The 16 winners include: Cisco, Events DC, Sanofi Pasteur, Tata Consultancy Services, Caesars Entertainment, State of Michigan, Baylor Scott & White Health and Chili’s Grill & BarThe victorious were announced yesterday at the annual Employee Engagement Conference in Chicago Chicago – June 08, 2018 – The winners of the North American Employee Engagement Awards, in association with Maritz Motivation Solutions, are announced today. Presented at the ‘sold-out’ North American Employee Engagement Conference in Chicago yesterday,... Source: RealWire

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Prepared by Trilateral Research Ltd on behalf of the SHERPA consortium“Artificial intelligence and big data analytics bring a variety of benefits to society, but at the same time have the potential to disrupt society, ethical values and human rights, and life as we know it”, says Bernd Stahl, Director of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University and co-ordinator of the SHERPA project. “The EU-funded SHERPA project examines these issues and is... Source: RealWire

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Effective September 1, 2018, Kiumars Hamidian will succeed Peter Mockler as Managing Partner of BearingPoint. Until then, Peter Mockler, who has been Managing Partner since 2009, will continue to manage the business.Amsterdam, June 7, 2018 – With the term of its Managing Partner coming to an end, the partnership of management and technology consultancy BearingPoint has elected Kiumars Hamidian to be its next Managing Partner effective September 1, 2018. He will succeed Peter Mockler, who... Source: RealWire

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Aareon UK (www.aareon.co.uk), the UK’s leading innovator of social housing technology has launched a range of managed service options to help its customers boost VFM (Value For Money) and reduce the time taken for services to become fully operational. The new services, which significantly reduce costs, also remove the need for the user to deploy vital system management and staff time resources internally. Under the new scheme, the services that Aareon customers can now pre-book... Source: RealWire

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LONDON, 5th June 2018 – LexisNexis UK (lexisnexis.co.uk), a leading global provider of information and analytics, today announced that, following a rigorous assessment process, it has recently been reassessed by Investors in People (IIP) and is delighted to have been upgraded from Accredited to Silver.Achieving the IIP Silver accreditation recognises a highly empowered workforce, supportive management and an embedded commitment to develop individuals.Paul Devoy, Head of Investors in People, said: “We’d like to congratulate LexisNexis,... Source: RealWire

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ServiceNow Gold Services partner building greater business, transformation technical, and implementation capabilities for the Now Platform5th June, 2018: Service Desk Show, London, UK: TeamUltra, a Computacenter Company, announced today that it launched Expert Circles for ServiceNow. This initiative reinforces TeamUltra’s continued investment in its long term strategic partnership with ServiceNow by building greater capabilities across the Now Platform. The increased depth and breadth of business, transformation, technical, and implementation expertise ensure TeamUltra customers can maximise... Source: RealWire

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Bomgar’s annual Privileged Access Threat Report highlights that third-party access to an organisations’ network is one of the biggest concerns to UK financial institutions72% of UK financial services firms suffered a data breach in the past 12 months, yet less than half said they couldn’t be sure it was due to third-party access68% of UK IT professionals in this sector find it difficult to keep on top of threats to the companyLondon, UK – June... Source: RealWire

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Lack of KYC checks means that criminals and Politically Exposed Persons can trade freelyLondon and Amsterdam, June 5th, 2018 — Analyst house P.A.ID Strategies announces the results of research into the onboarding practices of cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges. The research, commissioned by Mitek, a global leader in digital identity verification solutions, looked into whether prominent cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets across Europe and the US are using Know Your Customer (KYC) checks when on boarding customers.The... Source: RealWire

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Paris will oversee company’s continued growth and innovationLondon, UK and Toronto, Canada, June 4 2018 – Finastra today announced the appointment of Simon Paris as Chief Executive Officer. Paris, who currently serves as Finastra’s Deputy CEO, will take over as CEO from Nadeem Syed as a part of a planned succession process. The company’s strong performance during its first year has been driven by double digit bookings growth and the integration of Misys and D+H.“A... Source: RealWire

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London, 4th June 2018 - Resilient plc today is pleased to announce a new service, smartnumbers fraud detection, aimed at reducing the high cost of fraud and ensuring the protection of customer identities. This ground-breaking service, the first of its kind in the UK, reduces a firm’s exposure to telephone fraud and the corresponding damage to revenue and reputation from fraudulent transactions. According to the UK Fraud Costs Measurement Committee, fraud costs UK firms more... Source: RealWire

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