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Avaap Awarded Infor Alliance Partner of the Year for Second Consecutive Year
Published: Thursday, November 5, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireEDISON, N.J., Nov. 05, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avaap, among the fastest growing Infor Alliance Partners, announced today that it is a recipient of the Infor 2015 Alliance Partner of the Year award. Infor unveiled the award at Infor Next, its regional customer conference held October 14-15 in San Diego.
Avaap received an Infor Alliance Partner of the Year award for the second time for achieving the highest year-over-year growth in license revenue influenced by an alliance partner. Infor has more than 50 alliance partners globally, representing a network of systems integration companies that have invested in becoming proficient in implementing Infor solutions.
“Avaap is an Infor-only alliance partner working closely with our services organization to provide critical consulting and implementation support for joint customers, in healthcare and other industries” said Jeff Abbott, senior vice president, Global Alliances at Infor. “A consistent record of achievement has earned Avaap Partner of the Year status for multiple years, demonstrating the value and commitment they bring to customers who rely on Infor software for financial, supply chain and human resource management.”
Avaap was also recognized in 2014 as an Alliance partner of the Year and in 2013 as Infor’s Services Partner of the Year for its commitment to excellence through innovation and thought leadership that supported joint business goals.
“Infor has a proven model for strategic partnerships, enabling Avaap to grow while bringing quality software services to our joint customers,” said Dhiraj Shah, president and CEO of Avaap. “We will continue to invest in resources, technology and talent that optimize the Infor investment while delivering outcome-based results to customers as they implement or upgrade Infor software, on premise or in the cloud. The Partner of the Year designation is important as it reflects our continued dedication to excellence towards our customers, Infor, and our employees.”
About Avaap
Headquartered in Edison, N.J. with a global center of excellence in Chennai, India, Avaap is the largest North American Infor-only IT services and software development firm with deep industry expertise in equipment rentals and sales, healthcare, public sector, manufacturing and distribution, food and beverage, and retail/fashion. Avaap delivers Infor-specific software solutions and IT services for successful business outcomes, technology optimization and operational excellence. Avaap’s portfolio of JumpStart solutions accelerate technology installations and are designed to help customers achieve the fastest value from their Infor software investments. Avaap has earned numerous industry accolades, including being named on Computerworld’s list of 100 Best Places to Work in IT in 2014 and 2015; recipient of Infor’s Alliance Partner of the Year award in 2014 and 2015; 2013 Infor Service Partner of the Year; five year honoree on the Inc. 500 and recipient of NJBIZ 50 Fastest Growing Companies 2015. For more information, visit www.avaap.com.
About Infor
Infor is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping 73,000 customers in more than 200 countries and territories improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, and with an innovative user experience design that is simple, transparent, and elegant. Infor provides flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.
CONTACT: Contact:Melissa Prusher 732-710-3425 Melissa.prusher@avaap.com
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Edgewater Sets Record Date for Proposed Consent Solicitation
Published: Thursday, November 5, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireWAKEFIELD, Mass., Nov. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Edgewater Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:EDGW), a leading consulting firm that helps business leaders drive transformational change through its unique selection of business and technology services and specialized product-based solutions, today announced that its Board of Directors has set the close of business on November 13, 2015 as the record date for purposes of determining the stockholders eligible to consent in writing to the consent solicitation being undertaken by Lone Star Value Investors, LP and certain of its affiliates.
About Edgewater
Edgewater (NASDAQ:EDGW) helps business leaders drive transformational change through its unique selection of business and technology services and specialized product-based solutions.
Classic consulting disciplines (such as business advisory, process improvement, organizational change management, M&A due diligence, and domain expertise) are blended with technical services (such as digital transformation, technical roadmaps, data and analytics services, custom development, and system integration) to help organizations get the most out of their existing IT assets while creating new digital business models.
Delivering both on premise and in the cloud, Edgewater partners with Oracle and Microsoft to offer Business Analytics, BI, ERP, and CRM solutions. Edgewater Ranzal, an Oracle Platinum Consulting Partner, provides Business Analytics solutions leveraging Oracle EPM, BI, and Big Data technologies. As an award-winning Microsoft partner, Edgewater Fullscope delivers Dynamics AX ERP, Business Intelligence, and CRM solutions, with a specialty in manufacturing.
Additional Information
In connection with the consent solicitation initiated by Lone Star Value Investors, LP, the Company may file a consent revocation statement and other documents regarding the Lone Star proposals with the SEC and may mail a consent revocation statement and a consent revocation card to each stockholder of record entitled to deliver a written consent with respect to the Lone Star proposals. STOCKHOLDERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ ANY CONSENT REVOCATION STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. The final consent revocation statement, if any, may be mailed to stockholders. Investors and security holders will be able to obtain the documents free of charge at the SEC's website, www.sec.gov, from Edgewater at its website, www.edgewater.com, or 200 Harvard Mill Square, Suite 210, Wakefield, Massachusetts 01880, Attention: Corporate Secretary.
Participants in Solicitation
The Company and its directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of consent revocations in connection with the Lone Star proposals. Information concerning the Company's participants is set forth in the proxy statement, dated April 22, 2015, for its 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders as filed with the SEC on Schedule 14A. Additional information regarding the interests of participants of the Company in any solicitation of consent revocations in connection with the Lone Star proposals and other relevant materials, if any, will be filed with the SEC when they become available.
CONTACT: INVESTOR CONTACT: Edgewater Technology, Inc. Timothy R. Oakes Phone: 781-246-6984 E-mail: toakes@edgewater.com MEDIA CONTACT: Sard Verbinnen & Co Bryan Locke / Debbie Miller Phone: (312) 895-4700 E-mail: blocke@sardverb.com / dmiller@sardverb.com
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Varonis Adds Proactive Analytics and Predictive Threat Models to Help Stop Data Breaches
Published: Thursday, November 5, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireNEW YORK, Nov. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRNS), the leading provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data, today announced beta availability of an unprecedented set of predictive threat models that can be used to analyze and detect everything from insider threats and outsider attacks to CryptoLocker infections and suspicious behavior.
Version 6.2.5 of the industry-leading Varonis Metadata Framework platform includes major enhancements to Varonis DatAlert, one of the most widely used solutions for monitoring unstructured data – which is typically the largest, most valuable and most sensitive type of data and is therefore the target of most attacks. The new capabilities represent the most advanced analytics and predictive threat models available to help organizations stem the rising tide of data breaches that are caused or exacerbated by previously undetected insider access and behavior, such as compromise of privileged accounts and privilege abuse.
The new capabilities in Varonis Metadata Framework version 6.2.5 include:
- Dozens of new automated threat models for Varonis DatAlert to provide advanced behavioral alerts on access anomalies and suspicious activity
- Enhanced ability for Varonis DatAdvantage to analyze metadata and automatically discover critical assets, noteworthy people and normal activity, establishing a baseline of behavior
- The ability for Varonis DatAdvantage to more accurately identify unusual behavior with machine learning algorithms and behavioral threat models
Customer Perspective
Enovos, a leading energy supplier for multiple countries in Europe, takes its responsibilities very seriously when it comes to protecting its data. Varonis' new analysis capabilities are helping Enovos enhance data security by analyzing past user activity, building additional behavior baselines and spotting more unusual activity. "This is a welcome advance, and will certainly help us detect future insider threats more quickly," the company said.
Analyst Perspective
Doug Cahill, Senior Analyst for CyberSecurity at Enterprise Strategy Group, said, "One of the challenges organizations face when they deploy various kinds of security sensors is that the sheer volume of meaningless alerts and false positives often forces them to cry uncle and turn off the alerts, reserving them for use only in known threat situations and eliminating their proactive effects. By analyzing months of activity, Varonis can help companies define the baseline for normal user activity and then deploy the new automated threat models for contextual and thus meaningful and actionable alerts. Such behavioral-based anomaly detection is a real advance in the burgeoning field of user behavior analytics."
Partner Perspective
Sam Cattle, Security Architect and Consulting Manager for Rolta AdvizeX, a Varonis partner, said, "We're very excited about the new DatAdvantage and DatAlert capabilities, and we're sure our customers will find these updates invaluable. Bottom line, the amount of unstructured data our customers deal with isn't slowing down. This data is more sensitive than ever, and the chance of a breach happening has never been greater than it is today. That said, our customers need a solution that will help them to dig even more deeply into their metadata for greater insight, monitors and alerts on suspicious user behavior, unusual patterns of data access, and other signs of risk from their employees and beyond. We look forward to working with our customers to introduce and implement the new Varonis updates."
Varonis CEO Perspective
Yaki Faitelson, Varonis Co-Founder and CEO, said, "By now it is understood that protecting the perimeter of your network can no longer be the primary focus of a comprehensive security strategy. Organizations must gather, analyze and act on real-time knowledge of the relationships between users and data. Your analysis can only be as good as the metadata you're analyzing, and Varonis has more and better metadata than any other company that deals with unstructured data. We have been collecting and analyzing metadata for nearly 4,000 customers over the past decade. Our newest innovations provide a level of automation that has never been available, including pre-built threat models against advanced behavioral baselines. We will continue to create new threat models based on user behavior and add to our inside-out security capabilities.
Faitelson continued, "It is clear that organizations cannot reverse or even slow the trend of cybersecurity disasters – which threaten their ability to conduct business – without having Varonis as a core component of their infrastructure."
With new threat models based on user behavior, Varonis will bring unprecedented insight and equip organizations with the ability to detect and prevent potentially devastating data breaches. Until now, Varonis DatAlert allowed IT and security administrators to flag suspicious activity based on static conditions. The new Varonis 6.2.5 expands this capability by including pre-built threat models and adaptive baselines that evolve over time. Varonis UBA threat models can perform much deeper analytics on the metadata that its solutions have already been capturing in a decade of deployment. The accuracy enabled by such threat models will lead to more operationally efficient detection and allow for greater visibility, as more sensors, behaviors, and the events they generate can be used in combatting threats.
For more information on Varonis' solution portfolio, please visit www.varonis.com and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
About Varonis
Varonis is the leading provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data. Varonis provides an innovative software platform that allows enterprises to map, analyze, manage and migrate their unstructured data. Varonis specializes in human-generated data, a type of unstructured data that includes an enterprise's spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations, audio files, video files, emails, text messages and any other data created by employees. This data often contains an enterprise's financial information, product plans, strategic initiatives, intellectual property and numerous other forms of vital information. IT and business personnel deploy Varonis software for a variety of use cases, including data governance, data security, archiving, file synchronization, enhanced mobile data accessibility and information collaboration. As of September 30, 2015, Varonis had approximately 4,000 customers, spanning leading firms in the financial services, public, healthcare, industrial, energy & utilities, technology, consumer and retail, education and media & entertainment sectors.
CONTACT: Mark Fredrickson CTP 617-412-4000 x274 mfredrickson@ctpboston.com
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SplendidCRM Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary With Ultimate Edition
Published: Thursday, November 5, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireRALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 05, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SplendidCRM Software, Inc., a pioneering provider of Microsoft-centric Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions, is celebrating its 10 year anniversary by releasing version 10 of its namesake product.
New in all editions of SplendidCRM version 10 is an Activity Stream system that uses a database-centric approach to efficiently creating a detailed stream of changes to a record. All core modules are supported in the Activity Stream system as well custom modules. “When compared to its nearest rival, SplendidCRM has always had a technically superior design, with its data-driven approach to layouts and database-centric approach to auditing. We have now taken a similar approach to create the Activity Streams,” said Paul Rony, President and Founder of SplendidCRM Software, Inc.
Also new to all editions is the Seven theme, which makes better use of the space and provides a preview panel. The new theme leverages the Activity Streams to place key information for users front-and-center and it adds a bit of color to provide quick visual clues to the type of data being displayed.
With version 10, SplendidCRM is introducing a new Ultimate Edition that includes an Azure deployment system for software developers. “We are migrating our SplendidCRM Live customers to Microsoft Azure with an integrated management system built into SplendidCRM and with thought that other software publishers might want a similar system,” said Paul Rony. “By leveraging Azure’s regional data centers, we are able to bring the hosting servers closer to the customer, regardless of their location in the world.”
As part of the migration to Azure, the per-user pricing has been separated from the hosting fees to give the customers a choice of service levels based on their desired performance. No other CRM vendor provides this level of granularity with respect to region and service level.
SplendidCRM 10.0 can be evaluated at http://eval.splendidcrm.com.
About SplendidCRM Software, Inc.
Founded in 2005, SplendidCRM Software provides a Microsoft-centric open-source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application that enables users to leverage their existing Microsoft infrastructure. The company is located in the Research Triangle, North Carolina, and is privately held. To learn more about SplendidCRM, email sales@splendidcrm.com or visit http://www.splendidcrm.com.CONTACT: Contact: Paul RonyEmail: sales@splendidcrm.comPhone: 919-617-1258
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Frost & Sullivan Names Amdocs Latin American Mobile Financial Services Company of the Year
Published: Thursday, November 5, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireST. LOUIS, Nov. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced that analyst firm Frost & Sullivan has honored Amdocs with its 2015 Latin American Mobile Financial Services Company of the Year Award.
The Frost & Sullivan award letter states that the Amdocs Mobile Financial Services solution "differentiates itself from other competitors in the mobile space because it can provide much more than a payment gateway. … Amdocs' innovative solution is a technological enabler for economic growth in emerging markets, allowing consumers to gain access to financial services previously impossible, and merchants and banks an opportunity to achieve new revenue streams from a previously unserved market segment."
"Amdocs' strong software development process, business process expertise, and innovative fraud prevention system is likely to give the Latin American mobile payments ecosystem the chance it needs to reach greater mainstream adoption," said Ben Gresham, Best Practices research analyst, Information & Communication Technology, Frost & Sullivan.
"This Frost & Sullivan Award provides independent validation of our approach to mobile financial services and the important benefits they bring to un- and underbanked people around the world," said Patrick McGrory, division president for Amdocs emerging offerings. "According to market research, 2 billion people in the world do not have a bank account1, yet an estimated 1.7 billion do have access to a mobile phone2. This represents a huge market opportunity for network operators and banks, and one which does not end with financial inclusion of the unbanked. The convenience and speed of mobile financial services are attractive to everyone in The New World of Customer ExperienceTM, a world in which customers expect new types of services that bring immediate value to their lives. This is further validated in recent independent research3, with new innovative use cases identified as the drivers behind the next phase of mobile financial services growth."
Amdocs launched its Mobile Financial Services solution in 2014. The solution enables mobile network operators, banks, and other financial institutions to drive adoption of financial services delivered over feature phones or smartphones, addressing the fundamental need of unbanked and under-banked populations worldwide for accessible and affordable banking services.
1 World Bank, http://go.worldbank.org/72MAKHBAM0
2 CGAP, http://www.cgap.org/topics/mobile-banking
3 Amdocs-commissioned Ovum research, "What consumers want", Sept 2014
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About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world's largest communications, entertainment and media service providers. Its portfolio powers The New World of Customer Experience™, where a wide array of innovative and personalized services are delivered seamlessly to end users, regardless of device or network. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions, which include BSS, OSS, network control and optimization, coupled with professional and managed services, have accelerated business value for its customers by streamlining complex operating environments, reducing costs and speeding time to market for new products and services. Amdocs and its more than 24,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2014.
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For more information, visit Amdocs at www.amdocs.com.
Amdocs' Forward-Looking Statement
This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs' growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs' ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 filed on December 8, 2014 and our quarterly 6-K form furnished on February 9, May 11 and August 10, 2015.
CONTACT: Media Contact: Sara Preto Fusion PR for Amdocs Tel: +1-212-651-4214 E-Mail: sara.preto@fusionpr.com
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VisionMonitor Aviation Participates in PROSPERO Final Dissemination Event
Published: Thursday, November 5, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireHOUSTON, Nov. 05, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VisionMonitor Aviation LLC., a leading developer of enterprise wide software solutions, recently participated in the PROSPERO final dissemination event at Trinity College, Dublin. PROSPERO, short for (PROactive Safety PERformance for Operations) is a European 7th Framework project running from 2012 through 2015 and comprises 14 partner organizations across 7 countries. The consortium includes end-users, industry representatives, SMEs and academic partners.
A video accompanying this release can be found here: http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/2c9bdff2-f10f-42a2-98ed-bcb5ec8458a7
VisionMonitor Software serves as the data collection, integration and centralization component of the PROSPERO system. During the dissemination event, VisionMonitor demonstrated how data is automatically collected from various operational systems in order to calculate “Acceptable Levels of Safety” for normal operations at both airlines and airports. This type of data aggregation and performance monitoring specifically serves to break down information silos and transforms the raw data collected into Safety Information. “In order to understand the source of variance in operations, we have to integrate data from multiple sources across the organization” stated Professor Nick McDonald (PROSPERO Project Coordinator) from Trinity College. “We must then use this information to manage risk proactively, preventively, and systemically.” For the Safety Director, real-time safety performance monitoring with VisionMonitor and Prospero is an innovation that allows the organization to move from a reactive to a proactive mode of operation and quickly adapt in a dynamically changing environment. Morten Ydalus, Safety Director for Norwegian Air commented “We have implemented the VisionMonitor component of the Prospero system at Norwegian in order to monitor SPIs in real-time. This has meant a huge change to our company, as we are now able to initiate corrections as risks emerge. The system creates a positive impact on how we do business in Norwegian”.
About VisionMonitor Aviation, LLC (VMA):VMA is a subsidiary company of VisionMonitor Software, LLC (www.visionmonitor.com), which was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. VisionMonitor was originally formed to provide energy companies enterprise wide software solutions for managing their environmental performance. The organization has since expanded into the Aviation industry with the input and support of leading Aviation safety experts and major aviation companies. VisionMonitor solutions are in use by major companies representing the Aviation, Energy, Petrochemical, Refining and Utility industries. (www.visionmonitoraviation.com)
CONTACT: Contact: Ramon West(rwest@visionmonitor.com)Phone: (713) 935-0500 Ext. 311
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Gemalto recognized in Gartner's Market Guide for Issuer Tokenization
Published: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireAMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Nov. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, has been recognized as a Representative Vendor for its issuer tokenization solution in Gartner's industry Market Guide. Gemalto's experience in mobile industries and global financial services, makes it a primary go-to-market brand for issuer tokenization to secure mobile payment transactions. Gemalto's solution allows credit and debit cards to be securely loaded into mobile devices in real-time and simplifies the enrollment of card portfolios for banks and their issuing partners.
The tokenization solution is fully integrated into Gemalto's Allynis Trusted Services Hub (TSH). The hub enables token provisioning services to any mobile security framework. These frameworks include HCE and TEE, device manufacturer or mobile operator-based Secure Elements. Available in software-as-a-service (SaaS) mode or as a licensed platform, Gemalto TSH with tokenization provides flexible mobile payment deployment options for issuers, processors and domestic networks.
"We appreciate Gartner's recognition of Gemalto's role and market strategy in the emerging tokenization landscape. We strive to provide adaptable security levels for consumer protection across payments and other industries," said Jean-Claude Deturche, Senior Vice President of Mobile Financial Services at Gemalto. "Tokenization is a powerful new technology that can help every issuer easily deliver user-friendly and secure mobile payment services to their customers."
1 Gartner, Market Guide for Issuer Tokenization, Sandy Shen, June 2015
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About Gemalto
Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO) is the world leader in digital security, with 2014 annual revenues of €2.5 billion and blue-chip customers in over 180 countries.
Gemalto helps people trust one another in an increasingly connected digital world. Billions of people want better lifestyles, smarter living environments, and the freedom to communicate, shop, travel, bank, entertain and work – anytime, everywhere – in ways that are enjoyable and safe. In this fast moving mobile and digital environment, we enable companies and administrations to offer a wide range of trusted and convenient services by securing financial transactions, mobile services, public and private clouds, eHealthcare systems, access to eGovernment services, the Internet and internet-of-things and transport ticketing systems.
Gemalto's unique technology portfolio - from advanced cryptographic software embedded in a variety of familiar objects, to highly robust and scalable back-office platforms for authentication, encryption and digital credential management - is delivered by our world-class service teams. Our 14,000 employees operate out of 99 offices, 34 personalization and data centers, and 24 research and software development centers located in 46 countries.
For more information visit www.gemalto.com, www.justaskgemalto.com, blog.gemalto.com, or follow @gemalto on Twitter.
CONTACT: Gemalto media contacts: Philippe Benitez North America +1 512 257 3869 philippe.benitez@gemalto.com Ernesto Haikewitsch Latin America +55 11 5105 9220 ernesto.haikewitsch@gemalto.com Peggy Edoire Europe & CIS +33 4 42 36 45 40 peggy.edoire@gemalto.com Kristel Teyras Middle East & Africa +33 1 55 01 57 89 kristel.teyras@gemalto.com Vivian Liang (Greater China) +86 1059373046 vivian.liang@gemalto.com Pierre Lelievre Asia Pacific +65 6317 3802 pierre.lelievre@gemalto.com
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QuickMobile Redefines The Event App User Experience with New Mobile Interface
Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireVANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QuickMobile, the global leader in enterprise mobile meeting and event apps, today released a new user interface for its mobile app and analytics platform. The new UI recognizes the maturity of the app market and addresses one of the biggest barriers to enterprise mobile app adoption by redefining the user experience. The interface includes a completely redesigned look and feel, enhanced features to improve navigation and interaction with app content, and a new mobile framework for greater cross-platform consistency and development efficiencies.
"We have had tremendous success with our current UI and mobile event app platform with many of our customers experiencing over 100 percent adoption rates of their event apps," said Craig Brennan, CEO of QuickMobile. "Mainstream consumer apps continuously raise the bar on user experience, and expectations quickly carry over to meeting and event apps. We've once again redefined the user experience from the ground up and made our UI even more captivating and user-friendly."
User Experience Drives Adoption
According to enterprise mobility provider Kony, 50 percent of enterprise mobile apps fail because of poor user experience, while SAP found that 78 percent of enterprise apps are abandoned after the first use. The most successful apps are created with the end user in mind, and this applies equally to business use cases. If corporate apps are not intuitive and fail to deliver the intended benefits, then adoption suffers, often with fatal consequences.
"Despite the proliferation of mobile around the world, companies must realize that putting the user first will have significant impact on mobile app adoption," said Brennan. "Unfortunately, the user experience for enterprise apps, for the most part, has been disappointing, and therefore a major obstacle for the B2B market. Today's users are accustomed to elegant and well-designed consumer apps that deliver great experiences. Their expectations don't change when they switch to a corporate app, so our new UI helps our clients keep pace with what people are used to using every day. Our commitment to the user experience is part of what makes us a leader in mobility for events and a key reason for our success in the enterprise space."
Feature-rich, Visually Appealing User Experience
In addition to a new layout and design, QuickMobile has included a number of updates that will simplify and enhance navigation while making data gathering and sharing easier. Among the updates are:
- Style changes and feature updates that make content easier to read, navigate, search and favorite;
- Extended search capabilities. Results will come from every component within the app, including attendee profiles, documents, exhibitors, schedule, sponsors, etc.;
- New survey interface to make surveys easier to read and complete;
- Updated gamification interface with enhanced leaderboard that includes attendee photos; and
- More consistent layout and design between iOS and Android operating systems.
Brennan added, "In the event space, apps help attendees quickly find and share information while driving a positive reflection on the brand. Our new UI sets new standards through a more appealing, feature-rich user experience that maintains the flexibility and brandability our customers have come to expect."About QuickMobile
QuickMobile deepens the value of meetings and events with mobile apps that engage and delight audiences. QuickMobile's enterprise mobile app and analytics platform creates an always-on communication channel that allows event owners to increase attendee participation, build loyalty and generate revenue through richer experiences. By fully leveraging the capabilities of QuickMobile's mobile and social solutions, customers can extend events into yearlong conversations and build lasting relationships with their audiences. QuickMobile's head office is located in Vancouver, Canada. For more information, visit www.quickmobile.com. Follow QuickMobile on Twitter @quickmobile.
Photos accompanying this release are available at:
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=37229
http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=37230CONTACT: Kevin Wilson 513-898-1008 kevin@crossborderpr.com Susie Reeves 650-520-1005 susie@crossborderpr.com
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BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization Certified for Hadoop Big Data Environments
Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireHOUSTON, Oct. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BMC, the global leader in software solutions for IT, today announced that its TrueSight Capacity Optimization solution is certified for integration on both Cloudera Enterprise and Hortonworks Hadoop environments. The integration enables digital enterprises to accurately plan for and maximize their investment in the Hadoop IT infrastructure resources they need to quickly deploy Big Data applications and ensure ongoing service delivery.
Digital enterprises are increasingly using Big Data to secure business insights that deliver a competitive advantage. According to a recent IDC forecast, the Big Data technology and services market will grow at a 26.4 percent compound annual growth rate to $41.5 billion through 2018, or about six times the growth rate of the overall information technology market.
BMC's TrueSight Capacity Optimization solution is available for Hadoop capacity management, enabling enterprises to automate the planning and management of the growth and use of their Hadoop compute, storage and network resources. With this knowledge, organizations can accurately plan capital expenditures and optimize their infrastructure investment for their Hadoop projects, as well as ensure that Hadoop clusters have the resources needed to support current and future application workloads and reduce the risk of application failure due to capacity shortfalls.
"Success in the digital economy demands that enterprises quickly and intelligently respond to customer, market and other business developments. To enable this agility and insight, many companies turn to Hadoop and Big Data applications," said Bill Berutti, president of the cloud, data center and performance businesses at BMC. "BMC's TrueSight Capacity Optimization gives organizations the ability to plan, control and optimize their ongoing IT investment in their Hadoop environments. Ultimately, the TrueSight Capacity Optimization solution enables them to accelerate their transformation into digital enterprises that move at the speed of business."
"BMC's TrueSight Capacity Optimization integration with Cloudera Manager provides organizations with added visibility and analysis of their Cloudera cluster resources. This added insight allows organizations to better understand existing big data environments and plan for future business workloads," said Tim Stevens, vice president of Business and Corporate Development at Cloudera.
"Hortonworks is dedicated to expanding and empowering the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, accelerating innovation and adoption of Open Enterprise Hadoop," said Matt Morgan, vice president of product and alliance marketing at Hortonworks. "We are pleased to welcome BMC's TrueSight Capacity Optimization solution to the Apache Hadoop community and look forward to working with them to help strengthen Hadoop's role as the foundation of the next-generation data architecture. The relationship will help accelerate successful implementations of TrueSight Capacity Optimization and the Hortonworks Data Platform to deliver data driven business transformations."
About BMC
BMC is a global leader in software solutions that help IT transform traditional businesses into digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive advantage. Our Digital Enterprise Management set of IT solutions is designed to make digital business fast, seamless, and optimized. From mainframe to mobile to cloud and beyond, we pair high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization—allowing our customers to provide intuitive user experiences with optimized performance, cost, compliance, and productivity. BMC solutions serve more than 15,000 customers worldwide including 82 percent of the Fortune 500.
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A Focus on Electronics for America Recycles Day
Published: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireBOULDER, Colo., Oct. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- America Recycles Day, a Keep America Beautiful initiative celebrated every November 15 (and in the weeks leading up to the day) is the only nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating recycling in the U.S. This year, special emphasis is being placed on recycling electronic "gadgets." This is welcome news to Sustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI), a non-profit organization dedicated to safe and sustainable recycling and reuse of electronics, and also the governing body for the R2 Standard for Responsible Recycling of electronics.
"Safely managing the increasing volume of used and obsolete electronics is a growing challenge as new devices are introduced into the marketplace with greater frequency," says John Lingelbach, executive director of SERI.
Why is this a problem? Because more than 50 million tons of e-scrap is generated each year, and many of the materials contained in electronic devices can cause significant harm to human health and the environment if not properly managed. Lingelbach also noted the data security concerns and environmental liability that companies face when they fail to do proper due diligence when selecting an electronics broker or recycler. Lingelbach added, "Working with R2 certified brokers or recyclers who undergo rigorous annual audits to ensure conformance to the best industry practices reduces the risk of liability for companies using their services." The number of R2 certified recyclers continues to grow to meet this demand, with 550 R2 facilities now operating in 22 countries.While Lingelbach believes strongly that more improvements within the electronics recycling industry are needed, he is encouraged by the progress being made in the recycling arena by members of SERI's R2 Leader Program, a coalition of corporations, governmental and non-profit organizations working together to provide sustainable solutions for electronics recycling and reuse. He hopes that by calling attention to the successful efforts of R2 Leaders, other companies and communities will be encouraged to follow suit and make a difference in their own spheres of influence.
Here are just a few of the ways R2 Leaders are improving the electronics recycling landscape.
Keep America Beautiful is an effective leader in changing recycling attitudes and habits with initiatives such as America Recycles Day. "People commonly think of paper, plastic, and aluminum as recyclable items, but electronic devices are generally not top of mind," says Brenda Pulley, senior vice president, recycling, Keep America Beautiful and a SERI board member. "The EPA estimates that 70 percent of used electronic devices are stockpiled in homes and small businesses or end up in landfills. It's important to know that every one of these electronic gadgets can be responsibly recycled – and made into new products – which reduces the need to mine for new resources."
XEROX Corporation held its first America Recycles Day event in 2006 for employees, contractors and consultants. More than 57,000 pounds of electronics were collected in just eight hours. Since then, XEROX has expanded the event to include collection of bicycles, clothing and household items. Employees are enthusiastic about the opportunity to get rid of unwanted items, and both the community and environment benefit.
DIRECTV offers its customers the ability to recycle DIRECTV equipment and other small electronic devices for free and invites customers to visit the company's recycle website to print off free shipping labels for eligible electronic devices. More than 16 million pounds of electronics were recovered in 2013, and more than 24 million pounds in 2014 as a result of DIRECTV's e-cycling program. DIRECTV is also working with SERI to help recycling facilities in Latin America get certified to the R2 Standard.
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) created an E-Waste Recycling Event Toolkit to simplify the process for communities holding collection events. Included are resources such as a qualified recycler directory, marketing materials, educational resources and best practices for collection events. Since 2009, ADEQ has held over 100 electronics (e-waste) collection events in approximately 50 cities throughout Arizona.
Goodwill® has more than 2,000 participating Goodwill locations that accept unwanted electronics. Dell Reconnect, a partnership with Dell and Goodwill, is a free drop-off recycling program for consumers that accepts any brand of computer equipment in any condition. More than 425 million pounds of electronics have been collected for recycling since 2004. Donating one working computer to Goodwill provides nearly 7 hours of job training for a Goodwill employee. The revenues from this program enable Goodwill to expand its services to people who are unemployed or underemployed in local communities.
SourceAmerica® established CyclePoint®, a network of 46 non-profit electronics recyclers that promotes environmental stewardship in local communities, and employs more than 220 people with disabilities. To date, CyclePoint has safely and securely recycled more than five million pounds of electronics, ensuring data security for both businesses and consumers. CyclePoint from SourceAmerica, is a 2015 national sponsor and the official electronics recycler of America Recycles Day. Together with its partners, CyclePoint will be hosting 50 electronics recycling events across the country in honor of America Recycles Day.
How YOU can make a difference -Businesses can partner with an R2 certified recycler to host collection events or provide permanent drop-off locations for their employees and customers. Neighboring municipalities can join forces to make transporting recycled items more economical. Schools and other organizations can host collection events in conjunction with other scheduled activities. Individuals can partner with an R2 certified recycler to organize collection events or permanent collection sites on behalf of their school, club or organization.
Organizers of America Recycle Day events are encouraged to register their event at www.AmericaRecyclesDay.org to gain access to valuable resources to help plan, promote and host an event.
To learn more about responsible electronics recycling, please visit www.SustainableElectronics.org.
About SERISustainable Electronics Recycling International (SERI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the cause of responsible electronics reuse and recycling worldwide through its administration of the R2 Standard for Responsible Recycling, the most globally respected certification standard for electronics recycling and reuse, and through global education and outreach initiatives. The R2 Leader program, an initiative of SERI, includes industry leaders, policy makers and other groups who are actively working with SERI to expand safe and sustainable electronics recycling and reuse worldwide.
CONTACT: Patty Osterberg SERI, Director of Education & Outreach Patty@SustainableElectronics.org Mobile: 651-398-5230 Office: 651-438-3608
