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InsuranceAsia News Recognizes Clearwater Analytics’ Excellence in Investment Management Technology BOISE, Idaho and SINGAPORE, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN), a leading provider of SaaS-based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, today announced that InsuranceAsia News has named Clearwater Analytics the winner of the Technology Provider of the Year Excellence Award for the second year in a row. The InsuranceAsia News Excellence Awards celebrate the best firms in the Asia Pacific (re)insurance market, recognizing those companies for their exceptional solutions, innovation, and commitment to their customers. These awards highlight leaders like Clearwater Analytics who play a crucial role in helping insurers achieve efficiency, analytical superiority,…

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HARD, Austria and BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Icertis, the contract intelligence company that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with contract lifecycle management (CLM), today announced ALPLA Group’s successful deployment of Icertis Contract Intelligence to advance its procurement, sales, and legal operations by streamlining contracting management across the enterprise. ALPLA, a global leader in packaging solutions, will leverage the Icertis platform to enable organization-wide visibility and collaboration through contract automation to accelerate revenue, reduce costs, better-manage risk, and ensure compliance. The go-live of Icertis at ALPLA, Icertis’ first customer in Austria, comes less than a year after the company embarked on a digital transformation initiative to…

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Report reveals the most common, pressing cybersecurity threats impacting users in the U.S. and around the worldNEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — ReasonLabs, the cybersecurity pioneer equipping home users with the same level of cyber protection used by Fortune 500 companies, today revealed its annual data report, The State of Consumer Cybersecurity 2024. The report details 2023 findings from its Threat Intelligence Center, including emerging threats, key trends, and data points from ReasonLabs users across 180 countries globally.The report underscores an uncomfortable truth: Most home internet users, regardless of location or socioeconomic status, employ insufficient cybersecurity measures to safeguard themselves and their families against…

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BERLIN, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — akirolabs, a Berlin-based ProcureTech startup, enabling enterprises worldwide to augment strategic procurement processes, announced that it has raised $5M in its recent seed funding round.Investors in this round included HTGF, OTB Ventures, D11Z. Ventures, and Switzerland’s Serpentine Ventures, alongside angel investments from industry leaders such as Fredrick Spalcke (ex-CPO of Phillips & Huawei), Heiko Schwarz (CEO of riskmethods), Markus Ehrle (VP and General Manager EMEA at ServiceNow), and Detlef Schultz (former CEO of the Vodafone Procurement Company).Notably, akirolabs has also appointed Jens Rassloff as the Chairman of the Advisory Board. Jens holds similar roles at Coparion, Parloa, and d.velop and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience…

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Global research offers insights into how consumers engage with and experience brands. COLUMBIA, Md., Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Merkle, dentsu’s leading technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company, has unveiled the first installment of its 2024 Customer Experience Imperatives research series, titled “Engagement to Empowerment: Winning in Today’s Experience Economy.” Merkle has released its CX Imperatives report for the past 12 years, and this is the first year its forward-looking flagship piece is based on proprietary research. This report, which is the first of several to be published in 2024, focuses on insights from a consumer survey conducted in Q4 of 2023. Merkle…

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CYFIRMA’s DeCYFIR enhances NTT DATA’s Threat Management capabilities TOKYO and SINGAPORE, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NTT DATA, a global digital business and IT services leader, and CYFIRMA, the leading provider of external threat landscape management platform company, today announced global strategic partnership. This collaboration builds on NTT DATA’s recently announced New Global Cybersecurity Strategy and enhances its Threat Management capabilities of NTT DATA’s global cybersecurity services portfolio. Together, NTT DATA and CYFIRMA provide a new approach to managing cybersecurity where government and businesses are equipped to shift their cyber defence strategies from reactive to predictive using real-time intelligence. The volatile geopolitical climate, economic uncertainty and rapid technology…

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QUEBEC CITY, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — LeddarTech® (Nasdaq: LDTC), an automotive software company that provides patented disruptive AI-based low-level sensor fusion and perception software technology for ADAS, AD, and parking applications, today announced that its Board of Directors appointed Sylvie Veilleux and Lizabeth Ardisana to the Board, effective immediately. Ms. Veilleux will serve on the Audit Committee and Ms. Ardisana will serve on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. “We are pleased to welcome Sylvie and Liz to our board,” said Mr. Derek Aberle, Chair of the Board. “We look forward to benefiting from their wealth of experience in the technology and automotive sectors and their board perspectives as LeddarTech continues to…

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Acquires open source automation pioneer Robocorp to ignite a new era of intelligent agents for enterprise knowledge work. ATLANTA, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Sema4.ai is on a mission to build intelligent agents that transform how knowledge workers collaborate with AI. Led by open source pioneers and fueled by $30.5M from investors, including Benchmark, Mayfield, and Canvas Ventures, Sema4.ai is poised to become the leader in the $88B autonomous agent market. Today, the company announced the acquisition of open source automation innovator Robocorp, accelerating their position to build, run, and manage intelligent agents for the enterprise. For the world’s billion knowledge workers, the promise of AI has yet…

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Agreement includes KQC offering IBM software and new AI infrastructure capabilities as well as IBM’s next-generation quantum computing architecture BUSAN, South Korea, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Korea Quantum Computing (KQC) has engaged IBM to offer IBM’s most advanced AI software and infrastructure, as well as quantum computing services. KQC’s ecosystem of users will have access to IBM’s full stack solution for AI, including watsonx, an AI and data platform to train, tune and deploy advanced AI models and software for enterprises. KQC is also expanding its quantum computing collaboration with IBM. Having operated as an IBM…

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MELBOURNE, Australia and NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — TransPerfect, the world’s largest provider of language and artificial intelligence solutions for global business, today announced the opening of a new office in Melbourne, Australia. TransPerfect’s Melbourne office will serve as an eDiscovery hub for the TransPerfect Legal division, joining the company’s existing location in Sydney. The opening of this new office comes in response to overall company growth as well as the increased demand for legal services across Australia. TransPerfect has invested heavily in Australia and Oceania, in part due to the diverse range of talent, including a growing pool of eDiscovery specialists. In 2023, TransPerfect Legal received Australasian Lawyer and NZ Lawyer’s Service Provider…

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