Information Technology

Confirmit Announces 2019 AIR Award Winners

Market Research businesses recognised as leaders for innovation and excellence

London, UK, Oslo, Norway, and New York, NY – 10 September 2019: Confirmit today announced the winners of the 2019 AIR (Achievement in Insight and Research) Awards. The AIR Awards were created to recognise Confirmit customers who are driving the Market Research industry forward by demonstrating innovation and excellence to enhance business performance.

Nearly 2 in 5 Enterprises Have Lost Business Due to Cybersecurity Performance, New Independent Study Finds

LONDON, UK - 3rd September, 2019 - BitSight, the Standard in Security Ratings, today announced the availability of a new study that evaluates how executives understand and effectively measure their cybersecurity performance and adequately communicate it to the board, senior executives, customers, and critical stakeholders. The September 2019 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BitSight titled, “Better Security And Business Outcomes With Security Performance Management” indicates that cybersecurity performance is critical to achieving commercial success.

European IT & Software Excellence Awards 2020 announced

  • Pan-European Channel Awards for Application Developers and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Solution Providers, VARs, Systems Integrators, Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Service Providers and Distributors
  • Recognising Excellence in IT and Telecoms Channels, Software and Solutions

[London, 3 September 2019] IT Europa announced today that it will stage the European IT & Software Excellence Awards 2020 in London on 19 March 2020. Now in their 12th year, the Awards are given for IT solutions that get to the heart of customer issues, delivering better business, a clearer understanding of data, and more efficient and profitable outcomes.

KYC compliance costing banks €50 million a year as financial sanctions soar

  • Banks could lose out on €150m in the next five years to customer abandonment
  • Cost of non-compliance fines grows to €3.5m a year, adding new financial strain
  • By digitising identity verification, a typical bank could save €10m a year

London, UK., 3 September 2019 – A typical European bank, serving 10 million customers, could save up to €10 million annually and avoid growing fines by the regulator by implementing technology to improve the ‘Know Your Customer’ (KYC) processes, according to new research from Mitek and Consult Hyperion.

Becrypt’s secure operating system, Paradox, listed on Crown Commercial Service’s Spark marketplace

Crown Commercial Service’s newly-launched marketplace drives public sector innovation and cost-savings

London – 2nd September 2019 – Becrypt, a trusted provider of endpoint cybersecurity software solutions, today announced that its security-focused operating system, Paradox, has been listed on Spark, a new Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) provided by the Crown Commercial Service (CCS).

6 Reasons Your Business Needs CRM Software

While every aspect of your business deserves attention, customer relationship management (CRM) is one of the most important. How you form and keep the interactions between you and your customers makes the difference in retaining them. At the same time, you need to build new leads and prevent people from bouncing away to one of your competitors.

In today's global economy, if you aren't on top of your game when it comes to the customer experience, you risk losing out. CRM software is one tool worth investing in because it improves the customer pipeline in several ways.

New Research Reveals Top Trends in How Governments Modernize Legacy Systems

LONDON – 27th August, 2019 – The Centre for Digital Government (CDG), in conjunction with OutSystems, published a report on legacy systems and IT trends based on a survey of state and local government technology professionals. “Keeping Pace with Modernization in the Age of Rapid Obsolescence” provides key recommendations for how state and local governments can move forward with their modernization efforts.

Apstra Delivers Advanced Interoperability with VMware NSX

Enabling Unified Software-First Automation and Policy Across Any Vendor, Any Workload, and Any Cloud

VMworld USA – SAN FRANCISCO – August 26, 2019 – Apstra® Inc. today introduced significant advancements to the Apstra Operating System (AOS®) including tighter design, build, and operational interoperability between the underlying physical network and software-defined overlay networks with a solution that liberates customers from being locked into any specific network hardware vendor.

Mellanox Introduces Revolutionary ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField-2 Secure Cloud SmartNICs and I/O Processing Unit Solutions

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - VMworld 2019 – August 26, 2019 – Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today introduced ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField-2 – next-generation cloud SmartNICs and I/O Processing Unit (IPU) solutions, delivering unprecedented data center security, performance and efficiency at massive scale, for any workload. Continuing Mellanox’s innovation in high-performance cloud fabrics, ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField-2 make the impossible possible by introducing cutting-edge hardware acceleration engines and best-in-class software programmability to mission-critical applications.