AppFolio Names Fay Sien Goon as Chief Financial Officer

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September 17, 2021

ManoMano, Europe's Largest DIY and Home Improvement Marketplace, Selects mParticle Customer Data Platform

Popular Quick Service Restaurant to Evolve Personalization and Improve Customer Experience

mParticle, the largest independent Customer Data Platform, today announced that MAX Burgers, Sweden’s favorite restaurant chain, has selected mParticle as its Customer Data Platform (CDP). After a thorough evaluation of the CDP market, MAX Burgers chose mParticle to evolve the company’s personalization initiatives and improve customer experiences, while supporting consumer privacy and governmental regulations such as GDPR.

MAX Burgers is one of the most popular restaurant chains in Sweden, outperforming other leading chains. With over 170 restaurants worldwide, MAX Burgers has been consistently recognized for having the most satisfied customers and has ranked at the top in taste tests across the board. As the quick service restaurant (QSR) industry begins to invest heavily in a physical-digital hybrid customer experience, industry pioneers such as MAX Burgers are turning to technology solutions like mParticle to build innovative digital experiences and drive a competitive advantage.

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“Personalisation in all forms is becoming more and more important. mParticle’s clear focus on mobile and deep experience in the QSR industry is a perfect match for MAX Burgers and our strategic priorities,” said Maria Ziv, chief marketing officer at MAX Burgers. “Implementing mParticle is the key underpinning of our customer data strategy as we continue to invest in providing a world class customer experience for our guests in Sweden and around the world.”

With a focus on providing an improved guest experience, MAX Burgers will use mParticle to improve personalization in the MAX mobile app, make communications more relevant and simplify the purchase process. MAX Burgers will deploy mParticle as its central, GDPR-compliant storage for customer data, providing the ability to orchestrate data across all customer channels – mobile, web and in store – and access a single, real-time view of each customer.

“A focus on quality has propelled MAX Burgers to the top of its industry. With mParticle, they can now raise the bar to deliver the highest quality experience to each and every customer,” said Dave Myers, co-founder and COO at mParticle. “mParticle’s CDP provides the critical customer data infrastructure and compliance capabilities needed to deliver on this promise time after time.”

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DLS Technology Announces Advanced Search & Predictive Analytics Services

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September 17, 2021

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DLS Technology Corp., a premiere Solutions Integrator and one of Canada’s Top Growing and Growth 400 companies, has always been at the forefront of Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing and Digital Transformation innovation. Our latest partnerships with industry-leading Business Intelligence and Data Analytics solutions are no exception.

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DLS is excited to announce that we are formally launching our DATA ANALYTICS, ADVANCED SEARCH and PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS services nationwide. Based on industry-leading and Gartner Magic Quadrant solutions such as ThoughtSpot, Microsoft PowerBI and SAS Viya, DLS is delivering advanced enterprise level big-data solutions and services to organizations big and small.

One of our flagship projects that leverages these state-of-the-art data analytics capabilities is the Government of Canada’s Data Café, where we designed and developed a platform for government employees to work on their data easily, securely, and accessibly. We made it endlessly customizable, with chatbot-enabled, and prioritized UX design to make data collection and analysis easy.

This hybrid-cloud platform was architected primarily to meet the data and analytics needs for all SSC users regardless of their skill levels. However, with the design, there is also an opportunity to bring Data Analytics to other Government of Canada departments using a “Bring Your Own Data”, and co-creation capabilities of data analytics solutions with multiple departments. This solution could transform how the Government of Canada ingest, interprets, collaborates, and uses its data.

“Whether you’re a front-line worker, clerk, manager or executive, the solutions we provide are designed to give each individual in the organization the right data in real-time. There are solutions that are as simple to use as Google, such as ThoughtSpot and MS Power BI, and others that are more complex which may require the use of Data Scientists, such as SAS Viya. Regardless, our solutions are designed to meet the needs of every member of your organization.”
Patrick Nadeau, Director of DLS Sales & Marketing.

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DLS is a leader in providing customers and clients with industry-leading business intelligence and analytics solutions.

Gartner best-of-class offerings such as ThoughtSpot’s SpotIQ are able to find insights within your data. Insights like trends, correlations, explanations of increases and decreases, and outliers (values unique from what is typical in your data). Using SpotIQ, our clients can find interesting answers in their data that they might not have found on their own. SpotIQ also learns from your responses. Insights based on how you interact with SpotIQ will result in more custom and relevant results.

“The data being leveraged by companies today are corporate wide. Data addresses client engagements, sales, products, productivity efficiencies, effectiveness, cybersecurity, infrastructure and more,” Nadeau said. “Data is far-reaching across all aspects of an organization, and it’s no longer an isolated component.”

By leveraging industry best of breed solutions like ThoughtSpot, MS PowerBI and SAS Viya, DLS can create custom solutions that provide critical and timely data for small, medium, and large enterprise companies. Regardless of the complexity needed, we can provide organizations with a custom solution that meets their needs.

“With our vKey and Zero Trust Architecture of this data analytics solutions stack, I believe that we represent one of the most comprehensive and secure solutions available. It’s the right mix of interoperability, security and compatibility. It doesn’t matter who the user is, where they are located or the type of data being used, it’s easy to integrate and use our solutions.”
Eric She, President of DLS Technology Corporation.

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BMC Virtual Exchange 2021 Slated for Oct 27-29, 2021

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September 17, 2021

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Exciting three-day agenda to gather technology and business leaders with engaging sessions and networking on innovative virtual campus

BMC, a global leader in software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, announced BMC Exchange 2021: Unleash the Power of Your Data, a free online event on October 27-29, 2021, for customers and partners to discover the strategy and solutions needed to thrive as a data-driven business.

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In its second annual global virtual format, BMC Exchange 2021 brings together the combined experience of more than 5,000 global attendees to hear BMC’s executives and guest speakers discuss the latest technology trends, share information on new BMC initiatives and products, and more.

This year’s exciting event will cover strategies for every data-driven business with DataOps, edge computing, AIOps, DevOps, and AI service management (AISM). The agenda includes thought-provoking keynotes and educational sessions on harnessing data, improving operational efficiencies, and reducing the risk of change in production environments. There will also be various product demonstrations, networking events, and the opportunity to explore a comprehensive solution showcase that features products and services from BMC and its partners.

BMC Exchange 2021 takes place on an interactive platform to enhance the event experience. Attendees will be able to create personalized environments, build avatars for meaningful interactions and alleviate the stress of being on camera, meet and greet easily with others, and take part in games to compete for prizes.

From core to cloud to edge, BMC delivers the software and services that enable over 10,000 global customers, including 84% of the Forbes Global 100, to thrive in their ongoing evolution to an Autonomous Digital Enterprise.

BMC, BMC Software, the BMC logo, and other BMC marks are the exclusive properties of BMC Software, Inc. and are registered or may be registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or in other countries.

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McAfee Announces Appointment of Gunther Bright to Board of Directors

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September 17, 2021

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American Express veteran Gunther Bright strengthens McAfee Board

McAfee Corp., a global leader in online protection, announced today that Gunther Bright, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Global and U.S. Large Enterprises at American Express, has joined its Board of Directors. Bright is a payments industry veteran with extensive experience materially growing consumer and retailer businesses directly and through partnerships. With his vast experience, his appointment strengthens the McAfee board.

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“We are excited to welcome Gunther to the McAfee board,” said Peter Leav, McAfee President and Chief Executive Officer. “His track record in cultivating high growth strategies, driving transformation, and delivering value to customers and partners globally, speaks for itself. Gunther’s expertise brings tremendous value to the board as we accelerate our consumer growth strategy.”

With over 33 years of service at American Express, Bright pioneered innovative growth strategies to fuel the Consumer Services business. He oversaw the development of strategic partnerships and targeted acquisitions that helped American Express penetrate new markets and customers.

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“I am honored to join the McAfee Board of Directors, particularly at such a pivotal time of high growth,” said Gunther Bright. “McAfee continues to transform online protection and the experience for customers and partners. With McAfee’s enviable reputation for delivering world-class, innovative products and services designed around today’s consumer, I’m looking forward to being a part of such an iconic brand.”

In addition to his newly appointed role at McAfee, Bright also serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Junior Achievement of New York Board of Directors, Vice Chairman and Executive Committee Member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Board of Trustees, and a member of the Executive Leadership Council.

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The Label Partners with Sirvo Studios, Acclaimed Developer of Guildlings

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September 17, 2021

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Mobile game publisher, The Label, announced a partnership with independent game developer, Sirvo Studios, the team behind the 2019 JRPG-inspired fantasy iOS game, Guildlings. As part of the deal, The Label has agreed to publish the studio’s next game which will be set in the Guildlings universe, but it will be a departure from what players may expect. Sirvo Studios joins a list of award-winning indie game developers to partner with The Label including Triband, Untame, Flightless, and Ed McMillen.

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“We have a long history of work with The Label on Guildlings, and we’re excited to extend our partnership on this next adventure”

“We’re excited about this partnership not just as publishers, but as fans. Guildlings introduced us to a spectacular world and we’re ready to work with Sirvo on exploring the franchise further,” said Joshua Babich, Director of Product at The Label.

“We have a long history of work with The Label on Guildlings, and we’re excited to extend our partnership on this next adventure,” said Jamie Antonisse, CEO and co-founder of Sirvo Studios.

Sirvo Studios found success with Guildlings, released exclusively on Apple Arcade. Destructoid’s Kevin Mersereau had this to say about Guildlings: “The artwork, music, story, and dialogue all had me positively brimming with joy.” The Verge called it “…incredibly charming.”

Since the release of Guildlings, Sirvo Studios has been working on new ways to play within the “Wizards and Wifi” setting. The next game in the Guildlings universe set for release in 2023 will tell a new story, with brand new mechanics and characters. It will tie into the main Guildlings story in a surprising way.

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Forrester Introduces New Forrester Decisions Service For Security & Risk Leaders

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September 17, 2021

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Service helps leaders anticipate and manage cybersecurity risks and deploy the right security technology to protect business reputation

To help firms better prepare, anticipate emerging threats, and protect their reputation, Forrester introduces Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk. According to Forrester, 54% of firms worldwide describe their business continuity plans as being ill-equipped to handle cyberattacks or other security incidents. This new service offers security and risk leaders bold vision research, curated tools and frameworks, and hands-on guidance to continuously manage risk and protect their firms against cyberattacks and emerging threats.

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Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk is part of a portfolio of 15 research services designed for executives, functional leaders, and their teams across technology, marketing, CX, sales, and product management. These services empower leaders and their teams to move quickly, de-risk decisions, and save time and money when tackling their most pressing priorities. The key priorities for the Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk service include:

Proactively managing enterprise risk and sustaining compliance.
Leading a high-performing security organization and culture.
Defending against cyberattacks and emerging threats.
Implementing identity and access management for human and nonhuman entities.
Establishing an effective privacy and data protection program.
Securing products through their lifecycle.
Securing and managing the risks of emerging technologies.

“Security, privacy, and risk management are the foundation of a trusted business,” said Sharyn Leaver, SVP of research at Forrester, “yet protecting business reputation against an increasingly complex risk landscape is no easy task. Moreover, security and risk professionals face tremendous pressure to comply with customer demands for data privacy and transparency. Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk enables leaders to not only anticipate and manage risks but also operate efficiently in a volatile business environment that requires gaining buy-in and goodwill across the organization.”

Additionally, Forrester Decisions offers a personalized digital experience to help users intuitively navigate and share content. Forrester Decisions for Security & Risk includes three core components to help security and risk leaders make progress on priorities and plan for the future:

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1. Bold vision research showcasing the latest insights, trends, predictions, and market forecasts to stay ahead of shifting customer and market dynamics. Examples include:

Customer insights: Access to data snapshots that explore consumer and business buyer attitudes, behaviors, and technology adoption.
Forrester’s signature research: Forrester’s take on the important trends impacting business today. This includes bold research such as The Trust Imperative, which provides a concrete definition of trust and identifies key levers to help companies win the trust of their customers, employees, and partners, and Embed Cybersecurity And Privacy Everywhere To Secure Your Brand And Business, which explores how technology leaders must embed cybersecurity and privacy across their firms to successfully protect their brand.

2. Curated tools and frameworks to tackle priorities with strategic models and plug-and-play templates, including:

Strategic models: Each Forrester Decisions service contains a core set of strategic models designed to help leaders take action immediately on their most pressing priorities. For example, The Forrester Defend The Trusted Enterprise Model breaks down five core sets of actions security leaders and their teams should take to protect their enterprises — evaluate and design; architect and implement; operate and automate; prevent and protect; and detect and respond. Zero Trust is embedded throughout each of these steps.
Assessments: Security and risk leaders can measure their state of future fitness to see if they have the right people, skills, and technology to achieve their objectives.
Certification courses: Within Forrester Decisions, security and risk leaders can take a Zero Trust certification course to adopt Forrester’s Zero Trust methodology at their organizations.

3. Hands-on guidance to apply Forrester research to specific needs:

Guidance sessions: Executives can work with Forrester experts to apply frameworks, models, and data to specific contexts.
Events: Forrester’s annual Security & Risk Forum, taking place November 9–10, 2021, will showcase Forrester’s latest research, best practices, and offer actionable advice to grow customer trust and drive business results.

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SnapLogic Flows Brings Self-Service, No-Code Integration and Automation to Every Business User

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September 17, 2021

SnapLogic Flows Brings Self-Service, No-Code Integration and Automation to Every Business User

Modern, intuitive interface empowers non-technical teams in sales, marketing, finance, and HR to quickly and easily develop integrations and automations

SnapLogic, provider of the #1 Hybrid Intelligent Integration Platform, released the latest version of its breakthrough new SnapLogic Flows solution. SnapLogic Flows makes it easy for teams in departments such as sales, marketing, finance, and HR to build new integrations and automations themselves that support their daily operations, solve their most pressing business needs, and speed up time-to-market and results.

SnapLogic released the latest version of SnapLogic Flows, making it fast and easy for non-technical business teams in sales, marketing, finance, and HR to build integrations and automations themselves.

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“Business users want self-service tools to get their hands on timely critical data and be able to act fast to deliver results. Our new Flows capability empowers these business users to build what they need to succeed without ever needing to learn how to code, or having to wait until IT has the time to assist,” said Mark Gibbs, VP of Product Management at SnapLogic. “It is also important to ensure that companies embracing a no-code approach do not lose control and oversight of what is created. Flows meets the needs of both groups through a federated approach, with business teams being able to create their own integrations and automations, and IT retaining visibility and governance.”

“We’re striving to get to the self-service model so that we can offer it as often as we can to users, but in a governed way,” said Lee Slezak, VP of IT Architecture, Emerging Technology & Analytics at Tyson Foods. “There is a proliferation of tools that can cater to business users and sales practices, but they all work around IT, which always puts us in a pinch. We see SnapLogic’s direction as different, and we’re very interested in the SnapLogic Flows interface approach to deliver self-service for users, while enabling central IT control. This is a key area for us.”

“To accelerate our innovation and go-to-market initiatives, it’s critical that we enable our business teams across the enterprise with easy to use, self-service technologies that allow them to connect the systems they use and access the data they need, without relying on IT,” said Giselle Rayner, Senior Business Intelligence Manager at Dexcom. “SnapLogic Flows – with its intuitive no-code interface and guided user experience – is a key enabler towards that goal.”

Accelerating Line of Business Success

SnapLogic Flows has been engineered and purpose-built to assist business users to integrate the enterprise systems and automate the processes that enable them to do their best work.

SnapLogic Flows helps marketing and sales teams to build integrations and automations that grow their prospect pipeline; capture, manage, and route leads; and analyze and report out on campaigns. With Flows, users can automate business processes across common marketing and sales apps – such as Salesforce, Marketo, Google Sheets, and Slack – to accelerate user productivity and business results. Marketing Ops and Sales Ops personnel can automate repetitive and mundane tasks such as lead upload from a field event or content syndication to Salesforce or Marketo, keep contacts synchronized between these core systems, or get notified via email or Slack whenever information about a customer contact is updated.

In addition, new support has been added for ServiceNow and Microsoft Sharepoint that enables fast and simple automations for creating, managing, and getting notified on service tickets; creating shared workspaces for campaigns; and managing content in these spaces for increasingly distributed teams, and more.

Ensuring IT Oversight and Governance

SnapLogic Flows increases productivity across all business units in the enterprise, using a guided approach to connecting cloud or on-premises applications and data. Its modern, intuitive interface and approach, including features such as in-app documentation and intelligent defaults, eliminates manual interactions and improves productivity by preventing users from losing their context by having to search for answers in another system.

Flows also enables IT to step away from the core development of these solutions, but gives them the ability to add requirements and guardrails for non-technical developers, letting them still oversee and govern what is developed before it is pushed to production.

Flows removes the mundane, repetitive development tasks from IT workflows, but still enables teams to retain the oversight necessary to ensure the right people have access to automations for specific enterprise systems, and that dangerous or problematic code does not go live and open up the company to misconfigurations, broken functionality, or security issues. Flows provides business users with autonomy while still allowing IT to maintain organizational governance standards.

“It’s becoming increasingly clear that traditional iPaaS platforms are evolving to support this next generation of business operations,” said Jim Lundy, Lead analyst and CEO of Aragon Research. “To support new digital business models and empower increased agility, organizations are transforming to automate both processes and technologies, and SnapLogic’s Flows interface is an important step in helping organizations realize this evolution.”

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Discuss.io Announces H1 Accelerated Growth Milestones; Appointment of Advisor Stan Sthanunathan

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September 17, 2021

Discuss.io Announces H1 Accelerated Growth Milestones; Appointment of Advisor Stan Sthanunathan

With YoY growth up 63 percent, the company sets its sights on bridging the gap between brands and their customers in the post-pandemic era

Discuss.io, a leading purpose-built, smart video platform for customer insights and empathy, today announced a series of milestones highlighting its accelerated growth in the first half of 2021.

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The company reached a 63 percent increase in revenue compared to H1 2020, and signed over 50 new customers, including Target, Ford and Ryder, as well as agencies like Gongos Research and Leede Research Group. Additionally, Discuss.io launched several new platform capabilities to adapt to a more agile consumer environment as COVID-19 accelerated the need for organizations to operate digitally and across mobile more efficiently.

During the first half of the year, the number of customer, user experience and market research conversations held on the Discuss.io platform more than doubled as compared to the first half of 2020, with the company on track for helping generate market insights from over 100,000 people by the end of 2021.

In addition, the company added Stan Sthanunathan to its leadership team as Advisor to its Board of Directors. Sthanunathan, a distinguished insights leader with previous positions at Unilever Global and Coca-Cola, will provide strategic direction to the company and help harness the power of insights for Discuss.io clients worldwide.

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Just a few of the many innovations that helped continue to fuel Discuss.io’s growth in the first half of 2021 included:

Respondent Management: a central hub allowing organizations to reduce friction in the consumer insights process by creating and managing their own panels and databases
Mobile Screen Sharing: a specialized app that enables customers to see every tap, scroll, zoom, or pinch in real time on smartphones or tablet screens. With the ability to see the respondent’s face, voice and body language, in addition to real-time movement on their devices, companies can inform product and application development, digital experiences, usability and more.
Augmented Insights: a suite of intelligence tools that includes sentiment analysis, tagging, and unique theme finding capabilities to help companies bridge live consumer conversation sessions and the insights gathered.

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“In this ‘remote-focused’ era, it is critical for brands to adapt with innovative products and technologies that better serve the modern customer,” said Simon Glass, CEO of Discuss.io. “We’re excited to be providing our customers with industry leading innovation that helps drive their business goals.”

Amid a year of accelerated growth, Discuss.io was also named as The Most Innovative Company of the Year in the 2021 American Business Awards and made Greenbook’s annual GRIT Top 50 Innovative Suppliers list for the seventh consecutive year.

As companies continue to collaborate digitally in uncertain times, Discuss.io provides organizations with
forward-thinking solutions to navigate the changes and new normal brought on by the pandemic.

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Enable Secure Capture, Storage and Retrieval of Check Images for Financial Service Organizations

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September 17, 2021

Enable Secure Capture, Storage and Retrieval of Check Images for Financial Service Organizations

Secure and Scalable Check Image Capture and Management

Systemware, Inc., an industry pioneer in enterprise content management, has announced the latest release and availability of Systemware Check Image Manager. The Systemware Check Image Manager is a fast and scalable solution enabling the secure capture, storage, and retrieval of images for financial services. The Check Image Manager runs within Systemware Content Cloud, utilizing the robust capture service and records management capabilities of Content Cloud which allows completion of the document lifecycle from a single platform.

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The Systemware Check Image Manager can support high-volume image capture in both batch and streaming modes and is immediately accessible through any of the access and retrieval channels within Content Cloud. Systemware also offers the Check Image Manager as a managed service.

Systemware Content Cloud utilizes a node-based architecture for deployment, allowing the benefits of efficient and elastic scalability across its services. Sets of nodes are created for each service in Check Image Manager — capture, storage, and delivery — and these nodes can span both infrastructure and geographic regions. Each set of nodes can dynamically scale up to add additional nodes if demand increases and, subsequently, reduce back down during low-volume times.

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Applications Now Open for the Simplr Artificial Intelligence and Technology Scholarship

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September 17, 2021

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Scholarship to honor and support the next generation of leaders in important, groundbreaking technologies

Simplr, a human-first, machine-enabled customer experience platform, today announced that they are now accepting applications for the 2022 Simplr Artificial Intelligence and Technology Scholarship. Now in its third year, the scholarship was established to support and encourage students who are pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Information Technology or are attending or will attend law school with a focus on intellectual property.

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“As a successful startup involved in machine learning and AI, we like to give back by encouraging students to be creative while also earning degrees in these more difficult and technical fields,” said Daniel Rodriguez, Simplr CMO. “Our hope is that winners of this scholarship become even more inspired to take a seat among the crop of leaders who will define the promise of technology for the next generation.”

The $7500 scholarship will be given to the applicant who writes the most compelling essay on why they have chosen their field of study and how it applies to the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning, Blockchain technology, and the Internet of Things. Submissions will be scored by senior members of the Simplr team and other scholarship sponsors.

Applicants must be currently enrolled full time at an accredited community college, college or university, or accredited law school, or will be enrolled in the Winter of 2021 or Spring of 2022. International students and students studying under the DACA program are eligible. Entries must be submitted by December 31, 2021. The winner will be selected and notified by January 31, 2022 and will receive the funds by February 28, 2022.

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Triton Digital Releases the August 2021 U.S. Podcast Report

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September 17, 2021

Triton Digital Releases the August 2021 U.S. Podcast Report

New Shows Debuting this period include Candace (Cumulus Podcast Network), Dr. Death Dr. Death: Miracle Man (Wondery) and 5 things (Wondery).

Triton Digital^®, the global technology and services provider to the digital audio and podcast industry, announced the release of the latest U.S. Podcast Report for the August 2021 reporting period (August 2 – August 29, 2021), as measured by Triton’s Podcast Metrics measurement service.

The Top Network Reports are ranked by Average Weekly Downloads and Average Weekly Users, in accordance with v2.1 of the IAB Podcast Technical Measurement Guidelines.

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In this reporting period, Stitcher Media remained in the #1 spot on the Top Networks Report with 31.2M Average Weekly Downloads and 10M Average Weekly Users, followed by NPR with 31.1M Average Weekly Downloads and 8M Average Weekly Users. The Audacy Podcast Network ranked #3 with 18M Average Weekly Downloads and 6M Average Weekly Users.

The Top Podcasts are also ranked by both Average Weekly Downloads and Average Weekly Users, in accordance with the latest IAB Podcast Technical Measurement Guidelines. Leading podcasts by Average Weekly Downloads include Crime Junkie (audiochuck), The Ben Shapiro Show (Cumulus Podcast Network), Up First (NPR), and Dateline NBC (NBCUniversal News Group), with NPR News Now (NPR) remaining in the #1 spot this reporting period.

Leading debut podcasts by Downloads include Dr. Death: Miracle Man (Wondery) and Candace (Cumulus Podcast Network). Leading debut podcasts by Top Listeners include Dr. Death: Miracle Man (Wondery) and 5 Things (Wondery).

In this reporting period, Average Weekly Downloads are up 11% and Average Weekly Users are up 12% from the last reporting period (July 2021).

Certified by the IAB Tech Lab, Triton’s Podcast Metrics eliminates inconsistent measurement practices and self-reported data, providing content creators, marketers, media buyers, and the audio industry at large with validated and transparent podcast audience data.

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Nielsen’s The Gauge: Monthly Total TV And Streaming Viewing Snapshot For August Shows Back-To-School Influencing Streaming Behavior

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September 17, 2021

Nielsen's The Gauge: Monthly Total TV And Streaming Viewing Snapshot For August Shows Back-To-School Influencing Streaming Behavior

Children heading back to the classroom pushed pause on the continued growth of streaming in late summer

Nielsen announced that The Gauge, its monthly total TV and streaming snapshot, unveiled that in August 2021, streaming maintained a 28% share of total TV viewing, compared with broadcast TV (24%) and cable (38%).

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The August data shows that after three months of steady growth, the share of streaming detailed in The Gauge remained static.

Two influencing factors counterbalanced, underpinning this month-over-month consistency in share over the platforms. First, children 6 to 17 years old, who headed from their flat screens to the blackboards, viewed about 7.5% less. The declines predominantly affected younger-skewing platforms, with more adult-oriented platforms actually seeing month-over-month gains.

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Offsetting this viewing shift among children was a 0.5% increase in overall TV viewing. This was buoyed by adults tuning in to broadcast programming, such as the Olympics, which drove a 2.9% viewing increase in this category.

Tracking the trajectory of streaming consumption—and viewing it alongside other TV usage—has become a crucial source of information for the industry as content creators, media companies, streaming platforms, advertisers, industry groups, talent agencies and the talent themselves all seek clarity around the various video content that consumers engage with.

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Why Leaders are Key to Inclusion–and How to Get Them Ready

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September 17, 2021

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New MBTI® Workshop Focuses on Leaders to Make Inclusive Cultures a Reality

80% of organizations are ineffective at developing a diverse and inclusive leadership bench. So says research by Gartner.

If your organization wants an inclusive culture but doesn’t know where to start, Inclusive Leadership: Harnessing Diversity of Thought—a new workshop from The Myers-Briggs Company—gives you the tools. And it’s based on the latest research.

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A third of leaders think they’re more inclusive than they really are

New research from The Myer-Briggs Company and recent webinar by Dr. Rachel Cubas-Wilkinson share that one third of leaders think they’re more inclusive than they really are (aka The Inclusion Delusion).

“To be effective, inclusivity must start at the executive level,” writes Sherrie Haynie, Director of U.S. Professional Services for The Myers-Briggs Company, in Forbes.

Focus on ‘the invisible diversity characteristic’ to be a more inclusive leader

The workshop introduces and explores diversity of thought—’the invisible diversity characteristic’—as a key way to increase inclusion. Diversity of thought refers to the less visible aspects of diversity, like thinking styles, lived experiences, work styles, personality types, and values. Leaders attending the workshop learn why this is a crucial part of inclusion, and why inclusion is essential if diversity is to work.

The workshop also covers:

Self-evaluation of inclusiveness, open-mindedness, and self-awareness
The differences between leaders’ backgrounds and their team members’ backgrounds
8 critical traits to developing inclusive behaviors, including flexibility, empathy and emotional intelligence.
How to write personalized action plans based on the competency model and MBTI personality type.

Leaders leave with practical skills for leveraging differences effectively. They know exactly how to move forward to create inclusive teams and cultures.

New research: Inclusion has positive impact on well-being

According to the new report, Personality type and organizational inclusion, people who feel more included by their manager show higher levels of well-being. They also show less counterproductive behavior and are more likely to have a growth mindset.

“An inclusive leader is aware of their own biases and factors these into their decision-making,” said John Hackston, Head of Thought Leadership at The Myers-Briggs Company. “This empowers them to help others feel valued, respected and heard.”

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NAVER Bolsters AI R&D Capability, Appoints Global leading AI Professionals in Search Quality and Natural Language Processing

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September 17, 2021

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– Dr. Young-Bum Kim and Professor Tetsuya Sakai seasoned researchers in search quality evaluation and natural language processing joined NAVER R&D force

– Artificial intelligence experts with broad academic connections and field experience to enrich NAVER’s R&D community

– NAVER to strengthen cooperation throughout the global AI R&D belt, and upgrade its AI search and recommendation services by bringing in global talents

NAVER Corporation announced that the company is bolstering its global AI R&D belt with outstanding artificial intelligence experts in search quality evaluation and natural language processing. NAVER expects to accelerate cooperation within its AI community by expanding its talents with robust experience and knowledge in the field.

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To that end, NAVER appointed Dr. Young-Bum Kim, an AI expert in conversational AI as head of Applied Science and Executive Director of U.S. R&D at NAVER Search CIC. The company also appointed Professor Tetsuya Sakai, dean of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Waseda University in Japan, as its general research advisor. Dr. Kim and Professor Sakai will work together and create synergies for upgrading NAVER’s search and AI service. The appointment of two of the world’s leading researchers in AI studies will further consolidate NAVER’s leadership in the field.

Dr. Kim led the Dynamic Ranking Science Group, a key component of the artificial intelligence platform Alexa, at Amazon. He developed key technologies to understand the user’s context and intentions, and provide optimal service. In particular, he has established an AI system that provides the response desired by general and corporate users through tens of thousands of Alexa Skills and other devices. Meanwhile, Dr. Kim currently serves as a chair professor at Hallym University and an adjunct professor at the Department of Computer Science at Korea University.

Professor Sakai used to be the director of the Natural Language Processing Lab at NewsWatch and work at Microsoft Research Asia and served as the dean of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Over the past 20 years, Professor Sakai has continued research on how to evaluate the effectiveness of desktop/mobile search, Q&A, and natural language conversations and he is renowned as a researcher in search quality evaluation with robust experience and knowledge in the field. He is the vice-chair at the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) and the chair of the Steering Committee at the International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR). With his active participation in international academic communities, Professor Sakai is forming strong global networks with leading researchers in AI studies.

NAVER is actively bringing in global AI talents with the aim to further enhance its search service quality and solidify cooperation throughout its global AI R&D belt that spans from Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Vietnam to Europe and U.S. Along with investments and an expanding talent pool, NAVER aims to lead the global AI R&D community to counter China and U.S.’s predominance in the AI field.

To create the research belt, NAVER established NAVER LABS Europe in 2017 by acquiring the Xerox Research Center in France and expanded the research cooperation to countries in Asia, including Japan, Vietnam, and Hong Kong. Moreover, in May, NAVER appointed Jin Young Kim, a former senior researcher at Microsoft and Snap, to expand NAVER’s R&D network in North America. As a result, NAVER is actively promoting joint R&D to strengthen its global AI ecosystem and secure the highest level of technology with excellent talents and academic institutions worldwide.

“We expect NAVER’s abundant data and service operation know-how and the performance of new experts will create synergy to provide users with a more advanced search experience,” said Inho Kang, Executive Officer at NAVER Search CIC. “As a leading technology company, NAVER will strengthen collaboration and exchanges with outstanding researchers around the world and promote further technological growth.”

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LuxSci’s Email Experts Ready To Assist With New Federal Zero Trust Guidance

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September 17, 2021

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LuxSci, a Boston-based Secure Messaging provider, is prepared to help agencies meet the Zero Trust and email security requirements outlined in the Office of Management and Budget’s new draft on Federal Zero Trust Guidance.

Many cybersecurity and IT professionals are familiar with the basic tenets of Zero Trust, but despite the major implications for email security, they are unfamiliar with MTA STS encryption specifications.

The draft guidance states: “CISA will work with FedRAMP to evaluate MTA STS as a viable government-wide solution for encrypted email and to make resulting recommendations to OMB.”

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LuxSci was an early advocate for SMTP MTA STS as a way to increase the security of encrypted email transmissions. In 2018, MTA STS support was added to LuxSci’s email security platform and to its free and publicly available TLS checker so organizations can check the configurations of mail servers before sending possibly insecure emails.

“Enforcing SMTP MTA STS represents a raising of the bar for email encryption standards,” said Erik Kangas, PhD, Founder and CEO of LuxSci. “CISA’s evaluation has the potential to drastically change how the industry thinks about email security. LuxSci has long promoted MTA STS and is ready to assist any organization seeking to implement improvements to email transmission security.”

SMTP MTA STS is an “add-on” technology which, when supported by both senders and recipients, significantly improves the security of TLS encryption when transmitting email messages across the Internet. MTA STS represents the next level of security by enforcing the use of modern encryption ciphers and preventing most man-in-the-middle attacks.

LuxSci recently conducted a “State of the Industry” analysis of recipient TLS security and MTA STS support across a vast number of email domains. The analysis found that while 85% of email domains support all of the security settings needed for MTA STS, only 0.03% of domains have MTA STS enabled and enforced. By providing guidance that encourages the use of MTA STS, the federal government will encourage industries to make major strides towards securing sensitive email communications.

As a leader in email security, LuxSci strongly supports the enabling and enforcement of MTA STS. LuxSci created a “Forced TLS” service to automatically check all of the MX records for a domain to ensure they are configured according to best practices for strong SMTP TLS, including use of TLS 1.2+ and NIST-recommended ciphers. When a domain does not have a secure enough TLS configuration, emails should not be sent to that domain with only TLS to protect it (at LuxSci, such emails are automatically sent using other secure delivery methods). This prevents insecure email delivery due to server misconfiguration or protocol downgrades.

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Correlation One Announces 2021 Data Science for All / Women Program in Partnership with Jane Street, TIAA, WorldQuant, and others

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September 17, 2021

Correlation One Announces 2021 Data Science for All / Women Program in Partnership with Jane Street, TIAA, WorldQuant, and others

Correlation One, a data analytics training and assessments technology company, today announced the launch of the third annual Data Science for All (DS4A) / Women program, which will take place virtually this fall.

DS4A is a unique fellowship program that helps women students and professionals develop into data-driven leaders of tomorrow. The program includes seven weeks of world-class technical training, professional development workshops, and mentorship from senior industry leaders.

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This year’s program includes 250 DS4A Fellows who were selected from over 5,000 applicants from 10 countries. Fellows include top PhDs, researchers, and early-career practitioners, along with executives who manage teams of data-driven professionals.

“Data literacy is increasingly becoming a requirement for all business leaders. Every industry is becoming more data-driven, and as they do, effective leaders must become data literate,” said Sham Mustafa and Rasheed Sabar, Correlation One’s Co-Founders and Co-CEOs. “The DS4A / Women program is designed to meaningfully increase the number of qualified women leaders in data and analytics, as well as in product management, business intelligence, marketing, people analytics, financial trading, and every industry being disrupted by data.”

The program is supported by employer partners who create fellowships that allow participants to partake at no cost. The first group of companies that have pledged their support includes Jane Street, TIAA, and WorldQuant. These companies also offer invaluable professional mentorship and job opportunities to graduating Fellows.

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“Activating and empowering a passion for data science starts with training, experience, and mentorship – this program offers all three,” said Orly Sharma of Jane Street. “Data skills are central to the work we do at Jane Street, and they are also increasingly fundamental to pioneering work being done across the industry. We’re proud to support this program which is helping intelligent, creative, inspired women to achieve their personal and professional goals through the power of problem-solving and data science.”

“Data, technology, and expanding opportunity are central to our work at WorldQuant,” said Jordana Upton, Global Head of Human Resources at WorldQuant. “This DS4A initiative empowers women seeking to advance their careers, learn about subjects that are critical to the future of work, and expand their professional opportunities. At a time when data science skills are increasingly valuable in the workplace, WorldQuant is honored to partner with, and work alongside, Correlation One in this effort.”

The Fall 2021 program will take place from September 18th to October 29th and will include seven weeks of case-based instruction, professional mentorship, and career coaching. During the program, teams of Fellows will complete capstone projects to be presented at a virtual finale on October 29th.

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Contentful Identified as a Leader in the Aragon Research Globe™ for Content Experience Platforms, 2021

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September 17, 2021

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Vendors are evaluated based on completeness of strategy and performance

Contentful, the leading content platform for digital experiences, today announced it has been identified as a leader in the Aragon Research Globe™ for Content Experience Platforms, 2021ⁱ report by Aragon Research, Inc. The Aragon Research Globe is a market evaluation tool that represents an analysis of a specific market and its key vendors.

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Contentful helps digital builders — developers, designers, and content creators — work together to assemble content and deliver digital experiences across a wide range of channels, including websites, mobile apps, wearables, and digital displays.

According to Aragon Research Globe, those companies that are identified as “leaders” have comprehensive strategies that align with industry direction and market demand and perform effectively against those strategies.

“We are honored to be identified as a leader by the Aragon Research Globe in its inaugural Content Experience Platforms report,” said Steve Sloan, CEO of Contentful. “We believe that our placement in this report highlights our focus on builders as they continue to push the envelope of what is possible in digital experiences. We look forward to continuing to build such an important global partner ecosystem as the community continues to redefine the role of content in today’s digital-first era.”

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Compasso UOL Expands its Portfolio by Acquiring Content Thread

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September 17, 2021

Compasso UOL Expands its Portfolio by Acquiring Content Thread

US based digital agency specializing in Adobe Experience Cloud

Compasso UOL announces the acquisition of Content Thread, a US based digital agency and consulting firm specializing in Adobe Experience Cloud. With the acquisition, the Brazilian company adds a deep expertise of state-of-the-art platforms in content management and user experience management to its portfolio, and advances its operations in the North American market.

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“Content Thread is recognized for its high-level digital service expertise. The company offers complete design solutions with a deep understanding of the Adobe products, including Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Target and Adobe Analytics. The acquisition is an important movement for Compasso UOL which reinforces our mission helping big global companies grow their business focusing on their client experiences”, said Alexis Rockenbach, Compasso UOL’s CEO.

Founded in 2013, Content Thread is located in Atlanta, Georgia and specializes in Content Management Systems with deep expertise in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). The Content Thread team is composed of developers, designers, and digital experts who are working for global brands, high potential start-ups and companies seeking growth.

“We find many common values in this partnership, especially with our focus on our employees and priority of exceptional client experiences. We are very excited to be a part of Compasso UOL. We are sure that this partnership will strengthen the growth and expansion of Content Thread”, said Chris McIlvoy, CEO, Content Thread.

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FAM Central Catches the NFT Trend and Creates a “Golden Valley” – Where NFT Can Shine

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September 17, 2021