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Quantified Launches New AI Sales Coaching Platform to Transform How Life Sciences Teams Prepare, Coach, and Win

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Groundbreaking platform builds on Quantified’s market-leading AI Roleplay solution with Adaptive AI, agentic coaching, compliance, authoring, and insights capabilities to drive better business outcomes across the full rep lifecycle

Quantified, the AI sales coaching platform for life sciences commercial teams, announced the launch of its new AI Sales Coaching Platform, expanding the company’s market-leading AI Roleplay solution into a broader platform designed to help organizations improve rep readiness, strengthen compliance, scale coaching, and drive commercial performance.

Built for high-stakes commercial teams, Quantified’s new platform helps both training and commercial leaders drive measurable improvements in rep readiness, message adherence, time to proficiency, and field execution. Adaptive AI-powered agents and coaches personalize the experience for each rep based on role, experience, tenure, demonstrated proficiency, and business context. The platform supports the full rep lifecycle, from onboarding and development to preparation, field execution, debriefing, and continuous improvement.

“Commercial teams do not win by simply completing training. They win when reps are truly ready for the conversations that matter and build ever greater proficiency,” said Noah Zandan, CEO and Co-founder of Quantified. “With this launch, Quantified is moving beyond one-time training moments and giving life sciences organizations a continuous AI coaching platform that helps every rep practice, prepare, stay compliant, and improve their performance over time. Our new platform is unique in its ability to personalize coaching based on dynamic assessments of rep proficiency and uses Adaptive AI to meet each rep where they are, giving them the most relevant and helpful guidance possible.”

Unlike narrow point solutions for AI roleplay or call analytics, Quantified is a continuous AI coaching platform built specifically for the demands of regulated commercial environments. The combination of a fine-tuned private model, an MLR-aware governance layer, and six integrated AI agents working across the rep lifecycle is what separates a true platform from a feature — and what allows Quantified to scale from a single training use case to becoming the system of record for commercial readiness.

The new Quantified platform is designed to bridge the gap between traditional training, manager coaching, compliance oversight, and commercial performance. The platform helps teams move from isolated practice sessions to continuous coaching workflows that are connected to real commercial moments and measurable performance improvement.

“We chose to partner with Quantified on the design of this platform because the next phase of commercial readiness requires AI that is purpose-built for the realities of regulated environments — not adapted from a general-purpose tool,” said Lisa Sims, Executive Director, Learning Strategy & Operations, at Novartis. “The continuous, personalized coaching model that Quantified is bringing to market is the right architecture for our reps, our managers, and our compliance teams to work from a shared foundation, before, during, and after the conversations that matter most.”

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Quantified’s AI Sales Coaching Platform includes six AI agents working in concert across the rep lifecycle.

Practice and Preparation:

  • AI Roleplay — Gives reps a safe, realistic environment to practice messaging, methodology, and communication skills before they are in front of customers. Designed for high-stakes life sciences conversations, AI Roleplay helps teams build confidence, reinforce approved messaging, and drive behavioral lift.
  • AI Readiness Coach — Personalizes launch preparation, including live drills of approved collateral, onboarding, certification readiness, and field preparation based on each rep’s strengths, tenure, role, and proficiency.
  • AI Authoring Agent — Empowers customers to self-author realistic, contextualized training and coaching experiences informed by their strategy, CRM pipeline, approved content, and commercial goals. Training and enablement teams can create and scale relevant simulations, scenarios, rubrics, and coaching content faster, without depending on services or content production cycles.

In-the-Field Performance:

  • AI Field Coach — Provides pre- and post-call guidance with personalized simulations and feedback loops, helping reps prepare for critical customer interactions, reflect on performance based on live-call analysis and summary, and continuously improve execution in the field to deliver better outcomes.

Governance:

  • AI Compliance Agent — Ingests regulatory knowledge and organization-specific guidelines to set guardrails, support OPDP adherence, and help teams maintain compliant messaging. The AI Compliance Agent gives trainers, managers, and compliance teams better visibility into risk, message quality, and adherence to approved guidance.

Insight and Measurement:

  • AI Insights Agent — Delivers custom coaching insights, team metrics, new hire readiness tracking, and interactive visibility for managers, trainers, and commercial leaders. The AI Insights Agent helps teams identify skill gaps, track time to proficiency, understand content challenges, monitor message adherence at the territory and brand level, and connect coaching activity to commercial performance.

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The Power and Impact of Adaptive AI:

At the core of Quantified’s platform is Adaptive AI, powered by a fine-tuned private model purpose-built for life sciences commercial conversations. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Quantified’s model is trained on regulated industry datasets that horizontal platforms do not have access to, and is hosted in a private environment that meets the security and compliance requirements of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.

Adaptive AI personalizes coaching for every commercial rep based on their role, experience, tenure, demonstrated proficiency, and business context. Instead of putting every rep through the same training path, Adaptive AI continuously adjusts each user’s development journey based on what they know, where they need support, how they perform, and what they need to be ready for next.

For reps, Adaptive AI creates a guided coaching experience across roleplays, knowledge checks, videos, documents, feedback, and 1:1 coaching interactions where users can ask questions throughout their development journey. For managers, trainers, compliance teams, and commercial leaders, it turns rep activity and performance data into actionable insight, helping identify skill gaps, readiness risks, coaching opportunities, compliance needs, and proficiency trends so organizations can focus coaching where it matters most and ensure teams are prepared for critical customer conversations.

“Life sciences organizations operate in an environment where every conversation matters,” said Zandan. “Teams need reps who can deliver the right message, in the right way, within the right guardrails. Quantified’s new AI Sales Coaching Platform powered by Adaptive AI gives organizations a more scalable, personalized, and measurable way to build those capabilities across the commercial team.”

Quantified’s platform is widely deployed across 30+ enterprise customers, including 10 of the world’s largest life sciences and pharmaceutical companies — Astellas, Johnson & Johnson, Takeda, Novartis, Sanofi, Bayer, Otsuka, Regeneron, UCB, Vantive, and many more. Customers report a 6x increase in rep practice and preparation, a 40% reduction in time to readiness, and a 19% increase in good selling outcomes.

This launch marks a major expansion of Quantified’s role in the commercial technology stack. By combining AI roleplay, Adaptive AI coaching, compliance support, content authoring, field coaching, and performance insights, Quantified helps life sciences organizations move beyond training events and toward continuous improvement across the commercial lifecycle.

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Consensus Acquires Saleo, Creating the Industry’s First Agentic Product Experience Platform

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Combined platform unites interactive tours and video demos, AI demo agents, conversational AI, and live demos to eliminate friction across the buying journey and deliver continuous buyer intelligence to revenue teams.

Consensus, the agentic Product Experience Platform redefining how B2B buyers research, evaluate, and make critical purchasing decisions, announced the acquisition of Saleo, the AI-native live-demo experience platform, and the closing of its previously announced acquisition of Peel. Together, the companies create the only end-to-end agentic AI platform that runs fully autonomous, personalized demos with unified buyer intelligence across all steps of the modern revenue motion.

Saleo brings flawless, data-rich live product demos to the Consensus platform. Built on proprietary technology that injects tailored demo data directly into the native product, Saleo enables revenue teams to run live demos that reflect the buyer’s actual reality. No more generic walkthroughs. No more hours of demo environment setup. Every live demo becomes indistinguishable from the prospect’s real-world deployment, configured automatically through AI.

From self-guided product exploration to agent-led conversations and live product experiences, the Consensus Product Experience Platform now covers every moment of the modern buying journey. Consensus enables buyers to explore on their own terms. Saleo’s AI Demo Agent and Live experience deliver context-rich demos 24/7. And Peel captures and contextualizes buyer engagement signals across the buying journey through conversations, helping revenue teams identify their most qualified opportunities and tailor engagement based on real buyer intent. Together, the combined platform provides one of the most comprehensive views of B2B buying behavior in the industry.

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The shift is happening at a critical moment. According to Gartner, B2B buyers are 83% through their decision process before ever engaging sales, and spend just 17% of their total purchase journey meeting with potential suppliers. The traditional sales playbook, built around live human interaction at every stage, no longer matches how buying actually works. Revenue teams need visibility into what buyers do before sales are involved, and the precision to deliver decisive product experiences the moment buyers engage. The gap between those two needs is where friction compounds across the modern buying journey, and what Consensus, Peel, and Saleo together eliminate.

“Revenue teams don’t lose because they lack activity. They lose because buyers experience friction and don’t tell us,” said Doug Johnson, CEO of Consensus. “Every layer of this platform was built to remove that friction and surface the signals that tell us what buyers actually want next. Consensus lets buyers explore products on their own terms. Peel’s conversational AI agents turn every piece of collateral into a real-time conversation that captures buyer intent. And Saleo brings precision to the moment that matters most: the live demo. This combined Product Experience Platform is what modern revenue teams need: agentic, buyer-centric, and built to turn every buyer interaction into intelligence, insights, and next-best actions that help teams anticipate buyer needs and engage with greater precision.”

Saleo eliminates one of the most persistent failure points in B2B sales. Demos historically break down because demo environments are outdated, presales teams spend hours preparing every demo, and the data inside the demo is generic and doesn’t reflect the prospect’s reality. Saleo solves all three by creating a dynamic proof layer on top of the prospect’s native application, enabling personalized, relevant demos without the prep work or risk.

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Saleo’s AI Demo Agent delivers fully autonomous, personalized product demos 24/7, responding to buyer questions, navigating the product in real time, and surfacing the most relevant features without a sales rep ever entering the room.

For Consensus, this is a powerful addition to the buyer-led journey, giving self-directed buyers an intelligent, interactive experience the moment they raise their hand, before they ever engage with a human. Together, Consensus’s Product Experience Platform and Saleo’s AI Demo Agent create a seamless path from first curiosity to informed conversation, compressing the evaluation cycle.

“Live demos have always been where deals are decided, but they’ve also been where deals fall apart,” said Justin McDonald, CEO and Co-Founder of Saleo. “We built Saleo to eliminate that risk completely. Now, combined with Consensus, we’re turning the most unpredictable moment in the sales cycle into the most controlled. Every demo is real because it’s your real product. Every experience is personal and built to win.”

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Factory Appoints Marcello Gallo as Chief Revenue Officer

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Factory, the company behind enterprise AI coding agents known as Droids, announced that Marcello Gallo has joined as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

Gallo joins Factory after serving as CRO at Sigma, where he helped lead the company through 300% growth in annual recurring revenue. Previously, he was CRO at Moveworks, now a ServiceNow company, where he helped grow one of the earliest enterprise AI platforms adopted by the Fortune 500, growing the business 400% in revenue before its acquisition. Earlier in his career, he held senior sales leadership roles at MongoDB, helping scale the company into a category leader in modern database infrastructure.

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“Marcello is a legend in the enterprise software industry. He’s scaled multiple of the leading enterprise software companies of the last decade,” said Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of Factory. “He built world-class go-to-market teams selling AI to enterprises at Moveworks, and he scaled Sigma into one of the most important data companies in the market. At Factory, we’re building for the next generational shift of enterprise software. Marcello is an industry leader in scaling high-growth startups, and we are humbled to have him steer the next chapter of hyper-growth for Factory.”

His appointment comes as enterprises move beyond experimentation and begin to make long-term decisions about how agents are moving into production. Factory already enables teams at global enterprises like NVIDIA, Morgan Stanley, EY, Palo Alto Networks, RBC, and Revolut to deploy agents across the software development lifecycle, and the company has grown rapidly as enterprises rapidly transform their organizations to be agent-native.

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Earlier this year, the company announced a $150 million Series C financing at a $1.5 billion valuation. The company also introduced Factory Router, a revolutionary new product that automatically selects the right model for each coding task, cutting costs 20-25% while maintaining frontier model performance.

“Throughout my career, I’ve looked for companies that are revolutionizing enterprise technology and decision making,” said Gallo. “That’s what drew me to Factory. Every company is focused on building their internal agentic platform and Factory is approaching this by enabling enterprises to own their software factory, which is model agnostic and embedded where engineers work. The team has built a solution that enables enterprises to truly modernize enterprise code while retaining flexibility, control and production-grade agents at scale.”

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NIQ (NYSE: NIQ) Unveils Six New AI-Powered Capabilities at C360, Executing on Its Vision for Agentic Commerce

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New capabilities help organizations operationalize trusted market intelligence across enterprise AI environments and workflows, while preparing for the future of agentic commerce

NielsenIQ unveiled six new AI-powered capabilities at C360, the company’s flagship client and industry event, marking a major milestone in the execution of NIQ’s AI strategy. The new capabilities help brands, retailers, and other organizations operationalize trusted market intelligence across enterprise workflows, AI environments, and the emerging world of agentic commerce.

NIQ’s AI value creation strategy is built on two foundational principles:

  • Delivering The Full View™: Combining the industry’s broadest and deepest datasets, advanced AI models, and rich content to help organizations unlock actionable insights and drive AI innovation at scale.
  • Enabling AI-Powered Capabilities: Delivering trusted intelligence and proprietary IP through NIQ’s advanced AI applications, assistants, and agents embedded within client workflows and enterprise environments.

Together, these principles reinforce NIQ’s position as the trusted intelligence infrastructure powering the future of commerce.

“Clients are looking for access to trusted, granular intelligence in whatever way works best for them,” said Troy Treangen, Chief Product Officer at NIQ. “Whether through NIQ applications, AI assistants such as NIQ Optiq, connected enterprise workflows, or governed integrations with leading AI technologies such as ChatGPT, Claude, and future frontier models, our new capabilities are designed to meet clients where they are and help them access NIQ’s trusted, proprietary market intelligence seamlessly and securely wherever decisions are made.”

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Accelerating AI Innovation to Serve Clients

The following capabilities, announced at C360, are the first wave of AI innovations enabled by NIQ’s trusted data and intelligence:

  • NIQ Connected Content: Helping clients manage, activate, and optimize product, availability, and preference intelligence across commerce ecosystems.
  • NIQ Optiq: Our next-generation insights assistant and agent experience, bringing trusted market intelligence directly into decision-making.
  • NIQ Optiq Mobile: Extending trusted intelligence directly into mobile decision-making environments.
  • NIQ Optiq Bridge: Connecting trusted NIQ intelligence directly into market-leading applications, AI-powered workflows, and enterprise environments.
  • NIQ Cadence: A GenAI-native Marketing Effectiveness operating system that helps marketers continuously measure, optimize, and activate performance.
  • ConnectAI Suite: The foundation powering a suite of AI data engineering and integration services that help organizations access trusted NIQ intelligence within enterprise workflows and AI-enabled business processes.

Enabling the Future of Agentic Commerce

While these new capabilities address how clients unlock value from AI today, NIQ’s Commerce Intelligence pillar focuses on helping clients prepare for a future where AI increasingly influences product discovery, recommendations, purchasing decisions, and measurement.

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This innovation is being advanced through our AI Commerce Lab, NIQ’s public innovation venue focused on developing the intelligence, measurement, standards, and ecosystem capabilities required for the future of agentic commerce.

“Across our client conversations, we consistently hear the same challenge: organizations are investing heavily in AI but often struggle to operationalize it at scale,” said Liz Buchanan, President of North America at NIQ. “The innovations announced at C360 are designed to help close that gap by providing trusted intelligence, practical AI solutions, and the capabilities organizations need to turn AI ambition into measurable business outcomes.”

Built on NIQ’s Global Data Advantage

NIQ’s AI strategy builds on the company’s unmatched global data footprint, including:

  • Relationships with more than 8,900 retailers globally
  • Coverage across approximately $7.4 trillion in consumer spend
  • More than 253 million product items
  • More than 10 billion structured product attributes
  • 160+ petabytes of managed data assets
  • 28,000 AI models running daily

Additional information about the ConnectAI Suite, NIQ Optiq, NIQ Optiq Mobile, NIQ Optiq Bridge, NIQ Connected Content, NIQ Cadence, Commerce Intelligence, and the Commerce Lab will be shared throughout C360.

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RSTN Communications Expands Enterprise Communications Platform with Acquisition of Easton Telecom Solutions

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Acquisition Strengthens RSTN’s Fiber, Voice, and Cloud Communications Capabilities

RSTN Communications LLC, a rapidly expanding telecommunications and fiber infrastructure provider, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Easton Telecom Services, an Ohio-based business communications and cloud voice provider. The transaction has entered FCC regulatory review and approval.

Easton Telecom Services adds a highly respected voice and UCaaS operation that strengthens our long-term vision and expands the capabilities we can deliver to customers.”

— Kevin Alward, CEO of RSTN Communications

The transaction positions RSTN Communications as an emerging regional communications platform combining fiber infrastructure, enterprise voice, UCaaS, CCaaS, and advanced business communications solutions under a unified organization focused on next-generation connectivity.

The acquisition represents a significant step in the development of RSTN Communications. Easton Telecom Services will strengthen the organization by adding an established voice and UCaaS brand to complement RSTN’s growing fiber infrastructure and enterprise communications platform.

RSTN Communications has developed more than 150 miles of fiber network infrastructure and continues to expand its fiber and telecommunications footprint through ongoing investment in fiber broadband and enterprise communications solutions. As fiber expansion continues across the region, RSTN is investing in scalable communications infrastructure designed to support the growing demands of businesses, municipalities, and enterprise organizations. The organization includes MegaWatt Fiber and is focused on delivering scalable, high-performance connectivity solutions for residential, business, and enterprise customers.

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Following the transaction, customers will benefit from an expanded portfolio of services including UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service), enterprise voice solutions, managed communications, and advanced data and network services. RSTN also maintains a Premier Platinum relationship with AT&T, reinforcing the organization’s enterprise-grade communications capabilities and underlying carrier network resources.

“We’re building a modern communications platform designed around fiber, cloud communications, and enterprise connectivity,” said Kevin Alward, CEO of RSTN Communications. “Easton Telecom Services adds a highly respected voice and UCaaS operation that strengthens our long-term vision and expands the capabilities we can deliver to customers.”

Rob Mocas, President of Easton Telecom Services, will continue supporting Easton operations and assisting with the transition process as the organizations move through regulatory approval and integration.

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“We’re excited about the opportunities this agreement creates for our customers, agents, and employees,” said Mocas. “RSTN’s investment in enterprise communications and next-generation technology creates a strong foundation for future growth and expanded service capabilities.”

The combined organization will continue expanding its portfolio of fiber, enterprise voice, cloud communications, and managed connectivity solutions throughout existing and future markets. The acquisition further positions RSTN as a growing regional provider of integrated fiber and cloud communications solutions.

The transaction remains subject to customary regulatory approvals, including review by the Federal Communications Commission.

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73% of Companies Lose Revenue from Supply Chain Issues Despite 63% Saying Operations Are Working as Intended

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New research reveals execution failures, rising complexity, and mounting revenue loss are accelerating the shift to AI-native supply chain orchestration

Cleo, the global leader in AI-native supply chain orchestration solutions through its Cleo Integration Cloud (CIC) platform, released its 2026 Global Supply Chain Executive Report, revealing a major disconnect between how companies perceive supply chain performance and what they are actually delivering operationally. While 63% of companies say their supply chain operates as intended, 73% report losing revenue due to supply chain issues. The findings point to a growing gap between supply chain design and day-to-day operations, driven by persistent disruptions in execution.

Titled, “Beneath the Paradigm Shift: Why Supply Chain Orchestration Is the Next Frontier,” the report was conducted by Dimensional Research® and commissioned by Cleo. Core findings show supply chain disruptions are not just causing delays, they are creating measurable financial consequences. More than half (51%) of respondents say technology-related issues contribute to revenue loss, and among those affected, 65% cite SLA violations, chargebacks, penalties, and deductions as a result. Supply chain issues are typically reported to impact 2–5% of total revenue, making them a major driver of margin erosion.

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Additional findings from the report include:

  • 32% say supply chain software issues occur weekly
  • 84% don’t have end-to-end, real-time visibility from order through return
  • 90% of organizations are already affected by geopolitical issues or expect to be
  • 97% are comfortable with AI-based recommendations, 69% want AI with human oversight (“human-in-the-loop”)

“As volatility becomes a permanent operating condition, companies can no longer rely on fragmented systems, periodic fixes, or automation alone,” said Tushar Patel, CMO at Cleo. “This year’s research shows that the problem is not just disruption itself. It is the inability to coordinate data, decisions, and execution quickly enough to prevent revenue loss from these disruptions. That is why supply chain orchestration, accelerated by AI, is gaining momentum. Businesses need a more connected, real-time operating model that transforms disparate transactions into intelligence that drives smarter, proactive actions.”

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The report also found that even when companies can detect supply chain issues, resolving them remains a major challenge. Respondents say the most time-consuming parts of issue resolution are implementing fixes (60%), determining root causes (58%), and identifying possible solutions (55%), underscoring how much manual coordination is still required to keep disruptions from turning into revenue loss.

While external pressures remain a factor, the research suggests the more immediate challenge for many organizations is internal coordination. Automation adoption continues to rise, with 88% of respondents saying automation use is increasing, yet 55% say automation is also increasing operational complexity. In other words, companies are adding more technology, but it’s not necessarily making execution easier. Real-time visibility remains limited, even as automation expands.

As organizations look ahead, the findings point to a broader operating model shift. Companies are moving beyond isolated automation and traditional integration toward a more coordinated, real-time approach that can connect systems, standardize data, improve decision-making, and reduce the financial impact of supply chain disruptions. In that environment, supply chain orchestration is emerging as the mechanism that helps turn fragmented workflows into intelligent action.

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Carpe Diem Technology Solutions Partners with Buckeye Broadband to Drive Lifecycle Efficiency & Reduce Operational Cost

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Buckeye Broadband leverages Carpe Diem Technology Solutions’ lifecycle expertise to reduce costs, optimize resources, and modernize networks.

Carpe Diem Technology Solutions (“Carpe Diem”), a nationwide provider of network engineering, generational lifecycle services, and broadband field support, today announced a strategic partnership with Buckeye Broadband to modernize post-warranty hardware support across its data center and network environments. The engagement is designed to extend the useful life of existing infrastructure, optimize refresh planning, and deliver a more flexible, cost-effective support model aligned with Buckeye’s evolving network roadmap.
As broadband operators balance subscriber growth with disciplined capital deployment, equipment lifecycle decisions play an increasingly important role in overall cost structure and operational alignment. Buckeye Broadband engaged Carpe Diem to evaluate its data center and network hardware support operating model, optimize refresh planning, and implement a more flexible, roadmap-aligned support strategy that reduces reliance on rigid, penalty-driven contracts.

We help broadband operators operate more efficiently, extend the life of their networks, and make technology decisions driven by real business priorities, not arbitrary timelines.”

— Jason Keever, SVP of Sales at Carpe Diem

Optimized Refresh Planning:
Replacement cycles were shifted from rigid OEM timelines to performance and demand-based models, reducing unnecessary capital spend and extending asset life.

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Right-Sized Support Coverage:
Support levels were aligned with system criticality, preserving full coverage for mission-critical platforms while reducing costs for non-critical assets.

Rapid Replacement Asset Access:
By aligning support delivery with OEM SLAs, Carpe Diem enabled Buckeye to maintain service commitments and operational continuity, without disrupting existing internal workflows.

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Executive Perspectives:
“Buckeye Broadband is committed to supporting our customers and the communities we serve in ways that are both smart and responsible,” said Tommy Taylor, CTO of Buckeye Broadband. “This partnership allows us to extend the value of our infrastructure investments, reduce operational expenses, and defer capital purchases where possible, while maintaining the high standard of service our subscribers have grown to expect.”

“This engagement reflects exactly why Carpe Diem Technology Solutions exists,” said Jason Keever, SVP of Sales at Carpe Diem. “We help broadband operators operate more efficiently, extend the life of their networks, and make technology decisions driven by real business priorities, not arbitrary timelines.”

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ECLAT Health Solutions Completes Management Buyout from Gulf Capital, Opening Next Chapter of Growth

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Management buyout follows five years of partnership marked by 10x revenue and EBITDA growth, AI-enabled payer expansion and a 4,000-person global team

ECLAT Health Solutions, a leading revenue cycle management (RCM), risk adjustment and healthcare technology partner, announced the completion of a Management Buyout (MBO) from Gulf Capital, one of the largest and most active private equity firms investing from the GCC to Asia. The transaction marks the close of a highly successful partnership and returns full ownership of ECLAT to its founders and management team.

“When we partnered with Gulf Capital in 2020, we had a clear vision for what ECLAT could become—and together we executed against that vision with focus, discipline and ambition,” said Karthik Polsani, founder and group CEO, ECLAT Health Solutions.

Over the course of ECLAT’s partnership with Gulf Capital, the organizations worked closely to accelerate growth and build a differentiated healthcare services platform defined by scale, breadth, technology and long-term value. With Gulf Capital, ECLAT expanded its revenue cycle management service offerings and added payer-centric risk adjustment and technology solutions. This diversification, alongside continued expansion and market adoption of its leading RCM services, enabled ECLAT to grow its workforce from 450 to more than 4,000 employees across the United States, India and the Philippines, and achieve a tenfold increase in both revenue and EBITDA—representing a 75% EBITDA compound annual growth rate over five years.

“When we partnered with Gulf Capital in 2020, we had a clear vision for what ECLAT could become—and together we executed against that vision with focus, discipline and ambition,” said Karthik Polsani, founder and group CEO, ECLAT Health Solutions. “Gulf Capital was a true strategic partner throughout the journey, supporting us in strengthening our leadership team, expanding our capabilities and scaling the business to new levels of performance. This partnership helped transform ECLAT into a stronger, more resilient organization with a clear platform for long-term growth. As the founders and management team resume full ownership, we do so with pride in what we have built together and with great excitement for the next chapter of ECLAT’s evolution.”

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Central to ECLAT’s growth is evaire, its proprietary AI and analytics platform. Powered by agentic AI and deep payer expertise, evaire enables end-to-end chart retrieval and review, risk adjustment coding, Confidence Scoring, payer analytics and more. ECLAT’s payer expansion and technology offerings—together with its core RCM services and highly qualified clinical coding teams—position the company for its next phase of growth and innovation in a rapidly shifting healthcare landscape.

“Over the past several years, we have significantly professionalized and scaled the organization—building robust operational processes, investing in talent and enhancing our service offering to better serve our clients,” said Sneha Polsani, Founder and COO, ECLAT Health Solutions. “Working alongside Gulf Capital accelerated this journey and positioned ECLAT for sustainable, long-term growth. As we move forward, we are exceptionally well positioned to continue executing on our strategy, deepen our provider and payor partnerships, pursue selective strategic opportunities and deliver consistent value to our partners and stakeholders.”

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“Our next chapter is about building on this momentum,” said Gabe Stein, CEO, ECLAT Health Solutions. “ECLAT has the scale, client trust, technology platform and operating depth to continue growing organically while also pursuing strategic opportunities that expand our capabilities and strengthen the value we deliver to healthcare organizations.”

ECLAT’s MBO represents one of the most successful realizations in Gulf Capital’s history and highlights its ability to build market-leading platforms through active ownership and deep operational value creation. The transaction also reflects ECLAT’s proven ability to scale, professionalize operations and create significant value for long-term partners.

“This investment exemplifies Gulf Capital’s approach to partnering with exceptional founders and management teams and supporting them in building differentiated, high-quality platforms,” said Mohammad Madani, Managing Director, Gulf Capital. “Together with ECLAT’s leadership team, we scaled ECLAT into a diversified and technology-enabled RCM and risk adjustment business serving clients across the U.S., making it one of the standout successes of our Fund III portfolio. This investment highlights Gulf Capital’s proven Control Growth Buyout model, where we acquire majority stakes in leading businesses and accelerate their growth and profitability before executing successful exits. We are proud of what has been accomplished in this investment and are confident in ECLAT’s continued momentum under its founders’ and management team’s leadership.”

“ECLAT’s evolution reflects a partnership built on conviction, constant momentum and a shared determination to build something exceptional through relentless execution,” said Fouad Daher, Executive Director at Gulf Capital. “Together with Karthik, Gabe, Sneha and the broader leadership team, we expanded the platform meaningfully across services, geographies, technology and talent, creating a business of real scale, resilience and strategic depth. The quality and resilience of the platform today reflect the depth of what was built together, and with the foundations now firmly in place, we believe the most exciting chapter for ECLAT is still to come.”

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Epicor Appoints Rachel Barger as Chief Revenue Officer

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Epicor, a global leader in industry-specific enterprise software, announced the appointment of Rachel Barger as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). With more than two decades of global technology leadership experience spanning enterprise software and SaaS, Barger will be responsible for strategy and execution across global sales and recurring revenue teams to accelerate growth across the make, move, and sell economy.

“Rachel brings an exceptional combination of global scale, operational discipline, and customer-first leadership,” said Steve Murphy, Epicor CEO. “Her proven ability to lead large global teams and multi-billion-dollar organizations through transformation and growth makes her the right leader to help accelerate Epicor’s momentum worldwide. As we continue delivering AI-driven, industry-focused solutions, Rachel’s experience will be critical to strengthening customer relationships and scaling our global business and driving long-term growth.”

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Barger joins Epicor with more than 20 years of experience leading high-performing go-to-market organizations across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. She has held senior leadership positions at UKG, Cisco, and SAP, where she focused on customer success, operational excellence, and sustainable growth.

As CRO, Barger will focus on deepening customer relationships, accelerating recurring revenue growth, and expanding and strengthening the partner ecosystem. She will also drive stronger cross-functional alignment to enhance customer outcomes and operational predictability globally.

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“I’m excited to join Epicor at such an important moment in the company’s growth journey,” said Barger. “Epicor has built a strong reputation for delivering industry-focused innovation that helps essential businesses thrive. I look forward to working with our customers, partners, and teams around the world to strengthen execution, deepen engagement, and support long-term growth.”

Her appointment reinforces Epicor’s continued investment in strengthening its global leadership team and accelerating growth across international markets.

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Mitel Appoints Ben Macdonald as new Channel Chief and Head of Global Channel Go-to-Market

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Seasoned channel executive brings a wealth of partner-led growth expertise to Mitel as demand for integrated-hybrid communications solutions accelerates worldwide