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  • Advanced Systems Concepts Inc. Launches First Self-Healing Platform of Its Kind, Simplifying Workload Automation

    New Super REST API Adapter takes ActiveBatch API to the next level Company acquires JSCAPE to enable organizations to automate even more business processes

    Morristown, NJ– January 28, 2021– Advanced Systems Concepts Inc. (ASCI), creators of industry-leading workflow automation software ActiveBatch, today announced that the company will become the first of its kind to deliver an intelligent, self-healing workflow automation platform. The ActiveBatch platform will enable preemptive error detection and proactive troubleshooting so that organizations can ultimately reduce their support tickets to zero. The new, advanced capabilities will build on top of ActiveBatch’s full range of features and functions designed to simplify workload automation and extend the life of systems for companies at all stages of digital transformation. The company also announced the release of its Super REST API Adapter and acquisition of managed file transfer (MFT) leader, JSCAPE.

    The new Self-Healing Platform will recognize issues and report on the user’s environment, telling them what’s working, what’s changing and what’s broken – or what soon will be broken. Ultimately, ActiveBatch will be able to self-update and send proactive, AI-powered fixes so that it all runs seamlessly and support tickets move to zero.

    “There has been so little innovation in the workflow automation space, despite tremendous advances in software and applications. We saw an opportunity to rectify this with incredibly advanced technology that is easy to use and offers immediate value,” said Reed Overfelt, CEO of ASCI. “Trying to integrate, automate and manage systems, applications and services across an organization is unwieldy, and something is always breaking. With our new Self-Healing Platform, users will gain the ability to predict and fix issues before they become problems. We believe this is an absolute gamechanger for our workload automation customers.”

    The new Self-Healing Platform will analyze anonymized customer data, using it to identify and track trends and then proactively deploy fixes to affected customers. It is the only such offering for the workflow automation market, and ASCI will phase its rollout of capabilities over the coming months to bring customers along as they are ready.

    Next Level Super REST API Adaptor Makes Connections Simple

    ASCI has also developed a new Super REST API Adapter, which provides the capability to establish connections to any software or service with an API, efficiently enabling automation for any endpoint. This future-proofs automation by ensuring that companies can reliably connect to any endpoint or technology as their organization grows.

    Designed to accelerate the use of APIs, the intuitive, feature-rich UI includes a variety of helpers to guide users through setup. This includes icons that explain functionality, flags that identify errors and drop-down lists that allow you to quickly select variables and properties.

    The Super REST API Adapter simplifies the authentication process with a list of built-in helpers for commonly used predefined values. DevOps teams can now easily create resilient, reusable API jobs. The Super REST API Adapter comes with everything necessary for rapid deployment, reducing time spent on building connections and resulting in significant cost savings.

    JSCAPE Acquisition Furthers Vision and Extends Reach

    Additionally, ASCI recently acquired JSCAPE, an industry-leading Managed File Transfer (MFT) company, that will enable ASCI to deliver transformational technology to an MFT market that has experienced limited innovation in recent years. JSCAPE’s technology already assists a wide swath of customers, particularly across highly regulated industries such as financial services and trading firms, healthcare and insurance.

    By bringing JSCAPE’s technology under ASCI’s platform, the company can now offer its customers an integrated FTP server, industry-leading MFT functionality and monitoring. This new offering will help customers automate even more of their business processes.

    “We are excited to offer our customers the many workload automation and job scheduling tools that ActiveBatch has,” said JSCAPE CEO Van Glass. “Our MFT solution will be another great tool in ActiveBatch’s industry-leading workload automation software offering.”

    ASCI’s ActiveBatch currently integrates with enterprise IT and business applications across an organization, giving users the ability to bring their entire tech stack under a single pane of glass. It serves as a central automation hub for scheduling and monitoring to make business-critical systems, such as CRM, ERP, supply chain management, work order management, project management and consulting systems, work together seamlessly with minimal human intervention. ActiveBatch currently powers workload automation for global leaders such as Blue Cross Blue Shield, Bosch, Deloitte, Subway and Verizon, removing the integration obstacles that hinder digital transformation.

    To learn more about these latest developments and what ActiveBatch can do, please visit https://www.advsyscon.com/

    About Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. 

    Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI) is the creator of ActiveBatch software, which helps organizations automate and manage their business and IT processes in a single platform. ASCI enables companies to reduce costs, both by eliminating human error and by allowing them to redeploy resources into more high-value tasks. Learn more at https://www.advsyscon.com/.

  • Dynatrace Announces Expanded Strategic Partnership with Google Cloud

    Dynatrace will deliver its observability platform for Google Cloud through the Google Cloud Marketplace, enabling organizations worldwide to accelerate digital transformation

    WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Software intelligence company Dynatrace (NYSE: DT) announced today an expanded strategic partnership with Google Cloud. As part of this, Dynatrace will deliver its observability platform for Google Cloud available for purchase through the Google Cloud Marketplace. This means Google Cloud customers can now easily implement Dynatrace’s automatic and intelligent observability for their Google Cloud and hybrid-cloud environments through a streamlined process covering everything from procurement to automated deployment and configuration.

    The partnership also includes go-to-market collaboration between Dynatrace and Google:

    • Google Cloud customers can now use their committed GCP spend to purchase Dynatrace.
    • Google and Dynatrace are engaging in joint marketing, including events sponsorships, and customer solutions workshops.
    • Google and Dynatrace will provide their sales representatives with co-selling incentives to encourage a simple, unified go-to-market motion.

    “We’re proud to support Dynatrace in enabling our joint customers to accelerate cloud migration and ensure the overall success of their digital transformation,” said Amy Bray, Global Head, Google Cloud Marketplace. “With just a few clicks, customers can now purchase, deploy, and manage Dynatrace from the Google Cloud Marketplace and gain greater levels of speed, simplicity, and efficiency, enabling them to innovate and transform faster.”

    “We designed the Dynatrace platform to enable the largest 15,000 global organizations to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives,” said Mike Maciag, Chief Marketing Officer, Dynatrace. “These organizations have found that old approaches to monitoring can’t keep up with the scale and velocity of change brought by cloud-native architectures. Dynatrace’s unique approach to observability unifies AIOps and continuous automation, helping organizations accelerate their cloud migration and build new cloud-native apps faster and with greater consistency and confidence. We are pleased to partner with Google to enable leading organizations around the world to succeed and grow with their cloud-native initiatives faster.”

    Visit the Google Cloud Marketplace to get started with Dynatrace today. To learn more about how Dynatrace complements and enhances Google Cloud Platform, visit the Dynatrace website.

    About Dynatrace

    Dynatrace provides software intelligence to simplify cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation. With automatic and intelligent observability at scale, our all-in-one platform delivers precise answers about the performance and security of applications, the underlying infrastructure, and the experience of all users to enable organizations to innovate faster, collaborate more efficiently, and deliver more value with dramatically less effort. That’s why many of the world’s largest enterprises trust Dynatrace® to modernize and automate cloud operations, release better software faster, and deliver unrivaled digital experiences.

    Curious to see how you can simplify your cloud? Let us show you. Visit our trial page for a free 15-day Dynatrace trial.

    To learn more about how Dynatrace can help your business, visit https://www.dynatrace.com, visit our blog, and follow us on Twitter @dynatrace.

  • Maven Machines Announces New Flexible Driver and Fleet Workflow Solution, Maven Workflow

    New solution enables users to create flexible custom forms and stop and location-based workflows, increasing driver productivity and fleet efficiency

    PITTSBURGH –– January 28, 2021 — Maven Machines, a premier fleet management and telematics software company in the commercial trucking and transportation industry, today announces Maven Workflow, a new software platform that allows users to create flexible custom forms and stop-based, location-based workflows. This platform is part of Maven’s flexible product suite that allows fleets to manage drivers and trips while meeting each user’s unique set of operational needs. Maven Workflow complements Maven’s suite of enterprise fleet management software solutions, including Maven Fleet, Maven Dispatch, Maven Inbound, and Maven ELD.

    Maven’s new solution focuses on the flexibility of fleet and driver workflows — a long-standing pain point for managers, planners, dispatchers, and drivers alike. Maven Workflow provides a step-by-step workflow guide at each stop a driver makes, showing necessary information and forms configured for that specific stop type, location, and customer need. The type and sequence of the forms are customizable and easy to integrate within Maven’s mobile application and inventory of fleet management solutions. With Maven Workflow, providing fleets with access to reliable, accurate information in a flexible trip management platform and mobile driver app will help managers and drivers meet customer demand and improve fleetwide efficiency.

    Maven also eliminates outdated mail and email-based communication methods with real-time, streamlined messaging and workflow processes. Drivers can now easily access important workflow information about their trips and stops right on their devices, wherever or whenever they need it.

    “At Maven, we’re working to optimize processes for both fleet management and drivers so that fleets can also provide better services to their customers,” said Avi Geller, CEO of Maven Machines. “With Maven Workflow, we’ve done just that by providing users with a customizable workflow experience that leads to enhanced productivity for fleet managers, drivers, dispatchers, and planners alike. Productivity enhancements and operational efficiency improvements impact both the bottom line and the top line for fleets, resulting in cost savings and revenue growth, and ultimately, increased profitability.”

    With the new workflow platform, fleet managers can also garner real-time insights into drivers and trips to ensure efficiency, safety, and increased productivity. With public APIs and the capability to instantaneously update a fleet’s transportation management software (TMS) with live data, combined with Maven’s suite of digital solutions and mobile application, managers can also achieve completely paperless billing, HOS, and driver management all in one platform.

    “Maven Workflow is an intuitive driver workflow solution that provides customized, step-by-step workflow layouts and forms for each unique situation or customer,” said Alexa Ekberg, a product manager at Maven Machines. “Different workflow options can be used for each stop, and drivers can work smarter, not harder. Managers can gain insight into a drivers’ trips, vehicle movement, and ETAs. This boosts fleet productivity as well as improves the overall driver experience.”

    Additionally, because of Maven Workflow’s ease-of-use and integration capabilities, the time required to train new employees drastically decreases. Subsequently, the need to learn a variety of complicated systems is now unnecessary, as Maven has created a configurable platform that meets each fleet’s specific operational needs.

    This announcement follows Maven Machines’ $7 million Series A and the appointment of Todd Dorsey as CRO and the promotion of Rachel Firestone to COO. To learn more about Maven, please visit www.MavenMachines.com. For more information about the Maven Workflow solution, specifically, please visit www.MavenMachines.com/solutions/driver-workflow-software/.

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    About Maven Machines:

    Maven Machines is reinventing transportation management. With Maven’s powerful, easy-to-use software platform, trucking and transportation fleets leverage mobile cloud and industrial IoT technologies to optimize efficiency, safety, and profitability. Maven utilizes machine learning and data analytics for real-time, automated dispatch, planning, route optimization, workflow, and fleet management solutions. Maven’s exponential growth is largely driven by close industry partnerships, empowering fleets to produce measurable results with innovative technological solutions. For more information, please visit mavenmachines.com.

  • 6sense Reaches Milestones for Customer, Company, and Revenue Growth

    Significant platform expansion, increased charitable giving, and new marquee customers underscore year of growth for the company

    SAN FRANCISCO – January 27, 2020 – 6sense, the leading Account Engagement Platform, today announced that it set company records in 2020 for customer, employee, and annual revenue growth. Fueled by a twofold increase in the company’s customer base and a retention rate that exceeds industry benchmarks, 6sense achieved 100% revenue growth for the third year in a row while more than doubling its full-time employee headcount.

    6sense leveraged this growth throughout the past year to continue investing in its platform and accelerate delivery against an aggressive product roadmap. Within the past quarter alone, the company launched more than a dozen new features and enhancements, including:

    • Support for Microsoft Dynamics CRM to enable users to build 6sense account segments with Dynamics data
    • Account-based analytics for LinkedIn ad campaigns targeted to 6sense segments via 6sense’s LinkedIn advertising capabilities
    • Segment Performance Reports to enable marketers to analyze changes in account engagement and progression through buying stages
    • Integration with Adobe Launch, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Target to power A/B testing, web personalization, and custom analytics with 6sense data
    • Custom Talking Points, which enables product marketers to provide guided conversation points for sellers based on buyer intent, role, and fit
    • Deeper integration with Outreach and SalesLoft to enable 6sense users to enroll contacts in shared sequences and team cadences via 6sense orchestration

    As the 6sense platform grew in breadth and depth throughout the year, so too did the company’s customer base. Industry leaders like Brightcove, Cognizant, and SYKES became 6sense customers in 2020, demonstrating the company’s continued adoption within the technology industry as well as growth in other verticals like business services. Additionally, 6sense Breakthrough, the company’s annual conference held in December, generated a 10x increase in attendees compared to the 2019 event.

    The company significantly increased headcount across all areas of the business in 2020, with the largest hiring investments in the product development and customer success departments. 6sense now employs more than 300 full-time employees across three continents, and the company expects to increase headcount by another 50% in 2021.

    6sense also increased its focus on philanthropy in 2020 through its GoodSense program, which directs the company’s charitable giving and employee volunteerism opportunities. 6sense donated to more than 35 charitable organizations throughout the year, including the American Cancer Society, the California Fire Foundation, the New York City Food Bank, and Black Girls Code. The company also donated all proceeds from the book No Forms. No Spam. No Cold Calls., a step-by-step guide for B2B sellers and marketers, published in 2020 by Latané Conant, Chief Market Officer at 6sense.

    “The past year has been immensely challenging and rewarding,” said Viral Bajaria, CTO and Co-Founder at 6sense. “I couldn’t be more proud of the energy and dedication of our entire organization to deliver incredible customer results, beat company goals, and keep our culture thriving. When we started 6sense, we always wanted to find a way to give back, and I’m humbled by the opportunity to increase our charitable contributions in 2020 by donating to more than 35 organizations — all chosen by our team members — that make a positive impact on the world.”

    2020 was also a record year for 6sense in terms of industry awards and recognition. The company was named the Best Sales Automation Tool and Platform by Digiday; Organization of the Year by Business Intelligence; a Best Workplace by Inc. Magazine; a leader in seven G2 Grid® reports, including Account-Based Advertising; and a leader in The Forrester New Wave™: ABM Platforms, Q2 2020 report, which noted that 6sense has a “comprehensive solution, matched by an aggressive vision, roadmap, and market approach.” The company was also recognized when PTC won SiriusDecisions Program of the Year for its efforts with 6sense, Drift, and People.ai.

    To learn more about the 6sense Account Engagement platform, visit 6sense.com.

    About 6sense

    The 6sense Account Engagement Platform helps B2B organizations achieve predictable revenue growth by putting the power of AI, big data, and machine learning behind every member of the revenue team. Led by Jason Zintak, 6sense uncovers anonymous buying behavior, prioritizes accounts for sales and marketing, and enables them to engage resistant buying teams with personalized, multi-channel, multi-touch campaigns. 6sense helps revenue teams know everything they need to know about their buyers so they can easily do anything needed to generate more opportunities, increase deal size, get into opportunities sooner, and compete and win more often.

     

  • Introducing Neo4j Aura Enterprise: The Cloud Graph Database Chosen by Leading Brands

    Boston Scientific, Dun & Bradstreet, PwC and More Rapidly Adopt Aura for Mission-Critical Applications

    SAN MATEO, Calif. – January 27th, 2021 – Neo4jⓇ, the leader in graph technology, announced today the general availability of Neo4j AuraTM Enterprise, Neo4j’s fully managed cloud database for organizations building indispensable, high-performance graph applications.

    Aura Enterprise radically speeds time to value, enabling customers to get to production faster than the equivalent on-premises option. Organizations can now focus entirely on building performant, graph-powered applications quickly, without worrying about infrastructure or maintenance.

    New and existing customers are adopting Neo4j Aura Enterprise across a wide variety of use cases to simplify the management and maintenance of their graph-powered applications.

    Neo4j Aura Enterprise is the most deployed and trusted graph technology platform, explicitly engineered for cloud-native enterprise projects. Aura Enterprise meets organizations’ exacting requirements for securing massive, highly connected datasets at a granular level without compromising performance. This is proven by early adopters in banking, government and healthcare.

    Early demand has been strong, with organizations including Levi Strauss & Co., Adeo and The Orchard choosing Aura for friction-free graph database deployment. Even customers who are new to graph technology have ramped quickly to solve their most complex data and analytics problems.

    Customers use Aura Enterprise for digital transformation, supply chain management, recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs, regulatory compliance applications and more.

    Dun & Bradstreet: Using Aura Enterprise to fight money laundering and other financial crimes

    Dun & Bradstreet provides commercial data, analytics and insights for businesses spanning various sizes and sectors internationally. Matthew Voss, Identity Insights Leader at Dun & Bradstreet, explained how his team leverages Neo4j Aura Enterprise to support their business strategies.

    “We use Neo4j to support our identity insights business, including linked and matched data,” said Voss. “Neo4j helps us to answer questions that span connected data in real-time, including Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) information. Neo4j Aura Enterprise aligns well with Dun & Bradstreet’s cloud strategy and helps us to deliver the deep knowledge our clients need to take intelligent actions based on timely compliance decisions.”

    Boston Scientific: Business agility across complex supply chains with Neo4j Aura Enterprise

    Boston Scientific is a leading manufacturer of innovative medical devices and solutions for patients, doctors and hospitals around the world. Dedicated to ensuring the highest quality assurance levels, Eric Wespi, Data Scientist at Boston Scientific, turned to Neo4j Aura Enterprise to help map the intricate data across their many complex supply chains and processes.

    “We’ve used Neo4j to track and analyze our manufacturing data for several years,” said Wespi. “The schema flexibility and analytical capabilities of Neo4j allow us to see relationships between manufacturing batches that simply would not be possible with other tools. Deploying this project on Neo4j Aura Enterprise allows us to optimize our models and focus on quality control analytics, knowing that the management of our graph database is under control.”

    PwC: Powering next-generation financial fraud detection solutions using Neo4j Aura Enterprise

    Ivan Zasarsky, Partner, Financial Crime Practice Leader at PwC Canada and Global Financial Crime Team Member, has over 25 years of resident and global experience in leading surveillance and monitoring program transformation and operation. He explained why Neo4j Aura Enterprise was chosen to support the next-gen of fraud detection and anti-money laundering use cases.

     “Our clients expect cloud deployment options to solve their most pressing data and analytics problems, making Neo4j Aura Enterprise an important choice,” Zasarsky said. “With Aura, we are able to drive our fraud and anti-money laundering detection strategy, enabling our team to focus on rapid prototyping of connected data for each unique use case, as opposed to spending time on administrative tasks. At PwC, we prioritize the unique needs of our clients, including the largest national and global banks. Aura lives up to the assurance, trust and security demanded by highly regulated sectors.”

    Graphs in the Cloud

    In December, Gartner published Understanding When Graph Technologies Are Best for Your Business Use Case*.

    The report states, “Because of greater accessibility of graph-based tools and cloud computing, finding relationships in data using graph algorithms and techniques is now possible at scale. It is forming the foundation of many modern data and analytics capabilities.”

    The report goes on to add, “Analytics can be applied on basic graph structures that generally represent one type of entity or on top of knowledge graphs where multiple entities and relationships are represented. Graph is also a critical enabler of natural language processing and data fabrics and can enrich and accelerate data preparation and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).”

    *Gartner, “Understanding When Graph Technologies Are Best for Your Business Use Case”, Jim Hare, et al., 2 December 2020.

    More about Neo4j Aura Enterprise

    Aura Enterprise meets the enterprise-scale requirements of global, mission-critical applications. It builds on the simplicity of Aura Professional to provide:

    • Performance at Scale: Management of large datasets with billions of nodes and relationships for lightning-fast query performance with an optimized cloud database.

    • Enterprise-Grade Security: End-to-end encryption, built-in VPC isolation plus role-based and node-level access control to secure massive graph datasets.

    • Predictable Pricing: Transparent, simple consumption-based pricing, coupled with on-demand scale for maximum cost savings.

    • Reliability for Mission-Critical Applications: ACID compliant, self-healing architecture delivering a guaranteed 99.95% service uptime. Upgrades and patches applied without downtime.

    • 24×7 Support: Premium support with one-hour SEV-1 response with access to the largest graph practitioner community, ensuring users have everything they need for their next game-changing application.

    For More Information

    Learn more about Neo4j Aura Enterprise in this blog post, or attend the Connections: Neo4j in the Cloud digital event on February 24.

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    About Neo4j

    Neo4j is the leader in graph database technology. As the world’s most widely deployed graph database, we help global brands – including Comcast, NASA, UBS and Volvo – to reveal and predict how people, processes and systems are interrelated. Using this relationships-first approach, applications built using Neo4j tackle connected data challenges such as analytics and artificial intelligence, fraud detection, real-time recommendations and knowledge graphs. Find out more at neo4j.com.

  • Litmus Launches New Features and Integrations to Optimize Workflow While Creating On-Brand Emails at Scale

    New capabilities allow marketers to drive results and continuously improve email quality

    BOSTON & SAN MATEO, Calif — January 27, 2021 — Litmus, a leader in email marketing, today announces new capabilities to further enable effective collaboration among marketers without additional resources or marketing technology. Updates include enhanced integrations with Salesforce Pardot and email intelligence leader, SparkPost, allowing users even more seamless workflows for pre-send testing wherever they build emails. Simultaneously, email marketers increase speed and efficiency with Litmus Builder upgrades allowing them to easily store, edit and use custom code templates, partials, and snippets to create brand-compliant emails that drive more conversions. Additionally, animated GIFs are now supported, allowing users to collaborate and test without ever leaving Litmus.

    Marketers continue to be under immense pressure to do more with less while still achieving overarching business goals. The State of Email Report: Fall 2020, found 40% of marketers have seen budget cuts to email since the pandemic began. Because of this, they’re actively seeking ways to extract as much efficiency as possible from existing resources so they can instead focus time and attention on channels that drive results and provide subscribers with a consistent brand experience. It is also imperative for email quality to not suffer as a result, but, instead, empower thoughtful email creation. With these updates, marketing teams are able to more efficiently integrate their vendors and gather transformative insights to produce goal-driven, results-oriented emails.

    “It’s more important than ever for our team to find ways to make our email production workflow more efficient,” said Ellen Rockdale of Lyft. “The latest updates in Litmus Builder and Design Library let our team easily store and find code modules we rely on to create on-brand emails that result in exceptional subscriber experiences.”

    Litmus continues to help marketing teams create more for less with:

    • Litmus Extension support for Pardot: Bring the power of Litmus where you build to further streamline your email production workflow, eliminating the need to switch between multiple applications and simplifying your email testing process.

    • Updated and streamlined integration with SparkPost: Combine the power of Litmus and SparkPost, a leading email delivery and analytics platform, to test emails more efficiently than ever so your email can reach the inbox and drive results.

    • Builder enhancements: Increase the speed of on-brand email production to drive efficiency and reduce time to market with updates to Litmus Builder. Empower marketers to create emails, faster by easily reusing code modules, navigating code and inserting images.

    • Proof GIFS: Experience effective collaboration without additional martech by reviewing and approving GIF content without leaving Litmus to save time, avoid hassle and increase team efficiency.

    “Litmus is creating the most efficient email software solution possible so marketing teams of all sizes can create extraordinary emails that drive real business results, quickly,” said Erik Nierenberg, CEO of Litmus. “Part of establishing this standard of marketing efficiency, though, is maximizing the potential of partners and vendors our customers are using for marketing efforts and to gather insights across all channels, globally. We continue to invest in leading integrations such as Oracle, Salesforce, Marketo, Acoustic, and, now, Pardot and SparkPost to enable a seamless email workflow experience. Our users can instantly maximize email creation speeds and quality to drive profitable conversions and attain improved ROI from their existing marketing clouds.”

    This is Litmus’ first product update of 2021 and follows the announcement of dark mode detection, brand settings and advanced user permissions, and newly supported email clients in October 2020. For more information on Litmus and Litmus’ new capabilities, please visit litmus.com.

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    About Litmus:

    Litmus provides the leading email optimization and collaboration solution for marketers. From Pre-Send campaign development and testing to Post-Send insights for future content optimization, Litmus improves marketing performance and strategy, delivering increased subscriber engagement. With offices in Boston, San Mateo, and London and backed by Spectrum Equity, Litmus is used by major global brands across every industry, including 80% of the Fortune 100, the top 10 retailers, 9 of the top 10 ecommerce brands and U.S.banks, and 23 of the top 25 U.S. advertising agencies. Learn more about Litmus at litmus.com, subscribe to the Litmus blog, or follow us on social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

  • Allego Delivers Smarter Virtual Selling and Enablement for Finance, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing Industry Leaders

    Forward-thinking brands like Fannie Mae, Recordati Rare Diseases and Johnson Health Tech select Allego for personalized, agile learning in a virtual environment

    NEEDHAM, Mass. — January 26, 2021 — Allego, the leader in sales learning and enablement solutions, today announced Fannie Mae, Johnson Health Tech and Recordati Rare Diseases as new customers. Each brand is a leader in its respective industry, and the breadth of verticals proves, regardless of the business, personalized and agile sales training and enablement is necessary for continued growth and success. 

    Click to Tweet: World-class business leaders @FannieMae, Johnson Health Tech and Recordati Rare Diseases have selected @AllegoSoftware to fuel a new commitment to professional development, #virtuallearning and #salesenablement. https://bit.ly/3c8WTT3 

    “Virtual selling is here to stay and we’re proud to be in a position to help our customers manage collaboration, content and learning in a whole new way while their teams can’t be together physically,” said Yuchun Lee, CEO and Co-Founder of Allego. “Innovative companies like Fannie Mae, Johnson Health Tech and Recordati Rare Diseases understand the importance of modern sales learning and enablement strategies and we’re excited to work with them to help their sales organizations personalize learning paths for their reps, share content and best practices more easily, and improve remote coaching to improve sellers’ success.”  

    Eric Zines, Forrester Principal Analyst, Sales Enablement, in a blog states, “Throughout the pandemic, B2B sales teams have leaned heavily on sales enablement to keep sellers in front of buyers, and this reliance will continue well into the new year.” Indicative, in Allego’s opinion, of why blue chip brands have partnered with Allego: the pandemic has served as an inflection point and the remote environment will continue to be the standard, rather than the exception.

    When evaluating other vendors, these businesses chose Allego due to its ability to:

    • Expedite onboarding and continued learning processes with on-demand learning assets and material. Recordati Rare Diseases saw the benefit of podcast-style content and exercises that engage team members while enabling certifications that ensure company-wide accuracy and compliance. 

    • Ensure company-wide best practices are understood and accurately distributed in real-time, with instant access via mobile devices or desktop. Fannie Mae selected Allego after recognizing the impact of a “just-in-time” training philosophy that provides reps with relevant content and insights at the moment of need, rather than quarterly training sessions that require additional time and travel. 

    • Provide access to the best content at the moment of need to enable strong client conversations. With Johnson Health Tech’s previous solution, the sales team wasn’t able to efficiently access material like frequently asked questions and content hubs. With Allego, the most impactful and relevant assets, including best practices from top-performing peers, are readily available at the moment of need.

    “Prior to using Allego, It became clear we needed to modernize our sales enablement strategy. With a newly formed enablement team on board and the team all working remote due to the pandemic, we knew we needed to make an investment in improving our sales learning and enablement technology,” said Josh Zimmer, director of Sales Enablement for Fannie Mae. “We chose Allego because of the complete enablement approach that begins at the moment of onboarding, all the way to our most seasoned reps. Our company may be working from different parts of the country, but we’re building stronger, more connected teams that are prepared for virtual selling in 2021 and beyond.” 

     

    To see how Allego can prepare your sales team for virtual selling in 2021 or to schedule a demo, visit Allego.com 

     

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    About Allego, Inc.

    Allego’s learning and enablement platform ensures that employees have the skills, timely knowledge, and supporting materials to accelerate team success. Instead of traditional onboarding and training marathons—which are rapidly outdated and quickly forgotten—enablement and training teams use Allego to deliver the fresh, bite-sized learning that employees need to close deals in today’s dynamic business environment. Content is personalized and mastered through reinforcement, on-the-job coaching, and peer collaboration. Nearly 500,000 professionals use Allego to onboard faster, deliver consistent messaging, quickly find critical sales content, rapidly adopt best practices, coach and practice more frequently, and collaborate more effectively. To learn more about Allego and learning and enablement in the flow of work, please visit https://www.allego.com.

     

  • Former Google and Microsoft Executive Joins CloudSphere as CEO to Accelerate Company Growth

    Jane Gilson to lead cloud management and governance company as business scales internationally

    Palo Alto, Calif. — Jan. 26, 2021 – CloudSphere, which provides governance across security posture, identity, compliance and cost management in the cloud, today announced the appointment of Jane Gilson as the company’s CEO successor to Patrick McNally. In her role, Gilson will leverage her extensive international experience, her background with Software as a Service models, and her understanding of cloud customer needs to help CloudSphere scale to the next level as demand for the platform increases. Gilson’s background spans growing a multi-billion-dollar division at Google, heading worldwide business strategy at Microsoft, co-founding a venture backed company and mentoring several technology startups.

    Gilson’s experience as a global executive having lived in the Czech Republic, Germany, France and Ireland offers her a unique perspective that will be critical in growing CloudSphere on a worldwide scale. Prior to joining CloudSphere, Gilson served as Microsoft’s general manager of business strategy, and Google’s director of large customer sales for emerging markets. Under her leadership, Google’s multi- billion-dollar emerging market division grew over 66%. She has managed businesses ranging from

    $100M to $5B, and also founded The Scout Group, a pro-bono business advisory service dedicated to helping small businesses scale.

    “Gilson’s rare combination of leadership experience at both massive multi-billion-dollar business units and smaller technology startups makes her the ideal choice to drive CloudSphere’s success in its next phase of growth,” said Kevin Dillon, executive board chair at CloudSphere and managing partner at Atlantic Bridge Capital. “We have the right technology in place, and with Gilson joining we have the executive leadership to advance the business and scale the company internationally.”

    As cloud adoption accelerates amid the COVID-19 pandemic, IDC forecasts worldwide spending on cloud services will surpass $1 trillion in 2024. Multicloud strategies are now the norm, and with 81% of organizations using two or more cloud providers already, securing and governing multicloud environments is a top IT challenge facing enterprises. CloudSphere addresses this challenge by helping organizations simplify cloud management and avoid costly breaches by automating governance, minimizing security risks and managing costs from a single platform.

    “The enterprise adoption of multicloud architectures is a once-in-a-generation transformation of the IT landscape, and CloudSphere is uniquely positioned to address the resulting cloud governance and management challenges,” said Gilson. “When the opportunity arose to help scale a company in this space with significant technology differentiation, I knew that I needed to join. I see the CEO role as a coaching role, and my plan is for the team to drive fast and sustainable growth with a laser focus on providing customer value. I lead by the mantra that ‘if you want to go quickly go by yourself, if you want to go further, go with a team’.”

    With the new role, Gilson will be relocating from Europe to the United States to build on CloudSphere’s strategic partnerships with Microsoft, AWS and Google Cloud, while continuing to oversee

    CloudSphere’s international offices in India, Ireland and Romania. Along with its new CEO, CloudSphere is expanding its team of sales executives to support escalated demand for its platform. To learn more about CloudSphere or to apply, visit www.cloudsphere.com.

    About CloudSphere

    CloudSphere’s flagship Cloud Management Platform enables enterprises and cloud service providers to simplify and optimize cloud management and governance. Our multicloud solutions use a unique application centric approach to allow users to see beyond individual cloud resources and manage entire applications in the cloud. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. and Dublin, Ireland, CloudSphere supports a diverse global customer base across industry segments including telecommunications, software, finance, insurance, healthcare, construction, and education.

  • Logi Analytics Announces New Analytics Dashboard Experience for BlueVolt Platform

    With Logi Info, BlueVolt equips platform with new analytics and reporting dashboard functionality to empower channel-focused partners

     

    MCLEAN, VA — January 26, 2021— Today, Logi Analytics, the leading provider of embedded analytics solutions for software teams, and BlueVolt, an award-winning authority of online learning solutions for sales and channel marketing, announce a new partnership utilizing Logi Info to create a cutting edge analytics dashboard experience for all BlueVolt customers. With the upcoming BlueVolt analytics dashboard, customers will have better insight than ever before into their channel partner education and training strategies.For channel-focused companies, consistent engagement, training, and partnership development are critical to long-term business success. But not all training and marketing strategies are created equal. In fact, many businesses continue to invest time, money, and personnel into outreach strategies that aren’t providing timely data or sufficient ROI. That’s why BlueVolt invested in Logi Analytics to create a new suite of dynamic and easily understood embedded analytics dashboards for BlueVolt platform customers. These dashboards provide users with the tools and insights they need to quickly leverage real-time updates and position their companies for success.

    “BlueVolt’s platform is a perfect example of why embedding powerful, actionable insights into the application is the key to unlocking better business growth in the modern marketplace,” says Charles Caldwell, Vice President, Product Management at Logi Analytics. “Our solutions empower end users to aggregate, analyze, and act upon data insights without having to leave their application workflow. With Logi Info, BlueVolt can customize and create a whole new analytics and reporting experience for its partners.”

    BlueVolt initially selected Logi Analytics for its analytics needs based on Logi Symphony solution suite’s customization and flexibility. Now, BlueVolt has access to the full Logi Analytics portfolio — notably including Logi Info for the current platform updates. These solutions are proving critical to BlueVolt’s partners, all of whom need to quickly analyze and respond to real-time market and customer data to gain a competitive advantage.

    “Our partners need to make data-driven decisions, and they need a way to visualize that data throughout the process,” says Gaven Singh, Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at BlueVolt. “Recent studies from Deloitte show that every dollar spent on business intelligence can return nearly $30 in increased productivity, proving that smarter businesses are stronger businesses. With BlueVolt’s new BI functionality, our partners will reap the benefits of viewing all their data in live time, and Analytics has been critical to making this possible.”

    For more information on Logi Analytics, visit https://www.logianalytics.com/. For more information on BlueVolt, visit https://www.bluevolt.com.

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    About Logi Analytics

    Logi Analytics empowers the world’s software teams with the most intuitive, developer-grade embedded analytics solutions, along with a group of dedicated people invested in your success. Logi leverages your existing tech stack, so you can quickly build, manage, and deploy your application. And because Logi supports unlimited customization and white-labeling, you have total control to make the application uniquely your own. Over 2,200 application teams have trusted Logi to help power their businesses with sophisticated analytics capabilities. Logi Analytics was recently awarded the 2020 “Best Business Intelligence Solution” Proddy award by Product School, in addition to being named a leader in Business Application Research Center’s (BARC) BI & Analytics Survey 21 across several categories, including Operational BI, Embedded BI, and Cloud BI.

    Logi Analytics is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices in Ireland, England, Ukraine, and China. Learn more about what’s possible with Logi at LogiAnalytics.com.

    About BlueVolt

    Winner of numerous awards, including “High Performer Enterprise” 2020, “Easiest Admin Enterprise” 2020, and “Best Learning System” 2019, BlueVolt consistently ranks as the top learning and marketing platform while always providing world-class customer service.

    Since 2003, BlueVolt has been a pioneer in the online learning industry. The secret to BlueVolt’s success is its sharing network—sharing more than half a million pieces of product training from various industries and manufacturers. Relationships matter to BlueVolt, which is why they built their platform to link a wide range of organizations together. The BlueVolt platform connects and supports all customers, giving them the tools to increase their sales, build brand leadership, and enhance employee knowledge.

    BlueVolt is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Learn more about BlueVolt and join the largest sharing network out there by visiting BlueVolt.com

     

  • Commvault Debuts Major New SaaS and Hybrid Cloud Workloads for Metallic, Continues Global Expansion

    Metallic adds new support for Salesforce backup, Microsoft Teams, Oracle Databases, Active Directory, and HyperScale X for Metallic, expands availability in Europe

     Tinton Falls, N.J. – January 26, 2021 – Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a recognized global enterprise software leader in the management of data across cloud and on-premises environments, today announced another expansion of its award-winning Metallic Backup-as-a- Service (BaaS) portfolio. On the heels of last quarter’s accelerated innovation, Metallic is adding new data protection solutions, features, and enterprise workload support including: enhanced SaaS application protection with the introduction of Metallic Salesforce Backup and Microsoft Teams recovery enhancements; the addition of Oracle and Active Directory to Metallic Database Backup; and the expansion of its hybrid cloud capabilities with the addition of HyperScale X as a fully integrated appliance and edge offering for Metallic.

    In addition, Metallic is now generally available in 23 countries in total, announcing support for nine new countries in the EMEA region today, including Austria, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, and Switzerland.

    “As we continue our global rollout of Metallic, we’re finding more and more customers around the world are immediately grasping the value and inherent simplicity that cloud-native, as-a- service data protection can bring to their environments,” said Manoj Nair, General Manager, Metallic. “With our new offerings like Salesforce and Oracle backup and our unique SaaS Plus capabilities, Metallic solutions offer customers what no other cloud-delivered backup service can match: the most comprehensive portfolio of BaaS solutions and the flexibility to backup each data source to the optimal storage target–whether that be cloud or on-premises storage, or the new HyperScale X for Metallic at the edge for ultimate performance with BaaS simplicity.”

    “The rise in both remote work and potential data risk is driving strong demand for cloud-based data protection solutions that offer customers the security, agility, and functionality needed to not only continue day-to-day operations, but in many cases, to exceed them,” said Vinny Choinski, Senior Validation Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “With the continued expansion of Metallic’s SaaS Plus portfolio, Commvault has created an impressive backup-as-a-service ecosystem – a comprehensive range of offerings supporting enterprise-wide workloads to the backup target of choice, whether it’s on-prem, in the cloud, or to the HyperScale X appliance.”

    New Metallic Solutions

    Understanding that businesses across the globe need dedicated protection for their SaaS applications, Metallic has made global availability a top priority, tripling its country availability and doubling its product offerings. Recent additions include hybrid cloud data protection solutions for SAP HANA and Kubernetes, in addition to today’s newest enhancements:

    • Metallic™ Salesforce Backup provides customers scalable, enterprise-grade SaaS data protection for the Salesforce Sales, Service, and Financial Cloud. It offers simple protection for valuable Salesforce data with unlimited retention, unlimited storage, and hardened security controls built-in – helping to meet stringent standards, unique requirements like sandbox seeding, recovery requirements, and
    • Metallic™ Office 365 & Teams Backup & Recovery now builds on Metallic’s existing Microsoft Teams capabilities to include in-place restore of Teams conversations and other data. This enables administrators to granularly recover data stored within Teams, channels, and conversations, with better speed and precision while maintaining existing site structures and settings. All new and existing Metallic Office 365 Backup customers will automatically receive Microsoft Teams functionality as part of their subscription – which also provides coverage for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive.
    • HyperScale X for Metallic offers customers the choice of a fully integrated appliance for single-vendor management of on-premises storage and SaaS-delivered data It enables the Commvault appliance, HyperScale X, to run in edge mode, allowing it to operate as a backup target for hybrid cloud workloads protected by Metallic. This innovative edge offering represents the next step in Metallic’s hybrid expansion, combining the best of Metallic BaaS with the best of the HyperScale X scale-out storage platform. Customers can use Metallic to protect data in any hybrid data protection schema, whether cloud to cloud, on-premises data to cloud with an on-premises copy for fast restore, cloud to edge appliance, and more.
    • Support for Oracle Database and Microsoft Active Directory backup are now offered as part of the Metallic™ Database Backup Providing BaaS database protection for customers’ hybrid world, Metallic Database Backup gives administrators seamless visibility and database protection for SAP HANA, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and Active Directory on-premises, in the cloud, and in Azure.

    For more information about Metallic’s cloud-native data protection solutions and availability, please visit www.metallic.io.

    About Metallic™

    Metallic™, A Commvault venture, was established to bring next-generation software-as-a- service (SaaS) data protection to the market, delivering Commvault’s powerful core technology simply through the cloud. Together with its partners, Metallic offers a growing portfolio of SaaS backup and recovery solutions to help today’s companies keep their data protected, compliant and safe from deletion, corruption and attack. Metallic operates as a division of Commvault and can be found at http://www.metallic.io.

    About Commvault

    Commvault is a worldwide leader in delivering data readiness, enabling customers to intelligently manage data with solutions that store, protect, optimize and use data. Commvault software automates mind-numbing IT tasks and makes data work harder for customers— so they can gain invaluable insights for their businesses. Commvault solutions work across cloud and on-premises environments, leveraging the digital tools and procedures already in use.

    Commvault software, solutions and services are available from the company and through a global ecosystem of trusted partners. Commvault employs more than 2,300 highly-skilled individuals across markets worldwide, is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in the United States. Visit Commvault.com or follow us at @Commvault.

     

    Safe Harbor Statement: Customers’ results may differ materially from those stated herein; Commvault does not guarantee that all customers can achieve benefits similar to those stated above. This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding financial projections, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as competitive factors, difficulties and delays inherent in the development, manufacturing, marketing and sale of software products and related services, general economic conditions and others. Statements regarding Commvault’s beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future are forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results. Commvault does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements.

    The development and timing of any product release as well as any of its features or functionality remain at our sole discretion.

     

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