achieved a high contrast ratio of over 1,000,000:1 by integrating newly developed light-modulating cells that permit pixel-by-pixel control of backlight intensity. This achieves a faithful and high-grade video display, ranging from dazzling light to pitch-black.
The new IPS panel is ideal for use in professional-use High Dynamic Range (HDR) monitors for broadcasting stations and video production studios. HDR displays can reproduce images that are faithful to what peop ... Read more »

SAINT-PREX, Switzerland - Wednesday, November 30th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Aché Laboratórios Farmacêuticos today announced a long-term collaboration aimed at improving the bioavailability, efficacy and safety profile of oral therapeutic medicines through nanotechnology. Potential benefits of research in this area include a reduction of adverse effects, increased patient adherence to treatment and more convenient dosing.

From 2017, a joint R&D centre and programme, named Nanotechnology Innovation Laboratory Enterprise (NILE), will be housed at Aché’s R&D centre in São Paulo, Brazil, funded by Ferring and Aché and governed by a joint steering committee.

The centre will explore nanotechnology as a delivery system for future medicines through programmes designed to match each company’s therapeutic needs. For Ferring, this means a focus on peptides and proteins in reproductive health, gastroenterology an ... Read more »

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. - Wednesday, November 30th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Axtria, a global big data analytics company, is pleased to announce a strategic agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim (a top 20 pharmaceutical manufacturer) to provide end-to-end Incentive Compensation services to its global commercial teams. As part of the agreement, over 12,000 users across Boehringer Ingelheim’s global markets will be deployed on Axtria’s SalesIQ. There are already 3,500 users in the US and Japan live on the platform today.

Previously, all bonus and incentive processes at Boehringer Ingelheim were localized within each business unit and region. With a focus on driving field force effectiveness, Boehringer Ingelheim aims to standardize on a modern, enterprise-grade platform that align compensation strategies and implements best practices globally.

“Axtria proved that they not only have a strong platform and experience to deploy in an agile ... Read more »

KONSTANZ, Germany & OSAKA, Japan - Wednesday, November 30th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

    Decision follows the successful initiation of TIDES, the global Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of a two-dose schedule of Takeda’s dengue vaccine candidate
    40% of the world’s population lives under the threat of the dengue virus
    Manufacturing plant is major step towards meeting important unmet needs in dengue prevention

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TOKYO:4502) (“Takeda”) today announced that it will invest more than 100 Million Euros to build a new manufacturing plant for its dengue vaccine candidate in Singen, Germany. This represents a major step by Takeda toward meeting important unmet needs in dengue prevention. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), dengue is the fastest spreading mosquito-borne viral disease. Forty percent of the worl ... Read more »

Dr. Mellin-Olsen, the Driving Force for the Landmark Helsinki Declaration on Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology, Joins the Patient Safety Movement as First International Board Member

IRVINE, Calif. - Tuesday, November 29th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) has named long-time patient safety advocate Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, MD, DPH, to its Board of Directors. In addition to her full-time clinical post in Bærum Hospital in Oslo, Norway, Dr. Mellin-Olsen serves as Secretary of the European Society of Anesthesiology and President-Elect of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists.

“We feel very fortunate to have Dr. Mellin-Olsen join our board,” said Joe Kiani, Founder and Chairman of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation. “For over 25 years, Dr. Mellin-Olsen has been extremely active internationally in promoting safe anesthesiology practices, dedicating her life to saving patients fr ... Read more »

Videos help viewers learn quickly and easily how to select the right dispensing tip for a particular fluid and application

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Tuesday, November 29th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nordson EFD, a Nordson company (NASDAQ: NDSN) and the world’s leading manufacturer of precision fluid dispensing systems, introduces a new Better Dispensing™ How-To Video series. These first three short but highly instructional videos, hosted by EFD Application Specialist Tom Muccino, provide best practices when selecting a dispense tip.

“The dispensing tip is one of the most important parts of the dispensing system,” said Muccino in the first overview how-to video. “So you don’t want to choose just any tip that works. You want to choose the best tip for the application.”

Nordson EFD manufactures hundreds of different dispensing tips with varying lengths, gauges, angles, and other features designed to optim ... Read more »

BUSAN, South Korea - Friday, November 25th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

4 days of exhibition draws over 220,000 attendees
    
1,902 paid business buyers, an increase of 6.8% from last year
    
Improved conference and investment market satisfaction

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Global Game Exhibition "G-STAR 2016" which was attended by 653 vendors (2,719 booths) from 35 countries around the world, recently ended with a great success achieving the best results ever in its history in both public and business areas.

"G-STAR 2016" organized by the Korea Internet Digital Entertainment Association (K-iDEA) and managed by the G-STAR Organizing Committee and the Busan IT Industry Promotion Agency was held at Busan, BEXCO for four days from November 17 (Thursday) until November 20 (Sunday).

This year marked the 12th "G-STAR" exhibition which showcased various entertainment exhibitions encompassing ... Read more »

Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates - Thursday, November 24th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

The American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) has launched its comprehensive program for the second annual Innovation Week initiative, as decreed by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai.

The university held an innovation competition for students earlier this month, giving them the opportunity to put forward their projects, the best of which have been selected for display at this week’s innovation exhibition at Ras Al Khaimah Exhibition Center.

The winning project was a mobile phone application, available on iPhone and Android, which utilizes QR code technology which allows users to exchange jigsaw pieces in order to complete a picture. With the UAE National Day approaching, the first jigsaw that creators, Aisha El Allam and Maryam Abdulla, coded into the application was a picture of the seven sheik ... Read more »

PARIS - Tuesday, November 29th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- TRIGO has been awarded a strategic contract by PSA Group to provide extensive quality services in France for the upcoming years.

The cooperation between TRIGO and PSA Group started two decades ago and has been developed in many locations worldwide where PSA Group operates. As a result of a proposal opportunity launched in France in 2016, TRIGO became the trusted quality service provider at 13 French PSA manufacturing sites.

TRIGO’s innovative quality solutions are significantly facilitating the automotive manufacturer’s operations and improving its competitiveness by covering the complete OEM manufacturing process and offering a comprehensive quality service portfolio, including Containment and Sorting actions, Quality Firewall, Vehicle Launch Support, In-process and Final Vehicle Inspection, Software Update, Initial Sample Management, Non-conformity Analysis, Supplier Training an ... Read more »