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LCI is granted Microsoft MCSA certification

LCI is granted Microsoft MCSA certification

After completing its training, LCI was granted Microsoft MCSA certification. This certification validates the theoretical and practical skills acquired by the technicians concerning Microsoft products, especially those in the Windows 2003 Server range. Microsoft MCSA certification is granted upon successful completion of 4 technical tests on Microsoft products; in this case Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2003 Network Service and Windows 2003 Security.

This new certification will helps us to strengthen our relationship with a major IT supplier as well as to provide our customers with a higher level of service quality.

Information Technology

ISO 9001: July 2008: SGS confirms that the Quality Programme initiated in 2007 is off to a good start

ISO 9001: July 2008: SGS confirms that the Quality Programme initiated in 2007 is off to a good start

Following the audit carried out on June 3 2008, the SGS certification organisation confirmed LCI’s ISO 9001 certification.

The originality of LCI’s approach is based on the fact that the management system decided to obtain certification first. In 2009, LCI will be working towards certification for its translation activities, confirming the fact that the example set by management is being followed by the various activity sectors.

Administrative

The LCI/TURBOMECA training centre welcomes its 1,000th trainee

The LCI/TURBOMECA training centre welcomes its 1,000th trainee

Instructional Engineering

LCI is a major player in language training in Brittany

LCI is a major player in language training in Brittany

Linguistics

Pau basketball team gets a new look!

Pau basketball team gets a new look!

For the 2nd season in a row, Elan Béarnais Pau-Orthez, the Pau basketball team, chose LCI to create the new graphic design range. The new designs will be displayed on 4 x 3 panels, in Pau bus stops, and in pre-game advertisements.

Having made a name for themselves in 2005 with the graphic designs used on items sent to club sponsors and partners, LCI's graphic designers and artists highlighted themes such as family and spectators. The design conveys a feel of the atmosphere during big games, when the arena beats to the rhythm of a passion for sports.

Ranking 9th at the end of the 2007–2008 season and a long-term member of the French basketball elite (PRO A), EBPO now hopes to bounce back up and take off with new momentum. Indeed, as decreed by the 2007 slogan composed by LCI, let’s all hope that “after overcoming obstacles, Elan is on its way to the highest peaks”!

Information Technology

New office in Beijing

New office in Beijing

With success spreading internationally, the LCI group has decided to found a new agency in the Chinese capital, Beijing. With its office at the heart of the China Business District (CBD), LCI will be closer to its clients, allowing it to further improve the quality of the services on offer. This new office will serve as a base for winning over the Asian market in general and the Chinese market in particular.

Linguistics

LCI Lannion competes in the Tregor Défi Sportif des Entreprises 2008 (Tregor Business Sports Challenge) (See attached article)

LCI Lannion competes in the Tregor Défi Sportif des Entreprises 2008 (Tregor Business Sports Challenge) (See attached article)

Linguistics

SDL-TRADOS certifies LCI as an Approved Training Centre

SDL-TRADOS certifies LCI as an Approved Training Centre

Linguistics

LCI TRAINING JOINS THE AEROSPACE VALLEY COMPETITIVE CLUSTER

LCI TRAINING JOINS THE AEROSPACE VALLEY COMPETITIVE CLUSTER

• To strengthen our leading global position in the civil aircraft and aviation sector.

• To Confirm our position as European capital of “Space dedicated to serving the Human race”, from satellite design to space applications.

• To reinforce our situation of excellence in the field of embedded systems.

• To become a worldwide reference in matters of training and research.

• To enhance the innovation potential of small businesses and start-up businesses in aeronautics, space, embedded systems.

• To fight potential threats on “supply chain” companies.

Document Engineering

LCI is now a QlikView Partner

LCI is now a QlikView Partner

LCI keeps on growing, and our relationships with our customers keep on growing stronger. In order to accompany them with their reporting and data analysis needs, we are widening our service offer as far as decision-making and data analysis (or “Business Intelligence”) are concerned.
In order to provide the most pertinent answers to our customer's problems, LCI has become a QlikView partner, QlikTech’s flagship product. 

QlikView, the much-rewarded decision analysis solution by QlikTech, works just like the human brain: with just a couple of clicks, it establishes data associations from various sources, providing precise information which may be processed immediately. This patented “in-memory” association concept makes QlikView a quick to learn and easy to edit intuitive tool which is capable of instantaneously analysing billions of records, using low-cost hardware platforms.
Thanks to QlikView’s easy to edit, intuitive interface which may be implemented within less than a week, training users only takes a few minutes.

Information Technology

LCI and Orange R&D labs present ''Language Technology'' indexing and voice synthesis.

LCI and Orange R&D labs present ''Language Technology'' indexing and voice synthesis.

Within the framework of the Science Festival held on 12^th, 13^th  & 14^th  October, LCI will give a presentation at the Science village/centre in Lannion alongside another twenty companies and research laboratories from the region.

In the “Language Technology” area, LCI has chosen to present an automatic document indexing tool which uses natural language processing technologies, alongside Orange R&D Labs who will be demonstrating voice synthesis.

This event is an opportunity to get to know LCI's expertise in the field of NLP. The demonstration will be given by a computational linguist from LCI Lannion, Maité Briselet.

 You can download the programme for this scientific weekend.

Linguistics

LCI Information Technology China opens its doors

LCI Information Technology China opens its doors

A few figures on Tianjin

Tianjin is about 90 miles southeast of Beijing, at the mouth of the Hai He river, near the Bohai sea. It is the largest commercial port in China. The city boasts six million inhabitants and, with the surrounding area, more than ten million.

The Economic and Technological Development Area:

• More than 3900 companies from 65 countries
• Investments have exceeded 25 billion dollars over the past twenty years.

The first Chinese high speed railway connecting Tianjin and Beijing will be operating for the 2008 Olympic Games. The trip will take only 30 minutes.

Information Technology

LCI Rennes moves to better serve its clients

LCI Rennes moves to better serve its clients

To handle its growing turnover and staff, the teams at LCI Rennes left their offices in Saint Grégoire (35) to move to a new, entirely renovated, 450m² location. These offices are located on the Ker Lann campus in Bruz, an area dedicated to training, research and business services.

To properly celebrate this event, a cocktail reception was held on September 21, 2007 attended by many clients, employees, friends and local personalities.

The group Agua Na Boca (http://www.info-groupe.com/aguanaboca/) played Brazilian music and provided a lively atmosphere.

However, it wasn't easy for Agua Na Boca's singers and musicians, who had to endure the shouts of encouragement from the rugby fans watching the France/Ireland World Cup game, which France won (to the utter disappointment of our Irish employees who had to console themselves on the dance floor!)

Linguistics

LCI is expanding to Tianjin in China

LCI is expanding to Tianjin in China

Linguistics

After Chicago and Paris, Laurent GARNIER ran the 2006 New York Marathon in the colors of LCI

After Chicago and Paris, Laurent GARNIER ran the 2006 New York Marathon in the colors of LCI

The New York Marathon is one of the biggest running events in the world, attracting over 37,000 runners from all kinds of backgrounds and nationalities.

Beyond the lucrative prize of over 600,000 US dollars, a fantastic atmosphere created by 2 million spectators lining the course and 315 million watching at home boosted the moral of all those taking part.

Out of the 700,000 who took part in the previous marathons, none of them would deny that crossing the finish line in Central Park is one of the greatest feelings one could ever experience in a lifetime!

More information at www.nycmarathon.org 

Our very own Laurent Garnier, director of one of our instruction engineering centers, once again beat his own marathon record this year with a time of 4 hours 13 minutes and 9 seconds, which was 9 minutes less than his last marathon (Paris, April 2006) and 38 minutes less than the one he ran in Chicago in October 2005!

It is this type of achievement which encapsulates the spirit found in our teams here at LCI: Commitment and performance in action.

Here are a few facts to give you an idea of the sheer size of the New York marathon:

• 42,000 packs of Powerbar Gel (energy bars given to the runners when glycemia levels are low)
• 100 live music acts
• 1.5 million cups of water
• 20 warm-up areas
• 45 official clocks
• 20,400 “TYLENOL 8 hour” tablets (Canadian painkiller)
• 7,800 kilos of ice
• 4,055 rolls of adhesive tape
• 25 first aid posts
• 60 employees all year round
• 2,800 access passes handed out
• a total economic impact of 200 million US Dollars for the 2006 marathon

Instructional Engineering

Inaugural speech for the opening of the Turbomeca / LCI Training Center, on October 19, 2006. By Erik Lebreton

Inaugural speech for the opening of the Turbomeca / LCI Training Center, on October 19, 2006. By Erik Lebreton

I would like to thank the Regional and General councils, the Bayonne Anglet Biarritz area, the elected representatives from Biarritz and Bidart, and finally the representatives from the UIMM (the metallurgy industry union) and the CCI (the Chamber of Commerce and Industry) for their attendance.

For a Breton like me, it is a great honor to be given such a warm welcome in this wonderful part of the Basque country.

Emeric and Erik are now sailing the same ship!!
And you, ladies and gentleman, who share this moment with us, are witnessing the completion of this shared project which our respective teams have planned and built together.

It therefore gives me great pleasure to meet and thank:
Mr. Emeric D’Arcimoles,
Mr. Didier Desnoyer,
Mr. Serge Maillé,
And Mr. Philippe Commet.

It is important that we acknowledge the work of Gérard Brohez, Jean-Louis Mostajo and Rémi Roux the project’s architects and builders who are with us today. Without them this project would not have been possible.

Finally, I would like to thank the crew, without whom this ship could not to complete its present and future missions. These are the people actively working to make this ship operational:

• The Tarnos training center and its instructors.
• The maintenance personnel.
• The industrial security personnel.
• The IT department.
• The purchasing department.
• And Turbomeca external relations.

I don’t believe in luck. I believe in the careful planning of events:

Turbomeca and LCI’s relationship can be traced as far back as 1981, the year LCI obtained its first contract.

It has now been 25 years that Turbomeca has been putting its trust in the men and women at LCI, and today I would like thank and pay tribute to our dear client, who has now become a partner.

Since 1991, the LCI teams and Marc Zanette in particular have been developing training services that have evolved constantly over the years both in design and materials, and the technology that has enabled us to offer these training courses.   

It was in 2002 that Turbomeca first used our training service.

The confidence gained over the last 4 years has led to the fruition of this project, boosted by the various managers who have been faced with an increasing demand by Turbomeca’s clients for quality training.

Coming from all over the world, these clients will be trained in ideal surroundings in a center striving for quality and excellence.

The forecast for the number of training courses to be given is an ambitious one, and will be constantly increasing over the next five years:

• In 2006, 280 courses are scheduled.
• In 2007 = 311
• In 2008 = 359
• In 2009 = 397
• In 2010 = 430

This means that in the next 5 years, the number of training courses given will increase by 50%.

"Flying" better and longer, while reducing costs related to maintenance and fixed assets.

As Emeric stated, this is a key concept and our shared objective enabling us to provide better service for Turbomeca’s clients and particularly for their maintenance teams whose job it is to ensure that these engines are flown in the best conditions of safety and availability and at the right cost.

The Izarbel site and the human, technical and training resources deployed offer trainees innovative training courses which focus on integrating practical aspects into theoretical courses resulting in a qualification complying with the new aeronautical standards.

The Izarbel training center is the cornerstone of which will soon be an even more ambitious project within the aeronautical sector and will be launched at the Ruwel site in Bayonne.

You’ll never be heading in the right direction if you don’t know your destination.
And we know where we’re heading!!!
Our course:
Development, performance and excellence;
Creating value and new employment opportunities.

Our ambition is to create a resources center which will cater to the needs of the future aeronautics pole, to perpetuate know-how and technological developments in the heart of the Basque country.

To achieve this, we will need all your energy and the support from council members and local partners.

I hope this speech hasn’t been too long, but I cannot end it without thanking André Dehondt who I’m sure will be sad to part with his "baby" when he hands the center over to Vincent Coulom.

Vincent is now the man of the moment. His mission will be to do all in his power to best serve our client Turbomeca and assist its development by drawing on the expertise of the LCI workforce and be the driving force in our future projects together.

Document Engineering

LCI Engineering is expanding

LCI Engineering is expanding

Document Engineering