Here’s the IT offshore press review! Enjoy!

- Gartner: IT challenges in the current economic crisis (November 17, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- Hot skills in IT (November 16, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- 10 things you must teach new Linux users (November 21, 2011, ZDNet Asia)
- Resume Makeover: How to Write an IT Executive Resume (November 16, 2011, CIO)
- Two Top Indian Mobile Companies Under Investigation (November 20, 2011, CIO)
- Exclusive Research Shows CIOs Embrace Consumerization of IT (November 18, 2011, CIO)
- PWC: Retail CEOs Turn to Global and E-Commerce Expansion Strategies (November 16, 2011, E-commerce Facts)
- Android läuft auf über der Hälfte der Smartphones (November 16, 2011, Silicon)
- Keine Angst vor Big Data (November 15, 2011, Computer Woche)
- Embedded Software macht CIOs Probleme (November 14, 2011, CIO)
- Nur Deutschland ist sicher, alles andere geht unter (November 16, 2011, Welt)
- Deutsche Wirtschaft wächst im dritten Quartal wieder kräftig (November 15, 2011, Handelsblatt)

E-financing, geolocation marketing, mobility, M2M.. just a few of the subjects of this week’s IT offshore press review. Enjoy!

- E-financing : a new market on the shoulders of e-invoicing (November 7, 2011, CFO News)
- The Benefits Of Geolocation Marketing (November 7, 2011, Forbes)
- Apple To Make Billions On Google’s Android (November 4, 2011, Forbes)
- Wi-Fi tethering 101: Use a smartphone as a mobile hotspot (November 4, 2011, Computer World)
- Is the offshore contact centre honeymoon over? (October 31, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- Does Oracle’s Larry Ellison care about open source and Java? (November 6, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- IT operations in Malaysia could offer the near China experience (November 4, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- Mobile Goes Data Mad (November 7, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- Android handsets top hardware failures list (November 5, 2011, ZDNet)
- Asia-Pacific to become largest M2M market in 2013 (November 3, 2011, M2M Now)
- Are wireless sensor networks and energy harvesting coming together? (November 3, 2011, M2M Now)
- Enterprise Social Software: What Businesses Need to Do Next (November 3, 2011, CIO)
- Can You Trust One Outsourcing Provider to Manage the Rest? (November 4, 2011, CIO)
- Gartners Top 10 Technologien für 2012 (November 7, 2011, CIO)
- Informatik-Studium wieder gefragter (November 4, 2011, Inside IT)
- Wie man mehr aus BI herausholt (November 3, 2011, Computer Woche)
- Starke Tools für die Private Cloud (November 2, 2011, Computer Woche)
- 38.000 freie Stellen für IT-Fachkräfte (October 31, 2011, CIO)

The best articles of the IT offshore press review. Enjoy!

- The $20 Billion Upset (October 13, 2011, Forbes)
- Transfer your MobileMe account to Apple’s iCloud service (Octobre 13, 2011, IT World)
- The limits of Agile: Emergn CEO on Universal Credit (Octobre 14, 2011, Computerweekly)
- Businesses told to work better with education to plug critical IT skills gap (Octobre 14, 2011, Computerweekly)
- PC vendors tie innovation, strategies to consumerization (Octobre 12, 2011, ZDNet Asia)
- IT Outsourcing Survey: Provider Profits Shrink, Growth Slows in India (Octobre 11, 2011, CIO)
- Best Buy Rebuilding IT Capability it Outsourced, Starts Hiring (Octobre 11, 2011, CIO)
- What is a ‘Connected Device,’ and Why Does it Matter? (Octobre 14, 2011, TMCNet)
- NFC telecom’s next big thing? (Octobre 3, 2011, Business Review)
- Semiconductor inventories are rising (October 10, 2011, Electronics Weekly)
- 10 Schritte zur Outsourcing-Strategie (October 17, 2011, CIO)
- Die 15 häufigsten IT-Fehler (October 17, 2011, Computerwoche)
- Deutschlands Hightech-Exporte legen zu (October 12, 2011, CRN)
- Deutschland exportiert mehr ITK-Technik (October 11, 2011, Automotive IT)

Following the E-Commerce trade show I recently attended in Paris, I could get an overview of mobile practices related to e-commerce. It is all about context and simplicity.

Let us recall the context in which we use our mobiles phones.
We use our mobile phones in all situations and generally while we’re doing something else such as queuing, drinking coffee, eating in a restaurant, shopping (for instance, to check the ingredients for a recipe), attending a particularly boring meeting, in restrooms, etc.

In a nutshell, wherever we need to kill 2 minutes of our time. And here is what we do during these 2 minutes: we check our e-mails, our social networks, we surf the Internet and we play.

In order to remain in this instant context (2 minutes), the more direct and intuitive the ‘apps’ (mobile applications) are, the more we use them.

And yet, the act of buying is serious and composed: it is about money and, in general, the amounts are not small!

Unlike online (web) and in-store shopping, most of the mobile phone shopping is related to immediate consumption: logos, ring tones, game apps, etc. Everything with “transparent” prices such as 0,79€ or below 5€.

How could we associate the serious composed act of buying with the instant use of mobile phones?
We would have to fill useless time (queue) and to preserve a sense of emergency (immediate). There are various means to achieve this: geolocation for contextualizing the content (narrowing the choices/catalog), proposing the right promotion or the good deal related to it (and specifying it), as well as simplifying the payment methods (e.g. just one “click” away thanks to bank detail memorization). Good back office is a must for an e-commerce application to be efficient.

Therefore, creating a good application (in my opinion) requires the following:
- validating the use context to allow the development of the most appropriate storyboard: for “dull” times (queue), social engagements, in a shop, etc.
- establishing the advantages the client/mobile phone user gets from this application: better product information, reminder, cost savings, comfort or entertainment, pleasure/user friendliness, etc.

A few specific examples:
Let’s mention several companies whose revenue generated by mobile phones is on the rise: Ventes privées, with 7% of its revenue coming from mobile phones; Voyages-SNCF, with 3%, E-bay, with 1.5% of which 60% are additional sales (where the last bid has been made via mobile phone).

And here are several examples of specialized mobile applications:
- Starbucks Café: you can order your coffee with your mobile phone while queuing (use of geolocation), you can even pay/validate before you get to the cash register if you are registered with this store.
- Leclerc: you can compare the price of a product with the Leclerc price via its barcode (using the smart phone camera).
- Castorama: by taking a picture of a product in the Castorama catalog, you could check its availability and the opening hours of the nearest store.

Here’s the IT press review for this week!

- Air-cover: Innovation’s secret ingredient (August 29, 2011, Forbes)
- Google to shut down Slide social apps (August 26, 2011, Computerworld)
- Lack of soft skills training is curbing IT career progression (August 26, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- Organisations failing to implement hypervisor security, says cloud supplier (August 26, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- Gartner figures show BPO contracts on the rise with Asia Pacific suppliers in the lead (August 22, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- Chinese Android startup offers low-cost, high-spec handsets (August 29, 2011, ZDNet Asia)
- Should You Sue Your Offshore Outsourcing Provider? (August 26, 201, CIO)
- The 1st Annual Telematics Brazil & LATAM will Discuss the Way Forward for Telematics Market (August 26, 2011, M2M)
- Cloud-based infrastructure provides connections for M2M (August 29, 2011, M2M Now)
- Cloud wird die vorherrschende Disziplin (August 29, 2011, CIO)
- Die Hürden zum Enterprise 2.0 (August 26, 2011, CIO)
- Social-Media-Knigge für Arbeitgeber (August 29, 2011, Computerwoche)
- Der Mittelstand bleibt bei Unified Communications skeptisch (August 24, 2011, ZDNet)
- 10 junge IT-Firmen, die jeder Surfer kennen sollte (August 23, 2011, Netzwelt)

And here you have it: The Press Review for this week ! Enjoy !

- Vodafone partners with Red Bull for new telco startup (August 22, 2011, ComputerWorld)
- Google+ introduces identity-verification badges (August 21, 2011, ComputerWorld)
- Advanced Electrodes for Better Li-Ion Batteries (August 22, 2011, TechnologyReview)
- Helping Social Networkers Connect Even More (August 19, 2011, TechnologyReview)
- Ericsson to build Eastlink’s wireless network (August 19, 2011, CIOL)
- HP launches 64GB, WiFi TouchPad (August 19, 2011, CIOL)
- Droid spyware answers phone calls (August 18, 2011, CRN)
- Securing Facebook (August 18, 2011, CRN)
- Internet Explorer bests all in infosec browser battle (August 19, 2011, CRN)
- Is Android stoppable? (August 22, 2011, IT PRO)
- Die Top 20 der besten Städte weltweit (August 17, 2011, Welt)
- Top Ten der wirtschaftsstärksten Städte Deutschlands (August 15, 2011, FTD)
- Die Cloud in Zahlen (August 19, 2011, Computer Woche)
- Cloud Computing in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (August 18, 2011, ZD Net)
- Facebook und die MySpace-Falle (August 17, 2011, Silicon)
- Itil als Synonym für IT-Service-Management? (August 16, 2011, Computer Woche)

Around fifty mobile phones, the world N°1 for telecom billing software, the most important accounting platform for German SME (3 million licenses!), the most important French POS and its Retail Management version, the N°1 European software for management of tertiary spaces and distribution, the world N°1 for utility metering systems, both for connected equipment (embedded) and for servers, a management platform of security cameras and many others in the M2M sector… In total, there are close to 200 product lifecycles, the outcome of our clients’ imagination, which have been entrusted to us, either totally or partially.

These prestigious platforms, which are sometimes used by several hundreds of millions of users from all over the world (mobile phone baseline, for example) rank Pentalog high among the best engineering companies in the European Union. With a recommendation rate of 90% (!), Pentalog enjoys the favors of a large network developed by word of mouth on the old continent and this recognition is on the rise.

This very rapid development of our R&D and PLM references make me think about the opportunity of making a change in our organization. Why indeed, rather than splitting our offer in 2 business lines (Embedded systems and Information Systems), shouldn’t we organize the activities related to “products” into one single Business Line, “R&D” and “PLM” and the “service”-oriented ones into a services or “ITO” BL, or even “Build and Run”…? As a matter of fact, I wonder what is the best means of making the market understand that we are an accomplished player on the market, capable of supporting or taking care of the whole lifecycle of any software product. We are ready to do that from a legal point of view (we have strong knowledge in this area and we have three full-time legal experts in three countries), we are prepared for this from a technical point of view (we master the technology road maps and we avail ourselves of Technical Management with their own benchmarking and R&D activities), in the field of human resources (ramp up capacity at the highest level and full ISO 9001 certfied), but also in managing PLM (software platforms).

In any case, these reflections should help us become more aware of the achievements of these past few years. We have “single-product” clients who do not hesitate to entrust us with 100% of their future and there lies our main asset , in the trust of our clients and employees.

We start this week’s IT press review with an article published by Global Services Media. Hope you will enjoy it!

- Cloud Influence On Outsourcing (June 22, 2011, Global Services Media)
- Outsourcing: How to Avoid Contract Disputes (June 23, 2011, CIO)
- SaaS and IaaS: Expert Guide (June 24, 2011, CIO)
- The obstacles to Open Source in the public sector (June 24, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- M2M: Does End-to-End Still Matter? (June 22, 2011, M2M)
- America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2011 (June 22, 2011, Business Week)
- Wirtschaft wächst 2011 so stark wie 2010 (June 20, 2011, CRN)
- Gartner erwartet 9,5 Prozent Wachstum bei Unternehmenssoftware (June 21, 2011, Computer Woche)
- Trendwende im E-Commerce (June 21, 2011, Computer Woche)
- Firmen geben 2015 mehr als acht Milliarden US-Dollar für Cloud-Services (June 21, 2011, IT Business)
- So erkennen sie faule Outsourcing-Deals (June 21, 2011, Computer Woche)

The Pentalog Group significantly increased its M2M revenues in 2011 through the arrival of two new major clients, one from France and the other from Belgium. All the other clients have placed additional orders and most of them are increasing the volume of their projects.

Pentalog developments for these clients focused on embedded applications (especially iPhone and Android, but we have also worked on low layers), as well as on control servers or intelligent network reporting servers (Mesh). In addition, we take over the development requests of NMS (Network Management Systems). Most embedded developments are carried out in C, while server applications are rather based on Java or .Net.

For Sierra Wireless, one of the global leaders in the equipment sector, as well as for the global leader on the commodities metering market, our activities aren’t limited to the mere development, as we have fully-equipped product certification laboratories (pre-production testing) in Chisinau (Moldova) and in Vietnam.

The currently booming M2M market will go up by more than 50% within Pentalog’s sales figure this year.

Connected microscopes, network crash test devices, oscilloscopes, an acoustic chamber, a TV studio, an editing system and video mixing consoles, 10 local and central datacenters, an ergonomics and design laboratory, satellite antennas, online stores, a steering room etc.

Pentalog, an IT services company, is equipped with incredible technological assets which allow it to continually improve its production. Of course, not all of this equipment is ours, but it enables us to gradually master it and, eventually, extend the field of our knowledge.

What other European IT services company oriented towards engineering or consulting can boast an acoustic chamber destined for the needs of mobile phone companies, a TV studio and multimedia laboratories and mobile features designed for our e-commerce customers? Except on our clients’ premises, I have seen this type of technological configuration only in major Indian companies which are ages ahead of Western European engineering companies. The latter continue to offer only man-hour-based services, whereas clients expect a genuine engineering solution which is fully integrated and industrialized.

Pentalog is now a technologically-rich multi-specialist firm, which collaborates with major companies and uses Open Source solutions, and is capable of providing a lot more than just code and third-party software maintenance services, without of course underestimating these activities . Thus, we can make product or service demonstration films, edit video sequences, produce augmented reality, but also test consumer electronic products, simulate M2M environments, test satellite connections, measure the quality of video servers, generate network crash tests, develop all the software layers of a mobile phone.

In all cases, we use the best specialists in the countries where we operate, who feel that Pentalog offers a rich environment for personal fulfillment. At a time when the focus is on convergence, Pentalog represents a great tool for its employees and helps its customers understand and deploy the most daring multi-channel strategies.

Pentalog pursues its efforts with a 29% growth in Q2, thus continuing the trend of Q1 (31%). This growth is half due to the extension of existing contracts, unlike Q1 which had seen the signing of an unprecedented number of new contracts which were immediately launched into production. Before returning to contract extensions, let us salute the arrival of at least six new clients, while the second quarter is still not over: three in France, one in Germany and two in Israel. One of them bears a strategic importance as it consists in taking over the developments of a future star of the French e-commerce sector, following a financial operation which didn’t go unnoticed on the Parisian market. This is a strategic operation also because it confirms the results that Pentalog already obtained in the electronic commerce field, especially with Magento. Moreover, one of the global leaders in social networking has chosen Pentalog for its development needs. Thus, the online selling platforms developed and set up by Pentalog will soon register an annual sales figure of approximately 1 billion euros. In Germany, we salute the signing of a Business Intelligence contract with a recognized clothing company, Gerry Weber. Following its Q1 record, the group boasts 16 new clients who have already launched their projects since the beginning of the year.

As regards extensions, Pentalog reports a second development since the beginning of the year of the operation carried out for the Telecom Billing software editing branch of the Ericsson Group (former LHS). This operation, which is being developed in Iasi, was launched in 2008 and will involve over 36 employees in a few days’ time. Likewise, one of our major real estate clients has just included more services in its request to Pentalog, while another customer operating in the same field has extended its contract with our company. In addition, the technological branch of one of the largest French energy groups has prolonged the contractual relations initiated in January with Pentalog in the M2M (machine to machine) field.

As for the Pentalabbs incubator, start-ups continue their fast-developing trend as they register a growth rate close to 100% in Q1 and Q2. They will develop by more than 50% in 2011. Their sales do not fall within Pentalog’s financial analysis scope.

For Q3, Pentalog expects yet another substantial growth, but at a lower rate. It will probably be between 12 and 18%.

The semester will therefore finish with an organic growth of approximately 30%, thus confirming both our international strategic options (Israel, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium) and the specific specialization efforts. E-commerce, M2M, embedded development in the mobile telephony sector continue to grow a lot faster than the rest of the market.

Outsourcing, offshoring. Two tags of this week’s IT press review. I hope you will enjoy it.

- CIOs increase investment in outsourcing and select multiple suppliers (May 13, 2011, Computerweekly)
- Offshoring: 7 Tips To Prepare for India’s Proposed Privacy Rules (May 13, 2011, CIO)
- Limelight Buys Web And Application Acceleration Technology Startup AcceloWeb (May 9, 2011, Techcrunch)
- Can the UK ever match Silicon Valley? (May 16, 2011, IT Pro)
- Should government rely less on outsourcing and have more web developers in-house? (May 13, 2011, Computerweekly)
- Android 3.1: Crowd-pleaser or heart-breaker? (May 13, 2011, ZDNet)
- China top in green tech money (May 9, 2011, ZDNet Asia)
- IT Leaders Forum: Practical next steps in migrating to the cloud (May 13, 2011, Computing)
- Die Trends beim IT-Outsourcing (May 16, 2011, CIO)
- Deutsche Unternehmen sehen bei Offshoring noch Potenzial (May 13, 2011, Silicon)
- Unternehmen suchen Weg in die Cloud (May 10, 2011, Computerwoche)
- Studie: CIOs setzen auf schlanke IT (May 11, 2011, Automotive IT)

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Here’s our selection on the best IT press articles.

- The monarchy and technology through the ages (April 29, 2011, ZDNet)
- Clients want access to CEOs at Indian outsourcers: report (April 29, 2011, IT World)
- IT-business alignment a thing of the past (April 28, 2011, IT World)
- IT professionals getting too comfortable despite the choppy economic waters (April 28, 2011, Computerweekly)
- Build Or Outsource That Business Integration Project? (April 29, 2011, CIO)
- Cloud Computing Providers: Clueless About Security? (April 28, 2011, CIO)
- Mitigating the Risk of Cloud Services Failure: How to Avoid Getting Amazon-ed (April 25, 2011, CIO)
- Innovator: Bruce Thomas’s Projection Technology (April 21, 2011, Business Week)

Don’t forget about our German press section!

- Cloud-Services aus Deutschland (April 29, 2011, Computerwoche)
- >IT-Branche muss mit knappen Waren rechnen (April 28, 2011, CRN)
- Viele IT-Projekte scheitern am Testing (April 26, 2011, Computerwoche)
- Cloud Computing: besonders erfolgreich bei jungen Unternehmen (April 26, 2011, ZDNet)

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And we are back with the IT offshore press review. Enjoy!

- IT consultants: The good, the bad and the downright incompetent, part 1 (April 25, 2011, Computerworld)
- How to integrate your organisation’s IT services (April 19, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- Moving to the cloud ‘could increase energy costs’ (April 19, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- How to integrate your organisation’s IT services (April 19, 2011, Computer Weekly)
- China’s Outsourcers Poised for Growth (April 20, 2011, CIO)
- Offshore IT and BPO Services Subsidiaries Still Popular (April 20, 2011, CIO)
- Why social business is different (April 25, 2011, ZDNet)
- 180 deutsche Zulieferer in China (April 19, 2011, Automotive IT)
- Die IT-Folgen der Japan-Katastrophe (April 21, 2011, CIO)
- Die CIO-Trends 2011/12 (April 18, 2011, Silicon)
- Professionelle JavaScript-Tools fürs Web 2.0 (April 23, 2011, Computerwoche)

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In a “tech start-up” mood? Enjoy your reading!

- Kickstarter breathes life into tech start-ups (April 17, 2011, ZDNet)
- Indonesian tech startups pique investors (April 14, 2011, ZDNet Asia)
- Cloud changing face of data centers (April 18, 2011, ZDnet Asia)
- Don’t Buy Into the Cloud-Based Call Center–Yet (April 15, 2011, CIO)
- India Emerging As a Large BPO Market: Gartner (April 12, 2011, CIO)
- Risk Management in Cloud Computing (April 15, 2011, CIO)
- Case study: A smart city is a sustainable city (April 16, 2011, Computer weekly)
- Sieben Tipps für erfolgreiches Cloud Computing (April 18, 2011, Industrie Magazin)
- Kaum IT-Konsolidierung im Mittelstand (April 14, 2011, Automotive IT)
- Rekord-Nachfrage nach IT-Freiberuflern (April 13, 2011, CIO)
- Gute Noten für IT-Standort Schweiz (April 13, 2011, Inseide IT)
- So wechseln CIOs den Outsourcing-Partner (April 12, 2011, CIO)

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An electric power network breaks down into the following components:
- Energy production: nuclear power stations, hydraulic power stations, thermal power stations, wind farms, solar farms
- Transport: the transport of electricity includes very high voltage, high voltage, medium voltage and low voltage (LV)
- Distribution: the selling of electricity to users/consumers
- Services provided to users/consumers (but also to producers): the last element of the “Smart Grid” which should provide a better follow-up of consumption trends in order to optimize them.

A “smart” network is a communicating network (in both directions: producers towards consumers, including transport) which offers new services (optimizing production/consumption, self-regulations, supervision etc.). This “Smart Grid” allows to solve certain network management problems like consumption peaks, the request to suppress consumption in case of underproduction, the fact that renewable energies are intermittent. It also provides benefits like follow-up automation, the possibility to set up a pricing system based on real consumption, maintenance cost reduction (avoiding useless trips with the electric company vans).
According to Jean-Marie Bernard (ErDF – the French power distribution network) and Olivier Jehgl (EDF – the leading French electricity producer), who spoke during the conference on the energy/telecom convergence organized by ASPROM on 06-07/04/2011, the production and transport to the Low Voltage transforming station are already “smart”. But, just like with the local telecom loop, it is the last kilometres which are not “smart”. In fact, in order to have a “smart” network, the 35 million French homes need to be equipped with a new intelligent meter, which is capable of quickly interacting and communicating information as well as receiving orders or pricing information. This intelligent meter is called LINKY. It contains an electric meter connected to a monitoring module that communicates in CPL (only with ErDF), a USB port on its front side, and can be equipped with an additional communication module (radio frequency, GPRS etc.). I said that it “can be equipped”, as for the time being the dedicated slot remains empty. Young start-ups, as well as major companies are ready to fill this gap and thus offer services which are mainly related to consumption monitoring and optimization. This should really set going the “smart home” market (home automation 2.0).

In short, we are technologically ready.
A test involving 300,000 LINKY meters is currently being carried out in Lyon and Tours. This new Machine to Machine (M2M) network has transmitted the first issues: a fault on the connection between the meter and the LV station has been communicated by the meter, which allowed to perform a targeted and quick action.
ErDF is waiting for the “go-ahead signal” from the public authorities so that it may deploy the 34 million LINKY meters by the end of 2018, at a rate of 30-35,000 meters a day.
Why the public authorities? Because the Smart Grid requires support from the public authorities and (EU) institutions. As the necessary investment is substantial, it can be made possible only if it is imposed through laws/regulations. The EU demands that the European power network become “Smart Grid” by 2018.
Public authority is equivalent to political decision. The latter may take a great deal of time as the government must find the most suitable moment between the current events and the presidential elections, in order to take full advantage of the impact of this decision.

This is what has triggered my question: Will our infrastructure be ready for 2018?

A selection of the best IT articles of last week.

- Women in IT: A seat at the table (March 25, 2011, IT World)
- IT, the business, and the clash of cultures (March 21, 2011, Computerworld)
- Avoid 3 Cloud App Development Sand-Traps (March 23, 2011, CIO)
- Age Discrimination in IT: What Would You Do? (March 23, 2011, CIO)
- Server Virtualization: 6 Management Myths (March 24, 2011, CIO)
- CIOs must cash in on supplier innovation (March 23, 2011, Computerweekly)

And now the German IT press review of last week:

- Bei deutschen Firmen in Japan läuft die Produktion wieder (March 25, 2011, Computerwoche)
- Cloud Computing: Der Turmbau von Babel (March 25, 2011, Silicon)
- Mittelstand will in Green IT investieren (March 25, 2011, Automotive IT)
- IT-Freiberufler mit geballter Berufserfahrung (March 23, 2011, CRN)
- Was CEOs wirklich machen (March 22, 2011, Silicon)

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Thomas Wendel, Pierre Jean Cayzac and I have been joined by Sophie Lelarge. We are therefore leaving the trade show on a high note, with an increased number of visits: 9 potential customers who are very interested in our business model, our offices and our research tax credit agreement. We have also gathered information on the exhibitors’ latest developments, like: QT, QNX, Windows Embedded, IS2T, SYSGO, Xiling, RadCase, Magillen, LabView, MathWorks and so on. The trade show has once again lived up to its promises!
As far as I am concerned, I have noticed a clear tendency towards the interoperability of embedded systems, which are increasingly modular and can easily be reused. The Hardware/Software boundary is becoming dimmer and dimmer with the powerful arrival of FPGA-based solutions.

Pentalog, the European leading provider of offshore / nearshore IT services in the field of software engineering and embedded electronics, will participate once again this year in the Embedded World trade show which will be held between March 1st and 3rd.

Embedded World is the greatest trade show dedicated to embedded technologies. More than 800 exhibitors are already referenced.
Pentalog will present its entire Embedded Systems offer:
- Product design and modeling
- Embedded systems development and maintenance
- Application development for mobile phones (iPhone, Android, Symbian and Windows Phone)
- Tests, qualification and functional validation
- Mechanics
- Chip Design

Thomas Wendel, project director, and I invite you to meet us in our stand no. 379, Hall 9 in Nuremberg, Germany.
Don’t hesitate to visit us!