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2020 World System Integrator Conference to Create an International System Integration Brand

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TAIPEI, Sept. 25, 2020 — The 2020 World System Integrator Conference (WSIC) online forum week, organized by System Integration Promotion Alliance (SIPA), covers smart cities, international cooperation in system integration, and the current developmental needs of countries. More than 100 overseas manufacturers and 350 people participated in the event.

The speakers from the four Taiwanese manufacturers and Ms. Vivian Huang (Director General, III) From left to right：Syscom Group President, James Liu, Aaeon Technology Senior Advisor, Steve Hsu, Director General, III, Ms. Vivian Huang, Glory Technology CEO, Eric Chang, Chunghwa Telecom Director, Hsuan-Lung Liu
The speakers from the four Taiwanese manufacturers and Ms. Vivian Huang (Director General, III) From left to right：Syscom Group President, James Liu, Aaeon Technology Senior Advisor, Steve Hsu, Director General, III, Ms. Vivian Huang, Glory Technology CEO, Eric Chang, Chunghwa Telecom Director, Hsuan-Lung Liu

Representatives of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) shared strategies to help modernize infrastructure through digital technology. The winners of Taiwan’s 2020 System Integration Award also shared their success stories, and Taiwanese system integrators and representatives from Thailand, Indonesia, Russia, and India discussed their experiences in various countries.

Since the first WSIC last year, the System Integration Promotion Alliance Project Office (SIPA) of the "Industrial Development Bureau" (IDB), "Ministry of Economic Affairs" has arranged more than 70 meetings between manufacturers, opened up at least 20 business opportunities, and facilitated cooperation between Taiwanese manufacturers and local players in Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

This year, the Minister of the "National Development Council" (NDC), Kung Ming-Hsin and the Deputy Director-General of the IDB, "Ministry of Economic Affairs" (MOEA), Yang Chih-ching were specially invited to speak.

Minister Kung Ming-Hsin shared that the government began the Asia Silicon Valley Development Plan in 2016 to promote economic growth through entrepreneurship, industrial transformation through the Industrial Internet of Things, global resources for innovation and R&D, system integration capabilities of domestic enterprises, and overseas markets. Taiwan also plans to establish three international-level system integration companies.

Deputy Director-General, Yang Chih-ching also mentioned that system integration has become one of Taiwan’s important industrial directions. Between 2018 to 2020, solutions tested included 224 smart services that have been developed in 22 counties and cities across Taiwan. These covered 5G factories, remote medical care on outlying islands, AI environmental monitoring, smart transportation, and smart learning.

The four Taiwanese manufacturers invited by WSIC this year have all been successful overseas export cases:

•  The Syscom Group, which developed smart service robots used in Japan.

•  AAEON, which has collaborated with General Electric (GE) to acquire an energy project for four power plants in the U.S.

•  Glory Technology, which expanded the railway communication systems in Thailand and the Philippines.

•  Chunghwa Telecom, which deployed telecommunications networks in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia, and implemented information and communication applications in new smart parks.

Despite industrial impacts from COVID-19, pandemic-prevention technologies, such as AI thermal imaging and disease control systems have been recognized internationally. Hopefully, this will become an emerging field for system integration and export development in Taiwan.

In addition to the WSIC online forum this year, SIPA also set up a pavilion on smart solution and system integration at the 2020 Smart City Online Exhibition.

All are welcome to visit the website at https://smartcityonline.org.tw/pavilion.php?vip=SIPA

WSIC online forum registration URL: http://wsic.hsexpoevent.com/

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Ultromics Lauded by Frost & Sullivan for Pioneering AI-based Cardiovascular Suite, EchoGo

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The SaaS suite helps physicians automate key measurements and predict the occurrence of CAD, enabling clinicians to proactively recommend preventive actions that improve patient outcomes

LONDON, Sept. 25, 2020 — Based on its recent analysis of the global AI-based echocardiography market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Ultromics with the 2020 Global New Product Innovation Award for enhancing diagnostic quality in cardiac care units with its AI suite, EchoGo. The FDA and CE-cleared solutions (respectively EchoGo Core and EchoGo Pro) not only automate measurements for heart functions but also empower physicians to predict the occurrence of coronary artery disease (CAD). With a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) format, they enable quick deployment, minimal training, and hassle-free upgrades.

2020 Global AI-based Echocardiography New Product Innovation Award
2020 Global AI-based Echocardiography New Product Innovation Award

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"Ultromics’ EchoGo Core performs cardiac measurements, including ejection fraction (EF), global longitudinal strain (GLS), left ventricular (LV) volume, and myocardial strain reporting. By automating these measurements, Ultromics eases one of the most tedious steps in cardiovascular conditions’ diagnosis, thus saving time and removing inter-operator variability," said Parth Shah Research Analyst. "Meanwhile, EchoGo Pro serves as a clinical decision support tool for physicians by assessing the risk profiles of patients. As an industry-first solution within cardiac echocardiography, it enables early detection and prevention of CAD supported by evidence at the point of care."

Furthermore, being a cloud-based solution, it can be delivered as a SaaS model, which allows deployments to be completed faster than with traditional PACS software integrations. The SaaS model also does away with the need for future upgrades, patches, and associated fees. The solution is designed to be intuitive, minimizing the need for substantial user training required by other solutions. Once usage begins, it employs a zero-click, off-the-cart usage approach, eliminating the need for users to manually upload or cross-launch scans.

Being a vendor-neutral solution, Ultromics can target any provider, regardless of the echocardiography equipment they use, across regions. While the EchoGo solutions are currently available in the western markets, Ultromics will target the Asia-Pacific market in the future. Its adoption in developed markets received a major boost in 2020 when the Strain procedure obtained a CPT code that allows physicians to report and bill myocardial strain diagnosis. It is also one of the very few AI solutions in the imaging space to qualify for reimbursement.

"EchoGo’s pricing structure delivers significant return on investment with no upfront costs. While competitors offer comparable price points, their need for additional software upgrades and associated installation costs and efforts make them more expensive in the long term. Ultromics adopts a pay-per-use pricing model but can also offer a subscription model depending on the volume of procedures being conducted," noted Shah. "EchoGo automates the entire process, allowing physicians to save on costs while having zero user interactions to obtain results. Overall, Ultromics’ price-value proposition helps it capture a larger share of the market and positions it for continued growth globally."

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has developed an innovative element in a product by leveraging leading-edge technologies. The award recognizes the value-added features/benefits of the product and the increased return on investment (ROI) it gives customers, which, in turn, raises customer acquisition and overall market penetration potential.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

About Frost & Sullivan

For over five decades, Frost & Sullivan has become world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

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About Ultromics

Ultromics is a global health technology firm which provides autonomous echocardiography analysis through innovative AI solutions empowering physicians to make fast, accurate decisions when diagnosing cardiovascular disease. EchoGo, the world’s first autonomous echocardiography service provides cloud-based artificial intelligence services to support cardiac imaging diagnosis without any variability or need to touch software. Our technology was born at the University of Oxford and built in partnership with the NHS, and has since raised over £20 million to help improve patient care, and bring diagnostic quality and resource savings to hospitals. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality, with an estimated 17 million deaths each year. www.ultromics.com

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Director of Marketing – Ultromics
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Nintex Receives 2020 Tech Cares Award for its COVID-19 Customer Response

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Organisations around the world turned to Nintex for valuable resources and software solutions to quickly improve business processes with process mapping and to automate work with workflow automation, digital forms, RPA and more

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Sept. 24, 2020 — Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, today announced that TrustRadius has recognised the company’s efforts to support Nintex customers and partners during COVID-19, with a 2020 Tech Cares Award. This award celebrates software vendors that have gone above and beyond to provide their communities, clients and front-line workers with valuable resources and critical support during the pandemic.

 

  • To access free downloadable Nintex process maps and workflow templates for business continuity, remote work, reopening the workplace, and more visit: https://gallery.nintex.com/ 

"In anticipation of the pandemic’s impact on business globally we formulated a response aimed at helping our customers and partners successfully manage opportunities and challenges including everyone’s need to go digital faster," said Nintex CEO Eric Johnson. "By making key resources freely available, organisations in every geography of the world were easily equipped to further leverage their investment in the Nintex Process Platform and were able to navigate rapid change, quickly improve processes, and build and deploy automated solutions with RPA, digital workflows and forms with ease and speed." 

To be accepted for the Tech Cares Award, each nominated organisation had to be a B2B technology company that demonstrated above-and-beyond caring during the COVID-19 pandemic. All nominations were thoroughly vetted by the TrustRadius research team.

Beginning in March 2020, Nintex quickly rolled-out no cost training and certification programs, free process and workflow templates, and coaching services to help organisations digitally transform faster, create and shift processes, and automate work. Nintex business continuity resources for COVID-19 include:

  • Instructor-led training
    Nintex offered free instructor-led training through the end of August 2020 to support customers needing to quickly ramp up automation. Over the past six months, Nintex has seen nearly 10,000 classroom enrolments, resulting in more than 1,520 new certifications attained. Following the success of the training promotion, Nintex introduced a new affordable subscription-based training program, which offers the entire catalogue of Practitioner and Expert-level on-demand courses, enrolment in any live virtual class, and access to all certifications.
  • COVID-19 solution accelerators
    Nintex created and released more than 20 COVID-19 related templates, from process maps to workflows, in the Nintex Process Accelerator Gallery, which have been download more than 1,200 times. The process accelerator templates can be leveraged by organisations to rapidly automate a broad range of business processes with the Nintex Process Platform.
  • Coaching initiative
    Nintex launched a coaching initiative which provides customers access to experts who help them apply Nintex Forms, Nintex Workflow, Nintex Promapp®, Nintex RPA, Nintex Sign® powered by Adobe Sign, and more to their business processes. The program has resulted in nearly 100 coaching engagements to support COVID-19 related solutions across the public sectors, financial services, and more.

Earlier this year, Nintex earned a 2020 Top Rated Award from TrustRadius, the customer insights platform, based on high satisfaction reviews and ratings from customers.

To experience the easy-to-use and powerful capabilities of the Nintex Process Platform, request a demo at https://www.nintex.com/request-demo/.

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Nintex
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About Nintex
Nintex is the global standard for process management and automation. Today more than 8,000 public and private sector clients across 90 countries turn to the Nintex Platform to accelerate progress on their digital transformation journeys by quickly and easily managing, automating and optimising business processes. Learn more by visiting www.nintex.com and experience how Nintex and its global partner network are shaping the future of Intelligent Process Automation (IPA).

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Icertis Wins The Peak Tech Laureates 2020 Artificial Intelligence Award for Established Enterprises

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– Global Leader in Contract Management Lauded as Artificial Intelligence Pioneer by Tech Innovators

PUNE, India, Sept. 21, 2020 — Icertis, the contract intelligence company that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with contract lifecycle management (CLM) software, today announced it won The Peak Tech Laureates 2020 Artificial Intelligence (Established Enterprises) award. With entries from across the globe, Icertis was recognized for the most comprehensive AI solution for digitally transforming contracts and the processes that touch them to deliver greater competitive advantage, operational efficiency, enhanced productivity, and improved customer experiences.

Contracts underpin commercial relationships and define how businesses run and analysts estimate digitally transforming contracting is a more than $20 billion market. The AI-powered Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform turns contracts from static documents to strategic advantage, by structuring and connecting the critical contract information that defines how an organization runs. To unleash the transformative power of AI in contract management, Icertis leverages the unmatched quantity, quality and variety of data in the ICI platform today – 7.5 million contracts and related artifacts in 40+ languages, from 90+ countries, across 25+ industry verticals, and have a contract value of more than $1 trillion.

"The Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform helps customers digitally transform how they manage their contracts worldwide and solve previously intractable contracting challenges with the transformative power of modern AI technology," said Glen Francis, Chief Technology Officer, Singapore Press Holdings Limited.

In today’s changing market environments, companies need to ensure that high-value commercial insights are available in real time, all agreements are in compliance, all commitments are upheld, and new information makes the whole system smarter. Icertis’ award-winning AI solutions digitize legacy contracts and import third-party contracts up to 80% faster, analyze past negotiation history to gain insights for improvement, and provide deep data visualization capabilities that provide unprecedented intelligence into contract relationships and performance.

"We are honoured to receive The Peak Tech Laureates 2020 award for our AI-powered platform," said Monish Darda, CTO & Co-founder Icertis. "This recognition underscores the growing importance of next-gen solutions for contract management across the globe and the massive potential unleashed when AI is incorporated into critical business processes. We are continually enhancing the AI capabilities of the ICI platform and applying contract intelligence to business processes to benefit our customers now and in the future."

The Peak Tech Laureate awards seek to recognize the best and brightest across fields as diverse as artificial intelligence, big data, analytics, cybersecurity, and e-commerce, among others. The awards recognize the very best across the technology landscape. The esteemed judging panel of 33 C-suite leaders from highly successful companies across multiple industries, selected the solution providers that have successfully implemented products or solutions leveraging modern technologies to deliver tangible business impacts.

For more information about Icertis, visit www.icertis.com 

About Icertis 

With unmatched technology and category-defining innovation, Icertis pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with contract lifecycle management (CLM). The AI-powered, analyst-validated Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform turns contracts from static documents into strategic advantage by structuring and connecting the critical contract information that defines how an organization runs. Today, the world’s most iconic brands and disruptive innovators trust Icertis to fully realize the intent of their combined 7.5 million+ contracts worth more than $1 trillion, in 40+ languages and 90+ countries.

About The Peak Tech Laureates

The Peak Tech Laureates seeks to honour technology partners who empower corporations with their most innovative and compelling services and solutions. This inaugural event celebrates the best of what Singapore’s tech industry has to offer.

About The Peak Magazine

The Peak is Singapore’s leading luxury lifestyle magazine read by an esteemed audience comprising C-suite executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, diplomats, and captains of industry. Celebrating its 36th anniversary this year, The Peak is committed to supporting the future shapers of our digital tomorrow.

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Corporate Communications Manager, Icertis 
corpcomm@icertis.com

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MultiSys is among Asia’s Leading SMEs–International award-giving body ACES Awards

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MANILA, Philippines, Sept. 18, 2020 — For its leadership and accomplishments in the Information Technology sector, Multisys Technologies Corporation was recognized as among Asia’s Leading SMEs at the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability (ACES) Awards 2020, organized by MORS Group.

Among Asia’s Leading SMEs. MultiSys wins at the recent Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability (ACES) Awards 2020. The company is considered as the Philippines’ most important and leading software solutions company that provides a wide range of cost-effective, full-scale software services, system platforms and integrations that are being used by now more than 2,500 companies and organizations.
Among Asia’s Leading SMEs. MultiSys wins at the recent Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability (ACES) Awards 2020. The company is considered as the Philippines’ most important and leading software solutions company that provides a wide range of cost-effective, full-scale software services, system platforms and integrations that are being used by now more than 2,500 companies and organizations.

ACES Awards is one of the biggest and most sought after accolades in Asia, which aims to identify successful visionaries and to enable as many people as possible to learn from its awardees’ success. The "Asia’s Leading SMEs" category recognizes outstanding small & medium enterprises (SMEs) in Asia with a focus on growth and resilience. The winning SMEs have a sustainable business model, strong customer base, innovative product offering, growing revenue and profits, and the flexibility to respond to rapid changes in the industry and customer demand.

Out of 420 nominees who joined this year’s ACES awards, MultiSys was chosen as a winner in the "Asia’s Leading SMEs" category, for its outstanding performance and achievements as a leading technology provider. MultiSys is considered as the Philippines’ most important software solutions company that provides a wide range of cost-effective, full-scale software services, system platforms and integrations that are being used by now more than 2,500 companies and organizations.

MultiSys CEO and founder David Almirol, Jr. said, "Winning the globally-recognized ACES Awards validates Filipino technology advancements, resilience and world-class reputation. It is a signal that our homegrown technology can expand in the global market. It would give us more influence that would help us in the pursuit of bringing the Filipino technology internationally and uplifting the levels of skills and competitiveness in the local IT community."

Behind MultiSys are almost 500-strong full time workforce who are well-taken care of and invested in. At the headquarters in MultiSys Smart Community, employees get free meals, as well as board and lodging so they can avoid the long commute. Sports facilities, backyards and gardens where they can grow their own produce, and recreation centers are at their disposal, and employee activities are organized to boost morale and strengthen team spirit.

Almirol added, "This award is a well-deserved recognition of our employees for all their hard-work, dedication, talent and skills. It will also inspire the others, from local technology startups to IT specialists, knowing they can thrive and grow without having to leave their homeland."

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Versa Networks Lauded by Frost & Sullivan for Dominating the SD-WAN Market with its Integrated Portfolio and Innovative Go-to-Market Strategies

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Versa Networks demonstrates an exceptional ability to serve changing enterprise networking requirements in India by delivering the leading Secure SD-WAN leveraging cutting-edge technologies

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 17, 2020 — Based on its recent analysis of the Indian software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) platform provider market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Versa Networks with the 2020 SD-WAN Platform Provider Company of the Year Award for the India Region. Versa Networks’ customized go-to-market (GTM) strategies and integrated Secure SD-WAN portfolio have helped it establish a significant footprint in important segments, such as the large businesses, small and medium businesses (SMB), and government sectors in the Indian market. Versa Networks has maintained its leadership in market penetration and technology innovation with its strong R&D capabilities, continuous addition of innovative features, and collaborative business strategies. The company has demonstrated robust performance in terms of both revenue growth and customer acquisition.


"Versa Networks has developed a holistic and integrated solution with SD-WAN and SD-Security as well as virtual and universal CPE capabilities targeting multiple customer segments. At the core of its solution is the Versa Operating System (VOS), which is a distributed virtual network services architecture built from the ground up for multi-tenancy," said Apalak Ghosh, Associate Director, ICT, Frost & Sullivan "VOS is a software instance that lets users seamlessly configure and manage Layer 3 to layer 7 network services. It can be installed on bare metal or as a virtual machine on hypervisor/public clouds."

The Versa solution is based on an open hardware architecture; therefore, customers can choose from a range of hardware platforms, making Versa truly software defined. The solution allows enterprises to reduce the CAPEX and OPEX of their WAN and branch networks while increasing IT responsiveness to business needs. The company has shown visionary leadership in enhancing its platform to align it with the hybrid cloud environment. In addition, the company added the capability for contextual awareness of application, user, device, and location, providing end-to-end event and intent-based routing. Moreover, Versa has integrated native virtualization support to host third-party virtual network services, further increasing flexibility and future-proofing the WAN.

Versa also introduced the Versa Titan service which is specifically forLean IT organizations with need for simple and faster provisioning of branch locations. In addition, the company now offers various optimization capabilities for direct Internet access and direct cloud access. In 2019, the company extended its capability to monitor the best path toward cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. This capability uses inline performance measurements on single-ended branch deployments. In addition, the company launched a cloud-native platform with IP advanced networking and security services that help enterprises seamlessly enable SD branches.

"Thousands of businesses, hundreds of thousands of sites, and millions of subscribers rely on Versa for best-in-class security, networking, Secure SD-WAN, SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), and multi-cloud networking needs," said Kumar Mehta, Co-founder and Chief Development Officer with Versa Networks. "We are excited to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the innovation leader in SD-WAN and for our implementation leadership in Secure SD-WAN and SASE."

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents a Company of the Year award to the organization that demonstrates excellence in terms of growth strategy and implementation in its field. The award recognizes a high degree of innovation with products and technologies and the resulting leadership in terms of customer value and market penetration.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

Frost & Sullivan has also recognized Versa Networks with the "Frost Radar: 2020 Innovation Excellence Award Global SD-WAN Vendor Market" as a result of recent research conducted by Frost & Sullivan in addition to identifying Versa as the innovation leader in the Frost Radar Global SD-WAN report.

About Frost & Sullivan
For over five decades, Frost & Sullivan has become world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders, and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models, and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

About Versa Networks
Versa Networks, the leader in Secure SD-WAN, combines full-featured SD-WAN, complete integrated security, advanced scalable routing, genuine multi-tenancy, and sophisticated analytics to meet WAN Edge requirements for small to extremely large enterprises and Service Providers. Versa Secure SD-WAN is available on-premises, hosted through Versa-powered Service Providers, cloud-delivered, and via the simplified Versa Titan cloud service designed for Lean IT. The company has transacted hundreds of thousands of software licenses globally through its global Service Providers and partners. Versa Networks is privately held and funded by Sequoia Capital, Mayfield, Artis Ventures, Verizon Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures, Princeville Global Fund and RPS Ventures. For more information, visit https://www.versa-networks.com or follow Versa Networks on Twitter @versanetworks.

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Seismic is Named to the 2020 Forbes Cloud 100

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The sales enablement leader lands on the prestigious list for the second consecutive year

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 17, 2020 — Seismic has been named to the Forbes 2020 Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.

"I’m extremely proud to see Seismic named to the Forbes Cloud 100 in back-to-back years, and as the highest-ranking sales enablement platform on the list," said Doug Winter, CEO and co-founder, Seismic. "Over the last year, we’ve continued to make big moves in an effort to deepen our position as the market leader. From acquiring Percolate to advancing our content orchestration capabilities, to the expansion of our Partner Program and the recent launch of Seismic Interactive Content – we’re constantly improving the Seismic experience for our customers and partners. Earning a spot on the Forbes Cloud 100 reflects the hard work our team puts in every day."

As part of the rigorous selection process for the Forbes 2020 Cloud 100, Bessemer Venture Partners received submissions from hundreds of cloud startups. The Cloud 100 Judging Panel, made up of public cloud company CEOs, reviewed the data to select, score, and rank the top 100 private cloud companies from all over the world. The evaluation process involved ranking companies across four factors: market leadership (35%), estimated valuation (30%), operating metrics (20%), and people & culture (15%).

"The private cloud ecosystem continues to mature in light of rapid digital transformations, making the competition to land one of the coveted spots on the Cloud 100 list steeper than ever," said Byron Deeter, a top cloud investor, and partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. "Private cloud valuations are getting bigger as the market’s appetite for cloud continues to grow. Over the past five years, the average Cloud 100 valuation has grown by a tremendous 2.5x, from $1 billion in 2016 to $2.7 billion in 2020. In fact, our 2020 Cloud 100 includes over 87 private cloud unicorns! These founders represent the absolute best in cloud computing today, and they will most certainly follow in the footsteps of our esteemed Cloud 100 alumni. More than a third of the companies of the Cloud 100 have exited either via strategic M&A, financial M&A or Initial Public Offering. Congratulations to these cloud leaders!"

"In the face of this unprecedented time, digital is an urgent imperative, and the pace of innovation is accelerating. Companies around the globe, across all industries must adopt cloud technologies to enable their digital transformation," said Matt Garratt, Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures. "The opportunity is massive for the cloud — there are now more than 25 public SaaS companies valued at over $10 billion whereas even five years ago there were only three. Sectors from collaboration and security to retail and healthcare, are being disrupted and becoming more digital. Salesforce Ventures is excited to be partnering with Bessemer Venture Partners and Forbes for the fifth year in a row to recognize those who are not just predicting what’s coming but working to create the future."

"For five years now, we have ranked the best and brightest emerging companies in the cloud sector," said Alex Konrad, Forbes editor of The Cloud 100. "With so many businesses growing fast in the cloud, from data infrastructure to marketing, it’s harder than ever to make the Cloud 100 list – but with more elite company if you do. Congratulations to each of the 2020 Cloud 100 honorees and the 20 Rising Stars honorees poised to join their ranks!"

The Forbes 2020 Cloud 100 and 20 Rising Stars lists are published online at www.forbes.com/cloud100 and will appear in the September 2020 issue of Forbes magazine.

The Cloud 100 and the 20 Rising Stars companies are publicly recognized at this year’s first-ever virtual Cloud 100 with memorable discussions from top cloud CEOs at thecloud100.com on September 16th from 9:00am PT – 12:00pm PT hosted by Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Forbes. A special thank you to our virtual event sponsors Amazon Web Services (AWS), Bank of America, Cooley, FuelxMcKinsey, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Nasdaq, Qatalyst Partners, Silicon Valley Bank, Simon-Kucher & Partners, and WisdomTree.

About Seismic
Seismic is the industry-leading sales enablement and marketing orchestration solution, aligning go-to-market teams while empowering them to deliver engaging buyer experiences that drive growth. Seismic’s Storytelling Platform™ delivers innovative capabilities for marketers to orchestrate content delivery across all channels, and for sellers to engage with prospective buyers in a compelling, resonant manner at every step of the buyer journey. More than 600 enterprises including IBM and American Express have made Seismic their sales enablement platform of choice. The Seismic Storytelling Platform™ integrates with business-critical platforms including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google and Adobe. Seismic is headquartered in San Diego, with offices across North America, Europe, and Australia.

To see how Seismic is being used by companies in your industry, please visit seismic.com.

About Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners is the world’s most experienced early-stage venture capital firm. With a portfolio of more than 200 companies, Bessemer helps visionary entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to create companies that matter, and supports them through every stage of their growth. The firm has backed more than 120 IPOs, including Pinterest, Shopify, Yelp, LinkedIn, Skype, LifeLock, Twilio, SendGrid, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, and MindBody. Bessemer’s 15 partners operate from offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Israel, and India. For more information, please visit www.bvp.com.

About Forbes
The defining voice of entrepreneurial capitalism, Forbes champions success by celebrating those who have made it, and those who aspire to make it. Forbes convenes and curates the most influential leaders and entrepreneurs who are driving change, transforming business and making a significant impact on the world. The Forbes brand today reaches more than 160 million people worldwide through its trusted journalism, signature LIVE and Forbes Virtual events, custom marketing programs and 40 licensed local editions in 70 countries. Forbes Media’s brand extensions include real estate, education and financial services license agreements. For more information, visit the Forbes News Hub or Forbes Connect.

About Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce is the global leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), bringing companies closer to their customers in the digital age. Salesforce Ventures, the global investment arm of Salesforce, invests in the next generation of enterprise technology that extends the power of the Salesforce Platform. Salesforce Ventures is building the world’s largest ecosystem of enterprise cloud companies and extending that technology to customers. Portfolio companies receive funding, strategic advisory, and operating support, and can easily join Pledge 1% to make giving back part of their business model. Salesforce Ventures has invested in more than 400 companies, including DocuSign, GoCardless, Guild Education, nCino, Twilio, Zoom, and others across 22 countries since 2009. For more information, please visit www.salesforce.com/ventures.

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Enlighted Earns Frost & Sullivan’s Company of the Year Award for Its Innovative Building IoT Technology

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Enlighted’s smart sensors and applications capture data that helps companies be more productive and safer during the time of COVID-19

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 16, 2020 — Based on its recent analysis of the North American building Internet of Things (IoT) platforms market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Enlighted, Inc. with the 2020 North America Company of the Year Award. Enlighted’s IoT platform captures granular data about what is happening inside a building to positively impact business operations. In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Enlighted applied its technology to help minimize exposure risk in the workplace. Enlighted is a Silicon Valley based technology company that was acquired by Siemens in 2018, and previously earned the Frost & Sullivan North American New Product Innovation Award in 2019.

"With its comprehensive building IoT platform, Enlighted captures data streams on movement within a building, processes, and assets, which customers can leverage to improve the productivity and wellbeing of  building occupants from commercial buildings to healthcare facilities," said Dennis Marcell Victor, Senior Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "What’s unique about this technology is it helps organizations solve many challenges from achieving sustainability goals to better utilizing space and most recently helping reduce the spread of COVID-19."

This year Enlighted responded to two key market needs. First, it launched a new IoT surface sensor that makes it quick and easy to quickly deploy IoT technology at scale throughout buidings in an enterprise. Secondly, it created solutions to  reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace with the launch of its risk reduction and contact tracing application, Safe.

"Safe incorporates real-time location capabilities to provide employeers with a workplace digital contract tracing and risk reduction application with methods to safeguard employee privacy.  Organizations can also leverage data from Enlighted’s sensors to determine how people are moving through buildings, reconfigure office layouts, set and enforce maximum occupancy levels, create alerts for when those occupancy levels are exceeded and focus cleaning efforts on high-traffic areas," noted Victor. "These benefits, along with its commitment to enhacing employee productivity, operation productivity and sustainability, have established Enlighted as a top contender in the North American market."

In addition to its powerful technology, its 2018 acquisition by Siemens AG helped extend the company’s global reach and enhanced its product portfolio. Siemens’ smart infrastructure division enabled Enlighted to initiate several large-scale projects and partnerships with companies like Salesforce and Comfy. For example, its collaboration with Comfy, a workplace experience solutions provider and sister partner through Siemens, enabled it to introduce an intelligent desk reservation system. By mounting surface sensors under desks, employees can quickly identify desks anywhere in the building that meet their needs, are unoccupied and available in real-time. Business leaders gain transparency into peak usage hours, most frequently used workspaces and sanitization needs.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents a Company of the Year Award to the organization that demonstrates excellence in terms of growth strategy and implementation in its field. The award recognizes a high degree of innovation with products and technologies and the resulting leadership in terms of customer value and market penetration.

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About Enlighted, Inc.

Designed to change everything, Enlighted provides the world’s most advanced Building IoT Platform for leading commercial and healthcare organizations around the globe, with more than 320 million square feet of building space deployed to date. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, Enlighted was acquired in 2018 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens Industry, Inc. as part of Siemens Smart Infrastructure. For more information about Enlighted, visit enlightedinc.com.

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P: +1 (408) 593-3148
E: ann.gargiulo@enlightedinc.com

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Innovative Use of FICO Decision Management Technology Sees World’s Biggest Bank Win Prestigious Award

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China’s ICBC collects credit risk technology implementation award from Asian Banker in 2020

BEIJING, Sept. 15, 2020 —

Highlights:

  • ICBC Credit Card Centre has been recognized for its credit risk technology implementation with a prestigious award from The Asian Banker in 2020.
  • Responsive, high-speed iteration of decision management strategies was key to gaining an edge over competitors.
  • As of the end of June 2020, ICBC has issued more than 160 million credit cards.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world’s biggest bank and issuer of credit cards, has seen its innovative and extensive use of FICO decision management technology recognized with the Credit Risk Technology Implementation of the Year Award from The Asian Banker.

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The award from Asian Banker is one of the most prestigious in the financial services industry for Asia-Pacific and acknowledges the bank’s industry leadership in the field of risk control.

"ICBC Credit Card has achieved some remarkable results using decision management technology in its business and we are thrilled they have been recognized in this way," said Sandy Wang, managing director of FICO China. "The team at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China has been focused on providing world-class customer-centric solutions for its credit card customers and they continue to be one of our most innovative and advanced clients in terms of their approach to analytics."

As of the end of June 2020, ICBC has issued more than 160 million credit cards and served more than 100 million customers, maintaining its position as the world’s largest credit card issuing bank with the largest number of customers. The bank has over 8 million corporate customers and 650 million consumer customers worldwide.

One of ICBC’s stated aims is to build "China’s No. 1 Credit Card Brand". After launching FICO® Blaze Advisor® decision rules management system, the bank successfully applied the technology to multiple decision-making areas of the credit card center and established a comprehensive intelligent risk control system.

To deliver on the demand for agile deployment of decision management across the business, ICBC Credit Card Center worked closely with FICO’s experts to establish a team to manage the rapid handling of production problems. ICBC also adjusted the development process and innovated a set of efficient working models to promote rapid strategy development as they saw responsive, high-speed iteration and continuous learning as key to gaining an edge on the competition.

"We are very honored to work with ICBC Credit Card and to have played a part in helping them to win this award," concluded Wang. "Decision management is both art and science and the team at ICBC has managed to combine both skills when deploying this technology. FICO’s decision management platform is being widely adopted in the finance industry, especially as banks look to the current and future digital transformation of their business."

About ICBC
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China was established on 1 January 1984. On 28 October 2005, the Bank was wholly restructured to a joint-stock limited company. On 27 October 2006, the Bank was successfully listed on both Shanghai Stock Exchange and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. Through its continuous endeavours and stable development, the Bank has developed into the leading bank in the world, possessing an excellent customer base, a diversified business structure, strong innovation capabilities and market competitiveness. The Bank regards service as the very foundation to seek further development and adheres to creating value through services while providing a comprehensive range of financial products and services to 8,098 thousand corporate customers and 650 million personal customers.

About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956 and based in Silicon Valley, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 195 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 2.6 billion payment cards from fraud, to helping people get credit, to ensuring that millions of airplanes and rental cars are in the right place at the right time. 

Learn more at www.fico.com.

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ZTE wins Best Test & Measurement Technology and Most Successful 5G Consumer Service awards at 5G World 2020

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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 11, 2020 — ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, announced that it has won Best Test & Measurement Technology award with its iFlow (Insight Flow), a flow-based precise network insight solution, and won Most Successful 5G Consumer Service award with its 5G+ Live TV service at 5G World 2020, hosted by Informa on September 2, 2020.

ZTE wins Best Test & Measurement Technology and Most Successful 5G Consumer Service awards at 5G World 2020
ZTE wins Best Test & Measurement Technology and Most Successful 5G Consumer Service awards at 5G World 2020

ZTE has introduced the innovative iFlow solution based on the Inband OAM, to comprehensively monitor both the control plane and the forwarding plane, thereby solving a series of transport network problems, including the unmeasurable service SLA, the difficult fault location and the low network awareness.

Based on the millisecond-level data collection and the hop-by-hop node detection, iFlow has enabled the service quality awareness, fault location and service self-recovery in seconds.

Moreover, iFlow solution supports a closed-loop life cycle of network services from monitoring, analysis to optimization, thereby greatly improving the network service quality and operators’ O&M experience, and helping operators reduce the O&M complexity and cost.

In addition, ZTE’s 5G+ Live TV solution is customized for large events and concerts. Integrating multi-angle HD (High Definition) live broadcast, value-added services and social functions, the 5G+ Live TV Solution provides audiences with innovative experiences in various 5G scenarios, by means of MEC technology and AI recognition.

5G+ Live TV solution allows audiences to watch games from multiple perspectives, providing the on-site spectators with a personalized experience, while offering an immersive experience to the audiences at home.

"Compared with traditional solutions, the 5G+ Live TV brings more commercial possibilities to operators," said Mr. Fang Hui, Vice president at ZTE. "It facilitates the cooperation between suppliers and operators, which will be an important direction for 5G video development."

ZTE is a provider of advanced telecommunications systems, mobile devices and enterprise technology solutions to consumers, operators, companies and public sector customers. The company has been committed to providing customers with integrated end-to-end innovations to deliver excellence and value as the telecommunications and information technology sectors converge. Listed in the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Shenzhen (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), ZTE sells its products and services in more than 160 countries.

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ZTE Corporation
Tel: +86 755 26775189 
Email: ma.gaili@zte.com.cn

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