Aerospace company turns to cloud in $4m HR IT project

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Aircraft parts manufacturer B/E Aerospace is investing more than $4 million in cloud-based HR technology, as it starts to recruit more highly skilled engineers.

The company, which has gone through a rapid expansion, is rolling out HR technology from SuccessFactors to help it recruit and manage a workforce of more than 10,000 people.

The project will give the company a complete view of its workforce force for the first time and will pay for itself in less than a year, said Martin Ratelband, a director for HR at the company.

Never underestimate the business benefits. It means we are able to deliver parts to Boeing on time, then it will pay for itself very quickly, he said in an interview with Computer Weekly.

BE, which has seen its turnover quadruple to 3.4 billion over the past decade, began looking at HR technology in 2011, when it realised it was having difficulty recruiting skilled engineers and supply chain specialists.

Up until that point, the aerospace manufacturer had invested tens of millions in ERP systems to manage its finance and supply chain, but HR technology had been a low priority, said Ratelband, director for global compensation, benefits an HR Information Systems.

Securing funding from the company board was straightforward, he said. BE relies on innovation to stay ahead of its competitors, and that means having the right engineers with the right skills, he said.

We need engineers. We dont have enough, and we need to find them as soon as possible. We need to know where they are in the organisation, so we can use them [effectively]. It really is as simple as that, he said.

Managers love it. They spend a lot of time travelling and at airports, and they can get work done

Martin Ratelband

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NCKU Transnational Research Team Uncovers the Structural Basis for Future Development of Potential Asthma Drugs

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TAINAN, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Department of Microbiology and Immunology Assistant Professor Shu-Ying Wang had her joint multidisciplinary research published in one of the worlds most prestigious academic journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of America (PNAS) recently.

The research article entitled Structural insights into the Interaction of Interleukin 33 (IL-33) with Its Receptors is in fact a joint effort with Beijing Tsinghua University Professors Xinquan Wang and Xi Liu, as well as Michal Hammel and John A. Tainer in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, aiming to explore the molecular mechanism of IL-33 to provide structural basis for developing drugs to treat asthma and other innate immune disease.

The scientific reports in the past have shown that the outbreak and deterioration of hay fever, asthma, allergic rhinitis and other innate immune disease are related to IL-33, according to Wang.

She said, It was found that patients with these diseases have demonstrated higher content of IL-33 than normal people. IL-33 is the newest and the least understood member in the family of IL-1 cytokines. How IL-33 exerts its function to cause allergy and asthma has not yet been clarified.

In our research, we combine the technologies of protein crystallography and small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) that enable us to visualize the high-resolution molecular interactions between IL-33 and its receptors, and discover unprecedented structural information, showing IL-33 receptor ST2 is flexible and exist in different conformation in solution, revealed Wang.

Wang added, The project and collaboration were initiated by Xinquan Wang, who has a keen interest in studying structure-function relationship of IL-1 family of cytokines and has published the very first structure of ternary complex, composed of cytokine, receptor and co-receptor, in Nature Immunology in 2010. In order to truly understand how these molecules function in solution, Xinquan Wang called me to collaborate on this project by using the technique small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS).

Wang says, Rational drug design, which relies on the three-dimensional structure information, plays an important role in expediting the drug development process. By revealing the structural knowledge and understanding of molecular mechanism of IL-33, there will be higher possibility of developing new drugs in the future to effectively cure innate immune diseases.

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eMerchantPay will be exhibiting at the World Travel Market 2013 in London

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - Oct 28, 2013) - eMerchantPay Group, the trusted global leader in international payment processing for e-commerce, alternative solutions, recurring bill payments, virtual terminals and more announced today that the company will exhibit at the leading travel industry tradeshow - the World Travel Market 2013 (4-7 November) at ExCeL - London. eMerchantPay's stand is numbered TT452 at the Travel Tech Show at WTM 2013. Current and potential clients are invited to meet the team and benefit from the latest offers.

eMerchantPay aims at delivering high quality products and services to its customers and constantly develops its core business and new products, while extending its global reach and expertise.

eMerchantPay offers travel solutions that give travelers a wide variety of ways to pay, currencies to choose for payment and ways to manage fraud. Global, regional and country specific brand acceptance along with improved business analysis and management through extensive reporting capitalize on the sound business advice of experienced, dedicated account managers. eMerchantPay's extensive payment forms host international and local cards, bank transfers, cash payments and prepaid cards, e-wallets and e-checks.

"Every year at WTM eMerchantPay's team of professionals justify international image and know-how to current and potential partners. This year again at WTM 2013 eMerchantPay demonstrates its latest developments and offerings," says Daniel Sijes, VP Sales of eMerchantPay.

With more than ten years of experience in helping businesses around the globe, companies can count on eMerchantPay to help them grow and prosper.

For further information or to schedule an appointment at the World Travel Market 2013 taking place 4-7 November in London please email sales@emerchantpay.com.

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eMerchantPay is a trusted global leader for international online payment processing gateway services, with merchant customers in over 40 countries. Moreover, innovative payment solutions offering processing in more than 150 currencies and various languages, plus dedicated account managers providing personal service that is second-to-none make international online payment processing easy, convenient and affordable. Quality, long-term, global banking relationships, plus in-house risk liability and accountability enable eMerchantPay to offer merchant accounts to businesses of all types and sizes, even in high risk situations where approval has previously not been secured.

Founded in 2002, the eMerchantPay Group is a privately held corporation headquartered in Europe with offices in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany and Bulgaria. eMerchantPay Corporation is a member of the Electronic Transactions Association. eMerchantPay Limited is registered as a Payment Institution with Financial Conduct Authority (FCA United Kingdom). The Group's operations in Bulgaria are ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001:2005 certified by Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) and its gateway and solutions are Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Level I compliant.

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European cargo freighter undocks from space station

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Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle backed away from the International Space Station on Monday, firing thrusters to vacate the outpost's safety bubble and begin positioning itself for a destructive re-entry Saturday.

The spaceship's Russian docking system pushed the vehicles apart, then the ATV's rocket jets fired to accelerate its rate of departure, exiting the space station's "keep-out sphere" a few minutes after undocking.

In the minutes before undocking, controllers oversaw the activation of the ATV's flight systems, navigation computer and the unlatching of hooks connecting the European spaceship to the space station.

The undocking marked the end of a 134-day stay at the space station since the ATV arrived June 15 with seven tons of cargo, including food, experiments, spare components, water, oxygen and rocket fuel.

About the size of a London double-decker bus, the ATV was responsible for maintaining the space station's orbit during its four-month mission, boosting the outpost's orbit to counter the minuscule effects of atmospheric drag.

Astronauts replaced the cargo delivered to the space station with trash stowed inside the ATV's pressurized compartment. Liquid waste was pumped inside the ATV's fluid tanks.

Named for Albert Einstein, the ATV carted away 4,761 pounds of refuse for the fall back into the atmosphere, according to NASA.

The undocking cleared the way for three members of the station's six-person crew - Fyodor Yurchikhin, Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano - to relocate their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft to the aft port of the Zvezda module, which was vacated by the ATV's departure.

Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will strap into their Soyuz spacecraft Friday, undock from its current location on the Rassvet module, and fly around to line up for a docking on Zvezda. The activity should take less than 30 minutes.

The Soyuz relocation will clear the way for three more crew members to dock at the space station Nov. 7, just hours after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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ATV-4 ‘Einstein’ Says Goodbye to the Space Station

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by Nancy Atkinson on October 28, 2013

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The Expedition 37 crew onboard the International Space Station closed the hatch and said goodbye to the ATV-4 Albert Einstein cargo ship early this morning, Oct. 28. Europes 4th Automated Transfer Vehicle undocked at 08:55 UTC (4:55 a.m. EDT). The cargo carrier was filled with trash and it will be deorbited on Nov. 2 for a destructive entry back into the Earths atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. ATV-4 has been at the ISS since June 15, delivering more than 7 tons of food, fuel and supplies. Its departure helps prepare for more action at the ISS: the current Soyuz spacecraft docked at the station will be moved to a different location so that a new Soyuz can dock with three new crew members. The Soyuz TMA-11M is scheduled to launch on Nov. 6, 2013 with the Expedition 38/39 crew of Rick Mastracchio, Koichi Wakata, Mikhail Tyurin.

Some images of the undocking, below:

This photo was taken from Japan shorty after the undocking:

The current Expedition 37 crew took this picture inside the ATV-4 before undocking as a tribute to Albert Einstein. Credit: ESA/Luca Parmitano.

ATV-4 backing away from the ISS. Credit: NASA TV.

The ATV-4 is just visible as it passes into Earths terminator. Credit: NASA TV.

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