NEW YORK (PRWEB)
January 06, 2020

West Monroe Partners, a national business and technology consultancy, today announced that Con Edison’s new intranet, “Conor,” has been recognized among the top 10 intranets of 2020 by Nielsen Norman Group. The redesigned intranet, first introduced to employees in February 2018, is featured in detail in Nielsen Norman Group’s new report, Intranet Design Annual 2020: The Year’s 10 Best Intranets.

West Monroe and Con Edison, one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy-delivery companies, collaborated to develop Conor. The intranet brings more than 15,000 employees across several utility subsidiaries together in one modern, digital workplace that promotes the company’s safety, engagement, operational excellence, and customer service goals. Its many new features include enhanced search and navigation capabilities, a standard look-and-feel, the ability to personalize content by role and municipal borough, and redesigned employee communications, as well as digital forms that streamline work.

“Our intranet serves people in diverse roles, so it is important that it offers a flexible and fluid way to surface content that is highly relevant to users and targets communications to the right groups,” said Lionel Ing, Con Edison’s project sponsor. “In addition to helping us achieve critical business goals, modernizing our workplace will save on costs by reducing the time employees spend locating tools and information, employing standard templates to develop departmental content and sites, and introducing new digital forms with automated workflows.”

Most Con Edison employees use Conor every day. Satisfaction with the new intranet increased 30% following the launch. Additionally, search utilization increased by 50%, enabling greater employee self-service and engagement. Through the project, Con Edison reduced intranet content from more than 1,200 pages to just 120 pages.

West Monroe and Con Edison designed Conor for employees, first and foremost. They relied on agile principles to design and deploy Conor and targeted four prime user personas to guide the development effort.

“Creating a modern, digital workplace is not just about technology. A vital first step in this process is developing a very thorough understanding of how employees work and how they work together. This guides thinking about how the new intranet solution could help create a more productive, connected, empowered, and engaged workforce,” said Kaumil Dalal, director in West Monroe’s Technology practice. “Another factor that contributed to the project’s success was Con Edison’s commitment to a comprehensive change management approach that targeted adoption and buy-in from the Corporate Affairs team and departmental content managers and authors, as well as employee users of the site.”

The project team developed Conor on the SharePoint platform, serving as a portal to other internal systems, various external services relevant to employees’ daily work, and other collaboration sites.

“Con Edison has embraced the fact that, in this industry at this time, like in other industries, winning in the marketplace starts with winning in the workplace,” said Paul A. DeCotis, senior director and leader of West Monroe’s East Coast Energy & Utilities team. “In our recent study, more than 60% of utility industry employees indicated their workplace technology needs at least some updating. Taking bold steps to modernize the workplace, as Con Edison has, not only strengthens operations today. It creates an environment that can attract the talent and emerging digital skills that utilities need for the future.”

Nielsen Norman Group chose the winning intranets through an expert review, based on design and usability, from an international field of dozens of submissions.

About West Monroe Partners

West Monroe is a national business and technology consulting firm that partners with dynamic organizations to reimagine, build, and operate their businesses at peak performance. Our team of more than 1,400 professionals is comprised of an uncommon blend of business consultants and deep technologists. This unique combination of expertise enables us to design, develop, implement, and run strategic business and technology solutions that yield a dramatic commercial impact on our clients’ profitability and performance. For more information, visit http://www.wmp.com.

About Consolidated Edison, Inc.

Consolidated Edison, Inc. is one of the nation’s largest investor-owned energy-delivery companies, with approximately $12 billion in annual revenues and $56 billion in assets. The company provides a wide range of energy-related products and services to its customers through the following subsidiaries: Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (CECONY), a regulated utility providing electric, gas and steam service in New York City and Westchester County, New York; Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (O&R), a regulated utility serving customers in a 1,300-square-mile-area in southeastern New York State and northern New Jersey; Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses, Inc., which through its subsidiaries develops, owns and operates renewable and energy infrastructure projects and provides energy-related products and services to wholesale and retail customers; and Con Edison Transmission, Inc., which through its subsidiaries invests in electric and natural gas transmission projects. For more information, visit https://www.conedison.com.

About Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group (http://www.nngroup.com) in an evidence-based user experience research, training and consulting firm that advises companies on how to improve the bottom line through human-centered design of products and services. NN/g principals Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman and Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini are world-renowned user experience experts who were advocating human-centered design and usability long before it became popular to do so. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, NN/g evaluates interfaces of all kinds and guides the critical design decisions that make websites, applications, intranets and products achieve their full potential for businesses and their users.

CARROLLTON, Texas (PRWEB)
January 06, 2020

After leading the market as a top-rated online event platform, vFairs continues innovating to address pain points in the recruitment sector. vFairs has revamped its Job Board offering with a new look and feel, and brand new feature set designed to solve issues such as data entry that universities have historically struggled with.

When implementing a job board, universities and colleges have to assign resources to either chase down employers to keep updating their jobs or manually copy over the latest job listings and expire closed ones. For a number of organizations, this challenge becomes an obstacle in adopting job boards. However, vFairs aims to solve this with a unique solution.

With every job board instance, vFairs also offers a scraping service to automatically harvest job postings from career sites of partner employers and publish them on the job board. Universities simply indicate who their affiliated employers are or share consolidated Excel sheets, and vFairs takes care of the rest. This eliminates the typical hassle university representatives face and their work is reduced to minimal moderation tasks.

Here are other highlights of the vFairs job board platform:

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  The Job Board remains live throughout the year and isn’t dependent on the core product (virtual job fairs). This expands opportunities for both employers and candidates to recruit and apply for positions all-round the year.
• Job seekers can have access to job descriptions, save jobs, and apply with just a few clicks. They can also choose to set up alerts for upcoming jobs, eliminating their chance to miss out on an opportunity.
• On the other hand, employers can advertise vacancies and access applications, not just for their posted jobs, but also for the entire resume database present on the job board.

“We understand that Career Services focus on facilitating the connecting between top employers and their student base but don’t have the liberty to spare resources to drive a technological product and operations. We identified this problem time and time again with the several customers who conduct virtual job fairs for us and with our job board product, we aim to lay these obstacles to rest – once and for all,” says Muhammad Younas, CEO at vFairs.

About vFairs: vFairs is a top-rated Virtual Event Platform that enables and equips organizers to make strong, valuable connections with their target audience. Ensuring their virtual event delivers the results that customers desire, vFairs has been succeeding in providing an alternative to physical events such as job fairs and career fairs to leading companies and universities like Nestle, T-Mobile, American Public University System (APUS), Rasmussen College, Tulare County Office of Education (TCOE), University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC) and many others.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (PRWEB)
January 05, 2020

Mainstream Technologies is pleased to announce the hiring of Wade Fleming as Managed Services Engineer. He will be providing support for managed service clients, which can range from simple workstation issues to complex matters related to client servers and network infrastructure.

Wade’s previous experience includes field service technician for 18 months at COMPSYS; Systems Administrator for seven years at Rineco Chemical Industries and Senior Network Analyst for four years at Computer Hut.

According to Justin Leavell, Director of IT: “Wade brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our team that will directly help our clients today.”

ABOUT MAINSTREAM

Since 1996, Mainstream (http://www.mainstream-tech.com) has evolved into one of the most established IT services companies in the Mid-South, serving clients from its Arkansas locations including headquarters in Little Rock, a second operations facility in Conway, as well as a sales office in Bentonville. Their staff of information technology professionals serves business and government customers across the nation with Managed IT Services, Custom Software Development Services, Cyber Security Services, and Hosting.

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TEL AVIV, Israel (PRWEB)
January 04, 2020

Attorney Sharon Nahari can take the credit for the proposal of the Extradition and International Crimes Committee. Mr. Nahari presented the idea to Chairman Attorney Avi Himi, who then launched it and has brought it to fruition. This committee will follow the mandate that other committees operate with work being performed at no charge. The committee will be the liaison between the elected officials of the Bar association, the senior executives and the rank and file attorneys as it pertains to the practice issues.

Attorney Sharon Nahari brings to the committee his experience and expertise as an attorney that has specialized in the two important areas of law being white-collar crime and overall criminal lawyer with a special interest in extradition and international crime. The law offices of Mr. Nahari has an outreach in countries such as the US and Asia as well as throughout Europe.

Added to Attorney Sharon Nahari’s credentials is his appointment as Israel’s representative, where he attended the DELF Forum special conference in this capacity. This Defense Extradition Lawyers Forum was held in London for the purposes of the discussion of the elimination of Interpol arrest warrants, and Red Notice alerts. Other important topics were discussed such as politics and international extradition connections.

Attorney Nahari has indicated that the forming of this new committee is a clear indicator of how important international and extradition laws governing Israel have been in the past. The participation between countries worldwide via collaboration has been successful in expanding enforcement collaborations on economic, technological and trade levels.

The state of Israel and International Treaties – Extradition Laws

The state of Israel is proud of its involvement in the international treaties on extradition laws that encompass conventions such as the Palmero Convention (Convention on Organized Crime) the UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Vienna Convention).

The international treaties also include the laws for various international crimes such as taxation, cyber-crimes — the laundering of money, and computer crimes.

The state of Israel is one of the UN member states, and as such works closely with the UN Police Intelligence Organization (Interpol).Beyond this is the State’s working relationship via bilateral treaties with other countries such as Australia, Thailand, the US and Canada and others for fighting crime.

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MADRID (PRWEB)
December 28, 2019

EDT Partners (EDT) announces the acquisition of Danish-based consultancy firm COPUBLICA Education to continue its mission to help improve education through the effective use of innovation and technology.

EDT Partners is a global, purpose-driven consulting firm dedicated to the business of education. EDT helps edtech firms, publishers, NGOs, universities, and governments accelerate innovation pipelines, grow sustainably into new territories and consolidate plans for organic and inorganic expansion. With this acquisition, EDT is uniquely positioned to help even more stakeholders in markets worldwide.

EDT Partners and COPUBLICA Education share very similar values and missions. They have jointly been collaborating with hundreds of edtech providers, governments, publishers, universities, NGOs, and civic organizations over the past two years.

According to Pablo Langa, Founder and Managing Partner at EDT, “this is a natural next step in our relationship with COPUBLICA Education. We have successfully worked side-by-side for the last two years. This integration will allow us to become even more effective by leveraging a unique, world-class back-office backbone while multiplying our combined insights and reach”.

The opportunity at the intersection of pedagogy, skills, technology, and business remains great. Especially at a time when agile, blended and online offerings have been normalized in the public and private sectors.

Brian Baptista, COPUBLICA Education’s CEO “Since its founding year of 2017, COPUBLICA Education has had great traction. It has been three years of exceeding our profit expectations, and we tripled our revenue in this financial year compared to 2018. But when EDT Partners approached us with an offer, our conclusion was that EDT Partners could push our successful company even further”

Throughout 2020, EDT will endeavor to expand its thought-leadership activities in its core digital strategy and global competitiveness practices. Besides, the firm intends to offer new services to public and private education organizations in the area of impact and sustainable education efforts in close alignment with the 17 SDGs.

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KILLKENNY, Ireland (PRWEB)
December 30, 2019

Catherin Quirke, Chief Commercial Officer for Taxback International, shared on The CEO Views the myriad of ways the company’s 23 years of experience give them the insight needed to deal with the ever changing and complex landscape of VAT compliance. One of the newest changes is the widespread digitalisation of tax systems which means they are changing faster than ever before.

Making Tax Digital for VAT (MTDfV) in the UK and Immediate Information System (SII) in Spain are examples of fully digitised systems and as digitalisation becomes even more common, businesses may be left racing to keep up with EU SAF-T reporting, changes in penalty regime and real-time reporting. Taxback International is one of the companies stepping in to ease the burden.

The pace and intricacies of these changes are putting a heavy load on VAT managers as they work to avoid penalties, worry about VAT thresholds, keep track of obligations and when/where VAT registrations are required. When even the smallest of mistakes can result in VAT compliance breaches which can lead to substantial penalties and consequences, Taxback International’s mission is to reduce VAT stress, remove the risk to managers’ reputations and also ensure all obligations are correctly identified and met. Taxback International Chief Innovation Officer, Eamon Clune says:

“My areas of expertise are machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation, so seeing this evolution and further progression into digitalisation is very exciting. I can’t think of anything more appealing than researching and exploring new technologies to use in tackling these new challenges.”

Taxback International combines innovative technology, deep industry expertise and value added partnerships to deliver comprehensive VAT solutions that maximise VAT reclaim and minimise risks, so you can focus on growing your business.

Taxback International is a member of The Taxback Group, a collection of global companies that deliver focus driven, digitalised solutions to simplify the complexity of global business.

The entrepreneurial spirit which characterized its inception in Ireland has continued to shape the products and services which they create. Taxback International recognises that one size doesn’t fit all and strive to create bespoke services that exactly meet the needs of a diverse client base.

VAT is complex. Taxback International makes it simple.

Get in contact today to find out how they can help with effortless VAT Reclaim & Compliance.

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