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Informatica Announces $1 Million Big Data Ready Challenge to Help Organizations Succeed in Big Data Projects
Booth #337, Strata + Hadoop World, New York City, NY, Sept. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Informatica, the world's number one independent software provider focused on delivering transformative innovation for the future of all things data, today announced its $1 Million Software and Services Big Data Ready Challenge to help organizations overcome the challenges of taking their big data projects from pilot to production. Through the contest, Informatica will award a total of at least US$1 million in software and services to help qualifying organizations in North America deliver clear business value from their big data initiatives. Six finalists and two winners each quarter will be selected during the next 12 months, and a grand prize winner will be picked at the Big Data Ready Fall Summit in December 2016.
- Entries are being accepted now through November 1, 2016 here.
- The contest is subject to rules that may be found here.
The judges for the Contest include:
- Professor Tom Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College.
- Dr. Claudia Imhoff, President and Founder of the Boulder BI Brain Trust and Intelligent Solutions, Inc. A thought leader, visionary, and practitioner in the rapidly growing fields of business intelligence and advanced analytics.
- David S. Linthicum is a consultant at Cloud Technology Partners and an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader.
- Mark Smith, CEO and Executive Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research.
- Amit Walia, EVP and Chief Product Officer, Informatica.
- Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman, Constellation Research.
Additionally, Informatica introduced the Informatica Big Data Management framework, the most comprehensive hybrid data management approach to manage all things big data. Informatica Big Data Management framework is a holistic approach to managing big data, which includes a comprehensive view focused on three pillars required for big data management solutions.
Data Integration
Big data integration must deliver high-throughput data ingestion and at-scale processing so business analysts can make better decisions using next-generation analytics tools. Big data integration helps businesses gain better insights from big data because it:
- Speeds up development, leverages existing IT skills, and simplifies maintenance through the use of a simple visual interface supported by easy-to-use templates.
- Increases performance and resource utilization by optimizing data processing execution and providing flexible, hybrid deployment across a variety of platforms.
- Handles a wide variety of data sources though hundreds of pre-built transformations and connectors, and orchestrates data flows by using broker-based data ingestion.
Data Governance and Data Quality
End-to-end big data governance and quality means business and IT users can be confident with the data they are using. Comprehensive data governance includes:
- Formal data quality assessments to detect data anomalies sooner.
- Pre-built data quality rules to ensure data is "fit-for-purpose."
- Universal metadata catalog to facilitate search and automate data processing.
- Entity matching and linking to enrich master data, such as for customers.
- End-to-end data lineage for data provenance, traceability and compliance audits.
Data Security
Risk-centric big data security analyzes all data to quickly detect and act upon risks and vulnerabilities. This requires a 360-degree view of sensitive data, supported by risk analytics and policy-based protection of data at risk. Additionally, data preparation is required to ensure that big data is consistent and of high quality. Big data security should de-identify information controlled by corporate policies and industry regulations. Risk-centric big data security and data preparation must enable:
- "Single pane of glass" monitoring of sensitive data stores to provide visibility into the locations of sensitive data.
- Sensitive data discovery and classification for a comprehensive 360-degree view of sensitive data.
- Usage and proliferation analysis for a precise understanding of data risk.
- The integration of disparate applications to easily process and analyze data, leading to insights that help organizations make better decisions.
- Risk assessment to help prioritize investments in security programs.
- Non-intrusive persistent and dynamic data masking to protect sensitive data in development and production environments to help minimize the risk of a security breach.
Supporting Quotes:
"During my discussions with organizations worldwide, they have highlighted their big data management challenges, and one of the greatest challenges they face is successfully capitalizing on the true potential of big data in their enterprises," said Amit Walia, executive vice president and chief product officer, Informatica. "Informatica is key to making that happen, particularly now that we are offering more than $1 million in software and services to help selected companies overcome their big data challenges. We want to partner with customers who want to harness big data to deliver significant business results, to eradicate cancer, to solve world hunger issues, to aid in space exploration, to further connect the citizens of the planet and beyond. We invite organizations that have North American data centers to bring us their biggest big data management challenges so we can solve it together to make the world a better place."
"Cox Automotive is comprised of over two dozen companies, including AutoTrader, Manheim and Kelley Blue Book. Each of these companies produces and consumes a massive amount of data that is even more valuable when shared among them," said Ben Garrett, director, Enterprise Data Services Architecture and Operations, Cox Automotive. "Big Data Management helps us consolidate, integrate, govern and secure all data at scale in what we've called an "Analytics Hub" and make it available for everyone to use, to help build out new and better products."
According to research directors, Eric Thoo and Lakshmi Randall, in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools report, published July 29, 2015, "Data acquisition for business intelligence (BI), analytics and data warehousing --Extracting data from operational systems, transforming and merging that data, and delivering it to integrated data structures for analytics purposes. The variety of data and context for analytics is expanding as emergent environments -- such as NoSQL and Hadoop distributions for supporting big data, in-memory DBMSs, logical data warehouse architectures and end-user capability to integrate data (as part of data preparation) -- increasingly become parts of the information infrastructure."
The Informatica ecosystem has expressed its support for Informatica Big Data Management. For more on what customers Cox Automotive, Jones Lang LaSalle, Kaiser Permanente, KPN and Symphony Health Solutions, and partners Cisco, Cloudera, Cognizant, Hortonworks, MapR Technologies and Teradata have said, read the "Informatica Customers and Partners Support Informatica Big Data Management" quote sheet here.
Additional Information
- Informatica Big Data Management will be showcased at the Informatica booth (#337) at Strata + Hadoop World, September 29 - October 1, 2015, at the Javits Center, New York City, NY.
- Murthy Mathiprakasam, principal product marketing manager for Informatica's big data products, will join with Vishal Bamba, vice president of strategy and architecture at Transamerica Technology, in highlighting big data architecture and management in a session titled, "Delivering Trusted Data for Analyst Autonomy and Operational Agility With a Unified Big Data Fabric" on Wednesday, September 30, at 2:05 p.m., in 1 E14.
- Amit Walia will speak with Wikibon analysts on theCUBE on October 1, at 11:00 am ET. #BigDataNYC
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About Informatica
Informatica is a leading independent software provider focused on delivering transformative innovation for the future of all things data. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica to realize their information potential and drive top business imperatives. More than 5,800 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and on the internet, including social networks. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com. Connect with Informatica at https://www.linkedin.com/company/Informatica, https://twitter.com/Informatica and https://www.facebook.com/InformaticaLLC.
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CONTACT: Debbie O'Brien Informatica +1 650 385 5735 - office +1 650 995 6736 - mobile dobrien@informatica.com Shira Frantzich Informatica +1 650 385 5674 - office sfrantzich@informatica.com
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Informatica Customers and Partners Support Informatica Big Data Management
Booth #337, Strata + Hadoop World, New York City, NY, Sept. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Informatica, the world's number one independent software provider focused on delivering transformative innovation for the future of all things data, today introduced the Informatica Big Data Management framework, the most comprehensive hybrid data management approach to manage all things big data. Informatica Big Data Management framework is a holistic approach to managing big data, which includes a comprehensive view focused on three pillars required for big data management solutions: Data Integration, Data Governance and Data Quality, and Data Security.
Informatica also announced its $1 Million Software and Services Big Data Ready Challenge to help organizations overcome the challenges of taking their big data projects from pilot to production.
The Informatica ecosystem has expressed its support for Informatica Big Data Management and here is what some partners and customers have to say:
Customers
Cox Automotive: "Cox Automotive is comprised of over two dozen companies, including AutoTrader, Manheim and Kelley Blue Book. Each of these companies produces and consumes a massive amount of data that is even more valuable when shared among them. Big Data Management helps us consolidate, integrate, govern and secure all data at scale in what we've called an 'Analytics Hub' and make it available for everyone to use, to help build out new and better products."
- Ben Garrett, Director, Enterprise Data Services Architecture and Operations
Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL): "JLL is a financial and professional services firm that specializes in commercial real estate services and investment management in more than 80 countries. Big Data Management is the foundation for big data analytic initiatives at JLL, which helps us significantly improve customer satisfaction. Big Data Integration and Big Data Governance address a variety of business needs, such as end-to-end data lineage, mastering customer data, providing efficient and near real-time at-scale data integration, and agile development."
- Sridhar Potineni, Executive Vice President of Innovation
Kaiser Permanente: "Analytics is central to Kaiser's business and promoting better health for all. Big Data Management helps us overcome the primary obstacles to analytics which are the ability to access, govern, and trust the data. To build a next-gen analytics platform requires the ability to integrate at scale a wide variety of healthcare related data, govern critical data using a universal metadata catalog, and secure sensitive data to protect the privacy of our patients and employees."
- Manish Vipani, Vice President and Chief Architect
KPN: "Big Data Management plays a critical role at KPN as a data-driven company. Big Data Integration breaks down data silos to provide better customer intelligence. Big Data Governance and Quality ensures that our business analysts can be confident with the data they're using. Additionally, we have very strict laws in Europe around sensitive customer information and require the ability to discover the proliferation of sensitive information. Therefore, we also need Big Data Security that provides a 360-degree view of sensitive data, supported by risk analytics and policy-based protection of data at risk. We are taking a comprehensive approach to Big Data Management at KPN."
- Thomas Reichel, Lead Architect
Symphony Health Solutions: "Symphony Health Solutions uses a dynamic and optimized Big Data Integration platform to support key initiatives from predictive market analysis to patient influence, physician prescribing, pharmacy fulfillment, payer reimbursement, and sales compensation. The productivity of the environment, speed of data delivery, and the ability to collect and integrate data at scale from over 100 sources is critical to our success in deploying a Big Data Management strategy."
- Jeff Little, Senior Director, IT Core Systems
Partners
Cisco: "Big data is a business imperative for our customers. With the extreme scalability that Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) provides, many customers are already experiencing the benefit of quickly mining massive amounts of data to innovate and bring new solutions to market faster. Now, by bringing together Cisco UCS and Informatica Big Data Management, we deliver an even more comprehensive software and hardware solution for our customers to unlock the intelligence in their data."
- Jim McHugh, Vice President of Cisco Unified Computing System and Data Center Solutions Marketing
Cloudera: "Cloudera Enterprise and Informatica Big Data Management together are designed specifically for mission-critical environments. Since the early days of Hadoop, Cloudera and Informatica have led with best practices and tight integrations with Cloudera Navigator, Cloudera Manager and Spark to deliver massively scalable data integration, end-to-end data governance, and robust data security and protection."
- Tim Stevens, Vice President of Business and Corporate Development
Cognizant: "Today's digital enterprises are inundated with massive amounts of information from a wide variety of data sources. Extracting meaning and business insight from these high volume data streams requires innovative analytics and Big Data Management services and solutions. Cognizant is working with leading companies like Informatica to provide our clients with the experience, skills and latest tools that enable them to harness and exploit this flood of data to drive business value."
- Karthik Krishnamurthy, Vice President and Global Business Head, Enterprise Information Management
Hortonworks: "Together, Hortonworks Data Platform and Informatica Big Data Management enable organizations to optimize their extract transform load workloads with long-term storage and processing at scale in Hadoop. Powered by a YARN-based architecture, this partnership enables the data-first enterprise to build systems of insight that integrate at scale, govern with metadata and secure comprehensively."
- Matthew Morgan, Vice President, Product and Alliance Marketing
MapR Technologies: "MapR and Informatica give companies an advantage with enterprise-grade big data management for business-critical production applications. When you combine the innovative features of the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop, such as high availability, disaster recovery, security and full data protection, with Informatica's Big Data Management solutions, organizations can confidently integrate, govern and secure all their data at scale in a production data center."
- Anil Gadre, Senior Vice President of Product Management
Teradata: "Teradata and Informatica have a long history of delivering the best products and solutions the industry has to offer for data management. Now, in this era of big data analytics, we are leading with the Teradata Unified Data Architecture that allows for next-gen analytics that turn insights into action and value with "best fit" engineered for big data management, optimized integration, universal metadata for governance, and complete security."
- Chris Twogood, Vice President of Product and Services Marketing
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About Informatica
Informatica is a leading independent software provider focused on delivering transformative innovation for the future of all things data. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica to realize their information potential and drive top business imperatives. More than 5,800 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets residing on-premise, in the Cloud and on the internet, including social networks. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com. Connect with Informatica at https://www.linkedin.com/company/Informatica, https://twitter.com/Informatica and https://www.facebook.com/InformaticaLLC.
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Note: Informatica and Informatica Big Data Management are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Debbie O'Brien Informatica +1 650 385 5735 - office +1 650 995 6736 - mobile dobrien@informatica.com Shira Frantzich Informatica +1 650 385 5674 - office sfrantzich@informatica.com
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QualiTest and DataVision Partner to Provide NFV/SDN Assurance for Customers Worldwide
FAIRFIELD, Conn., Sept. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QualiTest, the world's second largest independent software testing and QA company, is joining forces with DataVision, a leading provider of SDN/NFV Consulting, Solutions And Staffing, to offer a joint solution for implementing and optimizing your SDN/NFV network elements and infrastructure testing.
Combining QualiTest's testing services and DataVision's migration and implementation expertise, the partnership will provide key technology support services, including design and planning, network integration and migration, operational support and network optimization. Customers will be able to benefit from the partnership's expertise in Network Functionals Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN), along with the utilization of DataVision's SDN Realization Roadmap, SDN Now Lifecycle Management System and QuickStart Lab.
QualiTest uses Datavision's SDN QuickStart Lab to test SDN use cases and vendor selections in real-life simulations, verifying the functionality of the hardware and software components. Utilizing comprehensive NFV automated testing methodology, QualiTest's thorough and scalable testing practice reduces the overhead associated with QA and testing of large-scale software efforts. The solutions consist of NFV Test Accelerators, including pre-defined test assets constructed from over 580 test requirements and over 6,000 test cases, and a test automation repository that includes over 1,000 test scripts to fully test MANO, NFVI and VNF.
Bryon Lowen, QualiTest UK's VP of Telco, said about the alliance, "DataVision has been providing partnerships to their clients for over 20 years, and we are pleased to be joining their community. Our partnership with DataVision will ensure that we are guiding our clients towards scalable and agile networks, while reducing operational expenditures. DataVision's tools and expertise provides our clients with an established strategy and implementation of an SDN, which we utilize to ensure a successful transition to NFV and SDN."
QualiTest and DataVision will be hosting a webinar on October 7, discussing setting up and testing your NFV ecosystem. Join them for this exciting event here!
About QualiTest
QualiTest is the world's second largest pure play software testing and QA company. Testing and QA is all that we do! We design and deliver contextualized solutions that leverage deep industry-specific understanding with technology-specific competencies and unique testing-focused assets. QualiTest delivers results by combining customer-centric business models, critical thinking and the ability to gain a profound comprehension of customers' goals and challenges.
About DataVision
Datavision Inc. is an IT Solutions Provider for some of the biggest companies in the world and takes pride in staying in the forefront of this ever changing informational universe. Technology is always changing and our team is always changing with it to bring our clients the most up to date solutions.
The emergence of practical ways to migrate toward the "open source" and OpenStack- based infrastructure of SDN has been of particular interest to the IT community. Datavision has developed expertise to help our clients investigate, set up proofs of concept, and helped to migrate and transition to the new direction in networking and computing technology.
In addition, we provide solutions in the areas of investigating, planning, architecting, designing, developing, and technically assuring integration of a Tier 1 Telecom Provider's Managed Solutions Offer into operational deployment in both the Public and Private Sector for the past 8 years. We have deep experience in service provider and enterprise network strategy, design and realization.CONTACT: Amanda Johnson amandaj@qualitestgroup.com (410) 271-1724
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NOVADAQ Unveils SPY-Q Case Management Software at the SAWC Fall Symposium
TORONTO, Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Novadaq® Technologies Inc. ("NOVADAQ" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:NVDQ) (TSX:NDQ), the leading developer and provider of clinically relevant fluorescence imaging solutions for use in surgical and diagnostic procedures, today announced the unveiling of SPY-Q Case Manager (SPY-QCM), at the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care ("SWAC") Fall 2015 meeting being held in Las Vegas, Nevada from September 26-28.
SPY-QCM is an image acquisition and analysis software toolkit that will also enable physicians treating patients with compromised blood flow and tissue perfusion to assess the effectiveness of chosen treatments over time using new case management functionality. SPY-QCM will compile image data acquired using NOVADAQ's Fluorescence Angiography System over the course of a treatment period, and will provide a clear history of a patient's recovery progress and, if appropriate, allow them to alter treatment strategies to maximize the likelihood of a successful outcome.
"Despite the many advances in treatments, monitoring of the wound microcirculation during treatment has been one of the major unmet needs," commented Dr. William W. Li, President of the non-profit Angiogenesis Foundation. "The introduction of a powerful new case management software like SPY-QCM will allow clinicians to perform perfusion assessments serially over a course of treatment and to compare those assessments. Results are displayed immediately and provide arterial inflow and venous outflow intensity and rate maps that, when plotted over time, give clinicians valuable insight into the restoration of the critical local blood supply toward baseline or healthy tissue."
"SPY-QCM will empower clinicians to more effectively monitor patient recovery during the course of treatment, allowing for better informed decisions within a wound therapy program," explained Arun Menawat, NOVADAQ's President and Chief Executive Officer. "The development of this case management software is a natural progression of NOVADAQ's industry-leading SPY technology, and fills a key void for physicians in the ongoing monitoring and treatment of wounds."
SPY-QCM represents the latest technology development for NOVADAQ's family of SPY products. LUNA is designed for use in hospitals and clinics by specialists treating patients with a variety of vascular conditions such as acute and chronic non-healing wounds. LUNA allows clinicians to visualize blood flow in peripheral vessels and more reliably assess tissue perfusion. Information related to the quality of perfusion can assist in determining optimal treatment strategies and may consequently lead to improved rates of wound healing and reductions in the cost of care.
About Novadaq Technologies Inc.
Enabling medical professionals with clinically relevant, point-of-care imaging solutions to enhance the lives of patients and their caregivers, while reducing health care costs, is NOVADAQ's global mission. SPY fluorescence imaging technology provides surgeons with real-time visualization, without exposing the patient to radiation. More than 150 peer-reviewed publications demonstrate that the use of SPY imaging technologies during complex surgery and diagnostic procedures, leads to lower rates of post-operative complications and lower hospital costs.
SPY Imaging Systems are United States Food and Drug Administration 510(k) cleared for use in seven surgical specialties. The endoscopic version of SPY called PINPOINT, combines the capabilities of SPY Imaging with high definition ("HD") visible light visualization offered by conventional endoscopes. LUNA is used to assess perfusion in patients being treated for non-healing wounds. In December 2014, NOVADAQ and LifeNet Health jointly announced the signing of a multi-year agreement appointing NOVADAQ the exclusive worldwide distributor of LifeNet Health's DermACELL acellular tissue products for wound and breast reconstruction surgery.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements included in this press release may be considered forward-looking. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those implied by such statements, and therefore these statements should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results. All forward-looking statements are based on NOVADAQ's current beliefs as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to NOVADAQ and relate to, among other things, the Company's strategy, strategic goals, research and development activities, research and clinical testing outcomes, taxes, capital expenditures, future operations, future financial position, future revenues/results, projected costs, prospects and plans and objectives of management.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Due to risks and uncertainties, including the risks and uncertainties identified by NOVADAQ in its public securities filings available at www.sec.gov and www.sedar.com, actual events may differ materially from current expectations. NOVADAQ disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
NOVADAQ, SPY, SPY-Q, PINPOINT and LUNA are registered trademarks of Novadaq Technologies Inc. DermACELL is a registered trademark of LifeNet Health.
CONTACT: For more information, please contact: Stephen Kilmer Investor Relations 1-647-872-4849 skilmer@novadaq.com
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EFI Showcases Jetrion One-pass LED Inkjet Label Press and New Packaging Productivity Suite at Labelexpo Europe
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LABELEXPO -- At Labelexpo Europe EFI™ (stand 9C40) is showing the first fully inline LED inkjet digital printing system available with laser cutting and finishing for lean label production. The production line features the 13-inch (330-mm) wide EFI Jetrion® 4950LX LED narrow web press with a white ink module. To complement its high-productivity press, EFI is demonstrating a new Enterprise Packaging Productivity Suite custom configured to address the needs of three segments: label, flexible packaging and folding carton converting, as well as tighter integration with Esko's Automation Engine.
EFI Jetrion LED press with white ink and inline finishing
The automated Jetrion 4950LX press with integrated finishing has a superior, 720x720 dots per inch resolution. Plus, EFI is demonstrating a faster, 164-feet (50-meter) per minute speed, a higher level of throughput that can make digital inkjet label converting an even more useful option as a replacement for flexographic printing.
"We are one of the first label printers in the world to have digital printing and inline finishing in one machine. The new laser uses 95% of its power for die cutting and only 5% ends up in the substrate – this used to be 25%. The benefit is that our labels come off the roll much more easily and are more suitable for further processing using automatic labeling machines," said Richard Rensen, owner of The Label Collective Group located in Haaksbergen, the Netherlands.
"With a 330 mm print width, we can print label sizes up to 250x470 mm, as needed, for nutritional supplements, for example. Or we can print two side by side, or if a label is 80 mm we can print four side by side rather than two as before," added Rensen.
"The Jetrion 4950LX LED press on display is the culmination of years of advanced research in narrow-web production and LED inkjet technology. With nearly 200 Jetrion presses installed worldwide, EFI is the market leader in narrow-web inkjet technology and has helped customers worldwide achieve remarkable growth in digital label printing," said Ken Hanulec, vice president of marketing, EFI Inkjet Solutions.
With the Jetrion 4950LX, label producers can reduce labor costs and make-ready prep using a 1000-watt inline laser cutter. Plus, the white ink module for the press gives them more flexibility in full-color imaging on clear, metallic and colored substrates. Inline varnishing and lamination are available as optional modules.
The press's LED platform offers a "cool cure" advantage, giving converters the opportunity to print on a broader range of substrates that cannot withstand the heat required with other curing or drying methods. Cool cure printing with the Jetrion 4950LX press also is a greener, more economical choice because it requires significantly less energy, and the press's LED lamps are more consistent and last significantly longer than traditional UV lamps.
EFI Jetrion users gain significant productivity improvements using the latest-version EFI Fiery® software, which RIPs jobs up to 80% faster than the previous Fiery software for Jetrion presses. The software also offers new tools for improved brand color management.
Also featured on the EFI stand is the EFI H1625 LED printer, a 65-inch wide hybrid roll/flatbed printer suitable for high-quality label proofing and packaging prototyping applications.
EFI Enterprise Packaging Productivity Suite
Label converters looking for ways to improve their management and production workflow can view EFI's new Enterprise Packaging Productivity Suite. Each of EFI's Productivity Suites is modular, allowing users to configure the Suite to meet their specific needs. The workflow solution optimizes scheduling for more on-time delivery, decreases waste, and provides better insight into the business for increased profit margins.
EFI Radius® enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is at the heart of the Packaging Suite. This proven enterprise software with deep industry-specific functionality is the leading solution for converters with multi-company, multi-plant, multi-currency and multi-language environments.
Working alongside Radius is EFI's award-winning PrintFlow® Dynamic Scheduling solution, which automates and intelligently schedules thousands of tasks and sequences them to minimize switchover and setup time. The industry's ultimate scheduling platform is based on the Theory of Global Optimization (TGO), which has taken lean principles and re-written them for the unique demands of the printing and packaging industry.
The Suite's Business Intelligence solution provides converters with comprehensive, real-time data in an intuitive point-and-click environment. What-if capabilities and simple drill-down functionality allow users to digest information at an enterprise-wide view or at a detailed level, looking at specific work centers, customers, vendors and more.
The Radius Portal and EFI eCRM application bring important ordering and RFQ functionality to remote employees and allow returning customers to easily place their own orders for repeat items.
"As a growing business we were looking to standardize our procedures across multiple locations, allowing real-time, consolidated performance data, with the added benefit of seeing site-specific performance information," said Dannielle Beattie, Group Business Improvement Manager at inspirepac (UK).
"We opted for EFI due to the versatility of the software. It allows us to work with our different business units – be it display print or flexo corrugated – in a system that has been developed specifically for the print and packaging industry. The opportunity to have flexibility, but within a standard framework, has meant all areas of the business can be satisfied."
Radius-Esko Integration Demonstration
Building on the existing item-based workflow integration, the latest Radius release now contains enhanced integration for a job-based workflow. Once a production job has been created in Radius, details are passed to Esko's Automation Engine, which then produces a print-ready stepped PDF. Once complete, the file is linked to the job in Radius, ready to be sent to the print device. The Radius-Esko integration provides more visibility into prepress costs, the removal of manual touchpoints and greater accuracy, speed and more.
EFI GamSys MIS for Small to Medium-Sized Converters
On the Labelexpo floor GamSys MIS, winner of 2015 Graphitec Award for Innovation, will be fully integrated with EFI Digital StoreFront® Web-to-print solution and EFI Metrix® imposition software.
Developed for small and medium-sized businesses, GamSys optimizes the production process by creating visibility on the production floor, managing order and production information efficiently, while controlling costs. It improves the customer experience by allowing them to create web shops, provide online quotations and manage orders. Metrix is an automated planning and imposition solution that brings a unique blend of features to create cost-driven layouts. GamSys eliminates the need for manual data entry so short-run jobs can be produced profitably. It is an excellent fit for label converters looking to streamline and optimize their workflow.
EFI Jetrion digital press users can further improve digital print management by connecting the Fiery software used with Jetrion presses to GamSys MIS or Radius ERP software.
About EFI
EFI™ is a global technology company, based in Silicon Valley, and is leading the worldwide transformation from analogue to digital imaging. We are passionate about fueling customer success with products that increase competitiveness and boost productivity. To do that, we develop breakthrough technologies for the manufacturing of signage, packaging, textiles, ceramic tiles, and personalized documents, with a wide range of printers, inks, digital front ends, and a comprehensive business and production workflow suite that transforms and streamlines the entire production process. (www.efi.com)
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CONTACT: David Lindsay Public Relations Manager EFI (Electronics for Imaging) Phone +1 404 931 7760 david.lindsay@efi.com
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Gopher Protocol Develops and Files Patent for SOS - Emergency Communication
PERRIS, Calif., Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gopher Protocol Inc. (OTC:GOPH) ("Gopher") today announced that it has developed new technology and filed a patent for SOS real time emergency communications. The patent covers system and software applications for emergency communication, beacon, location identification and tracking on mobile devices, in real time. The system records the human fingerprint and eye-print via software app, for identification purposes, by enabling GPS based emergency communication and a location-tracking feature simply by providing an SOS button. Once activated via application software the system transmits an emergency signal every designated time period, identifying the mobile device's location. The system transmits the user's medical information to a remote center for professional assessment. The system includes an integrated circuit unit that works in conjunction with a mobile software application. The system enforces strict power management control in order to prolong battery life upon entering SOS mode. In addition the system includes an independent, proprietary sub system that kicks in when battery power is exhausted, in order to extend the distress call transmission for additional few more days. The system communicates directly with satellite and works in areas that are out of cellular/wireless range.
The proprietary microchip directly communicates via satellite with all other proprietary microchips within mobile devices, worldwide, in order to provide the emergency communication, location identification and tracking feature.
This new patent is a derivative of the GopherInsight™ platform, which is a new, integrated circuit technology developed by Gopher. GopherInsight™ is the heart of a new concept mobile system targeted to learn and adapt to each consumer's shopping habits.
About Gopher Protocol Inc.
Gopher Protocol Inc. ("Gopher") is a heuristic-based technology platform that connects consumers with the products and services they need through a novel way of master scheduling deliverables according to demand at the customer's location based on a smartphone application, the internet or by phone call. Gopher is presently developing mobile applications including The Magic Leaf, The Corporate Courier, Taximania and RoadFriend that are part of the GopherExpress platform -- http://hermesroll.com/ which content has been shifted into the Gopher branding under http://gopherex.com/ and gopherex.net as well as gas delivery via Neft -http://neftapp.com/
CONTACT: Dr. Dan Rittman, CTO Gopher Protocol Inc. 888-685-7336
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With Varonis, University of Maryland School of Medicine Identifies, Classifies and Secures Sensitive Data
NEW YORK, Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM), the first public and the fifth oldest medical school in the United States, needed better visibility into the different types of sensitive data its employees and students were storing across its file systems. Regulatory requirements necessitated that the school's IT department regularly audit and report on who was accessing sensitive data, when and where, but they had no way of doing so efficiently.
That's when Scott Stefan, UM SOM's Executive Director of Information Services, discovered Varonis Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:VRNS), and its DatAdvantage and Data Classification Framework solutions. Varonis is the leading provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data. UM SOM's IT team can now easily see exactly what types of sensitive data they have, where it lives, and who has access to it all from one easy-to-use interface.
Detailed, Fast & Crucial Insight into Sensitive Company Data
In just a few days after implementing Varonis, Stefan and his team were receiving audit reports from the software that opened their eyes to the location and vulnerability of sensitive data in a way that they could never have accomplished manually.
According to Stefan, "Before Varonis, we really didn't have any way of knowing where sensitive data was located or what type of sensitive data we had in our network. Through the Varonis Data Classification module, we are now easily able to see exactly what kind of data we have, and it has been very eye-opening… What we didn't realize before implementing Varonis was just how much of that data we actually had stored in random locations."
Possibility to Maintain Data Security & Transparency in the Cloud
The University of Maryland School of Medicine's IT team was tasked with migrating a percentage of their data to the cloud, but management was uneasy at the prospect of losing control associated with moving data, particularly the huge amount of PHI and clinical data, to the cloud. Specifically, all UM SOM email data will be moved to Microsoft Office 365 in the next few months, in addition to some file data. Already having Varonis DatAdvantage played a crucial role in getting everyone at the school more comfortable with the migration of this data to the cloud, because Varonis' compatibility with Microsoft Office 365 allows for the same DatAdvantage capabilities, such as reporting on access and being able to classify data, in the cloud.
"Because of the type of data we store as a medical school, moving to the cloud is scary for a lot of folks," said Stefan. "Having a product like Varonis that can give us the same type of reporting on when people access files and who accessed them and where, makes having to move some of our data to Office 365 a lot easier for us to sell to all levels of the organization."
Additional Resources
- Read the University of Maryland School of Medicine Case Study here.
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About the University of Maryland School of Medicine
The University of Maryland School of Medicine was chartered in 1807 and is the first public medical school in the United States and continues today as an innovative leader in accelerating innovation and discovery in medicine. The School of Medicine is the founding school of the University of Maryland and is an integral part of the 12-campus University System of Maryland. Located on the University of Maryland's Baltimore campus, the School of Medicine works closely with the University of Maryland Medical Center and Medical System to provide a research-intensive, academic and clinically based education. With 43 academic departments, centers and institutes and a faculty of more than 3,000 physicians and research scientists plus more than $400 million in extramural funding, the School is regarded as one of the leading biomedical research institutions in the U.S. with top-tier faculty and programs in cancer, brain science, surgery and transplantation, trauma and emergency medicine, vaccine development and human genomics, among other centers of excellence. The School is not only concerned with the health of the citizens of Maryland and the nation, but also has a global presence, with research and treatment facilities in more than 35 countries around the world.
About Varonis
Varonis is the leading provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data. Varonis provides an innovative software platform that allows enterprises to map, analyze, manage and migrate their unstructured data. Varonis specializes in human-generated data, a type of unstructured data that includes an enterprise's spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations, audio files, video files, emails, text messages and any other data created by employees. This data often contains an enterprise's financial information, product plans, strategic initiatives, intellectual property and numerous other forms of vital information. IT and business personnel deploy Varonis software for a variety of use cases, including data governance, data security, archiving, file synchronization, enhanced mobile data accessibility and information collaboration. As of June 30, 2015, Varonis had approximately 3,750 customers, spanning leading firms in the financial services, public, healthcare, industrial, energy & utilities, technology, consumer and retail, education and media & entertainment sectors.
CONTACT: News Media Contact: Natalie Rizk CTP 617-412-4000 x227 nrizk@ctpboston.com
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MSDSonline and KMI Are Now VelocityEHS
CHICAGO, Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MSDSonline, the leading cloud environmental, health and safety (EHS) solutions provider, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Knowledge Management Innovations (KMI), one of the most respected global EHS and sustainability management information system (EMIS) providers, announced today that they will begin doing business as VelocityEHS. The new brand and identity reflect the company's focus on a simpler approach to EHS, sustainability and risk management with an easy to use platform solution. Headquartered in Chicago, VelocityEHS also has offices in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.
With more than 10,000 customers, VelocityEHS makes its debut as a well-established leader, and one of the industry's largest and fastest growing EHS and sustainability software providers. Its suite of solutions enables organizations to create safer, more sustainable workplaces by helping them better identify and manage their environment, health, safety, and operational risks.
"When our two companies joined forces last August, we greatly increased both the breadth of our tools and the scope of the capabilities to solve our customers' broader EHS needs," said Glenn Trout, president and CEO of VelocityEHS.
"Our goal is to deliver the most relevant cloud EHS capabilities through an easily accessible platform, which is more affordable, quicker and easier to implement, and provides the simplest user experience for our clients. Telling that story is the main reason behind our new name and brand. We believe VelocityEHS better communicates the kind of EHS software solutions our customers want," Trout said.
According to user research, businesses – especially large enterprises – are moving away from solutions that solve niche problems and are looking for single-point software that solves an array of complex EHS challenges.
"We're listening to our customers," said Trout. "They're telling us that too many of the options today are slow to implement and cumbersome for their people to use. Our focus is on delivering a platform that is simple and intuitive and will help customers drive their EHS goals through quick implementation and organization-wide user engagement in order to mitigate risk and accelerate sustainability at all levels of their organization."
The VelocityEHS approach provides EHS professionals with a single solution for managing a wide range of EHS process, reporting and compliance tasks, including: incident management, audits and inspections, compliance management, corrective actions, management of change, chemical management, risk analysis, EHS training and training tracking. It can be implemented across an organization in as little as 4-6 weeks to more quickly drive performance at every level of the enterprise. The solution is backed by a customer success team that is widely recognized for delivering unparalleled customer support, earning among the highest renewal and customer satisfaction rates in the industry.
Trout said, "While our name is changing, what won't change is our commitment to creating partnerships with our customers. We will continue to guide them with expert advice, not just through implementation, but throughout their entire EHS and sustainability journey. And we'll also continue to develop products and services, based on the unique challenges our customers face as well as the best practices of the EHS and sustainability industry overall."
Beginning today, MSDSonline and KMI are doing business as VelocityEHS, and over the next few months the company will phase in its new identity across its offices, products and services.
The company plans to retain the MSDSonline name and begin using it as a product brand for its chemical management capabilities under the VelocityEHS umbrella. The MSDSonline brand will continue to deliver easy-to-use, cloud solutions to help businesses simplify chemical and safety data sheet management to meet global Hazard Communication requirements.
For more information, visit www.velocityEHS.com.
About VelocityEHS
As the largest dedicated EHS software solutions provider in the market, more than 8 million users worldwide from virtually every industry trust VelocityEHS and its solutions to improve EHS performance. Its unparalleled customer support and easily accessible platform delivers relevant cloud solutions that help customers reach their EHS, sustainability and risk management goals faster. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with locations in Canada, the UK and Australia. For more information, visit www.velocityEHS.com. VelocityEHS is an Actua (Nasdaq:ACTA) company.
CONTACT: Media Contacts VelocityEHS/MSDSonline Betsy Utley-Marin 312.881.2307 butleymarin@MSDSonline.com Actua Corporation Karen Greene 610.727.6900 media@actua.com
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Kivuto Solutions' Interactive Microsoft Tribute Wins Best in Show at The 2015 W(3) Awards
OTTAWA, Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kivuto Solutions, the global leader in complex digital distribution solutions, is honoured to have won Best in Show (Website Features - Visual Appeal) at The 2015 W³ Awards for the interactive Microsoft tribute "Evolution of Windows". Fellow honourees for Best in Show include Google, HBO, and Sony.
Celebrating the release of Windows 10, "Evolution of Windows", featured by TheNextWeb, is a sleek, informative, and funny timeline that takes you from Windows 1.0 in 1985 to Windows 10 in 2015. Playing with your mouse animates each version of Windows in exciting ways, from launching a game to revealing the dreaded "blue screen of death".
The W³ Awards recognizes innovation in websites, apps, online and social media marketing. By winning Best in Show as well as Silver (Website Features - User Experience), Kivuto's "Evolution of Windows" brings the company's total W³ Awards tally to seven trophies. Kivuto works closely with Microsoft worldwide to provide academic software discounts for students and educators.
"With the release of Windows 10, our team wanted to build something special to celebrate the story of Windows and our partnership with Microsoft," says Gustavo Sanchez, Director of Marketing at Kivuto. "It was a unique creative piece and we couldn't be prouder to have international recognition for our success."
About Kivuto
Kivuto Solutions is the world's leading provider of advanced digital distribution and management solutions that enable the secure delivery of digital goods to individuals, businesses, and organizations anywhere in the world. Kivuto simplifies the process of delivering any digital good to any market under virtually any terms and conditions. Over 60,000 academic institutions and departments trust Kivuto to manage and distribute software to their students, faculty and staff. The company distributes software in 195 countries and supports 14 languages. www.kivuto.com.
CONTACT: Katie Hulan Marketing Manager, Marketing Services T +1 613.526.3005 x 125 M +1 613.355.3649 F +1 613.526.3891
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Study Finds Sales and Marketing Wasting 50% of Time and Money on Leads
FOSTER CITY, Calif., Sept. 28, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Corporate sales and marketing executives agree that at least 50% of their sales effort and 50% of their lead generation budget is wasted on leads that are never contacted, according to a survey at Dreamforce by Conversica, the leading provider of lead engagement software for marketing, inside sales and sales.
The most significant reasons identified by sales were poor quality leads (37%) and leads that were too hard to reach (41%). On the other side of the divide, well over a third of marketers surveyed (39%) feel that, despite the large investment in time by sales, only a quarter of their leads are being followed up. Asked why, 30% of marketers said that not enough attempts are being made to reach those leads, or salespeople aren't reaching out soon enough. As a result, half the marketing respondents feel their lead generation budget is being wasted.
"These are disappointing statistics," indicated Alex Terry, CEO of Conversica. "Despite all the emphasis being placed on sales+marketing alignment today, that alignment obviously remains elusive and frustrating. Our survey found, as we suspected, that lead engagement is clearly at the heart of the problem."
Conversica presented a session entitled, "Smarketing: The New Sales-Marketing Alignment Driven by Artificial Intelligence" at the Dreamforce Partner Theater. It offered best practices for companies to get past the traditional finger pointing over lead quality and close the gap between sales and marketing teams, to increase sales efficiency and to drive more qualified leads. A recorded version is available at http://con.ai/df15-smarketing-video.
The study certainly supported the need for "Smarketing," finding that the vast majority of sales (80%) and marketing (70%) executives agree their teams were still not well aligned—with one in five saying they were "poorly" aligned. Leads are indeed the culprit with nearly half of the sales (43%) and marketing (46%) executives indicating they were "extremely" important in terms of creating alignment.
Asked how they expected to solve this problem, both factions (80%) said investing in sales or marketing automation tools was their highest priority for improving lead engagement.
"While it's nice to see the two departments trying to agree on a solution, pure automation is not the answer to improving marketing's ROI and helping sales reach more leads," concludes Terry, whose company provides virtual sales assistants that ensure every single lead is contacted. "It's just going to increase the frustration. If sales are going to reach more leads, they need more than assistance, they need assistants. That's where we come in."
About Conversica
Conversica is the leading provider of lead engagement software for marketing, inside sales and sales organizations. Driven by artificial intelligence technology, Conversica's custom online persona automatically contacts, engages, nurtures, qualifies and follows up with leads via natural, two-way email conversations until the lead converts into an opportunity or opts out. The virtual sales assistant interprets the lead's intention and sentiment in email replies and extracts key information, such as phone numbers and the best time to call. As a result, our customers find their next customers more quickly and efficiently, while ensuring no lead is left behind.Used by more than 8,000 sales representatives worldwide, Conversica maximizes sales opportunities by optimizing sales team productivity and has helped create more than US$8 billion in sales revenue. Conversica is a portfolio company of Kennet Partners and is headquartered in Foster City, California.
To learn more, visit www.conversica.com and follow us on Google+, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
CONTACT: Gary Thompson Clarity Communications +1-925-768-2400 gthompson@claritycommunications.us
