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Asia Pacific University wins the Atos IT Challenge 2020 with innovative app

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‘PestKillerBot’ uses drones to manage pest control in floricultural fields

PARIS, July 10, 2020 — Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announces the winners of its international student competition, the Atos IT Challenge. The winners were presented with their awards yesterday during the Ceremony which took place during the digital Atos Technology Days. Now in its ninth year, the competition saw teams from 27 countries around the world compete on the theme of ‘Cooperative Artificial Intelligence‘.

Winning team of Atos IT Challenge 2020.
Winning team of Atos IT Challenge 2020.

 

After an initial first round in which 16 teams were selected, the Atos IT Challenge Jury, made up of experts and Atos executives, chose three finalists. These are:

  • 1st prize and competition winner: Asia Pacific University, Malaysia

"PestKillerBot" is an innovative and easy-to-use application which eliminates the pest in floricultural fields using drones which perform pest control and data collection. The Drone simulator autonomously flies over a field to detect diseases or harmful bugs and kills them. The solution architecture is divided into four parts: the Area Allocation, Path Finding with Path Planning, Pest Detection, and Drone Activation Simulation allowing users to see how the divided field is covered by each drone. The students have developed a drone prototype with a 3D printer and several components.

The team won EUR10,000 and each student was offered the opportunity to do either an internship at Atos or to work together with the company to develop their project.

  • 2nd prize: Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores Monterrey, Mexico

This innovative solution called "Digital Water" aims to deliver water consumption solutions to households and the water supply company. It is a web application that predicts water consumption and the water level across 3 dams. The aim of the project is to provide details so that users can track consumption levels, waste, and issues to improve water resource management. The team has five years’ worth of data. They have trained their modes for four years and have tested it for one year.

The team won EUR5,000 and each student was offered the opportunity to do either an internship at Atos or to work together with the company to develop their project.

  • 3rd prize: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia

With an innovative solution to improve traffic, the "CTC – Cooperative Traffic Control" app simulates traffic light controls using Deep Reinforcement Learning. Each junction acts as an agent that takes an action (extends or reduces the green/red time) depending on the cars and waiting time in the lane. The application also gets information from the nearest junctions. The team has trained and tuned the model to get the best model configuration for the traffic light control.

The team won EUR3,000 and each student was offered the opportunity to do either an internship at Atos or to work together with the company to develop their project.

This year, the jury also awarded a special prize to an entry that particularly stood out, for both the significance of the topic tackled and the dedication of the team.

  • Special Jury prize: Loughborough University, United Kingdom

"Initial Survey Swarm" is a solution for a maze simulator where drone agents collect knowledge about a maze over a set period. The drones can share the information they find to search destroyed buildings by generating a 3D map or representation of it after an earthquake or where there is a lack of internet coverage.

At the end of the ceremony, Sophie Proust, Group Chief Technical Officer, Atos said: "AI technology is revolutionizing all sectors of the economy and society, and today the brilliant students in the Atos IT Challenge demonstrated real entrepreneurial skills by offering innovative and concrete solutions that meet the new needs of cooperative AI expressed by businesses and individuals. I am impressed by the outstanding creativity and the quality of the contributions of the award-winning finalists. Congratulations to our winners and to all of our contestants!"

The Atos IT Challenge 2021 was also announced. Next year, students will have the opportunity to develop innovative concepts around the theme of "How digital can help decarbonize non-digital".

Since its creation in 2012, the Atos IT Challenge has empowered students from around the world to develop applications connected to major trends in the digital revolution, such as smart mobility, connected cars, interactive media, connected life, the "right to be forgotten", blockchain and artificial intelligence. Students are mentored by members of Atos Scientific Community who provide technical and practical support, advice and encouragement.

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About Atos

Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with over 110,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of over EUR 11 billion. European number one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing, the Group provides end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Data, Business Applications and Digital Workplace solutions. The group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the brands Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information technology space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education as well as multicultural and pluralistic approaches to research that contribute to scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the group enables its customers, employees and collaborators, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably and confidently in the information technology space.

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12th Venture Week for International Elites in Suzhou and 1st Suzhou Scientists Day begin

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NANJING, China, July 10, 2020 — Two representatives of scientists were rewarded Suzhou Scientist Medal.

12th Venture Week for International Elites in Suzhou and 2020 International Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cloud Expo starts.
12th Venture Week for International Elites in Suzhou and 2020 International Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cloud Expo starts.

On July 10, 2020 Venture Week for International Elites and 1st Scientists Day began in Suzhou, according to the Organizing Committee of 2020 Venture Week for International Elites in Suzhou.

At the opening ceremony, the 1st "Suzhou Scientists Day" launching ceremony was held, the "Suzhou Scientist Medal" was awarded, the International Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cloud Expo was unveiled. New Policy of Talents 4.0, Innovation Talents Cooperation Map, Innovation Center, Talents Association, Recruitment Alliance, International Maker Center Launching Ceremony and other series of activities were released. This year’s Venture Week for International Elites uses a combination of online and offline to attract talents, continuing to invite talents to come to Suzhou and create an "entrepreneurship week that never ends".

This year’s Venture Week embodies four characteristics: First, Suzhou gathers "scientists". Venture Week closely follows the goal of creating an "international source of innovation", widely gathering international and domestic scientific and technological elites, and over 60 academicians as the main scientists will participate in the main venue activities by various ways. At the launching ceremony of the first "Suzhou Scientist Day", Qian Qihu, laureate of the Highest Science and Technology Awards, academician of the first session in the Chinese Academy of Engineering, professor of the Army Engineering University of PLA, director of the National Center for Hematological Diseases Clinical Medicine Research Center, Ruan Changgeng, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor of Suzhou University Medical School was awarded the "Suzhou Scientist Medal" as a representative of outstanding scientists who made significant contributions to Suzhou.

Second, it is to accelerate "Cloudization". This year’s Venture Week uses a combination of online and offline. On the one hand, it focuses on building two major cloud platforms for the recruitment of talents. On the other hand, the combination achieved the whole process of recruitment minimize the impact of the epidemic and create an entrepreneurship week that never ends.

Third, it focuses on the "industrial chain". To highlight the industry chain’s talent orientation, for the first time Suzhou host the International Maker Competition and the global finals (domestic special), organized the city’s high-quality science and technology institutions and venture capital funds for the entire process of docking and follow-up investment, to further strengthen the introduction of talents.

The fourth is to empower the "big ecology". Aiming at creating the goal of "Supreme Service, Super Suzhou", focusing on the release of "Innovation Talents Cooperation Map", Suzhou focused on the ecological brand and actively expanded the "friend circle" of talent. Suzhou focused on the two key elements of talent and capital and established high-end talent recruitment alliance and talent venture alliance.

2061 innovation and entrepreneurship projects were collected in this year’s Venture Week, including 977 overseas projects and 1084 domestic projects. During the opening event, there were 1,720 domestic talent guests with projects participating in the main venue and 10 county-level cities and divided venues; 14 domestic and foreign branch venues, 15 domestic and foreign makers incubation centers, and 31 foreign organization will participate and watch the live webcast of the opening ceremony of the main venue and the "Cloud" negotiation and docking.

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Volterra Recognized by Frost & Sullivan for Innovation in Distributed Cloud

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Volterra platform addresses critical operational challenges across clouds and the edge while delivering a consistent cloud-native environment

SANTA CLARA, California, July 10, 2020 — Based on its recent analysis of the distributed cloud market in North America, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Volterra with the 2020 North American Technology Innovation Leadership Award for its software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based distributed cloud services platform. Volterra’s innovative design and broad set of cloud services enable enterprises to rapidly deploy and securely deliver applications across multi-cloud and diverse edge environments.

2020 North American Distributed Cloud Technology Innovation Leadership Award
2020 North American Distributed Cloud Technology Innovation Leadership Award

“Volterra’s distributed cloud services platform integrates a wide range of network, security and application services traditionally operated as point products. The result is much faster service deployments, simplified operations, end-to-end visibility, and significantly lower operations cost,” said Dhiraj Badgujar, industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “The platform also ensures multi-layer security for cloud workloads and high-performance global connectivity across multiple clouds and the edge. Thus, it serves as a foundation for the secure delivery of distributed applications across distributed environments.”

Volterra’s distributed cloud platform addresses the needs of customers across retail, automotive, manufacturing, e-commerce, and telecom by delivering and enabling workloads wherever they are needed. It achieves this via its core service offerings, VoltMesh™ and VoltStack™. VoltMesh provides high-performance cloud networking and zero-trust security for workloads distributed within or across clouds, as well as the edge. VoltStack provides application deployment and management, clustering, distributed storage, Kubernetes management and application security. VoltConsole™ provides centralized management for VoltMesh and VoltStack through with custom dashboards, logs and metrics, and full multi-tenancy.

Unlike its competitors, both public companies and startups, Volterra’s major differentiating factor is its scalable, end-to-end distributed architecture, as well as a broad set of networking, security, and app management capabilities, that together accelerate app deployments and simplify operations. Its platform further enhances security and reliability for modern apps distributed across multiple clouds through its API gateway and API discovery and control capabilities.

“Volterra’s SaaS-based offering enables customers to offload application hosting onto the network, enhancing the end-user experience by moving workloads closer,” noted Badgujar. “The company boasts a dedicated team of over 100 experts specializing in carrier- and enterprise-grade networking and computing infrastructure. With its strong human capital and collective expertise, Volterra is well-positioned to help enterprises manage the transition to multi-cloud and edge cloud environments.”

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has developed a product with innovative features and functionality that is gaining rapid acceptance in the market. The award recognizes the quality of the solution and the customer value enhancements it enables.

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.

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Volterra provides a distributed cloud platform to deploy, connect, secure and operate applications and data across multi-cloud and edge sites. Line-of-business leaders can drive business transformation and automation by distributing workloads closer to business activity. DevOps teams can manage fleets of applications and infrastructure with less complexity. Network teams can simplify application connectivity and security across clouds. Visit www.volterra.io or follow us on Twitter @Volterra_ to learn more.

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iClick Interactive Ranked Among Top 10 Digital Marketing Solution Providers in APAC for Second Consecutive Year by CIO Advisor APAC

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HONG KONG, July 9, 2020 — iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited ("iClick" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ICLK), an independent online marketing and enterprise data solutions provider in China, today announced that it was listed as one of the "Top 10 Digital Marketing Solution Providers in APAC 2020" by CIO Advisor APAC for the second consecutive year recognizing excellence in delivering Digital Marketing solutions for the Asia-Pacific region. Earlier this year, the Company was also listed as one of the "Top 10 Ad Management Companies 2020" by CIO Advisor APAC.

Powered by cutting-edge technologies and over 930 million Chinese consumer datasets covering 98% of Internet users in China, iClick’s proprietary platform has earned a strong reputation for helping enterprises achieve robust sales growth. Among the cases cited by CIO Advisor APAC as especially outstanding was iClick’s recent cooperation with QiaQia Food, China’s largest producer of roasted seeds and nuts, to optimize its outbound and inbound marketing efforts via the WeChat mini-program platform. Leveraging iClick’s integrated Enterprise and Marketing Cloud Platform that provides full-stack marketing and consumer lifecycle solutions, QiaQia Food realized 180% growth in monthly GMV and average growth of 30% in the number of monthly paying users of its official WeChat mini-program for the twelve months ending May 2020.

"We are delighted to receive this accolade, our second award from CIO Advisor this year," said Jian "T.J." Tang, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of iClick Interactive. "Like QiaQia Food, many Chinese and international brands are striving to grow their businesses in the face of the COVID-19. To help them reach the right consumers, iClick’s solutions integrate extensive online and offline data to create an in-depth understanding and segmentation of customers. By leveraging various technologies, including deep learning, machine learning, predictive analytics, and real-time matching technologies to perform multi-dimensional data drill-downs and dynamic correlation analysis, iClick brings digital marketing solutions to the next level and empowers our clients to effectively target the right audiences with the right messages."

With COVID-19 accelerating the shift in consumer habits towards e-commerce, iClick’s market-leading online marketing solutions are helping more and more brands unlock tremendous retail opportunities in China’s ever-growing digital ad market which is expected to overtake the US as the world’s largest market in 2023.

About iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited

iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited (NASDAQ: ICLK) is an independent online marketing and enterprise data solutions provider that connects worldwide marketers with audiences in China. Built on cutting-edge technologies, iClick’s proprietary platform possesses omni-channel marketing capabilities and fulfils various marketing objectives in a data-driven and automated manner, helping both international and domestic marketers reach their target audiences in China. Headquartered in Hong Kong, iClick was established in 2009 and is currently operating in ten locations worldwide including Asia and Europe.

For more information, please visit ir.i-click.com.  

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This announcement contains forward-looking statements, including those related to the Company’s business strategies, operations and financial performance. These statements constitute "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "confident" and similar statements. Such statements are based upon management’s current expectations and current market and operating conditions and relate to events that involve known or unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company’s control. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the Company’s fluctuations in growth; its success in implementing its mobile and new retail strategies, including extending its solutions beyond its core online marketing business; its success in structuring a CRM & Marketing Cloud platform; relative percentage of its gross billing recognized as revenue under the gross and net models; its ability to retain existing clients or attract new ones; its ability to retain content distribution channels and negotiate favorable contractual terms; market competition, including from independent online marketing technology platforms as well as large and well-established internet companies; market acceptance of online marketing technology solutions and enterprise solutions; effectiveness of its algorithms and data engines; its ability to collect and use data from various sources; ability to integrate and realize synergies from acquisitions, investments or strategic partnership; fluctuations in foreign exchange rates; and general economic conditions in China and other jurisdictions where the Company operates; and the regulatory landscape in China and other jurisdictions where the Company operates. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company’s annual report on Form 20-F and other filings with the SEC. All information provided in this press release and in the attachments is as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.

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IFS Named a Leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management

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IFS achieves the highest overall position for its ability to execute in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management

LONDON, July 9, 2020 — IFS, the global enterprise applications company, sees the most recent placement in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management* (FSM) as a testament to its long-term product investment strategy and singular customer focus. Since 2014, IFS has been recognized as a Leader in every Gartner Magic Quadrant published for FSM.

IFS looks back on 2019 as yet another transformational year in the FSM space, during which the company completed the acquisition of Astea International while growing its field service management business organically by 51 percent versus 2018.

IFS has also welcomed a large number of new customers to its service management fold, including regional telecommunications leader Saudi Telecom Company, energy and communications technology solutions provider SPIE France, and US oil and gas producer Endeavor Energy Resources.

The IFS partner ecosystem was also significantly extended by PTC, whose Servigistics® Service Parts Management will, in combination with IFS Field Service Management™, allow companies to increase equipment uptime and service part availability as well as improve service delivery and execution efficiency.

IFS’s offering combines world-class real-time scheduling optimization alongside a breadth of service management and field service capabilities that are unmatched in the market. This makes IFS uniquely capable of managing the entire service lifecycle for businesses from mobile workforce, planning, service desk, and contact center to contracts, warranties, forward and reverse logistics, and depot repair. IFS connects the complete service value chain enabling businesses to deliver digital transformation and power growth through service.

“Being once again positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management is, in my opinion, an important validation of our unwavering commitment to enabling our customers to power their growth through service,” said Marne Martin, President of IFS Service Management. “Over the past year, we have continued our aggressive investment in the service management business, adding more go-to-market, product, implementation and support resources and expertise to bring even more value to our customers, both globally and regionally. As we continue to tackle the challenges of 2020 together with our partner ecosystem, our focus remains firmly on empowering our customers to accelerate revenue generation and deliver on digital transformation goals with intelligent service solutions that encompass every business process within the complete service value chain. Your customers and shareholders will thank you.”

Access a complimentary copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management here: 

https://info.ifs.com/Gartner-MQ-FSM-2020.html

Learn more about how IFS supports service companies: www.ifs.com/corp/solutions/service-management/.

*Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Field Service Management,” Jim Robinson, Naved Rashid, 06 July, 2020.

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About IFS 

IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. The industry expertise of our people and solutions, together with a commitment to delivering value to every one of our customers, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our team of 4,000 employees and growing ecosystem of partners support more than 10,000 customers around the world challenge the status quo and realize their competitive advantage. Learn more about how our enterprise software solutions can help your business today at ifs.com.

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Paige Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for its Leading AI-based Computational Pathology Offering that Enables Fast and Accurate Cancer Diagnoses

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Paige leveraged the world’s largest dataset in pathology to develop an unparalleled computation pathology offering

SANTA CLARA, California, July 8, 2020 — Based on its recent analysis of the North American AI-based digital pathology market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Paige with the 2020 North American Enabling Technology Leadership Award for its disruptive product offering.

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Paige has developed robust machine learning models for computational pathology for detecting cancer subtypes, thereby enhancing the diagnosis capability of pathologists worldwide. Paige’s AI-based technology was developed and tested on over 100,000 de-identified, digitized slide images from more than 16,000 cancer patients. The deep learning algorithms detected prostate cancer, skin cancer, and breast cancer with near-perfect accuracy.   

“Paige’s AI algorithms validated against the world’s largest dataset in pathology makes it the most trustworthy best in class pathology diagnosis solution,” said Debarati Sengupta, Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. “Paige’s technology eliminates the need to curate datasets, which is time-consuming and expensive. Paige’s AI based pathology offering enables pathologists to make a fast and accurate diagnosis of even the most complex and difficult to interpret slides.”

The Paige offering consists of general and organ-specific products that provide rapid diagnostic stratification, cancer detection, tumor segmentation, and prediction of treatment response, and overall survival. Its algorithms form a portfolio of AI-based digital diagnostics and biomarkers to help pathologists provide diagnoses. For security purposes, all datasets used to build the products were de-identified, and any protected health information or label text was removed.

Notably, Paige’s computational pathology offering received the Breakthrough Device designation by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2019, making it the first such device for cancer diagnosis. Furthermore, it began commercializing in 2019 following its CE mark approval for Paige Prostate, which is a first-to-market prostate cancer detection solution, and a digital pathology viewer for the primary diagnosis of any digital slide. Paige’s AI-based solutions are vendor agnostic, which helps it serve a wider pool of customers.

In 2020, it formed a strategic partnership with Invicro LLC, a Konica Minolta company to provide its AI-based integrated pathology solutions to support Invicro’s drug discovery and development initiatives. “Paige continues to expand its footprint not just in commercial laboratories, but also in biopharmaceutical companies, positioning itself as a pioneer in AI-based digital pathology market” noted Sengupta.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to a company that has developed a pioneering technology that not only enhances current products but also enables the development of new products and applications. The award recognizes the high market acceptance potential of the recipient’s technology.

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.

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About Paige
Paige was founded in 2017 by Thomas Fuchs, Dr.Sc., and colleagues from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.  The Company builds computational pathology products designed so patients and their care teams can make faster, more informed treatment decisions. With this new class of diagnostic devices positioned to drive the future of pathology, Paige created a platform to deliver this novel technology to pathologists to transform their workflow and increase diagnostic confidence and productivity.  Paige’s lightweight platform was purpose-built with pathologists to offer an intuitive user experience, minimize IT burden and costs while ensuring patient safety and data privacy. Our products deliver insights to pathologists so they can arrive efficiently at more precise diagnoses for patients. Paige is the first and only company to receive FDA breakthrough designation for computational pathology products.

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Tata Communications wins eight awards at Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 India ICT Awards

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The recognitions highlight Tata Communications’ unmatched service delivery in India

MUMBAI, India, July 7, 2020 — Tata Communications, a digital ecosystem enabler, received top honors at Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 India ICT Awards, with eight wins in the ‘Company of the Year‘ category. All the awards were for excellence in service provision, underlining the company’s dominance in the Indian service provider market.

Applauding Tata Communications’ feat, Benoy CS, Vice President, Digital Transformation Practice, Frost & Sullivan, said, “Tata Communications’ services are aligned with industry best practices and address vertical-specific needs. It is an ideal example of a service provider that has the best-in-class people, processes and technologies to offer customer-focused solutions and services.”

In its 19th edition, the 2020 India ICT Awards celebrated the achievements of the IT industry’s best innovators, disruptors and leaders. The event honored industry professionals and corporates that created breakthrough business models and strategies through the innovative use of transformative technologies.

“We are thrilled that our continued focus on delivering superior customer experiences has resulted in another year of wins at the prestigious Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 India ICT Awards,” said Sumeet Walia, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Tata Communications. “To have won eight awards, especially the ‘Enterprise Data Service Provider of the Year’ for the eleventh time, is a strong validation of our efforts and expertise. The economic disruption triggered by the pandemic has resulted in an accelerated shift towards a digital-first world, creating an essential need for every industry to align to the new models of working. Our large suite of solutions, services and partnerships have helped unlock infinite possibilities to enable a seamless digital transition for our customers. These awards are a testament to the customers’ confidence in us as their trusted advisor. We look forward to continuing to work closely with our customers and enabling secure connected digital experiences for them.”

Accolades Won by Tata Communications at Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 India ICT Awards:

Enterprise Data Service Provider of the Year

Tata Communications has demonstrated tremendous innovation in product launches and strategies along with strong service delivery and support. It has enhanced the IZO cloud enablement platform, which integrates IZO Internet WAN with Global MPLS VPN, to form IZO Hybrid WAN. This is fully linked to its security services, such as DDoS mitigation, virtual proxy secure web gateway and Unified Threat Management. The company’s unique IZO SD-WAN service is available in 150+ countries globally and is continuously gaining traction among Indian enterprises.

Tata Communications follows a multi-pronged strategy and has the vision to enable faster service delivery through automation and self-servicing/provisioning capabilities implemented through APIs and virtual platforms. Furthermore, it aims to enable automation and virtualisation to expedite customers’ business transformation journeys.

Enterprise Telecom Service Provider of the Year – Large Enterprise Segment

Bolstered by its global network infrastructure and leadership in emerging markets, Tata Communications is continuously developing its service portfolio to include new technologies and innovations that simplify their enterprise customers’ operations and help promote a competitive enterprise telecoms services business.

The company has a vast portfolio of solutions and services aligned to the needs of large enterprise customers. Its focus on staying agile and delivering superior customer experiences has helped it position itself as a digital ecosystem enabler. Its international network coverage and partnerships  help it serve Indian companies with a global footprint and global companies with India presence.

Managed Multi Cloud Service Provider of the Year

Tata Communications has developed an integrated value proposition by combining its managed service prowess with multi-cloud capabilities. This is helping it tap newer opportunities in the emerging multi-cloud space.

Its broad multi cloud portfolio enables digital transformation for enterprises by bringing together all enterprise workloads on a single pane, yet giving each workload a choice of platforms to run on multiple models such as public clouds, managed hosting, private cloud and cloud container services. It helps the organisations balance investments in on-premise private cloud technologies with effective utilisation of off-premise public cloud services to achieve an optimised total cost of ownership (TCO).

SDWAN Service Provider of the Year

Tata Communications has been the frontrunner for efficiently leveraging and building innovative solutions using cutting-edge technologies such as Software Defined Networking/ Network-Function Virtualization and IoT. It has exhibited exceptional go-to-market strategies and service innovations by providing two different deployment models so customers can pick the one that best aligns with their SD-WAN deployment strategy.

Tata Communications has maintained its SD-WAN leadership in India on the back of its customised SD-WAN solution suite, continuous addition of innovative features in SD-WAN service, strong R&D capabilities and collaborative business with customers.

Unified Communications Service Provider of the Year

India’s Unified Communications & Collaboration (UCC) market is becoming increasingly cloud-oriented as more businesses are willing to shift to the hosted/cloud model as long as they have a strong service provider that can manage their UCC requirements end-to-end. Tata Communications has been a clear leader in identifying these changing preferences of Indian businesses and continues to build technology partnerships to provide best-in-class UCC experiences to its business customers.

Managed Security Service Provider of the Year – Telecom

As enterprises aim to build a 360-degree cyber security posture, the number of security tools within the IT ecosystem has increased at a rapid pace. Organisations are not only focused on perimeter security, but are extending the security elements beyond the enterprise network; notably to the cloud and mobile devices. They need service providers that have a broad range of capabilities to manage and monitor security concerns around these areas. Tata Communications has expanded its cyber security offerings in response to this and significantly improved its threat detection and response capabilities. It leverages next-generation technologies and security frameworks that are industry-compliant and dependable.

Cloud Interconnect Service Provider of the Year

A trendsetter in the cloud interconnect space in India, the company has a robust roadmap to further enhance its cloud interconnect offerings and improve customer experiences. It plans to develop expansive multi-cloud connectivity capabilities involving customer use cases such as distributed applications in multiple clouds. Additionally, Tata Communications is developing cost-effective approaches wherein a customer can connect to multiple cloud service providers through a single physical connection. This would be significantly more efficient than building multiple dedicated physical connections to different cloud service providers.

Tata Communications intends to integrate its managed security services capabilities with cloud interconnect services. Moreover, it hopes to increase its existing interconnect capacity with cloud providers to address the rising demand for bandwidth.

Video Managed Services Provider of the Year

As the video managed services segment continues evolving due to the rapid advancement of technologies, service providers are being challenged to address customer demand on-the-go to remain relevant. The video managed services segment has, as a result, undergone a significant transformation in terms of the introduction of customised solutions by various players. The declining infrastructure cost of cloud-solutions and the rising demand for a wider range of video solutions at low costs are key issues that need to be addressed.

Tata Communications provides managed video services to enterprises leveraging its flagship product, Video Connect, as a core service for live and file-based contribution and global distribution to broadcasters and aggregators. It has the largest dedicated fiber-based Video Connect managed service, which offers unprecedented reach, flexibility and reliability. With a focus on constant innovation, the company has become the managed service provider of choice for broadcasting solutions such as Live 4K, 8K, and 360-degree video.

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Frost & Sullivan’s India ICT Awards contenders were judged on a variety of parameters including revenue, market share, product diversity, vertical and horizontal diversity, major customer acquisitions, the efficacy of the innovation process, product service, and positioning. The judging process involved in-depth primary interviews with various industry participants and secondary research conducted by Frost & Sullivan analysts. An elite panel of jury members comprising some of the most prominent CIOs/CTOs from the industry evaluated the compiled data and incorporated the end-user perspective. Frost & Sullivan then presented the awards to the companies that received the number one industry rank in each category.

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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 Tata Communications

Tata Communications is a digital ecosystem enabler that powers today’s fast-growing digital economy.

The company enables the digital transformation of enterprises globally, including 300 of the Fortune 500 – unlocking opportunities for businesses by enabling borderless growth, boosting product innovation and customer experience, improving productivity and efficiency, building agility and managing risk.

With its solutions orientated approach and proven managed service capabilities and cutting-edge infrastructure, Tata Communications drives the next level of intelligence powered by cloud, mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), collaboration, security, and network services.

Tata Communications carries around 30% of the world’s internet routes and connects businesses to 60% of the world’s cloud giants and 4 out of 5 mobile subscribers.

The company’s capabilities are underpinned by its global network, the world’s largest wholly owned subsea fibre backbone and a Tier-1 IP network with connectivity to more than 200 countries and territories.

Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India.

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Co-writing the new digital economy chapter in 5G era concludes the China Unicom’s 2020 International Partners Meeting

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HONG KONG, July 3, 2020 — Over 600 global partners participated in China Unicom’s 15th International Partners Meeting online under the theme “Thrive in Unity. Connect the Future” that explored different ways to leverage the digital economy – the unique ecosystem for building a global collaborative platform under the pandemic.

China Unicom vice president He Biao delivered his keynote speech “Accelerate the full digital transformation for the win-win 5G era” in China Unicom’s 15th International Partners Meeting.
China Unicom vice president He Biao delivered his keynote speech “Accelerate the full digital transformation for the win-win 5G era” in China Unicom’s 15th International Partners Meeting.

Focus on innovative cooperation for 5G digital transformation

China Unicom introduced to its global partners that its journey to full digital transformation and its determination for a win-win co-operation under the threat of COVID-19 around the world. The outbreak has accelerated the digitalization of corporate services and online personal consumption, which brought challenges and opportunities for the telecommunication industry transformation.

In his keynote speech “Accelerate the full digital transformation for the win-win 5G era”, China Unicom vice president He Biao said the company’s innovative eco-system offered a unique advantage to help customers achieve their success. He stressed the company’s 5G focus would continue to open the door for 5G application and deeper collaboration among partners that will benefit thousands different industries.

Leveraging on the position of customer trustworthy international information service value creator, He Biao said China Unicom is committed to providing continuous high quality end-to-end integrated services to its global customers. China Unicom currently has 32 branches outside China and over 300 international telecom operators with a long-term partnership, serving over 3,000 multinational corporates, thanks to its “going out” and “bringing in” growth strategy.

At the same time, China Unicom also presented an online awards to its 28 partners for their long-term support.

Introducing multiple killer apps that benefit thousands different industries

In response to the changing societal needs, China Unicom proactively led the revolution by building an online, intelligent, cloud-enabled service network. In the conference, China Unicom showcased the customer highly-recognized smart city big data tools, cloud-based video conferencing for corporate and individual, AI facial recognition, robotics and other applications.

For the commitment of smart city and data analysis, China Unicom and partners can conduct big data analysis to support the government and corporate decision and to enhance its efficiency and accuracy under the emergency situation.

With the network of global partnership that covers over 190 countries, China Unicom is capable of providing safe and high-quality global video communication solutions tailored-made for telecommunication, conferencing, training and emergency command for higher efficiency.

At the same time, China Unicom demonstrated the AI facial recognition and the application of robotics under the pandemic. Equipped with enhanced algorithm, the AI system replaced the traditional manual test for which it can recognize whether an individual with mask had abnormal temperature, as the AI system is embedded with a deep learning system. It enables auto petrol and examination under different scenarios to assist the preventive epidemic measures.

Optimizing global network resources for product enhancement

In the conference, China Unicom demonstrated its high-quality network resources, Internet of Things, cloud-based smart network solutions that covers the globe for 24/7.

Based on its extensive and rich undersea cable resources, China Unicom provides its global partners and multinational corporates a professional and high-quality network service with a competitive cross-border product in a faster and more comprehensive global footprint.

The Product of the year is China Unicom cloud-based network. As a high-quality MPLS-VPN provider, it provides highly-efficient and stable interconnection network that sufficiently protect the customer distribution network. To date, this product covers over 70 interconnection spots in China and over 30 spots outside China via 41 PoPs located outside China for its global customers.

At the same time, China Unicom showed its global connectivity especially in its Asia Pacific capability via global partnership, integration of network resources, standardization of fee and procedures for a unified global internet of things structure. Its 7×24 global team and brand-new safety operating centre provide non-stop network continuity and protection for global customers.

In the digital era, China Unicom will join hands with its global partners to build an open and co-sharing intelligent ecosystem that will thrive in unity and connect the future.

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Avaya Acclaimed by Frost & Sullivan for Elevating Contact Center Workforce Engagement Management with its OneCloud™ Portfolio

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Avaya’s solutions combine resources, insights, and knowledge from across the organization to deliver outstanding customer and employee experiences

SANTA CLARA, California, July 2, 2020 — Based on its recent analysis of the North American workforce engagement management (WEM) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE:AVYA), a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, with the 2020 North American Growth Innovation Leadership Frost Radar Award. The Avaya OneCloud contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) portfolio provides customer and workforce engagement solutions supplemented by capabilities such as artificial intelligence (AI)-infused bots, predictive routing, real-time sentiment analysis, and agent guidance. These capabilities connect all touch points across the customer journey including voice, video, chat, messaging, social, and screen.

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"Avaya’s capabilities can intelligently transition customer needs from self-service AI to human interaction and deliver a personalized journey across the entire organization, from front- to back-office, for superior CX," said Nancy Jamison, industry director. "Its developer tools and APIs allow in-house and partner developer communities to innovate and integrate applications. Some of its notable AI- and mobility-based products include Avaya Conversational Intelligence, Avaya Mobile Experience, Avaya Mobile Identity, and Avaya AI Routing."

Avaya’s flexible CCaaS options, supporting public, private, and hybrid deployment, enable customers to leverage the cloud model best suited to their business needs. The Avaya OneCloud CCaaS portfolio provides customer and workforce engagement solutions supplemented by capabilities such as AI-infused bots, predictive routing, and real-time sentiment analysis and agent guidance. Also, its OneCloud UCaaS solutions can function in all environments, as can Avaya Cloud Office. Frost & Sullivan recognizes Avaya as one of the few providers with a full line of devices and endpoints. It complements its continued R&D investment with technology partnerships, including majors such as Verint, Afiniti, Nuance, Google, Avaya’s A.I.Connect and DevConnect programs, to round out its full-stack of WEM and WEM-supporting products.

"In an evolving economy where experience is a differentiator for brands, we are honored to be recognized for our commitment to enhancing customer and employee experiences for our clients," said Anthony Bartolo, Avaya executive vice president and chief product officer. "Avaya continues it’s ongoing investment in customer-led innovation and expanding our ecosystem of technology partners that work with us to deliver a robust portfolio of customer engagement, workforce engagement management and workforce optimization solutions. This award helps highlight that in a sea of contact center providers, Avaya is far differentiated by our breadth of WEM solutions and experience, over anyone else in the field."

Avaya customers including Conduit Global, Florius and Canon Financial Services, among others, are driving improved engagement and business outcomes with WEM innovation. Strategically, Avaya combines solutions to bolster its core capabilities as part of the WEM portfolio. For example, for recruitment and onboarding, the Avaya Conversational Intelligence solution sends real-time sentiment and intent with context to the desktop to help new hires make informed decisions.

"Avaya’s WEM cloud delivery and subscription models are well-suited to both mid-market and large enterprises. Overall, it is set to lead the industry with a converged UC and contact center platform that can redefine WFO for unique CX and EX, even beyond contact centers," noted Jamison. "Strong partnerships and substantial investments in R&D have positioned Avaya for notable growth in 2020."

The Growth Innovation Leadership (GIL) best practice is bestowed upon companies that are market leaders that are at the forefront of innovation.  These companies consolidate or grow their leadership position by continuously innovating and creating new products and solutions that serve the evolving needs of the customer base. These companies are also best positioned to expand the market by strategically broadening their product portfolio.

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.

To get an in-depth look from Avaya at how to simplify, modernize, and automate customer journeys to build customer loyalty, click here.

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About Avaya
Businesses are built on the experiences they provide, and everyday millions of those experiences are built by Avaya (NYSE: AVYA). For over one hundred years, we’ve enabled organizations around the globe to win – by creating intelligent communications experiences for customers and employees. Avaya builds open, converged and innovative solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration – in the cloud, on-premise or a hybrid of both. To grow your business, we’re committed to innovation, partnership, and a relentless focus on what’s next. We’re the technology company you trust to help you deliver Experiences that Matter. Visit us at http://www.avaya.com.

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P: 669.242.8034
E: alalias@avaya.com

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Final Entry Deadline Approaching in The 17th International Business Awards

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FAIRFAX, Va., July 1, 2020 — The final entry deadline for the 2020 (17th annual) edition of The International Business Awards® is Tuesday, July 28.

All individuals and organizations worldwide — public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small — may submit nominations to The International Business Awards(R).
All individuals and organizations worldwide — public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small — may submit nominations to The International Business Awards(R).

The International Business Awards, one of the eight Stevie Awards programs, are widely considered to be the world’s premier business awards competition. In 2019 the competition attracted more than 4,000 nominations from organizations in more than 70 nations.

All individuals and organizations worldwide—public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small—may submit nominations to The International Business Awards. The final entry deadline this year is Tuesday, July 28. Entry details are available at www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.

Juries featuring more than 150 executives will determine the Stevie Award winners. The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be announced on September 9. Stevie Award winners will be honored at a virtual awards ceremony this year.

New this year are a variety of COVID-19 response awards categories that do not have entry fees. These aim to honor heroes of every industry including medical, education, food delivery, media, public service, business response, and more.

The International Business Awards recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace. Categories include:

The IBAs feature more than 40 categories that do not require the payment of entry fees, including all 35 of the Company/Organization of the Year categories, and that there are many new and revised features of the IBAs for 2020, including:

  • Nine new categories to recognize singular business achievements in areas such as business turnaround, finance, revenue generation, and science and technology, among others.
  • The simplification of submission requirements in the Company/Organization, Corporate Communications & Public Relations, Marketing, and New Product & Product Management category groups.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in eight programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and the new Middle East Stevie Awards. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

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