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Centage Customer and CFO of Loftness Specialized Equipment wins 2015 Technology Leadership Award by Ventana Research
NATICK, Mass., Dec. 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Centage Corporation, a leading provider of budgeting and forecasting software (Budget Maestro) for mid-market companies, today announced that customer Dave Davis, CFO at Loftness Specialized Equipment, has been named the 2015 CFO Leadership Award winner by Ventana Research. He was recognized for his success in spearheading a strategic IT initiative to automate his organization's spreadsheet-based budgeting and forecasting process. Davis helped increase efficiencies across his organization, saving valuable time and money, and solidifying the role of finance as a strategic contributor to the organization.
Davis realized that automating the budgeting and forecasting process was critical to create efficiencies among his lean finance team. With a history of relying on Excel spreadsheets to manage the budget, Davis had to make a change to more strategically support the objectives of his growing organization. He turned to Budget Maestro from Centage Corporation as a trusted and proven alternative. Now, Davis is empowered to concentrate on the structure and performance of the businesudget Maestrs and not get bogged down in troubleshooting spreadsheets or questioning the validity of the figures within the budget.
By automating an archaic spreadsheet-based process, Davis was able to streamline the development and delivery of the annual budget far more efficiently and effectively. Within minutes, he can easily create what-if scenarios to determine the financial impact of capital expenditures on the organization and confidently manage the largest expense of the organization – personnel. Armed with actionable, reliable, and up-to-date financial insight, accounting and finance have become essential to the management team. The finance team now plays a critical role in guiding and developing the company's strategic near-term and long-term initiatives while forging stronger partnerships with sales and product management.
"Since relying on Budget Maestro, we are in a better position to more strategically forecast for the future, execute efficient results analysis, proactively manage our financials, and raise cost-consciousness among the company's management team," said Davis. "Having relied on Budget Maestro at three previous organizations, I trust Centage as an invaluable partner to ensure the financial health of my organization. I am grateful for this honor from Ventana Research to underscore the power of Budget Maestro to support a more strategic, forward-thinking approach to financial management."
Budget Maestro, built specifically for mid-market companies, helps customers like Loftness manage critical financial data like a large organization. For decades, the standard software for budget planning was a basic spreadsheet. Lacking the flexibility, security, and collaboration essential to effective budget planning, spreadsheets drain resources and deliver incomplete, error-prone results. Budget Maestro is a sophisticated but easy-to-use budgeting, forecasting, and reporting software solution that scales to meet customers' needs. Without Budget Maestro in place, Davis and his team would continue to lack the strategic insight needed to most successfully manage the financial health of the organization.
"Congrats to Dave Davis, CFO at Loftness Specialized Equipment for winning the 2015 Ventana Research CFO Leadership Award for his leadership in finance through use of Centage for budgeting and planning," said Mark Smith, CEO & chief research officer at Ventana Research. "A focus on financial health and use of dedicated planning and budgeting software, instead of a myriad of spreadsheets, is critical to generating best possible outcomes."
For more information on the Ventana Research Business Technology Leadership Awards visit Ventana Research Leadership Awards, where you can learn more about how Centage can transform your budgeting and forecasting process follow us on Twitter @Centage or visit our blog http://blog.centage.com/.
About CentageBudget Maestro by Centage is an easy-to-use, scalable, automated budgeting, planning, and forecasting application. It is designed for mid-market companies and automates many of the time-consuming and error-prone activities associated with using spreadsheets to generate accurate budgets and forecasts. It features built-in financial and business logic that allow users to build and update their budgets and forecasts and never worry about formulas, functions, links, or any custom programming. It is the only solution in the market that offers synchronized P &L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow reporting that generate automatically and seamlessly update based on actuals or assumptions. Budget Maestro serves more than 7,000 users worldwide. Visit us at www.centage.com. For more information, follow us on Twitter @Centage or visit our blog, http://blog.centage.com/, for the latest insights on budgeting and forecasting strategies.
Centage and Budget Maestro are registered trademarks of Centage.CONTACT: Sarah Murray Attune Communications +1 781-378-2674 sarah@attunecommunications.com
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Am Law 100 Firm Launches Aderant Expert to Better Support Business Needs
ATLANTA, Dec. 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Another Am Law 100 firm has successfully implemented the Aderant Expert financial system. Aderant, provider of business management solutions for law and professional service firms, announced today that Venable LLP is now utilizing Expert and plans to add on to their Aderant legal software suite in the future.
Venable, a full service, 650-attorney firm, is known for their client-focused approach. To continue to build on their success, Venable realized the importance of having more robust technology and business systems. After a thorough evaluation period exploring various options, the firm concluded that Aderant Expert best met their needs.
Aderant Expert provides Venable a more robust, centralized and scalable platform than they previously had. The open architecture of Expert also enables Venable to easily tailor solutions to address business and client needs. Having a strong technology base allows Venable to more easily utilize the best in breed solutions available today.
"Aderant Expert provides us with increased capabilities," commented Venable COO Bruce Sidell. "As a firm that has been growing steadily in recent years, it has been important for us to streamline and automate processes through the use of technology as much as possible. By having a more efficient and robust financial solution, Venable will be able to better serve evolving client needs."
Rodger Cottrell, Director of Professional Services at Aderant, managed the implementation. "Venable brought a very talented team of accounting and technical professionals to the project," he commented. "The firm is well positioned to maintain and grow the Aderant system over time to better support their clients' changing demands."
Venable is now utilizing the core Aderant Expert system for firm financials, time entry and management, billing and pricing structures and more. Additionally, the firm plans to implement Aderant Expert Paperless Billing in the near future.
About Aderant
Aderant, headquartered in Atlanta, is a global provider of comprehensive business management software for law and other professional services firms. With a 35-year history as a global industry leader, Aderant supports nearly 3,200 clients in more than 30 countries, representing 77 of the top 100 Global Law Firms and more than 88 percent of the Am Law 200. Aderant maintains a combined customer retention rate of more than 95 percent and a customer support Net Promoter Score of 81. Aderant's complete suite of solutions includes: business development, calendar/docket matter management with built-in court rules, practice and financial management, time and billing, case management, document management, and business intelligence. More information is available at www.aderant.com.
Aderant and Aderant Expert are registered trademarks of Aderant Holdings, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the properties of their respective owners including, if so indicated, Aderant Holdings, Inc. or its subsidiaries.
CONTACT: Megan Hall Aderant Public Relations, North America megan.hall@aderant.com 404-889-8553
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Paylocity to Sponsor PGA Tour Professional Kenny Perry
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Dec. 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paylocity Holding Corporation (Nasdaq:PCTY), a cloud-based provider of payroll and human capital management software solutions, today announced a new alliance and sponsorship with seasoned PGA Tour player, Kenny Perry.
A PGA Tour member since 1987, Perry boasts 14 PGA Tour and 8 Champions Tour victories, including 3 Majors. Along with Tiger Woods, Perry is the only player to win Jack Nicklaus' tournament three times. He was a member of the 2004 and 2008 Ryder Cup teams and a member of the 1996, 2003, 2005, and 2009 President's Cup teams. A resident of Franklin, Kentucky, Perry was inducted into the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame in 2003, he is a member of the Western Kentucky University Hall of Fame and in 2009 he was awarded the prestigious Payne Stewart Award.
Perry brings a new level of accomplishment to the Paylocity PGA and LPGA Ambassador team. "When the opportunity to work with an iconic and accomplished player like Kenny Perry arose – we just couldn't pass that up. Kenny has a history of accomplishment and success," said Michael Haske, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Paylocity. "It aligns perfectly with Paylocity's relentless commitment to changing the payroll and HR software industry. We couldn't be happier to welcome Kenny Perry to the Paylocity family."
Perry agrees the fit is ideal. "Throughout my career I've had the pleasure of working with wonderful sponsors, and this is no exception. Paylocity is committed to supporting the PGA and LPGA Tours, and they also have shown tremendous ability to deliver payroll and HR software that really makes a difference for their clients. It's going to be a great partnership!"
Paylocity has had success sponsoring PGA and LPGA Tour players. Paylocity currently sponsors PGA professionals Brooks Koepka and Patton Kizzire and LPGA professionals Victoria Elizabeth and Jennifer Kirby. The addition of Kenny Perry extends the Paylocity brand into the PGA's Champions Tour.
About Paylocity
Paylocity is a provider of cloud-based payroll and human capital management, or HCM, software solutions for medium-sized organizations. Paylocity's comprehensive and easy-to-use solutions enable its clients to manage their workforces more effectively. Paylocity's solutions help drive strategic human capital decision-making and improve employee engagement by enhancing the human resource, payroll, and finance capabilities of its clients. For more information, visit www.paylocity.com.
CONTACT: Media Contact: Rebecca Everding Director of Marketing reverding@paylocity.com M: 222.254.0088 www.paylocity.com
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SyntBots Automation Platform Recognized (Twice) as a Top Performer
TROY, Mich., Dec. 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Syntel, Inc. (Nasdaq:SYNT), a global provider of digital transformation, information technology and knowledge process services, today announced that the Company's SyntBots® next-generation automation platform is receiving high praise from IT media and industry analysts.
SyntBots was selected by CRN Magazine as its #1 "Coolest Managed Services Offerings Of 2015." In addition, noted IT analyst firm HfS Research has ranked Syntel in the inaugural "HfS Autonomics Premier League," debuting as the #7 global autonomics service provider.
SyntBots is a next-generation platform that automates repetitive manual processes across IT operations, DevOps and business processes. The platform has delivered a 70% reduction in downtime and up to a 30% reduction in "run the business" costs. SyntBots also powers enterprise digital transformation initiatives by freeing up critical staff and delivering the integrated processes, improved quality and increased agility necessary to change the business.
In addition to adding Syntel and its SyntBots platform to its Premier League rankings, in October, HfS Research published a research report that highlighted Syntel's strategic investment in Intelligent Automation.
In that report, HfS stated SyntBots "provides a critical differentiation to many of its peers and is underpinned by a vertical jumpstart library to accelerate deployments for specific vertical use cases."
According to Syntel CEO and President, Nitin Rakesh, "Intelligent Automation is an important strategic investment for today's enterprises, he said. "It provides the agility, availability and efficiency that enterprises need to stay relevant in the two-speed world."
"This recent recognition of SyntBots substantiates Syntel's vision, understanding and delivery of a proven solution to transform IT and process operations across the enterprise technology stack," added Rakesh.
About Syntel - Syntel (Nasdaq:SYNT) is a global provider of digital transformation, information technology and knowledge process services to Global 2000 companies. Syntel's mission is to create new opportunities for clients by harnessing our passion, talent and innovation. We combine technology expertise, industry knowledge and a global delivery model to drive business value creation. Syntel's "Customer for Life" philosophy drives our relentless focus to build long-term, collaborative client partnerships. To learn more, visit us at: www.syntelinc.com.
Safe Harbor Provision - This news release may include forward-looking statements, including those with respect to the future level of business for Syntel, Inc. These statements are necessarily subject to risk and uncertainty. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014, the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2015 or from other factors not currently anticipated.
CONTACT: North America/Europe: Jon Luebke, (248) 619-3503, jon_luebke@syntelinc.com Asia/Pacific: Sikta Samantaray, +91 9167512186, sikta_samantaray@syntelinc.com
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Mitel Helps Schools Move Communications to the Cloud with E-Rate Incentive
- Mitel offers 40 percent off retail for E-Rate funded services
- Limited-time offer for leveraging E-Rate funding transition
- Leading schools choose Mitel for simplified communications
DALLAS, Dec. 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mitel® (Nasdaq:MITL) (TSX:MNW), a global leader in real-time business, cloud and mobile communications, is offering an incentive of 40 percent off retail for E-Rate funded purchases to help K-12 schools realize the benefits of implementing a cloud-based solution before government funding for these voice services phases out in 2019.
Cloud-based platforms provide a secure, low cost solution with superior quality and reliability. Mitel's cloud-based solutions earn high marks from education customers. Following recent deployments, more school districts report better communications among staff, greater productivity, and improved interaction with students and the community.
- Illinois' West Aurora School District 129 worked with Mitel partner Sound Incorporated to roll out a hosted cloud solution to support communications across 20 buildings, bypassing building constraints, saving money and freeing up IT personnel. The staff of 1,800 also gained access to productivity-enhancing features for better serving its 12,000-member student body.
- Replacing an outdated system, Raytown Quality Schools in Missouri selected a Mitel solution to give its staff of 1,300 the ability to easily connect and collaborate with each other, the district's 8,800 students, parents and the community. Mitel partner Allegiant deployed the solution, which also included MiCollab mobile client capabilities for communicating on the go.
- Another Mitel customer in Illinois, Wauconda Community Unit School District 118, used a Mitel solution to standardize and simplify technology across six schools for a staff of 500, supporting 4,000 students. Mitel partner MidCo, Inc. helped implement a hosted cloud solution that unifies and streamlines messaging, provides a single portal for making changes and gets new teachers up and running quickly.
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"We wanted to standardize communications. A lot of our buildings didn't even have voicemail. Everything was coming through the main office and notes were being left in mailboxes. That's one of the greatest benefits of Mitel's system—it allows us to communicate better internally, with students and the community," said Scott Cittadino, assistant superintendent of Technology, Wauconda Community Unit School District 118.
"Schools are turning to the cloud to modernize and standardize as they look to simplify communications, lower cost of ownership, acquire more features and increase reliability. Mitel's education solutions also help them ultimately derive value from the practical application of empowering staff, improving parents' involvement, enhancing safety and enabling better student outcomes," said Wes Durow, chief marketing officer, Mitel.
Important Facts
- Nearly One out of Four New Cloud Communications Users Chooses Mitel
- Mitel is globally recognized as a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications
- Mitel is the fastest growing cloud provider with more than 1.6 million subscribers
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About Mitel
A global market leader in enterprise and mobile communications powering more than 2 billion business connections and 2 billion mobile subscribers every day, Mitel (Nasdaq:MITL) (TSX:MNW) helps businesses and mobile carriers connect, collaborate and provide innovative services to their customers. Our innovation and communications experts serve more than 60 million business users in more than 100 countries, and 130 mobile service providers including 15 of the top 20 mobile carriers in the world. That makes us unique, and the only company able to provide a bridge between enterprise and mobile customers. For more information, go to www.mitel.com and follow us on Twitter @Mitel.
Mitel is the registered trademark of Mitel Networks Corporation.
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CONTACT: Media - Americas Camille Beasley 469-212-0433 camille.beasley@mitel.com Investors Michael McCarthy 469-574-8134 michael.mccarthy@mitel.com Media - EMEA/AP Duncan Miller +44 (0) 1291 612 646 duncan.miller@mitel.com Industry Analysts Cynthia Navarro 469-574-8113 cynthia.navarro@mitel.com
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Google Announces Results From Two Years of Testing on Quantum Computers Made by Harris & Harris Group Portfolio Company, D-Wave Systems
NEW YORK, Dec. 09, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:TINY), an investor in transformative companies enabled by disruptive science, notes that yesterday NASA, Google and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) hosted a tour of the jointly run Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory located at the NASA’s Ames Research Center which houses one of D-Wave’s 1,097-qubit D-Wave 2XTM quantum computers. At this event, Google announced that D-Wave’s quantum computer was able to find solutions to complicated problems of nearly 1,000 variables up to 108 (100,000,000) times faster than classical computers.
You may read Google’s full discussion of these results at http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2015/12/when-can-quantum-annealing-win.html.
We are also excited to note that Google’s announcement was profiled in multiple articles published online following the event. The following link provides a list of such articles on Google’s news search platform: https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=dZiX84H9efiibMMsnNfEluViQM_dM&q=d-wave+systems&lr=English&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu4JDKhM7JAhVR5GMKHeqQDpcQqgIILDAB.
About Harris & Harris Group
Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital firm that is also a business development company. Detailed information about Harris & Harris Group and its holdings can be found on its website at www.HHVC.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/harrisharrisvc and by following on Twitter @harrisandharrisgroup.
This press release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to the inherent uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions. These statements reflect the Company's current beliefs, and a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in this press release. Please see the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, as well as subsequent filings, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a more detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, including, but not limited to, the risks and uncertainties associated with venture capital investing and other significant factors that could affect the Company's actual results. Except as otherwise required by Federal securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events or uncertainties. The references and links to the websites www.HHVC.com, googleresearch.blogspot.ca, news.google.com, and www.Facebook.com have been provided as a convenience, and the information contained on such websites is not incorporated by reference into this press release. Harris & Harris Group is not responsible for the contents of third party websites.
CONTACT: Press Contact:Alexandra Spurgeon, Account ExecutiveGregory FCAAlexandra@GregoryFCA.com 610-228-2140
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Minitab Express Adds Time Series Analysis and Control Charts
STATE COLLEGE, PA., Dec. 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Minitab Express 1.4, an update to the most recent version of this statistical software package for introductory statistics, adds new analyses and features.
"We're excited to provide business and engineering departments with the tools they need to prepare students for a data-driven world," says Michelle Paret, product marketing manager.
With its user-friendly interface and intuitive menus designed to complement leading textbooks, students can use Minitab Express on Mac or PC to quickly analyze and interpret their data—benefits that continue in the newest version, which includes time series analysis, control charts, regression improvements, and more.
New time series analyses help students explore data collected sequentially. Minitab Express 1.4 offers time series plots, trend analysis, moving average, single exponential smoothing, and double exponential smoothing methods to evaluate trends and produce forecasts.
Control charts assess process stability by monitoring continuous and attribute process data. Minitab Express 1.4 includes Xbar, Xbar-R, Xbar-S, Individuals, I-MR, P, and U control charts. New regression features in Minitab Express include creating models with a categorical predictor and confidence intervals for coefficients.
"Minitab Express does the heavy lifting with the calculations," says Paret. "It allows students to focus on learning statistical concepts and their applications in real-world problem solving."
Row and column statistics now calculate figures such as row averages, and users can create formulas using new percentile, concatenate, combinations, permutations, factorial, and logic functions.
New features added to Minitab Express 1.4's graph and random data tools enable users to fit exponential, lognormal, or Weibull distributions for histograms and probability plots, use the geometric distribution when calculating and graphing probability distributions, and generate data sets sampled from geometric or Bernoulli distributions.Instructors also have access to new lesson plans for teaching core statistical concepts using Minitab Express or Minitab 17. Class outlines, instructor notes, exercises, answer keys, and Minitab data sets are included.
The update is free for Minitab Express users. More information about Minitab Express, including pricing, licensing, a free 30-day trial version, and the new lesson plans are available at www.minitab.com/academic.
About Minitab Inc.
Minitab Inc. is the leading provider of statistical software for quality improvement worldwide. More than 4,000 colleges and universities use Minitab for teaching and research. Thousands of companies in more than 100 countries trust Minitab.
The company's products include:
• Minitab® 17, the leading statistical software used for quality improvement and statistics education.
• Minitab Express™, is designed for teaching and learning introductory statistics and is available for both the Mac and PC.
• Quality Trainer by Minitab®, an e-learning course that teaches statistics and how to use Minitab Statistical Software.
• Devize®, a powerful Monte Carlo simulation tool for engineers.
• Qeystone®, a project portfolio management platform designed to manage an organization's entire Lean Six Sigma deployment.
• Quality Companion by Minitab®, process improvement software for executing quality improvement projects.Minitab's products are backed by free technical support and outstanding services, including training, statistical consulting and custom development.
Headquartered in State College, Pa., Minitab Inc. operates offices in Phoenix, Az., the United Kingdom, France, and Australia and has additional representatives throughout the world.A photo accompanying this release is available at: http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/?pkgid=38068
CONTACT: FOR MORE INFORMATION contact Carly Barry or Eston Martz in Minitab media relations: PublicRelations@minitab.com
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GovDelivery Announces 2015 Digital Strategy & Impact Award Winners
ST. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 9, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GovDelivery, the leading provider of cloud-based solutions enhancing the citizen experience today announced the winners of the 2015 GovDelivery Digital Strategy & Impact Awards. These leading Federal and State & Local government organizations have clearly demonstrated effective and innovative digital strategy and excellence in the key areas of promoting services, enhancing awareness and improving citizen involvement.
"As government organizations work to create better lives for their citizens and stakeholders, the leaders are using a customer-centric, digital-driven approach to promote online transactions, enhance public awareness to drive behavior change, and improve citizen involvement," said Natalie Fedie, VP of Customer Success and Professional Services at GovDelivery. "We're proud to honor this year's U.S. Digital Strategy & Impact Award winners who are at the forefront of an industry-wide shift toward improving the citizen experience by enabling digital government."
The GovDelivery Digital Strategy & Impact Awards recognize public sector organizations and individuals working to accelerate and streamline usage of online services, those who inform and engage citizens to drive changes in behavior, as well as those working to increase community contributions. All government organizations are eligible for participation and entries are reviewed by the GovDelivery Awards Committee and judged against all other nominations in the market and category. The outstanding organizations selected for recognition include:
Federal Award Winners
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Division of Violence Prevention –Leveraged digital communications to significantly increase visibility of the VetoViolence Facebook page, increasing attention to violence-related issues in America. The digital communication through GovDelivery drove a 210% increase in Facebook shares and 75% increase in Twitter re-tweets.
- Department of Defense (DOD), Office of Warrior Care Policy– Accelerated reach and promoted services to Wounded Warriors and families through digital communications, driving more than 60,000 downloads of the DoD Compensation and Benefits Handbook, which informs wounded, ill, and injured Service Members of important benefits and services available to them.
State & Local Award Winners
- King County, Washington – Reimagined the press release using data to track which reporters are interested in specific subjects. Targeted media outreach using this information helped generate high-profile coverage for a new reduced transit fare program, leading to increased awareness and more than 16,000 registrations in the first six months.
- Georgia Department of Natural Resources – Increased daily visitorship at local camp sites by 40% by pairing digital communications with a new Outdoor Recreational open data website.
- City of Hurst, Texas – Drove economic activity by promoting city retailers through email during the holiday season. The "Shop First in Hurst" campaign drove interest to the city's 1,000 businesses, further generating city revenue through sales tax.
About GovDelivery
Over one thousand public sector organizations use GovDelivery's highly-secure cloud solutions every day to enhance the citizen experience for more than 100 million people. GovDelivery offers leading solutions for managing government communications, internal and external learning, and open data. The GovDelivery Network offers a unique and impactful way for public sector organizations to work together to cross promote content and increase digital reach. Organizations using GovDelivery see higher utilization of citizen services and greater citizen engagement. GovDelivery is an Actua (Nasdaq:ACTA) company.
- govdelivery.com
- @govdelivery
- facebook.com/govdelivery
CONTACT: Media Contact: Kelsey Lund Marketing Communications Specialist Ph: 651.925.5766
- Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Division of Violence Prevention –Leveraged digital communications to significantly increase visibility of the VetoViolence Facebook page, increasing attention to violence-related issues in America. The digital communication through GovDelivery drove a 210% increase in Facebook shares and 75% increase in Twitter re-tweets.
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Bit9 + Carbon Black Joins IBM Security App Exchange Community
WALTHAM, Mass., Dec. 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bit9® + Carbon Black®, a leader in Next-Generation Endpoint Security (NGES), today launched the Carbon Black App for IBM QRadar, which provides a turnkey solution for integrating the Carbon Black endpoint threat detection and response solution with IBM security intelligence technology to provide organizations with a single pane of glass to more quickly detect and respond to security alerts.
The new application is freely available to the security community through IBM Security App Exchange, a marketplace where developers across the industry can share applications based on IBM Security technologies. As threats are evolving faster than ever, collaborative development among the security community will help organizations adapt quickly and speed innovation in the fight against cyber crime.
The Carbon Black App for IBM QRadar leverages Carbon Black, an industry-leading endpoint threat detection and response solution, and IBM QRadar, the company's security intelligence platform that analyzes data across an organization's IT infrastructure in real time to identify potential security threats. The app offers organizations a single management console for security event management and incident response, enabling them to quickly and easily respond to endpoint security alerts. Once installed, the App provides administrators with direct access to many of Carbon Black's powerful incident response features, such as process searches, endpoint isolation and system status, from within the QRadar administrator console.
"We are pleased to join the IBM Security App Exchange, which reflects our commitment to open, integrated security," said Brian Hazard, vice president of technical alliances for Bit9 + Carbon Black. "The Carbon Black App for IBM QRadar makes it easy for organizations to leverage Carbon Black's powerful capabilities from inside the IBM QRadar console to detect and respond to threats and attacks against the biggest target in any organization, and the place where their most important information resides: their endpoints."
More information about the Carbon Black App for IBM QRadar is available here.
About IBM Security
IBM's security platform provides the security intelligence to help organizations holistically protect their people, data, applications and infrastructure. IBM offers solutions for identity and access management, security information and event management, database security, application development, risk management, endpoint management, next-generation intrusion protection and more. IBM operates one of the world's broadest security research and development, and delivery organizations. For more information, please visit www.ibm.com/security, follow @IBMSecurity on Twitter or visit the IBM Security Intelligence blog.
About Bit9 + Carbon Black
Bit9 + Carbon Black is a market leader in Next-Generation Endpoint Security. We have sold more licenses, have more experience, and more customers than any other NGES company because our solution is the most effective way to prevent, detect and respond to advanced threats that target users, servers, and fixed-function devices. That's why more than 60 MSSP and IR leaders have chosen our technology as a key component of their security offerings, and 25 of the Fortune 100 rely on us as a critical element of their advanced threat defense and compliance strategies. By the end of 2015, we expect to achieve 7 million+ software licenses sold, and almost 2,000 customers worldwide. We were voted Best Endpoint Protection by security professionals in the SANS Institute's Best of 2014 Awards, and a 2015 SANS survey found that 68 percent of IR professionals are using or evaluating Carbon Black. And IDC, in 2015, named Bit9 + Carbon Black the leader in endpoint security, with 37 percent market share.
Bit9 and Carbon Black are registered trademarks of Bit9, Inc. All other company or product names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.CONTACT: Kevin Flanagan Bit9 + Carbon Black +1 781-856-2589 kflanagan@bit9.com
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Iowa State Department of Transportation Selects AssetWorks Enterprise Asset Management System
WAYNE, Pa., Dec. 08, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AssetWorks, a leading provider of enterprise asset management software and operational asset management systems, announced today that the Iowa State Department of Transportation has selected AssetWorks integrated enterprise asset management (EAM) software and fleet management software solutions to manage its warehouse and inventory operations, fleet and facilities.
Looking to replace existing systems in a mainframe environment, Iowa DOT competitively sought a comprehensive solution to handle the complex tasks of maintaining public vertical infrastructure as well as warehouse, inventory and equipment management. Through the evaluation procurement process, AssetWorks Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software was selected to be the new overall solution to manage these systems.
The Iowa DOT is responsible for 1,320 inventory users, including 222 local jurisdiction inventory users, 1004 equipment management users and 66 facility management users, 3,000 fleet units, 13,000 fleet components and 35,000 general assets.
AssetWorks EAM solution is a comprehensive asset management system that can handle all aspects of public infrastructure management. EAM offers complete asset life-cycle management, including budgeting, acquisition, capital improvement, campaigns and disposal management, and service request, work order, scheduling and calendar functionalities, as well as complete warranty, purchasing and parts inventory management.
About AssetWorks
AssetWorks is a leading supplier of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software, Fleet Management software and Automated Fueling Systems in North America, with more than 550 software customers, including private fleet operators as well as City, County, State and Federal organizations that manage large fleets. AssetWorks solutions enable fleet organizations of all sizes to improve maintenance practices, streamline operations and improve accountability for mission-critical transportation assets. For more information, please visit www.assetworks.com
CONTACT: Media Contact: Carey Picklesimer / carey.picklesimer@assetworks.com / Tel: 858.866.9043Sales Contact EAM: Greg Malm / gregory.malm@assetworks.com / Tel. 515.512.4359
