Pivotree selected by global retail brand to provide change management strategy and improve supply chain capabilities TORONTO, March 07, 2023 –( BUSINESS WIRE )–Pivotree Inc. (TSXV:PVT) ("Pivotree” or the "Company"), a leading provider of frictionless commerce solutions, announced today it has been selected by Psycho Bunny to support their supply chain strategy and overall digital transformation for the rapidly growing retailer. As part of a larger Digital Transformation initiative, Psycho Bunny has also embarked on working with Pivotree to implement Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), an integration platform that is part of the IDMC (Informatica Data Management Cloud). IICS provides a variety of features such as business data integration, application integration, and API management between cloud and local applications. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230307005379/en/ (Graphic: Business Wire) Psycho Bunny is a menswear brand that was founded in 2005 with a mission to perfect the polo. Due to their commitment to quality that extends from the polo to everything they do, they currently operate around the globe, with a retail presence in the United States, Japan, Mexico, and Canada. With 60 stores already standing in North America and more than 20 stores set to […]

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Vonage Executives and Customers Lend Thought Leadership Across Several Sessions Vonage Named Best of Enterprise Connect Award Finalist HOLMDEL, N.J., March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — V onage , a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, will showcase new innovations advancing customer engagement for enterprises at the upcoming Enterprise Connect 2023 . The Company will also lend thought leadership across 10 sessions, including two General Sessions. Enterprise Connect, the premier event for the enterprise communications and collaboration technology industry, will take place March 27 – 30, 2023, at the Gaylord Palms Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Continue Reading Vonage is a Best of Enterprise Connect Award Finalist for Best Innovation for Employee Experience Management. Tweet this "Enterprise Connect is a very important event for us each year to drive awareness of the power of creating connections, conversations and customer engagement through solutions built from our communications platform," said Joy Corso, Chief Marketing Officer for Vonage. "This show also lends Vonage the perfect opportunity to connect with analysts on the latest trends and areas of focus within our space, and to hear from enterprise businesses to gain their perspective on communications needs and to understand how […]

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MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 07, 2023 –( BUSINESS WIRE )–SRM (Strategic Resource Management), an independent advisory firm serving financial institutions across North America and Europe, announced several moves illustrating their commitment to transformational banking consulting, including core systems, open banking, and fintech investment strategy consulting services. SRM collaborates on strategies with its bank and credit union clients that lead to better technology decisions and increased efficiencies. SRM has a strong history of delivering core banking system assessments, vendor selection, and negotiating with core system vendors on behalf of their clients. The goal is to ensure fair market pricing and maintain solid relationships while achieving the features and functionality required to meet and exceed strategic objectives. SRM has added Jeff Ostheimer, Director of Fintech Advisory Services. Ostheimer joined SRM after 17 years at Finastra. He has spent time helping banks and credit unions on their digital transformation journeys focused on core banking, digital banking platforms, and ancillary services. Additionally, SRM hired Mike Langenkamp as Director, Community Financial Institutions. Langenkamp previously worked for Fiserv, where he gained a deep understanding of the needs of the financial services community. In his new role at SRM, he delivers core banking and digital transformation projects. […]

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The human resources profession is undergoing rapid change. While HR used to be seen as an administrative function like finance, it now plays an increasingly strategic role within the digital transformation of global business. Boards today want HR teams to do more than keep staffing costs down, they want them to help create the organisation of tomorrow. Digital technology is changing the workforce and the experience of being ‘at work,’ from how work is organised, to the types of work people do, and the profile of the workforce itself. CEOs and COOs want a fundamentally different human resources strategy that addresses and leverages these changes. That puts HR departments in the spotlight to re-design core practices like talent acquisition to performance management. As digital technology makes life more networked and quantifiable; the new digital organisation must also be built around teams, with a focus on diversity, culture, learning, and analytics that can measure team effectiveness. As organisational structures evolve and the workforce becomes dominated by digital natives, innovative approaches are needed in every HR domain. HR departments need to innovate, experiment, and become fully digital in approach to, and delivery of, HR ‘services’ – both to executives and to […]

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Investing in technology alone is not enough to bring about meaningful digital transformation, research has revealed . But if cultural and technical change are given equal weight and both align with organisational strategy, business change initiatives can boost company revenues by up to 44% in a year. These are the key findings of a survey conducted among 301 UK IT and security professionals by telecommunications provider Telstra. Diana Kearns-Manolatos, global head of digital transformation research for management consultancy Deloitte’s Centre for Integrated Research, agrees. She defines digital transformation as being “the ability to use technology to continuously evolve and reinvent the enterprise”. But to “maximise value creation” here, she says, it is vital to strike the “right balance across business strategy, technology enablement and cultural change”. Kearns-Manolatos describes them as being the “three important pillars” underpinning success. Rob Robinson, head of tech services provider Telstra Purple, puts it more bluntly. In his view, any failure to achieve “full alignment from a cultural and technology perspective” will inevitably result in “diminished returns on investment and to existing processes”. This means “it’s critical they’re aligned”, he says. On the other hand, more than three-quarters (77%) of survey respondents also believe that […]

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NEW YORK, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Dentsu Group Inc. (Tokyo: 4324; ISIN: JP3551520004; President & CEO: Hiroshi Igarashi; Head Office: Tokyo; Capital: 74,609.81 million yen) announced today that it has acquired Shift7 Digital, a B2B experience and commerce agency focused on revolutionizing the digital experience for manufacturers and distributors. Shift7 will join Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management company within dentsu. Merkle (PRNewsfoto/Merkle) Shift7 helps B2B companies modernize the marketing and sales process by optimizing customer touchpoints and delivering a seamless self-service experience. By shifting the way manufacturers and distributors engage with customers online, Shift7 enables brands to increase sales, improve profitability, and forge long-lasting customer relationships. With this acquisition, Shift7 will bolster Merkle’s global Experience and Commerce practice and further its position as a leading experience partner for B2B transformation. Previously a Salesforce Ventures-backed company and a current Salesforce Crest Partner, Shift7 adds strong B2B Salesforce multi-cloud capabilities and will bring more than 129 Salesforce certifications to the Merkle team. The union will expand Merkle and dentsu’s existing offering in Salesforce B2B Commerce, Sales, and Service Cloud capabilities. Dentsu has more than 2,500 Salesforce certified employees with 5,000 Salesforce certifications globally, providing customer experience transformation […]

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As we segue into March, the Ethereum layer-2 space is continuing to see strong demand: One of its largest scaling solutions, Arbitrum , is seeing renewed exponential growth through subsectors in the ecosystem. While base blockchains (layer ones, or L1s in crypto-speak) remain the bedrock of the web3 landscape, technology built on top (layer two chains, or L2s) are exploding. Arbitrum recently surpassed the Ethereum chain that it is built on in terms of total transactions processed. Arbitrum is an L2 Ethereum-focused scaling solution that aims to act like Ethereum but with transactions that cost way less and processing that’s way faster. It makes up about 54% of the market share on Ethereum and has about $3.38 billion total value locked, according to L2Beat data. The TVL, which is tracked through the amount of tokens locked in all escrow contracts for an L2, is near its highest point since May 2022, the data shows. L2 scaling solutions like Arbitrum, Optimism, Immutable X , StarkWare and others are built on top of layer-1 blockchains like Ethereum. But L2s function in a faster, cheaper way and reduce the load on L1s by bundling up transactions and only recording final results on […]

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From hunting and fishing to mountain biking, hiking, boating and camping, Arkansas is lauded for its abundant outdoor recreation opportunities. The state’s scenic rivers, lakes, forests, mountains, caves, creeks, roadways, airstrips and trails offer limitless opportunities. Talk Business and Politics states, they also boost the state’s prospects for job creation and economic growth. According to the most recent data published this past November by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), Arkansas’ outdoor recreation economy grew 23% from 2020 to 2021. That is the largest recorded measure for Arkansas since the BEA started calculating the size of the outdoor recreation economy in 2012. The report showed that outdoor recreation accounts for 2.4% ($3.5 billion) of Arkansas’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and includes about 40,000 jobs. Katherine Andrews says capitalizing on the growth trend is essential to ensure Arkansas continues to be a tourism destination for outdoor recreation and a core driver for economic growth. “It’s inherent to our DNA,” she said. “Outdoor recreation and tourism are one and the same.” Andrews is entering her second full year as the Office of Outdoor Recreation director in the state’s tourism department. Gov. Asa Hutchinson created the office in June 2021 through […]

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While interest in digital assets has waned in some parts of the world, in the Middle East and Northern Africa adoption of crypto has been skyrocketing according to Mustafa Kheriba, the executive chairman of the asset management firm Iceberg Capital Limited. According to Kheriba, factors such as high inflation and residents’ desire for high-return investment opportunities have drawn many to cryptocurrency. The Many Benefits of Blockchain Despite the bearish conditions that persisted in much of 2022, according to Mustafa Kheriba, the executive chairman of Iceberg Capital Limited, interest and adoption of crypto and blockchain has not dissipated. To support this assertion, Kheriba pointed to the 23rd State of the Developer report which suggests that most experienced software developers are “most likely to be working on blockchain projects.” Nevertheless, the Iceberg Capital Limited executive chairman told Bitcoin.com News interest has particularly been surging in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region where some regulators have seized the initiative by establishing or proposing to create frameworks for regulating crypto assets. In addition, Kheriba said factors such as inflation or the depreciation of national currencies have played a part in driving up the number of citizens that have embraced crypto. On […]

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A Unique Device Identifier (UDI) is an individualized alphanumeric signature associated with a single medical device. Since 2013, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has mandated the placement of UDIs on Class II and III medical devices. As only a few institutions are actually tracking UDIs, their tremendous potential to transform patient care, quality, safety, and research remains largely unrealized. In this article, we propose that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate inclusion of a UDI in billing claims so that hospitals are incentivized to build UDI capture systems. We further highlight five key areas in which this data capture will transform surgery: (1) improving quality and safety, (2) facilitating collection of real-world evidence, (3) ensuring price transparency, (4) promoting health equity, and (5) improving outcomes research. The Landscape In 2013, the FDA mandated that medical device manufacturers assign a UDI to each device. The UDI is a numeric or alphanumeric code printed onto the device packaging. Each UDI contains two components: the device identifier (DI) and the production identifier (PI). The UDI not only allows one device to be distinguished from another (through the DI) but also provides clear information on when the device was […]

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