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TubeMogul Launches Industry's First Automated Cross-Screen Planning Software
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 6, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, TubeMogul (NASDAQ:TUBE), a leading enterprise software company for brand advertising, announced the launch of its new cross-screen planning technology. The first-of-its-kind software allows marketers to plan ad buys to deduplicate their target audience across both traditional TV as well as digital channels, drastically improving upon previous solutions that only accounted for audiences on digital-only desktop and mobile devices.
The cross-screen planning software ingests a marketers' existing TV plan, and a combination of data sets, to determine optimal inventory mix and budget allocations, and provide the specific networks, sites and mobile applications necessary for a more efficient campaign. The planning software is integrated directly into TubeMogul's existing media buying platform, allowing seamless execution across all campaign phases. By unifying the planning technology with the media buying and reporting software, advertisers can find the most efficient media while retaining full transparency and control over exposure frequency, economics and performance.
As a result, marketers will markedly improve operational efficiency through streamlined workflow in addition to potentially saving millions of dollars that would have otherwise been misallocated or entirely wasted. Marketers can also onboard their first-party CRM data into the cross-screen planning software to further amplify targeting.
The planning software was developed in response to the increasing fragmentation in devices and consumption methods over the last five years. Many current cross-screen solutions address only desktop and mobile, and fail to incorporate the channel that occupies the biggest portion of brand advertising budgets: television. TubeMogul's new planning technology was built specifically to not only directly supplement marketers' existing TV plans, but also provide them the flexibility to create digital-only plans as well. The tool will become a primary pillar of the TubeMogul platform and act as the foundation upon which future product offerings are built; ad formats encompassed within the software include desktop video, mobile, linear TV, addressable TV and video-on-demand (VOD) TV.
"Our new cross-screen planner is the natural progression of our mission to help marketers automate and simplify every facet of their brand advertising initiatives," said Brett Wilson, TubeMogul's CEO & co-founder. "By putting TV, which is still the centerpiece for many marketers' campaigns, at the software's core, we've built a solution that adds significant value to brand advertisers' most important medium."
"The industry has been talking about the synergies between TV and online video for years. Finally, we have a tool that brings this long-awaited vision to life," said Vic Walia, Senior Director, Brand Marketing, Expedia. "Gone are the days of stitching together online and offline plans months after a campaign actually ran – TubeMogul's planning tool empowers us to create TV extension plans in real time."
"Rather than touting out the cliché 'you're buying too much TV,' TubeMogul is taking a more constructive approach by taking a media plan as it is and then leveraging data to find unreached viewers across TV, tablets and smartphones. We're excited to leverage this product," said Eva Feger, Associate Communications Strategy Director, Generator Media.
"TubeMogul's cross-screen planner is promising because it takes the common refrain -- you're missing part of your audience with your TV buy -- and turns it into action, with a data-driven plan to build additional reach," said Steve Parker Jr., CEO & co-founder, Levelwing.
"The big challenge in the multi-screen world is understanding how your customers move between devices, and making sure you're speaking with them in a consistent way that minimizes waste," said Karel Wegert, Vice-President, Digital Media Systems, Media Experts. "This new cross-screen tool from TubeMogul promises to help identify hard to reach, high value audiences that might not watch TV, and delivers actionable insights that can help drive media efficiency."
"Taking a screen-agnostic approach in advertising is crucial in a world where viewership is so fragmented, but realizing that vision is often easier said than done," said Matt Cote, Vice President Video Innovation, Eicoff. "TubeMogul's cross-screen planner helps by starting where we do -- TV -- and builds a plan to reach additional viewers in an automated, data-driven way."
The cross-screen planner will initially be available to TubeMogul's U.S. clients. For more information, please contact sales@tubemogul.com or visit: https://www.tubemogul.com/cross-channel-advertising
About TubeMogul
TubeMogul (NASDAQ:TUBE) is an enterprise software company for brand advertising. By reducing complexity, improving transparency and leveraging real-time data, our platform enables advertisers to gain greater control of their global advertising spend and achieve their brand advertising objectives. TubeMogul was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Emeryville, California with operations in Kyiv, London, Mexico City, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and offices across the United States.
TubeMogul and the TubeMogul logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of TubeMogul, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
CONTACT: Media Contact: David Burch press@tubemogul.com Investor Relations Contact: Alex Wellins The Blueshirt Group investor@tubemogul.com
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TubeMogul Launches Industry's First Automated Cross-Screen Planning Software
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 6, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, TubeMogul (NASDAQ:TUBE), a leading enterprise software company for brand advertising, announced the launch of its new cross-screen planning technology. The first-of-its-kind software allows marketers to plan ad buys to deduplicate their target audience across both traditional TV as well as digital channels, drastically improving upon previous solutions that only accounted for audiences on digital-only desktop and mobile devices.
The cross-screen planning software ingests a marketers' existing TV plan, and a combination of data sets, to determine optimal inventory mix and budget allocations, and provide the specific networks, sites and mobile applications necessary for a more efficient campaign. The planning software is integrated directly into TubeMogul's existing media buying platform, allowing seamless execution across all campaign phases. By unifying the planning technology with the media buying and reporting software, advertisers can find the most efficient media while retaining full transparency and control over exposure frequency, economics and performance.
As a result, marketers will markedly improve operational efficiency through streamlined workflow in addition to potentially saving millions of dollars that would have otherwise been misallocated or entirely wasted. Marketers can also onboard their first-party CRM data into the cross-screen planning software to further amplify targeting.
The planning software was developed in response to the increasing fragmentation in devices and consumption methods over the last five years. Many current cross-screen solutions address only desktop and mobile, and fail to incorporate the channel that occupies the biggest portion of brand advertising budgets: television. TubeMogul's new planning technology was built specifically to not only directly supplement marketers' existing TV plans, but also provide them the flexibility to create digital-only plans as well. The tool will become a primary pillar of the TubeMogul platform and act as the foundation upon which future product offerings are built; ad formats encompassed within the software include desktop video, mobile, linear TV, addressable TV and video-on-demand (VOD) TV.
"Our new cross-screen planner is the natural progression of our mission to help marketers automate and simplify every facet of their brand advertising initiatives," said Brett Wilson, TubeMogul's CEO & co-founder. "By putting TV, which is still the centerpiece for many marketers' campaigns, at the software's core, we've built a solution that adds significant value to brand advertisers' most important medium."
"The industry has been talking about the synergies between TV and online video for years. Finally, we have a tool that brings this long-awaited vision to life," said Vic Walia, Senior Director, Brand Marketing, Expedia. "Gone are the days of stitching together online and offline plans months after a campaign actually ran – TubeMogul's planning tool empowers us to create TV extension plans in real time."
"Rather than touting out the cliché 'you're buying too much TV,' TubeMogul is taking a more constructive approach by taking a media plan as it is and then leveraging data to find unreached viewers across TV, tablets and smartphones. We're excited to leverage this product," said Eva Feger, Associate Communications Strategy Director, Generator Media.
"TubeMogul's cross-screen planner is promising because it takes the common refrain -- you're missing part of your audience with your TV buy -- and turns it into action, with a data-driven plan to build additional reach," said Steve Parker Jr., CEO & co-founder, Levelwing.
"The big challenge in the multi-screen world is understanding how your customers move between devices, and making sure you're speaking with them in a consistent way that minimizes waste," said Karel Wegert, Vice-President, Digital Media Systems, Media Experts. "This new cross-screen tool from TubeMogul promises to help identify hard to reach, high value audiences that might not watch TV, and delivers actionable insights that can help drive media efficiency."
"Taking a screen-agnostic approach in advertising is crucial in a world where viewership is so fragmented, but realizing that vision is often easier said than done," said Matt Cote, Vice President Video Innovation, Eicoff. "TubeMogul's cross-screen planner helps by starting where we do -- TV -- and builds a plan to reach additional viewers in an automated, data-driven way."
The cross-screen planner will initially be available to TubeMogul's U.S. clients. For more information, please contact sales@tubemogul.com or visit: https://www.tubemogul.com/cross-channel-advertising
About TubeMogul
TubeMogul (NASDAQ:TUBE) is an enterprise software company for brand advertising. By reducing complexity, improving transparency and leveraging real-time data, our platform enables advertisers to gain greater control of their global advertising spend and achieve their brand advertising objectives. TubeMogul was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Emeryville, California with operations in Kyiv, London, Mexico City, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and offices across the United States.
TubeMogul and the TubeMogul logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of TubeMogul, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
CONTACT: Media Contact: David Burch press@tubemogul.com Investor Relations Contact: Alex Wellins The Blueshirt Group investor@tubemogul.com
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Edgewater Sets Record Date for Proposed Consent Solicitation
WAKEFIELD, Mass., Nov. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Edgewater Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:EDGW), a leading consulting firm that helps business leaders drive transformational change through its unique selection of business and technology services and specialized product-based solutions, today announced that its Board of Directors has set the close of business on November 13, 2015 as the record date for purposes of determining the stockholders eligible to consent in writing to the consent solicitation being undertaken by Lone Star Value Investors, LP and certain of its affiliates.
About Edgewater
Edgewater (NASDAQ:EDGW) helps business leaders drive transformational change through its unique selection of business and technology services and specialized product-based solutions.
Classic consulting disciplines (such as business advisory, process improvement, organizational change management, M&A due diligence, and domain expertise) are blended with technical services (such as digital transformation, technical roadmaps, data and analytics services, custom development, and system integration) to help organizations get the most out of their existing IT assets while creating new digital business models.
Delivering both on premise and in the cloud, Edgewater partners with Oracle and Microsoft to offer Business Analytics, BI, ERP, and CRM solutions. Edgewater Ranzal, an Oracle Platinum Consulting Partner, provides Business Analytics solutions leveraging Oracle EPM, BI, and Big Data technologies. As an award-winning Microsoft partner, Edgewater Fullscope delivers Dynamics AX ERP, Business Intelligence, and CRM solutions, with a specialty in manufacturing.
Additional Information
In connection with the consent solicitation initiated by Lone Star Value Investors, LP, the Company may file a consent revocation statement and other documents regarding the Lone Star proposals with the SEC and may mail a consent revocation statement and a consent revocation card to each stockholder of record entitled to deliver a written consent with respect to the Lone Star proposals. STOCKHOLDERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ ANY CONSENT REVOCATION STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. The final consent revocation statement, if any, may be mailed to stockholders. Investors and security holders will be able to obtain the documents free of charge at the SEC's website, www.sec.gov, from Edgewater at its website, www.edgewater.com, or 200 Harvard Mill Square, Suite 210, Wakefield, Massachusetts 01880, Attention: Corporate Secretary.
Participants in Solicitation
The Company and its directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of consent revocations in connection with the Lone Star proposals. Information concerning the Company's participants is set forth in the proxy statement, dated April 22, 2015, for its 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders as filed with the SEC on Schedule 14A. Additional information regarding the interests of participants of the Company in any solicitation of consent revocations in connection with the Lone Star proposals and other relevant materials, if any, will be filed with the SEC when they become available.
CONTACT: INVESTOR CONTACT: Edgewater Technology, Inc. Timothy R. Oakes Phone: 781-246-6984 E-mail: toakes@edgewater.com MEDIA CONTACT: Sard Verbinnen & Co Bryan Locke / Debbie Miller Phone: (312) 895-4700 E-mail: blocke@sardverb.com / dmiller@sardverb.com
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Edgewater Sets Record Date for Proposed Consent Solicitation
WAKEFIELD, Mass., Nov. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Edgewater Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:EDGW), a leading consulting firm that helps business leaders drive transformational change through its unique selection of business and technology services and specialized product-based solutions, today announced that its Board of Directors has set the close of business on November 13, 2015 as the record date for purposes of determining the stockholders eligible to consent in writing to the consent solicitation being undertaken by Lone Star Value Investors, LP and certain of its affiliates.
About Edgewater
Edgewater (NASDAQ:EDGW) helps business leaders drive transformational change through its unique selection of business and technology services and specialized product-based solutions.
Classic consulting disciplines (such as business advisory, process improvement, organizational change management, M&A due diligence, and domain expertise) are blended with technical services (such as digital transformation, technical roadmaps, data and analytics services, custom development, and system integration) to help organizations get the most out of their existing IT assets while creating new digital business models.
Delivering both on premise and in the cloud, Edgewater partners with Oracle and Microsoft to offer Business Analytics, BI, ERP, and CRM solutions. Edgewater Ranzal, an Oracle Platinum Consulting Partner, provides Business Analytics solutions leveraging Oracle EPM, BI, and Big Data technologies. As an award-winning Microsoft partner, Edgewater Fullscope delivers Dynamics AX ERP, Business Intelligence, and CRM solutions, with a specialty in manufacturing.
Additional Information
In connection with the consent solicitation initiated by Lone Star Value Investors, LP, the Company may file a consent revocation statement and other documents regarding the Lone Star proposals with the SEC and may mail a consent revocation statement and a consent revocation card to each stockholder of record entitled to deliver a written consent with respect to the Lone Star proposals. STOCKHOLDERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ ANY CONSENT REVOCATION STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. The final consent revocation statement, if any, may be mailed to stockholders. Investors and security holders will be able to obtain the documents free of charge at the SEC's website, www.sec.gov, from Edgewater at its website, www.edgewater.com, or 200 Harvard Mill Square, Suite 210, Wakefield, Massachusetts 01880, Attention: Corporate Secretary.
Participants in Solicitation
The Company and its directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of consent revocations in connection with the Lone Star proposals. Information concerning the Company's participants is set forth in the proxy statement, dated April 22, 2015, for its 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders as filed with the SEC on Schedule 14A. Additional information regarding the interests of participants of the Company in any solicitation of consent revocations in connection with the Lone Star proposals and other relevant materials, if any, will be filed with the SEC when they become available.
CONTACT: INVESTOR CONTACT: Edgewater Technology, Inc. Timothy R. Oakes Phone: 781-246-6984 E-mail: toakes@edgewater.com MEDIA CONTACT: Sard Verbinnen & Co Bryan Locke / Debbie Miller Phone: (312) 895-4700 E-mail: blocke@sardverb.com / dmiller@sardverb.com
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Varonis Adds Proactive Analytics and Predictive Threat Models to Help Stop Data Breaches
NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Varonis Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRNS), the leading provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data, today announced beta availability of an unprecedented set of predictive threat models that can be used to analyze and detect everything from insider threats and outsider attacks to CryptoLocker infections and suspicious behavior.
Version 6.2.5 of the industry-leading Varonis Metadata Framework platform includes major enhancements to Varonis DatAlert, one of the most widely used solutions for monitoring unstructured data – which is typically the largest, most valuable and most sensitive type of data and is therefore the target of most attacks. The new capabilities represent the most advanced analytics and predictive threat models available to help organizations stem the rising tide of data breaches that are caused or exacerbated by previously undetected insider access and behavior, such as compromise of privileged accounts and privilege abuse.
The new capabilities in Varonis Metadata Framework version 6.2.5 include:
- Dozens of new automated threat models for Varonis DatAlert to provide advanced behavioral alerts on access anomalies and suspicious activity
- Enhanced ability for Varonis DatAdvantage to analyze metadata and automatically discover critical assets, noteworthy people and normal activity, establishing a baseline of behavior
- The ability for Varonis DatAdvantage to more accurately identify unusual behavior with machine learning algorithms and behavioral threat models
Customer Perspective
Enovos, a leading energy supplier for multiple countries in Europe, takes its responsibilities very seriously when it comes to protecting its data. Varonis' new analysis capabilities are helping Enovos enhance data security by analyzing past user activity, building additional behavior baselines and spotting more unusual activity. "This is a welcome advance, and will certainly help us detect future insider threats more quickly," the company said.
Analyst Perspective
Doug Cahill, Senior Analyst for CyberSecurity at Enterprise Strategy Group, said, "One of the challenges organizations face when they deploy various kinds of security sensors is that the sheer volume of meaningless alerts and false positives often forces them to cry uncle and turn off the alerts, reserving them for use only in known threat situations and eliminating their proactive effects. By analyzing months of activity, Varonis can help companies define the baseline for normal user activity and then deploy the new automated threat models for contextual and thus meaningful and actionable alerts. Such behavioral-based anomaly detection is a real advance in the burgeoning field of user behavior analytics."
Partner Perspective
Sam Cattle, Security Architect and Consulting Manager for Rolta AdvizeX, a Varonis partner, said, "We're very excited about the new DatAdvantage and DatAlert capabilities, and we're sure our customers will find these updates invaluable. Bottom line, the amount of unstructured data our customers deal with isn't slowing down. This data is more sensitive than ever, and the chance of a breach happening has never been greater than it is today. That said, our customers need a solution that will help them to dig even more deeply into their metadata for greater insight, monitors and alerts on suspicious user behavior, unusual patterns of data access, and other signs of risk from their employees and beyond. We look forward to working with our customers to introduce and implement the new Varonis updates."
Varonis CEO Perspective
Yaki Faitelson, Varonis Co-Founder and CEO, said, "By now it is understood that protecting the perimeter of your network can no longer be the primary focus of a comprehensive security strategy. Organizations must gather, analyze and act on real-time knowledge of the relationships between users and data. Your analysis can only be as good as the metadata you're analyzing, and Varonis has more and better metadata than any other company that deals with unstructured data. We have been collecting and analyzing metadata for nearly 4,000 customers over the past decade. Our newest innovations provide a level of automation that has never been available, including pre-built threat models against advanced behavioral baselines. We will continue to create new threat models based on user behavior and add to our inside-out security capabilities.
Faitelson continued, "It is clear that organizations cannot reverse or even slow the trend of cybersecurity disasters – which threaten their ability to conduct business – without having Varonis as a core component of their infrastructure."
With new threat models based on user behavior, Varonis will bring unprecedented insight and equip organizations with the ability to detect and prevent potentially devastating data breaches. Until now, Varonis DatAlert allowed IT and security administrators to flag suspicious activity based on static conditions. The new Varonis 6.2.5 expands this capability by including pre-built threat models and adaptive baselines that evolve over time. Varonis UBA threat models can perform much deeper analytics on the metadata that its solutions have already been capturing in a decade of deployment. The accuracy enabled by such threat models will lead to more operationally efficient detection and allow for greater visibility, as more sensors, behaviors, and the events they generate can be used in combatting threats.
For more information on Varonis' solution portfolio, please visit www.varonis.com and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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 September 30, 2015, Varonis had approximately 4,000 customers, spanning leading firms in the financial services, public, healthcare, industrial, energy & utilities, technology, consumer and retail, education and media & entertainment sectors.
CONTACT: Mark Fredrickson CTP 617-412-4000 x274 mfredrickson@ctpboston.com
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Avaap Awarded Infor Alliance Partner of the Year for Second Consecutive Year
EDISON, N.J., Nov. 05, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avaap, among the fastest growing Infor Alliance Partners, announced today that it is a recipient of the Infor 2015 Alliance Partner of the Year award. Infor unveiled the award at Infor Next, its regional customer conference held October 14-15 in San Diego.
Avaap received an Infor Alliance Partner of the Year award for the second time for achieving the highest year-over-year growth in license revenue influenced by an alliance partner. Infor has more than 50 alliance partners globally, representing a network of systems integration companies that have invested in becoming proficient in implementing Infor solutions.
“Avaap is an Infor-only alliance partner working closely with our services organization to provide critical consulting and implementation support for joint customers, in healthcare and other industries” said Jeff Abbott, senior vice president, Global Alliances at Infor. “A consistent record of achievement has earned Avaap Partner of the Year status for multiple years, demonstrating the value and commitment they bring to customers who rely on Infor software for financial, supply chain and human resource management.”
Avaap was also recognized in 2014 as an Alliance partner of the Year and in 2013 as Infor’s Services Partner of the Year for its commitment to excellence through innovation and thought leadership that supported joint business goals.
“Infor has a proven model for strategic partnerships, enabling Avaap to grow while bringing quality software services to our joint customers,” said Dhiraj Shah, president and CEO of Avaap. “We will continue to invest in resources, technology and talent that optimize the Infor investment while delivering outcome-based results to customers as they implement or upgrade Infor software, on premise or in the cloud. The Partner of the Year designation is important as it reflects our continued dedication to excellence towards our customers, Infor, and our employees.”
About Avaap
Headquartered in Edison, N.J. with a global center of excellence in Chennai, India, Avaap is the largest North American Infor-only IT services and software development firm with deep industry expertise in equipment rentals and sales, healthcare, public sector, manufacturing and distribution, food and beverage, and retail/fashion. Avaap delivers Infor-specific software solutions and IT services for successful business outcomes, technology optimization and operational excellence. Avaap’s portfolio of JumpStart solutions accelerate technology installations and are designed to help customers achieve the fastest value from their Infor software investments. Avaap has earned numerous industry accolades, including being named on Computerworld’s list of 100 Best Places to Work in IT in 2014 and 2015; recipient of Infor’s Alliance Partner of the Year award in 2014 and 2015; 2013 Infor Service Partner of the Year; five year honoree on the Inc. 500 and recipient of NJBIZ 50 Fastest Growing Companies 2015. For more information, visit www.avaap.com.
About Infor
Infor is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping 73,000 customers in more than 200 countries and territories improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, and with an innovative user experience design that is simple, transparent, and elegant. Infor provides flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.
CONTACT: Contact:Melissa Prusher 732-710-3425 Melissa.prusher@avaap.com
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SplendidCRM Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary With Ultimate Edition
RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 05, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SplendidCRM Software, Inc., a pioneering provider of Microsoft-centric Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions, is celebrating its 10 year anniversary by releasing version 10 of its namesake product.
New in all editions of SplendidCRM version 10 is an Activity Stream system that uses a database-centric approach to efficiently creating a detailed stream of changes to a record. All core modules are supported in the Activity Stream system as well custom modules. “When compared to its nearest rival, SplendidCRM has always had a technically superior design, with its data-driven approach to layouts and database-centric approach to auditing. We have now taken a similar approach to create the Activity Streams,” said Paul Rony, President and Founder of SplendidCRM Software, Inc.
Also new to all editions is the Seven theme, which makes better use of the space and provides a preview panel. The new theme leverages the Activity Streams to place key information for users front-and-center and it adds a bit of color to provide quick visual clues to the type of data being displayed.
With version 10, SplendidCRM is introducing a new Ultimate Edition that includes an Azure deployment system for software developers. “We are migrating our SplendidCRM Live customers to Microsoft Azure with an integrated management system built into SplendidCRM and with thought that other software publishers might want a similar system,” said Paul Rony. “By leveraging Azure’s regional data centers, we are able to bring the hosting servers closer to the customer, regardless of their location in the world.”
As part of the migration to Azure, the per-user pricing has been separated from the hosting fees to give the customers a choice of service levels based on their desired performance. No other CRM vendor provides this level of granularity with respect to region and service level.
SplendidCRM 10.0 can be evaluated at http://eval.splendidcrm.com.
About SplendidCRM Software, Inc.
Founded in 2005, SplendidCRM Software provides a Microsoft-centric open-source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application that enables users to leverage their existing Microsoft infrastructure. The company is located in the Research Triangle, North Carolina, and is privately held. To learn more about SplendidCRM, email sales@splendidcrm.com or visit http://www.splendidcrm.com.CONTACT: Contact: Paul RonyEmail: sales@splendidcrm.comPhone: 919-617-1258
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Alarm.com Announces Strategic Partnership with Securitas
VIENNA, Va. and STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Alarm.com (Nasdaq:ALRM) and Securitas AB announced a strategic partnership to launch Alarm.com's cloud-based security and automation services in Europe.
The two companies will collaborate to bring a wide range of state of the art residential and commercial security applications to market. Supported by the Securitas brand, Alarm.com's smart home solutions will be offered through partner sales channels. With a focus on delivering an exceptional customer experience, Securitas AB and Alarm.com are aligning product and processes and plan for a phased European launch during 2016.
"Security services are driving the adoption of smart home technology today and partnering with a global brand like Securitas is a strong fit for our international strategy," said Reed Grothe, Alarm.com Senior Vice President of Global Business Development. "Our proven platform and commitment to innovation will help Securitas to introduce the latest in security technology to consumer sales channels."
"The business partnership with Alarm.com gives Securitas a new sales channel in Europe to generate monitoring and mobile patrol sales growth." says Olle Lindskog, Director Business Development Alarm Services, Securitas Security Services Europe.
Alarm.com's award winning services and top-rated mobile app deliver a seamless user experience across a broad ecosystem of security, energy, video and automation devices. Alarm.com's services are sold exclusively through authorized partners. Leading security and smart home service providers choose Alarm.com's technology for its advanced smart home features, proven cloud platform and professional services to create an exceptional customer experience.
About Alarm.com
Alarm.com is the leading cloud-based platform for the smart home. Every day, millions of people depend on Alarm.com's technology to help protect and manage the things that matter most – their homes, families, and small businesses. A broad ecosystem of IoT devices are easily controlled through a single, intuitive app and automated through intelligent analytics to help keep homes safer, smarter, and more efficient. Our innovative smarter home security, video, and energy management solutions are available through our network of thousands of professional service providers. Alarm.com is traded on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.
About Securitas AB
Securitas is a global knowledge leader in security. From a broad range of services of specialized guarding, technology solutions and consulting and investigations, we customize offerings that are suited to the individual customer's needs, in order to deliver the most effective security solutions. Everywhere from small stores to airports, our 320,000 employees are making a difference.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements relate to the plans of Securitas AB and Alarm.com to implement pilot programs later this year in preparation for a for a phased European launch during 2016 and to Alarm.com's ability to help Securitas introduce the latest in security technology to consumer sales channels. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results anticipated by these forward-looking statements, including our ability to collaborate successfully with Securitas to align our product and processes to achieve a phased European launch during 2016, the risk of unexpected delays due to regulatory and technical factors, uncertainties regarding legal restrictions on data-sharing, and other factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of Alarm.com's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on August 14, 2015 and other filings Alarm.com will make with the SEC from time to time. In addition, the forward-looking statements included in this press release represent Alarm.com's views as of the date of this press release. Subsequent events and developments may cause its views to change. However, while Alarm.com may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so except as required by law. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Alarm.com's views as of any date after the date of this press release.
CONTACT:
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The Blueshirt Group
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Alarm.com
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Frost & Sullivan Names Amdocs Latin American Mobile Financial Services Company of the Year
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 5, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), the leading provider of customer experience solutions, today announced that analyst firm Frost & Sullivan has honored Amdocs with its 2015 Latin American Mobile Financial Services Company of the Year Award.
The Frost & Sullivan award letter states that the Amdocs Mobile Financial Services solution "differentiates itself from other competitors in the mobile space because it can provide much more than a payment gateway. … Amdocs' innovative solution is a technological enabler for economic growth in emerging markets, allowing consumers to gain access to financial services previously impossible, and merchants and banks an opportunity to achieve new revenue streams from a previously unserved market segment."
"Amdocs' strong software development process, business process expertise, and innovative fraud prevention system is likely to give the Latin American mobile payments ecosystem the chance it needs to reach greater mainstream adoption," said Ben Gresham, Best Practices research analyst, Information & Communication Technology, Frost & Sullivan.
"This Frost & Sullivan Award provides independent validation of our approach to mobile financial services and the important benefits they bring to un- and underbanked people around the world," said Patrick McGrory, division president for Amdocs emerging offerings. "According to market research, 2 billion people in the world do not have a bank account1, yet an estimated 1.7 billion do have access to a mobile phone2. This represents a huge market opportunity for network operators and banks, and one which does not end with financial inclusion of the unbanked. The convenience and speed of mobile financial services are attractive to everyone in The New World of Customer ExperienceTM, a world in which customers expect new types of services that bring immediate value to their lives. This is further validated in recent independent research3, with new innovative use cases identified as the drivers behind the next phase of mobile financial services growth."
Amdocs launched its Mobile Financial Services solution in 2014. The solution enables mobile network operators, banks, and other financial institutions to drive adoption of financial services delivered over feature phones or smartphones, addressing the fundamental need of unbanked and under-banked populations worldwide for accessible and affordable banking services.
1 World Bank, http://go.worldbank.org/72MAKHBAM0
2 CGAP, http://www.cgap.org/topics/mobile-banking
3 Amdocs-commissioned Ovum research, "What consumers want", Sept 2014
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About Amdocs
Amdocs is the market leader in customer experience software solutions and services for the world's largest communications, entertainment and media service providers. Its portfolio powers The New World of Customer Experience™, where a wide array of innovative and personalized services are delivered seamlessly to end users, regardless of device or network. For more than 30 years, Amdocs solutions, which include BSS, OSS, network control and optimization, coupled with professional and managed services, have accelerated business value for its customers by streamlining complex operating environments, reducing costs and speeding time to market for new products and services. Amdocs and its more than 24,000 employees serve customers in over 90 countries. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.6 billion in fiscal 2014.
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This press release includes information that constitutes forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements about Amdocs' growth and business results in future quarters. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be obtained or that any deviations will not be material. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, the effects of general economic conditions, Amdocs' ability to grow in the business markets that it serves, Amdocs' ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, adverse effects of market competition, rapid technological shifts that may render the Company's products and services obsolete, potential loss of a major customer, our ability to develop long-term relationships with our customers, and risks associated with operating businesses in the international market. Amdocs may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future; however, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These and other risks are discussed at greater length in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2014 filed on December 8, 2014 and our quarterly 6-K form furnished on February 9, May 11 and August 10, 2015.
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VisionMonitor Aviation Participates in PROSPERO Final Dissemination Event
HOUSTON, Nov. 05, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VisionMonitor Aviation LLC., a leading developer of enterprise wide software solutions, recently participated in the PROSPERO final dissemination event at Trinity College, Dublin. PROSPERO, short for (PROactive Safety PERformance for Operations) is a European 7th Framework project running from 2012 through 2015 and comprises 14 partner organizations across 7 countries. The consortium includes end-users, industry representatives, SMEs and academic partners.
A video accompanying this release can be found here: http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/2c9bdff2-f10f-42a2-98ed-bcb5ec8458a7
VisionMonitor Software serves as the data collection, integration and centralization component of the PROSPERO system. During the dissemination event, VisionMonitor demonstrated how data is automatically collected from various operational systems in order to calculate “Acceptable Levels of Safety” for normal operations at both airlines and airports. This type of data aggregation and performance monitoring specifically serves to break down information silos and transforms the raw data collected into Safety Information. “In order to understand the source of variance in operations, we have to integrate data from multiple sources across the organization” stated Professor Nick McDonald (PROSPERO Project Coordinator) from Trinity College. “We must then use this information to manage risk proactively, preventively, and systemically.” For the Safety Director, real-time safety performance monitoring with VisionMonitor and Prospero is an innovation that allows the organization to move from a reactive to a proactive mode of operation and quickly adapt in a dynamically changing environment. Morten Ydalus, Safety Director for Norwegian Air commented “We have implemented the VisionMonitor component of the Prospero system at Norwegian in order to monitor SPIs in real-time. This has meant a huge change to our company, as we are now able to initiate corrections as risks emerge. The system creates a positive impact on how we do business in Norwegian”.
About VisionMonitor Aviation, LLC (VMA):VMA is a subsidiary company of VisionMonitor Software, LLC (www.visionmonitor.com), which was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. VisionMonitor was originally formed to provide energy companies enterprise wide software solutions for managing their environmental performance. The organization has since expanded into the Aviation industry with the input and support of leading Aviation safety experts and major aviation companies. VisionMonitor solutions are in use by major companies representing the Aviation, Energy, Petrochemical, Refining and Utility industries. (www.visionmonitoraviation.com)
CONTACT: Contact: Ramon West(rwest@visionmonitor.com)Phone: (713) 935-0500 Ext. 311
