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MyLife.com Touts Position as Leading People Review, Reputation Management Site
Published: Thursday, October 1, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireLos Angeles, California, Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1, 2015--MyLife.com, the Internet's original people review and reputation management site, has taken the controversial "Yelp for people" trend one step further by creating more than 225 million searchable personal webpages for every adult American. The site even has pages for Julia Cordray and Nicole McCullough, founders of Peeple, a soon-to-launch app following MyLife's platform for leaving personal, professional, and even romantic reviews for other people.
"Peeple is being trashed as the 'Yelp for people' for reducing personal opinions to a simple reviews app. MyLife has been offering not only a personal reviews platform, but features that allow individuals to cultivate a more accurate and positive online reputation," said Jeff Tinsley, founder of MyLife.com, a website with 6 million unique monthly visitors. "In its launch six months ago, MyLife pioneered the concept of categorized reviews for people. However, that was only one feature in a series of many designed to help members protect, shape, and monitor their online reputations."
In addition to providing millions of Americans with personal, professional, and intimate feedback via its categorized review platform, MyLife.com is also providing individuals the ability to:
- View, monitor, and control all personal information being exposed around the web
- Read/post personal, professional, and romantic reviews
- Remove private information from other sites
- Discover who is accessing their information and/or searching their name
- Claim and manage their personal MyLife webpage
"Whereas Peeple seems to position its subjects as powerless victims of their reviews, MyLife.com is focused on empowering its members," says Tinsley. "The entire purpose of MyLife.com is to give individuals a voice and help them take control of their online reputations, not succumb to them."
In just three months, MyLife.com has seen its numbers grow from 4.7 million unique visitors to nearly 6 million in September.
For more information on MyLife.com, please visit https://www.mylife.com.
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About MyLife.com, Inc.
Founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Jeff Tinsley, MyLife.com is located in Los Angeles, California. With more than 50 million registered members, MyLife is focused on helping every individual control their personal information online. By creating the industry-leading personal information management service, MyLife is the one place that helps people improve their public image, and better their personal lives and careers.For interview requests and/or media inquiries, please call Tyler Barnett at 323.937.1951
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http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=36647CONTACT: For more information on MyLife.com, please visit https://www.mylife.com
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Full SDS Support for Common App Now Available in the TargetX Recruitment CRM
Published: Thursday, October 1, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswirePHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TargetX announced today an expanded partnership with The Common Application which now includes the ability to seamlessly integrate with their Scheduled Delivery Service (SDS). The new integration process is managed entirely by TargetX and requires nothing more than signing up for SDS on the part of the college or university. This is the first such integration between the Common App and the Salesforce platform.
In addition to streamlining the data integration, TargetX also announced that the new templates automate both the Common App data delivery as well as all individual PDFs for supporting documentation (such as recommendations, writing supplements, transcripts), which are immediately available in the TargetX Decision module.
"As our CRM evolves, we're so pleased to announce a solution that will help admission counselors process and read every component of The Common Application directly in the CRM through a feature that is provided at no additional cost to clients," says Sasha Peterson, CEO of TargetX. "We know how critical it is for admissions officers to access and evaluate student applications quickly and simply, without the need for IT support. This is it. And we knew we had something big when one of our clients immediately remarked 'This is a game changer.'"
TargetX clients will now have the ability to streamline Common Application attachments into the CRM with no IT intervention required. For more information about TargetX's compelling recruitment solutions all integrated into one package, please visit www.targetx.com.
About TargetX
TargetX is the leading CRM company in higher education, reimagining the student experience through campuswide solutions that help colleges and universities build lifelong relationships with prospective students, current students and alumni. The company's CRM is built on the powerful Salesforce.com platform — the most innovative customer relationship management system in the world. TargetX offers the most compelling and complete set of solutions, including the recent addition to the solution suite of two mobile-designed modules. A student-centric online application for admissions and a student engagement platform to help institutions improve enrollment and student success. With its 17-year reputation for innovative technology and industry expertise, TargetX is the most trusted CRM provider in higher education.
CONTACT: Media Contact: Kimberly Nagy: nagy@targetx.com
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TargetX Builds College Application Process Students Really Want
Published: Thursday, October 1, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswirePHILADELPHIA, Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TargetX showcases the first online application designed for students during the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) conference, October 1-3 in San Diego, CA.
TargetX's new student-centric Online Application is the first of its kind and the latest product released in the Recruitment CRM, the most comprehensive and compelling suite of recruitment solutions available in higher ed. Unlike most mobile applications framed around outdated paper models, TargetX's Online Application appeals to the growing number of students who use their phones to apply to college.
"Students are no longer linear," points out April Welch, Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at Illinois Institute of Technology. "Other applications assume that a student is going to start the application, sit there and complete it. The TargetX application gives students the opportunity to jump around to the sections they want to. It gives them a great visual displaying the estimated time remaining to finish the application. Really, it is more geared towards the way students actually complete applications. Given the fact that they are applying to multiple places it is important to have a professional interface that gives our applicants a fast and smooth experience."
A Comprehensive Recruitment Suite of Solutions
In addition to the new Online Application, decision and scoring tools facilitate a paperless application review process, while student-yield tools like Schools App and UChat provide meaningful socio-behavioral data and communications opportunities. Every component of the CRM is backed by complete implementation services, training and an experienced support team for colleges to be successful.
"At TargetX, we've reimagined the entire recruitment process to better serve the needs of both students and admissions professionals," says CEO of TargetX, Sasha Peterson. "We invite admissions professionals to come see for themselves at the NACAC Conference in San Diego. They'll see how simple it is to build customized applications that attract students. They'll also witness the countless ways that applicants--who crave organization and guidance in their application experience--drove our product development process."
Visit TargetX at NACAC
Experience the ease and functionality of TargetX's new Online Application. Build your own application, review the backend functionality, and then explore the other modules of the recruitment suite -- from the iPad and web-based application review solution to the fully integrated engagement and yield tools. TargetX will be available in booth 301 and 312 October 1-3. Learn more or schedule an appointment at:
About TargetX
TargetX is the leading CRM company in higher education, reimagining the student experience through campuswide solutions that help colleges and universities build lifelong relationships with prospective students, current students and alumni. The company's CRM is built on the powerful Salesforce.com platform — the most innovative customer relationship management system in the world. TargetX offers the most compelling and complete set of solutions, including the recent addition to the solution suite of two mobile-designed modules. A student-centric online application for admissions and a student engagement platform to help institutions improve enrollment and student success. With its 17-year reputation for innovative technology and industry expertise, TargetX is the most trusted CRM provider in higher education.
CONTACT: Media Contact: Kimberly Nagy: nagy@targetx.com
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SYNNEX Solves Customer Bid Management Issues With New Bid Portal in ECExpress
Published: Thursday, October 1, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireGREENVILLE, S.C., Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SYNNEX Inspire North American Conference -- SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE:SNX), a leading technology solutions company, is launching its new Bid Portal feature in ECExpress 7, the company's eCommerce tool. Bid Portal was created to harness the volume of bids resellers have to manage, making it easier for them to have visibility to the opportunities available to them so they do not miss a chance to respond to their customers and close deals.
What once was a manual follow-up process with multiple emails and phone calls is now managed through a single pane of glass. Bid Portal displays the list of manufacturers with which the reseller has bids in progress for their customers with the parts, pricing, and bid start and end dates. If the bid has expired, it no longer shows up in their queue. All resellers can view what bids are available and open to them, and then can place orders off those bids.
"SYNNEX enhanced its new ECExpress 7 online ordering tool so our customers can view and act on all their outstanding bid opportunities," said Peter Larocque, President, North American Technology Solutions, SYNNEX Corporation. "Our new Bid Portal gives them one-click access to their vendor and end-customer bid information, so they can pursue and close those bids much faster."
"Our customers are under a lot of pressure and are asked to do more with less. Bid Portal is a useful resource that can help my internal sales team be more efficient to respond quickly to our customers, which translates into increased productivity on both sides of the equation. For us, we spend less time chasing bids, and our customers get what they need in a timely fashion. It's a win-win," said Jim McArdle, President, North Shore Computer, Inc.
The Bid Portal release comes a few months after the launch of the newly enhanced, intuitively designed ECExpress 7 platform, which allows customers to check SYNNEX inventory and prices with a single click; confirm order status, product availability and shipping warehouse; access CLOUDSolv, RENEWSolv and SERVICESolv platforms; and manage vendor product promotions and multiple incentive programs from one location through PROMOCentral."
SYNNEX customers will have access to Bid Portal through ECExpress 7 in mid-October 2015.
About SYNNEX
SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE:SNX), a Fortune 500 corporation, is a leading business process services company, optimizing supply chains and providing outsourced services focused on customer relationship management. SYNNEX distributes a broad range of information technology systems and products, and also provides systems design and integration solutions. Concentrix, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SYNNEX Corporation, offers a portfolio of strategic solutions and end-to-end business services around customer engagement strategy, process optimization, technology innovation, front and back-office automation and business transformation to clients in ten identified industry verticals. Founded in 1980, SYNNEX Corporation operates in 25 countries around the world. Additional information about SYNNEX may be found online at www.synnex.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
Statements in this release that are forward-looking, such as features, capabilities and date of availability of Bid Portal, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the Company's actual results in future periods to be materially different from any future performance that may be suggested in this release. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this release.
Copyright 2015 SYNNEX Corporation. All rights reserved. SYNNEX, the SYNNEX Logo, CONCENTRIX, CLOUDSOLV, RENEWSOLV, SERVICESOLV and all other SYNNEX company, product and services names and slogans are trademarks or registered trademarks of SYNNEX Corporation. SYNNEX, the SYNNEX Logo, and CONCENTRIX Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. Other names and marks are the property of their respective owners.
SNX-GCONTACT: Media Contact: Amanda Long Hughes Agency amandal@hughes-agency.com 864-271-0718
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Insight to Acquire BlueMetal
Published: Thursday, October 1, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireTEMPE, Ariz., Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Insight Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq:NSIT) today announced the acquisition of BlueMetal, an interactive design and technology architecture firm based in the Boston area, with offices in Chicago and New York.
BlueMetal delivers strategic design, application development, business intelligence solutions and data visualization platforms. BlueMetal has expertise in financial services, healthcare, education, government and retail and generated revenue of approximately $25 million over the last twelve months.
"Insight continues to invest in strengthening our services capabilities that bring value to our clients' businesses," said Ken Lamneck, president and CEO, Insight Enterprises. "This relationship expands our geographic footprint and expertise in application design, mobility and business analytics, while also building on our unique position to bring richer solutions powered by Intelligent Technology™ to our clients."
"When BlueMetal was established five years ago, our team set a goal to design and deliver business and technology solutions for some of the most challenging issues facing clients," said Scott Jamison, CEO, BlueMetal. "Joining Insight, a leading global services and solutions provider, will enable us to grow our team and expand our expertise to clients around the world." Jamison joins Insight as VP of Services.
Analysts expect that by 2020, customers will manage up to 85% of their relationships with businesses without interacting with a human. This creates the business imperative to incorporate Intelligent Technology™ to manage the customer journey.
"BlueMetal's award-winning work in the area of application design, mobility and big data enable clients to empower their work forces and engage with customers in an increasingly mobile world," said Steve Dodenhoff, president, Insight U.S. "We are thrilled with the addition of the BlueMetal team."
For more information on Insight, visit http://www.insight.com/ or call 1.800.INSIGHT.
About Insight
From business and government organizations to healthcare and educational institutions, Insight empowers clients with "Intelligent Technology™" solutions to realize their goals. As a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud and service solutions, our 5,400 teammates provide clients the guidance and expertise needed to select, implement and manage complex technology solutions to drive business outcomes. Through our world-class people, partnerships, services and delivery solutions, we help businesses run smarter. Discover more at insight.com. NSIT-M
About BlueMetal
Modern technology, craftsman quality. BlueMetal is an interactive design and technology architecture firm matching the most experienced consultants in the industry to the most challenging business and technical problems facing our clients. We seek to understand your business strategy and technical foundation to craft solutions that holistically blend architecture, innovation, creative design, and strategic vision to exactly meet your needs and ensure your success. BlueMetal is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts with offices in Chicago and New York.
CONTACT: HELEN JOHNSON (INVESTOR RELATIONS) Insight Enterprises, Inc. TEL. (480) 333.3234 EMAIL: HELEN.JOHNSON@INSIGHT.COM JOE MCGURK (MEDIA RELATIONS) Sloane Public Relations TEL. (212) 446.1874 EMAIL: JMCGURK@SLOANEPR.COM
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Highstreet IT Selects FORTRUST as Their Data Center Partner
Published: Thursday, October 1, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireDENVER, Oct. 01, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FORTRUST, a leading data center and colocation services provider, has won a contract with Highstreet IT, an enterprise class IT services provider, to support their rapidly expanding cloud services. Highstreet IT offers consulting, technology integration, and change management services for Oracle, SAP, and cloud solutions. They also offer a range of managed services from hosting and infrastructure management to application operations and software support for cloud solutions.
Highstreet IT is experiencing continued growth as an infrastructure and applications service provider, making a highly scalable data center a necessary requirement. By selecting FORTRUST, Highstreet IT has a partner with the capabilities to facilitate the delivery of world-class solutions and impeccable customer service.
“FORTRUST not only allows us to physically scale, but helps our business grow by providing outstanding customer support,” states Rich Bradley, Senior Vice President of Strategic Client Development at Highstreet IT. “Other providers were unable or unwilling to invest in that type of partnership.”
“We are proud to offer Highstreet IT the data center infrastructure, operations, and customer service that they and our other enterprise class IT solutions companies require,” said Josh Moody, FORTRUST’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “We look forward to our partnership with Highstreet IT.”
About FORTRUST
FORTRUST is one of the most progressive high-availability data center services providers in North America, serving clients across the globe who depend on colocation services for a critical lifeline of their business. FORTRUST Denver is the largest data center in the region with over 300,000 square feet and 34 megawatts of data center capacity. FORTRUST offers agile, reliable, sustainable and secure raised floor and modular data center capacity for any-size enterprise supported by optimal power infrastructure and connectivity to safeguard mission-critical business services. In addition to the national headquarters in Denver, FORTRUST has data center locations in Phoenix, Arizona and Edison, New Jersey. www.ftdc.com
About Highstreet IT
Highstreet IT Solutions, LLC, an information technology (IT) services company, provides consulting, technology integration, and change management services for Oracle, SAP, and cloud solutions. It offers full lifecycle consulting support services, including implementations, upgrades, optimization, application assessments, software selection, IT strategy, project management, application management, and change management services for PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business Suite, and SAP applications. The company also provides a range of managed services from hosting and infrastructure management through application operations and software support for cloud solutions. In addition, it resells a suite of Oracle software solutions. Highstreet IT Solutions, LLC was founded in 2011 and is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. www.Highstreetit.com
CONTACT: Media Contact:Janna Millerjanna@redcompassco.com720.381.4159
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Symphony Health Solutions Announces IDV(R) (Integrated Dataverse)
Published: Thursday, October 1, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireHORSHAM, Pa., Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Symphony Health Solutions (SHS), a provider of high-value market research, analytics, and technology solutions for life sciences manufacturers, payers, and providers, today announced the availability of IDV® (Integrated Dataverse), an exciting new big data solution that provides market-leading coverage and insights to the drivers of pharmaceutical demand. This new HIPAA-compliant platform powers all SHS products and will be the exclusive data platform for the company as of January 2016. IDV is the result of substantial data and technology investments made by SHS to provide the most accurate and complete picture of the pharmaceutical market.
IDV® sits at the heart of SHS's broader strategy to transform the life sciences market through technology and innovation. As the foundation for all SHS data products, IDV® offers a complete picture of a given health event across prescriber, payer, and patient dimensions with analytics to answer key questions and facilitate critical commercial processes. Leveraging our new big data infrastructure and extensive healthcare data management capabilities, IDV® supports integration of clinical and other health-related data to support a more complete view of the financial and clinical decisions that drive the marketplace.
"We developed IDV® in response to the changing dynamics of the healthcare ecosystem. A one dimensional view of the market was no longer sufficient to answer the increasingly complex business questions our customers are asking," explained Don Otterbein, SVP Marketing & Product Management and GM, Consulting & Services. "With IDV, we enable our customers to better understand the patient journey and the clinical and financial decisions that impact their performance."
Combining SHS's vast claims resources and rich point-of-sale retail prescription data, IDV® is the industry's most complete and interconnected source of healthcare data. SHS utilizes payment processing systems to capture the full claims lifecycle and more accurately depict prescription activity. By connecting physician, pharmacy, anonymized patient, medical and hospital data, IDV® reveals real-world behaviors and illuminates increasingly complex therapy decisions. With true transaction-level integration across all dimensions, IDV® combines different facets of information, allowing a view of a single health event from many different angles in support of increasingly sophisticated insight-driven strategies and programs.
Access to IDV® is simple and efficient with delivery via Symphony HealthCloud™ and VantageTM Applications, the company's proprietary cloud-based platform and analytic solutions suites. IDV® is the new industry standard for an integrated, multi-dimensional big data platform delivered in flexible formats to meet every business need.
For more information about IDV®, view the info video or visit the SHS website at www.symphonyhealth.com.
About Symphony Health Solutions
Symphony Health Solutions is a leading provider of high-value data, analytics, technology solutions and actionable insights for healthcare and life sciences manufacturers, payers and providers. The company helps clients drive revenue growth and commercial effectiveness, while adapting to the transformation of the healthcare ecosystem, by integrating a broad set of patient, prescriber, payer and clinical data together with primary and secondary health research, analytics and consulting. Symphony delivers a comprehensive perspective on the real dynamics that drive business in the healthcare and life sciences markets. For more information, visit www.symphonyhealth.com.
CONTACT: For media information, please contact: Heather Varela, Symphony Health Solutions heather.varela@symphonyhealth.com +1 602.463.7838
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LabTech Software Offers Enterprise Mobility Management With IBM MobileFirst Protect
Published: Thursday, October 1, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireLabTech Software is now delivering affordable single-paned enterprise mobility services across cloud and mobile platforms
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LabTech Software, the only powerful, robust-featured remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform developed by an IT service provider, for IT service providers, today announced it will begin offering IBM MobileFirst Protect (formerly MaaS360) for enterprise mobility management (EMM).
IBM MobileFirst Protect is a comprehensive enterprise mobility solution trusted by thousands of customers worldwide. MobileFirst Protect simplifies EMM with rapid deployment and comprehensive security that spans across users, devices, email, apps, and documents. It supports all major device types and operating systems including iOS, Android, and Windows. MobileFirst Protect is the only EMM solution to receive a Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Joint Authorization Board (JAB).
"With the rapid rise of BYOD, security, compliance and convenience continue to be of paramount importance for any MDM policy in today's modern connected world," said Matt Nachtrab, chief executive officer, LabTech Software. "It is our primary goal to provide IT service providers with a variety of solutions, empowering them to select the options that best suit their unique business needs. Our agreement with IBM allows us to offer a premium solution that not only supports all major operating systems, but provides robust functionality that many IT service providers are demanding."
LabTech Software partners will have access to cloud-based mobility lifecycle management that is affordable to any size IT business and includes a tailored security fit for industry verticals, including proactive and continuous compliance for retail, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, education, and the public sector. LabTech Software is in the process of developing a one-of-a-kind integration that will enable a single-pane-of-glass for managing users, desktops, servers, virtual systems, network devices and mobile devices.
LabTech Software strives to extend the value of the LabTech RMM platform for its partners by aligning with industry-leading technology providers to offer cutting-edge solutions. Each new product offered is intended to leverage the power of automation and provides IT providers with more choices to suit their specific needs.
To learn more about how LabTech Software and IBM MobileFirst Protect can help improve your business, please visit: www.labtechsoftware.com/MobileFirstProtect
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www.youtube.com/user/labtechsoftwareAbout LabTech Software
LabTech Software is the developer of the only remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform developed for IT service providers by IT service providers. Designed and developed by system administrators with years of experience in the IT services industry, LabTech's focus is to drive the power of IT automation. This affordable agent-based platform closely emulates what technicians do in the field by performing IT support and management tasks and processes remotely, efficiently and non-intrusively. LabTech is the most powerful, feature-rich and widely-sought RMM platform in the IT service provider space today. For more information please visit www.labtechsoftware.com or call 877-522-8323.
CONTACT: Amy Legere Greenough for LabTech Software alegere@greenough.biz 617.275.6517
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Fujifilm and Provision Interactive Team Up for 3D Roll-Outs
Published: Thursday, October 1, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireCHATSWORTH, Calif., Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FUJIFILM North America Corporation ("Fujifilm") and Provision Interactive Technologies, Inc. ("Provision"), a subsidiary of Provision Holding, Inc. (PVHO.PK), announced today that they will join forces on the roll-out of Provision's 3D Savings Center kiosks nationwide. According to the agreement, Fujifilm will provide installation and ongoing maintenance services for the 3D Savings Centers, beginning in Los Angeles and New York this year. The collaboration is designed to provide best-in-class service to the retailers to assure total customer satisfaction.
"We were looking for a brand name national service provider to help meet the rapid growth of our 3D digital network being implemented nationwide. Fujifilm offers professional expertise, speed-to-market and high levels of support throughout the entire installation process," said Curt Thornton, president and CEO of Provision. "This agreement means members of Provision's 3D digital networks now have a single source provider to quickly and effortlessly implement 3D digital signage as appropriate for the environment of each retailer. We see this as a long term relationship with Fujifilm, and look forward to expanding it."
"We are very excited about the opportunity to install and service Provision's 3D Savings Centers. Over the last several years, Fujifilm has accumulated vast experience with managing installation roll-outs on a large or small scale to our clients' exacting expectations," said Steven Pagano, vice president, Field Service, FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Imaging Division. "We understand the importance of providing technical support for our customers, and we understand service. Our best-in-class technical support is available through a knowledgeable internal team who can troubleshoot and handle questions via phone, while a highly trained Field Service Team is available nationally to go on-site and address any technical issues. We look forward to our association with Provision."
Provision offers its 3D Savings Center platform to retailers and advertisers in several market channels worldwide. The patented hardware and software systems are used to advertise all types of products and services within the store and around neighboring communities – breaking through the clutter of traditional in-store ads, and providing marketers with street-level tactical marketing data on consumers in top demographic markets.
About Fujifilm
FUJIFILM North America Corporation, a marketing subsidiary of FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation, consists of four operating divisions and one subsidiary company. The Imaging Division provides consumer and commercial photographic products and services, including: photographic paper; digital printing equipment, along with service and support; personalized photo products; film; and one-time-use cameras; and also markets motion picture archival film and on-set color management solutions to the motion picture, broadcast and production industries. The Electronic Imaging Division markets consumer digital cameras, and the Graphic Systems Division supplies products and services to the graphic printing industry. The Optical Devices Division provides optical lenses for the broadcast, cinematography, closed circuit television, videography and industrial markets, and also markets binoculars. FUJIFILM Canada Inc. sells and markets a range of Fujifilm products and services in Canada. For more information, please visit www.fujifilmusa.com/northamerica, go to www.twitter.com/fujifilmus to follow Fujifilm on Twitter, or go to www.facebook.com/FujifilmNorthAmerica to Like Fujifilm on Facebook. To receive news and information direct from Fujifilm via RSS, subscribe at www.fujifilmusa.com/rss.
FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, brings continuous innovation and leading-edge products to a broad spectrum of industries, including electronic imaging, digital printing equipment, medical systems, life sciences, graphic arts, flat panel display materials, and office products, based on a vast portfolio of digital, optical, fine chemical and thin film coating technologies. The company was among the top 10 companies around the world granted U.S. patents in 2012, and in the year ended March 31, 2013, had global revenues of $26.7 billion*. Fujifilm is committed to environmental stewardship and good corporate citizenship. For more information, please visit www.fujifilmholdings.com.
About Provision Interactive Technologies, Inc.
Provision Interactive Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of the publicly traded company Provision Holding, Inc. (PVHO.PK), is the leading purveyor of intelligent interactive 3D holographic display technologies, software, and integrated solutions for both commercial and consumer focused applications.
Provision's 3D holographic display systems represent a revolutionary technology that provides the projection of full color, high-resolution videos into space detached from the screen, without any special glasses. Provision is currently the market leader in true 3D consumer advertising display products being implemented by innovative, consumer-focused Fortune 1000 companies.
For more information, visit www.provision.tv.
All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.
CONTACT: Media Relations: The Lexicomm Group Wendi Tush Phone : (212) 794-4531 Email : Wendi@lexicommgroup.com Diane Rainey Fujifilm Phone : (914) 789-8657 Email : drainey@fujifilm.com
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UBIC Launches "Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai" Business Data Analysis Services
Published: Thursday, October 1, 2015 | By: GlobalNewswireIdentifies Opportunities and Risks Hidden in Business Communications
Provides a Wide Range of Applications, including Sales Support, Project Management, Personnel Affairs Management and Customer Support
NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 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, today announced that it will start providing "Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai" on October 1. This is a business data analysis support system that identifies potential opportunities and risks through AI-based analysis of corporate electronic data, including business emails and business reports.
Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai helps users recognize business opportunities and mitigate risks by identifying clues in email messages from customers. For example, the system may be programmed to identify texts containing sentences that may indicate customers' implicit wishes, such as the hope for a salesperson to visit.
The procedures for using the system are as follows:
- Information known as teaching data, which is classified by whether risk or opportunity identification is necessary based on customers' experiences and an organization's tacit knowledge, is fed into Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai.
- Electronic data that users want to have analyzed, including emails and business reports, are imported from their mail and file servers into Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai, which is installed in UBIC's Intelligence Cloud.
- The imported electronic data is analyzed and scores are assigned to messages and even particular sentences or phrases in accordance with their relevance based on the provided teaching data, displaying their relative rankings in terms of relevance.
- The system may be programmed so as to automatically alert users when messages or reports with a higher score than the prescribed level has been identified or to provide detailed information concerning messages or reports that receive high scores.
- The system compiles statistical and analytical reports concerning the detection and prediction of potential opportunities and risks.
Other characteristics of Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai are as follows:
- Feedback mechanism allows continuous improvement of the AI capabilities
It is possible to improve the opportunity and risk identification accuracy of the system's AI capabilities by giving the system feedback concerning the analysis results.
- Investigation of information transmission routes enables identification of relevant parties' personal relationship networks
The Central Linkage function of Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai displays a chart of the relationships between people recognized as "subject to in-depth investigation" and other people in an organization based on data concerning who sent emails to whom and who is copied on the correspondence. This function makes it possible to identify cases where persons who should have received certain information did not and cases where persons received certain information that they should not have.
- Versatile reporting function
In addition to assigning scores to electronic data on a case-by-case basis, Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai reports on the number of messages or reports containing identified risks on a division-by-division basis and on an employee-by-employee basis, as well as time-sequential changes in the number. Managers can thus recognize general trends without looking at individual messages. In additional to finding potential problems and averting risks, Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai can also be used for various other purposes such as identifying prospective customers and detecting factors obstructing sales activities. Sharing of information across business divisions can help companies to better identify problems and measure results.
- Future collaboration with external systems through the provision of application program interface ("API")
In the future, the Company plans to enable Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai to collaborate with external systems through the provision of an API. UBIC also plans to enable collaboration with the report output and analysis functions developed by sales agents.
Email has now replaced the telephone as the main medium of business communication. This situation has made it more difficult for business division managers to keep track of communications between employees and customers, and to monitor email messages thoroughly. Furthermore, the popularity of internal email communication has reduced the amount of verbal communication among employees.
Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai has been developed as a system to support the Company's clients by detecting potential business opportunities and risks in a timely manner. UBIC will promote "practical AI", which solves challenges and reduces the burden on users by feeding company-specific empirical data into AI systems, including people's tacit knowledge and intuitions.
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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CONTACT: UBIC Global PR UBIC North America, Inc. Tel: (212) 924-8242 global_pr@ubic.co.jp
