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AI TechPark 2021-11-09

New industry report from WebCareHealth highlights strategies and opportunities for successful RPM implementation and adoptionWebCareHealth, a leading remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform for heart failure and other chronic conditions, has released a new industry survey report highlighting the demand and value of RPM.Of those surveyed, 66% of respondents said that RPM helps identify gaps in care for 10% of patients and 78% indicate improved patient engagement.The findings are included in the report, From Reactive to Proactive : Strategies for Successful Remote Monitoring Implementation and Adoption.

In the survey of 103 C-suite executives, clinical leaders and healthcare professionals, 60% indicated their belief that RPM will become a new standard of care over the next two years.“As a leader in Remote Patient Monitoring, we understand the challenges and opportunities that healthcare providers are facing in caring for their complex patients.

It is this understanding that allows us to help organizations identify gaps in care, launch new programs and drive clinical improvement to achieve RPM success,” said Teresa Sieck, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of WebCareHealth.

“RPM is most often used with patients diagnosed with chronic conditions such as heart failure, hypertension, diabetes and atrial fibrillation.

RPM continues to create tremendous opportunity for providers to prevent adverse health events, reduce hospitalizations and better capture revenue.”WebCareHealth commissioned Sage Growth Partners, a healthcare consultancy, to conduct the survey between September and October of 2021.

The respondents hailed from integrated delivery networks, independent hospitals, independent physician groups, and physician groups that are affiliated with either a hospital or health system.Key survey findings include:40% reported that they are currently using remote patient monitoring solutions.40% of hospitals and physician group practices are leveraging RPM today.70% of these practices reported improvements in patient engagement, satisfaction and increased revenue associated with capacity for higher intensity office visits.66% of respondents say RPM helps identify gaps in care for 10% of patients.Key barriers to adoption of RPM indicate cost and patient/clinician resistance.Ease of use, EMR integration and clinical workflows are key to driving successful RPM programs.Barriers to adoption include 48% indicating cost and 47% prefer face-to-face encounters.In addition to the key findings above, the report also provides top recommendations to properly reimburse for RPM; and how to identify immediate and long-term remote patient monitoring trends.“Healthcare providers are often challenged to effectively and efficiently manage patients with chronic conditions, and the pandemic has presented even further challenges in terms of communications and care coordination.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-09

Marin Software Incorporated (NASDAQ: MRIN), a leading provider of digital marketing software for performance-driven advertisers and agencies, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021.“With the holiday season fast approaching, the improvements we’ve made this quarter to the MarinOne ecommerce module will help ensure our advertisers get the most from their marketing investments across retail media, search and social,” said Chris Lien, CEO of Marin Software.Third Quarter 2021 Product Highlights:Added new Insights, including Amazon Keyword Expansion, Amazon Negative Keyword Expansion, Top Performing Amazon Ads, Amazon Keyword Match Type Expansion, Low Volume Bid Strategies, and Bid Changes Preview.Integrated SEO data from Google Search Console to improve revenue and ROAS by focusing investment on those targets that can benefit the most.Expanded the eCommerce module to include Instacart, Google Shopping, Microsoft Shopping, and Criteo Retail, enabling a comprehensive view across publishers including Amazon.Added reporting support for Amazon Sponsored Display Audience targets.Introduced support for keyword recommendations on new Amazon groups, allowing advertisers with no existing keywords to get started quickly.Introduced ad extension reporting across Google Sitelinks, Call Extensions, Callout Extensions, and Mobile App Extensions.

An “All Extensions toggle” allows users to switch conveniently between just those extensions with traffic, or the complete list.Introduced client-level forecasting charts into the Dashboard to streamline decisions.Added optimization support for Google Dynamic Search Ads, to increase revenue and/or ROAS.Introduced the ability to apply Bid Overrides via the multi-edit workflow.Added the ability to roll up data by publishers and campaigns, allowing users to compare performance across publishers (i.e.

Google vs. Microsoft vs. Facebook).Introduced Client Tags in MarinOne, which allows users who run multi-client reports with Client Tags to do their reporting in MarinOne.Added additional options to the ‘More’ menu in MarinOne Engine, including History, Settings history, and Settings link.Introduced an Activity Log for MarinOne Social for users to see the status of their work more easily.Added the Sync button to MarinOne Social, allowing users to bring down changes from Facebook more easily.Enhanced the Help experience, serving guided tours, support center results, certification, What’s New content, and access to the support team from a comprehensive, in-app menu.Third Quarter 2021 Financial Updates:Net revenues totaled $6.2 million, a year-over-year decrease of 9% when compared to $6.8 million in the third quarter of 2020.GAAP loss from operations was ($3.3) million, resulting in a GAAP operating margin of (53%), as compared to a GAAP loss from operations of ($4.3) million and a GAAP operating margin of (63%) for the third quarter of 2020.Non-GAAP loss from operations was ($3.0) million, resulting in a non-GAAP operating margin of (48%), as compared to a non-GAAP loss from operations of ($2.8) million and a non-GAAP operating margin of (42%) for the third quarter of 2020.Reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures have been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release.

An explanation of these measures is also included below, under the heading “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash were $50.2 million in the aggregate at September 30, 2021.Raised net proceeds of $38.8 million from issuances and sales of common stock under the Company’s “at-the-market” securities offering facility, at a weighted average sales price of $9.27 per share.Filed a new $100.0 million shelf registration statement with the SEC, which includes a $50.0 million “at-the-market” securities offering facility, pursuant to which we may be able to issue and sell additional shares of our common stock.Entered into a new three-year revenue share agreement with Google.Financial Outlook:Marin is providing guidance for its fourth quarter of 2021 as follows:Forward-Looking GuidanceIn millions          Range of Estimate    From  To  Three Months Ending December 31, 2021       Revenues, net $5.6  $6.1  Non-GAAP loss from operations  (4.5)   (4.0)  The Q4 revenue guidance includes estimated Q4 revenues under the new Google revenue share agreement, under which the Company expects to earn quarterly revenue commencing October 1, 2021 that will be approximately $0.5 million less than the average quarterly revenue recognized under the expiring agreement with Google during the first three quarters of 2021.

Non-GAAP loss from operations includes the impact of a non-recurring charge of approximately $0.7 million related to incentive-based compensation for achievements expected to occur in the fourth quarter and excludes the effects of stock-based compensation, amortization of internally developed software and intangible assets, impairment of goodwill and long-lived assets, capitalization of internally developed software, CARES Act employee retention credits and non-recurring costs associated with restructurings and divestitures.Additionally, the Company does not reconcile its forward-looking non-GAAP loss from operations, due to variability between revenues and non-cash items such as stock-based compensation.

The GAAP loss from operations includes stock-based compensation expense, which is affected by hiring and retention needs, as well as the future price of Marin’s stock.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-01

OneRecord’s New Offering Brings Health Organizations the Solutions They Need in a Powerful APIOneRecord, a digital health company focused on bringing patients access to their personal health data, unveils the new, powerful OneRecord API, built to provide healthcare developers and organizations a streamlined solution to access consented patient healthcare data from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Payers’ claims data, among a variety of other sources.OneRecord API is designed “by developers, for developers” to seamlessly access patients’ medical data and claims data via the latest technology to accelerate advancements in patient-centered care, including meeting the requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act’s Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule.

With a simple way to access healthcare data consented by the patient, OneRecord API enriches partner workflows with on-demand access to their users’ data, replacing traditional record retrieval processes which are costly and typically take weeks or months.OneRecord API emerges in response to countless inquiries from public and private sector healthcare stakeholders for a patient-meditated FHIR solution to gain better access to healthcare data.

OneRecord API is now ready to empower access to electronic health records without performing complex integrations – and enterprises can tap into it today for many use cases: CROs and clinical research teams can reduce significant costs tied to manually entering and checking data while screening participants to verify their eligibility for a clinical trial.Health plans can better assess risk and tailor interventions by allowing members to share their longitudinal medical records and prior claims data.

Digital health developers, insurance companies, clinical researchers, and others can now deliver better outcomes and engagement faster with on-demand access to their users’ medical data.

Further, OneRecord’s straightforward solution enables developers to build patient-facing tools that can exchange health data between their platforms and the leading EHRs, including: Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, athenahealth, Meditech, NextGen, Medhost, CPSI/Evident, eClinicalworks, Medhost, and more, covering over 80% of the inpatient and ambulatory provider market for access to data.

We’re living in an API-first world with pressure to bring ubiquitous interoperability to healthcare.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-01

Annual Award Recognizes APAC’s Leading Cybersecurity OrganizationsIronNet, Inc. (NYSE:IRNT), an innovative leader transforming cybersecurity through Collective Defense, has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 CybersecAsia Readers’ Choice Award in the Network Monitoring & Observability category.

The award recognizes cybersecurity leaders in APAC for their critical roles played and advances and innovations made over the last two years.IronNet defends enterprises, sectors, and nations against sophisticated cyber attacks and highly organized cyber adversaries.

The company’s Collective Defense platform comprises IronDefense and IronDome solutions: IronDefense offers advanced behavioural and pattern-based network detection and response (NDR) capabilities to protect against known and unknown cyber threats, while IronDome provides real-time, collective threat intelligence sharing amongst community members.The platform provides unparalleled visibility for organizations to see the broad attack surface, and automatically identifies, filters, prioritises, and correlates alerts across participants’ enterprise networks.

This advanced early warning system allows organizations to rapidly detect and mitigate even the most sophisticated attacks.“We are honoured to receive this award and that our customers and peers recognize our efforts to increase security and resilience for the region’s enterprises,” said Gaurav Chhiber, IronNet’s Vice President for APAC and Japan.

“Cybercrime is now an organized and sophisticated industry — a threat enterprises can’t counter with traditional practices, tools, and techniques.

Defending in isolation no longer works, so IronNet is proud to be acknowledged for our Collective Defense approach and network defense technology that enables a mindshift in the way we think about cybersecurity.”Victor Ng, Editor-in-Chief of CybersecAsia, also remarked on IronNet’s accomplishment: “IronNet’s IronDefense is probably the most advanced network detection and response platform built to stop sophisticated cyber-threats.” Ng added: “As cyber-attacks are evolving faster than most organizations can manage alone, IronDome – the automated Collective Defense solution from IronNet – allows organizations to collaborate across industries through real-time threat sharing and delivers collective threat intelligence at machine speed for IronDefense to perform even better at ‘Network Monitoring and Observability’.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-09

Summit to feature post-acute care insights from distinguished U.S. healthcare leaders, including ARCHANGELS co-founder and CEO Alexandra DraneForcura, a healthcare technology company that enables safer patient care transitions and coordination, today opened registration for its annual CONNECT Summit, which takes place virtually Jan. 18-20, 2022.The 2022 CONNECT Summit’s theme, “Earning a Seat at the Table: Are Post-Acute Providers Ready to Compete in a Value-Based Care Economy?” sets the table for discussions around three critical issues in post-acute care today: integrated and inclusive care coordination, actionable clinical intelligence and seamless connectivity among health industry providers.The Summit features a speaker lineup of several distinguished healthcare leaders, headlined by Alexandra Drane, U.S. entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Rebel Health and ARCHANGELS, who will deliver the keynote address.

Drane has recently co-authored a range of studies evaluating the mental health of unpaid caregivers, and ARCHANGELS is continuously monitoring this population using its proprietary Caregiver Intensity Index™ tool.

Some startling statistics from their research includes 56% of unpaid caregivers have clinically significant anxiety or depression, and that one in three caregivers have suicidal ideation, ten times the rate of non-caregivers.“My goal for speaking at Forcura’s CONNECT Summit is to reach their audience of post-acute providers who may not realize that many of their own employees – just based on demographics – are what we call ‘double-duty caregivers,’ or people employed as caregivers but who are in unpaid caregiving roles, too,” says Drane.

“While the staffing crisis in the health industry is making headlines nationally, we can help these very special employers recognize how to identify their double-duty caregivers and work with them both to address their employees’ needs and match them to resources in the community.”“The future of the health economy will be driven by value-based care, and the CONNECT Summit will showcase how, and why, the post-acute care sector deserves a seat at the table of the most innovative ecosystems,” said Forcura founder and CEO, Craig Mandeville.

“We open our event with Alexandra Drane’s ‘Any Care Counts’ keynote though because honoring and supporting all caregivers among us is perhaps the best investment any healthcare provider can make in being their competitive best and ultimately thriving in this post-pandemic world.”As part of the three-day Summit, Forcura will also break down its forthcoming industry study, “2022: The State of Connectivity in Post-Acute Care,” which will deliver data and insight into the increasing and emerging roles of post-acute providers across the entire care continuum.

The study will be released in the weeks leading up to the Summit.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-09

Merchants with a subscription business model can now resume operations in India thanks to dLocal’s solutionPlease replace the release dated November 3, 2021 with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.The updated release reads: DLOCAL LAUNCHES SUBSCRIPTION PAYMENT SOLUTION FOR THE INDIAN MARKETMerchants with a subscription business model can now resume operations in India thanks to dLocal’s solutiondLocal, a technology-first payments platform that enables global enterprise merchants to connect with billions of consumers in emerging markets, announces today the launch of a new auto-debit payment solution for subscriptions business model companies in India.

The solution is now available to both local and international merchants.The latest auto-debit regulations, which came into force last month, prevented international and local merchants from accepting most of the recurring subscription payments in India, cutting revenues for SaaS businesses and other verticals.

With its new solution, dLocal deals with the complexities of compulsory e-mandate management for recurring transactions, both domestic and cross-border.

Complex subscription payment flows, including variable amount ones, can now be processed seamlessly with the One dLocal concept of one API, one platform, and one contract.“Our expertise and reach within the Indian payments ecosystem allowed us to be among the first ones to come up with a solution to overcome the hurdles international merchants face to accept subscription payments,” said Sumita Pandit, COO at dLocal.“Our solution leverages industry-wide platforms such as UPI Autopay and SI Hub to manage e-mandates.

For all subscription payments, dLocal follows all notifications to the user for safe and secure transaction processing,” added Federico Mazzoli, VP Product at dLocal.In an effort to maximize transaction conversion rates, dLocal also empowers merchants to implement their own retry logics with no user interaction.For more such updates and perspectives around Digital Innovation, IoT, Data Infrastructure, AI & Cybersecurity, go to AI-Techpark.com.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-01

Breg’s innovative patient and product management software for orthopedic providers is now faster, more intuitive and more secureBreg, Inc., a leading orthopedic bracing and billing services company, has announced the launch of Breg Vision® 7.5 – a completely rebuilt version of its trusted patient and inventory management software that is currently used by thousands of orthopedic clinics, hospital systems and sports medicine programs to reduce administrative hassle and elevate patient care.“Since we introduced the Vision platform in 2007, we have been on a mission to add the most innovative capabilities we can imagine and stay a step ahead of the healthcare industry to provide meaningful and forward-thinking features to customers,” said Geoff Siegel, Breg’s Chief Innovation Officer.

“With Vision 7.5, we are not only launching new tools, we have also completely rebuilt our architecture, which puts us in an ideal position to innovate and adapt to industry needs more quickly in the future.”Vision 7.5 makes it easier than ever for orthopedic providers to integrate the system directly into their existing EMR/EHR platforms.

New functionality also includes the ability to connect directly into healthcare providers’ Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, seamlessly integrating DMEPOS inventory management into the supply chain.Available in both web-based and tablet app versions, Vision 7.5 features real-time benefits and eligibility checks that account for each patient’s specific insurance plan.

Doctors can identify the best products for a patient’s recovery, then assess the true costs with them upfront, empowering patients to be part of the decision.Other features include:Single page smart dispensingElectronic patient, authorized representative and provider signatures and documentationOffline dispensing and inventory countingOnline ordering and PO reconciliationRobust reporting and analyticsEnd-to-end paperless processStreamlined inventory management with real-time tracking“Healthcare becomes more complex every year, and we spend a lot of time talking to our customers about how our software and services can support them,” Mr. Siegel said.

“With this launch, we are not only giving customers what they need now, but also thinking ahead to what they will need as the industry continues to change.

We are able to innovate ahead of the curve.”For more such updates and perspectives around Digital Innovation, IoT, Data Infrastructure, AI & Cybersecurity, go to AI-Techpark.com.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-01

Retailer earns repeated recognition for sustainability in both inbound and outbound logisticsMeijer received two SmartWay Excellence Awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), recognizing the retailer as an industry leader in freight supply chain environmental performance and energy efficiency.“We appreciate the EPA’s continued support of our innovation and commitment to reducing our carbon footprint,” said Tom McCall, Vice President of Logistics for Meijer.

“At Meijer, we believe that to be a good company, we must be a good neighbor, which means doing what’s right for our communities and our planet.”Meijer received top honors in both the mixed carrier fleet and the shipper categories, marking eight total awards in the categories since 2017.Meijer operates one of the largest standalone fleets in Michigan with 250 semi-trucks driven by an estimated 400 drivers.

Overall, the retailer has a network of 750 trucks with more than 1,000 drivers covering 70 million miles a year.The retailer credits ongoing innovation for its continued success, testing preproduction emission reduction technology regularly in its fleet.

For example, Meijer is currently testing new engines in its freightliner tractors with enhanced performance and thermal management, improving base engine fuel economy by 3.4 percent.“According to the EPA, moving freight accounts for more than 25 percent of all fuel consumed and Greenhouse Gasses emitted by the transportation sector,” McCall said.

“We’re pleased to do our part to reduce those emissions.”The SmartWay Excellence Award is the EPA’s highest recognition.

It acknowledges the top retail and manufacturing carriers and shippers that demonstrate how their logistical operations make a measurable difference in reducing carbon emissions, while also effectively managing fuel costs as they move goods around the country.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-09

Patient Records and Equipment Ordering are Seamlessly IntegratedThornberry, a leading home healthcare and hospice care electronic medical record (EMR) software company, today announced a new partnership with Qualis, the nation’s first durable medical equipment (DME) management firm, to improve efficiencies for hospice agencies.The alliance creates a seamless experience for agency staff to place and manage DME orders directly from Thornberry’s NDoc interface, limiting the number of user sign-ins and streamlining the entire process to save both time and effort.

Caregivers and clinicians can now move easily from patient charting within Thornberry to ordering essential medical supplies with the click of a button.

“At Thornberry, interoperability is at the heart of everything we do,” said Peter Brown, President and CEO of Thornberry.

“We know that hospice agencies provide better care when they can limit the data entry points and number of systems they’re logging into.

The partnership with Qualis is a direct reflection of our dedication to using interoperability in support of clinical staff and the quality care they deliver.”The collaboration is a natural progression for Thornberry, which has led the EMR evolution in the post-acute home health and hospice markets and created a strong reputation for superior clinical strengths and client support.

In the next phase of development, the partnership will allow DME data from Qualis to appear in the patient record, conveniently storing everything related to a patient within the Thornberry system.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-09

Investment Bolsters Growth for SCYTHE’S Security Research and Defense StrategiesSCYTHE, a leader in adversarial emulation, today announced the company has received $10 million in Series A funding, led Gula Tech Ventures and Paladin Capital Group.

The Series A also includes investment from Energy Impact Partners (EIP), and as part of the financing, SCYTHE will add a member of the EIP management team as a Board Observer.SCYTHE enables offensive security, defensive security, and hybrid “purple” teams to build and emulate real-world cybersecurity threats in minutes.

This helps customers validate the risk posture of their business and employees.

The new investment puts SCYTHE in a strong market position to expand the company’s engineering, sales and marketing and customer service operations for SCYTHE’s advanced attack emulation platform for the enterprise and cybersecurity consulting market“We are delighted by our investors’ enthusiastic support of our growth as cybersecurity risks and ransomware continue to grow significantly,” said Bryson Bort, CEO and Founder, SCYTHE.

“What the team has been building is truly transformative and bringing on EIP’s market insights will speed that deployment and adoption in the industry.”“SCYTHE and its attack emulation platform have an outstanding track record of enabling enterprise to protect itself and we are so pleased to be partnering up with EIP in order to help bolster the security of US critical infrastructure,” said Ron Gula, President and Co-Founder of Gula Tech Adventures, who also sits on SCYTHE’s board of directors.“SCYTHE has demonstrated a powerful working solution that can proactively defend any organization against the most advanced cyber threats targeting US and global digital infrastructure,” said Christopher Steed, Chief Investment Officer and Manager Director, Paladin Capitol Group.

“Paladin is proud and excited to support SCYTHE in its continued impressive growth.”“Security teams are struggling to validate the efficacy of security tools and are experiencing significant tech sprawl.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-01

3Pillar Global (“3Pillar” or the “Company”), an international developer of cutting-edge digital products, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to receive a strategic growth investment from an affiliate of H.I.G.

With over 2,000 team members working out of 13 delivery centers across three continents, 3Pillar is a recognized global leader in the digital transformation sector.“At 3Pillar, our industry-leading teams, our passion for digital innovation, and our unique customer-focused go-to-market strategy have driven over 15 years of tremendous growth,” said David DeWolf, Founder and CEO of 3Pillar.

“This strategic growth investment from H.I.G.

Capital will enable us to continue our goals of attracting and developing top product and engineering talent and accelerate our ability to become the preeminent product development specialists in the market.”“Collaborating with 3Pillar over the last 18 months has generated exceptional results,” said Scott Marden, Managing Partner at CIP Capital.

“As we close out this chapter of our partnership with 3Pillar, we celebrate their accomplishments and what comes next.”“Our strategic investment reflects our confidence in 3Pillar’s outstanding capabilities and strong momentum in the multi-billion-dollar digital transformation sector,” said Matthew Robinson, Managing Director at H.I.G.

“3Pillar’s unique culture attracts the best engineers globally and its emphasis on customer satisfaction were strong drivers in our investment decision.

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AI TechPark 2021-10-26

Fintechs expand relationship, empowering banks and credit unions to reimagine customer service for a digital worldGlia, a leading provider of Digital Customer Service, and Q2 Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:QTWO), a leading provider of digital transformation solutions for banking and lending, today announced that they have expanded their partnership to provide one-stop-shopping for Q2 clients.

The new integrated offering will enable banks and credit unions to modernize customer service and enhance the overall employee and customer experience.Earlier this year, Glia was an early participant in the Partner Accelerator Program through the Q2 Innovation Studio, which is a portfolio of programs and technologies including Q2’s award-winning SDK, which more than 400 banks and credit unions and more than 40 partners are taking advantage of to design, develop and deliver innovative digital banking experiences.

Through Q2’s Partner Accelerator and Marketplace programs, institutions can seamlessly and efficiently integrate fintech solutions and deploy pre-integrated apps.Because of the overwhelmingly positive feedback Q2 clients have shared about Glia’s communications and collaboration platform, the two companies have deepened their partnership to enable Q2 clients to purchase a fully integrated solution directly from Q2.“Glia’s company culture aligns very closely with ours; we both have customer-centric missions that prioritize delivering the seamless, modern experiences financial institution employees as well as end users expect today,” said Jonathan Price, Q2’s executive vice president, Emerging Businesses, Corporate & Business Development.

“The feedback from our Q2 clients is that Glia’s Digital Customer Service platform enables them to more effectively and efficiently serve customers and deliver superior experiences through Q2’s Digital Banking Platform.

We look forward to helping more banks and credit unions better serve their account holders where and how they want, via our expanded partnership.”Nearly 20 banks and credit unions are already leveraging Glia through the Q2 Partner Accelerator Program and that number is quickly growing.

By offering Glia’s Digital Customer Service platform, Q2’s bank and credit union clients are empowered to meet customers where they are and communicate with them through whichever methods they prefer—including messaging, video banking and voice—while guiding them through their Q2 digital banking experience via CoBrowsing.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-09

Release coincides with third annual AptConnect event.Aptitude Software, the specialist provider of finance transformation and automation software, announces the release of the IDC InfoBrief, All eyes on Finance, sponsored by Aptitude Software.

The release of the paper coincides with its third annual community event, AptConnect.The key research findings include:All eyes are on the CFO to become more of a transformation enabler, with the function becoming less controlling and more supporting.The CFO will have two sides to their role – controller and business transformer.The finance team will need to support a wide array of business objectives as almost every business process touches the finance function.Revenue management is an example of an area that is changing with the growth of the subscription economy which is expected to expand from close to USD 650 billion in 2020, into a USD 1.5 trillion market by 2025*, and technology will be key in adapting to this change.The finance function will consist of three main pillars: self-service processes, advisory, and automation.These findings support the strategic thinking behind Aptitude Software’s recent acquisition of MPP Global Solutions Limited, an international provider of cloud-based subscription management and billing technology (eSuite) for a total enterprise value of £37.1 million.Jeremy Suddards, CEO, Aptitude Software commented, ”The IDC InfoBrief findings support the strategic investment we’ve made in MPP Global Solutions and I know the expansion of our solution portfolio will allow us to further support the CFO office in creating a world of financial confidence.

AptConnect is a fantastic venue to share both the IDC research findings and more about MPP Global’s solutions with our community.”Tom Seal, Senior Research Director, Enterprise Applications at IDC commented, “Finance functions are investing in technology to support their evolving role in areas such as sustainability, where there is a need to track and report a new array of metrics.”The virtual AptConnect event will bring together Aptitude’s global client base, partner, and prospect community as well as industry and thought leaders from organizations like KPMG, AWS, PwC, Chartis Research, and IDC.

Content will range from high-level, thought-provoking discussions on the future of the finance department, to in-depth looks at Aptitude products, and case studies from some of the largest organizations in the world.

*UBS, Investing in digital subscriptions, 10 March 2021For more such updates and perspectives around Digital Innovation, IoT, Data Infrastructure, AI & Cybersecurity, go to AI-Techpark.com. 

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AI TechPark 2021-11-01

NRGene (TASE: NRGN), a leading genomics company, announces the official opening of its new office and genotyping lab in Saskatoon, Canada.

The opening event will take place today in the Innovation Research Park, in the presence of members of legislative assembly of Saskatchewan, academia, industry leaders and government officials.NRGene develops and commercializes cutting-edge AI based genomic tools and provides some of the largest ag-based companies in the world with computational tools to optimize and accelerate breeding programs, to significantly increase crop yield, save time, costs and other resources.In May 2020, NRGene announced its intentions to run local operations in Canada and Dr. Masood Rizvi, General Manager of NRGene Canada, was appointed to lead and oversee this expansion.

Today this branch offers end-to-end solutions provided by a team of local genomics experts and breeders to allow ongoing support to partners in Canada and the US.

The current team, that continues to grow, is learning the local needs and challenges for developing and optimizing solutions tailored to the Canadian ecosystem.The office is strategically located in Saskatoon’s agriculture research cluster, close to research institutes such as the University of Saskatchewan, Agriculture-and-Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Canadian Light-Source (CLS), National-Research-Council (NRC) and more, allowing NRGene to maintain and strengthen long-term relationships with its current and potential partners throughout the Canadian Ag-tech community.By opening its first genotyping lab in Canada, NRGene fulfilled its strategic decision to strengthen its presence in the industry value chain.

This new lab will allow NRGene to provide its customers with full genotyping solution and complement NRGene’s computational capabilities.

Dr. Hashim Khan was appointed to lead the lab operations and will be applying his extensive experience in genomics.

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AI TechPark 2021-11-01

The combined 5G solution set will enable faster, pre-validated implementations of 5G networksSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Ciena® (NYSE: CIEN) have entered into an agreement to deliver 5G network solutions to the market.

The agreement enables Samsung to couple Ciena’s xHaul solutions with its own 5G solutions to support the next-generation of high-bandwidth applications and services driven by expanding 5G networks.Samsung and Ciena will collaborate to offer hardware and software solutions to telecom operators, enabling them to support the increasing volume of 5G data traffic at the edge and within an increasingly distributed 5G architecture.“As 5G proliferates, immersive services like AR/VR and HD video streaming are becoming the center of our daily mobile lives.

In order to deliver more powerful 5G services, the current network architecture needs to evolve,” said Wonil Roh, Senior Vice President and Head of Product Strategy, Networks Business at Samsung Electronics.

“Samsung’s ability to couple our best-in-class 5G solutions with a leader in transport technologies like Ciena will give customers a solution to address this need, and do so with the confidence to scale and evolve their networks to support the future of 5G.”Combining Samsung’s 5G RAN and Core with Ciena’s xHaul Routing and Switching portfolio and next-generation Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller will give customers an optimized offer that takes full advantage of 5G services, while providing efficient ways to manage massive data across networks and to the cloud.

This will help accelerate the deployment of advanced applications enhanced by 5G, such as network slicing, IoT and automation through AI.

The combined offer will deliver a validated solution, providing more compatible, faster, and simplified implementations of 5G networks.“Together with Samsung, we’re fueling the next generation of mobile connectivity to unleash the full potential of 5G,” said Matt Cook, Vice President, Global Partner Organization, Ciena.

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AI TechPark 2021-10-26

Wondershare products are now compatible with Windows 11Over the decades, leading creative software company, Wondershare has prided itself on its commitment to constant innovation—designing products to help beginner and professional users alike achieve their creative potential.

In keeping up with the latest tech updates, Wondershare has announced that all their products, including Filmora, PDFelement, InClowdz, EdrawMax , EdrawMind, Anireel, and UniConverter, which can be downloaded from the Windows Store, are now compatible with the newly released Windows 11.“Whenever we design new products or new versions of our current products, we always keep efficiency top of mind—we know that time is very valuable to all our users, and the easier we can make their lives, the better,” said Luna Xue, Product Director of Wondershare.

“This is why we are very excited to see some of the new features of Windows 11, which will undoubtedly make processes more streamlined for users.”Snap layouts and snap groups enhance productivityThis major overhaul of the Windows operating system features various new additions that enable users to more easily multitask, for example, snap layouts and snap groups.

Video editors who utilize Wondershare products such as Filmora and Anireel will be able to more efficiently edit videos and photos by quickly switching between windows or viewing them all at once.On the other hand, EdrawMax and EdrawMind users who create a lot of diagrams and mind maps can on their PCs with several windows open at once with snap layouts, enabling them to focus on the source material while designing the diagrams on EdrawMax and EdrawMind without having to minimize and maximize windows.PDFelement 8’s latest update to streamline user experience to simplify the interface goes hand in hand with the efficiency that snap layouts and snap groups offer users.

Now, creating and editing documents takes even less time and effort.Use Wondershare Android apps nativelyAnother highly anticipated feature of Windows 11 is the ability to use Android apps natively—users will be able to download Android apps directly onto their PCs.

This means that users can use their Wondershare mobile products such as FilmoraGo on their laptops or desktops, eliminating the need to download desktop versions of the products.

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New industry report from WebCareHealth highlights strategies and opportunities for successful RPM implementation and adoptionWebCareHealth, a leading remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform for heart failure and other chronic conditions, has released a new industry survey report highlighting the demand and value of RPM.Of those surveyed, 66% of respondents said that RPM helps identify gaps in care for 10% of patients and 78% indicate improved patient engagement.The findings are included in the report, From Reactive to Proactive : Strategies for Successful Remote Monitoring Implementation and Adoption.

In the survey of 103 C-suite executives, clinical leaders and healthcare professionals, 60% indicated their belief that RPM will become a new standard of care over the next two years.“As a leader in Remote Patient Monitoring, we understand the challenges and opportunities that healthcare providers are facing in caring for their complex patients.

It is this understanding that allows us to help organizations identify gaps in care, launch new programs and drive clinical improvement to achieve RPM success,” said Teresa Sieck, Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder of WebCareHealth.

“RPM is most often used with patients diagnosed with chronic conditions such as heart failure, hypertension, diabetes and atrial fibrillation.

RPM continues to create tremendous opportunity for providers to prevent adverse health events, reduce hospitalizations and better capture revenue.”WebCareHealth commissioned Sage Growth Partners, a healthcare consultancy, to conduct the survey between September and October of 2021.

The respondents hailed from integrated delivery networks, independent hospitals, independent physician groups, and physician groups that are affiliated with either a hospital or health system.Key survey findings include:40% reported that they are currently using remote patient monitoring solutions.40% of hospitals and physician group practices are leveraging RPM today.70% of these practices reported improvements in patient engagement, satisfaction and increased revenue associated with capacity for higher intensity office visits.66% of respondents say RPM helps identify gaps in care for 10% of patients.Key barriers to adoption of RPM indicate cost and patient/clinician resistance.Ease of use, EMR integration and clinical workflows are key to driving successful RPM programs.Barriers to adoption include 48% indicating cost and 47% prefer face-to-face encounters.In addition to the key findings above, the report also provides top recommendations to properly reimburse for RPM; and how to identify immediate and long-term remote patient monitoring trends.“Healthcare providers are often challenged to effectively and efficiently manage patients with chronic conditions, and the pandemic has presented even further challenges in terms of communications and care coordination.

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Patient Records and Equipment Ordering are Seamlessly IntegratedThornberry, a leading home healthcare and hospice care electronic medical record (EMR) software company, today announced a new partnership with Qualis, the nation’s first durable medical equipment (DME) management firm, to improve efficiencies for hospice agencies.The alliance creates a seamless experience for agency staff to place and manage DME orders directly from Thornberry’s NDoc interface, limiting the number of user sign-ins and streamlining the entire process to save both time and effort.

Caregivers and clinicians can now move easily from patient charting within Thornberry to ordering essential medical supplies with the click of a button.

“At Thornberry, interoperability is at the heart of everything we do,” said Peter Brown, President and CEO of Thornberry.

“We know that hospice agencies provide better care when they can limit the data entry points and number of systems they’re logging into.

The partnership with Qualis is a direct reflection of our dedication to using interoperability in support of clinical staff and the quality care they deliver.”The collaboration is a natural progression for Thornberry, which has led the EMR evolution in the post-acute home health and hospice markets and created a strong reputation for superior clinical strengths and client support.

In the next phase of development, the partnership will allow DME data from Qualis to appear in the patient record, conveniently storing everything related to a patient within the Thornberry system.

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Marin Software Incorporated (NASDAQ: MRIN), a leading provider of digital marketing software for performance-driven advertisers and agencies, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2021.“With the holiday season fast approaching, the improvements we’ve made this quarter to the MarinOne ecommerce module will help ensure our advertisers get the most from their marketing investments across retail media, search and social,” said Chris Lien, CEO of Marin Software.Third Quarter 2021 Product Highlights:Added new Insights, including Amazon Keyword Expansion, Amazon Negative Keyword Expansion, Top Performing Amazon Ads, Amazon Keyword Match Type Expansion, Low Volume Bid Strategies, and Bid Changes Preview.Integrated SEO data from Google Search Console to improve revenue and ROAS by focusing investment on those targets that can benefit the most.Expanded the eCommerce module to include Instacart, Google Shopping, Microsoft Shopping, and Criteo Retail, enabling a comprehensive view across publishers including Amazon.Added reporting support for Amazon Sponsored Display Audience targets.Introduced support for keyword recommendations on new Amazon groups, allowing advertisers with no existing keywords to get started quickly.Introduced ad extension reporting across Google Sitelinks, Call Extensions, Callout Extensions, and Mobile App Extensions.

An “All Extensions toggle” allows users to switch conveniently between just those extensions with traffic, or the complete list.Introduced client-level forecasting charts into the Dashboard to streamline decisions.Added optimization support for Google Dynamic Search Ads, to increase revenue and/or ROAS.Introduced the ability to apply Bid Overrides via the multi-edit workflow.Added the ability to roll up data by publishers and campaigns, allowing users to compare performance across publishers (i.e.

Google vs. Microsoft vs. Facebook).Introduced Client Tags in MarinOne, which allows users who run multi-client reports with Client Tags to do their reporting in MarinOne.Added additional options to the ‘More’ menu in MarinOne Engine, including History, Settings history, and Settings link.Introduced an Activity Log for MarinOne Social for users to see the status of their work more easily.Added the Sync button to MarinOne Social, allowing users to bring down changes from Facebook more easily.Enhanced the Help experience, serving guided tours, support center results, certification, What’s New content, and access to the support team from a comprehensive, in-app menu.Third Quarter 2021 Financial Updates:Net revenues totaled $6.2 million, a year-over-year decrease of 9% when compared to $6.8 million in the third quarter of 2020.GAAP loss from operations was ($3.3) million, resulting in a GAAP operating margin of (53%), as compared to a GAAP loss from operations of ($4.3) million and a GAAP operating margin of (63%) for the third quarter of 2020.Non-GAAP loss from operations was ($3.0) million, resulting in a non-GAAP operating margin of (48%), as compared to a non-GAAP loss from operations of ($2.8) million and a non-GAAP operating margin of (42%) for the third quarter of 2020.Reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures have been provided in the financial statement tables included in this press release.

An explanation of these measures is also included below, under the heading “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash were $50.2 million in the aggregate at September 30, 2021.Raised net proceeds of $38.8 million from issuances and sales of common stock under the Company’s “at-the-market” securities offering facility, at a weighted average sales price of $9.27 per share.Filed a new $100.0 million shelf registration statement with the SEC, which includes a $50.0 million “at-the-market” securities offering facility, pursuant to which we may be able to issue and sell additional shares of our common stock.Entered into a new three-year revenue share agreement with Google.Financial Outlook:Marin is providing guidance for its fourth quarter of 2021 as follows:Forward-Looking GuidanceIn millions          Range of Estimate    From  To  Three Months Ending December 31, 2021       Revenues, net $5.6  $6.1  Non-GAAP loss from operations  (4.5)   (4.0)  The Q4 revenue guidance includes estimated Q4 revenues under the new Google revenue share agreement, under which the Company expects to earn quarterly revenue commencing October 1, 2021 that will be approximately $0.5 million less than the average quarterly revenue recognized under the expiring agreement with Google during the first three quarters of 2021.

Non-GAAP loss from operations includes the impact of a non-recurring charge of approximately $0.7 million related to incentive-based compensation for achievements expected to occur in the fourth quarter and excludes the effects of stock-based compensation, amortization of internally developed software and intangible assets, impairment of goodwill and long-lived assets, capitalization of internally developed software, CARES Act employee retention credits and non-recurring costs associated with restructurings and divestitures.Additionally, the Company does not reconcile its forward-looking non-GAAP loss from operations, due to variability between revenues and non-cash items such as stock-based compensation.

The GAAP loss from operations includes stock-based compensation expense, which is affected by hiring and retention needs, as well as the future price of Marin’s stock.

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Investment Bolsters Growth for SCYTHE’S Security Research and Defense StrategiesSCYTHE, a leader in adversarial emulation, today announced the company has received $10 million in Series A funding, led Gula Tech Ventures and Paladin Capital Group.

The Series A also includes investment from Energy Impact Partners (EIP), and as part of the financing, SCYTHE will add a member of the EIP management team as a Board Observer.SCYTHE enables offensive security, defensive security, and hybrid “purple” teams to build and emulate real-world cybersecurity threats in minutes.

This helps customers validate the risk posture of their business and employees.

The new investment puts SCYTHE in a strong market position to expand the company’s engineering, sales and marketing and customer service operations for SCYTHE’s advanced attack emulation platform for the enterprise and cybersecurity consulting market“We are delighted by our investors’ enthusiastic support of our growth as cybersecurity risks and ransomware continue to grow significantly,” said Bryson Bort, CEO and Founder, SCYTHE.

“What the team has been building is truly transformative and bringing on EIP’s market insights will speed that deployment and adoption in the industry.”“SCYTHE and its attack emulation platform have an outstanding track record of enabling enterprise to protect itself and we are so pleased to be partnering up with EIP in order to help bolster the security of US critical infrastructure,” said Ron Gula, President and Co-Founder of Gula Tech Adventures, who also sits on SCYTHE’s board of directors.“SCYTHE has demonstrated a powerful working solution that can proactively defend any organization against the most advanced cyber threats targeting US and global digital infrastructure,” said Christopher Steed, Chief Investment Officer and Manager Director, Paladin Capitol Group.

“Paladin is proud and excited to support SCYTHE in its continued impressive growth.”“Security teams are struggling to validate the efficacy of security tools and are experiencing significant tech sprawl.

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OneRecord’s New Offering Brings Health Organizations the Solutions They Need in a Powerful APIOneRecord, a digital health company focused on bringing patients access to their personal health data, unveils the new, powerful OneRecord API, built to provide healthcare developers and organizations a streamlined solution to access consented patient healthcare data from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and Payers’ claims data, among a variety of other sources.OneRecord API is designed “by developers, for developers” to seamlessly access patients’ medical data and claims data via the latest technology to accelerate advancements in patient-centered care, including meeting the requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act’s Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule.

With a simple way to access healthcare data consented by the patient, OneRecord API enriches partner workflows with on-demand access to their users’ data, replacing traditional record retrieval processes which are costly and typically take weeks or months.OneRecord API emerges in response to countless inquiries from public and private sector healthcare stakeholders for a patient-meditated FHIR solution to gain better access to healthcare data.

OneRecord API is now ready to empower access to electronic health records without performing complex integrations – and enterprises can tap into it today for many use cases: CROs and clinical research teams can reduce significant costs tied to manually entering and checking data while screening participants to verify their eligibility for a clinical trial.Health plans can better assess risk and tailor interventions by allowing members to share their longitudinal medical records and prior claims data.

Digital health developers, insurance companies, clinical researchers, and others can now deliver better outcomes and engagement faster with on-demand access to their users’ medical data.

Further, OneRecord’s straightforward solution enables developers to build patient-facing tools that can exchange health data between their platforms and the leading EHRs, including: Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, athenahealth, Meditech, NextGen, Medhost, CPSI/Evident, eClinicalworks, Medhost, and more, covering over 80% of the inpatient and ambulatory provider market for access to data.

We’re living in an API-first world with pressure to bring ubiquitous interoperability to healthcare.

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3Pillar Global (“3Pillar” or the “Company”), an international developer of cutting-edge digital products, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to receive a strategic growth investment from an affiliate of H.I.G.

With over 2,000 team members working out of 13 delivery centers across three continents, 3Pillar is a recognized global leader in the digital transformation sector.“At 3Pillar, our industry-leading teams, our passion for digital innovation, and our unique customer-focused go-to-market strategy have driven over 15 years of tremendous growth,” said David DeWolf, Founder and CEO of 3Pillar.

“This strategic growth investment from H.I.G.

Capital will enable us to continue our goals of attracting and developing top product and engineering talent and accelerate our ability to become the preeminent product development specialists in the market.”“Collaborating with 3Pillar over the last 18 months has generated exceptional results,” said Scott Marden, Managing Partner at CIP Capital.

“As we close out this chapter of our partnership with 3Pillar, we celebrate their accomplishments and what comes next.”“Our strategic investment reflects our confidence in 3Pillar’s outstanding capabilities and strong momentum in the multi-billion-dollar digital transformation sector,” said Matthew Robinson, Managing Director at H.I.G.

“3Pillar’s unique culture attracts the best engineers globally and its emphasis on customer satisfaction were strong drivers in our investment decision.

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Annual Award Recognizes APAC’s Leading Cybersecurity OrganizationsIronNet, Inc. (NYSE:IRNT), an innovative leader transforming cybersecurity through Collective Defense, has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 CybersecAsia Readers’ Choice Award in the Network Monitoring & Observability category.

The award recognizes cybersecurity leaders in APAC for their critical roles played and advances and innovations made over the last two years.IronNet defends enterprises, sectors, and nations against sophisticated cyber attacks and highly organized cyber adversaries.

The company’s Collective Defense platform comprises IronDefense and IronDome solutions: IronDefense offers advanced behavioural and pattern-based network detection and response (NDR) capabilities to protect against known and unknown cyber threats, while IronDome provides real-time, collective threat intelligence sharing amongst community members.The platform provides unparalleled visibility for organizations to see the broad attack surface, and automatically identifies, filters, prioritises, and correlates alerts across participants’ enterprise networks.

This advanced early warning system allows organizations to rapidly detect and mitigate even the most sophisticated attacks.“We are honoured to receive this award and that our customers and peers recognize our efforts to increase security and resilience for the region’s enterprises,” said Gaurav Chhiber, IronNet’s Vice President for APAC and Japan.

“Cybercrime is now an organized and sophisticated industry — a threat enterprises can’t counter with traditional practices, tools, and techniques.

Defending in isolation no longer works, so IronNet is proud to be acknowledged for our Collective Defense approach and network defense technology that enables a mindshift in the way we think about cybersecurity.”Victor Ng, Editor-in-Chief of CybersecAsia, also remarked on IronNet’s accomplishment: “IronNet’s IronDefense is probably the most advanced network detection and response platform built to stop sophisticated cyber-threats.” Ng added: “As cyber-attacks are evolving faster than most organizations can manage alone, IronDome – the automated Collective Defense solution from IronNet – allows organizations to collaborate across industries through real-time threat sharing and delivers collective threat intelligence at machine speed for IronDefense to perform even better at ‘Network Monitoring and Observability’.

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Fintechs expand relationship, empowering banks and credit unions to reimagine customer service for a digital worldGlia, a leading provider of Digital Customer Service, and Q2 Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:QTWO), a leading provider of digital transformation solutions for banking and lending, today announced that they have expanded their partnership to provide one-stop-shopping for Q2 clients.

The new integrated offering will enable banks and credit unions to modernize customer service and enhance the overall employee and customer experience.Earlier this year, Glia was an early participant in the Partner Accelerator Program through the Q2 Innovation Studio, which is a portfolio of programs and technologies including Q2’s award-winning SDK, which more than 400 banks and credit unions and more than 40 partners are taking advantage of to design, develop and deliver innovative digital banking experiences.

Through Q2’s Partner Accelerator and Marketplace programs, institutions can seamlessly and efficiently integrate fintech solutions and deploy pre-integrated apps.Because of the overwhelmingly positive feedback Q2 clients have shared about Glia’s communications and collaboration platform, the two companies have deepened their partnership to enable Q2 clients to purchase a fully integrated solution directly from Q2.“Glia’s company culture aligns very closely with ours; we both have customer-centric missions that prioritize delivering the seamless, modern experiences financial institution employees as well as end users expect today,” said Jonathan Price, Q2’s executive vice president, Emerging Businesses, Corporate & Business Development.

“The feedback from our Q2 clients is that Glia’s Digital Customer Service platform enables them to more effectively and efficiently serve customers and deliver superior experiences through Q2’s Digital Banking Platform.

We look forward to helping more banks and credit unions better serve their account holders where and how they want, via our expanded partnership.”Nearly 20 banks and credit unions are already leveraging Glia through the Q2 Partner Accelerator Program and that number is quickly growing.

By offering Glia’s Digital Customer Service platform, Q2’s bank and credit union clients are empowered to meet customers where they are and communicate with them through whichever methods they prefer—including messaging, video banking and voice—while guiding them through their Q2 digital banking experience via CoBrowsing.

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Summit to feature post-acute care insights from distinguished U.S. healthcare leaders, including ARCHANGELS co-founder and CEO Alexandra DraneForcura, a healthcare technology company that enables safer patient care transitions and coordination, today opened registration for its annual CONNECT Summit, which takes place virtually Jan. 18-20, 2022.The 2022 CONNECT Summit’s theme, “Earning a Seat at the Table: Are Post-Acute Providers Ready to Compete in a Value-Based Care Economy?” sets the table for discussions around three critical issues in post-acute care today: integrated and inclusive care coordination, actionable clinical intelligence and seamless connectivity among health industry providers.The Summit features a speaker lineup of several distinguished healthcare leaders, headlined by Alexandra Drane, U.S. entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Rebel Health and ARCHANGELS, who will deliver the keynote address.

Drane has recently co-authored a range of studies evaluating the mental health of unpaid caregivers, and ARCHANGELS is continuously monitoring this population using its proprietary Caregiver Intensity Index™ tool.

Some startling statistics from their research includes 56% of unpaid caregivers have clinically significant anxiety or depression, and that one in three caregivers have suicidal ideation, ten times the rate of non-caregivers.“My goal for speaking at Forcura’s CONNECT Summit is to reach their audience of post-acute providers who may not realize that many of their own employees – just based on demographics – are what we call ‘double-duty caregivers,’ or people employed as caregivers but who are in unpaid caregiving roles, too,” says Drane.

“While the staffing crisis in the health industry is making headlines nationally, we can help these very special employers recognize how to identify their double-duty caregivers and work with them both to address their employees’ needs and match them to resources in the community.”“The future of the health economy will be driven by value-based care, and the CONNECT Summit will showcase how, and why, the post-acute care sector deserves a seat at the table of the most innovative ecosystems,” said Forcura founder and CEO, Craig Mandeville.

“We open our event with Alexandra Drane’s ‘Any Care Counts’ keynote though because honoring and supporting all caregivers among us is perhaps the best investment any healthcare provider can make in being their competitive best and ultimately thriving in this post-pandemic world.”As part of the three-day Summit, Forcura will also break down its forthcoming industry study, “2022: The State of Connectivity in Post-Acute Care,” which will deliver data and insight into the increasing and emerging roles of post-acute providers across the entire care continuum.

The study will be released in the weeks leading up to the Summit.

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Release coincides with third annual AptConnect event.Aptitude Software, the specialist provider of finance transformation and automation software, announces the release of the IDC InfoBrief, All eyes on Finance, sponsored by Aptitude Software.

The release of the paper coincides with its third annual community event, AptConnect.The key research findings include:All eyes are on the CFO to become more of a transformation enabler, with the function becoming less controlling and more supporting.The CFO will have two sides to their role – controller and business transformer.The finance team will need to support a wide array of business objectives as almost every business process touches the finance function.Revenue management is an example of an area that is changing with the growth of the subscription economy which is expected to expand from close to USD 650 billion in 2020, into a USD 1.5 trillion market by 2025*, and technology will be key in adapting to this change.The finance function will consist of three main pillars: self-service processes, advisory, and automation.These findings support the strategic thinking behind Aptitude Software’s recent acquisition of MPP Global Solutions Limited, an international provider of cloud-based subscription management and billing technology (eSuite) for a total enterprise value of £37.1 million.Jeremy Suddards, CEO, Aptitude Software commented, ”The IDC InfoBrief findings support the strategic investment we’ve made in MPP Global Solutions and I know the expansion of our solution portfolio will allow us to further support the CFO office in creating a world of financial confidence.

AptConnect is a fantastic venue to share both the IDC research findings and more about MPP Global’s solutions with our community.”Tom Seal, Senior Research Director, Enterprise Applications at IDC commented, “Finance functions are investing in technology to support their evolving role in areas such as sustainability, where there is a need to track and report a new array of metrics.”The virtual AptConnect event will bring together Aptitude’s global client base, partner, and prospect community as well as industry and thought leaders from organizations like KPMG, AWS, PwC, Chartis Research, and IDC.

Content will range from high-level, thought-provoking discussions on the future of the finance department, to in-depth looks at Aptitude products, and case studies from some of the largest organizations in the world.

*UBS, Investing in digital subscriptions, 10 March 2021For more such updates and perspectives around Digital Innovation, IoT, Data Infrastructure, AI & Cybersecurity, go to AI-Techpark.com. 

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Merchants with a subscription business model can now resume operations in India thanks to dLocal’s solutionPlease replace the release dated November 3, 2021 with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.The updated release reads: DLOCAL LAUNCHES SUBSCRIPTION PAYMENT SOLUTION FOR THE INDIAN MARKETMerchants with a subscription business model can now resume operations in India thanks to dLocal’s solutiondLocal, a technology-first payments platform that enables global enterprise merchants to connect with billions of consumers in emerging markets, announces today the launch of a new auto-debit payment solution for subscriptions business model companies in India.

The solution is now available to both local and international merchants.The latest auto-debit regulations, which came into force last month, prevented international and local merchants from accepting most of the recurring subscription payments in India, cutting revenues for SaaS businesses and other verticals.

With its new solution, dLocal deals with the complexities of compulsory e-mandate management for recurring transactions, both domestic and cross-border.

Complex subscription payment flows, including variable amount ones, can now be processed seamlessly with the One dLocal concept of one API, one platform, and one contract.“Our expertise and reach within the Indian payments ecosystem allowed us to be among the first ones to come up with a solution to overcome the hurdles international merchants face to accept subscription payments,” said Sumita Pandit, COO at dLocal.“Our solution leverages industry-wide platforms such as UPI Autopay and SI Hub to manage e-mandates.

For all subscription payments, dLocal follows all notifications to the user for safe and secure transaction processing,” added Federico Mazzoli, VP Product at dLocal.In an effort to maximize transaction conversion rates, dLocal also empowers merchants to implement their own retry logics with no user interaction.For more such updates and perspectives around Digital Innovation, IoT, Data Infrastructure, AI & Cybersecurity, go to AI-Techpark.com.

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NRGene (TASE: NRGN), a leading genomics company, announces the official opening of its new office and genotyping lab in Saskatoon, Canada.

The opening event will take place today in the Innovation Research Park, in the presence of members of legislative assembly of Saskatchewan, academia, industry leaders and government officials.NRGene develops and commercializes cutting-edge AI based genomic tools and provides some of the largest ag-based companies in the world with computational tools to optimize and accelerate breeding programs, to significantly increase crop yield, save time, costs and other resources.In May 2020, NRGene announced its intentions to run local operations in Canada and Dr. Masood Rizvi, General Manager of NRGene Canada, was appointed to lead and oversee this expansion.

Today this branch offers end-to-end solutions provided by a team of local genomics experts and breeders to allow ongoing support to partners in Canada and the US.

The current team, that continues to grow, is learning the local needs and challenges for developing and optimizing solutions tailored to the Canadian ecosystem.The office is strategically located in Saskatoon’s agriculture research cluster, close to research institutes such as the University of Saskatchewan, Agriculture-and-Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), Canadian Light-Source (CLS), National-Research-Council (NRC) and more, allowing NRGene to maintain and strengthen long-term relationships with its current and potential partners throughout the Canadian Ag-tech community.By opening its first genotyping lab in Canada, NRGene fulfilled its strategic decision to strengthen its presence in the industry value chain.

This new lab will allow NRGene to provide its customers with full genotyping solution and complement NRGene’s computational capabilities.

Dr. Hashim Khan was appointed to lead the lab operations and will be applying his extensive experience in genomics.

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Breg’s innovative patient and product management software for orthopedic providers is now faster, more intuitive and more secureBreg, Inc., a leading orthopedic bracing and billing services company, has announced the launch of Breg Vision® 7.5 – a completely rebuilt version of its trusted patient and inventory management software that is currently used by thousands of orthopedic clinics, hospital systems and sports medicine programs to reduce administrative hassle and elevate patient care.“Since we introduced the Vision platform in 2007, we have been on a mission to add the most innovative capabilities we can imagine and stay a step ahead of the healthcare industry to provide meaningful and forward-thinking features to customers,” said Geoff Siegel, Breg’s Chief Innovation Officer.

“With Vision 7.5, we are not only launching new tools, we have also completely rebuilt our architecture, which puts us in an ideal position to innovate and adapt to industry needs more quickly in the future.”Vision 7.5 makes it easier than ever for orthopedic providers to integrate the system directly into their existing EMR/EHR platforms.

New functionality also includes the ability to connect directly into healthcare providers’ Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, seamlessly integrating DMEPOS inventory management into the supply chain.Available in both web-based and tablet app versions, Vision 7.5 features real-time benefits and eligibility checks that account for each patient’s specific insurance plan.

Doctors can identify the best products for a patient’s recovery, then assess the true costs with them upfront, empowering patients to be part of the decision.Other features include:Single page smart dispensingElectronic patient, authorized representative and provider signatures and documentationOffline dispensing and inventory countingOnline ordering and PO reconciliationRobust reporting and analyticsEnd-to-end paperless processStreamlined inventory management with real-time tracking“Healthcare becomes more complex every year, and we spend a lot of time talking to our customers about how our software and services can support them,” Mr. Siegel said.

“With this launch, we are not only giving customers what they need now, but also thinking ahead to what they will need as the industry continues to change.

We are able to innovate ahead of the curve.”For more such updates and perspectives around Digital Innovation, IoT, Data Infrastructure, AI & Cybersecurity, go to AI-Techpark.com.

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The combined 5G solution set will enable faster, pre-validated implementations of 5G networksSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Ciena® (NYSE: CIEN) have entered into an agreement to deliver 5G network solutions to the market.

The agreement enables Samsung to couple Ciena’s xHaul solutions with its own 5G solutions to support the next-generation of high-bandwidth applications and services driven by expanding 5G networks.Samsung and Ciena will collaborate to offer hardware and software solutions to telecom operators, enabling them to support the increasing volume of 5G data traffic at the edge and within an increasingly distributed 5G architecture.“As 5G proliferates, immersive services like AR/VR and HD video streaming are becoming the center of our daily mobile lives.

In order to deliver more powerful 5G services, the current network architecture needs to evolve,” said Wonil Roh, Senior Vice President and Head of Product Strategy, Networks Business at Samsung Electronics.

“Samsung’s ability to couple our best-in-class 5G solutions with a leader in transport technologies like Ciena will give customers a solution to address this need, and do so with the confidence to scale and evolve their networks to support the future of 5G.”Combining Samsung’s 5G RAN and Core with Ciena’s xHaul Routing and Switching portfolio and next-generation Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller will give customers an optimized offer that takes full advantage of 5G services, while providing efficient ways to manage massive data across networks and to the cloud.

This will help accelerate the deployment of advanced applications enhanced by 5G, such as network slicing, IoT and automation through AI.

The combined offer will deliver a validated solution, providing more compatible, faster, and simplified implementations of 5G networks.“Together with Samsung, we’re fueling the next generation of mobile connectivity to unleash the full potential of 5G,” said Matt Cook, Vice President, Global Partner Organization, Ciena.

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Retailer earns repeated recognition for sustainability in both inbound and outbound logisticsMeijer received two SmartWay Excellence Awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), recognizing the retailer as an industry leader in freight supply chain environmental performance and energy efficiency.“We appreciate the EPA’s continued support of our innovation and commitment to reducing our carbon footprint,” said Tom McCall, Vice President of Logistics for Meijer.

“At Meijer, we believe that to be a good company, we must be a good neighbor, which means doing what’s right for our communities and our planet.”Meijer received top honors in both the mixed carrier fleet and the shipper categories, marking eight total awards in the categories since 2017.Meijer operates one of the largest standalone fleets in Michigan with 250 semi-trucks driven by an estimated 400 drivers.

Overall, the retailer has a network of 750 trucks with more than 1,000 drivers covering 70 million miles a year.The retailer credits ongoing innovation for its continued success, testing preproduction emission reduction technology regularly in its fleet.

For example, Meijer is currently testing new engines in its freightliner tractors with enhanced performance and thermal management, improving base engine fuel economy by 3.4 percent.“According to the EPA, moving freight accounts for more than 25 percent of all fuel consumed and Greenhouse Gasses emitted by the transportation sector,” McCall said.

“We’re pleased to do our part to reduce those emissions.”The SmartWay Excellence Award is the EPA’s highest recognition.

It acknowledges the top retail and manufacturing carriers and shippers that demonstrate how their logistical operations make a measurable difference in reducing carbon emissions, while also effectively managing fuel costs as they move goods around the country.

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Wondershare products are now compatible with Windows 11Over the decades, leading creative software company, Wondershare has prided itself on its commitment to constant innovation—designing products to help beginner and professional users alike achieve their creative potential.

In keeping up with the latest tech updates, Wondershare has announced that all their products, including Filmora, PDFelement, InClowdz, EdrawMax , EdrawMind, Anireel, and UniConverter, which can be downloaded from the Windows Store, are now compatible with the newly released Windows 11.“Whenever we design new products or new versions of our current products, we always keep efficiency top of mind—we know that time is very valuable to all our users, and the easier we can make their lives, the better,” said Luna Xue, Product Director of Wondershare.

“This is why we are very excited to see some of the new features of Windows 11, which will undoubtedly make processes more streamlined for users.”Snap layouts and snap groups enhance productivityThis major overhaul of the Windows operating system features various new additions that enable users to more easily multitask, for example, snap layouts and snap groups.

Video editors who utilize Wondershare products such as Filmora and Anireel will be able to more efficiently edit videos and photos by quickly switching between windows or viewing them all at once.On the other hand, EdrawMax and EdrawMind users who create a lot of diagrams and mind maps can on their PCs with several windows open at once with snap layouts, enabling them to focus on the source material while designing the diagrams on EdrawMax and EdrawMind without having to minimize and maximize windows.PDFelement 8’s latest update to streamline user experience to simplify the interface goes hand in hand with the efficiency that snap layouts and snap groups offer users.

Now, creating and editing documents takes even less time and effort.Use Wondershare Android apps nativelyAnother highly anticipated feature of Windows 11 is the ability to use Android apps natively—users will be able to download Android apps directly onto their PCs.

This means that users can use their Wondershare mobile products such as FilmoraGo on their laptops or desktops, eliminating the need to download desktop versions of the products.