by Marcos Polanco on Tuesday May 04, 2010
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- e-Nabler Corporation, a pioneer in the mobile, cloud-based software-as-a-service business market that offers pre-packaged, yet fully customizable mobile applications including payment processing, announced the preview release of its eMobilePOS mobile point-of-sales-system for iPhone OS devices on the Apple App Store. The application becomes the first full mobile POS in the App Store with wireless synchronization between multiple mobile devices and back office accounting systems."Our vision is to offer a point of satisfaction, not just a point of sales. The Apple Retail Stores already proved the enormous value of eliminating checkout lines in their entirety, a key customer satisfaction trouble area for retailers, through on-the-spot checkout using wireless devices. We at e-Nabler have matched the exact same hardware selected by Apple with our award-winning software to create the first business-class mobile point-of-sales solution on the iPhone OS."
eMobilePOS, the latest version of the software that won the AT&T Best New Application FastPitch Award at the Las Vegas CTIA Show in 2008, is a mobile point-of-sales system that features automated synchronization with Intuit QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Enterprise Editions, as well as real-time web- based sales analytics for monitoring of field sales forces and/or multiple retail locations. Coupled with a custom-fit hardware enclosure, an iPhone or iPod Touch device gains a barcode scanner and a credit card reader, for speedy and accurate sales transactions. The software is available for download at http://www.emobilepos.com/iphone/.
"What we hear from customers is that credit card processing on the iPhone is just the first step in building a business-class system. Business customers need real-time synchronization with their accounting systems and integrated inventory control in order to manage their profitability. Both retail and wholesale customers told us they required per-user transaction traceability, in order to implement financial controls, and dynamic pricing, to support specials and discounts. We listened and responded with eMobilePOS, which builds on our five years of experience now serving 700+ business users across North America, including Glidden, Revlon and The Dwyer Group."
e-Nabler is one of the top 10 companies in the Puerto Rico Start Up/Emerging Company Index, as measured by trends in traffic, news coverage, employees and funding.
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www.enablercorp.com
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by Marcos Polanco on Sunday April 18, 2010
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by Marcos Polanco on Friday March 26, 2010
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Isabela, Puerto Rico (March 18, 2010) – AXON Puerto Rico, Inc. (APR), a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney and HCL AXON, today inaugurated its SAP® Services Center in Isabela and announced plans to grow to 300 employees. The Governor of Puerto Rico, Luis Fortuño, made the announcement with executives from both global companies. APR provides SAP® application management, solutions implementation and near-shore delivery and consulting services for projects in the Americas. It serves various business segments, including: defense, government, export markets and private enterprise. Due to the Center’s bilingual capabilities, it also serves the Latin America market. HCL AXON, the biggest global provider of SAP® solutions services, is a division of HCL Technologies, a Business Transformation consultancy that delivers significant value to large, complex organizations through support of SAP® technologies. Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies company (NYSE:UTX).
The new 33,444-square-foot Services Center is located on the property of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) at the Mora Guerrero Industrial Park in Isabela.
“Puerto Rico has unique characteristics that attract this type of businesses from the aerospace sector. First, being Puerto Rico a US territory, we are subject to the same federal regulations. We are also in a strategic position and offer economic and tax incentives that are very attractive to this type of business,” said Hon. Luis Fortuño, Governor of Puerto Rico.
“Puerto Rico enjoys a uniquely attractive position to promote the start-up of new companies in the aerospace sector. Since the end of 2008, the aerospace industry reflects an investment of $18 Million and the creation of 500 direct jobs in Puerto Rico. Our commitment at PRIDCO is to continue to increase the presence of the aerospace sector in the Island, in order to diversify our industrial base and create highly technical and well compensated jobs,” said Javier Vázquez –Morales, Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO).
“Pratt & Whitney is highly committed to Puerto Rico. Our joint venture Infotech Aerospace Services, Inc. currently has 660 employees and AXON Puerto Rico already surpassed the100-job mark. After the goal of 300 high-technology jobs is reached at AXON Puerto Rico, there will be almost 1,000 employees in the Isabela operations. This makes us very proud,” said Rita Peralta, AXON Puerto Rico President.
“We greatly value our partnership with Pratt & Whitney and look forward to a highly successful development of the vision we have created together and which is now a reality at AXON Puerto Rico. This SAP services center is positioned to deliver exactly what the market is looking for,” said Steve Cardell, CEO of HCL AXON.
Chris Beiswenger, Executive Vice President of HCL AXON Americas stated “AXON Puerto Rico is a critical element in serving our Aerospace & Defense customers. The service our customers receive from AXON Puerto Rico is outstanding and the capabilities offered give us a unique position in the marketplace. Our partnership with Pratt & Whitney and our commitment to grow jobs in Puerto Rico are extremely strong.”
About Pratt & Whitney
Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines.
About United Technologies Corporation
United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and building industries.
About HCL AXON
HCL AXON (www.hcl-AXON.com), a division of HCL Technologies, is a business transformation consultancy that delivers significant value to large, complex organizations through the innovative implementation and support of SAP technologies. HCL AXON has over 4,700 of the industry’s most experienced professionals specializing in the delivery of sustained business improvement through technology-enabled transformation programs. HCL AXON's consultants bring in-depth industry expertise alongside best practice functional knowledge to address the strategic, operational, information management and organizational challenges faced by organizations today. HCL AXON is renowned for its global ability to help clients define more ambitious strategies, build more effective organizations and shape more successful futures.
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on ‘transformational outsourcing’, underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of ‘Employee First’ which empowers our 55,688 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 2.5 billion (Rs. 11,833 crores), as on 31st December 2009 (on LTM basis). For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com.
SAP is a trademark of SAP AG.
by Marcos Polanco on Monday March 08, 2010
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SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, March 2, 2010 — Could a single young engineer beat a Fortune 500 company in creating jobs? If that young engineer is Russian-born Sergey Brin dreaming of forming something called “Google,” the answer is Yes.What if geniuses brought their ideas to Puerto Rico when they emigrated to the United States? Advisory firm Spectrum Group intends to make just this happen through a mission to Washington, District of Columbia, March 3-5, 2010 to support the Startup Visa legislation introduced on February 24, 2010 by U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN). The bill would provide a path to U.S. permanent residency (“green card”) to foreign nationals that obtain financing from U.S. investors to create U.S. jobs, including Puerto Rico.
“When Davids are beating Goliaths, attracting global innovators matters more than attracting global investors,” said Spectrum Group Managing Partner Cesar “Tito” Montilla. “With the passage of this bill, we will be able to compete for the best ideas in the world.” The Spectrum Group intends to tap its extensive network of local investors to finance entrepreneurial ventures in sectors where Puerto Rico is globally competitive.
The Startup Visa bill proposes to offer immigrant entrepreneurs a two-year visa if they can show that a qualified U.S. investor is wiling to invest $250,000 into the entrepreneur’s venture. If after two years the immigrant entrepreneur can demonstrate the creation of five jobs, $1,000,000 in investment or $1,000,000 in revenue, they would receive permanent legal resident status. More information about the bill is available at www.startupvisa.com.
“If tomorrow every immigrant entrepreneur took their companies back to their home countries, half of Silicon Valley would shut down instantly,” explained Spectrum Group Partner Marcos Polanco, citing research at the University of California at Berkeley. “The secret to economic development today is that these new companies are creating twice as many jobs as old companies.”
About The Spectrum Group:
The Spectrum Group is an advisory firm that over the past 10 years has raised over $100M in private investment to create over 7,500 jobs in Puerto Rico. The firm anchors a network of over 200 accredited investors and focuses on real estate, industrial, media, biosciences, energy and information technology ventures.
Contact: Marcos Polanco
Partner, The Spectrum Group
Phone: 787-529-5892
Email: marcos@clearshore.us
Source: The Spectrum Group
252 Ponce de León Avenue
Suite 802
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00917
Phone: 787-620-1010
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by Marcos Polanco on Saturday October 17, 2009
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A recent study by the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute found that the island ranks as #41 out of 141 global economies when utilizing the World Bank evaluation methodology. The island's strongest scores came in its assimilation of global technological change (#36) and incentives framework (#37) and weaker in education and human capital (#53).The study aims to spur better data gathering on the key performance indicators and to enable sage policymaking in this mission-critical arena.
by Marcos Polanco on Sunday October 04, 2009
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The government of Puerto Rico has just published its Strategic Model for a New Economy, its economic development blueprint. Fortunately for those of us committed to technological innovation, the Island's definitive participation in the knowledge economy is a fundamental aspect of the plan. Few analysts realize that Puerto Rico has two of the United States' largest engineering schools, and that 25% of the world's biological manufacturing capability resides on the Island…the innovation economy is at hand.Two elements form the axis of the innovation plan: technology-exporting entrepreneurs and R&D-attracting global enterprises. Together, the plan calls for their integration into a soup-to-nuts value chain, from R&D to operations and distribution.
A key infrastructure element to achieve this goal will be the completion of the Science District, a 78-acre R&D center under management by the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust.
An essential funding element will be the Special Fund for Economic Development, managed by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company, and its focus will be on pushing along venture capital investments in technology-driven enterprises.
Finally, the government plans to redefine the role of the University of Puerto Rico, most likely with an emphasis on technology transfer for private sector commercialization; the University is widely seen as an unexploited source of intellectual property.
by Marcos Polanco on Tuesday August 25, 2009
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by Marcos Polanco on Thursday August 20, 2009
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Puerto Rico has been awarded the Caribbean and Central American Country of the Future 2009/10 award by fDi Magazine. In the first year of the combined competition, Puerto Rico marginally grasped first place as the top three countries, including Costa Rica (ranked second) and the Dominican Republic (ranked third), were separated by a mere three points. Puerto Rico achieved not only the top ranking overall, but also the top ranking in the category of business friendliness. The country has the largest number of companies involved in high-tech manufacturing, high-tech services, and knowledge-based sectors in comparison with the rest of the Caribbean and Central American region. More...
by Marcos Polanco on Thursday September 25, 2008
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The incubator Guanajibo Innovation Center in Mayaguez will be anchored by Lockheed Martin Corp., a global aerospace company. Lockheed, which is already collaborating with the University of Puerto Rico in research and development, will establish an internal information-technology service center in Mayagüez for its other global operations. “The concept will be very unique and particular to Puerto Rico: to export technology services from the island. For us, this represents an incredible opportunity to have our engineering and information-systems professionals sharing their knowledge and expertise inside a global company like Lockheed Martin, which is an enormous provider of information technology and systems to the federal government,” said Jaskille. According to the Pridco executive director, Lockheed Martin’s operations at the new center are expected to commence immediately and will employ 61 people, the majority of whom will be professionals educated in engineering and information systems. More...
by Marcos Polanco on Thursday September 25, 2008
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“Honeywell has an incredible projected growth plan for Puerto Rico. It plans to expand into a 150,000-square-foot Pridco building in Aguadilla, which will involve a $16.75 million investment and create up to 868 jobs over five years,” Jaskille said. “A little over a year ago, Honeywell initiated a project in Mayagüez to create 105 jobs; they currently have 200 jobs,” he added. “This is an expansion we have been working on with Honeywell for months.” In Aguadilla, Honeywell will create a microcosm of everything it does as a company: engineering, software, supply chain, project management and contract management. “This is a very important project,” Jaskille said. More...