Privately owned, the Houston-headquartered business has ambitions to grow in the U.S. healthcare, automotive, aerospace, chemical and upstream energy sectors and extend its footprint across North America, Europe, Asia, Australasia and Africa. Safeguarding its customers’ data is essential to achieving its international expansion plans.

Customers demand world-class security

“Our customers are increasingly asking us detailed questions about our security, including disaster recovery and how we’ll respond to severe incidents. We must confidently reassure them that we have enterprise-grade protection in place,” explains Daniel Iturbe, VP of infrastructure, security & compliance at MCi.

“To achieve this, we have implemented rigorous security protocols and business continuity and recovery plans that ensure the safety and confidentiality of our customer’s data. Our team of experts is continuously monitoring and updating these measures to stay ahead of potential threats, Iturbe says.

“We understand that our customers trust us with their sensitive information, and we take that responsibility very seriously. Rest assured, our commitment to providing top-notch security measures is unwavering, and we are always ready to respond swiftly and effectively in any security incident,” he says.

After completing a comprehensive program of preparation internally, MCi was ready to find a cyber security partner to provide a security operations center (SOC) that would match their business needs and meet the high standards of cybersecurity demanded by their customers worldwide.

MCi searched Quorum Cyber online, and a local Microsoft representative assured them they were worth talking to. Founded in 1989, MCi is predominantly in the cloud, and its cloud hosting is 100% provided by Azure. Hence, being a Microsoft-only house and a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Security, Quorum Cyber seemed like a good candidate. However, there were many other companies to assess as well.

Five essential criteria for a long-term partner

MCi took a diligent approach in selecting a long-term cybersecurity partner. They conducted an exhaustive Request for Proposal (RFP) discovery and execution phase over five months. During this time, they carefully evaluated over ten cybersecurity companies and thoroughly assessed their service offerings. Price was not the only determining factor, and the companies were assessed based on several essential criteria:

1. Vendor qualifications: Experience, expertise and financial stability.
2. Technology and tools: A vital matrix component consisted of selecting a SOC company focusing only on Microsoft Azure Security Stack and Azure toolsets.
3. Service Level Agreements (SLAs): Response times, escalation procedures, and reporting capabilities needed to comply with MCi contractual and compliance requirements.
4. Flexibility and customization: The ability to tailor and customize services to meet MCi annual reports and audits for MCi customers.
5. Security and compliance: SOC requirements to have Microsoft and industry-accepted certifications and accreditations.
6. Cost and value: SOC’s pricing structure, schedule, add-on services, and overall were collectively categorized and analyzed independently.
7. Reputation and references: The SOC’s reputation in the industry and references from current and past customers were scored using an internal MCi review process.

After evaluating all proposals, MCi trusted Quorum Cyber as their long-term cybersecurity partner. This decision was made after considering the added complexity of working with multiple vendors and that Quorum Cyber met all their requirements, including their need for an experienced and reputable Microsoft partner with a complete set of security competencies, certifications, advanced SIEM services, and strong customer support.

A true partner that lives and breathes cybersecurity

“I strongly believed that we needed a partner dedicated solely to the Microsoft ecosystem, who deeply understood cybersecurity and could fully support our Security Operation Center’s needs. We wanted a partner who would invest the time to comprehend our cloud infrastructure, unique business model, and even our customers and be part of our growth journey and continued success,” says Iturbe.

Moreover, MCi needed an expert in Microsoft Sentinel, Azure, and cloud computing that can proactively detect and defend against zero-day attacks and possess strong automation skills to improve efficiency and reduce the risk associated with cyber incidents. The ideal partner should also have experience working within a single, integrated security ecosystem.

After onboarding MCi onto their SOC in early 2022, MCi is confident that Quorum Cyber, whose SOC team runs the Microsoft Sentinel Managed Detection & Response (MDR) service, has already helped to improve its cybersecurity posture and security scores significantly.

“I am thoroughly impressed by the exceptional customer service provided by Quorum Cyber. Their attention to detail, quick response time, and efficient triaging of information by their SOC is outstanding,” says Iturbe.

Iturbe continues, “The single-pane-of-glass view offered by their customer portal, Clarity, has been an invaluable asset to my team. This enables us to access all the necessary information from one dashboard easily. Quorum Cyber’s technical expertise and account management skills are second to none, and their professionalism is truly commendable. They maintain continuous communication with their customers and offer top-notch customer support, a rare quality in today’s business world.”

Iturbe says, “Overall, Quorum Cyber is a fantastic extension of our organization and a true partner. Their unwavering commitment to excellence is reflected in every aspect of their services, making them a top-class provider in the cyber security industry.”

Peace of mind around the clock

“We couldn’t get the security and visibility of the SOC by recruiting more people to cover the same things in-house,” concludes Iturbe. “In a nutshell, MCi has been able to catapult our cybersecurity posture to an enterprise-grade level, thanks to the mutual partnership in working towards the same goals.”

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GOA, India & DUSSELDORF, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AmitVengurlekar–Venture Studio Prototyze has announced the launch of Deck Sherpa (www.decksherpa.com), a specialised design agency focussed on presentations.

Microsoft PowerPoint is the go-to software for presentations, globally. Whether serenading investors, inducting new employees, explaining product features, or providing financial updates – senior executives in business and governments alike have used on-screen PowerPoint slideshows for decades.

Simplicity and beautiful visuals make intricate concepts accessible to a wider audience. An idea with merit may go unappreciated due to mediocre presentation aesthetics resulting from poorly selected imagery, to amateurishly chosen typefaces and lack of alignment.

Though leaders understand the value of first impressions – they often underestimate how critical it is to use professional visual aid. This is changing rapidly. Regardless of the presenter’s oratory abilities, presentations play a vital role in creating an impression, both positive and negative.

“Contrary to what most people think, animations in presentations are a powerful tool to amplify message and reduce cognitive load. It’s often dismissed as unhelpful frills. It can make a good presentation great. Templates are restrictive in their ability to truly reflect a company’s brand persona,” says Amit Vengurlekar, Business Head of Deck Sherpa.

Part of Synapse, Prototyze’s communication design firm – Deck Sherpa is a fast-growing presentation-only design studio has been the secret weapon for many use cases ranging from sales decks to RFP responses.

“What looks good, sells. Or at least – is easier to sell. It’s the same with presentations. An anti-boring presentation is like a well-tailored suit that makes the presenter noticeable and the pitch sharp. Deck Sherpa’s presentation specialists have had a small part to play in many storied transactions and newsworthy corporate moves. A modest investment in a professionally designed PowerPoint deck is an increasingly popular hack that senior leaders are turning to. From pharmaceuticals to fintech startups, and airlines to consulting giants – the demand for well-crafted presentations cuts across industries and functions,” says Tanmay Modi, CEO of Deck Sherpa.

The ability to deliver high quality, memorable outcomes in relatively short time – many senior business leaders rely on Deck Sherpa’s team for presentations that matter.

Contacts

Media Contact: Ashwin Kumar – contact@decksherpa.com

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Geogentia’s New Algorithm Reveals Boosters and Fences.

HOLLAND, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new service from Geogentia helps retailers solve complex Organized Retail Crime (ORC) investigations by leveraging geospatial intelligence, distributed scale and high performance computing to provide transformative insights. The company’s technology provides a framework for managing, visually displaying, analyzing, and gaining actionable insights from geospatial data.

While traditional security principles have been used to prevent, deter, and investigate retail-focused criminal activities for decades, they have failed to shut down organized crime syndicates. With state-of-the-art geospatial intelligence and advanced analytics, it is now possible to instantly identify known and unknown shoplifters, boosters, their fences, and black/gray market distribution of stolen goods.

During a recent interview, security expert Brandon Gregg stated, “Big data and artificial intelligence are transforming every business and aspect of our lives every day, but the data they create is very flat. Geogentia has enabled the data to have greater depth and become three-dimensional. Geogentia offers a collection of services that businesses today are able to take advantage of in ways they could not have imagined a few years ago. In only a few clicks, I saw the software uncover multiple ORC fences and other criminal enterprises like sex trafficking rings.”

Geogentia is a proud sponsor of the Nation Retail Federation’s Protect 2022 Expo and will be showcasing their new algorithms on June 22 and 23rd, 2022, at Booth #4035 or contact Geogentia directly to learn how they can solve your most challenging investigations.

About Geogentia:

Geogentia is a US-based Investigation & Intelligence company that specializes in geospatial big data. The company provides geospatial data to local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies as well as private companies.

For complete information, visit: http://www.Geogentia.com

Contacts

Geogentia

Attn: Media Relations

Vijay Richard

(408) 320-8358

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The company’s proprietary technology, the Creative Genome, uses AI and machine learning to build the best creative teams for each unique project and campaign

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Togetherr, a new platform for building world-class creative teams and connecting them with leading global brands and agencies, launches today. The platform, designed and built by Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), and backed by industry-leading visionaries, uses proprietary technology, the Creative Genome, to construct award-winning teams, from an exclusive group of creative talent. These teams will be curated and matched to support brands and agencies on specific projects and campaigns.

The advertising world has gone through massive changes in the last few decades. The emergence of new digital platforms, the fragmentation of media, the rise of tech giants, e-commerce, and science-based marketing, all dramatically influenced the relationships between brands and agencies. It has also now influenced the way creatives feel working for agencies which ultimately impacts the outcomes of marketing and advertising campaigns. Clients, creatives and agencies are now looking for better ways of working.

“Long before the pandemic, our industry was stuck in a rut, slowly choking the creative energy and ambition that once defined our industry,” said Amir Guy, Togetherr’s General Manager. “The agency-of-record (AOR) model, based on hefty retainers, bloated head-counts, overheads, and complex processes, is not meeting today’s client needs. Clients need a lot more for less, and faster. Trying to meet these needs without changing our industry’s complex system resulted in broken spirits, lack of bravery, lack of excitement, and short-termism. We lost our creative icons, our magicians, our storytellers. Creatives were driven out of our industry, and clients are now looking for them elsewhere. The last two years taught our clients that they can find creativity elsewhere, and produce campaigns better and faster.”

“With new and important marketing channels continuing to impact the industry, brands are re-thinking how to maximize creative output in the simplest way,” said Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr. “Togetherr is a platform that aims to enable and accelerate new ways of working in the creative industry. When you allow yourself to look beyond the old system and challenge the way things have been done forever, you realize that talent can be found everywhere, on a global scale. You also find that diversity, which is so essential for creativity, becomes truly possible when you go beyond old constructs. Leading brands today often build their own creative capabilities in-house, and they need easy ways to augment them with outside independent talent and micro agencies on a project-by-project basis.”

Togetherr builds on Fiverr’s long-founded mission of revolutionizing how the world works together. This groundbreaking new platform puts talent and creativity at its core and uses technology powered by a cutting-edge AI engine to help leading brands engage with and manage teams of top-tier independent creatives to meet their project goals.

The Creative Genome

Talent on Togetherr is vetted manually and through the Creative Genome’s powerful technology – ensuring clients have access to the best and brightest in the industry. Creatives on the platform have won awards, worked on campaigns for some of the world’s top brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, HBO, Apple, and Netflix, as well as agencies, and have won accolades from their peers, clients, and colleagues alike. All of these data points are collected by the Creative Genome in order to assemble top-notch teams to ensure that brands work with the most optimized teams possible, something no agency in the world can offer.

For Brands

Togetherr is flipping the agency model on its head. Brands will no longer be bound by bureaucracy, agencies-of-record, and long RFP processes to bring campaigns to life. With Togetherr, the platform obtains the brief from the client, and the powerful AI engine will build a team specifically curated for that particular project. They get access to world class talent at the click of a button – to enhance the capabilities of their in-house creative teams – a space we see a lot of brands building out – or to build an entire freelance creative team to deliver new ideas or test new approaches.

Advisory Board

Togetherr has been built alongside an advisory board of industry-leading visionaries including Per Pedersen, Mark Tutssel, Eva Santos Bouzos, Greg Hahn, Karin Onsager-Birch, Nellie Kim, David Sable, Mariam Banikarim, Craig Brommers, Amy Fuller, Shelley Diamond and more.

“In my mind, size and scale are not the keys to success, but rather talent, perseverance, and passion are the ultimate keys to unlocking creative success,” said Greg Hahn, Co-founder and COO of Mischief and Togetherr Advisor. “I’ve worked with big agencies and small agencies and founded a boutique small agency that does things differently. There’s no right or wrong way to unlock creativity, however, by putting talent and ideas over profits, you remove the pressure and make way for beautiful, bold, and diverse ideas. This is what Togetherr is all about – using technology to unlock people’s creativity and putting talent first. I am thrilled to have been a part of building this incredible platform and am excited to tap its potential myself.”

The platform currently has over 1,100 creatives and ad industry leaders as well as 30 micro-independent agencies, and it is adding award-winning talent every day. Campaigns and projects start at an average price of $50K and go up from there.

About Fiverr

Fiverr’s mission is to revolutionize how the world works together. We exist to democratize access to talent and to provide talent with access to opportunities so anyone can grow their business, brand, or dreams. From small businesses to Fortune 500, over 4 million customers worldwide worked with freelance talent on Fiverr in the past year, ensuring their workforces remain flexible, adaptive, and agile. With Fiverr’s Talent Cloud, companies can easily scale their teams from a talent pool of skilled professionals from over 160 countries across more than 550 categories, ranging from programming to 3D design, digital marketing to content creation, from video animation to architecture.

Fiverr companies include Togetherr, ClearVoice, CreativeLive, Working Not Working, SLT Consulting and Stoke Talent. Don’t get left behind – come be a part of the future of work by visiting fiverr.com, read our blog, and follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Contacts

Abby Forman

press@fiverr.com

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TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#futureofwork–Jonah Group’s HIVE hybrid workplace management platform has been successfully deployed at CAA Club Group and Echelon Insurance as a part of their back-to-office plan.

HIVE is currently providing reservation and health screening at six CCG and Echelon offices across Quebec and Ontario, with plans to expand to other provinces.

CCG/Echelon selected HIVE for its innovative features, customizability and consulting approach to implementation after a vigorous and thorough RFP process.

HIVE offers employees and companies the freedom to work safely wherever they need across all company locations in a single mobile app and online administration portal. Key features include desk reservation and hoteling, virtual lobby, co-working integration, sanitization management, and AI-based capacity planning tools. With HIVE companies can reduce office expenditure in a hybrid workplace model while promoting mixed presence collaboration and optimizing real estate costs through real-time space utilizations data.

More information on HIVE is available at hiveoffice.jonahgroup.com.

About CAA Club Group

For over a hundred years, CAA has been helping Canadians stay mobile, safe and protected. The CAA Club Group is comprised of two automobile clubs, CAA South Central Ontario and CAA Manitoba, providing roadside assistance, travel, insurance service and Member savings for over 2.4 million members.

About Echelon Insurance

Echelon Insurance was founded in 1998 and became a member of the CAA Club Group family in 2019. As a leading Specialty insurer, Echelon works closely with our broker partners to provide Personal and Commercial insurance solutions to protect Canadian families and businesses. For more information about Echelon, visit www.echeloninsurance.ca.

About Jonah Group

Jonah Group is a custom software development company trusted by organizations that are faced with mission-critical business challenges and cannot afford to fail. In addition to SaaS products like HIVE, Jonah Group has built systems that process billions of dollars’ worth of transactions each year and other enterprise solutions such as online banking, equity and mutual fund trading, credit adjudication, health care benefits and claims management, fleet management and more. Jonah enjoys close and long-term relationships with its clientele which includes many leading names in the industries.

Contacts

Glenn Archer, Jonah Group, sales@jonahgroup.com, Tel: 1.888.594.6260

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Attacking and compromising a managed service provider – which provides IT services to many organizations – can yield a much bigger reward for a threat actor than attacking just one specific company. In fact, several large-scale cyberattacks in the past have targeted service providers that, depending on their size, hold the keys to the networks of hundreds or thousands of organizations.

Due to the network and privileged access MSPs have, they are becoming a much larger target for sophisticated threat actors to gain initial access, with attacks seeking initial access via MSPs expected to increase, according to a new CISA advisory.

Along with the U.S., these attacks are expected to increase in the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. A successful compromise of an MSP could result in a wide range of follow-on attacks against both the provider and across their customer base.

For both MSPs and their customers, CISA’s advisory urges them to take steps to prevent initial compromise, including hardening remote access VPN solutions, scanning and patching for vulnerabilities, protecting internet-facing services, defending against brute force and password spraying attacks and taking steps to combat phishing attacks.

However, customers of MSPs are advised to take further steps to make sure their service providers are taking precautions themselves.

According to the advisory, customers should enable monitoring and logging of their systems, but also ensure that their contracts with MSPs require them to implement comprehensive security event management, provide visibility of logging activities and notify the customer of confirmed or suspected security events occurring on the provider’s systems.

CISA also highlights the importance of multi-factor authentication, urging customers to ensure that MFA is implemented on all of the products and service they receive from their MSP, in addition to implementing the protocol on all MSP accounts used to access customer networks.

In addition to applying network security controls to reduce the impact of a compromise across the organization, organizations should ensure that the networks used for MSP access are segregated from the rest of the networks.

CISA’s guidance also calls for the application of the principle of least privilege, urging organizations to ensure that the MSP applies the principle to both provider and customer network environments.

Organizations working with MSPs should also disable MSP accounts that are no longer managing their infrastructure, including disabling user accounts when someone leaves either organization.

The relationship with MSPs should also include transparency around software update policies and patching vulnerabilities. Customers should understand their MSPs policy on software updates and request that those updates are delivered quickly and as an ongoing service.

The guidance from CISA also spells out what kind of system backups MSPs should provide to customers, as well as the importance of incident response and recovery plans built into the contracts.

Customers should also set clear network security expectations with their service providers and understand the risk that comes with granting network access to an MSP, and ensure that MSP accounts are not assigned to internal administrator groups.

“As this joint advisory makes clear, malicious cyber actors continue to target managed service providers, which can significantly increase downstream risk to the businesses and organizations they support – why it’s critical that MSPs and their customers take action to protect their networks,” said CISA Director Jen Easterly. “Securing MSPs are critical to our collective cyber defense, and CISA and our interagency and international partners are committed to hardening their security and improving the resilience of our global supply chain.”

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The Vendor Onboarding and Supplier Information Management Solution, Vendorflow is the latest edition of Aavenir’s product suite – built with a mission to provide a connected Source-to-Pay experience on the ServiceNow platform, differentiated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and User Experience (UX) capabilities.

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AI–Aavenir, a leading US-based Source-to-Pay solutions provider, announces the latest addition to its product suite with Aavenir Vendorflow, a Vendor Onboarding and Supplier Information Management Solution. This solution will empower sourcing and procurement teams across organizations to effectively onboard and conduct due diligence for all vendors (suppliers) while enabling a centralized, self-sustainable model to provide and access information on the go.

Aavenir Vendorflow comprehends the significance of user experience for collaboration portals. The solution is designed to deliver an intuitive experience for buyers and suppliers. Besides being backed by a robust Vendor Portal Framework, it offers seamless connectivity with other S2P processes and helps deliver meaningful enhancements to Aavenir’s path-breaking product line – RFPflow, Contractflow, Obligationfow, and Invoiceflow.

Some of the key features of Aavenir Vendorflow include:

• Easily Configurable Onboarding Process
• Supplier Creation and Portal Registration
• Configurable Checklists, Questionnaires, etc.
• Centralized Vendor Information Repository
• Secure User Profile & Vendor Lifecycle Management
• Bulk Onboarding and Information Requests
• Third-party System Integration

“Enhancing the Source-to-Pay (S2P) experience for our customers has always been the driving force for our enthusiastic product team. With this release, Aavenir has also launched Vendor Collaboration Portals on the ServiceNow platform, which will serve as the backbone for enhancing the vendor engagement experience. This will help our customers manage the vendor journey beyond Onboarding to other S2P processes,” says Jesal Mehta, Founder and CEO, Aavenir.

Book a demo today and explore how Aavenir Vendorflow offers ease of use, seamless collaboration with hundreds and thousands of vendors, and effectively help manage supplier information in real-time, which is critical for rapid buyers and suppliers deployment.

About Aavenir

Aavenir delivers the ‘future of work’ through an S2P solution portfolio comprising applications for Sourcing Management, Onboarding Workflow Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, Contract Obligation Management, Accounts Payable Automation, and Collaboration Workflows using portals. Visit website: aavenir.com

Contacts

Media Contact

Marketing & Communications Team, Aavenir

Phone: +1-408-554-2656

Email: contact@aavenir.com

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We certainly take pride in our approach to journalism – our coverage of impressive technology projects, our resources for helping you create better RFPs (and better ROI), our perspective on where technology is heading and our focus on evolving our content for today’s digital audience.

An important complement to that is providing a platform for our audience, the folks who live breathe the challenges related to choosing technology solutions for an organization.

You care about what you do. Who better than you to present an idea, issue a challenge or pick a bone with the tech decision-making community?

Since we launched TD, we sought to be a voice for the folks who are in the trenches, choosing technology solutions for their organizations and taking responsibility for the return on investment. If you write for TD, you can amplify your own voice.

Some of my favorite MyTechdecisions articles have been written by tech decision makers like you.

Examples of Topics to Be Tackled by Tech Decision Maker Community:

• What keeps you up at night? What do you see as the biggest potential threats to an organization’s network and how can folks in the tech decision making community mitigate those concerns?
• How has the role of an IT professional changed during your career? Maybe you’re now charged with creating access control or unified communication and collaboration (UC&C) solutions for your organization. And how have you adjusted?
• How do you truly educate and get employees to take ownership of their role in the organization’s cybersecurity?
• What are your methods for choosing which vendors (AV, electrical, office design, communications, etc.) to work with? And yes, we’d welcome an opportunity to learn from your mistakes, as well.
• The video display industry is big on specs – HDR, 4K, 8K, you name it. What specs are actually important to you and your organization when rolling out video solutions?

These are just a few topic examples. We’re actually more interested in the ones that, as mentioned, are likely rattling around in your head.

How to Write for MyTechDecisions

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If you’re interested in writing a column for MyTechDecisions, here’s how it works:

• Send an email to zachary.comeau@emeraldx.com; or web editor Alyssa Borelli at alyssa.borelli@emeraldx.com.
• We’ll kick around your ideas and discuss how to optimize them for our audience.
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Are you ready to take a thought-leadership role in the tech decision-making community? If so, we’d love to hear from you — and so would MyTechDecisions’ audience.

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After being hit with the “wow factor,” visitors encounter a 65-inch LG interactive digital signage board that provides wayfinding information. As they continue walking forward, they end up in the ground floor meeting room that features LG’s 136-inch All-In-One dvLED display.

The new Dallas office is a key location supporting AVI-SPL’s mission as “a digital enablement solutions provider that transforms how people and technology connect to elevate experiences, create new value and enable organizations to thrive and grow.”  And they recognized the importance of incorporating advanced display technologies there, according to AVI-SPL Engineering Manager Erich Schriefer.

The Show-Stopping Technology

“We contract for a good deal of high-end signage and content, and there’s no better proof of our skill and ability to think outside the box than filling our own corporate lobby with show-stopping technology,” says Schriefer. “We recognized that these spaces could be product and expertise showcases for every partner, client or guest that visits the building, and worked with a variety of our suppliers to outfit different areas with various technologies.”

The Wave Wall comprises nine 55-inch curved OLED panels (model 55EF5G) in a 3×3 configuration, with each panel mounted vertically to form a 12-foot-tall, portrait-oriented 4K display that leaves visitors in awe.

This was the first time an AVI-SPL team used LG’s curved OLED videowall technology. Because it is a custom display, the team also partnered with Draper to design a mounting solution that allows the entire wall to smoothly swivel out six feet from its resting position for maintenance and demonstration purposes.

“We were thrilled to partner with AVI-SPL and LG on this project, and our expertise in designing mounts was exactly what they needed,” says Kevin Barlow, director of business development at Draper. “It was an unusual project, requiring semi-permanent installation with the ability to move the entire display at a moment’s notice. The lightweight OLED panels allowed us to use a manual design, without motorization, which simplified the build.

The end result is the appearance of a permanently-installed curved videowall that’s easily movable.”

The process was enlightening for the AVI-SPL team. It showed that even the most experienced technology professionals can still experience moments of awe when working with a new, unique product.

Related: Real Estate Firm Modernizes its HQ with LCD Digital Displays

“It was super interesting and exciting to actually bend the OLED displays on site, under the guidance of on-site LG professionals,” Schriefer adds. “There’s a curve table that the display attaches to, then a ratchet you turn, and it bends the display to the precise curve you need. Assistance from Draper and LG was critical to the success of this part of the project.”

The 65-inch interactive display (model 65TR) demonstrates how lobbies, entranceways and other high-traffic areas can provide critical wayfinding, scheduling and building information in a responsive and attractive way that meets guests’ digital expectations. AVI-SPL is currently using Appspace for content delivery and worked with Korbyt to develop content.

A Stellar First Appearance

“AVI-SPL’s lobby has the feel of a high-end retail experience or a Silicon Valley HQ reception area, and it virtually guarantees a stellar first impression for visiting clients and partners,” says  Dan Smith, vice president of business development, LG Business Solutions USA.

As one of the first things guests see and a key location where executives gather and conduct business, the ground floor meeting room also needed to highlight how cutting-edge display technologies can enhance modern meetings with improved clarity, brightness and simplicity.

LG’s 136-inch All-in-one dvLED display is a packaged product that ships with virtually every component needed for installation and use and can be assembled in approximately an hour. This represents a considerable labor reduction compared with the amount of time required to install non-packaged products. It also greatly simplifies maintenance for integrators or on-site staff by using detachable LED modules that can be easily replaced without dismantling the display.

“These first impression areas have already created a buzz among our various visitors, and we’ve received some unexpected RFPs specifically because visitors were impressed with our facilities,” Schriefer adds. “Each product was carefully chosen for a distinct purpose, and it shows. The OLED Wave Wall is perfect for the lobby because its high-definition picture quality allows visitors to walk right up to it, while the conference room dvLED provides brightness and clarity for participants whether they are close to the display or across the room.”

The new Dallas location also features various LG 55-inch, 65-inch and 75-inch 4K LED displays throughout other areas.

A Successful Partnership

AVI-SPL, LG and Draper all agree the new office acts as an excellent demo site and that the design and installation process served as a good training exercise to build competency with new products and begin to develop best practices for optimal results.

“At LG, we have a product to fit every need, whether a project demands an all-in-one dvLED wall, outdoor dvLED, curved OLED, transparent OLED or large interactive touchscreens,” says Smith. “Our partnerships with leading manufacturers and designers like AVI-SPL continue to pay dividends and result in industry-leading projects that excite the imagination and help reinvigorate spaces with digital clarity.”

Click “View Slideshow” to see additional photos of AVI-SPL’s corporate lobby area.

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DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#Aavenir–Aavenir, a next-generation AI-based Source-to-Pay solutions provider, announced the latest version of Invoiceflow that makes invoice processing more inclusive for a wide range of needs.

Invoiceflow offers AI-enabled automated invoice extraction, classification, and digitization of the Accounts Payable process. Invoiceflow’s proprietary machine learning algorithms are trained over time to handle an extensive variety of invoice formats across vendors and buying categories. The solution matches invoices against PO, receipts, contracts, and vendor details before routing them through dynamic approval workflow on ServiceNow’s Now Platform^®.

Release Highlights

Expanded Invoiceflow AI engine scope to offer industry-leading data extraction accuracy, discounts extraction, multiple invoice capture from a document, and simplified invoice field mapping.

Expanded 2/3-way invoice data matching to detect duplicate or inaccurate invoices, allowing multiple partial invoices matching against PO.

Connected experience using seamless integrations to ServiceNow applications such as vendor management, PPM, ITBM, and systems like SAP, Salesforce.

Improved user experience with multi-language support, bulk call-to-actions, drag-and-drop invoice attachments, customizable list views, etc.

Enhanced flexibility of workflows with dynamic delegation of approval authority to speed up approvals. Approvers can view related PO/vendor details, audit history, duplicate status, and directly approve/reject invoice(s) from invoice list/email.

AP performance monitoring using role-based dashboards to view invoice(s) status, generate metrics reports, and prioritize workload. New usage reports help measure AP staff productivity and identify bottlenecks.

“Aavenir involves customers in its product development, therefore all solutions are designed for customers and by customers. The new version of Invoiceflow processes most invoices without intervention, eliminating 80% to 90% of manual effort and offers up to 99.5% accuracy.” said Jesal Mehta, CEO Aavenir. “Invoiceflow integrations provide the single version of truth for project management, finance, and procurement teams across applications,” he added.

Learn how enterprises optimize invoice processes: https://aavenir.com/case-studies/

Visit Invoiceflow website for more information and download the product brief to learn more on automation and integration capabilities.

About Aavenir: Aavenir delivers the ‘future of work’ to optimize vendor sourcing, commercial relationship, and spend management. Aavenir’s AI-enabled Source-to-Pay solution portfolio, built on the ServiceNow platform, includes applications for Vendor Onboarding, RFP Management, Contract Lifecycle & Obligation Management, Accounts Payable Automation. www.aavenir.com

Contacts

Nupur Patel | Marketing & Communications, Aavenir  contact@aavenir.com

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