Happy Birthday Innoveo!

Two years old, still a baby, just started walking and a long journey ahead to go! But extremely curious, eager to learn and incredibly motivated to progress. It's great to be a member of the Innoveo team!

Innoveo Milestone!

A major milestone has been reached by our young company Innoveo. And, this is an eccellent opportunity for me to "re-blog" again :-)

Based on a very successful collaboration in a customer project the two companies Adcubum and Innoveo have decided to cooperate and combine their insurance Software solutions, adcubum SYRIUS and Innoveo Skye to build a complete insurance Software package, which includes both now, back- and front-office processes.

With the publication of our press release we've also published our new corporate fact sheet, that you can download here:

Corporate Fact Sheet English

Find the complete press release below:

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ADCUBUM AND INNOVEO AGREE TO A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP (PRESS RELEASE) /

Adcubum and Innoveo contract a strategic partnership to integrate the multi-channel distribution solution Innoveo Skye® with adcubum SYRIUS®.

St. Gallen, 30th September 2009 - Adcubum and Innoveo intensify their co-operation and agree to a product and strategic partnership. Goal of this agreement is the seamless integration of the multi-channel distribution solution Innoveo Skye® in the insurance core solution adcubum SYRIUS® as an optional module. Therewith, their customers are in a position to use the software for all lines of business and to holistically support respectively control their products and services sales. Moreover, with this co-operation Adcubum and Innoveo consolidate their complementary competences and experience in the insurance industry.

Like adcubum SYRIUS®, Innoveo Skye® is based on a state-of-the-art scalable 4-tier-architecture and is easily embedded in any portal solution. Innoveo Skye® comprises all lines of business in the insurance industry (health insurance, property and casualty insurance, life insurance) and supports various back-office systems simultaneously. Furthermore, Innoveo Skye® is capable of multi-channel operations, which enable insurance companies to quickly and consistently offer new products and services via different channels like branches, agencies, insurance brokers or via the Internet.

"The partnership with Adcubum allows to offer our complementary expertise and insurance solutions in one integrated product", says Nick Stefania, Managing Partner of Innoveo. "Customers benefit of a reduced time-to-market for their insurance products and we enable them to offer all insurance products and services for every distribution channel with one single module."

"We are already working together intensively with Innoveo in a customer project", says René Janesch, member of the executive board of Adcubum. "Insurance companies seek more and more for an end-to-end solution supporting the continuous process from the back-office management to the multi-channel distribution. Hence, the current point in time is most convenient for such a collaboration. Above all, we are able to considerably strengthen our know-how in the property and casualty insurance market."

Press release English / German

Press contact:

Adcubum AG
Fredy Haag
Rorschacherstrasse 267
CH-9016 St. Gallen
Telefon: +41 71 282 89 22
E-Mail: fredy.haag@adcubum.com

Innoveo Solutions AG
Nick Stefania
Hohlstrasse 560
CH-8048 Zürich
Telefon: +41 43 500 54 80
E-Mail: nick.stefania@innoveo.com

Adcubum AG

Adcubum is a leading Swiss software manufacturer in the international insurance business. The core solution adcubum SYRIUS® is a modularly built back-office system for health, accident and property and casualty insurances based on the Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technology. The foundation for the successful company history was laid in St. Gallen in 1998. Since then, the product has been continuously enhanced according to customer and market requirements. At present the company employs more than 100 high qualified and specialised experts. Multiple millions of insured persons with more than 30 million claims are administrated by the core solution adcubum SYRIUS® - tendency rising.

Further information under: www.adcubum.com

Innoveo Solutions AG

Innoveo emerged as an independent software manufacturer from a spin-out of the Helvetia Group in 2007. It is characterized by a unique combination of technology expertise and insurance industry knowledge. The SOA/Java EE based agile insurance front-office system Innoveo Skye® is based on more than 12 years of experience in the implementation of flexible distribution systems for all lines of business as well as in the integration of any back-office and CRM systems as well as portals. In an increasingly diversified market a consistent, per distribution channel and insurance product configurable solution offers crucial strategic possibilities, considerable time savings as well as remarkable cost efficiency for the launch of new products.

Further information under: www.innoveo.com

What's next?

INNOVEO LAUNCHES ITS NEW CORPORATE IDENTITY

Find our company's official communication mail below.

Dear customers, partners and friends,

After 9 exciting and successful months on the market, we are proud to introduce our new corporate identity. It now represents our personality, culture, spirit and soul in a more appropriate way, as it has been built on our company’s...

VALUES /
-> INNOVATION

-> QUALITY, PROFESSIONALISM AND TRANSPARENCY

-> TRUST AND RESPECT

-> DYNAMISM AND FUN

MISSION /
ENABLING BUSINESS INNOVATION

VISION /
BE RESPECTED LEADERS IN CONNECTING THE INSURANCE BUSINESS WITH TECHNOLOGY

Find below our new Logo and get additional information about our consulting services andour insurance framework INNOVEO SKYE by visiting our new company WEBSITE.

We are looking forward to a continuous successful co-operation and collaboration with you under our new brand.

Yours sincerely, your Innoveo Team

Changeover by October 1st, 2007

Many many nights, weekends and several vacation days spent for an idea and a belief during the last eight months. The belief that people count more than organizations, processes and tasks do. If you ever have the fortune to find professionals, friends you like to work with, a team standing firmly behind a vision and withstanding all the turbulences of a changing organization and the uncertainty of the future, well, then do all the humanly possible to build an environment where you can grow and successfully progress together. First find who is going to participate to the endeavor (first who then what, as Jim Collins stated some years ago) and then (together) decide how to organize and move.

It has been amazing to see how every single team member has taken his responsibility in making sure that the customer obligations are fulfilled without reductions in quality and quantity, while preparing for the future. A good portion of self-organization has emerged, which has been a prerequisite to reach the outstanding results of the last months, despite the heavy burden of multiple roles covered by every individual.

I simply and lowly want to thank all my old an new colleagues, who spent the last couple of years working with me at Helvetia and "ecenter solutions" and now joining our new company innoveo solutions, which is privately held by the team itself. There is nothing like the feeling of being a part of such a great team. I'm honored and proud to be with this team and I'm looking forward to interesting, challenging, successful times. A special thank goes to Didier Beck. Seven years of collaboration. have shown that there is a very high level of trust and a deep friendship, which is the base of our company. Here also: excellent teamwork and complementary skills!

I wish US, the old, new team all the best, satisfaction and success in the new setup at:

The final countdown...

www.innoveo.com

Trice

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Well, OK, of course, you may say that I'm not neutral - and you're totally right. Nevertheless I'd like to introduce a newcomer Swiss band playing Pop music. These guys are creative like crazy and even though the band is very young, they are doing nice progresses day by day.

Luca (lead vocal), Ivan (guitars - my son ;-), Thomas (keyboard) and Dave (drums) are working on some dozens of songs that they'd like to perfect and select for their second CD. As they have a financing issue, you may support them by buying their demo CD including three new songs. With your gently contribution you help these young people cultivating their hobby and live their dream.

Listen to their newest demo song: Spring of my Life

...find more songs on their website

...and contribute by buying their Demo CD "It takes two to tango" which will be available soon!

30 IT Trends 2007 according to CIO Insight

[via CIO Insight]

Based on 13 surveys conducted in 2006 CIO Insight has identified and projected 30 major IT trends for 2007. The result is categorized in Strategy, Management, Security and Technology and can be found here. For every category there is a short description and a slideshow available.

Good stuff ;-)

Amazing Zoomable 360 Degree Pictures

More than 160 pictures shown on the world heritage tour. Zoom in and out and try the 360° tour. It's a very nice amusement. Check it out and go for a virtual visit to the Taj Mahal, Ground Zero, and many other places. Quick Time Player required!