Payroll military: new software to end the … – Le Figaro

Source Called Balance, the new system will be rolled out from 2017. He succeeds Louvois software, commissioned in 2011 and whose recurrent bugs have caused many delays in the settlement of balances. 250,000 soldiers are concerned.

Louvois, it’s over. Or almost. The armies will have to wait 2017 before the start deploying the new computer system for the payment of balances. Source dubbed Balance, the new software succeeds infamous Louvois system commissioned in 2011 and whose recurrent bugs have caused many delays in the settlement of balances, placing severe difficulties then engaged soldiers’ families on external operations (Opex) in Afghanistan or Mali, or conversely too perceived as other military families will have to pay.

On the sidelines of a visit by Human Resources expertise center (CERH) Navy in Toulon, Jean-Yves le Drian, Defence Minister, announced that the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) had entrusted to Sopra company and its subsidiary HR Access development of future payroll software military. The DGA has dismissed the solutions proposed by the Anglo-Saxon Accenture- tandem CGI and the French Atos associated with Steria.

40,000 engagement in unpaid premiums Opex

s ‘is a contract of 128 million euros, which includes the construction, commissioning and maintenance of Balance Source for ten years. The new system will be implemented in the Navy in 2017 after a series of tests to validate the 100% throughout 2016. Source Balance will handle the pay of 250,000 soldiers. By then, the HR services of the Ministry of Defence will work with a dual plug payroll system.

Source balance will have to forget the “disaster” economic, IT and human Louvois. The Hotel de Brienne has every chance of his side. “I remember that the new system is based on proven software without specific development,” stressed Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Since the Louvois commissioning some 160,000 soldiers saw their record payroll experience erratic changes, posting 200, 90 or 50 euros. Or the reverse. The phenomenon has involved soldiers of all ranks but especially military 170,000 account that the Army. According to the Defense Ministry approximately 40 000 Commitment Opex premiums have not been paid. The sailors and the numbers of military health services have been affected by the malfunction of Louvois. However, the air force who had not yet switched to the Louvois system was well advised to refrain, in the light of the first abnormalities.

Additional costs of 150 to 200 million per month

In addition, The Ministry of Defence has to rectify all the grotesque situations created by Louvois. At least 110,000 letters were sent to claim the overpayments estimated at € 350 million between 2011 and 2014. It will be difficult to recover because some soldiers left the army, others have spent them.

In the end, the dysfunctions of Louvois, called “crazy software” by the Court of Auditors has made a very severe report on it in March 2014, and the measures taken to manually correct the mistakes of logicile, cost between 150 and 200 million euros per year to public finances. This fiasco is mainly due to the great complexity of military payroll system. It identifies 174 different premiums depending on the services, and all armies, 250 compensation elements. The pay nearly half the soldiers changed from one month to another. The Ministry of Defence often cites the case of the first soldiers landed in December 8, 2013 in the Central devastated by massacres between religious ethnicities. Louvois had no “knowledge” of the Opex decided in an emergency. Suddenly, the military has not been paid for two months, time that data on the Central are entered in the system.

Health Facilities: software to manage absenteeism … – The Doctor’s Daily

With an average of 21.5 days absence per person per year, the health sector is not spared by absenteeism. According to the Court of Auditors, management of unscheduled absences represent 66% of operating costs of health facilities (urgent use of contractors, temporary, internal disorganization …). Some CHU audited between 2009 and 2011 would have a daily absenteeism rate oscillating between 8 and 12%.

Initially oriented towards crisis management, the Whoog company, based in Sophia Antipolis, has specialized in the health sector. “Mi 2013, we entrusted to sea rescuers of Cannes and Golfe-Juan our coordination platform of professional emergency. Thanks to them and occasionally white shots we met with officials of health facilities. We then realized that they had no tools to manage the mini-crises that represents unplanned absenteeism “ says the” Daily “co-founder Whoog, Guerric Faure.

Exchange replacements

The device that offers Whoog institutions is a platform that connects the manager on duty. He answers (within 40 seconds) to four questions to define the post to replace: What (white level, unplanned replacement, work overload), which (what professional), where (service building) and when. The system then contacts by sms all employees or contractors volunteers, who enrolled in this “Auction replacements” . The first to respond is selected for the replacement.

“This prevents the manager on duty to contact himself or RTT personnel on leave, by sms or phone, wait for their answer before s’ contact the human resources services, or disrupt several services to absorb the crisis’ , argues Guerric Faure.

employees or contractors voluntarily enroll in the loop and can specify their availability in real time. “The approach is borne by the institution, which disseminates information among staff, and chooses the compensation for such replacements – mostly in overtime” says cofounder.

“The device allows to save on the cost of the interim, the reorganization of services, productivity and free up time for the manager on duty” Guerric Faure ensures that evaluates to 2.5 months the period for return on investment.

Two institutions are already using this tool, the St. John Health Cluster (Polyclinic) since August 2014, where 42% of staff enrolled in the stock market, and the private hospital in Casamance since March 2015.

The University Hospital of Montpellier should be equipped by the end of April.

Crystal: the software to be a true fayot – France Info

All you need is a small software called Crystal that will allow you to write perfectly calibrated mails to please your partner. Today when writing to a leader, colleague, or when responding to an ad. One wonders whether to go straight to the point, provide details, embed on polite phrases or try a joke. And hesitates.

These doubts, these flashes and those who were missed the charm of human relations, will soon give way to a perfectly controlled communication. Depending on the speaker, computer suggested the ideal message.

So how does it work?

If you believe technology magazine Wired and my own experiences, Crystal software analyzes the prose of your target. He reviewed his Facebook, its digital writings, Tweets, and provides a psychological profile. I experimented with Guimier Laurent, head of France Info, and it is quite surprising …
Then of course, there is a horoscope side. Everyone can relate to a little bit. But the program is successful in classifying people and their communication. The words they like. The phrases that speak to them … and what also irritates

Are humans so predictable?

The answer is generally yes. Computers have become so powerful that they manage to make it fit into formulas our actions and derive predictions. It is now in the reign of the algorithms, these equations that will soon make robots as effective as humans. It is both fascinating and terrifying. For Crystal, it remains fairly light.
When you send a message on GMAIL, Google’s email tool. A button appears that advises you on the style to adopt. In this case if you want to seduce Guimier Laurent, a little self-mockery would be appreciated, but not too much detail, ensures Crystal in his little manual of the perfect fayot.

Where some see handling , creator of the Crystal software tells him about empathy. We miss them. Him offers for sale, like the shelves of a supermarket. Keep a little empathy that will put balm on our mail exchanges. This would boost the efficiency of many communication … ultimately, the project plans to write for you all your mails, with 25 dollars a month. So
Christian Paul, you who do you want to hear, what you think is the style expectations to write the perfect email to Manuel Valls?

Recycle your old PCs to thin clients “software”! – Info DSI

Sunday, April 26, 2015

The Fraunhofer UMSICHT has compared the recent PC and laptops with older machines that continue to be used as thin clients thanks for conversion software. And it turns out that these “thin clients” are ultimately much cheaper …

Comparing a recent PC with an older PC converted into a thin client (with appropriate software) over a period of operating for three years, Fraunhofer UMSICHT has determined that the emissions of greenhouse gases were lower by about 60% with the thin client “software”.

This solution can also have financial benefits not negligible. Thus, based on a scenario in which 100 workstations are used, Fraunhofer UMSICHT has calculated that savings of € 1,008 per workstation possible, a -47% discount.

In the end, there is no doubt that the thin client software has a huge environmental and financial potential, and also an ideal transition to IT strategies based on server

Igel Technology. being the sponsor of the survey, the thin client IGEL Universal Desktop Converter 2 (UDC2) that was used for these tests. “ Since we are on the cusp of a generational change in terms of IT office, make the transition to using thin client software is an interesting alternative, indicates Pernodet Thomas, Regional Sales Manager France at IGEL Technology. Universal Desktop Converter IGEL 2 is a fully developed solution for taking full advantage of the benefits highlighted in the study “.

Nokia put on the software revolution to be successful merger – Boursorama

  
 Leila Abboud and Jussi Rosendahl and Sven Nordenstam PARIS / HELSINKI / STOCKHOLM, April 21 (Reuters) – The acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent ALUA.PA Nokia NOK1V.HE by its competitor could avoid the pitfalls encountered by previous mergers in the telecommunications equipment through the deep transformation occurred over the past decade in how these materials are developed and introduced. The head and legs telecom networks reside today in the software that are programmable and flexible rather than in dedicated infrastructure. The products are more flexible with open interfaces that allow equipment from different manufacturers to interact. This should enable faster and less costly integration of product lines of the Finnish and the Franco-American, say analysts and industry executives, and could contribute to what Nokia succeed where previous operations failed. The group pledged to release 900 million euros in synergies by 2019 through the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent that it  intends to complete the first half of 2016. Analysts believe that most of the cost savings will come from mobile, where Nokia products in 4G replace those futures Alcatel, reducing the high budgets for R & amp; D and redeploy engineering teams. But the history of mergers in the sector is inglorious like the reconciliations between Alcatel and Lucent and Nokia and Siemens in 2006. The cost reductions promised in these transactions were eventually given back to consumers through reductions prices as competitors ERICb.ST Ericsson and Huawei HWT.UL are on the offensive while these groups were busy with the implementation of the merger. PRESERVING MAJOR CLIENTS The integration of product portfolios has also proved long and costly because of the need to continue to provide support for equipment installed at major telecom operators. A mobile site installed at Verizon VZ.N remains such in service for a decade, and the equipment is committed to mobilizing a team of engineers on what is  called a product roadmap in order to continue the improve with time. This time, a greater portion of these improvements can be implemented via software updates, which should facilitate the sharing of product lines, has promised investors the number one Nokia Rajeev Suri after the announcement of the transaction. “The open interfaces, high-speed broadband and cloud now allow faster and more effective integration,” he explained. Succeeding this pooling is important not only to reduce costs but also not to make major clients back like Verizon and AT & T TN, the two major US telecom operators using Alcatel technology in 4G . Some analysts and investors believe that the bet this time is likely to succeed while others remain skeptical. “What need between four to five years for Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens in the product roadmaps should this time take two or three years,” said Pierre Ferragu, analyst at Bernstein Research. PeterC Alexander, an analyst at  Exane BNP Paribas, was less confident, saying that only half of the 900 million euros in synergies should materialize. COMPETITORS IN AMBUSH Risto Lehtilahti, union representative of R & amp division D of Nokia in Oulu, Finland, is concerned for his part in the risk of loss of contracts as had happened during the merger with Siemens and acquisition mobile assets in the US Motorola. “The market shares do not resist after the mergers. When we are in the transition period and before things become clearer, some contracts will go to competitors Ericsson and Huawei,” he says. “Customers know that these manufacturers offer so that it could take us between one or two years to come up with a range of products and customer systems.” Analysts are divided on the importance could take those “tell synergies,” Deutsche Bank rating to 1.5 billion euros the amount of potentially risky contracts while Bernstein estimates that less than a third of that amount.  The two groups will also be positioned on future technologies. Combining the power of Nokia in the mobile with the Alcatel in internet routers should place the future together in a good position for the “5G”, the next mobile technology that should erase the boundaries between fixed and mobile. While the 5G should not be launched before 2020, analysts believe that operators will decide their suppliers based on their ability to provide a unique product roadmap by the end of 2017. (Gwénaëlle Barzic for the French service, edited by Dominique Rodriguez) 
  

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Nokia Here: Apple could buy mapping software! – Phonandroid

Certainly Nokia is in the spotlight lately. As we told you a few days ago, the Finnish seek to separate from her Here mapping software. Apple might be buyer.

Last week we learned that Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent merged to become the world leader in the market for mobile telephony. A merger that would create the resale of Nokia’s Here mapping software that wants to focus on its core business.

The first leak revealed a number of candidates for the acquisition of the excellent software. Uber was among the interested parties, as well as several German car manufacturers

Today we learn that other renowned companies seem interested in this purchase. Alibaba, Baidu, Amazon, Facebook and Apple …. Moreover, it is the latter that interests most Nokia as Finland expects to recover € 3 billion Here reselling.

For the Cupertino, it would be strategically an excellent choice. Here, as appears undoubtedly among the best available mapping software. S so we repurchase allow Apple to improve its Maps application , which is struggling to compete with Google Maps to name him.

Of course, at the moment it this is only a rumor, but as they say, there is no smoke without fire. Nokia seems determined to focus on what it does best.

In fact, the brand may well return to the front of the stage next year in the smartphone market with a model Android. The excellent reception of the Nokia N1 tablet seems to have convinced the Finnish. The year will be long for fans of the brand

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Testimony of a W’Ipsos user, integrated management software – specialization 3E

Manage its entire business with a single software that centralizes all information collected: administrative, technical, commercial. That’s what attracted Fabrice Bour, Southern Director antenna, located in Nice. Here is the testimony of this user S2I current member of the Low, who chose W’Ipsos, integrated management software (ERP), edited by CMI.

A unique solution
management

Details of an intervention on W’ipsos

“Our Southern society antenna performs consulting and installation, after sales service. There are about a year, we have chosen to invest in the overall management system, a decision which I am very happy today. “Fabrice Bour and his team offer a complete solution for managing the entire business: quotations, ordering, installation and maintenance. Through contract management, inventory, site monitoring and more. Efficiency, access, saving time and responsiveness are the main benefits.

Half a position less
“The migration to this system represented an investment for the company, in terms of time to adapt and staff training. Imports was 40 years of customer history. We did not have data loss or other problems in the process. I am satisfied with this choice, especially for the efficiency and the time we gain. For us, this is an administrative position within half, “said Mr Bour. “Contrary to the software we were using before, we do not need a gateway, everything is connected.” Once information is entered, it is followed to the various posts and updated in real time for all.

Zoom billing
billing in particular, very simplified and fast, is appreciated by the Nice company. The software connects all the steps of the billing chain fluid and legibly. The technician can sign the minutes of intervention by the customer from their smartphone and send it to the administration to billing. Rebate checks, recovery, transfer and withdrawal, are managed in a more systematic and direct manner via this centralized tool.

Reactivity rhymes with mobility

With mobile Ipsos’Connect, the technician accesses on his smartphone to planned interventions, from anywhere.

More and more, customers want access to fast service. Responsiveness is a key word for South antenna. W’Ipsos is designed to deal with this issue of mobility. Particularly through Ipsos’Connect a smartphone application. It allows to intervene as quickly as possible on a failure by deploying the nearest technician site via an alert sent to your mobile. While achieving economic gain on the work and fuel of labor time. And, thanks to the optimization system of travel. A valuable feature in the field of electronic security and more. With direct access to all customer information, intervention is more effective and able to quickly satisfy the customer. The software makes it possible to visualize the data from smartphone: previous failures, which was made, what is the installation and since when it is in place. Finally, feedback indicate that the administration was done on site.

Opportunities to explore
“The friendliness of the interface I like, “says Mr Bour. “It is composed of two parts, one for interventions (SAV) and one for construction sites. The latter is more recent and will be subject to future improvements. “Subsequently, CMI plans to develop a mobile application for business. “We use only 40% of what the software offers. We still have opportunities to explore, “ says Fabrice Bour. ​​

Established in 1985 in its first version, the software has become I’psos W’Ipsos in 2005 when he was spent on Windows. He vowed to continue its transformation over time, to monitor technological developments and their potential. W’Ipsos is used by about 300 companies and 2000 users.

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IMAGES. Ten software to learn music – L’Express

By Nicolas Alamone , published on 24/04/2015 at 07:00

You do not have the time to take music lessons in a school? With a little determination, it is possible to learn via software on your computer. Music theory, piano, guitar … Our selection.

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AmpliTube 3 is a software that offers music publishing tracks, tuners, but also a wide range of effects. The amp simulators are particularly successful. The software adapts as well as bass and guitars take some time to adapt to a perfect mastery.

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learn music amusing, software are becoming more fun, like Rocksmith 2014 that looks like a real video game. Gibson Learn & amp; Master Guitar will make you a true expert guitar while the battery followers turn to D’Accord Drums Player .

Payroll military: new software to end it … – Le Figaro

Source Called Balance, the new system will be implemented from 2017. He succeeds Louvois software, commissioned in 2011 and whose repetition bugs have caused many delays in the settlement of balances. 250,000 soldiers are concerned.

Louvois, it’s over. Or almost. The armies in 2017 will have to wait before the start deploying the new computer system for the payment of balances. Source dubbed Balance, the new software, the successor to the infamous Louvois system put into service in 2011 and whose repetition bugs have caused many delays in the settlement of balances, placing severe difficulties when engaged families of soldiers on operations abroad (Opex) in Afghanistan or Mali, or conversely too perceived as other military families will have to pay back.

On the sidelines of a visit by Human Resources expertise center (CERH) Navy in Toulon, Jean-Yves Le Drian, Defence Minister, announced that the General of Armaments (DGA) had entrusted to Sopra company and its subsidiary HR Access development of future payroll software military. DGA dismissed the solutions proposed by the Anglo-Saxon Accenture- tandem CGI and the French Atos associated with Steria.

40,000 engagement in unpaid premiums Opex

s ‘is a contract of 128 million euros, which includes the construction, commissioning and maintenance of Balance Source for ten years. The new system will be implemented in the Navy in 2017 after a series of tests to validate 100% throughout 2016. Source Balance will manage the balance of 250,000 soldiers. By then, the services of the HR Department of Defense will work with a dual plug payroll system.

Source balance will have to forget the “disaster” economic, IT and human Louvois. The Hotel de Brienne has every chance of his side. “I remember that the new system is based on proven software without specific development,” insisted Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Since the Louvois commissioning some 160,000 soldiers saw their record payroll experience erratic changes, posting 200, 90 or 50 euros. Or the reverse. The phenomenon has affected soldiers from all ranks and especially the military 170,000 account that the Army. According to the Ministry of Defence about 40,000 commitment Opex premiums were not paid. The sailors and the workforce military health services have been affected by the malfunction of Louvois. However, the air force who had not yet switched to Louvois system was well advised to refrain, in view of the first abnormalities.

Incremental costs of 150 to 200 million per month

In addition, the Ministry of Defence has to rectify all the grotesque situations created by Louvois. At least 110,000 letters were sent to reclaim overpayments estimated at € 350 million between 2011 and 2014. It will be difficult to recover because some soldiers left the army, others have spent them.

In the end, the dysfunctions of Louvois, called “crazy software” by the Court of Auditors that made a very severe report on it in March 2014, and the measures taken to manually correct the mistakes of logicile, cost between 150 and 200 million euros per year to public finances. This fiasco is mainly due to the great complexity of military payroll system. It lists 174 different premiums depending on the services and for all armies, 250 remuneration. The pay nearly half of the soldiers change from one month to another. The Ministry of Defence often cites the case of the first soldiers landed in December 8, 2013 in Central ravaged by religious massacres between ethnic groups. Louvois had no “knowledge” of the Opex decided in an emergency. Suddenly, the military has not been paid for two months, the time that the data on the Central are entered in the system.

The Army command a new payroll software to forget … – BFMTV.COM

Make forget Louvois, 250,000 military payroll software abandoned in October 2013 after three years of quirks and faults, and nearly 500 million euros of public investment, as found the Court of Auditors .

Wednesday, April 22, Jean-Yves Le Drian, the Minister of Defence, has announced that his ministry had just notified the group Sopra-Stéria market for a new military balances of 250,000 payroll software to replace Louvois. Source Balance is its name, should be operational in 2017 after a test phase in 2016. It took almost 20 years to implement Louvois, with the ultimate success that we know!

A market of 128 million

The new contract covers the construction, commissioning and the “maintenance and development” (according to the ministry) software for ten years. Its cost is 128 million.

“In order not to repeat the mistakes of the past,” the ministry has decided to entrust the development of the new software “great professionals”, launched Jean-Yves Le Drian in December 2013. Louvois himself had set up by Steria but with a set of highly complex loads imposed by the services of the Ministry of Defence.

Quack quack on

Consequences, failures of Louvois had the effect of not paying enough some soldiers for an estimated € 120 million approximately in 2012. When other soldiers, in contrast, were granted too high balances, representing just over € 130 million in June. In total, 10,000 soldiers were affected by these problems every month.

PredPol, big data in the police – The World

Le Monde | 04/22/2015 at 20:40 • Updated 04/23/2015 at 8:07 | By Yves Eudes (Modesto (California), Special Envoy)

Famous for its wine and almonds, Modesto, 210 000, is also known for its unemployment rate and record crime – almost double the average in California. This is also the city in the heart of California’s central valley that director John Ridley was chosen to create the series American Crime . In the city center, the police headquarters occupies an entire block of houses. In this spring afternoon, the team of the evening arrives for duty, which will last eleven hours in a row, from 16 hours to 3 am.

In the meeting room, fifteen Police have taken place behind large gray tables. Before beginning their patrols, they listen to their sergeant summarize the events of the morning: gunshots, car thefts, burglaries … Their superior lighting a computer screen on the wall and displays a map of the city, where there are ten red squares: a crossroads, a square, a shopping center … These are the “hot spots”, hot Priority Watch points. According to the computer, connected to PredPol system (Predictive Policing), offenses will focus over the next twelve hours, in these square 150 meters on each side, representing a tiny fraction of the area of ​​Modesto.

Sgt zooms in on the map to show the different patrols neighborhoods that are assigned. The computer refines its predictions and displays five “squares PredPol” sector, listed in order of priority. A young police …

Nokia put on the software revolution for a successful merger with … – The Digital Factory

 The repurchase of Alcatel-Lucent by its competitor Nokia could avoid the pitfalls encountered by previous mergers in the telecommunications equipment through the deep transformation occurred over the past decade in how these materials are developed and introduced.

 The head and legs telecom networks reside today in the software that are programmable and flexible rather than in dedicated infrastructure. The products are more flexible with open interfaces that allow equipment from different manufacturers to interact.

 This should enable faster and less costly integration of product lines of the Finnish and the Franco-American, say analysts and industry executives, and could contribute to what Nokia succeed where previous operations failed.

  900 million of synergies

 The group pledged to release 900 million euros in synergies by 2019 through the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent that it intends to complete the first half of 2016. Analysts believe that most of the cost savings will come from mobile, where Nokia products in 4G replace those futures Alcatel, reducing the high budgets for R & amp;. D and redeploy engineering teams

 But the history of mergers in the sector is inglorious like the reconciliations between Alcatel and Lucent and Nokia and Siemens in 2006. The cost reductions promised in these transactions were eventually given back to consumers through reductions Price as Ericsson and Huawei competitors are on the offensive while these groups were busy with the implementation of the merger.

  PRESERVE MAJOR CLIENTS

 The integration of product portfolios has also proved long and costly because of the need to continue to provide support for equipment installed at major telecom operators. A mobile site is still installed at Verizon for example in service for ten years and the equipment is committed to mobilizing a team of engineers on what is called a product roadmap in order to continue to improve with time.

 This time, a greater portion of these improvements can be implemented via software updates, which should facilitate the sharing of product lines, has promised investors the number one Nokia Rajeev Suri after the announcement of the transaction. “The open interfaces, high-speed broadband and cloud now allow faster and more effective integration ,” he said.

 Succeeding this pooling is important not only to reduce costs but not to antagonize major clients such as Verizon and AT & T, the two major US telecom operators using Alcatel technology in 4G. Some analysts and investors believe that the bet this time is likely to succeed while others remain skeptical.

  “What need between four to five years for Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens in the product roadmaps should this time take two or three years” said Pierre Ferragu, analyst at Bernstein Research . PeterC Alexander, an analyst at Exane BNP Paribas, was less confident, saying that only half of the 900 million euros in synergies should materialize.

  COMPETITORS IN AMBUSH

 Risto Lehtilahti, union representative of R & amp division D of Nokia in Oulu, Finland, is concerned for his part in the risk of loss of contracts as it happened during the merger and acquisition of Siemens mobile assets the American Motorola. “The market shares do not stand up after the mergers. When we are in the transition period and before things become clearer, some contracts will go to competitors Ericsson and Huawei” Does explains -it.

  “Customers know what these manufacturers offer so that it could take us between one or two years to come up with a range of products and customer systems.” Analysts are divided on the importance could take those “tell synergies,” Deutsche Bank rating to 1.5 billion euros the amount of potentially risky contracts while Bernstein estimated at less than a third that amount.

  position on future technologies

 The two groups will also be positioned on future technologies. Combining the power of Nokia in the mobile with the Alcatel in internet routers should place the future together in a good position for the “5G”, the next mobile technology that should erase the boundaries between fixed and mobile.

 While the 5G should not be launched before 2020, analysts believe that operators will decide their suppliers based on their ability to provide a unique product roadmap by the end of 2017.

  With Reuters

Nokia put on the software revolution to be successful merger – Challenges.fr

Leila Abboud and Jussi Rosendahl and Sven Nordenstam

PARIS / HELSINKI / STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent by its competitor Nokia could avoid the pitfalls encountered by previous mergers in telecom equipment through the deep transformation occurred over the past decade in how these materials are developed and introduced.

The head and legs telecom networks reside today in the software that are programmable and flexible rather than in dedicated infrastructure. The products are more flexible with open interfaces that allow equipment from different manufacturers to interact.

This should enable faster and less costly integration of the Finnish product lines and the Franco-American , say analysts and industry executives, and could contribute to what Nokia succeed where previous operations failed.

The group pledged to release 900 million euros of synergies by 2019 through the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent that it intends to complete the first half of 2016. Analysts believe that most of the cost savings will come from mobile, where Nokia products in 4G eventually replace those of Alcatel, allowing reduce the high budgets for R & amp;. D and redeploy engineering teams

But the history of mergers in the sector is inglorious like the reconciliations between Alcatel and Lucent and Nokia and Siemens in 2006.

The cost reductions promised in these transactions were eventually given back to consumers through lower prices as Ericsson and Huawei competitors are on the offensive while these groups were busy with the implementation of the merger.

MAJOR CUSTOMERS PRESERVE

The integration of product portfolios has also proved long and costly due to the need to continue to offer support for equipment installed at major telecom operators.

A mobile site is still installed at Verizon for example in service for ten years and the equipment is committed to mobilize a team engineers on what is called a product roadmap to continue to improve with time.

This time, a greater portion of these improvements will be implemented through updated software, which should facilitate the sharing of product lines, has promised investors the number one Nokia Rajeev Suri after the announcement of the transaction.

“The open interfaces The very high speed and cloud now allow faster and more effective integration, “said he said.

Completion of this pooling is important not only to reduce costs but also not to antagonize major clients such as Verizon and AT &. T, the two major US telecom operators using Alcatel technology in 4G

Some analysts and investors believe that the bet this time has a chance to succeed while others remain skeptical.

“What need between four to five years for Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens in the product roadmaps should take this time two or three years, “said Pierre Ferragu, analyst at Bernstein Research.

PeterC Alexander, an analyst at Exane BNP Paribas, was less confident, saying that only half of the synergies of € 900 million should materialize

COMPETITORS IN AMBUSH

Risto Lehtilahti, union representative of R & amp division. Nokia D in Oulu, Finland, are concerned about their share of the risk loss of contracts as it happened during the merger and acquisition of Siemens mobile assets of Motorola American.

“The market shares do not resist after the mergers. When we are in the transition period and before things become clearer, some contracts will go to competitors Ericsson and Huawei, “he said.

” Customers know what these manufacturers offer while it might take us between one or two years to come up with a range of products and customer systems. “

Analysts are divided on the importance could take those” tell synergies ” Deutsche Bank rated at 1.5 billion euros the amount of potentially risky contracts while Bernstein estimates less than a third of that amount.

The two groups will also be positioned on technologies future. Combining the power of Nokia in the mobile with the Alcatel in internet routers should place the future together in a good position for the “5G”, the next mobile technology that should erase the boundaries between fixed and mobile.

While the 5G should not be launched before 2020, analysts believe that operators will decide their suppliers based on their ability to provide a unique product roadmap by the end of 2017.

(Gwénaëlle Barzic for the French service, edited by Dominique Rodriguez)

Nokia put on the software revolution to be successful merger – Zonebourse.com

Leila Abboud and Jussi Rosendahl and Sven Nordenstam

The acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent by its competitor Nokia could avoid the pitfalls encountered by previous mergers in the telecommunications equipment through the deep transformation that occurred past decade in how these materials are developed and introduced.

The head and legs of telecom networks today reside in software that is programmable and flexible rather than in dedicated infrastructure. The products are more flexible with open interfaces that allow equipment from different manufacturers to interact.

This should enable faster and less costly integration of the Finnish product lines and the Franco-American , say analysts and industry executives, and could contribute to what Nokia succeed where previous operations failed.

The group pledged to release 900 million euros of synergies by 2019 through the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent that it intends to complete the first half of 2016. Analysts believe that most of the cost savings will come from mobile, where Nokia products in 4G eventually replace those of Alcatel, allowing reduce the high budgets for R & amp;. D and redeploy engineering teams

But the history of mergers in the sector is inglorious like the reconciliations between Alcatel and Lucent and Nokia and Siemens in 2006.

The cost reductions promised in these transactions were eventually given back to consumers through lower prices as Ericsson and Huawei competitors are on the offensive while these groups were busy with the implementation of the merger.

MAJOR CUSTOMERS PRESERVE

The integration of product portfolios has also proved long and costly due to the need to continue to offer support for equipment installed at major telecom operators.

A mobile site is still installed at Verizon for example in service for ten years and the equipment is committed to mobilize a team engineers on what is called a product roadmap to continue to improve with time.

This time, a greater portion of these improvements will be implemented through updated software, which should facilitate the sharing of product lines, has promised investors the number one Nokia Rajeev Suri after the announcement of the transaction.

“The open interfaces The very high speed and cloud now allow faster and more effective integration, “said he said.

Completion of this pooling is important not only to reduce costs but also not to antagonize major clients such as Verizon and AT &. T, the two major US telecom operators using Alcatel technology in 4G

Some analysts and investors believe that the bet this time has a chance to succeed while others remain skeptical.

“What need between four to five years for Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia Siemens in the product roadmaps should take this time two or three years, “said Pierre Ferragu, analyst at Bernstein Research.

PeterC Alexander, an analyst at Exane BNP Paribas, was less confident, saying that only half of the synergies of € 900 million should materialize

COMPETITORS IN AMBUSH

Risto Lehtilahti, union representative of R & amp division. Nokia D in Oulu, Finland, are concerned about their share of the risk loss of contracts as it happened during the merger and acquisition of Siemens mobile assets of Motorola American.

“The market shares do not resist after the mergers. When we are in the transition period and before things become clearer, some contracts will go to competitors Ericsson and Huawei, “he said.

” Customers know what these manufacturers offer while it might take us between one or two years to come up with a range of products and customer systems. “

Analysts are divided on the importance could take those” tell synergies ” Deutsche Bank rated at 1.5 billion euros the amount of potentially risky contracts while Bernstein estimates less than a third of that amount.

The two groups will also be positioned on technologies future. Combining the power of Nokia in the mobile with the Alcatel in internet routers should place the future together in a good position for the “5G”, the next mobile technology that should erase the boundaries between fixed and mobile.

While the 5G should not be launched before 2020, analysts believe that operators will decide their suppliers based on their ability to provide a unique product roadmap by the end of 2017. (Gwénaëlle Barzic for the French service, edited by Dominique Rodriguez)

Flash, Java, Recuva: Software updates for the pros – ZDNet France

This bimonthly selection is heavily updates needed to deploy if you have not yet made the Flash, or Java, are extremely popular tools, no doubt a part of the positions for which you are load use. Furthermore, Recuva, Eraser and Notepad ++, three essential tools have been updated. Similarly multimedia side with VLC, iTunes and Light Image Resizer.

Adobe Reader
2015

Adobe is a true revolution in reading PDF. The venerable Reader, Adobe visualization tool becomes Adobe Document Cloud, in the long line of the now available editor tools now cloud-

Adobe Reader DC wants to be an EDM tool in the cloud. Electronic signature, openness to other formats and edit scanned documents are at the rendezvous. Cloud Document should help manage the entire document workflow. Creation, verification, validation, signature and monitoring; all stages of the life cycle of documents is present. Electronic signature hand, it will be compatible with solutions such as Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics and Sharepoint, Salesforce.com, Ariba, or Apttus. But the real innovations concern the integration of tactile dimension and the ability to change the content at the same is scanned
To download the PDF viewer.

Flash Player 17.0 .0.169

Adobe provides regularly Flash Player update for security reasons. The ‘plug-in most holes of history’ has to deal with new vulnerabilities considered critical, thus enabling remote control. In other words, the patch must be installed immediately, especially as it applies to both Windows and OS X.

To download this multimedia player:

Java (Java Runtime Environment) 8 Update 45

The book’s publisher’s security quarterly newsletter which contains no less than 98 patches. MySQL is concerned first with 26 patches, monitoring Fusion Middleware, Supply Chain Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, E-Business Suite, Database, Commerce Platform Suite Retail Industry, Health Sciences Applications, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Siebel CRM. The Java module provides his side 14 security patches which three are ascending 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System scale (CVSS) is the highest severity level, allowing remote operation without authentication.

Oracle also emphasizes that provides here last free update Java 7. Now the patches for this release will be available to Customers with specific support contracts. A way for Oracle to encourage its users who have not yet done so to migrate to Java 8 (available since January) Version 45

To download the runtime environment.

Recuva 1.52

Recuva restores files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer or memory cards. The update provides support for ext4, NTFS and improves scan. Security bugs were also patched.

To download the
data recovery tool

Notepad ++ 6.7.7

Notepad ++ is a lightweight and powerful source code editor with syntax highlighting. Notepad ++ offers fold / unfold code, but also the WYSIWYG, auto-completion, multi-document and multi-view modes, search and replace regular expressions, or the drag / drop. Widely disseminated and used in many countries, Notepad ++ is translated into more than 30 languages.

The latest version of the tool provides an improvement in the last file restore feature, published with the Return to previous versions.

To download the tool creation and file editing:

Eraser 6.2.0.2969

Eraser will permanently erase
 a hard disk confidential information. The software performs
 multiple rewrites, with different models, sectors
 the hard drive where the information to be deleted were, based
 on the work of Peter Gutmann’s on magnetic memories

To download the formatting tool.

VLC 2.2.1

The VLC media player is a standard for multimedia playback software. It can read a number of very important formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, AAC, MP3, OGG, AVI, WMV, MOV, VCD, SVCD and some native formats of the DVD standard.

The new version, called Terry Pratchett in tribute to the recently deceased writer, stabilizes bugs leading to crashes of the application on the SPC and FLAC formats, among others. The full list of changes here

To download this media player.

iTunes 12.1.2

Over time, iTunes has become a media manager capable of supporting many audio and video formats and to interface with a variety of equipment from the Apple brand (iPod, iPhone, iPad …).

This new version improves support for photo synchronization feature with Apple devices, and general stability of the solution was increased.

To download this multimedia player

Light Image Resizer 4.7.0.0

Formerly known as VSO Image Resizer, this tool organizes photos by shrinking their resolution or moving them within your hard drive. Free software, it allows you to create versions of your images to email, load them faster, change their format, and process a large number of images at a time. An option to create file name patterns to rename retaining the number of the photo or to extract the date of shooting. Finally for journalists and webmasters, you have the option to add a picture watermark to identify your screenshots or your articles.

The new version of this tool fixes bugs and adds to the menu above pop the ability to process batch images

To download this editing tool.

Software gives visibility to business Hewlett-Packard – Les Echos

With its new forecast software, Hewlett-Packard (HP) benefits those weeks it a big bang started it two years ago. 25,000 commercial computer business now receive their letter of objectives for the next six months. This is a first

Previously this document. – Which sets for each vendor’s sales quota to achieve with its customers – was sent to them, at best, at the end of the first month the period. It then remained for five or even four months to achieve the expected performance. “A seller who has goals sooner is better” , said Yves Cabanac, head of sales compensation HP. More commercial start early to work with specific objectives, the more they relate to their employers.

In 2013, the decision was taken at HP replace all of its forecasting tools business. With two expectations: reliable results and the ability to edit the letters of goals early periods of six months. “We made this change in our country subsidiaries to ensure that the result would be convincing” said Yves Cabanac. Able to brew large amounts of data available online, the new software allows business planners to perform complex calculations in a very short time. By accelerating the mixing of data, it alleviates a little pressure that rests on the shoulders of business planning teams.

An error rate close to 2%

Because set goals shopping is both a timely and quality history. Too soon, business planners take the risk of misunderstanding in their market analysis and determine too low a target. Which can be costly to the company, which pays merit its sales force. Too late, recent progress blindly and wonder. The software offers the luxury business planner to adjust forecasts to the end.

This global project has cost several million dollars, but has already been amortized. “We have improved our error rate on the objectives of 0.05%, the added value is enormous,” , welcomed the boss of compensation trade. The error rate is now close to 2%. Now Yves Cabanac sees further. “In 2016, some of the commercial will have quarterly targets” , he announces.

Note

In 2015, Hewlett-Packard is expected to split into two entities, Inc. HP and HP Enterprise.

Interview: Hopper, which reverses the software safety Mac – MacGeneration

The last two major security vulnerabilities affecting Mac, Thunderstrike and rootpipe were discovered using Hopper Disassembler, a reverse engineering software to delve into the guts of any application. Used by outstanding hackers, this disassembler also allowed to dissect UXKit, a new private framework of Apple, highlight the multi-window mode 8 iOS and develop software that modifies the Finder, and more.

Hopper, sold 89 € personal license (a demo version is available) supports Mac executables, iOS, Linux and Windows. Interview with its creator, Vincent Bénony.

MacGeneration: What allows for Hopper Disassembler

Vincent Bénony: is a software Hopper Disassembler whose purpose is to study the inner workings of other applications. He automatically analyze and structure, somewhat in the manner of a microprocessor. There is talk of static analysis code.

Hopper allows you to see the assembly code, but also to manipulate interactively. It also allows to debug or even “decompile” the application under certain conditions.

What is the difference between an application and disassemble, decompile?

The disassembly is to transform a sequence of bytes in assembler instructions on. This is the simplest part.

If you look at an application in a hex editor, you can see that it is only a matter of a long sequence of bytes, unintelligible to a human being, which mixed code and data.

The TextEdit application in a hex editor

The disassembly is to simulate the microprocessor decoding work, in order to know which instruction must execute . And for that, the microprocessor will read one byte at a time, until it recognizes a full statement, and then execute the corresponding action.

Thus the sequence of bytes “48 8B 35 07 ED January 00 “will mean for him” mov rsi, QWORD [ds: 0x100020438] “or” read into memory at 0×100020438, a 64-bit word, and stores this value in the registry rsi “.

The same application in Hopper – click to enlarge

Once each instruction has been decoded, Hopper conduct further analysis of the application. He goes for it “follow” the code, and try to determine all possible paths of execution.

It is therefore recreated a part of the logical structure of the application, and allows to separate the different instructions methods, they even cut into smaller blocks (called Basic Blocks). It also tries to separate the code data (such as strings that are displayed when running the program, for example).

With this analysis, Hopper is capable of displaying a representation more graphic execution of the application.

The graph of a method (CFG) – click to view more

decompilation is the next step: the idea is to try to found what looked like the code “original” one that the developer originally written, which was compiled.

Indeed, no developer writes no direct assembly code. Instead, it uses a high level language like Objective-C for example, and uses a compiler, like Clang, which comes with Xcode, to turn this incomprehensible language for the microprocessor in assembler.

Unfortunately, in passing, a large amount of information about the logical structure of the application is lost, mainly during the optimization phase, where the code is triturated by the compiler to cause to run as soon as possible, which makes the work very complicated decompilation.

Still, Hopper has internally many heuristics that allow, in many cases, to find this information. Basically, Hopper done automatically is a reverse engineering engineer would have done by hand. To summarize, Hopper contains years of human expertise in Reverse Engineering …

Following a method of decompiled, Hopper is able to transform this sequence of instructions

Click to enlarge

In this:

This is what I call the” Pseudo Code “in the sense that it is not possible to give directly to a compiler, but there is a good chance that the code had written the developer is very close to it.

Note that you see on this last capture results from a process fully automated: I’ve only drag the TextEdit application on Hopper window, and then I clicked the “Pseudo Code” button

Conversely, qu. ‘do not allows to Hopper and why

Hopper is unfortunately not magic; it can not, for sure, decompile any method legibly. Sometimes party applications were written by hand, directly in assembler or the compiler is optimized aggressively parts. In this case, the version decompiled by Hopper is little more readable than the disassembled release.

// Uninstall: the best software to clean – Clubic

  Uninstall a series of bulky programs may seem easy. Except that not very often we find non-deleted files or registry entries when you manage to find the program in the Windows manager! To overcome the limitations of pre-installed tools, here Clubic selection of the best uninstaller software.

Of course, string together a list of all identical software would not make much sense. That’s why we offer tools for different purposes. Some help you not install unnecessary programs. Other suppress afterwards. Some focus only on pests or malware, while others are more general. But overall, you should find what you need for all uses

To avoid uninstalling. Unchecky

Yes, the best way have a pc clean and fast, it is still not install crapwares on. Unfortunately, it sometimes simply click too fast “next” while installing a free software to pick up yet another browser tool bar
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This is where Unchecky . This small program runs in the background to clear himself unwanted installation options. If this is not possible, a warning sound alerts you. It is not perfect, some systems coming to pass through, but it still will block a large number of adware , the list is provided on the following page. The rest of the time he will be forgotten in the notification bar.

Most

– Invisible and simple

– Less

– Do not detect all crapwares

simple uninstaller software

These programs offer nothing more than to supplement the built-in Windows uninstaller . They generally offer specific options allowing you to go search the registry entries related to the software, or delete the remaining files. Some are also portable, you can take them on a USB stick to clean a new machine
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Should I Remove It , as its name suggests, tells you what programs that can or even be removed from your machine. The evaluation is done by the users, based on their use of the software: each uninstall increased the score. These assessments are weighted by a “group of technical experts.” This system is not foolproof, but provides a good idea of ​​the appropriateness of each uninstallation. Obviously you need to be logged in for this to work.

At startup, Should I Remove It scans your computer to find all the installed programs, making it slow to start. The interface is rather sleek and clean, a colored bar shows the harmfulness of each program, and a rating of five stars indicates the form of the utility of the program. When you click an instance, you have a choice between removing or opening a browser page to learn more. Finally, you can let Should I Remove It turn to alert you if you ever install anything suspicious.

Most

– Provides an accurate assessment of the dangerousness of each

– Less

– Requires connection
– Slow start

This has the advantage of lightness. Geek Uninstaller is a completely free program and no installation required. As such, it can be transported on a USB key to clean any machine that needs it, 32 or 64 bits. It offers two modes of suppression, simple or forced, depending on the needs.

Geek Uninstaller does not offer many options, but some may be helpful. For example, you can delete an entry in the menu “add / remove” in Windows, if you want to remove a program. You can also access the installation folder or registry entries. In summary, this is the kind of tool that is always good to keep on hand.

Most

– Portable
– Fast

– Less

– Few uninstall options

Like the previous, here we have a program designed to be transported and executed without installation to clean PC. The difference between one and the other end is up to the interface, as well as uninstall methods offered. Wise Uninstaller has three instead of two. A simple mode (same as Windows), a selective mode and forced mode

In terms of options, you can access the registry entries , search for information with Google on the selected program and export a list of your installed programs in a text file. The only thing we can blame her scripts is a hair slower than Geek Uninstaller.

Most

– Portable
– 3 levels of uninstallation

– Less

– A little slow to start

As for Mac

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is not problematic because the uninstallation is treated differently in OS X it is perfect. Fortunately, the platform is no exception and there are also optimizing uninstalling software for brand computers apple
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AppTrap is a very simple utility that effectively replaces the recycle bin with respect uninstalling software. Once installed, it becomes invisible. It will load when you want to remove software by drag / drop the icon to clean the remaining traces of its existence, the preference files for example. If you no longer need, you can disable it in System Preferences
.

Most

– Discreet and effective

– Less

– Limited Functionality

Another software for Mac which is a little more ambitious and comprehensive. AppCleaner to properly clean your list of applications, without forgetting anything. It offers some nice features, like the ability to uninstall several applications at once by selecting them from a list. It can also be used to clean the widgets dashboard of the user. A final tab will target the plugins and prefpane of the user.

qu’Apptrap AppCleaner incorporates the same function in the sense that it can replace the trash for uninstalling software. The most significant being that you can protect in advance sensitive software, which prevents erroneous deletion click
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Most

– Cleans all elements associated with the
Application – Protects useful software