Industrial and production engineering

Community Summit North America Welcomes 40+ Microsoft Speakers, 4500+ Attendees & NASCAR Champion Julia Landauer to Charlotte, N.C.

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

PHOENIX, Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Summit North America , the largest independent innovation, training, and education event for Microsoft Business Applications, is pleased to announce Microsoft executive speakers, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Partner Preconferences, and Featured Speaker Julia Landauer to the keynote program.

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PHOENIX, Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Summit North America , the largest independent innovation, training, and education event for Microsoft Business Applications, is pleased to announce Microsoft executive speakers, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Partner Preconferences, and Featured Speaker Julia Landauer to the keynote program.
"We are thrilled to have such tremendous support and participation from Microsoft speakers this year," commented Community Director Pam Misialek.
"It is an amazing complement to the 400+ speakers from the community who will be leading more than 600 sessions across the five days of the event!"
Community Summit North America will be preceded by two highly anticipated Preconference sessions on October 16th, both of which are at sell out capacity:
AI Summit Preconference will have approximately 250 attendees and include a keynote fireside chat with Microsoft AI and Power Platform leadership.

ManpowerGroup and the InnoEnergy Skills Institute Partner to Upskill Thousands of People for Green Jobs by 2025

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

MILWAUKEE, Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The green transition will drive demand for millions of new roles in renewable energy, electrification, battery technology, hydrogen and more. ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN) and EIT InnoEnergy are committed to preparing people for these new opportunities, and today announce an ambitious partnership to train and upskill 800,000 workers in the battery value chain across Europe by the end of 2025.

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MILWAUKEE, Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The green transition will drive demand for millions of new roles in renewable energy, electrification, battery technology, hydrogen and more.
The collaboration between ManpowerGroup and InnoEnergy's Skills Institute will provide accelerated virtual and in-person training for 70 in-demand roles including Battery Technicians, Electric Vehicle (EV) Chargers Maintenance Operators, Production Engineers, and more.
Additionally, it helps drive progress towards the European Commission's goal of having a skilled workforce to support the European Union's Green Deal.
The InnoEnergy Skills Institute provides flexible training that includes online courses and a combination of virtual and in-person lab experiences.

Vonage Introduces 'Conversations for Salesforce' for Seamless Customer Journeys across Channels, Processes and Organisations

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

With 30 percent of consumers claiming messaging apps are their most-used method for communicating with businesses, Vonage 'Conversations for Salesforce' will help businesses increase customer interactions, improve customer experience with personalised conversations, and optimise productivity.

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With 30 percent of consumers claiming messaging apps are their most-used method for communicating with businesses, Vonage 'Conversations for Salesforce' will help businesses increase customer interactions, improve customer experience with personalised conversations, and optimise productivity.
With Salesforce as a single source of truth for customer data, users can participate in a conversation and access the entire customer history.
Response-handling can also be automated with chatbots or routed automatically to the right agent or organisation to enable fast resolution.
With Vonage 'Conversations for Salesforce', Thunder Funding has now enabled two-way conversations and can send more than 5,000 messages per day to customers and prospects.

Vonage Introduces 'Conversations for Salesforce' for Seamless Customer Journeys across Channels, Processes and Organizations

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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

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HOLMDEL, N.J., Sept. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation and a part of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), has launched Vonage 'Conversations for Salesforce', a configurable omnichannel messaging app powered by the Vonage Communications Platform, enabling businesses to serve customers directly from the Salesforce platform and delivering exceptional customer engagements, whilst blending bot and Vonage Contact Center (VCC) agent interactions.

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With 30 percent of consumers claiming messaging apps are their most-used method for communicating with businesses, Vonage 'Conversations for Salesforce' will help businesses increase customer interactions, improve customer experience with personalized conversations, and optimize productivity.
With Salesforce as a single source of truth for customer data, users can participate in a conversation and access the entire customer history.
Response-handling can also be automated with chatbots or routed automatically to the right agent or organization to enable fast resolution.
With Vonage 'Conversations for Salesforce', Thunder Funding has now enabled two-way conversations and can send more than 5,000 messages per day to customers and prospects.

High-Throughput Computing on Rescale Enables Innovation at Scale with Multi-Cloud Accelerated Computing

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rescale, the leader in high-performance computing built for the cloud, announces High-Throughput Computing (HTC), a new capability on Rescale's platform for running massively parallel computational jobs such as those used in semiconductor verification analysis, bioinformatics pipelines, and design space exploration.

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"Rescale is helping Arm usher in a new era for chip design," says Mark Galbraith, Arm's VP of Productivity Engineering.
Cloud computing creates new possibilities for R&D organizations to use HTC at unprecedented scale.
To fully capture these benefits, organizations need sophisticated and robust management capabilities to securely manage HTC tasks across multiple cloud services and computing architectures.
says Joris Poort, CEO of Rescale, "Arm is a great example of how Rescale is working with leading companies to accelerate innovation with the power of intelligent computing across clouds.

Xtract One Technologies Expands Leadership Team with Key Hires to Support Strategic Growth

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Thursday, August 17, 2023

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He joins from Mimecast, where he served as Senior Vice President of Product Management, and adds deep product management and engineering leadership expertise to Xtract One’s offerings.

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He joins from Mimecast, where he served as Senior Vice President of Product Management, and adds deep product management and engineering leadership expertise to Xtract One’s offerings.
Prior to Xtract One, Joshua has also held leadership positions at esteemed companies including Raytheon, Forcepoint, and TRC Companies.
Chris joins the Xtract One team to lead, scale, and oversee the Company’s sales team.
Undoubtedly, they will both play a pivotal role in pushing our vision forward and facilitating the growth of our company.”
For more on Xtract One, please visit www.xtractone.com .

Vonage Protection Suite to Provide End-to-End Communications Security

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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

HOLMDEL, N.J., July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, has launched the Vonage Protection Suite. Designed to enable developers and businesses to create counter-fraud safeguards that protect against the evolving threat of online fraud and cyberattacks, Vonage Protection Suite is a comprehensive portfolio of counter-fraud products and solutions that brings a unique level of customer control in how communications are managed.

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Vonage Protection Suite enables end-to-end safeguards, leveraging APIs to address security and authentication.
"The Vonage Protection Suite is a comprehensive set of tools that enables end-to-end safeguards, leveraging the power of communication API building blocks to address security, authentication and identification processes."
Built using Vonage APIs, the Vonage Protection Suite includes:
Vonage Fraud Defender - Vonage Fraud Defender is an easy-to-implement, fraud alerting and blocking solution.
Vonage Protection Suite also complements the full Vonage Communications Platform (VCP) offering, providing easy-to-implement tools that protect the entire VCP portfolio of solutions: Unified Communications, Contact Center, and Conversational Commerce, as well as the recently launched AI Acceleration Suite .

Cadence Unveils Joules RTL Design Studio, Delivering Breakthrough Gains in RTL Productivity and Quality of Results

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Friday, July 14, 2023

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the delivery of the Cadence® Joules™ RTL Design Studio, a new solution that provides users with actionable intelligence to accelerate the register transfer level (RTL) design and implementation process.

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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the delivery of the Cadence® Joules™ RTL Design Studio, a new solution that provides users with actionable intelligence to accelerate the register transfer level (RTL) design and implementation process.
With Joules RTL Design Studio, users can achieve physical estimates quickly and accurately, unlocking up to 5X productivity and up to 25% quality of results (QoR) improvements in the RTL.
View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230713175152/en/
The new Cadence Joules RTL Design Studio provides users with actionable intelligence to accelerate the register transfer level (RTL) design and implementation process, delivering up to 5X faster RTL convergence and up to 25% improved QoR.
Now, by leveraging Joules RTL Design Studio from Cadence, we can achieve efficient and accurate power breakdown analysis much earlier in the design phase.

Highspot Continues Global Expansion with Launch of India Operations

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Monday, July 10, 2023

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SEATTLE, July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Highspot, the leading sales enablement platform that increases sales productivity, today announced the launch of its India operations in Hyderabad. The company also announced that 30-plus-year industry veteran and ex-Microsoft executive Gurpreet Singh Pall has joined as Chief Operating Officer of Highspot India. Highspot's expanded footprint enables the company to reinforce its commitment to innovation, agility, and helping customers worldwide drive predictable revenue growth.

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SEATTLE, July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Highspot , the leading sales enablement platform that increases sales productivity, today announced the launch of its India operations in Hyderabad.
The company also announced that 30-plus-year industry veteran and ex-Microsoft executive Gurpreet Singh Pall has joined as Chief Operating Officer of Highspot India.
"We're writing a new chapter in the Highspot story with the launch of product and engineering in India," said Bhrighu Sareen, President of Product & Engineering, Highspot.
India produces some of the world's best engineering talent – expanding Highspot's product and engineering operations in India will open a new world of possibilities for strategic enablement."

MEDIA ADVISORY: Zmags and Toys“R”Us Executives to Co-Panel Webinar: “Accelerating Content Experimentation to Drive Revenue Now (And Later)”

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Online Retail, Other Retail, Retail, Toys, Specialty, Fear, Industrial and production engineering, Infrastructure, Online shopping, Engineering

“The biggest challenge for most ecommerce teams is not the capacity to come up with great ideas, but rather their ability to execute experiments at scale,” says Breen.

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“The biggest challenge for most ecommerce teams is not the capacity to come up with great ideas, but rather their ability to execute experiments at scale,” says Breen.
When teams are trying to drive up Average Order Value and revenue today, waiting six weeks or longer for multiple content variants to be built could cost businesses lots of money in lost conversions.
As the CTO of Zmags, Ryan Breen sets Zmags Platform Strategy, including leadership of Product, Engineering, and Infrastructure.
She creates unique digital experiences for ToysRUs.com, and is responsible for planning, executing, and managing all frontend ecommerce initiatives while tracking key metrics and performance.