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Dataiku Partners with Teradata University Network (TUN) to Bring AI Skills to the Classroom

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Dataiku Partners with Teradata University Network (TUN) to Bring AI Skills to the Classroom

Furthering its vision of data science democratization, Dataiku provides free access to its platform to universities through TUN

Dataiku, one of the world’s leading Enterprise AI and machine learning platforms, announced its partnership with Teradata University Network (TUN) to help bring AI tools and skills to the classroom. The program empowers colleges and universities to unlock the full potential of AI by providing Dataiku software and data science resources to faculty and students.

This partnership with TUN is the next step in Dataiku’s journey and mission to educate the data professionals of tomorrow. It is a continuation of the Dataiku Academic Program, which has enabled students around the world to solve real-world problems with data science. Recently, students at the Smart India Hackathon (who went on to win the competition) as well as at Georgia Tech and ESCP Europe (who won TUN’s 2018 Data Challenge People’s Choice Award) have used Dataiku in their projects. TUN has over 4,000 registered faculty members from over 2,500 universities in 117 countries, with tens of thousands of registered students.

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“We are proud to solidify our commitment to ensuring that the next generation of AI talent is ready for career opportunities,” said Dataiku CEO Florian Douetteau. “Through the amplification of our academic program, including this partnership with TUN, we hope to prepare students to solve real-world problems using data science and machine learning.”

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“The TUN and Dataiku partnership will greatly enhance TUN’s resources for an academic audience. It will provide students and faculty more hands-on tools and technology to learn data analytics in the most tangible way. Through this partnership, we look forward to having more students learn Dataiku technology to prepare them for careers in analytics,” said Susan Baskin, Director of Global Customer Education and Teradata University Network.

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John Heidenreich Joins Data Conversion Laboratory as Sales Director to Focus on Data Solutions for Financial Services Market

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John Heidenreich Joins Data Conversion Laboratory as Sales Director to Focus on Data Solutions for Financial Services Market

DCL Expanding Staff to Support AI Data Solutions in Regulated Markets

Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), an industry leader in structured data and content transformations, announces that John Heidenreich has joined its team as Sales Director for the financial services market. John has extensive experience in digital process automation and applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to drive business transformations, and will focus on creating value for clients by solving complex data and content structure problems.

John started his career as a research scientist at IBM and led the team that transferred copper chip technology from IBM Research to manufacturing. This technology became the standard for chip wiring across the entire semiconductor industry. Over the past 14 years, John has worked in the technology industry driving sales for enterprise applications and services. He has considerable experience in financial services and insurance, as well in the healthcare and software industries.

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“Financial markets have a particularly intense challenge today to be compliant with ever-changing regulations and evolving standards of data and document retention, not to mention the sheer volume of data and documents that these organizations must track,” explains Mark Gross, President at DCL. “John deeply understands the data issues for this market and has a history of monetizing innovation for data-intensive organizations.”

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John is based in the New York City area and has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of California San Diego, and has eight patents to his name.

DCL is an active member of industry organizations that support the management and effective interchange of data and content.

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LiveDAO AIMS to Utilize 5G Tech to Illuminate the Shadow of Live Broadcasting

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LiveDAO AIMS to Utilize 5G Tech to Illuminate the Shadow of Live Broadcasting

LiveDAO announces that it aims to build a secure and private Live system for live broadcasting, making all rules implemented in a truly fair and transparently manner.

The issue of live broadcast industry

At present, the booming live broadcast industry give prominence to chaos and problems, which is mainly reflected in the following fields:

  1. The content of Live is not “free” enough: For now, limited by privacy and security, the content of Live actually is not unrestrained enough. The monotonous content results in a variety of inferior and frequent eye-catching events.
  2. High cost of Live operation: In the operating process of the live broadcast system and platform, the cost of server and bandwidth increase exponentially with the users increasing.
  3. The opaque of liquidation and settlement: 90% profit of live broadcast platform comes from gifts and rewards, while the authenticity of gifts, the transparent and fair of the settlement process cannot be guaranteed by the centralized platform. Some people are forced to change platforms but, they are only trapped by another platform.

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LiveDAO, an innovative live broadcast system

In order to solve the above problems. LiveDAO provides an innovation decentralized Live system which is composed of “The Cloud” and “The Mist”.

The Cloud
The Cloud has an innovative decentralized Live system, A public chain which utilizes the BFT-DPOS consensus algorithm — LiveChain. Decentralized Live system is utilized for sharing the content safely while the LiveChain is utilized for rules implementation and assets circulation, both of them is utilized for every member in the ecosystem to ensure transparent rewards and punishments.

The decentralized Live system
LiveDAO complete the building and governing of decentralized Live system by LiveChain supernode. Composing The Mist normal streaming node to support bandwidth and streaming, the decentralized Live system could make the content more freedom.

The LiveChain
For achieving better governance and performance, LiveChain chose to utilize the BFT-DPOS consensus algorithm building the public chain. With 21 supernodes worldwide, LiveChain can carry millions of transactions per second, exempt transaction fee and registration costs, meanwhile executing complex smart-contracts in a decentralized way.

By LiveChain and Smart-contracts, make Live settlement and liquidation efficient, transparent and fairness.

The Mist
The project utilizes the brand new P2P live broadcast technology, which can be used in conjunction with 5G cellular network perfectly. Every 5G phone could become a streaming server so that the cost of the Live broadcast system and bandwidth may be reduce to 1/400. The Mist Node can become Normal streaming Node and utilize the PoNS (proof of network sharing) mining block. According to the rules, all activity of contributing bandwidth to the ecosystem can get a reward.

With this innovational P2P Live tech, the cost of Live operation reduces rapidly.

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The token — LIVE

LIVE is the token that reflects the right of LiveDAO ecosystem, with a total supply of 3 billion. 67% is used for mining, the others are used for team and ecosystem construction. The mined LIVE tokens can trade immediately. Others would be lock continually and will be unlock by community voting.

LIVE token is used for staking and consumption, for example: staking LIVE to get a right of broadcasting, get a Live Chain supernode application right and get the right of LiveChain supernode voting, and pay LIVE for products.

Organization infrastructure

Our core team comes from LiveChain. Inc., founded in Nevada and listed on OTC Markets, and is responsible for constructing The Cloud. Another team from Ukraine’s L2L studio is responsible for constructing The Mist.

LiveDAO will have a merger and acquisition of ecosystem-valuable institutions (such as ITs, CPs, Celebrity Incubator, etc.), the M&A funds come from LiveChainHolding, which scheduled to be listed on NYSE in December 2019.

LiveDAO is a community that gathers participants of decentralized Live system. Through using the technical achievements form LiveChain, Inc., Live fans around the world are constantly take part in the community. Since May 2019, the community grew rapidly, and the LiveChain is scheduled to release at the end of this year.

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Third-Party Nielsen Data Underscores the Advertising Power and Performance of the NTN Buzztime DOOH Network, Ranked #8 in North America in Impressions

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Third-Party Nielsen Data Underscores the Advertising Power and Performance of the NTN Buzztime DOOH Network, Ranked #8 in North America in Impressions

NTN Buzztime, Inc. presented the findings from a third-party survey conducted in March 2019 by Nielsen On Location, which measures audience metrics for digital-out-of-home (DOOH) video broadcasts.

The survey results prove that Buzztime provides unparalleled reach and engagement for advertisers on its network, which is broadcast on over 12,000 TV and 65,000 tablet screens at over 2,600 venues in North America. Nielsen estimates that the Buzztime DOOH network delivers over 93.5 million gross minute impressions per month, per advertiser. Based on gross impressions, Buzztime is the #8 DOOH video network in America.

“The research by Nielsen highlights the power of our DOOH network to deliver exceptional results for advertisers. Not only is their brand message seen over 93 million times per month, those impressions occur at a pivotal, powerful touchpoint: when people are deeply engaged in Buzztime’s interactive entertainment, trivia, and games. This means that advertisers can make an impactful, one-on-one connection with the viewer,” said Ram Krishnan, NTN Buzztime CEO.

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Another key value point for advertisers revealed in the Nielsen data is the extremely high visibility of the Buzztime DOOH network: 76% of patrons within a venue watch Buzztime programming. This proves the ability of the network to hold audience attention, even in busy bars and restaurants.

In addition, the average dwell time of a Buzztime player is 74 minutes, so advertisers are utilizing the network’s platform to deliver a high frequency of impressions per viewer.

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“As Buzztime explores additional vertical markets, the strength of our DOOH network is a key growth opportunity for our company. At the same time, we’re making the Buzztime network even more accessible to new advertising partners by leveraging the trend of programmatic ad buying. Buzztime has a significant presence on many of the leading advertising exchange platforms, where top brands are purchasing DOOH,” added Krishnan.

Buzztime is well-positioned to capitalize on the exponential growth of the DOOH industry as a whole. According to the Global Digital Signage Market Report, released by Market Reports in April 2019, DOOH is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 6.73% rate through 2022. As advertisers increasingly turn to DOOH to engage with their target audiences, Buzztime is poised to deliver a strong ROI to advertisers across its robust network.

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Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia to Join Salesforce as UK and Ireland CEO

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Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia to Join Salesforce as UK and Ireland CEO

Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, announced that Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia will join the company on October 1st as CEO, Salesforce UK and Ireland (UKI) to lead the company’s UKI business through its next stage of growth.

Salesforce is experiencing rapid growth in the UKI and in June last year the company announced plans to invest $2.5 billion in its UK business over the following five years. As part of this investment, Salesforce has increased headcount, data centre capacity and office space to support its rapidly growing customer base in the country.

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Jayne-Anne is an experienced business leader and finance authority and was previously Chief Executive of Virgin Money from 2007 to 2018. She is also a firm believer in the importance of businesses making a positive contribution to society and was recognised in the New Year Honours for her contribution to financial services and women in the finance industry.

“Jayne-Anne is one of the most respected CEOs in the UK and we are thrilled to welcome her to Salesforce,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and co-CEO, Salesforce and Keith Block co-CEO, Salesforce. “The UKI is our largest market outside the US and with Jayne-Anne’s leadership we are well positioned to move into the next stage of growth and success for Salesforce, our customers, partners and communities.”

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Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia said, “I’ve admired Salesforce from afar for a long time. This is a different kind of business, with deeply held values and a true focus on transforming the experience of every customer through cutting edge technology. I’m looking forward to working with the team as we continue to invest and support Salesforce’s growing customer base in UKI.”

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Avaya and Tenfold Create Improved Customer Conversations, Enabling Integrated AI Solutions that Amplify Leading CRMs

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Avaya and Tenfold Create Improved Customer Conversations, Enabling Integrated AI Solutions that Amplify Leading CRMs

Integrated Contact Center solution will help maximize performance, profit and productivity for sales and service organizations globally, while improving customer experiences

Avaya Holdings Corp., a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, and Tenfold, the world’s leading provider of next generation CTI solutions, announce a strategic partnership to enable joint clients to improve their customer experience, increase productivity of their sales and service teams and operationalize AI with richer contextual customer data to drive predictive engagement.

Learn how @Avaya & @growtenfold are creating improved customer conversations through an integrated #AI #ContactCenter solution. #ExperiencesThatMatter

This collaboration will natively connect Tenfold’s real-time cloud integration layer and intelligent integrated desktop agent with the market-leading Avaya IX Contact Center and Avaya IX Workplace unified communications platforms on which clients of all sizes around the world depend for powering customer conversations.

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Tenfold’s real-time cloud integration layer provides productized and repeatable integrations between Avaya’s on-premise and cloud offerings and leading CRM solutions including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite and many others. Tenfold automates data capture and workflow for sales and service teams, while ensuring they have a relevant real-time view of their customers and prospects when they need it most–at the moment of interaction.

“Every enterprise is looking for ways to differentiate, by delivering a uniquely amazing customer experience, while at the same time making their internal teams and processes more intelligent and efficient-hitting both the top and bottom-line,” said Frank Ciccone, senior vice president of sales, Avaya. “Partnering with Tenfold provides Avaya clients with innovative AI-driven cloud technology that arms their teams with relevant real-time customer data and insights to more thoroughly and efficiently serve their customers.”

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“Customer expectations have changed, putting demands on sales and service teams to deliver personalized and contextual experiences at scale in real-time. Our joint clients will benefit from this strategic partnership, creating seamless integrated experiences for their customers and employees across all interactions and channels,” said Jeff Cotten, CEO, Tenfold. “Voice powers more than 60 percent of customer interactions, but typically, voice interaction data lives across siloed systems, limiting companies’ ability to operationalize AI. This partnership will unlock that data, connecting it into a company’s CRM empowering joint customers to drive predictive customer engagement.”

Integrating the Tenfold real-time cloud integration layer and intelligent integrated desktop agent into Avaya’s market-leading outbound and inbound voice solutions, Avaya IX Contact Center and Avaya IX Workplace, Avaya OneCloud™, extends the value of clients’ existing Avaya and CRM investments while enabling highly impactful AI-driven outcomes.

As part of the partnership, Tenfold will join AI Connect, an Avaya-led initiative that brings together an ecosystem of vendors and developers taking an active part in building AI-driven solutions. A.I.Connect is accelerating the adoption of AI solutions in contact center and unified communications solutions, bringing together world-class companies and products enhancing customer and user experiences through AI.

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TechTarget Announces Christina Van Houten as New Board of Directors Member

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TechTarget Announces Christina Van Houten as New Board of Directors Member

Purchase intent-driven marketing and sales services company TechTarget, Inc. announced the appointment of Christina Van Houten to its Board of Directors.

“We are excited to have a professional like Christina join our Board and provide additional insights on our products, services, and business as we continue to transform our offerings towards longer-term subscription products”

Ms. Van Houten currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for Mimecast Limited, a public email management company, where she is responsible for driving corporate development, product management and market strategy. Prior to joining Mimecast, from 2014 to March 2018, Ms. Van Houten was Senior Vice President, Marketing Strategy & Product Management, at Infor Global Solutions, an enterprise software company that provides comprehensive business solutions. She also served as Vice President, Industry Solution and Strategy, at Infor, from 2011 to 2014. Prior to Infor, she was Vice President of Strategy and Solutions at IBM Netezza from 2010 to 2011. Prior to that, from 2005 to 2010, she served in senior roles at Oracle Corporation. Ms. Van Houten brings to the Board more than two decades of extensive, focused experience in marketing strategy with some of the world’s largest firms as well as significant corporate and business experience.

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“On behalf of the entire Board, I look forward to working with Christina and benefitting from her significant experience in the enterprise technology industry and the expertise and relevant skills that she will bring,” said Greg Strakosch, Executive Chairman. “We are excited to have a professional like Christina join our Board and provide additional insights on our products, services, and business as we continue to transform our offerings towards longer-term subscription products,” added Mike Cotoia, Chief Executive Officer.

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Ms. Van Houten holds a Master of Business Administration from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University.

With the appointment of Ms. Van Houten, TechTarget’s Board of Directors now consists of seven members, five of whom are independent. The Board intends for Ms. Van Houten to be included in the Company’s slate of nominees for election to the Board at the 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

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New Report Reveals Surprise Leaders in Streaming: Dallas, Atlanta and Phoenix Best Tech Hubs Boston, New York and San Francisco Among US Markets

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New Report Reveals Surprise Leaders in Streaming: Dallas, Atlanta and Phoenix Best Tech Hubs Boston, New York and San Francisco Among US Markets

Overall streaming surges 130% despite ad delivery challenges; Roku again dominates connected TV viewing with 43% share; live outdoes video on demand in quality

Global streaming media intelligence leader Conviva released the Q2’19 edition of its State of the Streaming TV Industry report, revealing that viewing hours grew 130% year over year while streaming quality improved dramatically. The 12-page Conviva report also uncovers eye-opening trends in social media and advertising that impact the entire ecosystem of consumers, publishers and advertisers.

Notable insights from the Conviva report include:

Conviva’s State of Streaming TV reports are published quarterly and are informed by the streaming industry’s most comprehensive data set
Conviva’s State of Streaming TV reports are published quarterly and are informed by the streaming industry’s most comprehensive data set
  • Unexpected leaders in U.S. streaming consumption. While major markets dominate overall streaming consumption in the United States, Dallas, Atlanta and Phoenix topped the city list when viewing was normalized by population. Perhaps more surprising, the tech hubs of Boston, New York and San Francisco lagged significantly.
  • The streaming TV advertising crisis expands. Conviva reveals that ad buffering is a direct threat to content engagement with little viewer tolerance for ad quality issues. Streaming ad length averaged 24.87 seconds in Q2 despite a dramatic 70%+ increase in audience abandonment during 20+ second spots as compared to those who abandon during 10 second spots.
  • Device wars rage on. The connected TV category led all other devices in growth, up 143% in viewing hours. This was largely driven by Roku with 173% growth and an overall 43% share of connected TV viewing. Amazon Fire TV was up 145% in viewing with an 18% share. Apple TV was up 129% to account for a 10% share.
  • Live bests video on demand in quality. The hyper focus on getting it right for live streaming resulted in 13.9% less buffering and 25.6% faster start times than on-demand content, with near-equal average picture quality.
  • Video rules social media engagement. Facebook and YouTube saw 15% more videos posted as news media led with the largest growth in average total video views, up 197% year over year. Entertainment led in growth of views per video, up 99%.

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“Despite extraordinary growth, streaming is still a nascent market,” says Bill Demas, CEO of Conviva. “As the data shows, audience appetites for content are on the rise with more ways to consume than ever before. Competition for mind share and market share is driving remarkable improvements and innovations industry wide. Publishers, service providers, advertisers, social marketers and brands are all expanding their focus to optimize every moment of the streaming experience. While we are nowhere near the saturation point, it’s imperative that both established players and new entrants recognize that every stream matters and take steps to address all dimensions of their streaming media businesses.”

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Conviva’s State of Streaming TV reports are published quarterly and are informed by the streaming industry’s most comprehensive data set. Data is collected from Conviva’s proprietary sensor technology that is currently embedded in 3 billion streaming video applications, tracking in excess of a trillion real-time transactions per day in more than 180 countries.

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Liferay Names Fred Tsai Vice President of Customer Success

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Liferay Names Fred Tsai Vice President of Customer Success

Liferay taps veteran of Salesforce and Dell to lead company’s new customer success division focused on helping customers leverage Liferay technology to drive their digital transformation 

Liferay, Inc., which makes software that helps companies create digital experiences on web, mobile and connected devices, announced that industry veteran Fred Tsai has joined the company as Liferay’s first Vice President of Customer Success. In this role, Fred will lead Liferay’s teams and programs responsible for driving customer engagement, adoption and retention.

“Many of the world’s leading companies and institutions depend on Liferay technology to serve their customers and employees. It’s a great honor to be in a position to help our customers make a true and lasting impact in the marketplace and in their communities,” said Fred Tsai, VP of Customer Success at Liferay. “Our goal is to offer customers a vision for what they can achieve in their businesses and serve as a trusted partner for each and every one of them as they move towards digital transformation. Ultimately, we want all of our customers to be successful for life.”

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Fred will be focused on investing in Liferay’s global customer success team of CSMs and specialists as well as delivering new forms of educational, training and technology adoption content to customers. This investment will be designed to complement existing initiatives such as Liferay’s Customer Advisory Board and community events.

“Customer Success is all about helping organizations make the most of the investments they’ve made by providing insight into the practices and patterns that have made other companies successful. With the growing breadth of the Liferay product portfolio, it’s become essential that we provide our customers with guidance on how to make the most of all that we have to offer,” said Bryan Cheung, CEO of Liferay. “The experience Fred brings to Liferay from Salesforce and Dell in building world-class customer success organizations will be instrumental in ensuring our customers get what they were promised when making the decision to invest in Liferay technology.”

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Fred joins Liferay from Salesforce, where he served as Senior Director of Customer Success Strategy, helping its Commercial and SMB business reach best-in-class levels of customer engagement and retention. Prior to his role at Salesforce, Fred spent nearly 10 years living and working in Asia where he served in senior roles at Dell, including as Director of China Strategy and regional leader of its Consumer and SMB PC business. Fred began his career in technology investment banking at Deutsche Bank in San Francisco. He received his MA in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies (SAIS) in Washington and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis. Fred is also an active volunteer in the community. He founded the Young China Watchers of San Francisco and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he was a member of the 2018 advisory committee on botnets.

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