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Rapid7 Introduces Nexpose 6.0 With Adaptive Security
BOSTON, Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rapid7, Inc. (NASDAQ:RPD), a leading provider of security data and analytics solutions, today announced the release of Nexpose 6.0 featuring Adaptive Security, a new capability that will help organizations respond more effectively to evolving security risks. The enhanced solution for Threat Exposure Management delivers prioritized insight into changes on your network and the impact of newly discovered vulnerabilities, quickly identifying critical threats with guidance for fast remediation.
Adaptive Security dynamically collects and analyzes security data, providing attack surface visibility with risk assessment. By focusing on important network changes, Adaptive Security helps IT security professionals better identify and understand their risk, and take action when necessary. Adaptive Security automatically identifies and assesses vulnerabilities and exposures when new assets join the network and when assets rejoin the network. Additionally, Adaptive Security will quickly analyze your security data to provide visibility into and show the potential impact of newly identified vulnerabilities.
Adaptive Security delivers the benefits of continuous monitoring without the noise of unfiltered alerts or the network performance tax of continuous scanning. Further, Adaptive Security automated actions are simple for customers to create because they require no coding and are flexible, so they can better meet specific user needs.
"Security teams are struggling to stay ahead of changes in their environments and the threat landscape while managing the noise that comes with traditional, continuous monitoring solutions. Adaptive Security cuts through the clutter and puts control back into the hands of IT security professionals," said Lee Weiner, senior vice president of products and engineering at Rapid7. "This level of ongoing awareness and visibility means that significant risks are quickly evaluated and teams are empowered to take action when necessary."
Nexpose 6.0 also extends IT security teams' ability to assess their attack surface by integrating data from Project Sonar – a research project from Rapid7 Labs that scans the internet every week for any external facing IP addresses associated with a given domain. The Sonar integration allows teams to discover internet accessible assets they may not have been aware of otherwise.
Better Understand the Risk Exposure from New Vulnerabilities
In 2014, three major vulnerabilities, Heartbleed, Shellshock, and Poodle, left organizations of all sizes and stages of security maturity open to attacks from cyber criminals. Adaptive Security automatically scans for critical threats, like those mentioned above, and measures risk exposure against emerging vulnerabilities, providing context and prioritization with Nexpose RealRisk and RealContext.
"Nexpose Adaptive Security allows me to understand my organization's exposure to threats, including newly discovered vulnerabilities, without having to initiate an assessment," said Billy Lewis, director of information technology at State Garden. "As soon as a new vulnerability is discovered, I have a report detailing my risk – that's very powerful."
The New Nexpose Experience
With a newly streamlined navigation and an easy to use interface, Nexpose can improve security professionals' productivity by extending security team resources. Easy navigation, built-in automation, and the ability to tune Nexpose to your IT environment mean security staff spends less time in the technology and more time acting on the recommendations and making an impact. The improved user experience for Nexpose is part of an ongoing commitment from Rapid7 to make security software easy to use and learn, helping lean teams achieve greater productivity.
Nexpose 6.0 will be available in October of 2015, and will also be localized into Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.
For detailed system requirements, price quotes, and additional information visit https://www.rapid7.com/products/nexpose/ or call Rapid7 at + 1 617 247 1717.
About Rapid7 Nexpose
Rapid7 Nexpose is a Threat Exposure Management solution that dynamically collects data and analyzes risk across vulnerabilities, configurations, and controls, from the endpoint to the cloud. Nexpose is engineered to enable IT security teams to identify, assess and respond to critical change as it happens with Adaptive Security. Users can more efficiently manage risk found in operating systems, third-party software, Web applications, browsers and databases all in one solution with over 68,000 vulnerabilities and 163,000 vulnerability checks. The unique integration with Rapid7's Metasploit, RealRisk score, and contextual business intelligence make Nexpose a Threat Exposure Management solution that prioritizes remediation and helps reduce risk. Its user interface, and smart analytics—such as the Top 25 Remediation report and custom reporting—allow security teams to communicate risk and remediation more effectively. Nexpose could be used to improve a company's overall risk posture to better comply with regulations, including security requirements for PCI, CIS, HIPAA, HITECH Act, FISMA (including SCAP Compliance), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and NERC CIP. Nexpose, as a core component of Rapid7's Security Data and Analytics platform, promotes an active, analytics-driven approach to cyber security.
About Rapid7
Rapid7 is a leading provider of security data and analytics solutions that enable organizations to implement an active, analytics-driven approach to cyber security. We combine our extensive experience in security data and analytics and deep insight into attacker behaviors and techniques to make sense of the wealth of data available to organizations about their IT environments and users. Our solutions empower organizations to prevent attacks by providing visibility into vulnerabilities and to rapidly detect compromises, respond to breaches, and correct the underlying causes of attacks. Rapid7 is trusted by more than 4,150 organizations across 90 countries, including 34% of the Fortune 1000. To learn more about Rapid7 or get involved in our threat research, visit www.rapid7.com.
CONTACT: Press Contact: Rachel Adam Rapid7, Senior PR Manager press@rapid7.com +1 (857) 415-4443
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Web Marketing Association Honors Bridgeline With Four WebAwards
BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bridgeline Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLIN), The Digital Engagement Company™, today announced that the Web Marketing Association has honored four iAPPS-powered websites with Outstanding Achievement awards in the prestigious 2015 WebAwards.
The Franklin Square Capital Partners website won in both the Financial Services and Investment categories, ESL Federal Credit Union was recognized in the Credit Union and Financial Services categories and the American Psychiatric Association Publishing Website took home awards in the Associations and Publishing categories. YSI Inc. was recognized as the 'Best Biotechnology Website' in the competition.
Now in its 17th year, the WebAwards is the longest running annual website award competition. "The bar continues to be raised in terms of website development trends in the online marketing community," said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. "Website design is constantly evolving to better meet the needs of the online audiences. This year, the WebAwards competition received remarkable entries from around the world that show impressive creativity and functionality."
All four award-winning websites boast a compelling design built using responsive technology to deliver relevant experiences based on the visitor's device. The sites, built with Bridgeline's user-centered design process, have all seen strong improvements in their original goals – from increased organic traffic to improved visitor retention.
"It is always an honor to be recognized side-by-side with our amazing customers," Thomas Massie, CEO at Bridgeline said. "With iAPPS at the core of these websites, these awards are the first of what I'm sure will be many accolades to come for these stellar sites."
About the Web Marketing Association
The Web Marketing Association is the producer of the WebAward Competition, and was founded in 1997 to help set the standard for Internet Marketing and development. Staffed by volunteers, the organization is made up of Internet marketing, online advertising, PR, and top web site design professionals who share an interest in improving the overall quality of online advertising, internet marketing, and website promotion. The WebAward program is the longest running annual website award competition dedicated to naming the best Web sites in 96 industries, while setting the standard of excellence for all website development.
About Bridgeline Digital
Bridgeline Digital, The Digital Engagement Company™, enables its customers to maximize the performance of their mission critical websites, intranets, and online stores. Bridgeline's iAPPS platform deeply integrates Web Content Management, eCommerce, eMarketing, Social Media management, and Web Analytics to help marketers deliver online experiences that attract, engage and convert their customers across all digital channels. Bridgeline provides end-to-end Digital Engagement solutions and boasts an award-winning team of interactive services professionals. Headquartered in Burlington, Mass., with nine additional locations throughout the United States and a .NET development center in Bangalore, India. Bridgeline has thousands of quality customers that range from small- and medium-sized organizations to Fortune 1000 companies. To learn more, please visit www.bridgeline.com or call (800) 603-9936.
CONTACT: Becki Dilworth Senior Vice President of Marketing Bridgeline Digital, Inc. 303.785.3858 bdilworth@bridgeline.com
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UBIC Launches "Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai" Business Data Analysis Services
Identifies Opportunities and Risks Hidden in Business Communications
Provides a Wide Range of Applications, including Sales Support, Project Management, Personnel Affairs Management and Customer Support
NEW YORK, Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC) (TSE:2158) ("UBIC" or "the Company"), a leading provider of international litigation support and big-data analysis services, today announced that it will start providing "Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai" on October 1. This is a business data analysis support system that identifies potential opportunities and risks through AI-based analysis of corporate electronic data, including business emails and business reports.
Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai helps users recognize business opportunities and mitigate risks by identifying clues in email messages from customers. For example, the system may be programmed to identify texts containing sentences that may indicate customers' implicit wishes, such as the hope for a salesperson to visit.
The procedures for using the system are as follows:
- Information known as teaching data, which is classified by whether risk or opportunity identification is necessary based on customers' experiences and an organization's tacit knowledge, is fed into Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai.
- Electronic data that users want to have analyzed, including emails and business reports, are imported from their mail and file servers into Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai, which is installed in UBIC's Intelligence Cloud.
- The imported electronic data is analyzed and scores are assigned to messages and even particular sentences or phrases in accordance with their relevance based on the provided teaching data, displaying their relative rankings in terms of relevance.
- The system may be programmed so as to automatically alert users when messages or reports with a higher score than the prescribed level has been identified or to provide detailed information concerning messages or reports that receive high scores.
- The system compiles statistical and analytical reports concerning the detection and prediction of potential opportunities and risks.
Other characteristics of Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai are as follows:
- Feedback mechanism allows continuous improvement of the AI capabilities
It is possible to improve the opportunity and risk identification accuracy of the system's AI capabilities by giving the system feedback concerning the analysis results.
- Investigation of information transmission routes enables identification of relevant parties' personal relationship networks
The Central Linkage function of Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai displays a chart of the relationships between people recognized as "subject to in-depth investigation" and other people in an organization based on data concerning who sent emails to whom and who is copied on the correspondence. This function makes it possible to identify cases where persons who should have received certain information did not and cases where persons received certain information that they should not have.
- Versatile reporting function
In addition to assigning scores to electronic data on a case-by-case basis, Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai reports on the number of messages or reports containing identified risks on a division-by-division basis and on an employee-by-employee basis, as well as time-sequential changes in the number. Managers can thus recognize general trends without looking at individual messages. In additional to finding potential problems and averting risks, Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai can also be used for various other purposes such as identifying prospective customers and detecting factors obstructing sales activities. Sharing of information across business divisions can help companies to better identify problems and measure results.
- Future collaboration with external systems through the provision of application program interface ("API")
In the future, the Company plans to enable Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai to collaborate with external systems through the provision of an API. UBIC also plans to enable collaboration with the report output and analysis functions developed by sales agents.
Email has now replaced the telephone as the main medium of business communication. This situation has made it more difficult for business division managers to keep track of communications between employees and customers, and to monitor email messages thoroughly. Furthermore, the popularity of internal email communication has reduced the amount of verbal communication among employees.
Lit i View AI Sukedachi Samurai has been developed as a system to support the Company's clients by detecting potential business opportunities and risks in a timely manner. UBIC will promote "practical AI", which solves challenges and reduces the burden on users by feeding company-specific empirical data into AI systems, including people's tacit knowledge and intuitions.
About UBIC, Inc.
UBIC, Inc. (Nasdaq:UBIC) (TSE:2158) supports the analysis of big data based on behavior informatics by utilizing its technology, "VIRTUAL DATA SCIENTIST" or VDS. UBIC's VDS technology is driven by UBIC AI based on knowledge acquired through its litigation support services. The VDS incorporates experts' tacit knowledge, including their experiences and intuitions, and utilizes that knowledge for big data analysis. UBIC continues to expand its business operations by applying VDS to new fields such as healthcare and marketing.
UBIC was founded in 2003 as a provider of e-discovery and international litigation support services. These services include the preservation, investigation and analysis of evidence materials contained in electronic data, and computer forensic investigation. UBIC provides e-discovery and litigation support by making full use of its data analysis platform, "Lit i View®", and its Predictive Coding technology adapted to Asian languages.
For more information about UBIC, contact usinfo@ubicna.com or visit http://www.ubic-global.com.
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CONTACT: UBIC Global PR UBIC North America, Inc. Tel: (212) 924-8242 global_pr@ubic.co.jp
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More Than Half a Million Healthcare Workers Worldwide Now Use Vocera Solutions in Over 1,000 Healthcare Facilities
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vocera Communications (NYSE:VCRA), the leading mobile healthcare communications company, today announced several significant milestones, highlighting new insights into the company's continued growth and impact on mission critical environments like hospitals.
According to recent customer analysis, more than half a million healthcare workers worldwide use Vocera solutions to connect, communicate and collaborate. The report also reveals that over 600 million voice conversations were enabled by the Vocera Badge last year. The Vocera Badge, a wearable voice-controlled device, is among the company's portfolio of communication solutions that enable team members to instantly reach the right person, in the right place, at the right time, on the right device, with the right information.
Additional facts:
- More than 1,300 customer facilities worldwide use Vocera solutions, including over 1,000 healthcare facilities
- Vocera solutions are used by workers in 11 different countries
- More than 700,000 Vocera Badges have been sold since the product launched in 2002
Vocera's solutions enable delivery of critical alerts, based on clinical integrations with nurse call systems, physiological monitors and electronic health records, resulting in more than 250 million secure alerts and text messages delivered last year.
"These numbers speak volumes about the importance of the complete end-to-end communication solutions we provide for our customers," said Brent Lang, president and CEO of Vocera Communications. "Vocera is the clear industry leader, as more and more healthcare providers around the world depend on our technologies to facilitate their enterprise-wide patient care communication needs."
About Vocera
Vocera Communications, Inc. is the leading healthcare communications company. Vocera provides enterprise-class communication solutions that help care teams collaborate more efficiently by delivering the right information, to the right person, on the right device, at the right time, anywhere. Vocera solutions are installed in more than 1,300 organizations worldwide, improving quality, efficiency, safety and outcomes. Via the company's research collaborative, the Experience Innovation Network, Vocera also drives thought leadership for the healthcare industry and new standards in care delivery to elevate patient, family, nurse and physician experiences. Vocera is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in San Francisco, Tennessee, Canada, India, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.vocera.com and @VoceraComm on Twitter.
The Vocera logo is a trademark of Vocera Communications, Inc. Vocera® is a trademark of Vocera Communications, Inc. registered in the United States and other jurisdictions.
CONTACT: Amanda Breeding Edelman 415-229-7649 VoceraTeam@edelman.com
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Fujifilm and Provision Interactive Team Up for 3D Roll-Outs
CHATSWORTH, Calif., Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FUJIFILM North America Corporation ("Fujifilm") and Provision Interactive Technologies, Inc. ("Provision"), a subsidiary of Provision Holding, Inc. (PVHO.PK), announced today that they will join forces on the roll-out of Provision's 3D Savings Center kiosks nationwide. According to the agreement, Fujifilm will provide installation and ongoing maintenance services for the 3D Savings Centers, beginning in Los Angeles and New York this year. The collaboration is designed to provide best-in-class service to the retailers to assure total customer satisfaction.
"We were looking for a brand name national service provider to help meet the rapid growth of our 3D digital network being implemented nationwide. Fujifilm offers professional expertise, speed-to-market and high levels of support throughout the entire installation process," said Curt Thornton, president and CEO of Provision. "This agreement means members of Provision's 3D digital networks now have a single source provider to quickly and effortlessly implement 3D digital signage as appropriate for the environment of each retailer. We see this as a long term relationship with Fujifilm, and look forward to expanding it."
"We are very excited about the opportunity to install and service Provision's 3D Savings Centers. Over the last several years, Fujifilm has accumulated vast experience with managing installation roll-outs on a large or small scale to our clients' exacting expectations," said Steven Pagano, vice president, Field Service, FUJIFILM North America Corporation, Imaging Division. "We understand the importance of providing technical support for our customers, and we understand service. Our best-in-class technical support is available through a knowledgeable internal team who can troubleshoot and handle questions via phone, while a highly trained Field Service Team is available nationally to go on-site and address any technical issues. We look forward to our association with Provision."
Provision offers its 3D Savings Center platform to retailers and advertisers in several market channels worldwide. The patented hardware and software systems are used to advertise all types of products and services within the store and around neighboring communities – breaking through the clutter of traditional in-store ads, and providing marketers with street-level tactical marketing data on consumers in top demographic markets.
About Fujifilm
FUJIFILM North America Corporation, a marketing subsidiary of FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation, consists of four operating divisions and one subsidiary company. The Imaging Division provides consumer and commercial photographic products and services, including: photographic paper; digital printing equipment, along with service and support; personalized photo products; film; and one-time-use cameras; and also markets motion picture archival film and on-set color management solutions to the motion picture, broadcast and production industries. The Electronic Imaging Division markets consumer digital cameras, and the Graphic Systems Division supplies products and services to the graphic printing industry. The Optical Devices Division provides optical lenses for the broadcast, cinematography, closed circuit television, videography and industrial markets, and also markets binoculars. FUJIFILM Canada Inc. sells and markets a range of Fujifilm products and services in Canada. For more information, please visit www.fujifilmusa.com/northamerica, go to www.twitter.com/fujifilmus to follow Fujifilm on Twitter, or go to www.facebook.com/FujifilmNorthAmerica to Like Fujifilm on Facebook. To receive news and information direct from Fujifilm via RSS, subscribe at www.fujifilmusa.com/rss.
FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, brings continuous innovation and leading-edge products to a broad spectrum of industries, including electronic imaging, digital printing equipment, medical systems, life sciences, graphic arts, flat panel display materials, and office products, based on a vast portfolio of digital, optical, fine chemical and thin film coating technologies. The company was among the top 10 companies around the world granted U.S. patents in 2012, and in the year ended March 31, 2013, had global revenues of $26.7 billion*. Fujifilm is committed to environmental stewardship and good corporate citizenship. For more information, please visit www.fujifilmholdings.com.
About Provision Interactive Technologies, Inc.
Provision Interactive Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of the publicly traded company Provision Holding, Inc. (PVHO.PK), is the leading purveyor of intelligent interactive 3D holographic display technologies, software, and integrated solutions for both commercial and consumer focused applications.
Provision's 3D holographic display systems represent a revolutionary technology that provides the projection of full color, high-resolution videos into space detached from the screen, without any special glasses. Provision is currently the market leader in true 3D consumer advertising display products being implemented by innovative, consumer-focused Fortune 1000 companies.
For more information, visit www.provision.tv.
All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered owners.
CONTACT: Media Relations: The Lexicomm Group Wendi Tush Phone : (212) 794-4531 Email : Wendi@lexicommgroup.com Diane Rainey Fujifilm Phone : (914) 789-8657 Email : drainey@fujifilm.com
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Netsurion Offers Merchants 3 Free Months of Managed Security Services as Part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month
HOUSTON, Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In support of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), Netsurion today announced free managed security services for three months to any merchant who signs a new contract during the month of October 2015. The offer extends to businesses with multiple locations. The goal of the promotion is to bring more merchants into compliance with PCI DSS 3.1 standards protecting credit card and other personally identifiable information of consumers. This year marks the fifth anniversary of the NCSAM campaign designed to engage, educate and raise awareness about cybersecurity.
"Cybercrime threatens businesses, personal identities and finances," said Aaron Branson, vice president of Marketing for Netsurion. "Our role in supporting this initiative is to provide merchants with the critical infrastructure protection for their businesses, while fulfilling our shared responsibility in creating a global culture of safety and trust."
Throughout the month, Netsurion executives will participate in a series of Twitter chats that reflect NCSAM's theme of shared responsibility in securing the Internet. Netsurion will also produce educational infographics to help inform merchants and consumers about a different topic in cybersecurity each week. These topics include cybersecurity at work, our evolving digital lives, helping communities stay protected and best practices for all digital citizens.
During October, Netsurion will also exhibit at the 2015 BURGER KING® North America and IHOP Restaurants conventions, providing on-site support to attendees who want to transition businesses to remotely managed security solutions and best security practices.
Netsurion is the leading provider of remotely managed network and data security services for multi-location businesses. For more information, please visit www.netsurion.com/promo/cybersecurity-awareness-2015
To join the conversation on social media:
- Use the National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2015 hashtag #CyberAware
- Join the weekly National Cyber Security Awareness Month Twitter Chat series on Thursdays in October at 3 p.m. EDT using #ChatSTC
- Visit the Netsurion Security Blog weekly for educational infographics about cybersecurity
About Netsurion
Netsurion is a leading provider of cloud-managed IT security services that protect small- and medium-sized businesses' information, payment systems and on-premise public and private Wi-Fi networks from data breaches and other risks posed by hackers. Netsurion's patented remote installation technology and PCI compliant cloud-based solutions simplify the implementation process and ongoing support. Any sized branch or remote office, franchise or sole proprietor operation can use Netsurion without the costs of onsite support. The company serves the retail, hospitality, healthcare, legal and insurance sectors. www.netsurion.com
CONTACT: Deb Montner, principal Montner Tech PR 203.226.9290 dmontner@montner.com
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Compuware's Innovative Topaz(TM) Runtime Visualizer Revolutionizes Mainframe DevOps With Fast Graphical Mapping of Program-to-Program Calls
- Essential business logic running on the mainframe is often characterized by complex, inadequately documented interactions between programs.
- Compuware's Topaz™ Runtime Visualizer (Topaz RV) is the first solution to automatically deliver complete, intuitive visibility into these complex interactions—making it dramatically easier for veteran and novice developers alike to understand and work on mainframe code.
- By removing a primary source of "friction" from mainframe DevOps, Topaz RV empowers IT to rapidly adapt even the oldest and most poorly documented systems to meet relentlessly changing business needs.
- This fourth major quarterly Topaz release of 2015—conceived by a Compuware lead engineer just 84 days ago—once again demonstrates market-driven agility never before seen in a mainframe ISV.
DETROIT, Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation, the world's leading mainframe-dedicated software company, today delivered the year's fourth major release of Topaz—an innovative solution suite that uniquely empowers enterprise customers to tap the full potential business value of their IBM z Systems environments.
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This latest release features Topaz Runtime Visualizer (Topaz RV), which provides unprecedented visibility into the often-complex interactions between mainframe programs. This visibility makes it dramatically easier for veteran and novice developers alike to quickly understand, modify and troubleshoot even the oldest, most complex and/or poorly documented mainframe code.
Topaz RV's capabilities are extraordinarily valuable to companies as they face the challenge of more frequently updating their business-critical mainframe applications in response to ever-changing business requirements. Without Topaz RV, discovering and understanding the calls mainframe programs make to other applications and databases during runtime can be an extremely slow, difficult and error-prone process—especially for inexperienced mainframe developers faced with applications that may have little or no documentation.
With Topaz RV, in stark contrast, developers can generate an intuitive map of the external calls a program executes during any specified runtime within minutes—without the need to refer to source code—saving them hours or days of painstaking work, while ensuring the accuracy and completeness of their results.
Topaz RV also enables developers to drill down into a program's external calls to see how often programs call each other during a runtime and/or the specific datasets a program accesses at each point in its execution. This insight helps them better pinpoint potential performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies and inter-program impacts.
Topaz RV is an ideal complement to traditional source-code parsing, which itemizes all out-of-program calls written into an application's code. By discovering and mapping only the program-to-program calls that actually occur during a live runtime of any developer-specified task—such as placing an order or running a monthly report—Topaz RV gives developers a clear and accurate "snapshot" of a program's real behavior in the production environment under present conditions.
The new Topaz release also enables developers of all skill levels to more quickly and accurately perform impact analyses by creating Java-like "projects"—logical collections of data sources—that allow them to discover and investigate dependencies across programs and copybooks, without having to move code off the mainframe.
Combined with the capabilities already provided by this year's three previous Topaz releases—including cross-platform data visualization and editing, static COBOL and PL/I code visualization, and Java-on-mainframe performance management—this ground-breaking release removes impediments that have historically prevented enterprises from reaping the full potential value of their mainframe applications, data and hardware.
These impediments include:
- Declining in-house mainframe programming expertise and experience
- Inadequate documentation of mainframe applications
- Uncertain reliability of available source code
- Slow change management processes that depend excessively on manual program analysis and/or idiosyncratic knowledge of key SMEs
- The high business risk associated with making changes in an environment of complex and inadequately understood dependencies/impacts
- Poor collaboration between mainframe and non-mainframe developers
These impediments are becoming particularly problematic as mainframe applications are increasingly called upon to support the mobile customer experience and other essential aspects of digital business.
"In a business environment that demands we constantly update our application code to address relentlessly changing market realities, it is imperative for our mainframe environment to be as agile as our other platforms," said Mr. Roberto Schmid, Service Manager Corporate IT Operations at Helvetia Insurance. "Compuware is enabling us achieve that agility by delivering solutions that help bring contemporary DevOps best practices to the mainframe, so we can fully leverage the value of our mainframe application portfolio—as well as the platform's compelling performance, reliability, scalability, security and workload economics."
"Mainframes have long been the platform of choice for enterprise systems of record, and today they are the backbone for many modern digital applications," said Jason Bloomberg, president of digital transformation analyst firm Intellyx. "Compuware's commitment to supporting current as well as the next generation of mainframe professionals with easy to use, innovative tools is of great service to enterprise customers who recognize the mainframe as the modern, digital platform it will continue to be for years to come."
Compuware's Agile Culture and "Gary's Awesome Idea"
With this fourth major new release of Topaz in 2015—an unprecedented pace of innovation for a mainframe ISV—Compuware, in addition to enabling mainframe agility, is also exemplifying it.
The story behind the creation of Topaz RV is particularly telling. Compuware software architect Gary Michalek came up with the idea for Topaz RV over the July 4 weekend while thinking about challenges he was facing on a current project. When he returned to work that Tuesday, he ran the idea by some colleagues. On Wednesday, he was in Compuware CEO Chris O'Malley's office presenting his idea. On Thursday, the company's product council met and gave Michalek one week to investigate his idea further with customers and appropriate Compuware SMEs—and show a prototype. That meeting, in turn, resulted in a green light for the project.
Over the following weeks, the Topaz RV team used an Agile approach to write and test code—as well as review output with customer and internal evaluators. As customers responded enthusiastically, Runtime Visualizer was elevated to the primary feature of the new release.
And on October 1—just 84 days after Michalek's original conception—the innovative new high-value solution was ready for customers' production environments.
"Anyone who says the mainframe is inherently slower and less responsive than other platforms has just been proven wrong," says O'Malley. "'Gary's Awesome Idea' demonstrates that you can move as quickly on the mainframe as on any other platform—if you have the right culture, the right processes and the right tools."
For a deeper dive into Topaz RV, watch a demo. For additional resources, visit compuware.com/topaz.
Compuware Corporation
Compuware empowers the world's largest companies to excel in the digital economy by fully leveraging their high-value mainframe intellectual property. We do this by delivering highly innovative mainframe application development and performance optimization solutions that uniquely enable IT to drive business value. Learn more at compuware.com.
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Mercury Systems Receives $2M Order for High-Performance Digital Signal Processing Modules for Radar Application
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRCY) (www.mrcy.com), announced it received a $2 million follow-on order from a leading defense prime contractor for high-performance digital signal processing modules for a manned airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) application. The order was booked in the Company's fiscal 2016 first quarter and is expected to be shipped by its fiscal 2016 second quarter.
"This order exemplifies how Mercury's technology roadmap and close collaboration with our customer enables continuous advancement in the performance and quality of defense applications," said Didier Thibaud, President of Mercury's Commercial Electronics business unit. "We are committed to delivering innovative, affordable, commercial solutions that provide both a strategic and tactical advantage for the warfighter."
For more information on Mercury Systems, visit www.mrcy.com or contact Mercury at (866) 627-6951 or info@mrcy.com.
Mercury Systems – Innovation That Matters™
Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) is the better alternative for affordable, secure and sensor processing subsystems designed and made in the USA. Optimized for program and mission success, Mercury's solutions power a wide variety of critical defense and intelligence applications on more than 300 programs such as Aegis, Patriot, SEWIP, F-35 and Gorgon Stare. Headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Mercury Systems is a high-tech commercial company purpose-built to meet rapidly evolving next-generation defense electronics challenges. To learn more, visit www.mrcy.com.
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This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including those relating to the products and services described herein. You can identify these statements by the use of the words "may," "will," "could," "should," "would," "plans," "expects," "anticipates," "continue," "estimate," "project," "intend," "likely," "forecast," "probable," "potential," and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, continued funding of defense programs, the timing and amounts of such funding, general economic and business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the Company's markets, effects of continued geopolitical unrest and regional conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing, delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in technological advances and delivering technological innovations, changes in, or in the U.S. Government's interpretation of, federal export control or procurement rules and regulations, market acceptance of the Company's products, shortages in components, production delays or unanticipated expenses due to performance quality issues with outsourced components, inability to fully realize the expected benefits from acquisitions and restructurings, or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in integrating acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, changes to export regulations, increases in tax rates, changes to generally accepted accounting principles, difficulties in retaining key employees and customers, unanticipated costs under fixed-price service and system integration engagements, and various other factors beyond our control. These risks and uncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the Company's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2015. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made.
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CONTACT: Robert McGrail, Director of Corporate and Investor Communications Mercury Systems, Inc. +1 978-967-1366 / rmcgrail@mrcy.com
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Entra Health Introduces Video Consult Application for Remote Patient Monitoring
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entra Health today announced the launch of a new video consult application integrated with the company’s MyHealthPoint platform. The new feature allows a clinician, clinical researcher or care provider to engage in direct video consultation with patients through a computer or mobile device. MyHealthPoint is an FDA 510K Class II approved real-time online data collection network.
“Our new video consult capability brings clinicians and patients face-to-face, no matter where they are,” said Richard C. Strobridge, CEO of Entra Health. “This capability has been critically lacking in the FDA-approved remote patient monitoring space. Using video consults, clinicians and care providers can communicate directly with patients to better understand and evaluate the data they are seeing from the Cloud.”
Video Consult is an expansion of Entra360 platform, providing easy-to-implement, turnkey solutions for cloud-based analytics and remote patient monitoring. Researchers, clinicians and other care providers can easily schedule immediate or future video consultations with patients from within the MyHealthPoint Clinical Portal using a drag and drop appointment scheduler. Both the patient and provider receive a notification on a tablet app, by email or SMS message that a video consult has been scheduled. A reminder is then sent 15 minutes before the session begins.
During any video consult, other care providers or remote family members can be invited to participate in a multipoint, multi-person live videoconference. Additional functions include screen-sharing, screen captures and image uploads. The entire video consultation can be recorded and saved as part of the patient electronic health record (EHR) and used for billing. Together with Entra360 technology, patients can be almost anywhere in the world, without physical connection to clinicians that are monitoring their progress.
About Entra Health
Entra Health is an international digital health and IT solutions provider that is focused on cloud-based remote patient monitoring, telehealth, data exchange and analytics. Entra Health’s secure Platform-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) remote patient monitoring solutions and devices have regulatory approval in 50 countries. The company is an international leader in wireless biometric data collection for clinical trials. For more information visit: www.entrahealth.com or call 877-458-2646.
Note: Richard Strobridge is a pioneer in telemedicine and video conferencing having implemented some of the first classified video conferencing systems for the Pentagon, as well as the first telesurgery systems for the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and others.
MyGlucoHealth™, MyHealthPoint™ and Entra360™ are trademarks of Entra Health Systems.
CONTACT: Media ContactBruce Ahern, Chief Marketing OfficerEntra Health Systems877-458-2646 x709bahern@entrahealth.com
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Cloudera Announces 2015 Data Impact Award Winners
New York, NY, Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™, today announced the winners of the 2015 Data Impact Awards. The awards honor organizations that have seen a material impact within their business operations and society at large using CDH, the world's most dynamic open source Hadoop-based distribution and a core component of Cloudera Enterprise, the foundation of an enterprise data hub. The winners were announced at an awards dinner and ceremony hosted by Cloudera on September 29, 2015 in New York City.
"Every year, the Data Impact nominations exemplify advances in our ecosystem, allowing new, interesting, and increasingly complex problems to be tackled," said Alan Saldich, vice president, Marketing, Cloudera. "The achievements this year's nominees have realized demonstrate that Hadoop has reached a level of maturity and sophistication where business value is not only highly demonstrable, but social change is also occurring in a collaborative way across local and national, commercial and public sector organizations."
The winners of the 2015 Data Impact Awards are:
Business Impact - Coupons.com, Inc.
Coupons.com, Inc. is a leading digital promotion and media platform that connects brands, retailers, and consumers. The company is pioneering behavioral digital coupon targeting based on shoppers' purchase behavior through the deployment of its Hadoop platform. Brands can now quickly access information regarding user demographics, shoppers' behavior patterns, product information, and individual store information across multiple national retailers.
With improved query speeds, brands can respond faster to offer more targeted campaigns. Coupons.com, Inc. noted approximately 230% more shoppers purchasing products compared to a control group using CDH to power digital promotions. The targeted campaigns have also contributed to an overall increase in the average basket value - 61% larger for comparable purchasers.
Data Discovery & Analytics | Path to Production - Markerstudy (nominated by Zoomdata)
Markerstudy Limited is responsible for the marketing and distribution of insurance products in the UK, including private and public hire, fleet, motorcycle, private car, and commercial vehicle. To keep pace with growing demand for services, Markerstudy initiated The Big Data Insight Project, built on a Cloudera enterprise data hub.
The project allows Markerstudy to analyze hundreds of millions of insurance quotes in seconds and look across 100 percent of all quotes rather than a five percent sample size. This allows Markerstudy to build a more accurate picture and spot emerging trends and patterns as they happen. Business users are also able to conduct their own data exploration using analytics tools, visualizations, and transaction level search.
Data Driven Transformation - Lineage Logistics
Lineage Logistics is the second-largest cold storage warehousing network in the world, with over 111 facilities in 21 states. The company stores temperature-sensitive materials, blast freezes fresh products, brokers temperature-controlled transportation, and provides a variety of value-added logistics services. Lineage owns over 20 percent of the third-party cold storage capacity in the United States, with annual throughput in excess of 15 billion pounds per year.
Prior to using Hadoop, Lineage Logistics operated with disparate warehouse management systems. In order to analyze its data, users would contact 15 system administrators and receive data in 15 different formats to get a collective view. The company needed to consolidate its systems and implement a new framework for standardizing company-wide data collection and analysis.
The consolidation of Lineage's data empowered the company to take data-driven action on matters core to its business. Among other use cases, Hadoop allowed Lineage to redesign the layout of its warehouses, using graph theory and combinatorial optimization (bin-packing) to increase storage capacity in excess of 30 percent. Such density gains result in a proportional reduction in power cost per unit of production and avoid the time, expense, and environmental consequences of constructing new facilities to create additional capacity.
Government, Nonprofit, and NGO - Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA)
Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) was established to use innovation and modernization to further scientific advances that support the Department of Homeland Security. HSARPA's first project leveraging Hadoop was in partnership with the National Fire Incident Report System (NFIRS).
By reviewing trends and patterns, graph analytics, and geospatial views for incident types, equipment failures, and casualties, HSARPA and NFIRS have been able to better inform firefighters both in the field and in proactive efforts to combat fires.
The resulting joint database constitutes the world's largest national, annual collection of incident information, and the solution allows that data to be analyzed and accessed by fire departments at state and local levels for a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. This unique partnership of systems has proven to be one of the most successful, productive, and cost-beneficial programs ever attempted on a national level.
Operational Analytics - Odyssey
Odyssey is a regional leader in the cyber security solutions and services sector, and a major managed security protection and outsourcing services provider. One of the company's core business pillars - the ClearSkies Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) platform - addresses the challenge of bringing together the openness and flexibility of the cloud with the need for strict control of information dictated by security principles.
Odyssey saw that the task of processing, analyzing, and correlating increasingly vast amounts of security-related log data while supporting all functions of the platform was too demanding to manage with current tools and conventional analysis. Odyssey implemented a Cloudera-powered enterprise data hub to address this challenge and has seen a massive enhancement in the platform's pivotal aspects including processing, statistical and user behavioral analytics capabilities. Prior to setting up Odyssey's EDH, it would have been impossible to aggregate the billions or even trillions of log data generated over the course of a year in just one day. Due to the high performance processing of Cloudera's EDH, this capability is done not just in a day, but in mere hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds.
Operational Efficiency ROI - Costco
Costco Wholesale Corporation operates an international chain of membership warehouses, primarily under the "Costco Wholesale" name, that carry quality, brand name merchandise at substantially lower prices than are typically found at conventional wholesale or retail locations. Costco's warehouses present one of the largest and most exclusive product category selections found under a single roof.
Costco has been using Hadoop to improve operational efficiencies that have resulted in quantifiable bottom-line savings. One recent successful use case involved Costco implementing Cloudera Search to query multi-spelled, misspelled, brand-varied, and text-based data - a job SQL-based tools were not capable of executing. By implementing Cloudera Search to easily "Google" or free-text search Costco's inventory, Costco floor staff can now use a simple iPad app to search inventory and avoid bringing in a floor manager. This has shifted a four to five minute process involving two people to just one person providing answers in a matter of seconds.
Security and Compliance - Visa, Inc.
Visa, Inc. is a premier payments technology company with a global network that connects thousands of financial institutions with millions of merchants and cardholders every day. With the rise in unknown malware, advanced threats, and insider threats growing daily and causing significant damage to organizations, businesses and individuals, Visa created the Visa Security Analytics (VSA) product to combat attacks.
VSA leverages CDH for longer-term security data set retention. The main goal of the project was to develop user behavioral analytics to better detect advanced and insider threats before they strike and reduce time in security investigations. With the VSA CDH powered platform, Visa now has a thorough understanding of the different stages an attacker may go through during a targeted attack and the different techniques an attacker may use to carry out each stage.
With this knowledge, Visa can detect threats produced by a user, a device, or an application by using machine learning, behavior modeling, peer group analysis, real-time statistical analysis, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling. CDH powers the model to detect cyber attacks and insider threats all in real time.
Social Impact - Thorn (in partnership with Digital Reasoning)
Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.wearethorn.org) is a non-profit dedicated to driving technology innovation to fight child sexual exploitation. Thorn partners across the tech industry, government, and non-governmental organizations and works to deter predatory behavior, disrupt platforms that enable abuse, and accelerate victim identification.
In the United States, children sex trafficking is an issue that often presents itself as children being bought and sold online, using online classified sites or escort pages. Thorn set out to leverage the online information about these crimes in order to more rapidly find these children and connect them with victim services. Thorn and Digital Reasoning created Spotlight, a cloud-based collection and analysis tool used to provide intelligence and leads on suspected human trafficking networks and individuals in order to identify and assist victims. The underlying architecture leveraged by Spotlight is CDH, which provides both distributed processing to run state of the art natural language processing and analytic algorithms on data that is harvested and organized in HDFS.
Spotlight has become the leading investigative tool for child sex trafficking investigations in the United States. Currently, Spotlight has over 1,300 law enforcement users across 46 states. Since its launch in October 2014, Spotlight has been used in over 860 trafficking cases and has helped identify over 300 victims, including 50 children.
The Data Impact Award winners were decided upon by thought leaders from across the enterprise data management industry. The 2015 judges include:
● Matt Aslett, 451 Research
● Tom Bain, CounterTack
● Martha Bennett, Forrester
● Andreas Bitterer, BARC
● Drew Conway, Project Florida
● Raj Dalal, BigInsights
● Wayne Eckerson, Eckerson Group
● Mike Ferguson, Intelligent Business Strategies Limited
● Bob Gourley, CTOvision.com and Crucial Point LLC
● Philip Howard, Bloor Research
● Jeffrey T. Hunter, Capgemini
● Claudia Imhoff, Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
● Ping Li, Accel Partners
● Ben Lorica, O'Reilly
● Curt Monash, Monash Research
● Narendra Mulani, Accenture
● Carl Olofson, IDC
● Jake Porway, DataKind
● Tom Pringle, Ovum
● Neil Raden, Hired Brains Research
● Nik Rouda, ESG
● Svetlana Sicular, Gartner
● Kim Stevenson, Intel
● Rick van der Lans, R20/Consultancy
● Ashish Verma, Deloitte Consulting
● Dan Vesset, IDC
● William McKnight, McKnight Consulting Group
About Cloudera
Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the first unified Platform for big data, an enterprise data hub built on Apache Hadoop. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, access, process, secure, and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data. Cloudera's open source big data platform is the most widely adopted in the world, and Cloudera is the most prolific contributor to the open source Hadoop ecosystem. As the leading educator of Hadoop professionals, Cloudera has trained over 40,000 individuals worldwide. Over 1,800 partners and a seasoned professional services team help deliver greater time to value. Leading organizations in every industry plus top public sector organizations globally run Cloudera in production.
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