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MindCloud Named #1 “Best Small Business iPaaS for 2023”

Best E-Commerce Integration Platform to Improve Productivity and Increase Sales

MindCloud, a software company providing integration solutions for connecting applications, announced it was just recognized as the #1 Best Small Business integration platforms for 2023 by SourceForge. In less than two years, MindCloud has become the go-to platform for business owners who want to scale and automate their workflow.

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Our success comes from listening, simplifying and automating. The results are more time, less wasted money and more sales!”

— Jamie Royce, CEO and Founder

“This acknowledges the white glove service we provide to our customers,” said Jamie Royce, CEO and Founder. “We put together a software that takes out tedious tasks with automated solutions, and the best part is watching our customers blow up their sales and scale their business in a way they didn’t think was possible.”

SourceForge reviews and lists over 79,000 software titles. Their team of business software and service experts, who have thousands of hours of software review and analysis experience, are constantly analyzing the B2B SaaS and service industry to bring users and B2B software shoppers the most up-to-date and cutting-edge analysis and comprehensive research.

MindCloud, Inc., is a software company that builds and maintains custom connections between software and other platforms utilizing a cutting-edge integration platform that eliminates manual data entry and automates so you can scale your business.

“As technology continues to advance, the modern business owner uses more and more online software tools to manage their business. The more software a company uses, the more disconnected their business can become,” says Royce. “Our success comes from listening, simplifying, and automating. The results are more time, less wasted money, and more sales!”

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ForwardX Robotics Brings End-to-End AMR solutions to North America

The World’s Leading Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) Provider Expands to North American Market With ProMat Debut

ForwardX Robotics, a global warehouse automation solutions provider and the largest autonomous mobile robot (AMR) provider in Asia, announces the establishment of its U.S. office and expansion of operations into the North American Market.

“We are excited to announce our U.S. operation,” said Yaxin Guan, Chief Operating Officer of ForwardX Robotics. “Our AMR solutions prove to have effective output throughout Asia, and we are thrilled to help support the supply chain industry across North America.”

FowardX will debut its AMR lineup to the North American supply chain at one of the largest material handling trade shows, ProMat 2023. ProMat 2023 takes place March 20-23, at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. Event-goers will find ForwardX in booth #N7352 and get the chance to interact with multiple AMRs including its autonomous forklift.

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In May 2023, ForwardX will open its state-of-the-art experience center in Chicago to support operations in North America. The U.S. team has immediately deployed AMR solutions for two clients’ distribution centers. ForwardX North America is well positioned for future growth.

ForwardX Robotics designs warehouse automation solutions that include autonomous robots and fleet management software. Their person-to-goods AMRs are used for order picking in distribution centers, manufacturing facilities and retail stores. With offices in APAC, EMEA and now North America, ForwardX has a global network of proven solutions serving customers such as JD.com, DHL, IKEA and TCL. Their AMRs serve industries including 3PL, retail, eCommerce, grocery, healthcare and consumer packaged goods.

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­­­­­­While ForwardX is focused on autonomous mobile robots, the organization is human-centric at its core. By providing solutions that help solve labor shortages, increase accuracy, and maximize warehouse capacity, they ultimately improve overall customer experience. ForwardX values helping supply chain managers unlock new levels of productivity, increased safety and supply chain visibility.

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Vonage Wins 2022 FinTech Award for Outstanding Cloud Communication Solutions

Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, has won the 2022 FinTech Award for Outstanding Cloud Communication Solutions. Organised by Hong Kong’s leading financial information platform ET Net, the FinTech Awards recognise the best FinTech technologies, practices and professionals around the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

“We are honoured to have won the FinTech Award for Outstanding Cloud Communication Solutions,” said Sunny Rao, senior vice president of API Global Sales at Vonage. “This award demonstrates our continued commitment to providing innovative solutions to businesses within the financial services industry, to meet the sector’s robust growth and demand.”

Following a rigorous judging process by the panel of judges, which comprised industry experts and leaders from professional associations, educational institutions and government bodies, Vonage was named the winner for its SMS API. The platform provides a comprehensive two-factor authentication (2FA) solution, from authentication management to message automation, through SMS and voice notifications. Among the many companies benefiting from Vonage’s SMS API is Japan’s leading Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platform, Paidy, where the solution helps ensure users are genuine and notifies millions of customers when payment is received.

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According to the EY Global FinTech Adoption Index, consumer use rates of FinTech services in APAC have doubled in the past few years, and in some cases tripled. Markets like Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea have 67% FinTech adoption, while Australia has 58%. China has maintained its lead with 87% penetration1. As FinTech players and banks often compete to offer similar products, customer experience has become a key differentiator.

“To meet the rising demand for FinTech solutions, organisations need to create a seamless customer experience in order to differentiate themselves from traditional, brick-and-mortar financial institutions. This is critical to both building trusting relationships with customers and growing the bottom line. Through the Vonage Communications Platform, we are privileged to serve many customers in the FinTech industry, including Paidy, Revolut and Remitly, helping them to deliver a frictionless, consistent and personalised customer experience,” Sunny Rao added.

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The Vonage Communications Platform (VCP) has more than one million registered developers and offers a full suite of programmable voice, video, messaging, and email services to forward-thinking businesses throughout the APAC market and worldwide. Through its partners, Vonage’s platform is at the centre of many notable transformational projects in the region, and a defacto for startups.

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Cyara Achieves 40% Revenue Growth in H1 FY23 After Cyara Botium Launch, Expands Global Executive Team

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Cyara, provider of the award-winning Automated Customer Experience (CX) Assurance Platform, announced it closed out H1 FY23 with 40% year over year growth in revenue, 96% customer retention rate and a Customer Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 67. In the first half of the financial year, Cyara also completed 25% more load tests than the same period the prior year, and saw a two fold increase in new customer deployments over the previous six months. Cyara hit a new milestone, delivering 12.8 billion seconds of synthetic CX testing traffic annually.

We are proud to say that nearly 300 leading high-profile global brands trust our platform to monitor and manage the experience they provide their customers,” said Alok Kulkarni, CEO and co-founder of Cyara. “We are committed to supporting our customers’ CX ambitions by continuing to improve our technology to ensure the highest level of customer experience possible.”

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“We are proud to say that nearly 300 leading high-profile global brands trust our platform to monitor and manage the experience they provide their customers”

Product Advancements

In July, just weeks after Cyara announced its acquisition of Botium to solidify its position as the global leader in CX testing and assurance, innovative new chatbot testing features were unveiled. The industry’s leading one-stop solution for comprehensive, automated chatbot testing and assurance added an AI-Powered Data and Test Generator, end to end voice and IVR testing, customisable reporting templates and Single Sign-On (SSO) user authentication. A month later, Natural Language Processing (NLP) Testing was also added to test and analyse chatbot training data to continuously improve a chatbot’s ability to understand customers.

By the end of 1HFY23, less than 10 months after the acquisition, sales of Cyara Botium had increased over 10X from Botium’s sales as a standalone company.

Cyara revamped its development process, and accelerated the rate of feature delivery with almost triple velocity of the previous year, ensuring customers receive a continuous flow of new capabilities. Some of the newest features include:

  • End-to-End Self Service Performance Testing Capabilities in Cruncher, including a real-time agent status report summary and filtering capabilities to allow for additional self-sufficiency, usability and efficiency in running load tests.
  • Users can now view available capacity and book load tests on their own whenever their ideal testing time frame might be.

Expansion of Executive Team & Company Growth

Cyara added bench strength to its team with three senior global appointments:

  • Bruce Rosen to the role of Chief Sales Officer (CSO), leading the company’s Global Sales organisation and will be responsible for building and executing the company’s strategic vision and plan for the future, scalable growth;
  • Max Lipovetsky to the role of VP of Products, bringing over 20 years of experience in the contact center and IVR (Interactive Voice Response) industry; and
  • Russ Hellmann to VP of Growth Marketing, who will be responsible for developing a centralised capability for regional teams that will enable customer acquisition and partner activation.

In October, Cyara added its first independent board member, Vikram Verma. Vik is an experienced leader with a proven track record of driving growth on a global scale both organically and through acquisitions. He will prove to be a true asset as Cyara enters this next chapter focusing on helping customers moving their contact center to the cloud while mitigating risk, improving customer experience, meeting KPIs and accelerating return on investment.

Cyara also announced the addition of Dean Saunders, Channel and Alliances Director of APAC. Saunders will be responsible for accelerating Cyara’s growth in the APAC region.

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Three Companies Offering Software Supply Chain Management Solutions for Open Source Software Named IDC Innovators

International Data Corporation (IDC) published an IDC Innovators report profiling three start-up companies offering enhanced capabilities for open source software supply chain management that extend beyond static software bills of materials (SBOMs). The three companies are: Chainguard, Codenotary, and Endor Labs.

Open source software (OSS) has become increasingly popular in the development of new commercial products as well as internally-developed software solutions for enterprises. While OSS may be free to acquire, the costs of long-term maintenance and support are potentially greater than the money saved at the time of acquisition. In addition, there are growing concerns about the security of the software chain associated with OSS.

To address these concerns, the companies profiled in this report have developed software supply chain management platforms that utilize DevSecOps capabilities to better manage the security of the open source components used in their software development and deployment operations. These solutions intend to reduce the complexity and time required to properly vet OSS componentry for currency and the active nature of the project itself, identifying known vulnerabilities, as well as potential vulnerabilities not yet exposed, and more routine aspects such as licensing compliance issues.

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“The challenge of securing the OSS software supply chain is significant and complex for virtually every organization,” said Katie Norton, senior research analyst, DevOps & DevSecOps. “The many entry points into the software supply chain constitute a significant risk that has gone unaccounted for in many organizations.”

“The time has come for organizations to get serious about securing the supply chain of open source software components, tools, or applications they may be using from public repositories,” said Al Gillen, group vice president, Software Development and Open Source at IDC. “The vendors and products highlighted in this IDC Innovators document are showing truly interesting and compelling ways to address these security concerns using a modern approach.”

The report, IDC Innovators: Open Source Software Supply Chain Security, 2023 (Doc #US50138923), profiles three companies that help customers manage the security of the software supply chain of open source components used in their software development and deployment operations. The three companies are:

Chainguard provides optimized and minimized container base images that are designed to reduce surface area and lower potential vulnerabilities. The company’s products also leverage the Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) Framework to enforce policy, generate SBOMs, and verify deployed images to ensure compliance with defined policies and alert on deviations.

Codenotary integrates OSS awareness into the SBOMs scanning and monitoring process, ensuring that all artifacts are known from source to product and subsequently logging that knowledge into an immutable database, ensuring the results are trustworthy.

Endor Labs helps dev and security teams to maximize software reuse by managing SBOMs to segment potential accessible vulnerabilities and muting non-reachable vulnerabilities, allowing a focus on potential vulnerabilities that could result in a compromise.

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Actifai Delivers WOW! AI-Powered Platform for Digital Transformation and Customer Experience Enhancement

Actifai’s platform will streamline customer engagements and help WOW! deliver informed offer recommendations to better meet evolving consumer needs

Actifai, a leading software-as-a-service provider for broadband and communications companies, announced its new customer agreement with WOW!, one of the nation’s leading broadband service providers.

WOW! will launch Actifai Engage, an industry-first AI-powered customer acquisition solution, across its call center operations — providing customer care agents with real-time insights, offer recommendations, and dynamic sales guidance. The expanded customer relationship follows a successful pilot program conducted by the companies over the last several months.

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“We are thrilled to continue our relationship with WOW!. Integrating Actifai Engage across WOW!’s exceptional agent-led care experience creates an even broader opportunity to drive value with an AI-backed customer engagement approach,” said Jeff Vogt, executive vice president and GM of Actifai. “The depth of collaboration with WOW!’s operations and technology leadership in piloting our technology was outstanding. And WOW!’s enthusiasm to bring AI and machine learning to their larger sales and customer experience transformation has been energizing. Our team is looking forward to WOW!’s continued success and the potential for future innovative collaboration.”

Actifai’s solution allows WOW! to further streamline its business processes and consolidate disparate systems onto a single platform, delivering efficiencies and user improvements to the agent experience. Through a modern and intuitive UI, the Actifai platform enables WOW! to (i) identify and manage leads for subscriber growth, (ii) gather actionable, data-backed sales and marketing insights, (iii) deliver serviceability verification enhancements; and (iv) rapidly test and deploy offers, promotions, and communication strategies to meet the evolving needs of consumers across their rapidly expanding service footprint. The platform’s optimized sales flow also improves the agent onboarding process by shortening training time and equipping agents with tools and tactics to engage potential customers and drive revenue growth more quickly.

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Indusface is the Only Vendor to be Recognized as Customers’ Choice with 100% Customer Recommendation for 3 consecutive years

Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer Cloud WAAP Report.

Indusface, an application security SaaS company trusted by 5000+ customers globally, has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice globally on the Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer Cloud WAAP (Web Application and API Protection) report. It is also the only vendor to receive a 100% recommendation rating for three consecutive years.

Indusface has been named as a global Customers’ Choice for two years in a row in 2022 and 2023. The company believes that this reaffirms the reputation that Indusface has built in the WAAP market globally.

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The “Voice of the Customer” is a document that synthesizes Gartner Peer Insights’ reviews into insights for IT decision makers. This aggregated peer perspective, along with the detailed individual reviews, is complementary to Gartner expert research and can play a key role in the buying process, as it focuses on peer experiences of implementing and operating a solution. In this document, only vendors with 20 or more eligible published reviews (and 15 or more ratings for “Capabilities” and “Support/Delivery”) during the specified 18-month submission period are included. Reviews from vendor partners or end users of companies with less than $50M in revenue are excluded from this methodology. See the full “Voice of the Customer” methodology here.

“We believe that achieving 100% recommendation for three consecutive years in the WAAP category is a shining testament of our product superiority, as well as its unflinching customer support. AppTrana is arguably the only cloud based WAAP platform where 100% of the apps are in block mode, providing real time protection against vulnerabilities including zero days, and helping with unmetered DDoS & BOT mitigation using AI based behavioural models, all of which are backed by a zero false positive promise. This right there is value and ROI for our customers” said Ashish Tandon, CEO and Founder, Indusface. “We remain committed to protecting our clients through our constant innovation and ability to understand and resolve the application security needs of enterprises across the world”, he added.

Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice distinctions recognize products and vendors that their customers highly rate. These ratings are based on the following four categories:

  • Product capabilities
  • Sales experience
  • Deployment experience
  • Support experience

The customers who reviewed Indusface for Gartner Peer Insights span a broad range of organization sizes:

  • 10 Billion+ USD
  • 1 Billion to 10 Billion USD
  • 50 Million to 1 Billion USD
  • Public Sector, Govt’s & Edu

Additionally, the 5-star reviews include major verticals such as:

  • Finance
  • Banking
  • IT Services
  • Retail
  • Manufacturing and more.

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Venkatesh Sundar, Founder and President – Americas, Indusface, said, “To be ranked as a Customers’ Choice for three consecutive years is a matter of great pride for us. We debuted as APAC Customers’ Choice exactly three years back. Today thousands of customers in Americas and the EU trust us for application security and we are now once again a global customers’ choice in the Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer Cloud WAAP Report.”

Indusface serves diverse and renowned clientele globally and some of the end-user reviews submitted include:

  • “A Very Good And Comprehensive Application Security Solution and Managed Cloud WAF”— Sr. Dir. Information Security, Services (Non-Government)
  • “Manageability And Virtual Patching Provide Values.”— Dy General Manager (IT Security), Manufacturing
  • “Wonderful Product With Excellent Features Which Every Organization Requires.”— Dy. General Manager (IT), Insurance
  • “Value For Money & Good Overall Product”— Head of IT, Retail

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Freight Technologies, Inc. Launches Fr8TMS 3.0, the New Shipper Platform

Freight Technologies

Fr8App Launches Major Update of Fr8App platform upgrading Fr8Tms (Transportation Management Shipment) product for shippers

Freight Technologies, Inc., a technology company whose custom-developed Fr8App, an industry-leading freight-matching platform powered by AI and machine-learning and offers a real-time portal for B2B cross-border shipping and domestic shipping within the USMCA region, is proud to announce the launch of a major update for its transportation management system (Fr8TMS). The new update is aimed at revolutionizing the commercial trucking industry by introducing logistics and transportation technology to move freight within the USMCA region, with a focus on cross-border shipping.

The update includes several new features and improvements, such as better real-time tracking and monitoring of shipments, which will allow shippers to see exactly where their freight is at all times and to receive notifications if there are any delays or issues. The new rating system for carriers will allow shippers to compare the performance of multiple carriers to make better-informed decisions about which ones to use.

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The Fr8App platform and mobile application connect shippers, carriers and drivers, making it easy for them to move freight within the USMCA region. This streamlined booking process, improved search and filtering options and the new transportation management shipment for easy access on the go will make it easier for shippers to find and book the right freight at the right price.

“We are excited to introduce this new update to the Fr8TMS, which will revolutionize the commercial trucking industry. The new features and improvements will make it easier for shippers to move their freight, and it will also benefit carriers and drivers by connecting them with shippers looking to move their freight,” said Javier Selgas, CEO of Freight Technologies.

The Fr8App team is dedicated to continuing to improve and evolve the platform to meet the needs of its customers. The company is confident that the new update will make Fr8App even more valuable for shippers and help them to save time and money on their freight operations.

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HOW DOES IT WORK?

  • To schedule a shipment with Fr8App, you’ll need to first create an account through their website. Upon completion of your registration, a Fr8App representative will reach out to you to ensure that you have all the necessary information and support in setting up your initial shipment.
  • The process of scheduling a shipment is simple and user-friendly, after logging into your account, you will be prompted to provide your pickup and delivery locations. The application will then provide you with a cost estimation, and if you approve of the price, you can confirm your shipment with a single tap.
  • Once the shipment details have been confirmed, truck drivers will be able to view the shipment information and choose to accept the job. The driver will then collect the cargo at the agreed-upon time, while the shipper will receive regular updates and can track the shipment as it progresses.
  • The driver will also take pictures to confirm the successful delivery of the items to their final destination. Shippers can reserve loads up to two weeks in advance, and the minimum notice period is 24 hours.

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Perimeter 81 Announces Integration with ConnectWise PSA

Perimeter 81 Adds a Radically Simple Secure Web Gateway to its Security  Services Edge Solution | Business Wire

Perimeter 81, delivering a Secured Network for every business, has released a ConnectWise certified integration enabling enhanced billing automation for MSPs

Perimeter 81, the leading network security platform for managed service providers (MSPs), announces a successful integration with ConnectWise, the world’s leading software company dedicated to the success of IT solutions providers (TSPs).

Perimeter 81’s platform, which empowers MSPs to deliver network security solutions to SMB and SME clients, is now integrated with ConnectWise PSA™(formerly ConnectWise Manage). The certified integration optimizes efficiency for Perimeter 81 and ConnectWise partners alike.

Now, Perimeter 81 MSPs can sync end customer usage with ConnectWise PSA™ in order to streamline monthly billing processes. This integration eliminates the need for Perimeter 81 partners to manually update license utilization within ConnectWise PSA™, allowing for automated modifications associated with scaling subscriptions.

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“Automation is the path forward to solving challenges in the MSP industry, whether they’re related to process optimization or labor issues. By automating tasks, especially those around billing processes, MSPs can turn their attention to what matters most – growing and scaling their operations and better serving their customers.”

“As we expand our offering to MSPs across the globe, we are excited to partner with ConnectWise in an effort to deliver automation and simplified routines for the MSP community,” says Justin Ryhal, Senior Director, Ecosystems & Strategic Alliances at Perimeter 81. “Being an officially certified partner by ConnectWise allows us to offer unmatched flexibility that fuels profitable and long-term scale for partners.”

“ConnectWise is thrilled to welcome Perimeter 81 into the Invent Program and offer this automated, streamlined billing solution through ConnectWise PSA™,” said Travis Vigneau, Senior Director of Channel Sales and Alliances. “Automation is the path forward to solving challenges in the MSP industry, whether they’re related to process optimization or labor issues. By automating tasks, especially those around billing processes, MSPs can turn their attention to what matters most – growing and scaling their operations and better serving their customers.”

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AfterShip Successfully Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance to Meet Highest Security Standards for Global Brands and Retailers

Post-purchase platform demonstrates its commitment to data privacy for eCommerce and omnichannel clients

AfterShip, the game-changing post-purchase platform for online retailers, announces its completion of the Service Organization Controls SOC 2 Type II examination. It is officially compliant with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) standards for managing customer data. The internationally recognized certification demonstrates AfterShip’s ability to meet stringent security and data privacy requirements for enterprise customers and their end users.

The SOC 2 Type II report assessed the effectiveness of the security processes and controls by observing the platform’s operations for several months. An independent third party conducted AfterShip’s extensive audit to confirm its adherence to the most widely accepted security assessment within the tech industry. The analysis evaluates five Trust Service criteria: security, availability, confidentiality, processing integrity, and privacy.

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“We’ve been prioritizing data security for our customers since day one”

“We’ve been prioritizing data security for our customers since day one,” says Andrew Chan, Co-founder and CPO of AfterShip. “Receiving the SOC 2 Type II compliance is a testament to our commitment to data privacy for all of our clients and their end users. This certification reinforces the trust our retailer, marketplace, and eCommerce customers place in us to handle their sensitive and confidential information. As an enterprise-ready tech platform, we will remain vigilant in keeping our customer data private through our secure infrastructure.”

AfterShip’s completion of the rigorous audit and SOC 2 Type II certification covers AfterShip Tracking, AfterShip Returns, and Automizely Marketing.

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