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SDI Presence Continues Chicago Expansion with Local Hiring


“We are a professional services firm that believes in being locally present for our client, colleagues and community,” states SDI Presence CEO David A. Gupta.

IT consultancy and managed services provider (MSP) SDI Presence LLC (SDI) announces that its planned Chicago workforce expansion is underway, addressing increased customer demand in its government and utility markets. Headquartered in Chicago, the firm is actively recruiting over 25 new positions in the remainder of 2019 and anticipates an additional 50 positions in the first two quarters of 2020.

“We are a professional services firm that believes in being locally present for our client, colleagues and community,” states SDI Presence CEO David A. Gupta. “Chicago offers many sources of diverse technology talent, with its many neighborhoods and different cultures. SDI values this blend of diverse perspectives and different life experiences that reflect the City that we serve. I look forward to welcoming new team members to the talented SDI Team.”

Based on employee feedback, SDI has been named as a Crain’s Business Chicago Best Places to Work, and a Top Workplace two years in a row by the Chicago Tribune. SDI’s 20-year resume boasts several marque clients with complex technology operations in Chicagoland. SDI’s presence company mantra has resulted in a 97% customer satisfaction rating and a 95% customer retention rate. A certified minority business enterprise (MBE), the firm includes a meaningful diversity and inclusion (D&I) program as part of its business strategy.

“SDI offers a well-rounded employment experience – from highly-visible and challenging project work, to a fun and exciting culture,” states SDI Technical Recruiter Cory Wormmeester. “SDI Team members also enjoy our SDI University – or SDIU – employee development program, which is thoughtfully designed to promote professional evolution through work experiences, formal education and relationship building. SDI’s culture is aligned with our business strategy, so as to provide our employees with an environment to continuously develop their talents and actively shape the future direction of their careers and communities.”

SDI seeks a range from Help Desk Support Specialists to Managers who will oversee technical verticals within our core managed services programs. Additionally, SDI is looking to hire Project Managers and Business Analysts who have experience working within the Government, Transportation, Utility, and Aviation markets.

SDI’s job openings include roles that range from Help Desk Support Specialists to Managers who will oversee technical verticals within our core managed services programs. SDI is also looking to hire Project Managers and Business Analysts who have experience working within the Government, Transportation, Utility, and Aviation markets.

SDI Presence offers comprehensive benefits for its employees:

  • 401K plan with a company match
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Company-wide quarterly profit sharing
  • Education reimbursement
  • Medical, Life, Vision, Dental, Short-Term, and Long-term benefits package
  • Generous PTO plan

Plus much more!

Interested candidates can apply online at the SDI Presence Careers page at https://www.sdipresence.com/view-openings/.

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About SDI (SDI Presence LLC)

SDI Presence LLC is an IT consultancy and managed services provider (MSP) that leverages its strong team presence to advance our clients to a secure digital enterprise. With a 20-year corporate resume, SDI delivers strategic managed services, IT consulting, and hybrid infrastructure solutions to optimize our clients’ technology environments. SDI is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), with a portfolio of clients that includes some of the nation’s largest airports, utilities, commercial real estate portfolios, and government agencies. Visit us at http://www.sdipresence.com and connect with us on Twitter and Instagram.

For media inquiries, please contact Dawn Nash Pfeiffer at 312.580.7516 or dpfeiffer@sdipresence.com.

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ShapeShift Makes Crypto Available to All with New Wallet Support


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ShapeShift is committed to a borderless, decentralized financial future, and integrating this new wallet means that we can make our vision more accessible.

ShapeShift, one of the world’s leading self-custody crypto trading platforms, announced today support for Portis, the self-custodian multi-blockchain wallet. Users are now able to create a web-based wallet in the ShapeShift crypto trading platform in seconds, in addition to its current hardware wallet support.

“ShapeShift is committed to a borderless, decentralized financial future, and integrating this new wallet means that we can make our vision more accessible,” said ShapeShift Founder and CEO, Erik Voorhees. “With Portis, we can offer ShapeShift without hardware for the first time, providing the best way to easily hold, trade and track your crypto, all without giving up your control to a third party.”

With the new integration, users can set up a wallet that integrates directly with ShapeShift’s crypto trading platform using only an email and password. Users gain access to sophisticated end-to-end encryption architecture, which allows them to maintain complete control over their private crypto keys. Users can hold many digital assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and dozens of others.

“We’re thrilled about this integration,” said Portis Co-Founder and CEO Tom Teman. “ShapeShift was very early to recognize the need for a smooth user experience in order to make crypto accessible to the masses. ShapeShift’s vision matches ours perfectly and we have exciting plans that will let us make the jump to the next level of mainstream user adoption.”

Users can experience the new wallet and integration at ShapeShift.com. The crypto trading platform now utilizes both web-based and hardware wallets including KeepKey and Trezor.

About ShapeShift

Founded in 2014, ShapeShift is an internationally renowned cryptocurrency trading platform. The company’s new self-custody ShapeShift Platform allows users to buy crypto with fiat, trade, track, and secure their crypto through a simple and beautiful web interface. The company offers industry-leading 24/7 customer service for all users. Learn more about ShapeShift at http://www.shapeshift.com.

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Clinerion partners with Semedy to incorporate Semedy’s Clinical Knowledge Management System technology into Clinerion’s Patient Network Explorer.


Semedy’s Clinical Knowledge Management System (CKMS) will empower Clinerion’s Patient Network Explorer to integrate, manage and maintain multilingual terminologies, ontologies, and data dictionaries provided by Clinerion’s different hospital partners around the world. The various terminologies will be mapped to commonly used ones such as ICD10, ATC, SNOMED and LOINC. The resulting integration will enable scalable information exchange, semantic interoperability, and advanced analytics.

This complements Clinerion’s pre-existing proprietary patent-protected Ontology Management System by providing a system for managing and mapping the database of terminologies and ontologies powering Patient Network Explorer as Clinerion’s network of partner institutions continues to expand.

An advanced semantic reasoning engine powers Semedy’s knowledge management system to guarantee semantic and structural integrity of any knowledge base. The system includes an extensible and collaborative authoring environment, version control and lifecycle management, dynamic and static links between knowledge assets, and import and export services. CKMS can be used to curate and link terminologies, ontologies, information models, and decision support rules, among other types.

Patient Network Explorer is connected to hospitals and healthcare organizations around the world, currently comprising over 74 M patients in 135 sites in 19 countries. Data across the platform is harmonized and this allows users to query all the live hospitals in the network simultaneously, giving researchers a view over the entire patient data pool at once, for further analysis.

“Semedy is excited with the opportunity to contribute to Clinerion’s data integration and interoperability efforts,” says Roberto Rocha, Managing Director of Semedy. “We believe that our knowledge management platform will help Clinerion integrate and semantically enhance clinical data assets from multiple countries.”

“As Clinerion’s hospital network expands into more countries – and therefore more, different hospital information systems – Semedy’s knowledge management system will enable Patient Network Explorer to manage all the different terminologies, ontologies and dictionaries much more powerfully and flexibly,” says Ian Rentsch, CEO of Clinerion. “This will ease and speed up implementation of our system throughout the world.”

About Clinerion

Clinerion accelerates clinical research and medical access to treatments for patients. We use proprietary technologies for analysis of patient data from our global network of partner hospitals. Clinerion’s Patient Network Explorer radically improves the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical trial recruitment by offering data-driven protocol optimization, site feasibility evaluation and real-time patient search and identification to match patients to treatments. Our technology solution provides real-world evidence analytics for medical access. Clinerion facilitates the participation of partner hospitals in leading-edge, industry-sponsored trials and time savings in patient recruitment. We create innovative and disruptive fit-for-purpose solutions which enable pharmaceutical companies to shorten patient recruitment and save costs by streamlining operations and leveraging strategic intelligence. Clinerion’s proprietary Big Data analytics technologies leverage real-time data from electronic health records which comply with international patient privacy and data security regulations. Clinerion is a global data technology service company headquartered in Switzerland.

Clinerion website: http://www.clinerion.com

Clinerion’s Patient Network Explorer: http://www.clinerion.com/index/OverviewOurSolutions/ClinerionPatientNetworkExplorer

For more information, please contact:

Le Vin Chin

Director, Head of Marketing & Communications

Clinerion Ltd

Elisabethenanlage 11, 4051 Basel, Switzerland

Tel.: +41 61 865 60 54

media@clinerion.com

About Semedy AG

Semedy provides integrated knowledge and content management solutions through software products, content services, and consulting. Semedy’s advanced software platform, the Clinical Knowledge Management System (CKMS), manages knowledge and content for electronic health record systems, data warehouses, and other healthcare IT systems. Customers use CKMS to curate and manage terminologies, ontologies, value sets, order sets, medical device catalogs and clinical decision support rules, among other types. Semedy’s international team includes experienced knowledge engineers, clinicians, informaticists, data scientists, and software engineers with a common goal to create sustainable, enterprise-wide knowledge management solutions.

Semedy website: http://www.semedy.com

For more information, please contact:

Roberto Rocha, MD, PhD

Managing Director

Semedy AG

160 Gould Street – Suite 207, Needham, MA 02494, USA

Tel.: +1 781 705 2835

info@semedy.com

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Damo Consulting announces inaugural Board of Advisors


Damo Consulting, a leading digital business enablement platform for healthcare enterprises and technology firms, today announced the addition of John Glaser and Edward Marx as Advisory Board members.

John Glaser Ph.D was the founding chair of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Past-President of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Since 2015, John has been a senior executive with Cerner. He joined Cerner as a part of the Siemens Health Services acquisition, where he was Chief Executive Officer. John is focused on advancing Cerner’s strategies and thought leadership position in the industry. Prior to Siemens, John was Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Partners HealthCare. He also previously served as Vice President of Information Systems at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has been a Senior Advisor to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). He is the former Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Digital Health, World Economic Forum.

John is currently a member of the boards of InTouch Health, the American Telemedicine Association, the eHealth Initiative, PatientPing, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)

Edward Marx has served as Chief Information Officer at Cleveland Clinic, a $10 billion medical system where he was responsible for the development and execution of IT strategic planning and governance, driving optimal resource utilization, and team development and organizational support. He was also responsible for developing leaders and leveraging digital healthcare technologies to enable superior business and clinical outcomes. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Edward served as Senior Vice President/ CIO of Texas Health Resources. In 2015, he spent over two years as Executive Vice President of the Advisory Board, providing IT leadership and strategy for New York City Health & Hospital.

Edward began his healthcare service as a janitor while in high school where his commitment to patient care began. He later served as an anesthesia technician before transitioning to the information technology field. Concurrent with his healthcare career, Edward served as an Army combat medic before becoming a combat engineer officer.

“I am very pleased to join Damo Consulting as a Board Advisor and am looking forward to helping the firm build out their thought leadership and serve health systems in their digital transformation journeys,” said John Glaser.

“I have worked with Paddy and his team previously on the important work his firm is doing in helping healthcare with digital transformation. I am pleased to be on their advisory board to help health systems accelerate their digital transformation journeys,” said Edward Marx.

“We are extremely fortunate to have two well-known and highly experienced industry leaders join our inaugural Board of Advisors,” said Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO of Damo Consulting and author of The Big Unlock: Harnessing Data and Growing Digital Businesses in a Value-Based Era. “I am looking forward to their mentorship and support as we invest in capabilities to enable healthcare enterprises and technology firms build digital businesses for the future.”

About Damo Consulting

Damo Consulting is a growth strategy and digital transformation advisory firm that works with healthcare enterprises and global technology companies. We help develop and implement digital transformation strategies and enable market growth strategies. We specialize in thought leadership led brand transformation and actionable healthcare market intelligence.

For media enquiries, write to info@damoconsulting.net

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Infotel Issues Guidelines for Steps to Implement DevOps Methods on the Mainframe in Latest Whitepaper


Mainframes reside in the largest organizations in the world in application environments that are much larger and complex than their distributed counterparts. DevOps is coming to the mainframe, but it will be more difficult to implement and this paper helps outline some best practices for it.

Infotel, a leading global software vendor of data performance and optimization solutions on IBM for z/OS, today announced the release of a new whitepaper outlining the best practices for bringing DevOps to the mainframe environment. The whitepaper titled, “DevOps is Here, with Its Eyes on the Mainframe: 7 Steps to Ensure Your Organization is Ready for Software Development in 2020,” offers actionable guidelines to implement the DevOps method on the mainframe for faster, more accurate software deployment and improved agility between enterprise Business and IT departments.

The whitepaper comes on the heels of Insoft-Infotel’s recent presentation at IDUG Rotterdam 2019 with Db2 industry expert Craig S. Mullins. Mullins’ presentation focused on the role DevOps plays in large enterprises, creating greater efficiency for application development on Db2 and a few tips on navigating the current mainframe practitioner skills gap.

Why DevOps for the Mainframe?

DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers working together in the entire software service lifecycle, from design to the development process, to production and support. The end result is maximized app development and deployment speed, reliable operating environments and application quality, and synchronization between enterprise Business and IT. The DevOps approached has thrived in distributed environments where app development projects are smaller and development teams are in relatively close proximity, but implementing DevOps methods in a large, enterprise mainframe environment has its challenges.

“Mainframes reside in the largest organizations in the world in application environments that are much larger and complex than their distributed counterparts,” said Carlos Almeida, business analyst for Infotel Corp. USA. “DevOps is coming to the mainframe, but it will be more difficult to implement and this paper helps outline some best practices for it.”

Infotel’s whitepaper breaks down the fundamental changes needed for DevOps to work on the mainframe and provides IT professionals with insight on how to address the communication barrier between Business, Operations, and IT. Today, more than ever, development teams need to break down their inter-department silos and collaborate together to deliver high value resources for their company and thus their customers and profitability.

In this whitepaper, readers will learn:

1.    The history of DevOps

2.    DevOps’ impact on application development speed

3.    7 steps to successfully implement DevOps into your mainframe environment

4.    How to bridge the communication gap between enterprise Business and IT for improved software development

To learn more about how to successfully implement DevOps methods into a mainframe environment, download the whitepaper here or visit http://www.infotelcorp.com.

About Infotel

Infotel Corp., based in Tampa, Florida, is a software vendor and IT consulting firm specializing in data performance and optimization solutions for the Mainframe z/OS platform. For more than 40 years, Infotel has delivered proven solutions to help clients improve their data management systems. For more information on Infotel Corp., please visit https://infotelcorp.com.

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Recosoft Releases PDF2ID 2020 – PDF to InDesign 2020 Converter Tool Ships


Convert PDF to Adobe InDesign 2020

PDF2ID 2020 for InDesign 2020

Over the past few years we directly spoke to our customers in ascertaining which features they wanted to see in PDF2ID; we were able to deliver the majority of these with PDF2ID 2020 while adding support for Adobe InDesign 2020 – Paramjit Chadha, MD, Recosoft Corporation

PDF2ID 2020 supports Adobe InDesign 2020 in addition to supporting InDesign CC through CC 2019 for the macOS and Windows platforms. Additionally, PDF2ID 2020 automatically recognizes Bullets and Numbering creating the associated property in InDesign. Finally, PDF2ID 2020 adds enhanced Page Layout property controls adding support for Vertical folds and Facing pages.

PDF2ID 2020 is available immediately in the following configurations from the Recosoft web store (per license):

PDF2ID Standard 2020: US$ 199.00

PDF2ID Professional 2020: US$ 299.00

PDF2ID Standard 2020 Upgrade: US$ 99.00

PDF2ID Professional 2020Upgrade: US$ 149.00

PDF2ID converts PDF and Windows XPS files into fully editable InDesign files allowing PDF and XPS file content recovery and reuse within InDesign. PDF2ID is the de-facto PDF conversion plug-in for InDesign, allowing anyone to open, convert and edit PDF and XPS documents in InDesign; eliminating the need to acquire additional PDF and XPS conversion tools.

Key New Features

  • Support for InDesign 2020


PDF2ID 2020 now supports and integrates with InDesign 2020. InDesign CC through CC 2019 are supported as well.


PDF2ID 2020 allows specifying the page layout orientation allowing greater control over the standard page orientations recognized. Vertical Fold and Facing Page types can now be specified for a specific range of pages.

  • Bullets and Numbering recognition


PDF2ID 2020 recognizes and processes Bullets and Numbering; applying the specific paragraph property, related text and creating the associated stylesheet.

  • Convert Complex vector graphics to externally linked vector files


PDF2ID 2020 includes a new option that collects a set of complex vector graphics objects into externally linked vector graphics files.

  • Support for latest macOS APIs and technologies


PDF2ID 2020 fully supports macOS 10.15, including the elevated security enhancements and requirements. Additionally, the entire file management mechanism has been replaced with modern macOS filing API’s.

  • Layout processing enhancements


Layout processing enhancements have been made across the product including enhanced table generation, paragraph recognition, graphics processing and text frame generation.

System Requirements

Mac OS: macOS 10.10.x or higher

Hardware: Intel based Mac

Application: InDesign CC, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019 or 2020

Windows: Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 10

Hardware: Minimum Pentium III computer

Application: InDesign CC, CC 2014, CC 2015, CC 2017, CC 2018, CC 2019 or 2020

Recosoft Corporation has pioneered PDF2Office®, the de-facto PDF-to-Excel, PDF-to-Word, PDF-to-PowerPoint, PDF-to-OmniGraffle conversion utility; PDF2Office® for iWork, the PDF-to-Keynote, PDF-to-Numbers and PDF-to-Pages conversion application; IR2Office, the only Adobe Illustrator to PowerPoint and Apple Keynote tool; ID2Office, the InDesign-to-Word, InDesign-to-PowerPoint converter; and PDF2ID® the de-facto PDF-to-InDesign conversion tool. The company is a leader in designing and delivering PDF converters, InDesign and Illustrator software solutions enhancing workflow automation and productivity. For more information on Recosoft PDF converters and InDesign or Illustrator related solutions, visit http://www.recosoft.com.

Contact Information

Recosoft Corporation

Hommachi 1-5-6, Chuo-ku, Osaka, Japan

Fax: +81-6-6260-5543

http://www.recosoft.com

©Copyright 2019 Recosoft Corporation

IR2Office, ID2Office, PDF2Office, PDF2ID, PDFtoID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Recosoft Corporation in the US and/or other countries. Microsoft, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and the Office logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the US and/or other countries. Adobe, InDesign, Illustrator and Creative Cloud are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe System Incorporated in the US and/or other countries. Apple, Macintosh, macOS, Mac, Numbers, Keynote, Pages, iWork, iPod, iPhone, iOS, iPAD are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Apple, Inc. in the US and or other countries. All other trademarks are recognized and are the property of their respective owners.

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GetLinked Announces Continued Growth with Software Sales


Financial Integration Leaders

GetLinked Software

We have continued to advance GetLinked Software and its ability to import, validate and transfer daily sales, payroll, payables, receivables and more with little or no manual interaction from the customer. The software performs the same for one location or multiple locations.

GetLinked® software is finishing a successful year with high expectations for 2020.

GetLinked Software has seen an increase in installations for its software installed in restaurants, hotels, fitness centers and other hospitality venues compared to recent years and the growth looks like it should continue in 2020.

With the good economy businesses are spending money to update their equipment including investments in automation such as connecting their point of sale, time clocks, vendor transactions and more with their financial accounting systems. They are contacting their local point of sale dealer, accountant or searching online for any products or services that can seamlessly transfer transactions into their accounting and payroll systems. GetLinked Software has been around for decades providing financial interfaces and is recognized for their quick and efficient software that links to hundreds of systems using one software program.

The largest increase in module sales has been the POSLink module that electronically imports customers sales transactions whether it is quick service, fine dining, hotel accommodations or even fitness memberships to different financial accounting systems such as QuickBooks, Intacct or Peoplesoft.

The next most requested module is the PRLink module used for eliminating all the manual entry of time punches, tips and even employee miscellaneous deductions across multiple locations that occur in the hospitality industry.

Other GetLinked Software modules that have seen an increase in sales are the APLink module that imports and transfers vendor invoices to a customer’s accounts payable system allowing the accounting department or outside accounting firm to age and pay the invoices faster without rekeying the data into their accounts payable.

The largest growth area has been with accounting firms providing bookkeeping services to their clients at a lower cost by using GetLinked Software and services in their back office.

The other growth area has been large franchisors automating integration between their various point of sale and payroll systems to their financial accounting. They have been able to slash their costs of manually tracking and entering transactions for dozens or even hundreds of locations within their accounting department. Many of these customers did not believe it was possible to automate all their different point of sale, time clocks and vendor systems through one software program located at their corporate office or hosted in the cloud. Franchise owners using outside accounting firms use GetLinked remotely for the preparation of timely financial reporting thereby lowering overall costs substantially.

“We have continued to advance GetLinked Software and its ability to import, validate and transfer daily sales, payroll, payables, receivables and more with little or no manual interaction from the customer. The software performs the same for one location or multiple locations.” says Jim DeFede, a development manager with GetLinked.

The favorite features of GetLinked are that users can assign their own account numbers from their financial system one time and automate the daily import and transfer of balanced transactions. The other favorite feature users can select amounts to be automatically transferred to predetermined accounts and variances are automatically identified.

Service providers, such as accounting firms and payroll processors, have now discovered the benefits of using GetLinked to provide financial integration to franchise owners.

GetLinked is compatible with hundreds of point of sale, timeclock, accounting and payroll systems including Clover, Square, Revention, Micros, Aloha, Intacct, QuickBooks, Microsoft Financial Systems (GP, Navision, etc.), PeopleSoft, SAP, Bank of America, First Data, ADP and many more.

About GetLinked®

GetLinked® is a software program developed and maintained by Accounting Solutions, Inc., provider of financial integration tools for over 30 years. GetLinked is a modular system by accounting function and integrates with over 1300 systems. Products and services are available worldwide for many industries including Restaurants, Hotels and Resorts, Health Clubs, Public and Private Clubs, Stadiums and Arenas, Casino and Entertainment Venues, Cruise Lines, Accounting Firms and Bookkeepers, Payroll Service Providers, Institutional Food Services, Franchises and others. read more

Email info@getlinked.co or visit the web site at http://www.getlinked.co.

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Agile and Competitive in Healthcare – How to Transform Data-Driven Decision Making


Point B Complimentary Webinar: Agile and Competitive in Healthcare – How to Transform Data-Driven Decision Making

The competitive landscape for healthcare organizations is difficult to navigate and continuously evolving. Leaders must make strategic decisions quickly, and they need data-driven insights to inform these outcomes. Join Point B, an integrated management consulting, studio, venture investment, and real estate development firm, on November 20th for a look at how a product mindset can help organizations stay adaptive and competitive as they use data to solve problems. The complimentary webinar, “Agile and competitive in healthcare: How a product mindset transforms the way you make data-driven decisions” takes place at 11:00 AM Pacific Time and is relevant for business and technology leaders across the Healthcare Payor and Provider industries.

Point B experts Alex Chang and Kurt Knaub will guide attendees through the following questions:

  •     What is “servware” and how is it changing the way data-driven insights are delivered to decision makers?
  •     How does a product mindset help transform the way you solve problems through data?
  •     How should you build a platform to enable fast, flexible, and scalable analytic needs?
  •     What are the insights Point B is helping clients solve for today? What are the newest insights our customers are seeking to understand?
  •     How can custom insight solutions be set up to solve for ongoing, strategic and operational insight needs?

To learn more and register for the event, please visit: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/2112645/858BD32AECDB23719BB7128DCC88634C?partnerref=swasc

Not able to attend? A replay of this event and future webinars will be available on the Point B website and YouTube channel.

About Point B

Point B, Inc. helps organizations form, execute, and thrive. With capabilities including Management Consulting, Studio, Venture Investment and Advisory, and Real Estate Development, our integrated businesses provide value to the organizations and communities we serve. Our 100% employee-owned firm is regularly honored as an exceptional place to work.

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Stay Cal Hospitality Group selects SkyTouch for its Growing Brand


SkyTouch Technology, the 100% cloud-based Hotel Operations Platform and innovative technology leader, announced today that they will add seven Northern California Stay Cal properties into their growing customer portfolio.

Stay Cal Hospitality has embarked on a dynamic repositioning of the hotel group in Northern California. In addition to hiring key leaders and expert matters in the industry, the brand is highly motivated to make technology investments that will enhance overall operations by boosting revenue, guest satisfaction, and employee engagement. To that end, Stay Cal Hospitality chose to join forces with SkyTouch Technology. Jimmy Palmer, Chief Operating Officer, Stay Cal Hospitality explains, “We looked at several technologies on the market and we are confident that our partnership with SkyTouch will help us achieve our mission and vision.”

With a heavy importance set on great guest relationships and developing technology, Stay Cal Hospitality is passionate about creating “best-in-class” service standards and operating procedures that produce a “culture of excellence” in which guests enjoy gracious, intuitive service beyond expectations for the select market. SkyTouch Technology’s continuously evolving technology advancements, integrations and superior service has demonstrated the versatility that the SkyTouch Technology platform offers hotels, groups and chains.

“Our customers and their success are at the core of how we evolve our technology platform and our organization as a whole. We are thrilled to partner with Stay Cal Hospitality to help them unlock value across their portfolio as they embark on this mission.” – Doug Hogan, VP Business Operations, Global Sales & Marketing

“We are very excited for this partnership! Technology has been a key initiative in managing our portfolio of hotels and I am confident that SkyTouch will be an integral part.” – Hiten Suraj, President and CEO, Stay Cal Hospitality

About SkyTouch Technology

SkyTouch Technology is the provider of a widely used cloud-based property management system. Built in the cloud by hotel professionals for hotel companies, the SkyTouch hotel operations platform is designed to help hotel executives meet their most important strategic objectives: to enhance the guest experience, advance performance, and achieve growth while evolving with changing market needs. Accessible from anywhere, the SkyTouch PMS provides visibility and control of operations through real-time, impactful business analytics that help improve hotel guest experience, operational decision-making, and financial results for today’s hotelier. SkyTouch provides an integrated approach to online hotel reservations that fits any size property. For more information about SkyTouch Technology, visit http://www.skytouchtechnology.com.

SkyTouch, SkyTouch Technology, and SkyTouch Hotel OS are proprietary trademarks and service marks of SkyTouch Solutions, LLC.

About Stay Cal Hospitality

Stay Cal Hospitality is a hospitality management company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area Peninsula. Connecting generations of experience with cutting edge technology, the Stay Cal Hospitality team of industry experts help hotels achieve significant gains throughout California. Ever expanding, Stay Cal Hospitality works with Hotel Owners on developing new locations, consulting on existing hotels, and by offering full managerial services. Our goal is to successfully execute our progressive philosophies to enhance the guest experience, maximize profitability and nurture an inspiring environment for our associates. For more information about Stay Cal Hospitality, visit http://www.StayCal.com

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Chris Brown

SkyTouch Technology

602.337.2868

cbrown@skytouchtechnology.com

Jimmy Palmer

Stay Cal Hospitality

Jimmy@StayCal.com

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Bridge Unveils New Brand and Corporate Immigration Platform


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Our new brand embodies a stronger, more contemporary representation of Bridge’s culture of service and innovation, which is the bedrock of our exceptional client experience.

Bridge, the transformative corporate immigration provider, today revealed an updated brand identity and a freshly-revamped Bridge platform, the technology arm of its immigration solution, which now features new strategic capabilities in addition to a new design.

“Our new brand embodies a stronger, more contemporary representation of Bridge’s culture of service and innovation, which is the bedrock of our exceptional client experience,” said CEO Romish Badani, who unveiled the new brand design and identity during a special employee event in late October. “It acknowledges our place as the leading alternative to traditional immigration providers and underscores the commitment our employees make every day to provide HR departments and their employees with expert, proactive and highly-responsive immigration services.”

In addition to the refreshed logo and tagline, HR teams and visa applicants will begin to see the new look and identity throughout their immigration journey — on the new http://www.bridge.legal website, the Bridge immigration platform, and all other assets. Explanations and images of the new designs are available at bridge.legal/brand-refresh.

Updated typography and bright, emotive imagery support Bridge’s positioning as a premium corporate immigration provider, both approachable and aspirational, focused on top-quality, efficient, and strategic service. “Our aim was to retain the essence of our identity and arrive at a bolder, truer expression of our cohesive marriage of technology and human expertise. The refreshed look honors our rich experience and culture, while continuing to celebrate the unique, authentic spirit that has driven our success since 2011,” says Sara Divyak, Director of Client Services.

The new visual identity preludes the next chapter in Bridge’s history with the arrival of international employee timelines, enterprise dashboards, and additional strategic features that will be launched over the next several quarters. This is the next step in a series of major investments Bridge has made to eliminate friction in the global immigration process by improving efficiency, delivering a superior employee experience, and empowering immigration functions to be more proactive. These initiatives further elevate Bridge’s services and solidify the company’s position as the alternative to traditional immigration providers for companies of all sizes.

To complement its new phase of growth, Bridge’s product team will also roll out in the coming months many new toolsets for immigration planning and strategy answering HR departments’ need for digital transformation in a field that has traditionally been left behind.

”I’m really excited about two soon-to-be-deployed capabilities that take immigration in a proactive and predictive direction. Our Policy Builder enables you to configure immigration program rules that will then auto-set due dates and events in employee timelines, and assess your ongoing progress in meeting targets. The second new toolset, Cost & Budgeting, lets you forecast future spend based on anticipated employee population, and also make projections of headcount objectives and future hires.” says Bridge CTO, Forrest Blount.

Since 2011, Bridge has successfully helped more than 50,000 applicants coming from over 170 countries and continues to lead the way in streamlining and simplifying immigration. Beyond bringing order and harmony to a disjointed process, the Bridge Platform creates a new dimension of visibility and transparency that is not only very helpful for HR departments but for international employees too. The company expects to address these growing needs in new markets as early as 2020 and 2021, hence dropping the “US” in its name, to add a global dimension to its new rebranding efforts.        

About Bridge    

Bridge is a full-service immigration provider to companies of all sizes. By combining the unique strengths of purpose-built software and best-in-class legal experts, Bridge helps companies execute efficient and organized immigration processes, provide a superior experience to international employees, and run a more proactive and informed immigration function.

Over 450 leading companies across every major industry and geography have relied on Bridge to handle the immigration needs for international employees from over 170 countries.

Bridge’s mission is to make global mobility frictionless in order to help companies achieve their talent goals and empower individuals to become global citizens.

Additional information is available at http://www.bridge.legal. Follow updates on Twitter about Bridge @BridgeCitizens, and become a fan on its Facebook page. For career postings and updates, follow Bridge’s LinkedIn page.

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