Inside the BriefcaseLockPath, a leader in governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) solutions, today announced the company is being honored with the 2016 GRC Value Award in Policy Management. The GRC Value Awards program recognizes real-world implementations for GRC programs and processes that have returned significant and measurable value to an organization.
NewsLightCyber, a leading provider of Behavioral Attack Detection solutions, today announced a new release of its Magna™ platform that increases the precision and speed of detecting an in-progress attack from a malicious insider or external targeted bad actor. The Magna 3.5 release adds enhanced visibility of user credential use and more granular VPN intelligence so attackers can be detected even more efficiently and accurately.
NewsSwrve, a leading mobile marketing cloud solution, today announced the results of its quarterly Swrve Mobile App Index, which investigates the most influential factors for determining application success, and is built from the data from the hundreds of millions of mobile app users hosted on its platform.
NewsInsightly, a leading online customer relationship management application (CRM) for small and growing businesses, today announced that IT consultants rely on its CRM platform to help them increase productivity, manage projects more easily and build lasting client relationships. In a survey of 750 IT consultants and consulting companies, Insightly found that many participants view its CRM as mission control for their businesses, enabling them to grow revenue and deliver exceptional client service, even if their “teams” are as small as one person.
NewsDatacastle, an enterprise endpoint backup and mobile data security and access leader, today announced the launch of Datacastle Analytics, a product that brings smart data discovery to intellectual property and compliance-intensive enterprises. Datacastle Analytics enables enterprises to take advantage of advanced, intelligent analytics while conducting swift and cost-effective investigations.
NewsIBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new behavioral biometric analysis capabilities in its digital banking fraud prevention technology, IBM Security Trusteer Pinpoint Detect, usingpatented analytics and machine learning for real-time cognitive fraud detection. The new behavioral biometric capabilities incorporate the use of machine learning to help understand how users interact with banking websites, creating gesture models based on patterns of mouse movements that become increasingly more accurate over time.
NewsIBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sanovi Technologies, a privately held company that provides hybrid cloud recovery, cloud migration and business continuity software for enterprise data centers and cloud infrastructure. Adding these capabilities along with advanced analytics will better enable IBM to bolster its Software Defined Resiliency strategy and delivery of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery services for clients undergoing digital and hybrid cloud transformation.
NewsTucker, GA and Alpharetta, GA – October 24, 2016 — InterDev, an Atlanta-area provider of information technology, security and geographic information (GIS) services, today announced the City of Tucker has launched its new GIS platform and accompanying CITYMAP web application. The City’s GIS solution is powered by MosaicGIS™, InterDev’s secure, cloud-based GIS platform powered by Azure and Esri. With all systems thoroughly tested and operational, City management launched the application on its Facebook page October 10, 2016.
NewsIBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the first IBM MobileFirst for iOS education app. The app, IBM Watson Element for Educators, enables a new level of engagement for teachers by providing a holistic view of each student at their fingertips, including data on interests, accomplishments, academic performance, attendance, behaviors and learning activities. As a result, teachers are empowered with data-driven insights to help them address individual needs that can potentially lead to better outcomes throughout students’ K-12 learning experiences.
NewsEarlier this year, Visa announced that it will be implementing a new chargeback dispute process known as the Visa Claims Resolution (VCR) initiative.(1) Chargebacks911, a leading dispute mitigation and risk management firm, applauds Visa’s long-term goal of improving processes and expediting resolution but emphasizes that the move could have unanticipated implications for many merchants. The company counsels merchants to actively engage in representment and maintain detailed supporting data; otherwise, they risk losing a growing proportion of revenues to chargebacks and friendly fraud.
NewsCybrary, the world’s first and only no-cost cybersecurity MOOC (massive open online course) provider, today announced a partnership with the Information Technology Disaster Resource Center (ITDRC) to help train ITDRC’s IT and communication technical support staff on critical cybersecurity skills.
NewsSwrve, the leading mobile marketing cloud solution, has introduced updates to its Conversations feature to deliver businesses a communication platform specifically tailored for mobile audiences. With this update, mobile marketers can create messages that resonate during the crowded holiday season. Conversations enable mobile marketers to create and deliver rich, in app communications in real time that include photos, videos, surveys, promotions, announcements and more to app users. Campaigns are driven by the individual customer’s behavior and preferences, creating a personalized two-way interaction that draws consumers in, rather than alienating them with generic blasts.
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Big Data and unstructured information are among the greatest challenges that modern businesses face. The dilemma is that much of the world’s data is embedded in countless formats: from email to paper documents, to social media posts, to phone calls, text messages and more. Today, Kodak Alaris launches a new solution to support business and IT managers in organizations of all sizes, in their quest to master “Data Chaos.”It will quickly and affordably digitize paper-based documents to make information easily accessible across an organization and help decision makers and knowledge workers respond faster to customer needs.
NewsInterDev, an Atlanta-area provider of information technology, security and geographic information service (GIS) services, today announced it has become a Maptiks partner. InterDev is deploying the mapping analytics solution for its customers and incorporating it as part of its Esri-based Mosaic GIS cloud platform.
NewsSolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT monitoring software, today announced updates to its award-winning SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) that vastly improve IT professionals’ monitoring, alerting and reporting capabilities for Linux® environments. Now with both agentless and agent-based monitoring capabilities for Linux systems, SolarWinds SAM is ideally suited to help improve the performance and uptime of both Windows®- and Linux-based applications within a single console wherever they are deployed—on-premises, whether physical or virtual, or in the cloud.
NewsSept. 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled “Project DataWorks,” an initiative from Watson that is the industry’s first cloud-based data and analytics platform to integrate all types of data and enable AI-powered decision-making. Project DataWorks is designed to make it simple for business leaders and data professionals to collect, organize, govern and secure data, so they can gain the insights needed to become a cognitive business.
NewsThe tramada® solution, developed by the Sydney-based travel technology company, holds every piece of information a travel agent has about its travellers, as well as information relating to the end-customer organisations using those travel agencies to manage their business travel. Using Yellowfin’s BI platform, Tramada was able to quickly and affordably deliver a rebranded BI module, in a SaaS multi-tenant environment, empowering travel agencies to quickly visualize and act on that information.
NewsPromapp Solutions – an industry leading provider of cloud-based process management software – is changing the way companies with multiple locations or multiple products manage processes with the launch of its new Process Variant Management (PVM) software.
NewsLive from Microsoft Ignite (Booth #645), Metalogix®, the market leading provider of solutions to move, manage and protect content within enterprise collaboration platforms, today announced Content.ly™, a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that allows businesses to control their content across collaboration platforms including Microsoft Office 365, Slack, Salesforce, Box, Dropbox and Google for Work.
NewsInterDev, an Atlanta-area provider of information technology and security services, today announced that Director of IT and Security, Chief Security Officer Daniel Schultheiss has earned the prestigious designation of Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). Awarded by the world-renowned International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council), the CEH credential certifies individuals in the specific network security discipline of Ethical Hacking from a vendor-neutral perspective.
NewsNow customers throughout the region will have local access to a complete portfolio of IBM cloud services for running mission critical enterprise workloads, including IBM Bluemix, Watson and analytics capabilities. EVRY, a leading Nordic IT services company, is already leveraging these capabilities to accelerate its transformation and deliver business value to its clients, which was part of a strategic partnership announced last year. This includes establishing a private cloud solution enabling their clients to further drive innovation.
NewsAlthough many of us associate virtual reality as something used in a Star Wars film while they fly among the stars, it has slowly become how we interact with society and carry out our daily lives. Everything from video games, medical practices, sightseeing, and even the way that soon-to-be surgeons train for upcoming procedures. Virtual environments give us a better way to interact with the world around us without having to leave the comfort of our own home or place of work.
Zespri began a strategic initiative to move their SAP operations to Microsoft Azure to leverage the flexibility and scalability of an Azure cloud environment. For this initiative to be successful, they needed to ensure that their business critical SAP and SQL Server applications would continue to meet the stringent levels of service and high availability their business demands.
NewsIBM today launched cloud-ready systems, services and solutions that simplify the movement of data, applications and services across a hybrid cloud environment. Organizations across all industries are investing in cloud technologies for innovation, growth and efficiency. Today’s clients are seeking a blend of public cloud, private cloud and traditional IT platforms. IBM’s new solutions help deepen this hybrid cloud integration.
NewsTOPdesk, one of the world’s largest and most widely recognized providers of IT service management software solutions, announces today that Defenders of Wildlife, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection, well-being and preservation of imperiled wildlife across North America and around the world, has selected TOPdesk’s cloud-based service management (ITSM) solution.
NewsPercona,the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL® and MongoDB® solutions and services, today announced the availability of Percona Monitoring and Management, an open source database performance analysis tool. Completely open source and free to download and use, Percona Monitoring and Management provides point-in-time visibility and historical trending of database performance that enables DBAs and application developers to optimize the performance of their MySQL and MongoDB databases.
NewsIBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an expansion of its global footprint for delivering mobile security-as-a-service via the IBM Cloud. Through the deployment of new IBM MaaS360 services across global Cloud Data Centers in Europe, Asia, North America and South America, IBM will help clients address local data protection standards for mobile business. IBM will also offer data privacy consulting services as well as mobile strategy, design and deployment consultants as clients look to scale their mobile strategies globally.
NewsA new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, “Wireless Audio Devices Market by Product, Technology, and Application—Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2014–2022,” forecasts that the world wireless audio devices market is expected to garner $38,807.5 million by 2022, registering a CAGR of 24.4% during 2016–2022. Wireless speaker systems segment is expected to dominate the market throughout 2014-2022. North America is expected to be the leading region in the market during the forecast period.
NewsDell Technologies today announced completion of the acquisition of EMC Corporation, creating a unique family of businesses that provides the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important asset, information. This combination creates a $74 billion[i]market leader with an expansive technology portfolio that solves complex problems for customers in the industry’s fast-growing areas of hybrid cloud, software-defined data center, converged infrastructure, platform-as-a-service, data analytics, mobility and cybersecurity.
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