We understand that not all Goodwill stores operate in the same way, which is why it is so important for us, as the coop’s technology partner, to offer a flexible retail platform which can be easily configured to meet the specific needs of each Goodwill business

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (PRWEB)
February 04, 2021

Celerant Technology, the leading provider of innovative retail solutions, today announces a partnership with the Goodwill National Cooperative Purchasing Program (NCPP) as a recommended point of sale provider for Goodwill stores across the United States and Canada. Celerant offers a modern, fast and intuitive point of sale and donation management software (DMS), with customizable features designed specifically for the donated goods industry and Goodwill, enabling Goodwill stores to run their entire business more efficiently and cost-effectively within a single solution.

“It became clear very early in our product search that Celerant checked all of the boxes and provided practical solutions to virtually all of Goodwills unique challenges,” stated Doug Carden, Vice President, Goodwill National Cooperative Purchasing Program. “We look forward to a long-term partnership with Celerant and encourage our Goodwill members to consider the Stratus Enterprise system for their business needs.”

Leveraging Celerant’s point of sale, Goodwill businesses can implement a fast and intuitive solution across all their stores and outlets. The point of sale can be configured to the way they run their business, and offers all the features they need to manage and operate their stores in a single platform- donations, production, sales and returns, loss prevention, customers, incentives, email marketing, performance reporting, and more. With Celerant’s ‘Always On’ POS, Goodwill stores can work offline if internet connectivity goes down; stores can continue ringing up sales, and perform all point of sale functions- customer lookups, membership club rewards, price changes, and more.

Managing the production process

Through Celerant’s point of sale, associates at each Goodwill store can manage the entire production process, from product intake to tagging, all in a single place. Celerant provides the tools needed to manage product inspections, categorization, sorting, tagging and pricing; along with inventory and store transfers. Stores can also implement and simplify a ‘color code’ system with ‘flexible color weeks’ used for all incoming merchandise. With Celerant’s built-in reporting capabilities, Goodwill management can run production-specific reports to analyze items based on volume, quality and sell-through at each Goodwill store location.

Improving the customer and donator experience

Celerant’s point of sale allows Goodwill stores to offer customers discounts, promotions, coupons and loyalty/membership rewards, vouchers/gift cards; along with account-based incentives for seniors, military veterans and birthdays. At checkout, the POS screen will automatically prompt the cashier to ask the customer if they want to redeem their available rewards; or enroll the new customer in a membership club. Goodwill stores can also manage donation drives; and offer incentives to individuals and/or organizations that donate. Through Celerant’s integrate online platform, Goodwill stores can easily provide donators with a unique, secure website in which they can itemize and print their donations for tax purposes. Celerant’s email marketing platform, as well as its Hubspot integration, makes it easy for Goodwill stores to send email campaigns to customers and donators; emails can be personalized based on customer and historical sales/donation data.

“We understand that not all Goodwill stores operate in the same way, which is why it is so important for us, as the coop’s technology partner, to offer a flexible retail platform which can be easily configured to meet the specific needs of each Goodwill business”, stated Ian Goldman, President and CEO of Celerant Technology. “Equally as important, is to provide an innovative solution that can help the Goodwill businesses adapt to meet the evolving needs of their customers with tools such as curbside pickup and text message marketing.”

For more information about Celerant’s point of sale for Goodwill’s NCPP, please visit https://www.celerant.com/goodwill/.

About Celerant Technology

Founded in 1999, Celerant provides innovative, multi-channel retail commerce solutions and expert consulting to mid-market retailers across all industries. Celerant is ranked as the #1 retail software provider, and has been recognized as a top-five vendor for the past eleven consecutive years on the RIS Software LeaderBoard. Celerant supports retailers through point of sale, inventory management, eCommerce, vendor integrations and ‘endless aisle’, marketplace integrations, CRM and shopper incentives, ERP, email marketing and more. To learn more, subscribe to our blog- http://www.celerant.com/blog.

About the Goodwill National Cooperative Purchasing

The Goodwill NCPP began as a way of locating marketplace savings on the products and services Goodwills use to operate. With a growing supplier network of over 20 partners, we continue to look for new opportunities to build savings for our participating members. To learn more about the Goodwill NCPP, visit https://goodwillncpp.org/.

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Simple and Affordable Payroll Tax and Check Printing Solution

Halfpricesoft.com has updated ezPaycheck for MAC to allow customers to process payroll from anywhere with the latest desktop version.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (PRWEB)
February 05, 2021

Payroll is a necessity for any business –employees have to be paid, the right tax deductions need to be added, and taxes need to be paid and filed on time. Latest ezPaycheck MAC Supports Processing Payroll From Anywhere With ezPaycheck Software for MAC]version was created because processing payroll should not be time consuming and difficult to run. Customers are now able to process payroll from anywhere with this desktop version.

“Halfpricesoft.com has updated ezPaycheck for MAC to allow customers to process payroll from anywhere with the latest desktop version,” explains Dr. Ge, Founder of Halfpricesoft.com

Customers seeking a way to simplify payroll processing with more accuracy can go online to https://www.halfpricesoft.com/mac_payroll_software/ezPaycheck_mac.asp, and download the payroll software. The download includes the full version of the paycheck software along with a sample database. The sample database allows new customers to try all of ezPaycheck’s unique features, including the intuitive graphical interface.

Small Businesses are always looking for ways to save money on payroll processing and tax reporting. Customers can try out this new ezPaycheck payroll solution for either MAC or Windows for 30 days at https://www.halfpricesoft.com/mac_payroll_software/ezPaycheck_mac.asp, with no obligation or risk.

The main features include:

• Supports multiple differential pay rates such as: hourly, salary, night shift, by piece, by load, or by mileage rates for employees
• Supports multiple accounts at no additional charge
• Supports daily, weekly, biweekly, semimonthly and monthly payroll periods. Features report functions, print functions, and pay stub functions
• Prints miscellaneous checks as well as payroll calculation checks
• Prints payroll checks on blank computer checks or preprinted checks
• Automatically calculates federal withholding tax, social security, medicare tax and employer unemployment taxes
• Includes built-in tax tables for all 50 states and the District of Columbia
• Creates and maintains payroll for multiple companies, and does it simultaneously
• Prints Tax Forms 940, 941, W2 and W3 (Copy A preprinted form required)

To learn more about MAC ezPaycheck, visit https://www.halfpricesoft.com/mac_payroll_software/ezPaycheck_mac.asp and test for compatibility with no cost or obligation.

About halfpricesoft.com

Halfpricesoft.com is a leading provider of small business software, including online and desktop payroll software, online employee attendance tracking software, accounting software, in-house business and personal check printing software, W2, software, 1099 software, Accounting software, 1095 form software and ezACH direct deposit software. Software from halfpricesoft.com is trusted by thousands of customers and will help small business owners simplify payroll processing and streamline business management.

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“We could not be more excited for & proud of our colleagues at EIZO on this exceptional accomplishment – well deserved. We’ve used EIZO displays on every Pixar film since Finding Dory and applaud the Academy for bestowing this recognition – congratulations!”- Pixar Animation Studios

Cypress (PRWEB)
February 03, 2021

EIZO Inc. announced that it has been awarded a Scientific and Technical Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its ColorEdge CG Series monitors with integrated self-calibration sensors.

The Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards honor individuals and companies whose innovations have contributed in significant and lasting ways to motion pictures. The Academy will honor 17 scientific and technical achievements in a virtual Scientific and Technical Awards presentation on Saturday, February 13, 2021. The ceremony will be available on the Oscars website starting at 1 p.m. PT.

EIZO is honored to receive the esteemed award for the development of the ColorEdge CG Series hardware calibration monitors with built-in calibration sensors. The lead innovators behind the technology and direct recipients of the award are Senior Product Manager Masato Nakashima, Senior Engineer Junji Sakuda, Principal Engineer Koichi Ueno, and Principal Engineer Junro Yonemitsu.

EIZO’s modern integrated calibration sensor technology is the result of extensive research and investment in imaging solutions for a range of markets, including healthcare. In 2005, EIZO introduced a medical monitor with a built-in sensor that calibrates the screen as well as stabilizes brightness for precise display of monochrome radiology images. EIZO build upon the technology, becoming the first manufacturer in the world to bring a self-calibrating color precision solution to market with the ColorEdge CG245W in 2010. EIZO’s modern built-in sensor technology can be set to calibrate automatically, eliminating the need for a third-party calibration device while ensuring the screen stays color accurate. The sensor is developed and manufactured in-house at EIZO’s own facilities – a testament to EIZO’s passion and dedication to precise imaging.

Having a screen that users can trust is indispensable in many industries – in healthcare where lives depend on accurate imaging to diagnose and treat, and in creative fields such as film production where technology facilitates efficiency and provides peace of mind so editors and artists can focus more on the story they are trying to tell.

EIZO’s ColorEdge monitors are relied on by major studios worldwide to bring some of the most inspiring and exciting stories and experiences to audiences everywhere.

“Industrial Light & Magic has been delighted with the imaging performance and feature set of the self-calibrating EIZO monitors since their introduction. The journey together with our friends at EIZO has been a pleasure and we are thrilled to see them receive this much-deserved recognition by the Academy Sci-Tech Awards council.”

Industrial Light & Magic

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), The Mandalorian (2019), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

“In order to deliver our award-winning work, we rely on our award-winning technology partners! Congratulations to our friends at EIZO on this well-deserved honor from the Academy. DNEG is proud to use EIZO’s auto-calibrating ColorEdge monitors across our global VFX facilities to ensure we always deliver the highest possible quality movie experience.”

DNEG

Dune (2021), No Time To Die (2021), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), Tenet (2020)

“We could not be more excited for & proud of our colleagues at EIZO on this exceptional accomplishment – well deserved. We’ve used EIZO displays on every Pixar film since Finding Dory and applaud the Academy for bestowing this recognition – congratulations!”

Pixar Animation Studios

Soul (2020), Toy Story 4 (2019), Coco (2017)

“The best part about the EIZO hardware is that it self-calibrates. And as a supervisor, that’s critical because you want to know that what you are looking at is perfect, is color accurate, and is sharp and consistent.”

Skydance Media

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

“And the award goes to, EIZO!! Congratulations on your Sci-Tech Award. Your monitors have helped us contribute incredible imagery to the biggest films and television in Hollywood: Dune, Terminator: Dark Fate, Beastie Boys Story, and The Stand just to name a few. Your achievement is well deserved!”

Wylie VFX

Dune (2021), Beastie Boys Story (2020), The Stand (2020), Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Yoshitaka Jitsumori, President & CEO of EIZO Corporation commented, “At EIZO, we believe that continued investment in our employees’ growth through a corporate culture that facilitates creativity, problem-solving, and passion is the key to success. EIZO is proud to recognize the accomplishments of every employee whose dedication, ingenuity and teamwork brought this influential solution to the creative industry, even going back to those who started the journey with our calibration solution for healthcare. Every innovation is a building block for the next and I am proud to see that our employees’ diverse experience in a range of industries continues to contribute to truly innovative technologies for the next. This achievement will serve as another steppingstone to even greater things in the future, as we continue our mission to provide highly precise and sophisticated imaging solutions made with dedication and care.”

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About EIZO

EIZO Inc., which means image in Japanese, is a visual technology company that develops and manufactures high-end display solutions. EIZO integrates hardware and software technologies with consulting, web hosting, and other services to help customers in business, graphics, gaming, medicine, maritime, and other fields work more comfortably, efficiently, and creatively. For more information, please visit http://www.eizo.com.

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PL-4000M with front optics view

“The PL-4000M provides added value for service providers and high-end enterprises to build their next generation network or expand their existing network’s capacity,” says Koby Reshef, CEO of PacketLight Networks.

TEL AVIV, Israel (PRWEB)
February 03, 2021

PacketLight Networks, a leading provider of DWDM and OTN equipment, has released the PL-4000M muxponder. Delivering 400G capacity over a single wavelength, it speeds implementation of new services or quickly and affordably increases existing network capacity for DCI, metro, short-, and long-haul applications.

The PL-4000M 1U modular device delivers cost-effective, high-capacity transport of 400G over a single wavelength by aggregating any mix of 10/25/100GbE, 16/32G FC, and OTU2/2e/4 services into one 400G coherent uplink.

The device reduces the total transport solution costs, as it takes up minimal rack space and lowers the power consumption per transmitted bit. It offers high levels of security with embedded Layer-1 GCM-AES-256 optical encryption using elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

“The PL-4000M is based on the latest standard technologies of OTN 400G mapping and pluggable, compact coherent 400G modules in both CFP2 and QSFPDD form factors,” says Koby Reshef, CEO of PacketLight Networks. “It provides added value for service providers and high-end enterprises to build their next generation network or expand their existing network’s capacity.”

The PL-4000M provides full demarcation between the service and the OTN/DWDM uplink and offers complete interoperability with third-party switches and routers. The product delivers full visibility and performance monitoring of both the line optical transport layer (OTN) and service interfaces.

The equipment uses globally adopted, standards-based technology, which ensures an extended lifespan, eliminating vendor lock in, reducing long-term total cost of ownership (TCO), and speeding ROI. All optical modules are replaceable and pluggable from the front panel, which simplifies growth and maintenance. The PL-4000M supports pluggable fan units and dual redundant hot-pluggable AC/DC power supply units.

For more information on PacketLight’s suite of optical fiber networking products, visit http://www.packetlight.com.

About PacketLight Networks

PacketLight leverages more than 20 years of fiber optic networking experience to deliver carrier-grade, DWDM and OTN equipment, which provide the entire fiber optical layer transport solution and reduce CAPEX and OPEX. PacketLight solutions allow carriers, data centers, enterprises, content providers, dark fiber providers, universities, and governments and defense organizations to meet high data delivery demands with exceptional service. http://www.packetlight.com

For product and reseller information, please contact info@packetlight.com.

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Two Safety Vision cameras installed at the stop-arm

HOUSTON (PRWEB)
February 03, 2021

Every day, school bus drivers and students face a multitude of dangers when traveling to and from school. Whether passing cars violate stop arm laws, students are engaged in misconduct, or a combination of both is taking place (which is common); it is essential for safety to be heightened.

This is where Safety Vision, LLC comes in, a mobile video surveillance provider. With nearly 30 years in the industry, Safety Vision has supplied mobile surveillance solutions to a vast majority of the nation. In recent years, most of the school districts in Colorado have migrated to their services. And Jeffco Public Schools, the second largest school bus fleet in Colorado, is the most recent.

In the multi-phase project, all of Jeffco’s buses will be equipped with a total of 7 cameras: 4 inside the bus, 2 at the stop arm, and 1 by the boarding entrance. This ensures everything in and around the bus is recorded, which is vital should any sort of incident take place. “The priority is seeing what’s going on inside the bus, such as bullying and monitoring outside activities – especially stop-arm violations,” said Clint Bryer, the Director of Student Transportation at Safety Vision.

According to the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS), nearly 100,000 vehicles were observed illegally passing a school bus when the stop-arm was extended in 2019. In fact, Greg Jackson, the Executive Director of Transportation and Fleet Services at Jeffco has reported a 10% increase in violations in the last two years. “We see more impatience. People will drive up to a bus and they’re in a rush, so they blow on through,” said Greg when discussing the frequent recurrence.

To combat this are the external cameras, which capture all of the incident and allow the drivers to maintain their focus on the students; rather than trying to see the license plate, offending car driver, or vehicle make and model. All of the footage is easily and quickly downloaded through a wireless connection.

But just as important to ensuring the safety of students on the bus are the internal cameras, which provide complete interior coverage. When students know they are being recorded, their behavior improves, so bullying is less likely to take place. The cameras deter them. On top of that, the potential for a “he said/ she said” feud in case of an incident is diminished, as all evidence is caught on camera.

Though there is a lot that could happen on the school bus, Safety Vision continues to base their solutions on the needs of bus drivers, students, their families, and the districts – in order to relieve some of the obstacles faced. They are dedicated to enhancing safety for everyone involved and are excited for their new relationship with Jeffco Public Schools.

About Safety Vision, LLC.

Safety Vision is among the most recognized vendors of mobile video surveillance products in North America and continually enhances vehicular safety in both the private and public sectors. Safety Vision’s product offering includes digital video recorders, network video recorders, hybrid video recorders, analog and IP cameras, rear vision cameras, as well as a suite of intuitive software. Safety Vision prides itself on its forward-thinking ideology, comprehensive solutions, extensive client list, and proven results. For more information, please go to http://www.safetyvision.com or call 800-880-8855.

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DataON K2N-224 selected a finalist in the Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2020 Products of the Year awards.

Having our K2N-224 selected as a finalist for Storage magazine product of the year validates our belief that DataON and Microsoft deliver the best-in-breed, software-defined, hybrid cloud solutions on the market.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (PRWEB)
February 02, 2021

DataON, an industry-leading provider of hybrid cloud solutions for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI with cloud-based Azure Services, announces its K2N-224 for Azure Stack HCI has been selected a finalist in the Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2020 Products of the Year awards.

“Microsoft has a compelling offering with its Azure Stack HCI. DataON builds on Azure Stack HCI to deliver comprehensive offerings that span from the edge to the data center to the cloud. The DataON K2N-224 combines speed, capacity and density (two 2U nodes, 192TB per node) with a fully integrated Azure Stack HCI experience.”

This is DataON’s second award in as many years for our solutions for Azure Stack HCI. StorageReview gave an Editor’s Choice award in 2019 to our DataON HCI-224 solution for Azure Stack HCI.

“DataON has been a leading provider of Microsoft software-defined solutions, starting with Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012, to the current offering, Azure Stack HCI,” said Howard Lo, vice president of sales and marketing, DataON. “Having our K2N-224 selected as a finalist for Storage magazine product of the year validates our belief that DataON and Microsoft deliver the best-in-breed, software-defined, hybrid cloud solutions on the market.”

The K2N-224 is a DataON Kepler switchless solution designed for branch office, retail, and edge environments. It features two nodes that are directly connected, eliminating the need for a networking switch and adapters to connect the nodes.

It is powered by Azure Stack HCI, which features a world-class hyper-converged infrastructure stack with the latest Azure hypervisor with built-in software-defined storage and networking. It provides industry-best storage performance, built-in resiliency, and superior hybrid cloud integration for Azure customers. It uses the same technology that Microsoft uses to run its own data centers. It’s also powered by Intel technologies, such as Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and Intel® Optane™ SSDs and persistent memory.

This is the 19th annual Storage magazine and SearchStorage Products of the Year awards. The K2N-224 is one of 47 finalists from nearly 100 entries.

The announcement of winners will appear in the February issue of Storage magazine and online at SearchStorage.com.

ABOUT DATAON

DataON is a hybrid-cloud computing company focused on delivering Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, on-premises storage systems, intelligent edge appliances, and cloud-based Microsoft Azure Services. Our company is helping enterprises and customers who have made the “Microsoft choice” to modernize their IT with Microsoft applications, virtualizations, and data protection through a complete and turnkey experience.

With over 850 HCI clusters and 150PB of storage deployed, DataON enterprise-level solutions are designed to provide the highest level of performance, manageability, and security offered. DataON is a Microsoft Gold Partner, Microsoft Cloud Service Provider (CSP), and an Intel Platinum Partner.

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L-com Launches New USB 3.0 ECF-Style Panel Mount Couplers

“Our new USB 3.0 ECF-style, panel mount couplers provide quick, efficient connections in a variety of panel and enclosure designs. Many of our OEM customers will find these new couplers very useful in a wide range of USB 3.0 applications,” said Dustin Guttadauro, Product Line Manager

IRVINE, Calif. (PRWEB)
February 02, 2021

L-com, an Infinite Electronics brand, and a preferred manufacturer of wired and wireless connectivity products, announced today that it has launched a new series of USB 3.0, ECF-style, panel mount couplers for use with data acquisition, test and measurement, and PC peripheral interconnect applications.

These new couplers allow high-speed, USB 3.0 connections to be efficiently passed through panels or enclosures by utilizing L-com’s unique ECF flange design.

Coupler options include A to A, A to B, and B to A connector combinations in addition to both chrome-plated, shielded and unshielded ECF housing designs. The chrome-plated models electrically connect the connector shells, and ground to the housing’s plating and are perfect for use in applications that require grounding your coupler to your panel or enclosure.

Additional features of these new USB 3.0 ECF couplers include 30-microinch gold-plated contacts that provide reliable connections with repeated mating cycles and easy mounting using two 4-40 screws, which are sold separately (L-com part number ECF440).

“Our new USB 3.0 ECF-style, panel mount couplers provide quick, efficient connections in a variety of panel and enclosure designs. Many of our OEM customers will find these new couplers very useful in a wide range of USB 3.0 applications,” said Dustin Guttadauro, Product Line Manager.

L-com’s new USB 3.0 ECF couplers are in-stock and available for immediate shipment.

About L-com:

L-com, a leading manufacturer of wired and wireless connectivity products, offers a wide range of solutions and unrivaled customer service for the electronics and data communications industries. The company’s product portfolio includes cable assemblies, connectors, adapters, antennas, enclosures, surge protectors and more. L-com is headquartered in North Andover, Mass., is ISO 9001: 2015 certified and many of its products are UL® recognized. L-com is an Infinite Electronics brand.

About Infinite Electronics:

Based in Irvine, Calif., Infinite Electronics offers a broad range of components, assemblies and wired/wireless connectivity solutions, serving the aerospace/defense, industrial, government, consumer electronics, instrumentation, medical and telecommunications markets. Infinite’s brands include Pasternack, Fairview Microwave, L-com, MilesTek, Aiconics, KP Performance Antennas, PolyPhaser, Transtector, RadioWaves, ShowMeCables, INC Installs and Integra Optics. Infinite Electronics serves a global engineering customer base with deep technical expertise and support, with one of the broadest inventories of products available for immediate shipment.

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