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With Kotapay, Criterion Makes Direct Deposit Easier

Criterion is proud to partner with Kotapay, which simplifies direct-deposit payroll. The integration allows a single file to be uploaded securely, making direct deposit painless and eliminating the need to upload files to multiple financial institutions. -   - “This integration not only saves money through the obvious ways of eliminating printed checks and postage, but will reduce administrative time overall,” said Criterion CSO Steven Kuhn. “Like every enhancement we make, it is arrived at...

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NICE CEO Barak Eilam Named 2020 CEO of the Year by Calcalist

NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced that its CEO, Barak Eilam has been selected as CEO of the Year for 2020 by Calcalist, a leading financial newspaper in Israel.  Barak Eilam's top ranking is the result of a prominent rating by over 80 senior executives, analysts, underwriters and investment managers in the Israeli market. Based on four key criteria, namely consideration of shareholders, performance, transparency and leadership through the COVID-19 crisis, the rating is conducted annua...

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Thomson Reuters Announces Annual Renewal of Normal Course Issuer Bid

Thomson Reuters Corporation (TSX / NYSE: TRI) announced that it has received approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) for the annual renewal of its normal course issuer bid (NCIB). Under the renewed NCIB, up to 5 million common shares (which represents approximately 1% of Thomson Reuters issued and outstanding common shares) may be repurchased between January 4, 2021 and January 3, 2022. Thomson Reuters has set a target to maintain approximately 500 million common shares outstanding...

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Huawei Challenges Global Scientists on World-Level Data Storage Problems with OlympusMons Award 2021

At the 2020 Global Storage Professors Forum, Huawei announced the OlympusMons Award 2021 and invited global scientists to tackle the two most difficult problems in data storage. Over one hundred storage experts from Huawei, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and top universities and research institutes home and abroad witnessed the announcement. Innovative Data Storage Paves the Way to a Digital Future William Xu, member of Huawei's Board of Directors and director of Huawei's Institut...

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Criterion Offerings Span the Spectrum of ERP Systems Used Worldwide

With its portfolio of integrations for all major ERP platforms, Criterion's state-of-the-art HCM offerings are available for virtually every flavor including all versions of Sage, including Intacct, 300, and CRE, Acumatica, MS Dynamics, Netsuite, TrackTik, Manusonic and IFS. The cloud-based human capital management solution includes features sought by construction ERP users, including management of general contractors, subcontractors, financial management, HCM accounting, payroll, and serv...

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CDW and Intel Partner to Simplify the Complex for Customers

What's New:  As Intel looks to deliver its industry leading technology in 2021, the company is expanding its partnership with CDW to bring new solutions to market that solve customer's business challenges. Combining Intel's cutting-edge technology with CDW's IT orchestration capabilities and services provides end-to-end solutions for customers. “At Intel we rely on our trusted partners like CDW to bring world-class solutions to life. With technology from Intel and services from CDW, toge...

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Wolters Kluwer enhances end-to-end user experience for latest PPP funding through TSoftPlus software and eOriginal platform

In anticipation of the recently announced U.S. fiscal stimulus package, which provides $ 284.5 billion in additional Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) stimulus funding,  Wolters Kluwer's Compliance Solutions business  has further enhanced its award-winning  Paycheck Protection Program Supported by TSoftPlus™  software to expedite Small Business Administration (SBA) loan applications. Thanks to its  recently announced acquisition of eOriginal, Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions is also able...

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Asia's Premiere Incident Response Company, Blackpanda and Darknet Experts DarkOwl Strike Partnership to Enhance Cyber Crisis Management

Top US darknet intelligence company, DarkOwl and the digital forensics experts at Blackpanda are pleased to announce a partnership that will provide Blackpanda's clients with expanded protection and detection of cyber risk. - - Gene Yu, Co-Founder and CEO of Blackpanda comments, “Blackpanda is excited to partner with DarkOwl. Their extensive knowledge of the darknet and massive database of dark web content adds another layer of investigative intelligence, providing a better understanding of...

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Avaya Helps NORAD Spread Christmas Cheer To Millions of Families Following Santa Claus Across The Globe

Avaya  (NYSE: AVYA), a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, is once again sharing its holiday spirit as well as its technology, to help track Santa Claus' journey across the night sky on Christmas Eve, supporting tens of thousands of calls from children of all ages who eagerly await his visit. Avaya OneCloud CCaaS contact center solutions support millions of customer calls, web chats, and texts around the world every day, serving healthcare...

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Wolters Kluwer Lien Solutions wins seven new awards announcing record number of industry accolades

Wolters Kluwer Lien Solutions  has been honored with two Golden Bridge Awards, two Business Intelligence Group (BIG) Awards and three Best in Biz North America Awards. The latest seven award wins mean the business is finishing off the year with a record number of industry honors, having earned a total of 31 industry awards in 2020 for excellence in product innovation. Categories in which Lien Solutions earned honors in these latest awards range from Best New Product Feature of the Year a...

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Wärtsilä helps Wintershall Noordzee mitigate offshore hazards with next-gen marine traffic monitoring system

Wärtsilä Voyage has successfully completed its first commercial installation of the state-of-the-art  Wärtsilä Navi-Harbour WebVTS 5.0  software application. The system was ordered by Netherlands-based Wintershall Noordzee B.V. to provide greater safety for their offshore installations in the North Sea. The order was placed in Q1 2020 and the project was finalised with full customer acceptance in November. The Wärtsilä Navi-Harbour WebVTS features an early warning system to avoid collisio...

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Bosch launches new Human Skin Temperature Detection solution

- - • Contactless solution can scan people for elevated skin temperature within a range of 2.5 to 4.5 meters (8 to 14 feet). - • The camera's thermal module is highly precise and has a radiometric accuracy of +/- 0.5 °C / 0.9 °F, tested by an independent third-party lab. - • Facilitates single-person stop-and-stand temperature screening in office buildings, manufacturing plants, and airports. - • Built-in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and smart profiles filter possible anomalies caused by envi...

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Worldwide Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) Market Rolls Along in 3Q20, According to IDC

The worldwide unified communications & collaboration (UC&C) market grew 26.7% year over year and 6.6% quarter over quarter to $ 12.2 billion in the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20), according to the results published in the International Data Corporation ( IDC ) Worldwide Quarterly Unified Communications & Collaboration Qview. As some organizations moved from crisis phase to recovery phase with regard to the pandemic, it was anticipated that worldwide UC&C growth would be driven by customers...

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Movistar+ presents an application platform for making purchases via the TV

- - • As part of its vision of the Digital Home, Telefónica is expanding its catalogue of Living Apps available on Movistar+ with the creation of “Compras”, a showcase of applications developed by different companies for making purchases in a simple and secure manner. - • This new platform, which is being launched progressively, enables companies to offer their online stores to the millions of Movistar+ users and create a new and innovative point of sale for interaction with their custom...

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Avid Hires Top Cloud and SaaS Talent to Accelerate Next Phase of Strategic Growth

Avid ® ( Nasdaq: AVID ) announced it has begun to reshape its executive leadership team to drive the next phase of its strategic growth, including the company's rapidly expanding subscription software business. The company took a number of steps including hiring top business and technology talent with strong cloud & SaaS expertise, sharpening its focus on its core audio and video business areas, and repositioning customer-facing functions to elevate the company's go-to-market performance...

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Kodak Reaches Agreement to form Strategic Alliance with Southern Lithoplate Inc. (SLP)

Kodak and Southern Lithoplate Inc. (SLP) announced a new alliance under which Southern Lithoplate will become a key supplier of Kodak solutions. This arrangement will leverage Southern Lithoplate's strong customer relationships and expertise within the newspaper sector and Kodak's world-class products and technology, providing the print industry with leading-edge solutions and support for increased profitability and success. Southern Lithoplate is based in North Carolina and is well-known...

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Airly Selects The People's Network to Track Air Quality Around the Globe

SAN FRANCISCO -- ( December 17, 2020 ) - Helium, the company behind one of the world's first peer-to-peer wireless networks, announces today that it has teamed up with Airly, an IoT company providing air quality monitoring solutions globally, to make air pollution information accessible and understandable to everyone.  According to the [url=https://www.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution#tab=tab_

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Get Free Gifts Every Day in Joyoshare Christmas Party

Joyoshare Studio, a decent multimedia software developer and provider, officially rolls out its Christmas campaign, from 16th December to 8th January 2021, to celebrate the Xmas festival and welcome the coming of the New Year with the best wishes. In this event, users have chances to obtain free gifts every day and enjoy storewide multimedia products, including the worth-expecting VidiKit, the best-selling Joyoshare Video Cutter, and more surprising bundle sale. - - 1. Win Free Christmas...

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Arvind Krishna Elected IBM Chairman

The IBM (NYSE: IBM ) board of directors has elected Arvind Krishna chairman of the board, effective January 1, 2021.  Mr. Krishna, who is IBM's chief executive officer and a member of the board, succeeds IBM executive chairman Virginia M. Rometty, who is retiring on December 31, 2020, as the company previously announced in January of this year. Mr. Krishna, 58, was elected IBM's 10th CEO in January, and assumed the position on April 6, 2020 after holding numerous senior leadership positi...

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Zebra Technologies Wins IoT Innovator Award for Innovation in Retail & Customer Experiences

Zebra Technologies Corporation  (NASDAQ: ZBRA), an innovator at the front line of business with solutions and partners that deliver a performance edge, today announced that Compass Intelligence recognized its SmartSight™ intelligent automation solution with an IoT Retail & Customer Experiences Innovator Award. The Retail & Customer Experiences category evaluated solutions that support industry innovation, advancements in processes or operations specific to retail services, customer expe...

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Krux Founders Launch PrivacyGrader, a Free Web Platform that Analyzes Compliance and Security Risk Under CCPA and GDPR Laws

San Francisco (Dec. 16, 2020 ) -- Ketch, the company making it easier for businesses to automate data regulation, is unveiling PrivacyGrader.com, a free privacy score that helps businesses measure compliance risk. Founded by technology veterans Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya, and created by legal privacy experts from Berkeley, PrivacyGrader.com scores how well the website is abiding by current data regulations.  Get your free analysis today at: PrivacyGrader.com  Through

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Lufthansa Group airlines and Sabre sign new industry-leading distribution agreement

- - • Mutually flexible, technology-oriented agreement fostering innovative New Distribution Capability (NDC) solutions - • Diversified NDC program supporting different commercial models - - - The Lufthansa Group airlines, one of the worlds' leading airline groups, and Sabre Corporation, the software and technology company that powers the global travel industry, today announced a new, mutually flexible distribution agreement that enables modern airline retailing as well as technology innov...

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Wolters Kluwer's Annual Indicator Survey shows significant risk, compliance concerns for U.S. lenders

Regulatory compliance and risk concerns remain high in a number of key areas for U.S. banks and credit unions, according to the results of Wolters Kluwer's  2020 Regulatory & Risk Management Indicator  survey. This year's survey, conducted by  Wolters Kluwer's Compliance Solutions business, generated a Main Indicator Score of 103, an eight-point increase over the 2019 score. This was influenced by concerns about managing regulatory change, mortgage-related regulations, and U.S. Coronavir...

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Visma acquires Khonraad—a Dutch social care platform serving municipalities in the Netherlands

Visma, an established leader in business-critical software for private enterprises and public organisations in the Nordics, Baltics and Benelux, acquires Khonraad, a leading provider of mission-critical services focused on automation of workflows within social care in the Netherlands. Visma has grown rapidly in the Dutch market with a number of acquisitions over the last few years, now earning about €350 million in revenue and employing over 2 000 people in the highly strategic region. By...

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TietoEVRY has been recognized by young professionals in Norway as one of the top ten companies to work for

TietoEVRY has again been recognized by young professionals as one of the top ten companies in Norway to work for, according to Universum's most recent annual survey. We are pleased to hold our position in the ranking as we take great pride in striving to be a magnet for young professionals all over the Nordic region. But what is it that makes working at TietoEVRY so appealing for the next generation of talent? Values and a warm environment Frida Wennstam started in the company in an...

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Avaya Earns Frost & Sullivan Award for Excellence in Healthcare Solutions

  Avaya  (NYSE: AVYA), a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, today announced it has earned  Frost & Sullivan's  Competitive Strategy Leadership Award for its extensive portfolio of Avaya OneCloud healthcare solutions. The firm recognized Avaya based on its healthcare-specific portfolio of solutions capable of being adapted to a wide range of healthcare use cases, along with its ability to assess and respond to the industry's particular requ...

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NTT DATA Services to Acquire Hashmap to Advance Data-driven Analytics and AI Solutions

NTT DATA Services, a global digital business and IT services leader, has entered an agreement to acquire Hashmap, adding deep technical expertise with modern data platforms to support analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Together, the companies will help clients gain insights from their cloud data and accelerate digital enablement. - - Hashmap is a  Snowflake Premier Partner  and has  partnerships  with  Databricks  and several other leading cloud, data and technology p...

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Porsche Digital develops artificial intelligence for noise detection

Porsche Digital, the subsidiary of the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer, is expanding its product portfolio. The digital assistant 'Sounce' will have an improved ability to detect background noise – for example, during vehicle component tests. Among other things, the aim is to improve the development and production of components in the automotive industry. - - The technology, which uses deep learning methods, can reliably and precisely detect noise, for example during endurance tests...

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Industry leaders in tech, education and financial services join together in new national council to activate AI for the greater good

On Friday, leading organizations across the U.S. financial services, technology and academic industries announced the formation of a new National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI). The council brings together the Brookings Institution, CUNY, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Mastercard, Microsoft, Nasdaq, Plug and Play, SUNY, University of Central Florida, and Visa with the goal of maximizing technology to jointly solve specific issues of interest to the industry. “The goal o...

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Honeywell Makes Building Management Easier for Small- to Medium-Sized Buildings

Honeywell ( NYSE: HON ), a global leader in connected buildings,  launched Honeywell Small and Medium Building Administrator powered by Honeywell Forge, an affordable and scalable building portfolio management system designed specifically for small- to medium-sized buildings. The Honeywell Small and Medium Building Administrator can save users up to 30% in facility energy costs1, improve visibility into building portfolio performance, and help facility managers optimize occupant comfort, o...

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Launch Trailers for 9 Monkeys of Shaolin Created with Fusion Studio

Blackmagic Design announced Amsterdam based 3D animation studio Colorbleed used Fusion Studio to create trailers for the announcement and launch of the video game 9 Monkeys of Shaolin. Colorbleed was responsible for directing and producing the trailers for the side scrolling game. The game, developed by Sobaka Studio and published by Buka Entertainment, echos Kung Fu films from the 1970s. You play as Chinese fisherman Wei Cheng who has to avenge the death of his friends and family slaught...

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Batelco Sees Growth In Avaya OneCloud Business

Batelco, the leading digital solutions provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain, today reported growth in subscriptions to Avaya (NYSE: AVYA) OneCloud UCaaS and Avaya OneCloud CCaaS solutions that it offers as a cloud-based service through Batelco's Bahrain data centre. The two companies announced this success story during  GITEX Technology Week 2020, marking one year since they signed an agreement to debut the joint services. The dramatic success of the partnership, with seats growing by doub...

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Wolters Kluwer cloud-based expert solutions named global leaders in 2020 Stratus Awards for Cloud Computing

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting  today announced that two of its innovative cloud-based expert solutions were recognized by the Business Intelligence Group with the  2020 Stratus Awards for Cloud Computing  in their annual business award program.  CCH Axcess™ Client Collaboration  was named a global leader in the Cloud Collaboration category and the  TeamMate+ global expert solution  was recognized in the Software as a Service category. Through these awards, the Business Intelligence Grou...

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Elsevier acquires Shadow Health, a leading provider of best-in-class healthcare simulations

Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, and part of RELX, has acquired Shadow Health, a Florida-based developer of virtual simulations in nursing and healthcare education. Shadow Health's Digital Clinical Experiences train and prepare nurses and healthcare practitioners for clinical settings. Its cutting-edge simulations, powered by Shadow Health's Conversation Engine, enable learners to practice and apply their clinical reasoning skills through life-...

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Canon U.S.A., Inc., Receives Two BLI 2021 Awards in the Document Imaging Software Category

While businesses continue navigating through a hybrid work environment, Canon U.S.A., Inc., and its channel partners are offering solutions that can help organizations and their employees stay connected and maintain access to critical business information – regardless of location. Showcasing the quality of these solutions, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is the recipient of two Buyers Lab (BLI) 2021 Pick Awards in the Document Imaging Software Category: Outstandi...

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Delphi Enhances COVIDcast With Change Healthcare Claims Data

Change Healthcare and Carnegie Mellon University's Delphi Research Group announced the launch of Delphi's enhanced COVIDcast real-time COVID-19 indicators. - - Since April, Delphi has been collecting real-time data on self-reported COVID-19 symptoms and other disease indicators nationwide. This county-level information about the coronavirus pandemic is updated continuously and shared with both the public and health researchers. Now, COVIDcast is taking a further step by adding de-identi...

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Johnson Controls and Microsoft announce global collaboration, launch integration between OpenBlue Digital Twin and Azure Digital Twins

- - • Microsoft announces the general availability of Azure Digital Twins - • Holistic integration across digital twin technologies will enable users to digitally manage physical spaces, maximize efficiency, support COVID-19 safety and pilot new solutions - • Solution aims to encompass the entire ecosystem of building and device management technologies with digital cloud technologies - • Collaboration will support efficient and environmentally friendly design, construction and ongoing...

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Hugo's Family Marketplace Chooses Solutions from SmartSense by Digi to Expand, Automate, and Modernize Food-Safety Efforts

SmartSense by Digi, part of Digi International®, (NASDAQ: DGII) ( www.digi.com ), a leading global provider of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity products and services, today announced that Hugo's Family Marketplace has selected its equipment monitoring and task-management solutions to improve food safety via automation and organization-wide visibility. As the supermarket chain in North Dakota and Minnesota continues to expand and modernize, it will open its 11th location later this...

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TietoEVRY's climate actions recognized with top ranking

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is a non-profit organization that aims to help businesses and government get a better overview of their own climate impact. It publishes a global yearly ranking of companies' environmental status with a global framework. Both former Tieto and EVRY have had CDP and climate related activities high on their agendas already before the merger. Now, after a year of joint operations under TietoEVRY, the company's efforts to tackle climate change have been recog...

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Kodak wins an EDP Award 2020 for its new Antimicrobial Clear Dry Ink for KODAK NEXFINITY and NEXPRESS Digital Presses

Kodak has been selected for the fourth consecutive year as a winner of one of the European Digital Press Association's EDP Awards. The company received this coveted industry accolade in the “Environmental Ink/Toner” category for its KODAK Antimicrobial Clear Dry Ink, which was developed for KODAK NEXFINITY and KODAK NEXPRESS Digital Presses. KODAK Antimicrobial Clear Dry Ink is an antibacterial and antifungal powder, designed to be applied during production on a NEXFINITY or NEXPRESS Digi...

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Criterion Wins Hearst Connecticut Top Workplaces 2020 Award

Criterion, a leader in HR, payroll and recruiting management software, has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2020 honor by Hearst Connecticut Media Group. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage, LLC. The anonymous survey uniquely measures 15 drivers of engaged cultures that are critical to the success of any organization including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a...

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NVIDIA Research Achieves AI Training Breakthrough Using Limited Datasets

NVIDIA Research's latest AI model is a prodigy among generative adversarial networks. Using a fraction of the study material needed by a typical GAN, it can learn skills as complex as emulating renowned painters and recreating images of cancer tissue. By applying a breakthrough neural network training technique to the popular NVIDIA StyleGAN2 model, NVIDIA researchers reimagined artwork based on fewer than 1,500 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Using NVIDIA DGX systems to acc...

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Accenture Federal Services Wins Contract to Modernize Client Case-Management System for the Administrative Office of the US Courts

Accenture Federal Services (AFS), a subsidiary of Accenture (NYSE: ACN), has been awarded a five-year blanket purchase agreement (BPA) by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) to modernize the client case-management system of the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services (PPS) system. -   - The mission of the PPS is to carry out probation and pretrial service functions within the U.S. district courts. The PPS goal is to assist the federal courts in the fair administration...

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State tax increases to cover revenue shortfalls caused by COVID-19

What:  The COVID-19 Pandemic has been devastating for the budgets of both states and the federal government in 2020. While the federal government can operate at a deficit, states are required to come up with balanced budgets each year. That means states must identify cost reductions or additional revenue sources to cover COVID-19-related shortfalls. States received some assistance from the federal government in the CARES Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act), and they h...

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Wolters Kluwer enables audit professionals to minimize risk and save time through new features in its TeamMate® Analytics data analysis solution

  Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting  announced the addition of new capabilities to its innovative  TeamMate® Analytics  solution used by external auditors at tax and accounting firms, as well as by internal audit departments in businesses and public sector organizations of all sizes around the globe. New features include enhancements to the Expert Analyzer that enable auditors to append data to combine multiple data files together; new tools that facilitate mining and analyzing the make-up o...

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UNICEF and Microsoft launch improved, scalable technology to protect vulnerable children and women amid rise in domestic and gender-based violence due to COVID-19

 UNICEF and Microsoft Corp. launched a new version of Primero called Primero X — an open source case management web application that helps social service providers coordinate critical support to vulnerable children. Key interventions include providing access to lifesaving services, such as family reunification and tracing, while still adhering to physical distancing and movement restrictions due to COVID-19. The launch of Primero X comes amid an increase in the rates of domestic and gender...

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Datavail to Present for PASS Partner Webinar on December 10

Datavail, a tech-enabled data management, applications, and business intelligence company, will be presenting a webinar in partnership with PASS on December 10. -   - Global Practice Lead & Director of SQL Server, JP Chen will present Getting Started with Amazon RDS for SQL Server on December 10 at 2:00 pm EST. Chen's presentation is for attendees interested in migrating SQL Server instances to the cloud but aren't sure how to get started. During the presentation, he'll define what Databas...

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Barco provides projection system for Tiger Helicopter simulators

Barco, a global leader in visualization technology, is proud to announce it will provide the projection solution for two Tiger helicopter simulation systems. The end customer commissioned ST Engineering Antycip (formerly Antycip Simulation) for the upgrade, who in their turn selected Barco's FL40-4K projectors for the job. The two Tiger helicopter simulation systems are located in a non-disclosed training center in Europe. Each simulator consists of two cockpits developed for multirole p...

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TietoEVRY's Capital Markets Day 2020: Positioning for growth

TietoEVRY is holding its Capital Markets Day 2020 today – the first one as a combined company. The virtual event will center around “Positioning for growth” and large part of TietoEVRY's Group Leadership members will also be presenting. The company has laid out its long-term financial targets and will discuss drivers for growth and profitability during the day. “We see a very attractive market with possibilities for our customers to accelerate their business performance through the data-d...

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Datavail to Present at OATUG Forum Live

Datavail, a tech-enabled data management, applications, and business intelligence company, will be sponsoring and presenting a webinar with the Oracle Applications and Technology User Group (OATUG). -   - Senior Oracle Database Administrator, Brandon Webb will present You Printed My Bank Statements: Oracle APEX Pixel Perfect Reports on December 10 at 10:00 am PST. Webb's presentation and live demo covers an entire world of pixel-perfect reporting, and attendees will learn how to create pix...

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Oracle Announces Availability of Integrated, High-performance Analytics Engine for MySQL Database Service

Oracle today announced the availability of the Oracle MySQL Database Service with integrated MySQL Analytics Engine, optimized for and exclusively available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This is the only MySQL service that provides customers with a single, unified platform for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytics Processing (OLAP) workloads to build and run modern applications faster and more securely. The MySQL Analytics Engine, developed for the MySQL Databas...

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New Report Finds Only 37% of Organizations Have the Skills and Technology to Keep Pace With Digital Projects

MuleSoft, provider of the world's #1 integration and API platform, today announced the findings of The State of Business and IT Innovation report. The global survey1 of 1,739 line of business (LoB) employees in organizations with at least 250 employees revealed only 37% of organizations definitely have the skills and technology to keep pace with digital projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. The vast majority (82%) of LoB employees believe they need quick and easy access to data, IT sy...

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BlackBerry to Host Investor Fireside Chat to Discuss New Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, BlackBerry IVY

BlackBerry Limited  (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB)  announced it will host a fireside chat for investors on Wednesday, December 2, to discuss the company's new Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, BlackBerry IVY,  announced  today with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN). Who: Charles Eagan, BlackBerry's Chief Technology Officer and Vito Giallorenzo, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at BlackBerry in conversation with Tim Foo...

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Nokia deploys 5G private networking for 5G4KMU* across five German research centers

- - • 5G4KMU project designed to accelerate 5G industrial adoption by SMEs - - • Largest collective 5G standalone (SA) deployment in German academia and research - - • Nokia 5G SA digital automation platform selected for ease-of-use       - - - *5G-Transferzentrum für kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen/5G Transfer Center for small and medium-sized companies Nokia today announced it will deploy industrial-grade 5G standalone (SA) private wireless networking for the 5G4KMU project, whi...

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Pace Pictures Uses Blackmagic Design to Blur Line Between Production and Post

Blackmagic Design announced that full service facility Pace Pictures uses a wide selection of Blackmagic gear to power their expanded post production and production services, including the creation of a virtual production space within their post production facility. Reacting to modern times, both before and during the pandemic, Pace Pictures has quickly evolved past a traditional post production model into multiple service offerings, all in an effort to react to an ever changing productio...

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Media Alert: Adobe Named a Leader Among Experience Optimization Platform Vendors by Independent Research Firm

Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced it was recognized as a Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Experience Optimization Platforms, Q4 2020” report by Forrester Research, Inc. Adobe received the highest scores of all participating vendors in the current offering and market presence categories, as well as in the recommendations and platform experience criteria. Adobe also received the highest scores possible in the experience optimization technique innovation and supporting services criteria. Adobe i...

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Samasource Names Wendy Gonzalez as Chief Executive Officer

SAN FRANCISCO ( Dec. 1, 2020) -- Samasource, the provider of accurate data for ambitious AI, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Wendy Gonzalez as the company's Chief Executive Officer.  Trusted by leading technology companies such as Walmart, Google, Nvidia and Getty, Samasource offers the most complete and high-quality training data platform. Key to Samasource's differentiation is its Machine Learning Assisted Annotation product, which has improved annotat...

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InCountry Expands Data Localization Offerings in Russia, Debuts New Regional Headquarters

ROSTOV ON DON, Russia ( Dec. 1, 2020 ) -- InCountry, the provider of solutions helping companies adopt SaaS products with global data residency and compliance, today announced its new regional headquarters in Rostov-On-Don, Russia, led by Director of Engineering, Aleksandr Romanov. The company has also achieved the Russian Federal Law on Personal Data (no.152-FZ). Implemented on July 27, 2006, [url=https://pd.rkn.gov.ru/authority/p146/p

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AWS and BlackBerry Join Forces to Accelerate Innovation with New Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and BlackBerry Limited (NYSE: BB, TSX: BB), a worldwide leader in intelligent security software and services, announced a multi-year, global agreement to develop and market BlackBerry's Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, IVY. BlackBerry IVY is a scalable, cloud-connected software platform that will allow automakers to provide a consistent and secure way to read vehicle sensor data, normalize it, and create actiona...

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ChildLife Foundation Has Selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Help Expand Life-Saving Operations

ChildLife Foundation (ChildLife), a not-for-profit healthcare organization in Pakistan that has saved lives of over three million children to-date, has selected  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure  (OCI) to support its third party hospital management system application. As a result, ChildLife has significantly increased the utilization of the application by improving its availability and performance, at a reduced cost. This is helping it direct the maximum amount of funding and resource towards...

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Deduce Exits Stealth with $ 7.3M in Seed Funding to Give Small Companies FAAMG-Like User Account Security

Deduce, the leading provider of cybersecurity solutions powered by real-time customer identity, today announces the launch of the Deduce Identity Network, the largest dataset of mathematically shortened and obscured, or “hashed,” profiles designed to protect user accounts from online fraud. The Deduce Identity Network draws data from over 150,000 diverse, security-minded partner websites and powers a suite of algorithms that generate an Identity Risk Index based on fraud-related behaviors...

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Microgrid System Core Module (Power-interchange Management Software) Going Open Source

On December 1, 2020, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL; President & CEO: Hiroaki Kitano) will make its Autonomous Power Interchange System (APIS)—the power-interchange management software that comprises the core module of microgrid Open Energy System™ (OES) and the proprietary peer-to-peer (P2P) power interchange technology they develop open source, meaning it will be freely available to the public. In recent years, climate change has become ever more serious, demanding t...

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Nokia to digitalize crane monitoring systems in Pelindo 4 Indonesia

Nokia today announced that its IP/MPLS network solution has been selected and deployed by Pelindo 4, a leading port management company in Indonesia, to provide LTE wireless connectivity for remote real-time monitoring of its crane performance and operation. Nokia, with its partner Kurnia Energy Engineering (KEE), has deployed its 7705 Service Aggregation Router–Hm, which extends IP/MPLS services over cellular and WLAN networks, on all the cranes across the Makassar Container Terminal (T...

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NVIDIA Launches Inception Alliance with GE Healthcare and Nuance to Accelerate Medical Imaging AI Startups

Just over 125 years ago, on Nov. 8, 1895, the world's first X-ray image was captured. It was a breakthrough that set the stage for the modern medical imaging industry. Over the decades, an entire ecosystem of medical imaging hardware and software came to be, with AI startups now playing a key role within it. Today we're announcing the NVIDIA Inception Alliance for Healthcare, an initiative where medical AI startups have new opportunities to chart innovations and accelerate their success...

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Atlanta Public Schools Partners with Nearpod as District Prioritizes Engaging and Innovative Digital Instruction

Nearpod, the interactive, instructional platform that merges formative assessment and dynamic media to create engaging learning experiences, today announces its partnership with Atlanta Public Schools. The partnership marks the first time the district has ever adopted a universal technology solution.  Atlanta Public Schools (APS) will gain access to over 8,500 standards-aligned lessons, including Nearpod's interactive video content. With Nearpod, educators can also upload their own cont...

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Telstra Purple acquires Epicon

Telstra has acquired IT service management provider Epicon, an exciting addition to the technology services capabilities of its Telstra Purple business. Operating since 2008, Epicon is an Australian owned company with more than 100 technical specialists and operations in ACT, VIC, NSW and QLD. It supports organisations achieving digital transformation through excellence in IT Service Management and IT Operations, providing operational insight through data integration and analytics. Epicon...

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