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SMTP's SharpSpring Announces Launch of Media Center
Published: Thursday, October 8, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireGAINESVILLE, Fla., Oct. 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SMTP, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMTP), a global provider of cloud-based marketing technologies, today announced the availability of the SharpSpring Media Center, a new feature for the company's rapidly growing marketing automation solution. SharpSpring's Media Center allows users to manage, send and track click-throughs for marketing and sales materials in one convenient place.
With Media Center, users can improve their customer interactions with faster, more personal lead nurturing and other communications. SharpSpring's powerful automation technology can now be used with internal and external content pieces, such as white papers and videos, including those posted through social sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Media Center also provides resources with valuable content library management features, allowing users within organizations to share content and track performance of content between campaigns or various social channels.
"We continue to expand the SharpSpring platform to new levels and develop features that will enhance our users' interaction with their prospects," said Rick Carlson, SharpSpring founder and recently appointed SMTP Chief Executive Officer. "This is yet another example of SharpSpring creating ways for small and mid-sized businesses to improve the quantity and quality of their leads coming into their businesses and drive more sales."
About SMTP, Inc.
SMTP, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMTP) is a global provider of cloud-based marketing solutions, ranging from sophisticated marketing automation (via subsidiary SharpSpring) to comprehensive email and mobile marketing (via subsidiary GraphicMail) and scalable, cost-effective email deliverability services. The company's product family is hallmarked by its flexible architecture, ease-of-use and cost-effectiveness. SMTP augments its technology with high-quality, multilingual customer service and support. SMTP, Inc. is based in Gainesville, Fla.
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CONTACT: Investor Relations Contact: Edward Lawton Chief Financial Officer 617-500-0122 ir@smtp.com
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UBIC Obtains New Japanese Patent for Technology Related to Predictive Review
Published: Thursday, October 8, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireTOKYO, Oct. 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC) (TSE:2158) ("UBIC" or "the Company"), a leading provider of international litigation support and big-data analysis services, announced today that the Japan Patent Office has recently issued a Notification of Decision of Grant to the Company for a patent application related to "Predictive Review."
In order to address users' expectations for improved accuracy and productivity in document review, the Company developed Predictive Review. Previously, all of the review results had to be fed manually into UBIC's AI system, but with Predictive Review, such manual task becomes lighter. This is because it will take part to function in a specific area: the judgments made by document reviewers are processed automatically. This instantly and continuously boosts efficiency and allows users to focus on their review and encourages the AI system to continuously learn and improve itself. Predictive Review is a manifestation of UBIC's innovative concept called "Behavior Informatics."
The necessary procedures for patent registration have already been executed, and the patent is currently pending issuance.
Patent application number: 2012-225103
Patent application filing date: Oct 10, 2012
Predictive Coding, a platform provided by UBIC, can categorize data based on learning from experts. In Predictive Coding, UBIC's AI helps users process enormous amounts of data by assigning high scores to highly relevant data and low scores to less relevant data. Based on these scores the most essential data sets can be prioritized so that these data are marked for further review by a knowledgeable person. Predictive Coding thus greatly alleviates the burden on human reviewers involved in traditional document review.
Utilizing Predictive Review can make the Predictive Coding process even more efficient. The latest review results no longer need to be added manually to the database. The system now processes these results as they are being created by reviewers, so that it constantly improves its classification accuracy.
The automated scoring function thus improves the operational flow because the AI is being trained and evaluated in real time. In other words, the score assigning function will be updated every time it reads new input data, making the highly important data quickly move to the top of the list so that it gets evaluated much earlier.
The analytical framework covered by this patent will be implemented in some of the newly released products of Lit i View®, a platform for big data analysis.
"We believe that this patent is a testament to the superior innovation that underlies the highly-accurate document analysis provided by UBIC," stated UBIC Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Masahiro Morimoto. "In this advanced digital age, when the processing of vast volumes of data is necessary, our cutting-edge technology will open up new business frontiers, such as corporate fraud investigation and email auditing. UBIC aims to provide data analysis solutions in a broad range of new fields, including health care, intellectual property evaluation support and national security. By further honing our AI-based technologies and expanding our portfolio of intellectual properties, UBIC will continue to provide additional value-added eDiscovery services to customers worldwide."
About UBIC, Inc.
UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC) (TSE:2158) supports the analysis of big data based on behavior informatics by utilizing its technology, "VIRTUAL DATA SCIENTIST" or VDS. UBIC's VDS technology is driven by UBIC AI based on knowledge acquired through its litigation support services. The VDS incorporates experts' tacit knowledge, including their experiences and intuitions, and utilizes that knowledge for big data analysis. UBIC continues to expand its business operations by applying VDS to new fields such as healthcare and marketing.
UBIC was founded in 2003 as a provider of e-discovery and international litigation support services. These services include the preservation, investigation and analysis of evidence materials contained in electronic data, and computer forensic investigation. UBIC provides e-discovery and litigation support by making full use of its data analysis platform, "Lit i View®", and its Predictive Coding technology adapted to Asian languages.
For more information about UBIC, contact usinfo@ubicna.com or visit http://www.ubic-global.com.
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This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. Among other things, the amount of data that UBIC expects to manage this year and the potential uses for UBIC's new service in intellectual property-related litigation, contain forward-looking statements. UBIC may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its reports filed with, or furnished to, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in its annual reports to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about UBIC's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: UBIC's goals and strategies; UBIC's expansion plans; the expected growth of the data center services market; expectations regarding demand for, and market acceptance of, UBIC's services; UBIC's expectations regarding keeping and strengthening its relationships with customers; UBIC's plans to invest in research and development to enhance its solution and service offerings; and general economic and business conditions in the regions where UBIC provides solutions and services. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in UBIC's reports filed with, or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. UBIC does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and UBIC undertakes no duty to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
CONTACT: UBIC Global PR UBIC North America, Inc. Tel: (212) 924-8242 global_pr@ubic.co.jp
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Cerner Clients Test SMART on FHIR Apps Within EHR
Published: Thursday, October 8, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireKANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, has unveiled a production version of HL7's FHIR® standard that is being tested in the Cerner Millennium® electronic health record (EHR).
"This next-generation standards framework enables health care organizations to utilize Cerner's open platform, which is designed to enable third-party innovators to advance care delivery and improve interoperability capabilities with other FHIR-compliant EHR systems," said Dr. David McCallie, senior vice president, medical informatics at Cerner. "This integrated approach will provide clinicians access to 'pluggable apps' directly within their workflows that are designed to expand and transform the way care is delivered."
Cerner clients will test SMART® on FHIR apps within Cerner Millennium. Mosaic Life Care has already begun to test a clinical decision support system that helps clinicians recognize and diagnose visually presenting conditions, VisualDX®, in its ambulatory clinics, emergency departments and throughout the hospital.
"The development of SMART on FHIR apps within Cerner Millennium is comparable to smartphones replacing pagers," said Brennan Lehman, CIO at Mosaic Life Care. "For years, we've struggled with complex interfaces, faxing and scanning to piece together the patient story. From the patient's perspective, care isn't limited to the four walls of the hospital. FHIR enabled apps seamlessly integrated with Cerner Millennium create the platform to solve the puzzle."
VisualDX will demonstrate its app in the Solutions Gallery at Cerner's Health Conference (CHC), Oct. 11-14, in Kansas City, Mo.
CHC attendees will also be able to explore a variety of SMART on FHIR apps on interactive touch-screens, including xG Health's EnrG | Rheum app and two open source apps created by Boston Children's Hospital.
Cerner continues to build FHIR services to support a wide variety of clinical resources and will continue to follow the standard, including the recently balloted Draft Standard for Trial Use 2.0. By the end of the year, an initial catalog of SMART on FHIR applications will be generally available for use to extend the Cerner Millennium platform.
Cerner's FHIR sandbox and documentation are available to clients and third-party application developers at fhir.cerner.com.
About Cerner
Cerner's health information technologies connect people, information and systems at more than 18,000 facilities worldwide. Recognized for innovation, Cerner solutions assist clinicians in making care decisions and enable organizations to manage the health of populations. The company also offers an integrated clinical and financial system to help health care organizations manage revenue, as well as a wide range of services to support clients' clinical, financial and operational needs. Cerner's mission is to contribute to the systemic improvement of health care delivery and the health of communities. On February 2, 2015, Cerner Corporation acquired substantially all of the assets, and assumed certain liabilities, of the Siemens Health Services business from Siemens AG. Nasdaq: CERN. For more information about Cerner, visit cerner.com, read our blog at cerner.com/blog, connect with us on Twitter at twitter.com/cerner and on Facebook at facebook.com/cerner.
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CONTACT: Media Contact: Marlene.Bentley@Cerner.com
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Roper Technologies to acquire legal software company Aderant
Published: Thursday, October 8, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireATLANTA, Oct. 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Roper Technologies announced their acquisition of Aderant, the world's largest independent legal software company, from private equity firm Madison Dearborn Partners ("Madison Dearborn"). The acquisition is expected to close within 30 days and will cement a milestone in Aderant's evolution and recognition as the leader in legal software technology. Roper Technologies is a constituent of the S &P 500 with a current market capitalization of approximately $17 billion.
Chris Giglio, Aderant CEO, commented, "I am so pleased that Aderant will operate from a permanent home within Roper Technologies. A permanent home enables Aderant to undertake larger strategic initiatives and even more visionary product development. I am proud of the products and services Aderant delivers today, and I am excited about what Roper will enable us to deliver tomorrow."
Roper Technologies CEO, Brian Jellison added, "While our businesses serve a diverse set of niche markets, a common focus on customer intimacy has been a key success factor over our 23-year history. Aderant has a strong history of delivering value and a high customer satisfaction to the legal technology market. Now, as part of the Roper family, Aderant will be even better positioned to grow."
The acquisition occurs amidst a rapid growth in Aderant's client base with many of the largest law firms in the world recently changing their practice management system to Aderant Expert. Chris Cartrett, SVP Global Sales, Aderant, noted "We are seeing a real trend in law firms making large investments in new technology. Such decisions go beyond evaluating technology functionality but also involve evaluating the long term strength, stability and vision of the vendor partner. Our permanent home with Roper should assure clients of Aderant's ambition and stability to lead the industry into the future."
In terms of stability, Aderant will continue to operate unchanged in company name, brand, office locations and most importantly staff. All Aderant employees and executives remain with the company and will lead Aderant into a new chapter of the company's growth.
"The transition from private equity ownership to now a permanent home within Roper Technologies signals the true maturity of our business," noted Aderant COO Deane Price. "The collaboration of Madison Dearborn with our executive team over the past several years has helped us prioritize opportunities, set us on a higher growth trajectory and positioned us for sale to a software industry leader. Our industry leading customer retention and our operating philosophy fit well within Roper Technologies."
Mike Barry, EVP Product and Strategy and nine year veteran of Aderant, commented on Aderant's future: "Today I am more excited than ever for Aderant's next chapter. Roper Technologies provides us a unique environment to plan and execute on a truly visionary approach to legal technology. No other vendor in our industry enjoys this same luxury."
About Aderant
Aderant, headquartered in Atlanta, is a global provider of comprehensive business management software for law and other professional services firms. With a 35-year history as a global industry leader, Aderant supports nearly 3,200 clients in more than 30 countries, representing 77 of the top 100 Global Law Firms and more than 88 percent of the Am Law 200. Aderant maintains a combined customer retention rate of more than 95 percent and a customer support Net Promoter Score of 81. Aderant's complete suite of solutions includes: business development, calendar/docket matter management with built-in court rules, practice and financial management, time and billing, case management, document management, and business intelligence. More information is available at www.aderant.com.
Aderant and Aderant Expert are registered trademarks of Aderant Holdings, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the properties of their respective owners including, if so indicated, Aderant Holdings, Inc. or its subsidiaries.
About Roper Technologies
Roper Technologies is a constituent of the S &P 500, Fortune 1000, and the Russell 1000 indices. Roper designs and develops software (both software-as-a-service and licensed), and engineered products and solutions for healthcare, transportation, food, energy, water, education and other niche markets worldwide. Additional information about Roper is available on the company's website at www.ropertech.com.
About Madison Dearborn Partners
Madison Dearborn Partners ("Madison Dearborn"), based in Chicago, is a leading private equity investment firm in the United States. Since Madison Dearborn's formation in 1992, the firm has raised six funds with aggregate capital of over $18 billion and has completed approximately 130 investments. Madison Dearborn invests in businesses across a broad spectrum of industries, including business and government services; basic industries; consumer; financial and transaction services; health care; and telecom, media and technology services. Notable Madison Dearborn investments include Aderant, Asurion, Cbeyond, Fieldglass, Fleet Complete, Intelsat, Kaufman Hall, LGS Innovations and Q9 Networks. For more information, please visit www.mdcp.com.
CONTACT: Aderant Contacts: Megan Hall Aderant Public Relations, North America megan.hall@aderant.com 404-889-8553 Rebecca Roome Aderant Public Relations, EMEA rebecca.roome@aderant.com +44 020 7038 9626 Leah Mahtani Aderant Public Relations, Asia-Pacific leah.mahtani@aderant.com +61 2 8507 1626
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Nasdaq's SMARTS Launches Trade Surveillance Monitoring for Dark Pools
Published: Thursday, October 8, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireNEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ), the world's leading provider of trade surveillance technology to marketplaces, regulators and market participants, has officially launched new trade surveillance monitoring capabilities for dark trading activity alongside its award-winning SMARTS Trade Surveillance platform.
"Trade surveillance can no longer be limited to lit trading," said Rob Lang, Vice President, Business and Product Development, Risk & Surveillance Solutions, Nasdaq. "Regulators globally are taking a more active role in monitoring and enforcing greater transparency in the trading of listed instruments away from lit venues generally, and of trading behaviors within dark pools specifically. We see the need to address these new demands and support dark venue operators and those executing in the dark to boost their surveillance capabilities and help them stay in compliance."
The new module, SMARTS Surveillance for Dark Pools, helps Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTF), Alternative Trading Systems (ATS), Crossing Networks, and market participants internalizing order flow or trading in external dark venues to monitor for potentially abusive behavior taking place in the dark. Jurisdictions such as Hong Kong, Australia and Europe, amongst others, have already passed regulatory mandates in relation to dark trading. SMARTS Surveillance for Dark Pools will better position dark venue operators and participants to more effectively meet requirements and demonstrate a proactive approach to surveillance of dark trading.
- For dark venue operators, like MTFs and ATSs, these capabilities will enable them to monitor trading across all of their clients, like an exchange, to ensure market integrity. Using SMARTS, venue operators that also own broker-dealers would also be able to demonstrate that internal desks are not trading ahead of client orders on knowledge, further improving the integrity of the pool.
- For Crossing Networks or Systemic Internalization, the solution helps demonstrate system integrity in that the liquidity pool operates as advertised, in addition to helping identify potentially malicious behavior that is hidden in the network or any mispricing or fair pricing issues for trades that executed internally.
- For executing brokers, SMARTS Surveillance for Dark Pools enables firms the same cross-market, cross-asset monitoring and alerting capabilities as have proven successful in lit markets, with the ability to view dark executions within the full context of all of the markets traded.
SMARTS Surveillance for Dark Pools covers the full range of market manipulation and abuse behaviors from price manipulation to insider trading, front running, and cross-market (lit vs dark) manipulation, amongst others.
"In order to ensure integrity and compliance, dark venue operators and participants internalizing or crossing order flow, or externally participating in dark venues, need to have processes and systems in place to monitor activity for manipulative trading," said Michael O'Brien, Head of Product Development, SMARTS Trade Surveillance. "Not only does this support regulatory compliance needs, it is simply good business practice, particularly in a quickly evolving marketplace like dark pools."
SMARTS Surveillance solutions power monitoring capabilities for more than 100 market participants across 65 markets, and over 50 marketplaces and regulators.
For more information, visit business.nasdaq.com/tech.
About Nasdaq
Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) is a leading provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services across six continents. Through its diverse portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq enables customers to plan, optimize and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven technologies that provide transparency and insight for navigating today's global capital markets. As the creator of the world's first electronic stock market, its technology powers more than 70 marketplaces in 50 countries, and 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Nasdaq is home to more than 3,600 listed companies with a market value of approximately $9.6 trillion and more than 10,000 corporate clients. To learn more, visit: nasdaq.com/ambition or business.nasdaq.com.
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CONTACT: For Media Inquiries: Nasdaq: Ryan Wells ryan.wells@nasdaq.com Direct: +44 (0) 20 3753 2231 Mobile: +44 (0) 7809 596 390
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McLaren Health Care Chooses Cerner for EHR, Revenue Cycle and Population Health Solutions
Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireFLINT, Mich., Oct. 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- McLaren Health Care announced today that it has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to implement an electronic health record (EHR) system including integrated revenue cycle management, along with population health management solutions, at McLaren's hospitals and outpatient facilities throughout Michigan.
The health system will begin to transition its clinical and revenue cycle data from disparate McKesson and Allscripts systems to Cerner Millennium® this month. Cerner will also implement HealtheIntentSM-enabled population health management solutions, including HealtheRegistriesSM. The solutions will contribute to a clinically driven revenue cycle, which ties clinical and financial information together across hospitals and clinics.
"Cerner's integrated system will help McLaren as we look to better manage the health status of the Michigan residents and communities we serve, as well as make life easier for our physicians and staff," said Ron Strachan, chief information officer, McLaren Health Care. "The Cerner solutions will deliver a single patient record across all of our facilities with tasks like scheduling, registration and billing on the same platform. We look forward to providing our clinicians with a system that is designed to help them deliver safer and more reliable care to our patients."
Cerner Millennium is designed to support an integrated clinically driven revenue cycle to help clinicians and staff pull information from a single patient record across the organization. The integration between Cerner's EHR and practice management solutions will help the care team benefit from one complete workflow and easy navigation to all capabilities in the solutions, from scheduling and clinical care to billing.
"By aligning with McLaren across each of its acute care and ambulatory points of care, Cerner is working to ensure physicians who care for a large percentage of Michigan residents have access to the right patient data, at the right time, no matter which facility they visit," said Zane Burke, president, Cerner.
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care Corporation, headquartered in Flint, MI, is a fully integrated health network, committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, the state's only proton therapy center, an employed primary care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering over 250,000 lives, home health care and hospice, durable medical equipment, retail pharmacy services, and a wholly-owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates the state's largest network of cancer centers and providers anchored by Karmanos Cancer Institute - one of only two NCI-designated cancer centers in the state. McLaren has 22,000 employees and more than 37,500 individual providers in its state-wide provider network. Learn more at www.mclaren.org
About Cerner
Cerner's health information technologies connect people, information and systems at more than 18,000 facilities worldwide. Recognized for innovation, Cerner solutions assist clinicians in making care decisions and enable organizations to manage the health of populations. The company also offers an integrated clinical and financial system to help health care organizations manage revenue, as well as a wide range of services to support clients' clinical, financial and operational needs. Cerner's mission is to contribute to the systemic improvement of health care delivery and the health of communities. On February 2, 2015, Cerner Corporation acquired substantially all of the assets, and assumed certain liabilities, of the Siemens Health Services business from Siemens AG. Nasdaq: CERN. For more information about Cerner, visit cerner.com, read our blog at cerner.com/blog, connect with us on Twitter at twitter.com/cerner and on Facebook at facebook.com/cerner.
Certain trademarks, service marks and logos set forth herein are property of Cerner Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. All other non-Cerner marks are the property of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Media Contacts McLaren Health Care - Kevin Tompkins 810-342-1173, kevin.tompkins@mclaren.org Cerner - Angela Vogen 816-213-5701, angela.vogen@cerner.com
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EEI Unveils Trusted Network Platform at FinDEVr 2015
Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireSAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EEI announced today the launch of its Trusted Network Platform – an advanced data aggregation and management platform, consisting of a core engine and a robust API. EEI, with partners Xero and Square 1 Bank, publicly unveiled the new platform via an onstage demo at FinDEVr 2015.
Financial institutions need a fast and secure way of providing their clients with a single, customized view of all their financial data. Arthur Wasson, SVP, Global Treasury Management said, "At Square 1, our goal is to empower our clients to interact with us in ways that are intuitive to them – whether it's online through their desktops or mobile devices, through 3rd party applications such as Xero, or via direct connections. EEI's Trusted Network solution offers a platform upon which we can achieve this goal." Providing access and maintaining privacy of a client's data has always been a challenge. Now, with the EEI Trusted Network, you can deliver a single, secure, holistic view of all client assets, even those held away.
- EEI has created an advanced aggregation platform that delivers real-time information and is hosted in a secure cloud environment.
- EEI's Trusted Network supports the best authentication mechanism by utilizing OAuth 2.0 - the de facto industry standard for user authentication.
- The Trusted Network provides direct connect mechanisms to obtain data and does not rely on the more expensive and flawed method of screen scraping.
- The Trusted Network Platform communicates with any financial institution using industry standard messaging formats and implements business rules to enhance the information.
EEI's Trusted Network exceeds client expectations by intelligently aggregating data, and enabling banks to connect to advanced platforms such as Xero, while fiercely protecting the privacy of the data. The Trusted Network powers an unparalleled client experience along with digital intelligence for the enterprise through an intelligent, secure and flexible platform.
"Reconciliation of bank statements in Xero is vitally important to ensuring accuracy of financial statements," said Dinesh Katyal, Director of Product, U.S. Banking Services at Xero. "EEI's Trusted Network enables Xero to securely and reliably import statements directly from the banks, thus avoiding costly errors and saving our customers time and money."
About Enterprise Engineering, Inc. (EEI)
EEI works with financial institutions (FI's) and developers to securely and reliably connect people to their money through any channel they might care to use. Our software products facilitate data access, aggregation and transaction processing and, are trusted by many of the world's largest FI's. By brokering access to vast amounts of financial data we are able to power a wide range of applications for FI's and application developers. We leverage analytics that in turn power growth for our partners. Our software products integrate with Personal Financial Management tools, SMB Accounting software, tax packages, and expense management applications (i.e. Xero, QuickBooks®, TurboTax®, H&R Block Tax Software, Mint, and Expensify). EEI has garnered many awards since inception. Most recently we were named "Best Financial Services Technology Solutions" & "Best E-commerce Infrastructure & Systems Integration Firm" by Wealth & Finance Magazine (http://www.wealthandfinance-intl.com).
About Square 1 Bank
Square 1 Bank, a division of Pacific Western Bank, is a full-service financial services partner to entrepreneurs and their investors. Founded in 2005 by a group of seasoned venture bankers, Square 1 provides clients flexible resources and attentive service to help their companies grow. Square 1 offers a broad range of venture debt, treasury and cash management solutions through offices in top innovation centers: Austin, the Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Durham, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Diego, Seattle and Washington, DC. For more information, visit www.square1bank.com.
About Xero, Inc.
Xero is beautiful, easy-to-use online accounting software for small businesses and their advisors. The company has over 540,000 subscribers in more than 180 countries. Xero seamlessly integrates with over 400 third-party tools, and was ranked No.1 by Forbes as the World's Most Innovative Growth Company in 2014 and 2015.
CONTACT: Enterprise Engineering, Inc. 115 Broadway, Suite 1705 New York, NY 10006 info@joineei.com | 212-344-2000
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UBIC and Hearts United Group to Launch Joint Study on Debugging and Cyber Security Services Using Artificial Intelligence
Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireNEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC) (TSE:2158) ("UBIC" or "the Company"), a leading provider of AI-based, big data analysis services announced that it has reached an agreement in principle with Hearts United Group Co., Ltd. to conduct a joint study. The study is intended to develop advanced technology and services to discover security holes and bugs in software programs by leveraging data concerning more than one million bugs collected by Digital Hearts Ltd., a subsidiary of Hearts United Group.
The two companies will launch a study on a unique, AI-based approach to software bug detection based on data collected through Hearts United Group's debugging and cyber security services and the experiences and intuitions cultivated by professionals over many years. This data will be used in combination with UBIC's AI analysis system that learns tacit knowledge and predicts human behavior. With the aim of establishing advanced cybersecurity technology that supports a more safe and comfortable digital society, Hearts United Group and UBIC will also endeavor to create and provide value-added services and expand the scope of their businesses.
Hearts United Group provides debugging services that detect and report software bugs through Digital Hearts and other subsidiaries. Hearts United Group's strength lies in its workforce of more than 8,000 employees, including debugging specialists capable of discovering unexpected bugs through their abundant experience and intuition, as well as its efficient debugging techniques based on data accumulated since its foundation.
By taking advantage of these strengths, Hearts United Group has detected more than one million bugs to date in the field of system verification related to game entertainment, web and financial systems. Moreover, it has recently expanded the coverage of its services by launching a debugging service to evaluate software vulnerabilities in the automobile industry, a sector in which automated driving technology and cybersecurity are becoming more advanced and important.
UBIC provides data analysis services with a processing speed 4,000 times faster than human experts by incorporating professionals' tacit knowledge, including experience and intuition, into Virtual Data Scientist, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based software program. UBIC has provided the data analysis service in more than 1,500 cases of international litigation support and fraud investigation. Having expanded the scope of its AI applications to cover fields such as healthcare, marketing and business intelligence, UBIC excels in predicting human behavior and detecting signs of risk and opportunity based on the science of behavior informatics.
About UBIC, Inc.
UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC) (TSE:2158) supports the analysis of big data based on behavior informatics by utilizing its technology, "VIRTUAL DATA SCIENTIST" or VDS. UBIC's VDS technology is driven by UBIC AI based on knowledge acquired through its litigation support services. The VDS incorporates experts' tacit knowledge, including their experiences and intuitions, and utilizes that knowledge for big data analysis. UBIC continues to expand its business operations by applying VDS to new fields such as healthcare and marketing.
UBIC was founded in 2003 as a provider of e-discovery and international litigation support services. These services include the preservation, investigation and analysis of evidence materials contained in electronic data, and computer forensic investigation. UBIC provides e-discovery and litigation support by making full use of its data analysis platform, "Lit i View®", and its Predictive Coding technology adapted to Asian languages.
For more information about UBIC, contact usinfo@ubicna.com or visit http://www.ubic-global.com.
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BMC Honors Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and Deloitte Consulting LLP as Innovator of the Year in Second Annual Innovation Award
Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireHOUSTON, Oct. 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BMC, the global leader in software solutions for IT, today announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and Deloitte Consulting LLP have been named as the 2015 Innovator of the Year recipients of the BMC Customer Innovation Award.
DISA is the $9B Combat Support Agency and IT Shared Service provider for the Department of Defense. The agency provides, operates, and assures command and control and information-sharing capabilities and a globally accessible enterprise information infrastructure in direct support to joint warfighters, national level leaders, and other mission and coalition partners across the full spectrum of military operations. The organization's Service Support Environment program was designed to rapidly develop new IT services, improve service quality and productivity, and reduce costs. Deloitte Consulting LLP worked with DISA and BMC Software to deliver improved security, higher performance, and increased scalability, all while reducing costs.
"Working with DISA, we were able to rationalize more than 1,700 IT requirements into a standardized out of the box solution," said Jennifer Ertler, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP. "The ROI has delivered an initial $47M in cost savings and significantly improved the user experience and response time for service requests."
The BMC annual Innovation Awards recognize those customers who are leading innovation across their enterprises to drive competitive advantage through efficiency, automation, and cost savings that push high performance and business results in six key categories: IT Service, Compliance, Data Center, Business Automation, IT Performance Excellence, and Cloud Innovation.
"BMC's Innovation Award ceremony shines a spotlight on the people who are driving digital transformations within their companies and shaping the future of IT," said David Gai, president of customer success and chief customer officer at BMC. "DISA, with the help of Deloitte Consulting LLP, has done an amazing job to consolidate, digitally transform, and modernize IT operations."
To learn more about how Deloitte and DISA are transforming the Service Support Environment, see this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJWqF2equog.
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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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Wix.com Launches New Editor Creating the Most Comprehensive and Customizable Code-Free Web Design Platform
Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireTEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 7, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Wix.com Ltd. (Nasdaq:WIX), the leading global web development platform, announced today the launch of its new, completely redesigned website editor. With a unique and highly intuitive user interface, industry first features, integrated functionality, designer-made website templates and hundreds of pre-designed components, the Wix Editor sets a new standard in code-free web design providing users with a tailored experience designed to fit their business niche. Offering a highly visual and fun design experience, the new Wix Editor streamlines the learning curve and lets any user successfully create and publish the website they envision.
This is the company's first full redesign of its cloud-based web editing software since launching the industry's first do-it-yourself HTML5 Editor in 2012. The new Wix Editor further solidifies Wix's technology leadership by setting a new global standard in code-free and accessible website design and management.
"Recognizing that today's Internet users expect a personalized, intuitive and multi-faceted experience, we've created the industry's most comprehensive code-free editing software for creating a professional online presence," said Avishai Abrahami, Wix Co-Founder and CEO. "Based on the user's business category, the new Editor provides a tailored experience, where the features and capabilities most needed are at their fingertips. This isn't just a product improvement, it's a leap in what the market has come to expect from code-free platforms."
Some of the industry-leading code-free features include:
- Full screen strip layouts – Containing multiple design elements such as video, image galleries, text and more, these horizontal strips help split up the page into clear sections, allowing for stylistic variation. True to Wix's drag and drop technology, these strip containers can be edited and repositioned anywhere.
- Full page video background – Users can upload their own videos or choose from Wix's free video background library to easily set up an eye-catching video background for their websites. Unique to the Wix Editor, all video backgrounds, whether full page or on a strip, can be customized by layering any design element, such as pattern overlays and color palettes, included in the Editor.
- Single click Parallax effect – A first for code-free platforms, users can now give their website an added layer of dimension by adding a parallax scrolling effect with just single click.
- Anchor menus and docking elements – Essential but not exclusive to long scrolling websites, Wix users can effortlessly create a smooth website navigation experience by utilizing Wix's new anchor menus and element docking feature.
- Personalization and tailored features – Based on the users' profile, the Wix Editor will suggest design and business elements from both the Editor and the Wix App Market to give users the guidance necessary to create the most effective possible sites.
- Verticalized templates – Dedicated templates built with business in mind and utilizing new design capabilities allowing users to more readily input key features while maintaining pure a drag and drop interface.
- Contextual in-Editor support – The New Wix Editor provides users with intelligent and curated support throughout the design process without ever having to leave the Editor.
The new Wix Editor is based on a complete restructuring of the platform's codebase developed using Facebook's React technology. Offering a significantly leaner codebase, better modularization and improved testability, this new technology enables Wix to roll out features previously unseen in the code-free web design sector with unprecedented speed.
To watch the new Wix Editor demo video please visit: https://youtu.be/4vUliL9ZL84
About Wix.com Ltd.
Wix.com is a leading cloud-based web development platform with over 72 million registered users worldwide. Wix was founded on the belief that the Internet should be accessible to everyone to develop, create and contribute. Through free and premium subscriptions, Wix empowers millions of businesses, organizations, professionals and individuals to take their businesses, brands and workflow online. The Wix Editor and highly curated App Market enable users to build and manage a fully integrated and dynamic digital presence. Wix's headquarters are in Tel Aviv with offices in San Francisco, New York, Miami, Vilnius and Dnepropetrovsk.
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