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CloudJumper Names Amie Ray to Post of Enterprise Channel Sales Manager

Seasoned Channel Professional to Open New Distribution Channels as Global Demand for Virtual Desktop Solutions/VDI Rise

 CloudJumper announces the appointment of Amie Ray as enterprise channel sales manager. As Enterprise Channel Sales Manager, Ray will open new alliances and distribution channels for the CloudJumper brand of remote desktop and application virtualization solutions.

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“We are thrilled to have Amie onboard to support delivery of our award-winning platform which significantly reduces time to deployment and the operational costs of Microsoft WVD and VDI management,” said JD Helms, president, CloudJumper. “Her timing is excellent as an increasing number of channel organizations seek solutions in this space.”

CloudJumper created this new role to meet the rising demand of customer and distribution channel inquiries and to open new markets.

President of CloudJumper, JD Helms, said, “At CloudJumper, we believe WVD is the natural evolution of EUC. The new and upcoming industry trends — 5G bandwidth, new remote work scenarios, proliferation of ransomware, new privacy laws, changes in Microsoft licensing — are coming together to make WVD the remote desktop solution of choice. Amie’s experience and deep relationships in this area make her the natural fit for CloudJumper’s future aspirations.”

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Prior to CloudJumper, Ray was the national channel account manager for PrinterLogic, a provider of SaaS solutions for serverless printing infrastructure. While at PrinterLogic, she was responsible for the company’s channel and distribution strategy throughout North America, working closely with the company’s strategic partner base, including IGEL, Google, Microsoft and many others.

Prior to PrinterLogic, Ray was a partner account manager at Lenovo and held several posts at Cisco. In Ray’s 17 years at Cisco, she won multiple quota achievement awards and worked closely with sales, marketing, engineering and the communications team to lead business initiatives globally.

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Segment Achieves AWS Retail Competency Status

 Segment, the customer data infrastructure company, announced at NRF 2020 that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Retail Competency status. This recognition acknowledges Segment’s technical proficiency and the proven customer success of Customer Data Infrastructure (CDI) enabling retailers to accelerate their digital transformation and deliver customized experiences across all channels.

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“In order to deliver world class customer experiences, retailers need the right technology and infrastructure in place,” said Tom Pinckney, Head of Partnerships at Segment. “We’re pleased with achieving AWS Retail Competency status as it is a natural extension of our deep relationship. By using Segment and AWS, retailers can deliver highly personalized, consistent experiences to their customers, no matter where they interact with them, at any scale.”

AWS Retail Competency Partners undergo rigorous validation by AWS to ensure alignment to best practices for building secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure for industry applications.

To receive the AWS Competency designation, APN Partners must possess deep AWS expertise and deliver solutions seamlessly on AWS. Achieving the AWS Retail Competency differentiates Segment as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that delivers highly specialized technical proficiency.

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“Many retailers are reinventing their operations and brand experience with new innovations in the cloud,” said Tom Litchford, Head of Retail Business Development, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “We are delighted to welcome Segment to the AWS Retail Competency Program. Their solutions for retail operations, powered and vetted by AWS, can help our customers to accelerate their transformation, modernization, and customer engagement efforts.”

AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify Consulting and Technology APN Partners with deep industry experience and expertise.

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Teleperformance Positioned as a Champion to Support Clients in Australia by Frost & Sullivan

Teleperformance, the global leader in outsourced omnichannel customer experience management and the trusted provider of digital integrated business services, announced that Frost & Sullivan has positioned Teleperformance as a Champion to support clients in Australia in the “Australian Contact Centre Outsourcing Market” Frost IQ report.

The Frost IQ (Industry Quotient) report aims to provide a balanced assessment of the leading industry participants. The matrix comprises a mix of quantitative and qualitative evaluations.

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“We are excited to partner with companies in Australia to enable interactions that are simpler, faster, safer, and more cost-effective for their customers,” said Brian Johnson, CEO, Teleperformance English World. “We are proud to be recognized for our capabilities to support the Australia market. With 24 years of continued excellence and leadership in the Philippines and 47,000 people in 21 locations and work-at-home programs, Teleperformance in the Philippines offers clients in Australia diversified strategies that provide flexibility and scalable customer management support to help them grow their business.”

According to Frost & Sullivan, “Teleperformance is sustaining its prime position with new contract wins and expansion in digital solutions. For example, Teleperformance’s Intelenet acquisition is enabling the company to broaden its capabilities in back-office services, digital integrated business services, analytics, and automation.”

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Frost & Sullivan further outlined Teleperformance’s strengths for supporting clients in Australia:

  • A high-tech, high-touch strategy leveraging technology innovation and digital transformation to support the human experience.
  • Global market leader in the contact center outsourcing industry, stimulating growth in its Australian operations through expansions of its Digital Integrated Business Services, covering end-to-end outsourcing of client processes.
  • Pursuing global consistency through development of several award-winning processes and tools including the Teleperformance Operational Processes and Standards (TOPS), Baseline Enterprise Standard for Teleperformance (BEST), Contact Center Management System (CCMS), and security practices including Global Essential Security Policies (GESP).
  • Focus on rigorous compliance, privacy, and security built around a robust framework to proactively identify and mitigate data breaches and combat fraud is a competitive differentiator among outsourcers.
  • Large regional team to support clients in Australia.
  • Continued success with telco, media, and retail sector customers focusing on technology-enabled transformation services.

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PlumSlice Labs Announces Its Product Platform For Brands and Retailers

PlumSlice Labs announced the PlumSlice Product Platform, an innovative solution designed to bridge complex business processes around the product lifecycle. The Product Platform provides consistency, real-time workflow and alerts, automation, analytics and reporting across the organization. All elements of this platform are focused on ease of customer shopping.

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Modern omni-channel retailing has become increasingly complex with various functions and processes operating in silos. The Platform spans across all business processes and departments and ensures that planning, design, development, sourcing, enrichment, publishing, selling, and supplier management are fluid and coordinated across all customer channels. It combines the power of modern Product Experience Management with enterprise-grade business process workflow throughout the entire product lifecycle providing speed to market, channel consistency and brand integrity.

“Brands and retailers have been asking for a solution that gives them full access to where a product is in its lifecycle as well as to all its data and attributes – text, digital assets and its financial performance in each channel,” said Lori Schafer, CEO, PlumSlice. “Creating this compelling story around each product is what gives customers a great experience that drives higher conversion, sales and margin. At PlumSlice, we believe the future for retailers and brands is having an overarching platform, designed with modern cloud-native architecture, that gives visibility, drives revenue and efficiency, and delivers accurate product data and assets to all sales channels and internal systems.”

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PlumSlice Product Platform benefits include:

  • Speed to market
  • Improved customer experience and increased revenue
  • Channel consistency
  • Collaboration between suppliers and retailers, including the ability to share catalogs, product data and digital assets that provide brand integrity
  • Ability to publish product data to any system — inside and outside the enterprise
  • Ability to manage product content, images, video, critical KPIs and unlimited attributes

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Nielsen Acquires Merchandising and Analytics Solutions Leader Precima

Accelerating Retail Services Around the World Through Nielsen Global Connect

Nielsen Global Connect announced that it has completed its acquisition of Precima, an industry-leading, SaaS-based provider of powerful retail and customer data applications and analytics, from Alliance Data Systems Corp. Through this acquisition, Nielsen Global Connect will deepen its portfolio of personalized and addressable pricing, promotion and assortment capabilities by leveraging Precima’s consumer loyalty and retailer analytics solutions. This deal brings Precima’s loyalty data-backed collaboration programs and retail relationships to Nielsen Global Connect clients, globally. Precima’s employees will now integrate into the Nielsen Global Connect organization.

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Using AI and machine learning algorithms, Precima’s industry-leading Transaction Log (TLog) and Loyalty/Customer Relationship Management (CRM) data platform has been a foundational resource for global companies both big and small. The addition of Precima into Nielsen Global Connect’s portfolio will allow Nielsen to accelerate its new product capabilities while also strengthening existing products within its analytic suite. By bringing Precima into its measurement framework, Nielsen Global Connect will achieve a heightened advantage in the loyalty and personalization space, furthering its ability to help brands plan and measure the impact and success of personalized consumer offerings.

As Nielsen continues to be a champion of change through its retail products and collaboration programs, the combined strength of both Nielsen and Precima will work to significantly strengthen Nielsen’s ability to foster stronger connections across the industry, ultimately benefiting the consumer.

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“Nielsen is a natural home for Precima to execute our shared vision of advancing collaboration and growth for the industry,” said Brian Ross, Precima president. “We are proud to be joining the Nielsen Global Connect family to bring our innovative technology to life for Nielsen’s global clients.”

“This acquisition marks an exciting advance in the Nielsen Global Connect Business,” said Pat Dodd, Chief Commercial Officer for Nielsen Global Connect. “Driven by a mutual desire to enhance collaboration between the manufacturing and retail industries, this is a game changing deal. By combining Precima’s customer-centric technology with ours, we remain committed to being the unrivaled power source to drive brands’ and retailer growth. The Nielsen Global Connect business is moving quickly to enrich our clients’ operational processes with world class data and science, fostering collaborative relationships across the industry and continually strengthening our predictive analytic capabilities for our clients across 100+ markets globally.”
Precima is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with additional offices in the U.S. and Europe. Going forward, the company will be referred to as “Precima, a Nielsen company.”

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Dun & Bradstreet Acquires Orb Intelligence

Acquisition Expands Dun & Bradstreet’s Portfolio of Digital Solutions and Enriches the World’s Most Comprehensive Commercial Database to Integrate Offline and Online Data

Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, announced the acquisition of Orb Intelligence, a prominent digital business identity and firmographic data provider. The acquisition, in combination with the July 2019 acquisition of Lattice Engines, furthers the commitment and investment Dun & Bradstreet has made to provide its clients with the best-in-industry data, analytical applications and technology.

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“The acquisition of Orb Intelligence cements our strategy to link the digital and physical worlds in the largest global repository of B2B data and to provide enriched firmographic data to customer profiles to help our clients more effectively execute campaigns to improve customer interactions and revenue returns,” said Michael Bird, President, Sales & Marketing Solutions, Dun & Bradstreet. “Clients can rely on Dun & Bradstreet as the one-stop-shop for all of their data-driven, decision-making and customer engagement needs.”

Orb Intelligence is a digital business identity and firmographic data provider that offers a high quality, global database of information and attributes on 57 million companies, with a focus on building a digital view of a business’s presence, including web domains, URLs, IP addresses and social networks. The company provides the data backbone to many of today’s most well-known B2B sales, marketing and analytics organizations focused on digital marketing or sales initiatives.

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“To be acquired by Dun & Bradstreet, which helps companies leverage data and insights to accelerate revenue, lower cost, manage risk and transform for greater competitiveness, is a wonderful culmination to the journey Orb Intelligence began in 2013,” said Maria Grineva, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Orb Intelligence. “We are excited to join Dun & Bradstreet and look forward to working alongside their talented team to deliver a differentiated set of solutions to help businesses improve their competitiveness and growth.”

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Business Analytics Company Sisense Raises Over $100m

Sisense has raised over $100 million in a financing round led by Insight Partners (which this week acquired a controlling stake in Israeli IoT security company Armis) and with the participation of Clal Tech, Bessamer Ventures, Battery Ventures and DFJ Growth. Sisense’s latest financing round is at a company valuation of over $1 billion, before money. The company has raised $300 million to date.

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Sisense was founded in 2004 by Elad Israeli, Eldad Farkash, Aviad Harel, Adi Azariya, and Guy Boyangu and is managed by CEO Amir Orad.

The platform developed by Sisense allows any company or organization to simplify complex data and transform it into powerful and smart analytic apps which present employees and customers with significant insights. Sinsense has 2,000 customers including General Electric, Nasdaq, Tinder, Philips, Spotify, and Wix.

Sisense has 800 employees including 300 in Israel. Orad says that the company already has annual revenue of $100 million and is hiring senior staff to prepare for a public offering although there are not yet any concrete plans for an IPO.

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Global Creative Commerce Agency TPN Taps Two New Hires for Chief’s Roles

As part of its pursuit to create connected customer experiences for the most iconic brands in the world, TPN is leveraging the talents of two key female leaders in this digital-first era.

Industry veterans Tracy Faloon and Sarah Cunningham have been named Chief Client Experience Officer and Chief Growth Officer, respectively. They are tasked with helping fuel the company’s evolution by delivering unparalleled innovation and value to TPN’s vast docket of retail, technology and CPG [consumer packaged goods] clients like Bank of America, PepsiCo, Inc. and The Hershey Company.

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Previously Chief of Client Integration and SVP of Retail Strategy for TPN, Tracy Faloon will step into an expanded role—establishing the firm’s footprint on a global scale, expanding its retail and shopper practice and continuing to implement improved processes among TPN’s locations in North America and Europe.

With more than 25 years of experience in global business and marketing, Ms. Faloon was fundamental in defining Bank of America’s shift from traditional, static POS and printed collateral to include digital content and customer engagement experiences. As a driving force behind the launch of TPN’s UK branch, she has a proven track record in operationalizing, introducing best practices and managing profitable teams across the pond and within all US offices. To ensure retailers thrive in today’s competitive marketplace, Tracy continually finds ways to connect systems and technology to drive the optimal, total customer experience and influence in-store behavior.

“In addition to being an exceptional practitioner when it comes to retail strategy, Tracy is a master at creating efficiencies that help our team work smarter—affording us more time for thought leadership and innovation,” said Sharon Love, TPN’s Chief Executive Officer. “She elevates our business twofold, by both leading the work and then rolling up her sleeves and being actively involved in it. This approach pays dividends for not only our company but, ultimately, for the brands we serve.”

With a steadfast reputation in the commerce, retail and digital spaces, Sarah Cunningham will focus on both internal and external growth in her new role—challenging the status quo and driving innovation to support business development for the agency while helping clients deliver on their brand promise. Previously TPN’s SVP of Client Service and Vice President of Account Services, she’s served as trusted counsel to some of the world’s most recognizable brands, such as PepsiCo, AT&T and The Clorox Company, for more than a decade.

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The ethos of TPN, Mrs. Cunningham builds relationships that are meaningful and lasting, serving clients well beyond the scope-of-work to elevate multiple areas of their business. As the strategic force behind some of the more notable shopper and influencer campaigns from Gatorade and American Express, Sarah aided with the development of TPN’s Velocity Commerce Group. This digital consultancy helps brands and manufacturers become smarter about how to optimize their digital commerce efforts, moving away from using all platforms and instead maximizing the ones that matter most to their business.

“I would pick Sarah to be on my team any day of the week. She embodies TPN Soul, bringing an authentic and curious mind to each and every problem to solve,” adds Sharon Love. “Sarah has been integral in shaping our company culture, inspiring our team members and me to consistently offer the most cutting-edge ideas to our clients to drive sales and brand commitment.”

Most recently, Sarah was honored as a Woman of Excellence by Path to Purchase Institute and has been named to Who’s Who of Shopper Marketing Agencies for five consecutive years. With young children of her own, Sarah is a shining example of how it’s possible to go all in at work, at home and in our own communities. Active in local organizations that build up public schools, Sarah delights in supporting anything grassroots that meets the needs of kids. She’s also a venerable mentor to the next generation of female leadership and sought-after speaker, particularly on the role of pop culture and technology in our everyday lives—and how they influence the way we think and make purchasing decisions.

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Pipeliner CRM Recognized as a Top Leader on G2’s 2019 Winter Update for Best CRM Software

G2 Crowd, the Leading Third-Party Peer-Advice Site for Recommending Software Solutions Based on Unbiased Data Points and User Reviews, Has Identified Pipeliner CRM as a CRM Leader

With an overall rating of 4.6/5, Pipeliner CRM has an above average rating on all of G2’s rating categories including a 13% above average score for their forecasting feature and a 7% above average score for their performance and reliability. Pipeliner CRM’s G2 page has over 240 reviews featuring happy customers in real time that have scored Pipeliner CRM with a 9.4/10 for ease of use and a 9.2/10 for quality of support.

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“Being acknowledged as one of G2’s top leaders in the CRM software space is a direct reflection of our commitment to give businesses a platform that allows them to make more informed decisions and help their teams become even better salespeople,” says Nikolaus Kimla, CEO of Pipeliner CRM. “We are honored to receive such high ratings and are thankful for all of the sales professionals that give us valuable feedback and unbiased reviews, allowing us to best understand what the CRM space needs and how we can deliver the solutions that real world sales professionals can actually use and benefit from.”

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Pipeliner CRM is a customer relationship management software company that drives exceptional user engagement through its sales-friendly interface and visually dynamic reporting that allows businesses to instantly create reports, from standard reports to pivot to advanced and graphical dashboards. Pipeliner’s highly intuitive administrative backend is visual and features drag ‘n drop making administration a part-time task and removes the need for a dedicated full-time administrator.

Pipeliner’s core mission is to positively influence, educate and connect people. SalesPOP, the only effective sales content platform, was created by Pipeliner to help succeed on this mission and gives sales professionals a community to learn and network with others. SalesPOP is continually growing and has almost 1,000 contributors, more than 1,700 articles, hundreds of e-books, and a podcast television network. Pipeliner Sales is reinventing the CRM space by efficiently leading the market with new ideas to meet the challenges of the new digital age.

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Bobble AI appoints London-based Lemon Advisors UK as the Advisory Partner for Global Expansion

Bobble AI – an India based AI Innovation Company is on a mission to empower the Billion+ smartphone users by making conversations personalized, expressive, and smart with its cutting-edge technology around the Keyboard input method. Having 30M+ users globally, today it announced a partnership with Lemon Advisors UK Ltd., a tech advisory firm offering services to assist and strengthen business growth activities in the EU and APAC Region.

With the help of LAUK, Bobble AI is offering a fully customized white labeled Keyboard SDK, easily integrated into the existing mobile applications. All consumer-facing used-cases of a mobile app are replicated into the keyboard frontend, thus making them easily accessible to users. Any business sector, including Banks, Fintech, Telcos, OTT, e-commerce, etc. which has around million or more users on its mobile application can benefit from this innovative technology.

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Commenting on the announcement, Ankit Prasad, Founder and CEO, Bobble AI, said: “We are excited to strengthen our activities in the UK and other emerging markets across EU and APAC, both technically and geographically, and we are looking forward to LAUK adding significant value to our global footprints as well as adding value to our prospective customers’ businesses.”

Bobble AI is recognized as a leader in offering customer engagement solutions. Keyboard is essentially the first customer engagement tool for any connected device in today’s world and a relevant and focussed integration in the app helps in building quick revenue growth, helps to reduce customer acquisition cost, significantly boosts engagement with the users and more importantly gives a competitive edge,” said Subhash R Ghosh, Founder and Managing Director of Lemon Advisors UK Ltd.

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Bobble AI recently partnered with one of the largest Android device manufacturer Xiaomi Inc. in a B2B2C approach to develop their ‘Mint Keyboard’ which is being pre-loaded across Xiaomi devices in India and Indonesia, to begin with, and later to the rest of the world. Mint Keyboard is a part of Xiaomi’s latest MIUI 11 Operating System.

Bobble AI is a challenger brand to Google’s Gboard, Microsoft’s Swiftkey, and Baidu’s Facemoji. In addition to providing the most advanced and highest-rated keyboard application, Bobble AI provides a unique business model to its partners.

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