“We are excited to announce our strategic alliance with VendorRisk,” said Lori Frank, President, and CEO of Argos Risk. “Through a conversation with a mutual client who wished to integrate our risk scores into VendorRisk’s solution, our partnership was formed,” added Frank.

MINNEAPOLIS (PRWEB)
October 12, 2021

Argos Risk®, a leading provider of Third-Party Risk Intelligence (TPRI) services for managing and monitoring the financial viability and overall business health of third-party relationships, announced it has entered a strategic partnership with VendorRisk.

Skeey Interactive, of Burlington, MA, is a leading provider of designed and developed websites and web applications for some of the best-known companies and brands in the world. In late 2009, Skeey Interactive launched its first web-based software product – VendorRisk. Tailored to each industry, VendorRisk’s vendor management software helps mortgage companies, banks, credit unions, and nonprofit organizations satisfy regulators and save time by organizing and centralizing vendor management programs.

“Like Argos Risk’s AR Surveillance, VendorRisk grows with your needs,” said Gavin Mac Carthy, Founder and Partner at Skeey Interactive. “This is why this partnership is such a great value to our customers. As they grow, they can continue to mitigate risk and receive up-to-date risk information on their key vendors in their vendor management programs,” added Mac Carthy.

AR Surveillance encapsulates key metrics and assigns risk scores to a company’s third-party relationships. It automatically generates and sends alerts about significant changes, including lawsuits, liens, mergers, acquisitions, key executive changes, and other material news and events. AR Surveillance provides key information into a company’s operations, incorporating financial viability, current trade payment behavior, business health, industry outlook, and much more.

“We are excited to announce our strategic alliance with VendorRisk,” said Lori Frank, President, and CEO of Argos Risk. “Through a conversation with a mutual client who wished to integrate our risk scores into VendorRisk’s solution, a partnership was formed. This alliance now expands VendorRisk’s vendor management program offerings by providing additional compliance and risk mitigation tools to their customer base,” added Frank.

About Argos Risk

Argos Risk is a leading provider of Third-Party Risk Intelligence solutions. Over the past decade, Argos Risk has fulfilled a need for timely and comprehensive risk mitigation knowledge with third-party risk intelligence. Argos Risk provides innovative and affordable subscription services to help companies manage the risk associated with their third-party relationships in Supply Chain Management, Vendor Management, ACH/RDC origination, and Direct and Indirect Lending. Visit https://www.argosrisk.com for additional information.

About VendorRisk

Burlington, Massachusetts-based Skeey Interactive, LLC is a technology firm founded in 1999. VendorRisk was launched in 2009 and provides a web-based software solution that helps companies organize vendor information. Their expertise in the vendor management arena helps banks, credit unions and mortgage companies centralize vendor management programs, saves time and resources, satisfies auditors and regulators, and mitigates risk. For more information, visit https://www.vendorrisk.com.

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The urLive Customer Engagement Platform delivers real answers by real people in a real-time manner, saving time and resources.

VANCOUVER, BC (PRWEB)
October 12, 2021

urLive Software Inc., a cloud-based communication services provider today announced the launch of the urLive Customer Engagement Platform™. The next generation customer engagement platform empowers businesses to connect online customers with their sales and support teams instantly and simply using live video.

Instead of engaging with impersonal AI chat bots, browsing time-wasting generic support pages, or awaiting email responses to online queries, customers can now simply click a link within any web page, SMS message, and chat bot, to instantly connect live with a company’s product, sales, and support agents.

Restoring the human element back into the customer journey, the urLive Customer Engagement Platform provides measurable business impact – increasing sales conversions, shortening sales cycles, improving customer satisfaction scores, and reducing expenses from quicker support resolution times.

Powering the urLive Customer Engagement Platform is the urLive Cloud PBX™, the first full-service, cloud-based Private Branch Exchange for WebRTC communications. As a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service, the urLive platform requires no IT coding nor infrastructure investment for reaching nearly all connected customers without any device software installation, download, or account creation.

Mike Frazer, ChromaCars Managing Partner, commented, “As an early integrator of the urLive platform, we were impressed with the ease of deployment. The manner in which urLive integrates automotive sales agents early into the customer’s online journey greatly benefits consumers and auto dealerships”

“We are proud to announce the release of the next generation online customer experience provided by the urLive Customer Engagement Platform,” said urLive founder and CEO Taranjeet Athwal. “The new platform delivers the best of the in-person experience online by enabling customers with instant and live access to a company’s sales and support teams to provide precise, pertinent, and personalized information. The outcomes deliver real answers by real people in real-time, saving time and resources.”

urLive will host an online webinar with urLive co-Founders, Mr. Taranjeet Athwal and Dr. Gary Greenbaum, on Tuesday, 19th of October 2021 at 10:00am PDT. The webinar will discuss how the urLive Customer Engagement Platform provides brands competitive advantage and accelerated business performance.

Webinar registration can be completed at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2J3bnavoRNONYNVkTRSQFg

For more information, please contact: info@url.live

About urLive

urLive Software Inc. is a Vancouver, Canada based communication services provider. urLive’s foundational technology is its patent-pending urLive Cloud PBX™, the first full-service cloud-based Private Branch Exchange for WebRTC communications. The company’s core business focus is advancing the online customer journey with personalization, instant access, and intelligence with live, web-based communications.

For media enquiries, please contact: PR@url.live

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“We continue to invest in the people, process, and technology required to deliver the critical outcomes customers want: resilient data privacy, effective data compliance, integrated eDiscovery, and significant cost savings”. Steven Horan, Modus Chairman and CEO.

WASHINGTON (PRWEB)
October 12, 2021

“Modus takes pride in aggregating powerful, best-of-breed technologies and combining them with our tremendous track record of effective thought leadership, scale, relevance, cloud security, and world-class professional services. We continue to invest in the people, process, and technology required to deliver the critical outcomes customers want: resilient data privacy, effective data compliance, integrated eDiscovery, and significant cost savings. Too much time and money have been wasted on partially solving larger problems,” says Steven Horan, Modus Chairman and CEO.

“Every day, I wake up excited at the thought of guiding another client through the disorienting world of information governance and data management. With a tsunami of new regulations, the explosion of cloud adoption, digital transformation, and the unquenchable thirst to hoard data, the journey can be an overwhelming endeavor even for the most seasoned IT professionals”, says Jim Comer, Modus Vice President of Sales – Information Governance. “We have combined our comprehensive portfolio of Information Governance Solutions with next-generation Artificial Intelligence from Haystac. Driven by the reality that some form of privacy regulation will cover most of the population’s personal information by 2023, Modus is uniquely qualified to guide our clients to their desired Information Governance destination,” continued Jim Comer.

“Our next-generation platform uses AI and deep learning to power our proprietary Visual Content Intelligence (VCI) for advanced data classification and extraction from both scanned files and over 500 types of born-digital enterprise documents and files,” said Barak Tsivkin, CEO of Haystac. “With Haystac Indago, Modus Professionals can now engage their clients on the largest and most difficult unstructured data problems such as sensitive and private data identification, addressing security and compliance, and data analytics across petabytes of data. The building blocks of Information Governance that Modus has put in place are impressive”, continued Barak Tsivkin, Haystac CEO.

About Haystac

Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Haystac Inc. created the Indago™ Content Analytics Platform, an AI-driven cloud solution for unstructured data management using innovative deep learning and several other data science methods to produce superior results. Our platform helps customers solve information management, security, privacy, and governance challenges across multiple business use cases.

About Modus

Modus brings together people, processes, and technology in concert to help solve your eDiscovery, Data Privacy and Governance challenges. As business leaders, CIOs/CTOs, general counsel, and cybersecurity experts, we know the challenges you are facing because we’ve lived through them ourselves. It is this empathy that drives our commitment to provide you with the most effective solutions and to make each Information Governance and eDiscovery partnership a stunning success.

For more information regarding Modus information governance solutions, unstructured data analytics, or professional services, contact:

Jim Comer, Vice President of Sales Information Governance

Modus

Phone: 202.332.5500

Web: https://www.discovermodus.com/

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Woolworths Reduces Admin by 15-20% Thanks to Centric PLM™

From the beginning, we didn’t just put in a PLM system, we re-examined how we worked and identified gaps and opportunities, trying to understand how we could make the systems and the processes work better.

CAMPBELL, Calif. (PRWEB)
October 07, 2021

Centric Software is delighted to announce the release of a success story about its customer, Woolworths.

Woolworths offers a unique blend of food, fashion, beauty, homeware and financial services. The first Woolworths store opened its doors to the public in Cape Town in October 1931 and Woolworths prides itself on being a values-driven organization that strives to go to market first with what matters. With a team of over 31,000 people in South Africa, over 43,000 people across the Group in the Southern Hemisphere, and a comprehensive product mix, it is an understatement to say their business model is complex.

Prior to PLM, there were too many complexities in the way products would be attributed, coded and managed at Woolworths. Their large supplier base added additional layers of complexity and quality management was not standardized.

On top of this, the business was working in an outdated legacy Product Data Management (PDM) system, resulting in an overreliance on email and Excel, duplication of work and a lack of traceability and standardized business processes. Woolworths needed a digital transformation solution to streamline operations, modernize processes and stay competitive in the challenging retail landscape.

“The question of finding the right PLM is what took a bit of time… we had to make sure that we could find the right system to be able to cater to all of the complexities and nuances across our product mix,” shares Moira Alexander, Manager of Improvement Projects at Woolworths. “We’re a big ship, we don’t turn very quickly.”

Woolworths selected Centric PLM for a variety of reasons including Centric Software’s expertise in fashion and retail, impressive customer endorsements and high satisfaction rates as well as the opportunity for truly localized project support.

“From the beginning, we didn’t just put in a PLM system, we re-examined how we worked and identified gaps and opportunities, trying to understand how we could make the systems and the processes work better,” says Alexander.

Woolworths has realized significant ROI since the rollout in terms of time saved, communication and collaboration, removing duplication of work, cost-efficiencies and increased visibility. The project was delivered on-time, under budget and with a larger scope that originally estimated.

Discover how PLM delivered transformational change at this iconic multi-category retailer by reading the full Woolworths Success Story!

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Woolworths (http://www.woolworths.co.za)

At Woolworths, QUALITY is our DNA, it’s our philosophy, it’s how we’re wired. It’s what we do, and how we do it, since 1931. It’s our passion, our obsession and the promise we make to our customers and to each other.

We are a business led by our values, with every customer we serve, every product we sell, every decision we make, bringing quality to life. Our values inform and underpin the way we do business. From values based leadership to passionate brand advocacy, we seek to embed our values across all dimensions of our business. At Woolies we offer a unique blend of food, fashion, beauty, homeware and financial services with the vision to be a leading fashion retailer in the Southern Hemisphere. We employ over 31,000 people in South Africa and over 43, 000 people across the Group in South Africa, Africa and Australasia to transform this vision into reality. Doing business responsibly, in the most transparent and ethical way, sits at the heart of the Woolworths business. Sustainability is one of our values as well as a strategic imperative. We rely on our employees to be the creative and innovative hub of our business through the integration of sustainability initiatives into everything we do. Through the collective efforts, commitment and support of our people, suppliers and customers we continue to make great progress on our journey to leave the world and our community in a better place than we found it.

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Esper’s CEO Yadhu Gopalan and COO Shiv Sundar

SEATTLE (PRWEB)
October 05, 2021

Esper, the industry’s leading DevOps platform for devices, today announced $60 million in Series C funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors including Scale Venture Partners, Madrona Ventures and Root Ventures. The investment brings Esper’s total funding to $100 million and follows the company’s $30 million Series B in May. Esper is the industry’s first DevOps platform for intelligent edge devices and was named one of the top 10 hottest startups in 2021 by CRN.

Enterprise edge devices are in a fast-growing category that includes everything from the tablets used in travel, restaurants, and warehouses, to medical devices, fitness equipment, and in-store kiosks. Esper is the only software platform that lets organizations remotely scale, manage, secure, and update mission-critical edge devices and custom apps using the proven DevOps practices now considered standard in web app development.

“Customer expectations are higher than ever. When a point of sale terminal in a retailer is out of order, the merchant doesn’t have the time or expertise to fix it. These devices are mission critical and expected to work flawlessly 24/7,” says Shiv Sundar, COO and co-founder at Esper. “This is especially true for devices directly tied to revenue generation, or in verticals like medical devices where a life might literally be on the line. We built Esper with the customer’s customer in mind.”

Edge devices are a new path to connecting with more customers in more places, but challenges persist.

“For years now, we’ve seen these massive projections about IOT devices of all kinds. But on the ground, enterprises and SMBs are struggling with the reality that large-scale deployments of devices are hard and expensive when you go it alone,” said Philine Huizing, Vice President at Insight Partners. “Esper has emerged as the only platform that provides modern DevOps capabilities in a package purpose built for intelligent edge devices. And even better, developers tell us that they love using Esper.”

Esper has over 200 paying customers and over 2,000 developers using its platform for product development. Esper addresses verticals as diverse as fast food, healthcare, connected fitness, retail, and digital signage, driving 2021 revenue 4x higher than the year prior and making Esper one of the fastest growing startups in the enterprise software sector. The Seattle-based company quadrupled headcount during 2021 and tripled its office footprint in Bellevue on a square footage basis.

As this hyper-growth attests, innovative brands are using Esper to move from whiteboard to deployment faster than they ever thought possible. This is particularly important in markets like healthcare, where ease of use and continuous uptime are critical:

“With Esper, our remote patient monitoring service just works,” said Neema Moraveji, PhD, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Spire Health. “Esper’s seamless deployment ensures that even patients who are not as comfortable with technology can successfully use our service. Device set-up is simple, there is zero configuration needed by the patients, and Esper’s full-service solution detects connectivity and sensor failures ahead of time and alerts the Spire team for proactive outreach to our patients, often before they even notice an issue.”

This latest funding round will primarily be used to further expand Esper’s ability to get in front of more enterprise customers.

“Our biggest opportunity right now is getting the word out to more enterprises that Esper exists,” said Yadhu Gopalan, CEO and co-founder at Esper. “Our customers tell us that we are completely resetting their assumptions about what is possible. It’s truly rewarding to see the light bulb go off when a customer realizes all of the infrastructure they no longer have to build themselves.”

Enterprises can sign up for a technology demo at https://www.esper.io/book-demo.

About Esper

Esper offers a DevOps SaaS platform for intelligent edge devices. As the industry’s leading solution for Android DevOps, Esper is on a mission to let software teams ship without worrying about the hardware. Esper’s device infrastructure enables developers, mid-market organizations, and enterprise fleets of 100,000+ devices to deliver their software as a service. Esper has rapidly-growing global customer adoption among some of the world’s most innovative major brands in retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare, education and more. For more information visit: https://esper.io.

About Insight Partners

Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners has invested in more than 400 companies worldwide and has raised through a series of funds more than $30 billion in capital commitments. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Across its people and its portfolio, Insight encourages a culture around a belief that ScaleUp companies and growth create opportunity for all. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit http://www.insightpartners.com.

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Alice, Equal1 Quantum Demonstrator

“Equal1 has a trajectory to create massively scalable quantum solutions for real applications without the need for an exotic new technology platform – leveraging existing semiconductor foundry processes to deliver quantum computing solutions that make artificial intelligence (AI) more efficient and

FREMONT, Calif. and DUBLIN (PRWEB)
October 05, 2021

Equal1 Laboratories (Equal1), the silicon quantum computing company, today announced btov Industrial Technologies has joined Atlantic Bridge and other Equal1 investors in a multimillion Euro funding round. The funding, which will accelerate the introduction of the world’s most compact and cost-effective quantum computers, brings the initial capital invested in Equal1 to over €10 million.

The company also has announced the appointment of Dr. Christian Reitberger, Partner at btov, to the Equal1 board of directors. Reitberger brings to Equal1 deep-tech quantum experience and a passion for technologies that have the potential to improve the state of the world in a sustainable and significant way.

“We are excited to be part of this journey with the impressive Equal1 team,” says Reitberger. “Equal1 has a trajectory to create massively scalable quantum solutions for real applications without the need for an exotic new technology platform – leveraging existing semiconductor foundry processes to deliver quantum computing solutions that make artificial intelligence (AI) more efficient and sustainable.”

Equal1 is addressing a major challenge for the quantum computing industry – to scale the number of qubits so that a quantum computer can tackle useful, real-world problems. The company recently announced that it was the first to demonstrate a fully integrated quantum processor unit (QPU) operating at 3.7 kelvin ―a major milestone with implications for the trajectory of quantum computing. The QPU has been integrated into a quantum computer demonstrator (“Alice”) and has been operating continuously for 18 months at the company’s sites in Ireland and the U.S.

The company’s third generation QPU chip has been recently produced. This QPU includes the latest patented silicon qubit array as well as hybrid qubit test structures and high-speed input/output communication links used to bring high-speed data into the quantum core. With its QPU, Equal1 has developed a disruptive, scalable and cost-effective quantum computing technology, based on a commercially available silicon semiconductor process. This technology will enable the company to meet the enormous demand for affordable, functional quantum computers and the company is targeting a first-generation production system within 24 months.

“We have supported Equal1 from the very beginning and have been impressed and excited with what the team has achieved to date,” notes Gerry Maguire, General Partner at Atlantic Bridge and Equal1 board member. “With this new round of funding, we are confident that the team can deliver on its exciting goals of bringing the technology to market.”

“This is a wonderful validation of our unique qubit technology and integrated approach, protected by a portfolio of over 30 patents,” says Dirk Leipold, Founder and CEO of Equal1. “The support of a new, extremely knowledgeable deep tech investor in btov, along with the continued support of Atlantic Bridge will enable us to accelerate our development of a useful QPU and deliver on our vision of democratizing quantum computing.”

Equal1 has recently appointed a world renowned scientific advisory board and appointed Declan O’Mahoney, a seasoned tech CEO with multiple exits, as Non-Executive Chairman of its Board of Directors.

Equal1’s quantum technology is particularly suited to Quantum Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning. AI is transforming every aspect of our lives from self-driving vehicles to AI-designed drugs. However, the amount of energy required by these applications means that it is now a material and growing contributor to global carbon output and hence global warming. Equal1’s quantum computing technology will enable vastly better performance at a fraction of the energy.

With research and development teams in Dublin, Ireland and Silicon Valley, Equal1 was founded by Dr Dirk Leipold, Mike Asker and Professor R Bogdan Staszewski. It is a spin-out from the University College Dublin School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The investment is also supported by current investors 808 Ventures and Enterprise Ireland.

About Equal1

Equal1 leverages commercially available semiconductor technology to deliver quantum computing solutions that empower businesses to overcome data-intensive AI challenges today.

With its much smaller carbon footprint, our scalable, cost-effective technology provides a quantum computing path that will impact the trajectory of AI. This means we enable our customers to more effectively leverage the power of AI to develop useful, real-world solutions.

For more information, please visit us at equal1.com.

About btov

btov (@btovPartners) has been supporting outstanding European startups in non-obvious digital and industrial technologies since 2000. Our unfair advantage is the unique combination of our two dedicated Industrial and Digital Technology Fund teams and Europe’s strongest network of entrepreneurial private investors. In this Private Investor Network members not only get access to high-quality investment opportunities but also benefit from knowhow exchange and inter-generational learning through think tanks, academies, study tours and digital formats. btov has been actively backing semiconductor, photonics and quantum technology companies for more than a decade https://btov.vc/industrial-tech-fund/ .

About Atlantic Bridge

Atlantic Bridge is a Pan European Technology Growth Firm with 1.2b assets under management. Founded in 2004 by successful technology entrepreneurs and executives. With offices in Dublin, London, Munich, Paris and Palo Alto. Atlantic Bridge invests in deep tech sectors such as Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors, Security, Digital Health and Computer Vision. With 8 Funds under management now including two University Funds, the Firm leverages its deep operational experience and unrivalled networks to help build deep technology companies into global market leaders across Europe, the US and Asia. http://www.abven.com

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PCmover Professional – The ONLY software that moves your applications, files, and settings — now updated for Windows 11!

Most users don’t know where all of their data lives and don’t have time to waste on reinstalling applications or setting up their preferences. We’ve worked hard to make sure that our newest version of PCmover solves those problems.

BELLEVUE, Wash. (PRWEB)
October 05, 2021

Laplink Software, Inc., the global leader in PC migration and creator of the only software of its kind recommended by Microsoft®, Intel®, and all major PC manufacturers, announced today the newest version of its PCmover transfer software is updated for the Windows® 11 operating system that Microsoft released today. PCmover’s newest version also includes the ability to move local cloud directories, the capability to easily modify default folder locations with PCmover Reconfigurator technology, and Thunderbolt support using Laplink’s new ultra-high-speed Thunderbolt transfer cable to provide consumer and business users with the fastest and easiest way to move to a new Windows 11 PC.

“Now that Windows 11 is available, and due to its new hardware requirements, millions of PC users will be upgrading their PCs. With nearly 75% of the world’s PCs running Windows 10, a lot of people will need to figure out how to move documents, pictures, music, software, and settings from an older PC to a new one,” said Thomas Koll, CEO of Laplink Software. “Most users don’t know where all of their data lives and don’t have time to waste on reinstalling applications or setting up their preferences. We’ve worked hard to make sure that our newest version of PCmover solves those problems and gives users the fastest and easiest way to upgrade to Windows 11. And, unlike many software companies today, our customer support is free!”

Laplink’s newest version of PCmover offers enhanced features specific to Windows 11 in addition to enhanced capabilities, including an option to use the latest in Thunderbolt™ technology for the fastest possible data-transfer speeds with Laplink’s new ultra-high-speed Thunderbolt™ transfer cable.

After installing the software on both PCs, PCmover automatically connects the two machines and starts transferring all selected user profiles, applications, files, and settings from the existing PC to a new PC, regardless of the version of Windows running on the old or on the new PC, including Windows 11. Nothing is changed on the source PC and nothing is overwritten on the destination PC.

If PCmover detects multiple drives on the new PC, PCmover will also help users determine the best folder locations and destinations for data before the transfer begins. PCmover Reconfigurator™ technology allows users to easily change default Windows library folder locations such as Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos and Downloads. If users only need to change Microsoft default folder locations, PCmover Reconfigurator is also available separately from Laplink, free of charge.

For customers who use OneDrive®, Dropbox®, or Google Drive®, PCmover transfers everything users select from their old PC, so there’s no need to re-download local cloud directories and files to the new PC.

In addition, Laplink offers complimentary 24/7 assistance from certified PC migrations experts. Laplink’s Free Transfer Assistance is available by phone, email, and live chat via the company’s website.

Visit the Laplink website to learn more about PCmover or to download the software. Available in 17 languages, PCmover is now more accessible than ever to a larger global audience. For large organizations interested in automated PC migrations at scale, including to Windows 11, a free, fully functional copy of PCmover Enterprise can be requested at enterprise.laplink.com.

PCmover Professional, Laplink’s flagship migration solution, is available from Laplink.com, Amazon®, Best Buy®, Fry’s®, Micro Center®, Office Depot®, Office Max®, Staples®, and other major software retailers and PC manufacturers in North America, Europe, and Japan.

About Laplink Software, Inc.

For nearly 40 years, Laplink has been a global leader in consumer, SMB, and enterprise PC migration software, and has earned the loyalty and trust of millions of organizations and customers worldwide. The company’s PCmover software saves time and budget, reduces migration risks, and increases efficiency. Only PCmover’s proprietary technology includes full selectivity that transfers data, applications, and settings from an old PC to a new one, even if the two PCs run different versions of Windows. The privately held company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

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