Month: April 2008

OctaMedia Retail has informed us that Abhishek Industries has made its maiden foray in lifestyle retail in India by launching its first store under the brand name ‘Trident Homescapes‘ at Chandigarh. The Trident Homescapes would house a wide and exclusive range of home products capable of turning a home into a lifestyle arena.

The Rs 15 billion enterprise and proud winner of awards from leading international retails chains including Wal Mart and J C Penny, Trident Group has launched its first Lifestyle store – Trident Homescapes – in Chandigarh through Abhishek Industries the flagship company of the group.

Satyam Computer Services has agreed to acquire S&V Management Consultants, a Ghent, Belgium-based supply chain management (SCM) consulting firm. The $35.5 million, all-cash purchase significantly reinforces Satyam’s supply chain strategy capabilities.

As a part of this transaction, Satyam also acquires an innovative business decision support software called Equazion, a sophisticated supply chain performance management suite that enables business decisions from a macro perspective.

S&V was founded in 1992, and has offices in Belgium and the Netherlands. The $15 million firm develops supply chain strategy and performance, and supply chain process excellence solutions, largely for manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies and public entities. S&V features 60 consultants, all of whom are six sigma-trained and APICS-certified, and fluent in English Dutch, and French.

Subex Systems has been selected as a recipient of the Verizon’s 2007 supplier excellence award. The award recognizes Subex for its outstanding effort and achievement in demonstrating performance excellence thro the deployment of its moneta revenue assurance solution across multiple Verizon next-generation services.

Subex’s Moneta enables customers like Verizon to maximize revenues by detecting and correcting any issues across the value chain, ensuring that services are properly ordered and billed for and that all revenues are received. By improving data processing accuracy, Subex’s customers achieve a solid ROI through the software while improving overall customer satisfaction due to reduced billing and service- related errors. Moneta is recognized as the industry-leading solution for automating critical revenue auditing tasks that promote operational efficiency and sustained profitability.