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Table of Contents
1. Financial, M & A Updates..................................................................................................................................1
2. Solution Updates.................................................................................................................................................7
3. Rewards and Recognition Updates..................................................................................................................24
4. Customer Success Updates...............................................................................................................................34
5. Partnership Ecosystem Updates......................................................................................................................39
6. Miscellaneous Updates.....................................................................................................................................50
7. Event Updates...................................................................................................................................................53

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Appian Acquires Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Company
Appian announced the acquisition of Novayre Solutions SL, developer of the Jidoka RPA platform. Jidoka is
currently the highest-rated RPA software on Gartner Peer Insights (>50 reviews). The acquisition makes Appian
a one-stop shop for Automation, with best-in-class solutions for workflow, AI, and RPA. According to Forrester,
the RPA market is expected to reach $12 billion by 2023, but many organizations are still in the early stages of
their RPA journey. Companies have experimented with RPA by implementing robots from multiple vendors,
resulting in a fragmented technology landscape. Robots are often deployed in silos without effective human
oversight, creating management challenges. CIO concerns about robot security and governance have also
limited the growth of RPA for larger-scale use cases. Appian’s acquisition addresses these challenges. Appian
customers will benefit from:
• One-stop shop for Automation. Appian will unify low-code development and RPA in one comprehensive
automation platform, enabling the orchestration of all three agents of modern work — humans, bots, and
artificial intelligence. Appian’s top-rated case management capabilities are included, so if robots create errors or
exceptions, humans are involved in-the-loop to quickly make corrections.
• Governed robotic workforce. Appian will deliver RPA governance for the enterprise. Organizations will be
able to manage robotic workforces from major RPA vendors, including Blue Prism and UIPath. The business
interfaces for managing robots — including monitoring, scheduling, and reporting — are available on both the
web and mobile devices. The service will deliver powerful analytics and reporting, ranging from impact
analysis to compliance.
• Enterprise-grade RPA. RPA from Appian will be cloud RPA and Java RPA. The new service will be available
globally on the Appian cloud. Bot developers can leverage a powerful Java Integrated Development
Environment (IDE), which enables them to build sophisticated robots. They will also be able to incorporate
powerful AI, powered by Google, that extends robot use cases and facilitates bot management. Enterprise-grade
security, featuring SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance certifications, will be built in.
• Appian is a public, NASDAQ-listed company, and is the only leader in both the Gartner Magic Quadrant for
Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms and for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites (iBPMS).
Appian is committed to delivering an open platform and will continue to work with and integrate to major RPA
vendors, giving customers flexibility and freedom of choice in RPA.
Executive Commentary
“Appian is extending our lead in low-code automation by adding RPA,” said, CEO, Appian. “Together, the
products enable end-to-end process orchestration where humans, software robots, and AI all work together
in a coordinated way.”
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Compuware Completes Acquisition of INNOVATION Data
Processing Assets
Compuware Corporation, the leading provider of software for mainframe
DevOps, announced the completion of its acquisition of the assets of
INNOVATION Data Processing as of January 1, 2020. INNOVATION Data
Processing was founded in 1972 and was the first independent software
vendor to develop a mainframe storage and backup product. Since that time,
the company has expanded to become a global market leader in enterprise
data protection, business continuance, storage management and VSAM
performance, serving the world’s largest organizations. The acquisition marks
Compuware’s sixth mainframe software or services acquisition in the last
four years. The addition of INNOVATION’s solutions—FDR, FDRPAS and
IAM products, and segment leading solutions including UPSTREAM and
FATSCOPY—complements Compuware’s existing product line, focused on
empowering enterprises to leverage their modern mainframes with ease and
effectiveness. Compuware’s mainframe software includes Abend-AID,
Application Audit, COPE, File-AID, Hiperstation, ISPW, Strobe, ThruPut
Manager, Xpediter and the groundbreaking Topaz suite of products.
“Given our mission to modernize every aspect of mainframe software
delivery, the inclusion of INNOVATION’s talent, expertise, and leading
backup and data protection solutions is a natural extension to our
company’s culture and portfolio of leading mainframe software,” said
Compuware CEO. “Like Compuware, INNOVATION has a rich heritage
of innovation that empowers customers to leverage their mainframes with
ease and effectiveness. With the importance of data and compliance
mandates growing, our customers will now have access to a full set of
proven solutions already in use by hundreds of large enterprises
worldwide.”
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Progress Reports 2019 Fiscal Fourth Quarter and Year End Results
• On a GAAP basis, revenue was $117.0 million during the quarter compared
to $98.1 million in the same quarter last year, a year-over-year increase of
19% on an actual currency basis and 21% on a constant currency basis. On a
non-GAAP basis, revenue was $123.4 million during the quarter compared to
$98.3 million in the same quarter last year, an increase of 26% on an actual
currency basis and 27% on a constant currency basis.
• On a GAAP basis, diluted loss per share during the quarter was $0.11
compared to diluted earnings per share of $0.19 in the same quarter last year,
a decrease of 158%. On a non-GAAP basis, diluted earnings per share during
the quarter was $0.79 compared to $0.54 in the same quarter last year, an
increase of 46%.
• Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments were $173.7 million at
the end of the quarter;
• DSO was 56 days, compared to 53 days in the fiscal third quarter of 2019
and 47 days in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2018;
• On January 8, 2020, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of
$0.165 per share of common stock that will be paid on March 16, 2020 to
shareholders of record as of the close of business on March 2, 2020.
“Our fourth quarter performance was very strong, allowing us to exceed
both our revenue and EPS guidance for fiscal 2019," said CEO at
Progress. "Once again, in Q4 we had a better-than-expected contribution
from Ipswitch, our recent acquisition, further validating our focus on
accretive M&A as our go-forward strategy. We look forward to continued
momentum in 2020, as we execute on a strategic plan that will drive
sustainable, long-term value for all shareholders.”
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GigaSpaces Wraps up 2019 with Record Revenues and Triple Digit Growth for
InsightEdge Real-Time Analytics Processing Platform
GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, the fastest in-memory real-time analytics processing
platform, announced its 2019 results; doubling annual recurring revenues and tripling its
InsightEdge customer base. In 2019 GigaSpaces signed up new finance, insurance, and
transportation customers across the globe and launched new products and partnerships that are
driving mission-critical, time sensitive applications and services for optimized operations,
adherence to regulations and exceptional customer experience. AnalyticsXtreme launched in Q1
2019, was acknowledged by 451 Research as an industry differentiator, providing a unified
speed layer and API over different data storage technologies to accelerate and simplify access to
traditional databases, data lakes and data warehouses, eliminate unnecessary data duplication
and avoid data ingestion bottlenecks. GigaSpaces released Version 15.0, to simplify integrating
AI workloads with the organization’s core infrastructure. Version 15.0 enhances
AnalyticsXtreme with intelligent batch indexing that differentiates between more frequent (cold
data) access and infrequent (archive data) access tiers on data lakes and data warehouses for
even faster access to all data tiers. Data Management and MLOps initiatives are simplified with
the new GigaSpaces Ops Manager for continuous monitoring of data and machine learning
pipelines to maintain accurate overall performance and for increased scalability. In 2019,
GigaSpaces was one of the 22 certified vendors globally announced as a Red Hat OpenShift
operator, for simplified-one-click deployment, lifecycle management and high availability on
on-premise, cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid environments. The company also announced
availability on Amazon Web Services marketplace and integration with the AWS ecosystem for
real-time decision making.
“Enterprises are striving to gain the competitive edge with continuous innovations and new
service deployments,” said CEO at GigaSpaces. “We see tremendous growth in the trend
to leverage analytics, augmented transactions and machine learning for real-time
data-driven insights and decisions and are committed to help simplify and accelerate
deployments with the speed and scale that our customers need to successfully move
machine learning models to production.”
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Phunware Announces 2019 Phun Ecosystem Deliveries and 2020 Roadmap
Phunware, Inc., a fully integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides products,
solutions, data and services for brands worldwide, today announced completed 2019 milestones
and releases for its Phun Ecosystem, including the Company’s 2020 roadmap for commercial
launch. This dual-token economy both empowers consumers and reimagines how brands
engage with their audiences by creating a mobile loyalty ecosystem that recognizes the value of
data and engagement.
Ecosystem milestones and releases completed in 2019 include:
• Consumer facing iOS and Android mobile wallet applications capable of managing digital
identity and profile management, personal data management and digital asset (token)
capabilities.
• Integration of a self-sovereign identity solution for issuing and validating signed digital
credentials, the first of which consists of Know Your Customer (KYC) credentials containing
validated information from the KYC process.
• Implementation of a Hierarchical Deterministic (HD) wallet capability compatible with BIP
32 / 39 / 44 key management techniques.
• Interoperability of digital assets and the HD wallet implementation for both Ethereum and
Stellar blockchain based digital assets (tokens).
• Backend administration and processing tools for governance, management and approval of
digital asset rewards generated via data usage in the data exchange.
• Management and accrual of promotional token balances available to end users prior to joining
the ecosystem via HD wallets.
• A Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables application publishers and developers to
contribute to and be rewarded for bringing users into the ecosystem.
“We continue to push ahead with our vision of a future in which consumers own, control
and are rewarded for the use of their personal data and information,” saidEVP of Product
and Engineering at Phunware. “To that end, last year we laid the technical foundations of
our ecosystem, including critical elements such as self-sovereign identity, customer facing
iOS and Android wallet applications, data management and digital asset / blockchain
interfaces and the integration of these capabilities into our blockchain-enabled data
exchange. We intend to continue this momentum and investment throughout the first half of
2020, culminating in a full commercial launch of our ecosystem later this year.”
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Tricentis Acquires SpecFlow to Support Agile Development at Scale
Tricentis, the leader in continuous testing for DevOps, announced that it has
acquired SpecFlow, the biggest and most trusted BDD solution for .NET
developers around the world. SpecFlow’s pragmatic approach to
specification-by-example has helped agile development teams improve
collaboration with business stakeholders to build and deliver higher quality
software. SpecFlow will continue to remain a free, open source offering for
the software development and testing communities. SpecFlow+, SpecFlow’s
commercial offering, and SpecMap, an Azure DevOps extension for user
story mapping, will now be offered for free to meet the needs of scaling BDD
across the enterprise – all backed by Tricentis’ leading innovation in
continuous testing. With this acquisition, Tricentis continues to extend its
leadership in the open source and developer-led testing market. SpecFlow is
Tricentis’ second acquisition in this market within the past year, with further
acquisitions planned in the coming months. In 2019, Tricentis acquired
TestProject, the world’s first free, cloud based test automation platform
leveraging Selenium and Appium. The acquisition of SpecFlow adds
best-in-class support for BDD and .NET developers to round out Tricentis’
comprehensive open source testing platform.
“BDD is becoming broadly relevant in enterprises for their digital
transformation,” explained Tricentis Founder and Chief Strategy Officer.
“As business requirements change at DevOps speed, teams need a way to
document how their applications should behave across highly integrated
systems. Without built-in test automation to this shared understanding,
software delivery leads to production bugs and poor user experiences.
SpecFlow’s ability to create this shared business understanding,
connected with automated tests, makes it the most trusted BDD platform
for .NET development.”
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New Blue Prism SaaS Offerings Add to Industry’s Most Comprehensive Portfolio
of Automation Solutions
Solution Description
Blue Prism® announced the availability of three new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions that augment its Digital Workforce powered by the company’s connected-RPA
Platform. These new SaaS solutions leverage IP acquired with Thoughtonomy (now branded Blue Prism Cloud) and allow enterprises to access the industry’s most advanced
intelligent automation capabilities. Blue Prism now gives customers access to end-to-end automation solutions that cover all IT environments — on-premise, cloud, hybrid
and SaaS — an industry first. The new SaaS offerings underpin Blue Prism’s connected-RPA strategy to provide a Digital Workforce for every Enterprise built with the
industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of automation solutions. In line with this strategy, these latest capabilities are being made available directly from Blue Prism’s
Digital Exchange (DX) and through partners. Each one addresses key needs for enterprises looking to maximize value from their investment:
• Blue Prism Cloud Hub – is a digital workforce management control center that allows users to manage the full automation lifecycle of their entire digital workforce. This
business-friendly interface simplifies management and provides a comprehensive dashboard for reporting. Large enterprise teams spread across multiple geographies can
customize the interface to their own language and to cover management of their own area of responsibility. Users of Blue Prism Cloud Hub will also have access to
Wireframer, a powerful process automation design tool that autonomously builds out the core process structure, ensuring that the appropriate controls are in place for
everything from application interaction through to exception handling.
• Blue Prism Cloud Interact – is a web interface for digital worker and human collaboration. Accessible via a browser on any computer or mobile device, the customizable
Interact web interface, empowers organizations to broader the addressable use cases for automation from front to back office. Designed to address any process which requires
manual initiation (attended automation), or intervention (human-in-the-loop). Business users leverage simple, ready to use templates in order to create new dynamic web
forms that create flexible automations addressing a wide range of use cases.
• Blue Prism Cloud IADA® – is an AI-enabled digital workforce supervisor that automatically orchestrates the activities of your digital workers in order to maximize their
productivity and increase return on investment. Focusing on the business SLA requirements of every automation, the real-time fluctuations in business volumes and
knowledge of the organization’s IT environment, IADA optimizes performance.

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Broadcom Announces Industry’s Most Comprehensive Portfolio of Wi-Fi 6E
Access Point Solutions for 6 GHz WLAN
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Broadcom Inc. announced the availability of a portfolio of Wi-Fi 6E devices. Wi-Fi 6E is a new standard that builds on the rich feature set of Wi-Fi 6, including OFDMA and other
multi-user operations that improve performance in crowded environments, advanced roaming capabilities and increased security. Wi-Fi 6E extends the Wi-Fi 6 standard to support
the soon-to-be-operational 6 GHz band. This new band enables up to 1,200 MHz of spectrum for Wi-Fi use, which WLAN access point (AP) manufacturers can leverage to deliver
faster speeds, higher capacity and lower latency with no congestion from legacy devices. These devices coupled with the new spectrum will further accelerate the deployment of
Wi-Fi 6 technology delivering a steady, swift and secure consumer experience. This expands upon the existing Wi-Fi 6 ecosystem which has over 125 million smartphones. The
innovations of Wi-Fi 6E open up unprecedented capacity for high-bandwidth applications such as 8K video streaming, real-time immersive gaming, virtual and augmented reality,
and high-speed tethering. The new 6 GHz spectrum band is expected to be operational in the United States in 2020, and a wide ecosystem of 6 GHz-enabled devices will be
available at launch.
Enterprise 6 GHz Wi-Fi AP Solutions
BCM43694 — 4x4 Dual Band Wi-Fi 6E SoC with 160-MHz Channel Support
BCM43693 — 3x3 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6E SoC with 80-MHz Channel Support
BCM43692 — 2x2 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 6E SoC with 80-MHz Channel Support
BCM47622 — Dual 2x2 Wi-Fi 6E SoC with Arm Processor
Residential 6 GHz Wi-Fi AP Solutions
BCM43684 — 4x4 Wi-Fi 6E SoC with 160-MHz Channel Support
BCM6755 — Dual 2x2 Wi-Fi 6E SoC with Arm Processor

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CAST Adds Switched TSN Endpoint Controller to Time-Sensitive Networking
Ethernet IP Cores Family
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Semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider CAST, Inc. announced the availability of a new IP core implementing a switched endpoint
controller supporting the Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) Ethernet standards. The new TSN-SE TSN Ethernet Switched Endpoint Controller
IP core integrates hardware stacks for timing synchronization (IEEE 802.1AS), traffic shaping (IEEE 802.1Qav and IEEE 802.1Qbv),
frame-preemption (IEEE 802.1Qbu and IEEE 802.1Qbr), and a low-latency Ethernet MAC. The company believes the TSN-SE to be one of the
smallest and most energy-efficient such cores available, and it features remarkably low latency, implementing nearly every function in hardware.
Furthermore, the endpoint controller portion of the core has been proven in multiple industry plugfests, public demos, and customer
applications. Sourced from partner Fraunhofer IPMS, the new core builds on the Fraunhofer/CAST team’s market-leading technical and
customer experience helping customers integrate TSN Ethernet and other industrial and automotive interfaces. The highly competitive core
enables high-precision timing synchronization and flexible yet accurate traffic scheduling. Cut-through switching and minimal buffering—even
at the Ethernet MAC level—enable extremely low and deterministic input and output latencies. Standard AMBA® interfaces and other features
facilitate easy system integration, simplifying the development of time-aware daisy-chained networks. The TSN-SE is available now, in
synthesizable Verilog source code or as a targeted netlist for Intel, Xilinx, or Lattice FPGA devices. It joins TSN Endpoint and CAN-to-TSN
Gateway cores in CAST’s popular Automotive Interfaces family, which also includes IP for CAN 2.0/FD, LIN, and SENT.

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Confluent Introduces New Capabilities to Enable Organizations to Adopt Event
Streaming for All Mission-Critical Production Environments
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Confluent, Inc., the event streaming platform pioneer, announced the release of Confluent Platform 5.4, which is focused on helping
organizations on their path to making event streaming the central nervous system of their business. With a highly secure and resilient event
streaming platform, organizations can now confidently bring information from every part of their business to a central platform to become more
agile and event-driven. As a new category of data infrastructure is created around event streaming, more than half of the Fortune 100 and
thousands of companies globally are realizing the benefits of harnessing the value of events as they happen. Many large organizations are
looking to quickly extend the number of teams, use cases and environments that rely on the power of event streaming. In turn, the list of
requirements needed to operate Apache Kafka® at this new level has grown. Today’s enterprises are faced with stricter demands around security
and compliance, and event streaming platforms must evolve to meet these expectations in order for enterprises to successfully and efficiently
grow their deployments. Confluent is dedicated to building an event streaming platform that helps organizations achieve their goals of
leveraging real-time event data to deliver innovative customer experiences and unlock game-changing internal efficiencies, regardless of the
makeup of their IT environments. With Confluent Platform 5.4, organizations now have the security, resilience and storage they need to extend
what’s possible with their event streaming platform for their business and customers.

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Nintex Introduces Process Templates to Help Organizations Expedite Automation
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Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, announced the availability of a new gallery of process templates
to help organizations worldwide rapidly automate a broad range of business processes by leveraging the process mapping and
management, robotic process automation, and workflow automation capabilities of the industry-leading Nintex Process Platform. The
gallery includes more than four dozen templates across business departments such as IT, Operations, Procurement, Sales and
Marketing, HR, Finance, and many more. New templates are being added every month and address the common question for users new
to automation as well as those looking to expand their process excellence initiatives – what does a good process and workflow look
like? The Nintex process accelerator gallery includes a variety of templates and pre-built connectors to accelerate process management
and automation, including:
• Nintex Promapp process templates – a powerful starting point for understanding the steps in a process and the participants involved.
• RPA botflow templates – quickly apply RPA to tasks that execute the same way every time.
• Workflow automation templates – best for processes that call for collaboration, judgment, and decisions.
• Pre-built connectors – easily integrate business applications into automated workflows simply by dragging the connector into the
Nintex design canvas.

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Nintex Rolls Out Critical Process Management and Automation Training Programs
for Operations, IT and Process Professionals
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Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, announced the worldwide availability of Nintex University, a
program of convenient training courses and certifications for Nintex Community members to optimize their process management and
process automation investments. Nintex University is structured for both business and technical roles to quickly implement the Nintex
Process Platform and accelerate enterprise-wide digital transformation. Through Nintex University, the Nintex global community will
easily access training and earn certifications through a variety of convenient formats including on-demand online courses for self-paced
learning, real-time programs led by online instructors, and in-person training delivered on-site at any organization. All these programs
are designed to accelerate usage of Nintex's powerful and easy-to-use capabilities, including Nintex Promapp®, Nintex Forms, Nintex
Mobile Apps, Nintex Workflow, Nintex RPA, Nintex Drawloop DocGen® and Nintex Sign™ powered by Adobe Sign and help
organizations easily migrate historical on-premises Nintex workflow implementations to the cloud. Nintex introduced the new training
and certification program to attendees at Nintex ProcessFest 2019. Feedback was extremely positive, with an average rating above 4.5
out of 5 points of those surveyed for all training sessions. Nintex University offers on-demand training, virtual classroom sessions with
a Nintex instructor, and certification exams for a wide variety of Practitioner- and Expert-level Nintex courses. Nintex instructors are
also available for on-site training and customized learning paths.

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Nintex Rolls Out Enterprise-Class Capabilities for Robotic Process Automation
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Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, announced the availability of Nintex RPA Central, a valuable set of enterprise-grade
robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities to help organizations accelerate their digital transformation with Nintex RPA. Nintex RPA Central features
an intuitive, powerful web-based interface and includes robust enterprise-grade encryption and role-based access controls. The new enterprise-class RPA
offering from Nintex provides end-users a sophisticated, centralized location to orchestrate, administer and secure RPA bots. RPA Central delivers
advanced role-based security and control features, giving users access to the power of Nintex RPA while ensuring that IT and Operations professionals
have full control. Designed from the ground-up on modern technologies, Nintex RPA Central paves the way for deeper integrations between process
mapping and management, workflows, and RPA. Benefits to administrators include:
• Quickly and easily manage bots, tasks, licenses, and users
• Efficiently publish and unpublish botflows
• Authority to review, approve or deny bots from joining Nintex RPA Central
• Protected, encrypted communication between Nintex RPA Central and RPA bots
• High security requirement with Active Directory Authentication
• Botflows are fully encrypted and protected in an on-premise SQL database
Nintex RPA is a capability of the Nintex Process Platform, a complete, powerful and easy-to-use process management and automation solution that
thousands of organizations in every industry use to turn manual, time-consuming processes into automated ones. Nintex customers and partners that
leverage the Nintex Platform gain immediate competitive advantages by delivering process apps in hours or days to expedite digital transformation and
improve the customer experience.

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FICO Introduces New FICO Score 10 Suite
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FICO, a global analytics leader, announced the latest release of its flagship FICO® Score, the FICO® Score 10 Suite, will
be available this summer. Built with FICO’s deep expertise, the new FICO® Score 10 Suite gives lenders unparalleled
flexibility and predictive power to make more precise lending decisions. The new FICO® Score 10 T incorporates trended
credit bureau data to further enhance predictive power. Leveraging the most comprehensive data available, FICO Score 10
and FICO Score 10 T outperform all previous FICO Scores. By adopting the FICO® Score 10 Suite, a lender could reduce
the number of defaults in their portfolio by as much as ten percent among newly originated bankcards and nine percent
among newly originated auto loans, compared to using FICO® Score 9. The reduction in defaults is even higher for newly
originated mortgage loans, at 17 percent compared to the version of the FICO Score used in that industry. These
improvements in predictive power can help lenders safely avoid unexpected credit risk and better control default rates,
while making more competitive credit offers to more consumers. FICO® Score 10 delivers increased predictive power,
while preserving the trusted and proven FICO Score minimum scoring criteria. Plus, FICO Score 10’s backward
compatibility to previous FICO Score versions ensures continuity, ease of use and stability for lenders and investors.
Lenders can more easily transition to FICO Score 10 since it includes standard FICO reason codes, a similar odds-to-score
relationship as prior versions and consistent score ranges.

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Micro Focus Introduces Voltage SmartCipher, Delivering Transparent Unstructured
Data Protection for Privacy Compliance and Secure Collaboration
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Micro Focus announced the release of Voltage SmartCipher, a new offering that provides secure collaboration and simplifies unstructured data protection and management by
combining critical technology features into a single solution for endpoint privacy and security. Voltage SmartCipher transparently works with any data type, including
on-premises or cloud offerings, enabling organizations to safely leverage information for business value while also protecting the privacy of this unstructured data. The
exponential growth of sensitive files represents the biggest challenge that information security professionals face. By 2025 it is expected that unstructured data will account
for up to 80% of the global data volume that will reach 163 zetabytes, ten times more than in 2016.* In order to attain insights from this growing data set without exposing
the organization to unnecessary risk, organizations must discover and classify files containing sensitive data. By proactively flagging this information, both internal and
external users will be able to more effectively share files across multiple platforms in accordance with security and privacy requirements.
Voltage SmartCipher benefits and features include:
• Secure collaboration across environments – Voltage SmartCipher’s patented Transparent File Encryption technology embeds access and protection policy around individual
files and the data contained within to prevent unauthorized access to content or policy.
• Increase visibility and control with centralized policy management – Enables increased visibility and control over sensitive files with centralized access and use policy
managed centrally and enforced locally at a file level. New policies can be dynamically implemented and synchronized with files on endpoints or collaboration platforms.
• Improve and accelerate compliance audits with real-time monitoring, discovery, and classification – Featuring built-in file usage monitoring and alerting that allows
enterprises to determine when, where, and how individual files are accessed and altered, and by whom, to provide broad control and protection over unstructured data.
• Seamless, non-disruptive implementation – Voltage SmartCipher may be implemented in stages, according to the needs of enterprises, allowing administrators to map file
location and roll-out file protection without disruption.

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MongoDB Unveils Managed GraphQL for MongoDB Atlas
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NoSQL database provider MongoDB has launched support for the GraphQL API-based query language to its managed cloud database, MongoDB Atlas, as an
integration with MongoDB Stitch, which acts as both the GraphQL client and server, sending, receiving, and processing requests. GraphQL provides an alternative to
the widely used REST API and differs by offering a declarative query ability via API as opposed to REST’s method, which responds to a query with a full payload of
information, rather than specific data requested. As such, GraphQL allows for smaller payloads, faster responses, and more efficient code, something the company
emphasizes in its blog post introducing the feature. In talking about the launch, however, MongoDB Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Eliot Horowitz puts the
focus on the developer experience and the end result, rather than the machinations. Combined with the Realm mobile database and data synchronization technology
that MongoDB acquired in 2019, the added GraphQL functionality will make it easier than ever for MongoDB users to build web applications that function across
multiple devices, Horowitz says. GraphQL support is provided via Stitch, which handles back-end functionality such as user authentication and field-level security,
while Realm handles mobile data synchronization, and MongoDB sits as the common denominator at the center of the data layer. In terms of building such an
application using MongoDB, the company says that “it doesn’t take more than a few minutes to accomplish” the basic requirements, which it lists as:
• A database and at least one collection must be created in your MongoDB Atlas cluster.
• A MongoDB Stitch application must be created and linked to the cluster.
• User rules must be defined for the database and collection within Stitch.
• A Stitch schema must be defined.

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OneStream Software Launches Predictive Analytics for Financial and Operational
Planning
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OneStream Software, a leader in Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solutions for mid-sized to large enterprises, has
introduced a new predictive analytics solution that provides advanced planning and forecasting capabilities for the OneStream XF
platform. Predictive Analytics 123 enables finance leaders to create predictive forecasts for financial and operational planning,
share these insights and collaborate with their business partners on critical business decisions. Predictive Analytics 123 extends
OneStream’s planning and forecasting capabilities and builds on the governed analytics capabilities that were released last quarter.
Governed analytics allows finance executives to blend detailed operational and transactional data with trusted financial data
managed within the OneStream XF platform. Predictive Analytics 123 adds predictive modeling with the ability to quickly seed
new forecasts and create visualizations with easy, self-service capabilities. This enables finance teams to validate corporate and
operational plans, reduce forecast bias and help drive important dialogue to support quick and effective decision making. Finance
teams are playing an increasingly important role in operational business planning. Already trusted to accurately report financial
results and drive financial planning, many organizations are now tasking the CFO and finance teams with more responsibility,
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Phunware Announces 2019 Product Deliveries and 2020 Roadmap for Multiscreen-as-a-Service
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Phunware, Inc. a fully integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides products, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide,
announced key improvements made in its Multiscreen-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform in 2019, as well as the Company’s 2020 outlook. Brands
who engage with Phunware receive access to this easy-to-use MaaS platform to better manage experiences and mobile application
configurations. Modules that received improvements include Location-based Services, Mobile Engagement, Content Management, Analytics
and Audience Monetization, which allows brands to engage, manage and monetize their mobile audiences.
Location Based Services (LBS) enhancements included:
• Landmark Routing capabilities added the ability to designate landmarks or points of interest to be included into routing instructions for a better
user experience.
• Positioning technology was enhanced to better handle transitions when navigating outdoor-to-indoor spaces and vice versa.
• Compass/heading accuracy was improved to create a smoother user experience while navigating.
• Indoor positioning algorithm enhancements were completed to further improve upon accuracy.
• Sharing features were added for web-based and digital signage-based navigation and wayfinding including text message and email-based
sharing of directions. Users can now “take directions with them” as they interact with a kiosk or digital signage device.
• Sample Code Improvements have enabled developers to build experiences around use cases such as walk time estimation, voice prompts for
turn-by-turn directions and notifying an end user when they are off of their designated route.

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Phunware Releases New User Activity Audiences Capability to its Multiscreen-as-a-Service
Platform
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Phunware, Inc. a fully-integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides products, solutions, data and services for brands worldwide,
announced the release of new user engagement and retention features that allow brands to view real-time user activity data within its
Multiscreen-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform. Among the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) now available are the ability to automatically create
user segments, calculate approximate audience sizes and create cross-platform campaigns among users. The MaaS platform now provides access
to automatically created user segments within our Mobile Engagement (ME) module based on mobile KPI metrics to increase engagement and
retention. Marketers can select and target users with high numbers of app sessions or those with no activity within a specific time period. The
full list of new automated segmentation capabilities includes:
• Daily active users
• Monthly active users
• Users with above average session duration / screen views
• Users with below average session duration / screen views
• Retention of users that frequently return and re-engage
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Rightware introduces reference HMI platform for multi-display connected vehicles at CES
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Rightware at CES launched its new Kanzi reference HMI (Human-Machine Interface) platform, which combines the company’s suite of
automotive user experience (UX) design software into an integrated solution to help automakers and suppliers deliver the best possible user
experience in multi-display digital cockpits. Rightware’s integrated reference HMI platform is based on its industry-leading Kanzi product
family to simplify and accelerate implementation of groundbreaking user experiences in next-generation vehicles. The implementation
demonstrated at CES 2020 is built on the SA8155 3rd-Generation Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Automotive Cockpit Platform and showcases the
unique value Kanzi brings to Android Automotive. The Kanzi reference HMI packages Rightware’s user interface (UI) and connectivity
products in a complete multi-screen solution. The platform includes core elements from the Kanzi product family of software -- Kanzi UI, Kanzi
Connect, Kanzi Maps, and Kanzi Particles -- used by designers to manage the entire UX process from HMI development to integrating content
across multiple operating systems within the vehicle. The platform affords automakers and Tier 1 suppliers faster HMI development using
smaller design teams with greater creative freedom in a multi-display, connected cockpit. The Kanzi reference HMI takes this philosophy even
further, providing a robust automotive-grade platform for UX innovation, from prototype through production, in a pre-integrated package. In
addition to the Kanzi suite of software implemented with modern best practices, the reference HMI platform includes additional value with
reference applications and seamless integration into the Android™ Automotive development environment, empowering automakers to
differentiate their in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems with rich 3D graphics and shared data across all displays.

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Red Hat Creates Digital Transformation-Focused Human Resources Development Program
for Nomura Research Institute
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Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced that it created a human resources development program focused on digital
transformation for Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. As digital transformation is increasingly attracting attention, noted in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry’s 2018 report, DX Report: Overcoming of ‘2025 Digital Cliff’ Involving IT Systems and Full-fledged Development of Efforts for DX, training programs that
cultivate skills and knowledge focused on digital transformation efforts are needed. These skills can help develop associates in charge of corporate digital
transformation-related projects and raise the general level of expertise in a company. For instance, it is necessary to integrate operations across three elements -
business, development and operations - more cross-functional, flexible perspectives and thought processes are needed. Agile development methodology or DevOps,
which can help drive digital transformation, differ from conventional waterfall development methodology in which respective processes are vertically divided.
Therefore, for the development of its personnel, multiple and practical training programs based on the concept of agile were needed. NRI needed education programs
to train engineers who can respond to changing customer demands against the background of growing customer digital transformation requirements. Red Hat built a
comprehensive training program combining classroom lectures to learn basic skills and a hands-on workshop. In the first phase of DX Ground School, a five-day
course implemented in Sept. 2019, product owners and agile developers learned about a variety of topics, including continuous integration and continuous delivery
(CI/CD). CI/CD is necessary for agile development methodology and implementing DevOps, API and microservices, as well as building architecture of applications
and test strategies. DX Practice, the second phase, is a two-week course starting with a workshop on product design, in which participants develop a system of
microservice architecture with agile methodology, and experience DevOps based on Red Hat OpenShift. Through its training programs, Red Hat enables
comprehensive support for customers looking to cultivate skill sets across its workforce, as well as change the corporate culture. The training program rollout is
planned for NRI associates in charge of IT and development in the future.

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ZoomInfo Mobilizes B2B Intelligence With Launch of Two Mobile Apps
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ZoomInfo, the global leader in go-to-market (GTM) intelligence solutions, announced the launch of its new mobile presence, releasing both a free
and premium application, CommunitieZ Go and ZoomInfo Mobile, to support its community and enterprise customer base. Available on the Apple
App Store and Google Play Store, both applications support the growing demand for instant access to actionable, high-quality B2B data. Through
ZoomInfo’s free application, CommunitieZ Go, users have access to a simple search tool to easily find contact and account data on their mobile
device. The premium version, ZoomInfo Mobile, available to all users on the new ZoomInfo Powered by DiscoverOrg platform, arms enterprise
customers with advanced features and deeper B2B insights. For premium users, not only does ZoomInfo Mobile provide benefits from real-time
newsfeed alerts and intelligence that go beyond standard demographic and firmographic data points, they are also equipped to immediately initiate a
call and track the latest account activities, whether they are on-site, in the field, or on the move. Built over 20 years ago, ZoomInfo Powered by
DiscoverOrg has become the go-to-market standard for over 13,500 companies worldwide. Designed to be the single source of truth, the ZoomInfo
platform offers best-in-class technology paired with unrivaled data coverage, accuracy, and depth of contacts, companies, and opportunities essential
to empower sales, marketing and recruiting professionals to hit their numbers. Deeply embedded into business workflows and technology stacks —
including integrations with the leading CRM, Sales Engagement, Marketing Automation, and Talent Management applications — ZoomInfo is
capable of delivering more predictable, accelerated, and sustainable growth than any stand-alone solution. ZoomInfo’s investors include TA
Associates, The Carlyle Group and 22C Capital.

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Scalemp Demonstrates Best-In-Class Large-System Results
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ScaleMP™, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, announced that it has accomplished
best-ever recorded results for the SPEC CPU® 2017 benchmark for any system size of four processors and higher.
ScaleMP’s results for 32-, 24- and 16-processor systems are now holding the top three positions for best results ever. In
2019, AMD and ScaleMP announced a strategic collaboration to enable AMD server OEMs to create systems with four,
eight and up to 128 processor sockets, up to 8,192 CPUs and 256 terabytes of shared memory using ScaleMP’s vSMP
Foundation line of products. The following table summarizes the current best SPEC CPU2017 Integer Rates and SPEC
CPU2017 Floating Point Rates for every scale of server system and contrasts it with the previous best system/result for
that scale. ScaleMP solidifies the leading position of its patented vSMP Foundation technology and line of products as
the best scale-up computing architecture for compute-intensive workloads. The results, made public by the SPEC.org,
show that ScaleMP’s on-demand composed computing architecture provides best scale-up computing architecture for
compute-intensive workloads, with up to 96% better performance compared to alternative systems.

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Axios Systems Named Enterprise Service Management (ESM) Leader in The
Forrester Wave
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Axios Systems, IT Service Management and Operations Management specialist, has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise
Service Management, Q4 2019. Forrester Research’s report is a detailed and rigorous 23-criterion evaluation of the 15 most significant ESM
providers. The report by Forrester Research, a highly respected independent analyst firm, weighted key players by current offering, strategy and
market presence. Axios Systems achieved the highest possible scores in the innovation road map, deployment size and commercial/pricing model
categories. According to Forrester’s report, Axios Systems has one of the “broadest and most comprehensive IT Service Management offerings” on
the market, with “strong external supplier integration and management and increasing intelligence”. The report also reinforces the strength and depth
of the company’s core product assyst, referencing its integrated IT Business Management and IT Operations Management capabilities. Additionally,
the report recognizes assyst as “one of the highest-value solutions” out there when it comes to features-to-price. Forrester is not the only analyst to
recognize Axios Systems’ capabilities recently, with the company also being named in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management
Tools. Axios Systems are one of only two leading vendors that are certified for all 16 ITIL processes by Pink Verify. Axios Systems has worked hard
to progress its ESM capabilities in recent years, recognising its transformative potential in enterprise-class organisations. Axios Systems assyst has a
multitude of inbuilt capabilities out-of-the-box that can be simply activated using in-tool no code or traditional programming. This functionality
vastly reduces complexity, overheads and cost whilst increasing overall tool ROI; which is reflected in the Forrester report’s evaluation.
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Nintex Promapp® Wins a 2020 BIG Innovation Award
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Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, announced that Nintex Promapp®, the company's process mapping
and documentation solution, has been named a winner in the 2020 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group.
Nintex Promapp is the visual process mapping and management capability of the Nintex Process Platform. Enterprises across industries and
around the world use Nintex Promapp to map, document, and manage the processes that underpin their operations, enabling digital
transformation through process excellence. A new capability within the process mapping and management solution is Nintex Workflow
Generator, which uses natural language processing (a form of artificial intelligence) to enable users to instantly create powerful automated
workflows from documented processes. Organizations across the globe submitted their recent innovations for consideration in the BIG
Innovation Awards. Nominations were then judged by a select group of business leaders and executives who volunteer their time and
expertise to score submissions. The Business Intelligence Group was founded with the mission of recognizing true talent and superior
performance in the business world. Unlike other industry award programs, these programs are judged by business executives having
experience and knowledge. The organization's proprietary and unique scoring system selectively measures performance across multiple
business domains and then rewards those companies whose achievements stand above those of their peers.
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Flexera Software Recognized for Innovation in Enterprise IoT with 2020 IoT
Breakthrough Award
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Flexera, a demonstrated leader in software installation, open source software scanning, and software monetization, announced that it has
been selected as the winner of the “IoT Enablement Company of the Year for the Enterprise Market” award in the 4th annual IoT
Breakthrough Awards program from IoT Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies,
technologies, and products in the global Internet-of-Things (IoT) market. The Flexera IoT Monetization platform brings together the data
and processes needed to implement new software and data-driven IoT business models. Flexera enables recurring revenue streams from
digital solutions and provides valuable usage insight. Intelligent Device and Enterprise IoT companies using Flexera’s Monetization
platform can be flexible and agile as they manage applications, devices, features, and updates electronically, always delivering new value to
their customers. Flexera’s Monetization Platform manages more than 10 million users, tens of millions of entitlements, and 100+ million
software and device updates per year and is a recognized market leader in the space. The mission of the IoT Breakthrough Awards program
is to recognize the innovators, leaders, and visionaries from around the globe in a range of IoT categories, including Industrial and
Enterprise IoT, Smart City technology, Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, and many more. This year’s program
attracted more than 3,700 nominations from companies all over the world.
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Pega Ranked a Category Leader in KYC Solutions by Chartis Research for Third
Consecutive Year
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Pegasystems Inc., the software company empowering digital transformation at the world’s leading enterprises, announced that leading risk
technology analyst firm Chartis Research has named Pega as a category leader for its Know Your Customer (KYC) offering in its latest
report, Financial Crime Risk Management Systems: Know Your Customer, for the third year in a row. The world’s largest financial
institutions rely on Pega KYC™ and Pega CLM™ to streamline compliance and onboarding processes, helping automate customer
journeys and reduce the costs of addressing KYC requirements. Pega is the only vendor that provides globally scalable CLM and KYC
applications with inherent digital process automation, an automated KYC rules engine, advanced case management, AI, robotics, and zero
code configuration for accelerated customization and implementation. These industry-leading applications help ensure compliance and
onboarding for quicker time to revenue, while improving customer satisfaction and providing a common global customer experience. Pega
has embedded deep industry KYC and customer due diligence (CDD) regulatory expertise and onboarding best practices into these
applications, which include a regulatory rules engine that is continuously kept up to date with the latest changes to AML, FATCA, CRS,
MiFID II, Dodd-Frank, EMIR and other related regulations. Pega has been used to support onboarding and KYC solutions for over a decade
at more than 40 of the world’s leading banks, including the largest corporate and financial institutions.
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PrinterLogic Awarded Common Criteria Certification For Its Enterprise Print
Management Software
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PrinterLogic, the world leader in Serverless Printing Infrastructure (SPI), announced it has received its Common Criteria Certificate for
validation of compliance with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 for its PrinterLogic Web Stack solution. Common
Criteria certification is awarded to vendors that correctly implement the standards and security controls set by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST). Part of those security controls is strict adherence to the FIPS 140-2 standard, which defines encryption
requirements for protecting sensitive U.S. government data. The validation process was performed by Leidos Common Criteria Testing
Laboratory, an independent testing organization widely recognized by government evaluators. To achieve certification, Leidos subjected the
software’s cryptographic modules to functional and algorithmic testing. PrinterLogic is the first print management software company to
meet these requirements as validated by a NIST-accredited laboratory, and is now included on the National Information Assurance
Partnership’s (NIAP) approved products list, used by technology buyers in 31 countries. Over 40 federal entities use PrinterLogic to
eliminate print servers and centrally manage direct IP printing. In 2019, PrinterLogic announced support for serverless CAC/PIV
secure-release printing, which lets any network printer use multi-factor authentication to ensure print jobs are delivered to the right person.
The FIPS validation, in combination with PrinterLogic’s inherently secure direct IP printing platform, makes it a trusted solution for other
data-sensitive sectors as well, including healthcare and financial services.
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Loblaw and Rightpoint Recognized by Nielsen Norman Group For Creating One
of World's 10 Best Intranets for 2020
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The Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) announced that Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada’s leading food and pharmacy retailer, was
selected for inclusion on its annual list of the world’s 10 best intranets for 2020. Loblaw engaged Rightpoint to help the company create
a digital workplace that delivers impactful customer experiences by effectively supporting back-end processes. The redesign of
Loblaw’s intranet was an imperative in order to transform the company culture and build a sense of community among all colleagues,
regardless of location or role. It also expanded the intranet’s overall reach beyond existing users to include more than 140,000 frontline
colleagues. flip, Loblaw’s intranet, was chosen for inclusion on this list because of its creative and personalized interface, responsive
web design and mobile integration abilities. flip was built on a Microsoft platform leveraging Azure and Microsoft 365 and is highly
personalized depending on an individual’s specific needs and position within the company, serving the most important and relevant
content and tools based on each user’s division and role. It was also rolled out in French and English to support Loblaw’s diverse
employee base and it creates a positive customer experience by supporting Loblaw's backend processes. flip offers a multitude of
features, including a personalized toolbar so employees can easily access the most relevant tools for them, a Yammer feed to cultivate
relationships between co-workers and an overall personalized design to support each employee in their role.
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Red Hat Accelerates Cloud-Native Development with Unified Hybrid Cloud Storage
for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
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Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift
Container Storage 4 to deliver an integrated, multicloud experience to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform users. The announcement
builds on more than three years of rapid adoption by customers worldwide looking for a consistent storage experience for a wide
variety of data-centric applications across the open hybrid cloud. Enhanced with Multi-Cloud Object Gateway from Red Hat’s 2018
acquisition of NooBaa, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 offers greater abstraction and flexibility so customers have the freedom
to choose data services across multiple public clouds, while still operating from a unified Kubernetes-based control plane for
applications and storage. In addition to helping customers avoid public cloud lock-in, this enables developers to keep their data close to
applications through improved accessibility, delivering a more efficient developer experience. With a consistent Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3) interface, enterprises now have built-in object storage and scalability needed to support portability for
data-intensive applications across the hybrid cloud on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, previously unavailable through any
container storage vendor in the OpenShift OperatorHub. This release enables a first-class developer experience across footprints where
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is available. For developers building cloud-native applications or lifting and shifting legacy
applications, Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4 helps accelerate application development workflows through:
• Optimization with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, enabling developers to dynamically provision their own storage from
within the platform without requiring storage expertise.
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Square 9 Recognized as 2020 Pick Recipient in the Document Imaging Software Category
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Square 9 Softworks® has been awarded Buyers Laboratory (BLI) Pick and Outstanding Achievement award in 2020 for Outstanding
Document Management Solution. Buyers Laboratory, the world’s leading independent evaluator of document imaging software,
hardware, and services has recognized GlobalSearch 5.0 as one of the most impressive solutions evaluated during the previous
12-month test cycle. BLI accredits Square 9’s GlobalSearch 5.0 for a completely re-engineered document viewer where users spend
most of their time as well as a new Task Panel that improves efficiency and ease of use. Additionally, BLI also recognizes Business
Essentials for GlobalSearch 5.0, a set of pre-built applications for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Contract Management, and
Human Resources that makes getting started with an ECM system much faster and simpler. Keypoint Intelligence is a one-stop shop for
the digital imaging industry. With our unparalleled tools and unmatched depth of knowledge, we cut through the noise of data to offer
clients the unbiased insights and responsive tools they need in those mission-critical moments that define their products and empower
their sales. For over 50 years, Buyers Lab has been the global document imaging industry’s resource for unbiased and reliable
information, test data, and competitive selling tools. What started out as a consumer-based publication about office equipment has
become an all-encompassing industry resource. Buyers Lab evolves in tandem with the ever-changing landscape of document imaging
solutions, constantly updating our methods, expanding our offerings, and tracking cuttingedge developments.
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TrackVia Named One of Best Places to Work in 2020
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TrackVia, the most trusted low-code app-building solution for business and IT professionals, announced it was included on Built In Colorado’s
list of Best Places to Work in 2020. Companies are selected based on data submitted by companies and their employees. A pioneer of low-code
technology, TrackVia offers an app-building platform that allows nonprogrammers and IT professionals to rapidly create their own web and
mobile apps to streamline critical business and operational workflows that require close coordination and data tracking. Common use cases
include managing field services and projects, streamlining production and quality control, and tracking and reporting for regulatory compliance.
TrackVia offers the most-trusted app building platform for anyone looking for a better way to work. TrackVia gives both nonprogrammers and
IT-experts the ability to create and connect apps to track, manage, and automate processes in days, not weeks. People from AT&T, The North
Face®, and GE Healthcare made lasting and substantial improvements to their business using TrackVia’s bullet-proof cloud-based technology
— and they love getting the industry’s best customer experience every step of the way. Working in tech is a way of life. Built In helps people
live it with purpose. Across the most vibrant tech hubs in the US, Built In helps tech professionals stay on top of tech news and trends, expand
their networks and carve out futures at companies they believe in. Built In attracts a niche audience of 1 million tech professionals every month
and, in 2019, the company hit a milestone, serving 1,100 companies annually. Built In recently launched BuiltIn.com, a national hub for tech
trend coverage and resources to help professionals grow in their careers.
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Tricentis Achieves a Landmark Year, Exceeds $100 Million in Annual Recurring
Revenue
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Tricentis, the leader in continuous testing for DevOps, announced that it has joined a rarefied list of private companies –
those that have exceeded $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) – marking a major milestone in the
company’s hyper-growth. In 2019, Tricentis grew ARR by over 65% and added more than 200 customers to its Global
2000 customer base, which now exceeds 1,600 companies. Tricentis was also named a Leader in the Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Software Test Automation for the fifth consecutive year, was listed for the second time on the Deloitte’s
Technology Fast 500™ list of the fastest-growing private and public companies in North America, and surpassed
100,000 certified users in 2019. Tricentis’ chief executive officer Sandeep Johri credits these achievements to Tricentis’
proven track record helping Global 2000 enterprises break through DevOps and digital transformation barriers in
increasingly complex IT environments. The average organization uses more than 900 applications today, and a single
workflow might touch dozens of these applications via microservices and APIs. While this level of connectivity can
significantly improve a user’s experience or an employee’s productivity, it also introduces significant complexity into
the testing process, which can compromise both quality and speed of delivery without the right automation approach.
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ManageEngine Debuts Support for Oracle Autonomous Database at Oracle
OpenWorld Middle East 2020
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ManageEngine, the IT management division of Zoho Corporation, announced that Applications Manager, its server, cloud, and application
performance monitoring solution, now supports Oracle Autonomous Database. This move enables enterprise IT operations teams and cloud
database administrators (DBAs) to gain visibility into the health and performance of every Oracle Autonomous Database instance in their
fleet. Extensive support for both online transaction processing and data warehousing configurations help ensure optimal performance and
enable DBAs to focus on business-critical tasks. ManageEngine will be demonstrating its Oracle Autonomous Database monitoring
capabilities at Oracle OpenWorld 2020, taking place on January 14-15, 2020, at the Dubai World Trade Centre, UAE. Product experts from
the company will be at the ManageEngine booth in Zone 3 to meet and interact with existing and potential customers and share their global
experiences and expertise with them. Oracle Autonomous Database has gained notable traction since its arrival last year, owing to its agility
and support for even the most demanding applications. End users can leverage self-driving, self-repairing, and self-securing capabilities of
Oracle Autonomous Database to reduce dependency on manual intervention, strengthen data security, and drive scalability. Oracle
Autonomous Database automates several administration tasks, however it is vital to keep track of its performance, as issues related to
application or external components that make up the application ecosystem can still impact application response times and availability for
end users.
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ManageEngine Debuts Support for Oracle Autonomous Database at Oracle
OpenWorld Middle East 2020
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ManageEngine, the IT management division of Zoho Corporation, announced that Applications Manager, its server, cloud, and
application performance monitoring solution, now supports Oracle Autonomous Database. This move enables enterprise IT operations
teams and cloud database administrators (DBAs) to gain visibility into the health and performance of every Oracle Autonomous
Database instance in their fleet. Extensive support for both online transaction processing and data warehousing configurations help
ensure optimal performance and enable DBAs to focus on business-critical tasks. ManageEngine will be demonstrating its Oracle
Autonomous Database monitoring capabilities at Oracle OpenWorld 2020, taking place on January 14-15, 2020, at the Dubai World
Trade Centre, UAE. Product experts from the company will be at the ManageEngine booth in Zone 3 to meet and interact with existing
and potential customers and share their global experiences and expertise with them. Oracle Autonomous Database has gained notable
traction since its arrival last year, owing to its agility and support for even the most demanding applications. End users can leverage
self-driving, self-repairing, and self-securing capabilities of Oracle Autonomous Database to reduce dependency on manual
intervention, strengthen data security, and drive scalability. Oracle Autonomous Database automates several administration tasks,
however it is vital to keep track of its performance, as issues related to application or external components that make up the application
ecosystem can still impact application response times and availability for end users.
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Farmers & Merchants Bank Selects Newgen to Transform its Online Account
Opening Process
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Newgen Software Inc., a global provider of low code automation platform managing content, processes, and communication, announced
that Farmers & Merchants Bank (F&M) has chosen its online account opening application for end-to-end automation of their personal and
business customer on-boarding processes. Using Newgen’s application, the bank aims to streamline every step of its customer acquisition
process, from omni-channel initiation to the actual opening of the account. Built on a low code automation platform, the application helps
the bank minimize data entry and increase cross/up-sell opportunities for a smooth and delightful customer journey. Founded in Long Beach
in 1907 by C.J. Walker, Farmers & Merchants Bank provides white-glove service to clients at 25 branches across Orange County, Long
Beach, the South Bay and Santa Barbara, as well as through robust Online and Mobile Banking platforms. The Bank offers commercial and
small business banking, business loan programs, home loans, and consumer retail banking products, including checking, savings and youth
accounts. Farmers & Merchants Bank is a California state-chartered bank with deposits insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (Member FDIC) and an Equal Housing Lender. Newgen Software is a global provider in banking process automation with
more than 200+ banks and financial services institutions as its clients. Newgen’s banking process management framework automates
critical business processes for banking institutions across commercial lending, consumer lending, customer on-boarding, online account
opening, trade finance, digital and mobile customer experience strategy. Newgen offers flexible on premise and cloud-based solutions to its
banking customers.
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Bixby Research and Analytics Turns to Rightpoint’s Technology Capabilities to Develop the
First Comprehensive Platform Dedicated to the Private Debt Market
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Bixby Research and Analytics, a financial technology company that is modernizing information flow, announced that it has
launched the first comprehensive web platform dedicated to the private debt market – and selected Rightpoint, a Genpact
company (NYSE: G) and the digital consultancy with technology at its core, for its experience design and development
capabilities. The platform connects asset managers and hedge funds to real-time market moving news and financial
information for companies in the private debt market. Over the last several decades, the asset management industry has seen
unprecedented advances in technology; however, when you step back and look at where this advancement is taking place,
it’s been almost solely confined to the public market. Over the same time, private market information flow has remained
antiquated with virtually no resources available to investment professionals. Bixby Research and Analytics turned to
Rightpoint in 2019 for its best-in-class technology and experience-led approach to bring the concept to life. Bixby’s web
portal went live in late 2019 providing asset managers and hedge funds with real-time news, financial data and detailed
portfolio information that is specifically tailored to each client’s needs. With the private debt market being one of the fastest
growing, and most underserved segments in the asset management world, Bixby Research and Analytics is uniquely
positioned to become an industry leader in the fintech market.
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Rightware’s Kanzi UI software selected by Karma Automotive for Revero GT HMI design
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Bixby Research and Analytics, a financial technology company that is modernizing information flow, announced that it has launched the first comprehensive web platform dedicated to the
private debt market – and selected Rightpoint, a Genpact company (NYSE: G) and the digital consultancy with technology at its core, for its experience design and development
capabilities. The platform connects asset managers and hedge Rightware at CES announced its Kanzi user interface software was selected by Karma Automotive, the Southern
California-based high-tech mobility incubator and creator of luxury electric vehicles, to design the HMI (Human-Machine Interface) platform for its 2020 Revero GT and 2020 Revero GTS
luxury electric vehicles. This is the second time Karma has awarded its HMI business to Rightware, a Finnish company that provides tools and services for development of advanced digital
user interfaces. Karma Automotive first used the Kanzi software in 2015 to design the HMI for the original Karma Revero, revealed in 2016. The Kanzi software family is used by designers
to manage the entire automotive user experience (UX) process from HMI development to integrating content across multiple screens within the vehicle. The platform affords automakers
and Tier 1 suppliers faster HMI development using smaller design teams with greater creative freedom in developing multi-display, connected cockpits. Rightware’s Kanzi UI empowers
designers globally by accelerating HMI development for more than 50 global automotive brands, enabling designers to implement their creative visions without coding while engineers
deliver application logic and integrate data sources into the UI framework. Karma’s North American retail partners are delivering the Revero GT to retail customers and will start delivering
a performance-version of that car, the Revero GTS, during the first quarter of 2020.to real-time market moving news and financial information for companies in the private debt market.
Over the last several decades, the asset management industry has seen unprecedented advances in technology; however, when you step back and look at where this advancement is taking
place, it’s been almost solely confined to the public market. Over the same time, private market information flow has remained antiquated with virtually no resources available to investment
professionals. Bixby Research and Analytics turned to Rightpoint in 2019 for its best-in-class technology and experience-led approach to bring the concept to life. Bixby’s web portal went
live in late 2019 providing asset managers and hedge funds with real-time news, financial data and detailed portfolio information that is specifically tailored to each client’s needs. With the
private debt market being one of the fastest growing, and most underserved segments in the asset management world, Bixby Research and Analytics is uniquely positioned to become an
industry leader in the fintech market.
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Appian Announces Partnership with Celonis
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Appian announced a technology partnership and integration initiatives with Celonis, the market leader in AI-enhanced Process Mining
and Process Excellence software, to unite Appian’s low-code automation platform with the powerful process mining technology of the
Celonis Intelligent Business Cloud (IBC). The partnership will accelerate digital business process transformation and continuous
process improvement for joint customers. The Appian Platform is a Leader in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code
Application Platforms (LCAP) and in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Intelligent Business Process Management Suites (iBPMS).
The combination of development speed and powerful process management means Appian makes it up to 20 times faster to create and
change high-impact business applications. Appian also makes it easy to build artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation
(RPA) into any application. Celonis delivers significant business value by enabling companies to discover inefficiencies across a range
of operational functions, act to improve businesses processes in real time and continually monitor them to ensure optimal performance.
The initial integration between the two companies enables Celonis IBC users to seamlessly connect to Appian for process mining
across the Appian environment. Appian provides a low-code automation platform that accelerates the creation of high-impact business
applications. Many of the world’s largest organizations use Appian applications to improve customer experience, achieve operational
excellence, and simplify global risk management and compliance.
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Technical Partnership Connects IBM Cloud Pak for Automation with Blue
Prism’s Digital Workforce
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Blue Prism a global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), announces an expanded technical partnership with IBM. The collaboration
integrates three core capabilities of IBM Cloud Pak for Automation, which includes Workflow, Capture and Decisions, with Blue Prism’s Digital
Workforce. These API connectors, available on Blue Prism’s Digital Exchange, give organizations access to both Blue Prism RPA and an array of
interactions with IBM Cloud Pak for Automation capabilities – including business automation workflow (BPM and ACM), business decision
automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning and intelligent document processing – in a single solution to address the problem of
interoperability between disparate technologies. Specific IBM Cloud Pak for Automation capabilities include:
• Operational Decision Manager – a comprehensive decision automation solution to model, manage and automate rules-based business decisions
• Business Automation Workflow – a business process and case management solution to design, management and orchestrate end-to-end workflows
• Business Automation Content Analyzer – an AI-powered data capture service to extract and organize data from unstructured content, requiring
minimal document training.
Blue Prism has delivered several global RPA solutions for more than 4 years and with these new integrations, customers can leverage this prebuilt
interaction to accelerate automation projects. Organizations face four basic options when they want to automate: 1) creating a solution from scratch;
2) buying a collection of applications; 3) buying packaged applications; and 4) adopting an automation platform. These pre-built interaction
connectors connect Blue Prism with IBM Cloud Pak for Automation capabilities to give companies more choices and options for the approach that
makes the most sense for their business – regardless of cloud preference.
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Nexis® Solutions and Blue Prism Team-Up to Help Clients Mitigate Third-Party
Risk and Automate the Entity Due Diligence Process
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The need for organizations to mitigate an evolving array of third-party reputational, regulatory, financial and strategic business risks, has driven an innovative
partnership between Blue Prism and Nexis® Solutions. The partnership will see Blue Prism’s connected-RPA platformintegrated with Nexis Diligence™, in
order to help organizations, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their entity due diligence process with intelligent automation capabilities. Working
together, Blue Prism RPA and Nexis Diligence™ accelerate screening, due diligence analysis and reporting. The digital workforce searches global data sets
retrieves results and compiles reports from Nexis Diligence into customized formats, all the while working seamlessly alongside business stakeholders and
decision makers. The ability to streamline due diligence research on customers, vendors and other third parties helps improve the overall regulatory compliance
of any organization. Blue Prism RPA and Nexis Diligence together helps mitigate business risks, enhance operational efﬁciencies while supporting an
organization’s strategic priorities. Nexis Diligence is a cloud-based solution that helps uncover potential risk exposure from customers, vendors and other third
parties by bringing together the key data in one place—for performing comprehensive, third-party due diligence checks. The search and viewing results can be
exported to create customized reports that maintain audit trails of all due diligence investigations. This integration between Nexis Diligence and Blue Prism will
also be made available shortly to customers as a "Knowledge & Insight" skill on Blue Prism’s Digital Exchange (DX), an intelligent automation “app store” and
online community. Together, Nexis Diligence and Blue Prism RPA can help businesses achieve the following enterprise benefits:
• Increased efficiency: Reduce time-consuming, labor intensive, manual data gathering for up to 98 percent time savings; improve accuracy, and eliminate
delays, enabling due diligence teams to focus on higher value tasks such as risk assessment review and escalation.
• A user-friendly and uncomplicated workflow: Easy, drag and drop interface enables uncomplicated configuration of due diligence process steps for both Nexis
Diligence and associated workflow stages (e.g. input names to search, notify analyst when report ready for review, etc.)
• Versatility: Applicable to both day-to-day ongoing processes and urgent ad hoc tasks such as time sensitive due diligence remediation/refresh.
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Compuware Announces CloudBees Partnership and New Topaz Version, Enabling Large Enterprises to
Leverage Their Mission-critical Mainframe Systems
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Compuware Corporation, the leading provider of software for mainframe DevOps, announced a CloudBees Technical Alliance Partner Program (TAPP) Premier Partnership
and new advancements to Topaz that together enable organizations to quickly achieve low-risk, low-cost mainframe modernization by fully leveraging their existing
mainframe resources. Business demand for faster innovation is driving organizations to increase deployment frequency by an average of 41% for new mainframe features
and an average of 38% for new features to non-mainframe applications according to a recent study commissioned by Compuware and conducted by Vanson Bourne. The new
CloudBees partnership and Topaz advancements enable enterprises to meet this business imperative by increasing software delivery velocity—without compromising quality
and efficiency. The CloudBees TAPP provides a formal, unified program for independent software vendors (ISVs) to align their offerings with the global Jenkins community.
Participation in the TAPP enables a tighter connection between Compuware and CloudBees so customers’ core mainframe systems can be more easily integrated into a
cross-platform DevOps toolchain. Compuware was invited to participate as a premier member because of the existing product integrations between Compuware ISPW, Topaz
and Xpediter, and CloudBees Core, an end-to-end continuous delivery platform, and CloudBees Flow, an adaptive release orchestration platform. The integrations and
plugins enable development teams to perform the following tasks within a DevOps pipeline:
• Create, promote and deploy mainframe software releases
• Coordinate mainframe software releases with releases on other platforms
• Automate unit and functional tests
• Perform code coverage analysis
• Submit jobs on the mainframe
• Retrieve mainframe source code for static analysis tools
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Dynatrace teams with Google and Microsoft on OpenTelemetry to shape the future of open
standards-based observability
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Software intelligence company, Dynatrace announced it is collaborating with Google and Microsoft on the OpenTelemetry project to shape the future
of open standards-based observability. To further advance the industry and extend the reach of its Software Intelligence Platform, Dynatrace is
contributing transaction tracing knowhow and manpower to the project. OpenTelemetry is focused on providing standardized transaction-level
observability through the generation, collection, and description of telemetry data for distributed cloud-native systems. As OpenTelemetry becomes
more widely adopted, it will serve as an additional data source that further extends the breadth of cloud observability, including expanding the broad
reach of what the Dynatrace® Software Intelligence Platform already automatically collects and ingests into Davis™, its explainable AI engine.
Dynatrace is working with Microsoft, Google and others as a core contributor to OpenTelemetry, providing its technical knowhow, manpower, and
code to equip the project with enterprise-grade capabilities, including:
• Higher-level instrumentation APIs: offering higher-fidelity tracing code to enable developers to quickly and easily build observability into their
cloud-native applications and reduce the monitoring blind-spots as new methodologies and programming languages emerge.
• Integration of universal Trace Context: supporting the availability of transactional context across hybrid multi-clouds, ensuring organizations can
more easily maintain end-to-end observability across their cloud-native ecosystems.
• Runtime management: helping organizations ensure the resources needed to gain observability into the individual components and software libraries
underpinning their cloud-native applications are dynamically available.
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Opendatasoft Joins the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program
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Opendatasoft, a leading solution helping private companies and governments share and reuse data, joins the
Qualcomm® Smart Cities Accelerator Program from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Opendatasoft joins an elite group
of innovators to accelerate the global transformation of smart urban infrastructure, mobility and public utilities
through secure wireless connectivity and IoT technologies. According to McKinsey report, the smart city industry is
projected to be a $400 billion market by 2020, with 600 cities around the globe expected to generate 60% of the
world's GDP by 2025. As part of its collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Opendatasoft will further the
advancement of smart cities. At Opendatasoft, we help you make your data bright! Opendatasoft is the leading
solution helping private companies and governments share and reuse data. With the Opendatasoft platform,
organizing, sharing, and visualizing all types of data has never been easier. Opendatasoft empowers professionals to
innovate and contribute to their organization’s growth. Founded in 2011, Opendatasoft is trusted by over 250 clients
across the world, in Europe, North America, Australia, and the Middle East.
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Progress Launches Expansive Partner Program to Support Business Growth Through a
Multi-Tier Engagement Strategy
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Progress, the leading provider of application development and digital experience technologies, announced the launch of Progress®
Accelerate℠, the global partner program providing partners with the tools necessary to accelerate growth and customer success. This
new program enables partners to expand their offerings through Progress-provided resources, while offering customers their choice of
partner engagement opportunities. The Progress Accelerate partner program simplifies the partnering experience providing all partners
with:
• Incentive Programs – attractive margins and discounts, access to NFR licenses, rebates and referral incentives
• Training and Enablement – persona-based online marketing, sales, pre-sales and technical training programs, technical and sales
certifications as well as sales and marketing toolkits
• Account Managed Resources – dedicated account manager, technical and pre-sales support, partner marketing, joint business and
marketing planning and a dedicated customer success manager
• Marketing Resources – presence on Progress.com; partner portal access to sales tools, trainings and co-branded collateral; marketing
lead distribution; co-branded event and partner conference support; MVP and awards programs; customer reference and storytelling
support
In addition, Progress provides a dedicated global partner operations team available to ensure all technical, sales and business-related
questions and needs are addressed quickly and efficiently.
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Rightware welcomes Bittium to the Kanzi Partner Program and showcases OEM application
management and secure solutions on Android™ Automotive platform
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Bittium joins Rightware’s Kanzi Partner Program and demonstrates together with Rightware the integration of Bittium SafeMove®
application management solution and cloud service with Rightware’s Kanzi reference HMI platform at CES 2020 in Las Vegas. The demo
will feature Android™ Automotive on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Platform and showcase increased security and data privacy in an
automotive platform enabling faster development by smaller teams with greater creative freedom. Bittium is the first partner to build on the
newly announced reference platform by Rightware. The new robust, multi-display solution integrates the broader family of Kanzi UI design
and development tools. The use cases demonstrated by Bittium include OEM application management, allowing the automaker control of
the visual brand identity as well as the ability to sell post-purchase feature upgrades; fleet management for vehicle monitoring and control;
and enhanced data privacy. Bittium’s demonstration consists of Bittium Tough Mobile 2 devices running Android Automotive OS based on
the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Platform, designed and manufactured in-house. These devices run the instrument cluster and infotainment
system applications built with Kanzi UI with rich 3D graphics and share data with each other using Kanzi Connect. Bittium provides high
quality solutions and services for automotive industry suppliers whose goal is to create reliable, intelligent and easy-to-use in-vehicle
systems to make the driver’s driving experience as comfortable and safe as possible. Due to comprehensive Linux and Android know-how,
Bittium focuses mainly on connected car, vehicle and its feature control, digital cockpit, advanced driver-assistance systems and
autonomous driving.
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Sparx Systems Joins UN-GGIM Private Sector Network
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Sparx Systems has been accepted as a member of the UN-GGIM Private Sector Network (PSN) and will collaborate with the Land Administration and
Management (LAM) Working Group. The PSN facilitates collaboration between participants to develop, build and extend the world's capacity to benefit
from geospatial information, enabling countries to build capacity in geospatial information, technologies and services. Established on 25th of September
2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. The 17 goals and 169 targets of the Agenda will
stimulate action over the next fifteen years, in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet. Sparx Systems is a global software company
specializing in high performance, visual modeling platforms for planning, designing and constructing software-intensive systems. Sparx Systems' flagship
modeling platform, Enterprise Architect, provides robust support for team-wide collaboration, and can scale up from single-user deployment to teams with
hundreds of local and remote collaborators. With more than 850,000+ effective users globally and 80% of Fortune 100 firms owning licenses, Enterprise
Architect is an essential platform for the most complex of projects. Sparx Systems is a global software company specializing in high performance, visual
modeling platforms for planning, designing and constructing software-intensive systems. Sparx platforms are used by systems designers, corporate
planners, business analysts, enterprise architects, standards developers and software engineers. Sparx modeling software is widely used in finance, defense,
government, aerospace, automotive engineering, geospatial, entertainment, health, smart grid, aviation, retail and telecommunications. Sparx Systems'
flagship modeling platform, Enterprise Architect, provides robust support for teamwide collaboration, and can scale up from single-user deployment to
teams with hundreds of local and remote collaborators. With more than 740,000+ effective users globally and 80% of Fortune 100 firms owning licenses,
Enterprise Architect is an essential platform for the most complex of projects.
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The Qt Company Deepens Strategic Partnership with LG Electronics
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The Qt Company signed an agreement with LG Electronics (LG) to enter a strategic partnership. This agreement entails collaboration in
developing technological and business opportunities in the embedded space, including areas like automotive, robotics, smart homes, and more.
The strategic partnership between LG Electronics and The Qt Company represents a joint effort to introduce webOS to more customers and
bring it to more devices. Through the partnership, The Qt Company will perform continuous integration (CI), which guarantees that webOS will
always be compatible with the latest Qt versions. At the core of the collaboration between LG Electronics and The Qt Company lies webOS. LG
Electronics developed webOS using The Qt Company's development platform, Qt, to create the definitive operating system (OS) for smart
devices. LG intends to make webOS a common platform for multiple different devices and services not only for LG itself but also for other
OEMs and developers all over the world. Through this partnership, Qt users gain access to webOS’ mature middleware stack for USB, WIFI,
Bluetooth, multimedia, software over-the-air updates, and more. webOS also comes with hundreds of content services best known from LG
Smart TVs, which lets companies create more immersive, connected experiences. This provides numerous opportunities in the automotive
industry, and in other products where data ownership is essential. Since webOS uses the same programming languages as Qt (i.e., QML,
HTML5, and C++), developers can also more easily adopt webOS and reduce time to market.
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TestProject and Sauce Labs Team Up to Deliver Codeless Test Automation Experience
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TestProject, the first free cloud test automation platform, announced a new collaboration with Sauce Labs to deliver a complete, end-to-end
automated testing experience spanning test creation, execution, and analysis. Leveraging codeless test creation from TestProject in concert with
continuous test execution from Sauce Labs, organizations can seamlessly create, store, execute, and analyze automated tests across a wide range
of browsers, operating systems, and devices, all from a single cloud-based interface. TestProject was one of the first products added to the free
Tricentis Community Platform, which was recently extended with Tricentis’ acquisition of SpecFlow. This cutting-edge solution accelerates
open source, codeless test creation on the operating systems that matter most to developers, including Linux, Mac, and Windows. TestProject
enables testers and QA professionals with little or no coding experience to create robust test suites in a simple, easy-to-use web interface.
TestProject users can then execute those tests on the Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud, which spans thousands of browser/OS, mobile
emulator, simulator and real device combinations, and leverage test analytics to better visualize test results, identify flaky tests, and improve test
efficiency. With more than 700 enterprise customers and nearly 3 million tests run each day across its continuous testing cloud platform, Sauce
Labs ensures the world’s leading apps and websites work flawlessly on every browser, OS and device. Like TestProject, Sauce Labs supports
Selenium, Appium and other leading open source frameworks, making it easy for joint customers to create and execute tests in the scripting
language of their choosing.
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Newgen Software extends support to 800 children through remedial education programme
in Nandabakkam Higher Secondary School, Sriprembadhur, Chennai
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Newgen Software Technologies Limited, a global provider of low code automation platform managing content, processes, and
communication and Kinship for Humanitarian Social and Holistic Intervention in India (KHUSHII) joined hands in November 2019 to
provide holistic development to 800 students studying in Govt. Higher Secondary School, Nandambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This
collaboration will help in empowering the children from poor and marginalized communities with quality education, leading to
improved quality of life. On December 2019, a stakeholder workshop was organized in the school to discuss the objective and vision of
the programme. Stakeholders from school (Headmaster & teachers), representatives from Newgen and the partner NGO participated in
the workshop. Moving forward, these stakeholders will play a very crucial role in executing the programme and capturing the impact.
Under the programme, teachers in Spoken English, English language and Social Science will be provided to the school as resources
which will strengthen the basics of the students. Counselling support by providing a certified counsellor, extracurricular activities and
events will be organized. Additionally, channelization of resources to train teachers and monthly maintenance of sanitation facilities
will be undertaken to improve the learning experience for children. Thus partnership will address the challenges of low Pupil-Teacher
Ratio, low learning levels and drop-out in the intervention school.
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Merck and CSIR-IMTECH Open High-tech Skill Development Center
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Merck, a leading science and technology company, announced the opening of new, non-profit center where Indian students and researchers can learn
the latest genome-editing and single-molecule biomolecule biomarker detection technologies from Merck experts. The center was developed by
Merck in collaboration with CSIR-IMTECH, an institute of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, under the aegis of Ministry of Science
and Technology. It focuses on research, development and training in new drug discovery, affordable healthcare, fast and accurate diagnostics as well
as agriculture biotechnology. Located in Chandigarh, the center augments the Indian government’s initiative for life science skill building in the
country. CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTech) was established in 1984. the Institute of Microbial Technology is one among the chain of
37 national laboratories, 6 units and 39 outreach centres of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research). The Institute provides laboratories which
are functionally modular and offers large, air-conditioned, clean research areas to all the scientists. The Institute's primary asset is a team of more than
55 highly motivated scientists, with a majority of them having several years of training experience in world renowned laboratories. Supported by
more than 300 well trained technical staff and graduate students, these scientists have built strong peer credibility both in basic and
application-oriented broad thematic areas of Molecular biology and microbial genetics, Cell biology and immunology, Protein science and
engineering, and Fermentation technology and applied microbiology. These overarching focus areas required enabling research facilities, structures
and practices which IMTech has created over the years, recognized nationally to be the best, and globally at par with the best.
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Red Hat Creates Digital Transformation-Focused Human Resources Development
Program for Nomura Research Institute
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Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced that it created a human resources development program focused on digital
transformation for Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. As digital transformation is increasingly attracting attention, noted in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry’s 2018 report, DX Report: Overcoming of ‘2025 Digital Cliff’ Involving IT Systems and Full-fledged Development of Efforts for DX, training programs that
cultivate skills and knowledge focused on digital transformation efforts are needed. These skills can help develop associates in charge of corporate digital
transformation-related projects and raise the general level of expertise in a company. For instance, it is necessary to integrate operations across three elements -
business, development and operations - more cross-functional, flexible perspectives and thought processes are needed. Agile development methodology or DevOps,
which can help drive digital transformation, differ from conventional waterfall development methodology in which respective processes are vertically divided.
Therefore, for the development of its personnel, multiple and practical training programs based on the concept of agile were needed. NRI needed education programs
to train engineers who can respond to changing customer demands against the background of growing customer digital transformation requirements. Red Hat built a
comprehensive training program combining classroom lectures to learn basic skills and a hands-on workshop. In the first phase of DX Ground School, a five-day
course implemented in Sept. 2019, product owners and agile developers learned about a variety of topics, including continuous integration and continuous delivery
(CI/CD). CI/CD is necessary for agile development methodology and implementing DevOps, API and microservices, as well as building architecture of applications
and test strategies. DX Practice, the second phase, is a two-week course starting with a workshop on product design, in which participants develop a system of
microservice architecture with agile methodology, and experience DevOps based on Red Hat OpenShift. Through its training programs, Red Hat enables
comprehensive support for customers looking to cultivate skill sets across its workforce, as well as change the corporate culture. The training program rollout is
planned for NRI associates in charge of IT and development in the future.
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Upcoming Events - Agile & AI Operations
DevRelCon Tokyo 2020
DevRelCon Tokyo 2020 is back! Last year in 2019, over
150 people from around the world participated at
DevRelCon Tokyo 2019, but we will expand its scale even
further. Here is a summary of some new endeavors at
DevRelCon Tokyo 2020 this time around.
Hosted By : MOONGIFT
Tokyo, Japan
28-29 Feb, 2020
https://tokyo-2020.devrel.net/
CIOSynergy Toronto
Blueprint is excited to sponsor CIOSynergy, a premier IT event that brings leading CIOs and
IT strategists from the biggest brands and largest enterprises under one roof for one day of
riveting keynotes, revealing panels, engaging roundtables and unparalleled networking
opportunities. With the opportunity for enterprise IT leaders to discuss, debate and challenge
the direction of technology, this invitation-only event promises to be a day full of collabora-
tion and engagement. Blueprint’s CTO, Tony Higgins, will be leading two roundtable
discussions at the event on “How to focus IT on delivering Business Value” and “What is
stopping agile from scaling in the enterprise?". To join the conversation, visit the event’s
website to request participation.
Hosted By : CXOSync LLC
Toronto, Canada
5 Mar, 2020
https://www.ciotoronto.com/
Microsoft Ignite The Tour Copenhagen
If you are looking for Kafka as a fully managed
service then visit the Confluent stand at Microsoft
Ignite The Tour Copenhagen to learn how Confluent
have re-engineered Apache Kafka for the Cloud.
Hosted By : Confluent
København, Denmark
27-28 Feb, 2020
https://events.confluent.io/microsoftignitecopenhagen
Big Data Paris 2020
The Confluent team is preparing for the next edition of BIG
DATA PARIS 2020. Visit booth A19 to find out how event
streaming and Apache Kafka can help you boost your
information system.
Paris, France
9-10 Mar, 2020
https://events.confluent.io/bigdataparis2020
Microsoft Ignite The Tour Amesterdam
If you are looking for Kafka as a fully managed service then
visit the Confluent stand at Microsoft Ignite The Tour
Copenhagen to learn how Confluent have re-engineered
Apache Kafka for the Cloud.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
11-12 Mar, 2020
https://events.confluent.io/microsoftigniteamsterdam
Data Innovation Summit
Confluent are Gold Sponsors at the 2020 Data Innovation
Summit in Stockholm. This summit is the biggest and the most
influential Data event in the Nordics! Join us on March 19th and
20th to discover how building an event-driven architecture can
enable your business to overcome traditional silos and
monolithic applications and deliver modern microservices and
event streaming applications.
Stockholm, Swedan
19-20 Mar, 2020
https://events.confluent.io/microsoftigniteamsterdam
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Smart Data Summit
The Smart Data Summit is the only big data analytics event
in the Middle East region that showcases the next generation
technologies and strategies, such as event streaming, that are
transforming how we do business. Don't miss this chance to
meet with the local Confluent team and hear about the latest
capabilities of Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud.
Dubai, Dubai
23-24 Mar, 2020
https://events.confluent.io/smartdatasummit
Embedded World 2020
The leading international fair for embedded systems,
Embedded World, is the place to meet #QtPeople and
partners!
Hosted By : QT
Nuremberg, Germany
25-27 Feb, 020
https://www.qt.io/ew20
Serverless Days Conference
ServerlessDays is a community focused, one day event that
moves away from the hype and focuses on the reality serverless
based solutions. It's about fostering a community locally and
helping all of us learn from each other as we embrace a new way
of building applications.
Hosted By : Nashville Technology Council
Nashville, USA
27 Feb, 2020
http://technologycouncil.memberzone.com/events/details/serverless-days-conference-7370
QCON
QCon London is a conference for senior software engineers
and architects on the patterns, practices, and use cases
leveraged by the world’s most innovative software shops.
Hosted By : Qcon
London, UK
2-6 Mar, 2020
https://events.confluent.io/bigdataparis2020
The Security Leaders Summit Dallas
The Security Leaders Summit Dallas will be held on
Thursday, March 12th at the Hilton Dallas/Plano Granite
Park and brings together an alliance of senior security
and other technology executives to share their stories
and provide insight into the future of cybersecurity.
Hosted By : Executive Alliance Inc.
DALLAS, USA
12 Mar, 2020
https://www.execalliance.com/dal_reg_2020?hsCtaTracking=eaff5715-a3ac-43f3-ad5b-6ed1a1101053%7C6dd8f399-b0fd-4d3f-8d65-4b6d6e6f0176
DevSecCon Singapore
Join us for the 4th edition of our Singapore conference to engage
with leading DevOps and IT Security professionals for a two-day
exploration of DevSecOps. We’ll be diving deep into what it
means to build security into development processes continuously
using new and exciting best practices, as well as modern
technologies.
Hosted By : DevSecCon
Singapore
18-19 Mar, 2020
https://www.devseccon.com/singapore-2020/
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FinTech:CODE
fintech:CODE is Europe’s leading annual event focusing major challenges and best-in-class
solutions that banks, asset management firms and insurance companies are experiencing when
adopting and scaling DevOps at an enterprise level. During its 4th edition, 100+ DevOps
strategists and practitioners, senior software developers, software engineering specialists and
IT Operations heads from Europe’s leading financial services companies will unveil their
journey to Continuous Delivery, DevSecOps at scale and practical use cases of efficient,
productive and secure software development, delivering precise insights into best practices
and tooling strategies.
Hosted By : we.CONECT
Frankfurt, Germany
19-20 Mar, 2020
https://www.fintech-code.com/
DevSecCon Sydney
Join us for our first Australia conference to engage with
leading DevOps and IT Security professionals for a two-day
exploration of DevSecOps. We’ll be diving deep into what it
means to build security into development processes
continuously using new and exciting best practices, as well
as modern technologies.
Hosted By : DevSecCon
Sydney, Australia
23-24 Mar, 2020
https://www.devseccon.com/sydney-2020/
Future of Security, Melbourne 2020
Join us at the 12th Annual Future of Security, Melbourne
conference and get the latest tools and strategies to stay protected
against emerging cyber threats in an increasingly vulnerable
digital landscape.
Hosted By : FST Media
Melbourne, Australia
24-25 Mar, 2020
https://fst.net.au/conferences/future-security-melbourne-2020
Future of Security, Sydney 2020
As the industry’s premier security forum series, the 2020 Future of Security -
running in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland - will explore hot-button issues
in IT security and cyber resilience, with noteworthy discussions around
threat detection and intelligence, cloud security, digital identity and access
management, Australia’s progressive implementation of open banking,
looming skills shortage and the fast-changing regulatory environment.
Hosted By : FST Media
Sydney, Australia
26Mar, 2020
https://fst.net.au/conferences/future-security-sydney-2020
STACK 2020.
STACK is GovTech’s flagship conference and the
largest government-led developers event in Singapore
that connects government, industry and the tech
communty.
Hosted By : STACK 2020
Singapore
30 Mar-1 April, 2020
https://www.govtechstack.sg/
Agile for Embedded Conference 2020
The conference is aimed at senior engineers and managers
responsible for the development of embedded systems, as
well as at embedded developers and engineers with an
interest in Agile.
Hosted By : Feabhas Ltd
Berkshire, UK
18 Mar, 2020
https://www.feabhas.com/agile-for-embedded-conference-2020
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SCOPE Summit
Celebrating its 11th successful year, SCOPE Summit 2020 takes place
February 18-21 in Orlando, FL. Over the course of four stimulating days of
in-depth discussions in 20 different conferences, 3 plenary keynote sessions,
the annual Participant Engagement Awards, and the ever-popular interactive
breakout discussions, the programming focuses on advances and innovative
solutions in all aspects of clinical trial planning, management and operations.
Hosted By : CHI
Orlando, USA
18-21 Feb, 2020
https://www.scopesummit.com/
HMG Chicago CIO Executive Leadership Summit
The speed, scope and nature of disruption facing businesses is
unprecedented. In today’s fast-changing economy, only the agile will
survive. To tackle these challenges head on and to position the
organization for competitive advantage, CIOs and technology
executives must apply a fresh mindset to identify and execute on new
sources of technology-driven innovation along with the cultural
transformation that’s necessary to drive successful business outcomes.
Hosted By : HMG Strategy
Chicago, USA
5 Mar, 2020
https://hmgstrategy.com/events/upcoming-summits/2020/03/05/default-calendar/2020-chicago-cio-executive-leadership-summit
IDC Asian Financial Services Congress 2020
erwin is a proud sponsor of the IDC Asian Financial Services
Congress 2020 and will host an exclusive luncheon and
round-table discussion on 27 February.
Hosted By : erwin
Japan
27 Feb, 2020
https://erwin.com/events/idc-asian-financial-services-congress-2020/
Enterprise Data World (EDW) 2020
Now in its 24th year, the EDW conference is recognized
as the most comprehensive educational conference on
data management in the world. Join us and more than
1,000 data professionals from around the globe.
Hosted By : erwin
NORTH AMERICA
22 Mar, 2020
https://erwin.com/events/enterprise-data-world-2020/
UserConference 2020 - Dubai
At UserConf '20, you get to meet the people behind the
products you love, network with peers, and discover
ways to transform your IT management over two
fun-filled days. Grab your early bird passes at INR 699
until December 31.
Hosted By : ManageEngine
Dubai
24-25 Feb, 2020
https://events.manageengine.com/uae-userconf-dubai-2020?meevents
UserConference 2020 - London
At UserConf '20, you get to meet the people behind the
products you love, network with peers, and discover ways to
transform your IT management over two fun-filled days.
Grab your early bird passes at INR 699 until December 31.
Hosted By : ManageEngine
London, UK
2-3 March, 2020
https://events.manageengine.com/england-userconf-london-2020?meevents
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