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Press Releases 2008
Mainz, July 21, 2008, Xyna supports WebLogic J2EE Server in the future
Mainz, June 18, 2008, 3rd Xyna Conference of GIP Research Institute on November 25, 2008
Mainz, May 13, 2008, GIP participates at JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge 2008
Mainz, April 14, 2008, Dr. Dietrich Schroff nominated as new Research Fellow
Mainz, March 18, 2008, Success Story: Arcor runs on Xyna Service Factory
Mainz, January 7, 2008, Hiring Campaign in the New Fiscal Year 2008
News Q2 / 2007
Mainz, December 12, 2007, GIP Relocates to New Office as of January 1, 2008
Mainz, December 11, 2007, GIP Makes Donotations to Clown Doctors
Mainz, November 27, 2007, GIP Joins TM Forum
Mainz, November 23, 2007, 2nd Xyna Conference of GIP Research Institute
Mainz, October 18, 2007, GIP supports Charitable Campaign “Water is life”
Mainz, September 25, 2007, 2nd Xyna Conference: Telecommunications 3.0
Mainz, August 10, 2007, GIP supports Vernissage of Artist Joachim Holz
Mainz, July 11, 2007, New release: GIP Supports Oracle® Database 11g
 Xyna supports WebLogic J2EE in the future
Mainz, July 21, 2008
 The acquisition of the Enterprise Application Infrastructure provider BEA Systems by Oracle has its first consequences for the product strategy in the future.
A central modification is the choice of the WebLogic Server as a strategic J2EE platform. The established Oracle Workflow Eninge “BPEL Process Manager” will be integrated in the WebLogic Server and with that a optimal infrastructure will be created.
Even if these decisions will have long-time consequences - support and advancement of the Oracle products will keep up for the next 10 years - the “red edition” of the Xyna Service Factory will focus on the WebLogic Application Server as an infrastructure platform up from version 2.0 (2009).
The infrastructure platform “red edition” for the Xyna Service Factory 2.0 will consist of the following central Oracle products of the Xyna supported basis:
- Oracle database
- Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)
- New: Oracle WebLogic J2EE Application Server
- Oracle BPEL Process Manager
The decision was communicated in a management bulletin to the strategic Xyna customers last week. Therein Dr. Alexander Ebbes, chief architect of the Xyna Service Factory, is satisfied with the decision from Oracle out of the technological prospect.
With the decision to focus on the future strategic products the GIP offers its customers a high degree of planning reliability and a optimal coverage of investment in the future
Further information about Oracle >>
3rd Xyna Conference of GIP Research Institute on November 25, 2008
Mainz, June 18, 2008
 Future Internet
Managing Service Complexity
is the heading of the 3rd Xyna Conference that will be held this year on November 25 in the Kurhaus Wiesbaden, Germany.
The conference will again feature interesting lectures and exciting discussions about the future of communication. This time the focus is on approaches and methods for managing the complexity in Next Generation Networks (NGN).
Further information and the possibility to register are coming soon.
Further information about the 3rd Xyna Conference >>
GIP participates at JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge 2008 in Frankfurt
Mainz, May 13, 2008
 On June 11, 2008 a team of GIP will participate at JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge in Frankfurt. With the attendance at this worldwide largest charity running GIP continues its social engagement in divers areas.
JPMorgan, third largest American bank, creates the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge in 1977 and right from the start the ambition has been to advance social projects. The Challenge is a team running for corporate runners of companies of different industries, public authorities and financial institutions.
In 1993 the running first started in Frankfurt and in 1997, 150 schools in Frankfurt could be pleased to get financial support for their projects. In the last year 135.000 Euros were donated to young handicapped athletes. In this year again the advancement of young handicapped athletes will be supported.
Further information about the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge 2008 >>
Dr. Dietrich Schroff nominated as Research Fellow of the GIP Research Institute
Mainz, April 14, 2008
 Dr. Dietrich Schroff is a Research Fellow of the GIP Research Institute as from April 1, 2008. Dr. Bernd Reifenhäuser, president of the institute, nominated him because of his excellent achievements, skills, and superior commitment in the field of research and development.
Dr. Schroff awards his PhD with a study for the ATLAS-experiment at the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN). Thereby he performed Monte-Carlo simulations of high energy processes which require huge I/O and CPU capacities. Results could only be realized through the use of complex computer clusters.
At GIP Research Institute his main research activities lie on the aspects of high availability and scalability of server systems for Xyna Service Factory as well as on the modelling of business processes for smart service automation.
Dr. Schroff is a member of the German Physical Society (DPG) and the German Society of Computer Science (Gesellschaft für Informatik, GI). He is also an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP).
Further information about the GIP Research Institute >>
Success Story: Arcor runs on Xyna Service Factory
Mainz, March 18, 2008
 With a turnover of more than 2,1 billion Euros (FY 2006/2007), Arcor is the #1 of the alternative telecommunication providers. Arcor offers a wide spectrum of voice, internet and data services for private and business customers over its wide area voice and data network
Since 1996 GIP Exyr, leading supplier for workflow-based service automation solutions in convergent IP networks, develops with Arcor the provisioning platform for complex business customer products.
In 2005 GIP Exyr won the NGN tender process for the provisioning of the innovative triple play private customer services of Arcor. Nowadays, the Xyna Service Factory provision at Arcor the internet, VoIP with ISDN emulation and IP-TV with a high availability of 99,999%.
Xyna Service Factory >>
Hiring Campaign in New Fiscal Year 2008
Mainz, January 14, 2008
 GIP enters the new fiscal year 2008 with a hiring campaign for new staff in the fields of “Xyna Service Factory” software development and consulting
Firstly, this is necessary to accommodate the ongoing positive business development, and secondly, the extensive possibilities of the new office offer new staff development perspectives.
Thus, 2008 will see a continuation of the strong sustained company growth over the past years. Motivated graduates / newcomers, young professionals, and experienced specialists can either apply for a specific posted job or submit an initiative application with full profile details
Career at GIP >>
GIP Relocates to New Office as of January 1, 2008
Mainz, December 12, 2007
 The previous office is no longer able to keep pace with the continuous, sustained success of GIP, an innovative manufacturer of smart service platforms for the telecommunications industry on the basis of the Xyna Service Factory.
For this resason, the company will relocate to a new office in south Mainz, which is only about 20 minutes’ drive from the Rhine / Main airport, as of January 1, 2008. The central railway station in Mainz is still in close reach.
The new address is as follows:
GIP AG
GIP Research Institute
GIP Exyr GmbH, GIP SmartMercial GmbH, GIP BrainMission GmbH
Heinrich-von-Brentano-Straße 2
55130 Mainz
Germany
- Our staff members’ previous telephone and fax numbers remain unchanged.
Location >>
GIP Makes Donation to Clown Doctors
Mainz, December 11, 2007
 This year, too, GIP supports the Clown Doctors Association with a generous donation. With the help of the donations, the Clown Doctors are able to make approximately 900 visits to pediatric hospitals every year.
The purpose of these visits is to minimize the traumatic effect the hospital stay has on children and to assist them in the recovery process.
For further information on the association and how you too can make a donation, visit the Web site of the Clown Doctors.
Clown Doktoren e.V. >>
GIP Joins TM Forum
Mainz, November 27, 2008
 GIP AG, provider of innovative BSS / OSS solutions for the telecommunications industry and manufacturer of the Xyna Service Factory, has joined the Telemanagement Forum (TM Forum).
The TM Forum is a globally active industry forum for the telecommunications industry. The member companies of the TM Forum represent more than 90 percent of the world’s largest service providers, the largest providers of telecommunications hardware and software, and leading system integrators. The strategic goal of the TM forum is to inform decision makers on how suitable processes and systems can be used to drastically cut costs and substantially improve business flexibility.
Libbey Scheible, Vice President Member Services, TM Forum: "The TM Forum is very pleased to welcome GIP AG as a member. With their expertise in Operation Support Systems and Business Support Systems, we feel they will make a positive contribution to the work of the TM Forum and our industry."
Further information about the TM Forum, its program, and the TeleManagement World is available at
www.tmforum.org.
TM Forum >>
2nd Xyna Conference of GIP Research Institute Ends with Great Success
Mainz, November 23, 2007
 The 2nd Xyna Conference of the GIP Research Institute was an all-out success. This years topic “Telecommunications 3.0” attracted the keen interest of about 100 customers, partners, and guests of GIP from the telecommunications industry.
The various lectures held during the days covered the subjects “Future Internet”, “Web 2.0 / Web 3.0”, and “Telecommunications of the Future”.
Dr. Bernd Reifenhäuser, Director of the GIP Research Institute, outlined the fractal telecommunications factory as starting point for addressing the challenges of future Next Generation Networks and the complex services involved. The further development of the Xyna Service Factory will incorporate this approach in the architecture in upcoming product versions.
Jürgen Salzmann, Business Development Manager at Cisco, presented the concept of network abstraction as a component of future telco factories. Using a virtualization and abstraction layer between the network and service applications (such as the Xyna Service Factory), complexity can be reduced considerably, and the flexibility in connection with the introduction of new services can be increased substantially.
Martin Jeske, Business Development Manager at Sun Microsystems, presented the “Wonderland, Inc.” project of the Sun Laboratories with impressive images and video sequences. Wonderland is an experimental 3D / Web 2.0 world that demonstrates collaborative scenarios of the corporate communication of tomorrow.
Gorsel Baksi, Alliance Manager at Oracle, disclosed the future strategy in the telecommunications industry. Apart from scenarios and roadmaps exclusively presented at this level of detail at the Xyna Conference, he presented an elaborated business case that demonstrated the perfect interaction between service creation, billing, and provisioning.
Finally, Berthold Butscher, Deputy of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) presented the new “Open SOA Telco Playground”. This functional demonstration environment shows the trend-setting integration of Internet-based Web 2.0 services and a telco IMS environment as well as “hybrid” services based on these, which contributed a number of concrete application scenarios to the subject of the “Future Internet” conference.
The subsequent get-together at the Hyatt m-Bar provided all participants with a fine opportunity to socialize and engage in intensive, active exchange.
Download conference lectures and impressions >>
GIP Supports Charitable Campaign “Water Is Life”
Mainz, October 18, 2007
 With the sponsoring support of GIP, the sports club SC Neptun 1894 e.V. Alzey was able to collect donations of EUR 500 for refugees in Darfur on October 6.
By means of this and other charitable swimming events, the Mainz-based aid organization Human Help Network supports refugees in Darfur in collaboration with the Catholic Don Bosco order. In this way, the association’s swimmers, aged 6 to 55, did their part in enabling these and other donations to be used to purchase a water tank for carrying fresh water to the refugee camps in the region on a daily basis.
The total distance covered amounted to 68.98 km. The longest individual swimming distance was 5 km.
Website of SC Neptun 1894 e.V. Alzey >>
2nd Xyna Conference of GIP: The Fractal Factory - Telecommunications 3.0
Mainz, September 25, 2007
Updated: October 8, 2007
Following last year’s successful 1st Xyna Conference of GIP, the 2nd Xyna Conference will be held this year on November 22 in Mainz, Germany. Under the heading “The Fractal Factory - Telecommunications 3.0”, the conference will again feature interesting lectures and exciting discussions about the future of communication.
This year too, the main sponsor of the conference is ORACLE, on whose infrastructure the “red edition” of the Xyna Service Factory is based. The support of the conference reflects the successful and close partnership between ORACLE and GIP. Sun Microsystems, a new sponsor, will shed light on the further development of Web 2.0 in enterprise developments with their lecture “Holodeck Instead of Coffee Kitchen”.
Apart from a lecture by Dr. Bernd Reifenhäuser, Director of the GIP Research Institute, keynotes will be held by ORACLE, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, and the Berlin-based Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute. The conference will end with a relaxing get-together at the specialty buffet. This year too, participation in the conference is free of charge for customers, partners, and prospective buyers of GIP.
Further information >>
GIP supports Vernissage of Artist Joachim Holz
Mainz, August 10, 2007
 GIP sponsors the vernissage and exhibition of the graphic designer, illustrator, and creative artist Joachim Holz from Mainz, which will open to the public within the scope of the intermezzo series of the Mainz Iron Tower Art Association on September 28, 2007.
With this event, GIP continues its support of local art. Selected works of Joachim Holz are permanently on display at the GIP office facilities.
Further information >>
New release: GIP supports Oracle® Database 11g
Mainz, Juli 11, 2007
 Henceforth, GIP will support the new Oracle Database 11g. As a Certified Partner in the Oracle Partner Network, the new database will be used in the implementation of the Xyna Service Factory. The Oracle software forms the basis for Xyna Service Warehouse and Xyna Intelligence. The use of Oracle 11g reinforces the innovative features of the Xyna Factory Departments Xyna Service Warehouse and Xyna Intelligence.
Willie Hardie, Vice President of Database Product Marketing of Oracle, describes the advantages of the new Oracle® Database 11g as follows:
"Oracle Database 11g will help customers to change their systems faster and raise the quality of service standard across the board for all types of database applications," so Willie Hardie, vice president of Database Product Marketing von Oracle. "Our partners can easily take advantage of the new features in Oracle Database 11g in their solutions and help customers benefit from leading-edge technology innovations from both Oracle and our partners."
Further information >>
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