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Monday, January 14, 2019

Mobile Technologies Inc. (MTI) and One Door, Partner to Streamline Merchandising Compliance Measurement

Mobile Technologies Inc. (MTI), a global leader in consumer electronics retail security and One Door™ Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based visual merchandising software, today announced a partnership to integrate their offerings. By combining MTI's real-time store sensing with One Door's visual merchandising and space planning capabilities, the partnership will give consumer electronics retailers new, real-time, visibility into the state of merchandising in their stores.

As part of this agreement, MTI and One Door will combine data from MTI Connect, an open IoT retail platform that provides real-time store visibility, with data from One Door's Merchandising Cloud, a cloud-based application that delivers space planning and visual merchandising capabilities including in-store execution and compliance management.

For retailers looking to make more frequent changes to their stores and localize their product promotions, communicating and confirming merchandising initiatives is becoming more time-consuming and costlier. "The combination of our real-time store data and Merchandising Cloud's tailored and guided store plan will provide associates with up-to-the-second information on how they can take action to improve their merchandising results, and maximize sales," says Matt Haroldson, VP of Global Marketing at MTI.

"Space planners and visual merchandisers using traditional planograms have limited confidence in the quality of merchandising in stores," said Dan Wittner, COO of One Door. "We look forward to partnering with MTI to incorporate real-time store data into Merchandising Cloud's existing compliance measurement capabilities, further improving corporate visibility into the quality of merchandising."

Hear more insights at the NRF Big Ideas Sessions:
One Door: Reinventing the Merchandising Process with Mobility Presented by Best Buy
Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
Stage 5, Expo Hall, Level 3

MTI:
Optimizing Employee and Consumer Experiences in Retail IoT Presented by MTI, Tuesday Jan. 15, 2019 10:15 a.m.
Stage 6, Expo Hall, Level 3

Visit both companies at NRF's Big Show, Jan. 13-15, 2019:
MTI - Level 3, Booth #4165
One Door - Booth #2737

About MTI
For over 40 years, MTI has been a leader in consumer electronic display technology, developing hardware, software, and service solutions for retailers globally. MTI Connect™ is the first real-time IoT cloud platform enabling retailers to close the communication gaps between management, front line teams, in-store technology, and the customer experience.

Contact: connect(at)mtigs(dot)com
For more information, visit: https://mtigs.com/smart-retail/
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About One Door™, Inc.
One Door™, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud-based visual merchandising software, optimizing merchandising at each store for the world's leading brands. One Door is privately held, based in Boston, MA, and led by an experienced team of retail and technology visionaries. One Door™ Merchandising Cloud is the only application that combines product and promotional visual merchandising with store information, providing each store with a unique, unified, and interactive merchandising plan. For more information, visit http://www.onedoor.com.

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From Mini Bars to Golf: New AppZen Report Reveals Insight into Business Spend

AppZen, the world's leading solution for automated expense and invoice audits using artificial intelligence (AI), has released its January 2019 "The State of AI in Business Spend" report, which uncovers trends and insights on enterprise business spend. The report details are based on expense reports from nearly one thousand enterprises across a variety of industries.

Among the findings:

Expense Approval Averages: Policies such as airfare and hotel are straightforward for most companies, but what about the less-obvious items? AppZen's report reveals insight into expense approval averages. 46 percent of companies reimburse for gifts and 39 percent do so for golf. Yet, only 16 percent of businesses reimburse employees for room service and 15 percent for the mini bar. 41 percent of companies provide reimbursement for cell phone expenses, 24 percent do so for car washes, and 19 percent for clothing.

Spend Visibility: Last quarter, the average large enterprise processed 4,374 expense reports. Each report contained an average of 11 expenses. Companies that use AI to make spend audit approval decisions and automate process achieve 100 percent visibility, versus just 2-10 percent for companies that don't.

Non-Compliant or Wasteful Spend Statistics: The most (ahem!) "creative" expenses employees submitted for reimbursement last quarter include strip clubs, dog kennels, jewelry, cigarettes, and gambling losses. AI unveils "brown paper wrapper" vendor names on receipts based on intelligence gained from online sources to learn which organization names fall into categories that may be deemed inappropriate or out-of-policy.

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"A well-defined spend policy clearly conveys a company's expectations for what business activities can be reimbursed," notes AppZen Co-founder and CEO, Anant Kale. "Auditing spend using AI helps ensure compliance to such a policy, while reducing spend and achieving more predictable financial results."

Streamlining Audit Process: According to common benchmarks, companies that aren't using AI to audit spend take about two weeks to reimburse employee expenses. Enterprises that use AI recorded a significant improvement in employee reimbursement time. Half completed the expense report approval process within four hours, while 90 percent did so within three days.

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Finding Risky Spend is Critical: While only 10 percent of enterprises' total expenses were flagged as high risk in the fourth quarter of 2018, they represented one-third of the total dollar value across all expenses, making them critical to find and review. Companies that don't use AI to audit 100 percent of spend, and instead rely on manual sampling, virtually guarantee that they will not audit all the high-risk items.

AppZen's "The State of AI in Business Spend" report compiled trends, best practices, and recommendations based on aggregated, anonymized data from the AppZen Expense Audit Platform. Conclusions are based on expense report data from nearly one thousand AppZen enterprise customers across a variety of industries from October 1 through December 31, 2018. For more information, please visit the AppZen blog or "The State of AI in Business Spend" infographic on the AppZen website.

About AppZen
AppZen uses AI to automate the auditing process of a company's overall spend. Leveraging patented AI technology, AppZen uses computer vision, deep learning, and natural language processing to automatically read and audit expense reports, receipts, invoices and contracts while cross-checking that information against hundreds of online data sources. This enables Accounts Payable and T&E teams to detect fraud, compliance issues, and pricing violations within minutes of an expense report or invoice submission.

Axsium Group Expands Service Offerings for Digital Workplace Transformation

Axsium Group, the world's leading workforce management consulting firm, announces the expansion of its digital workplace transformation services to its North American retail clients. Building on its successful project with Target Australia, Axsium continues to help retailers implement effective mobile workforce management and digital workplace strategies.

Axsium played a key role in supporting Target, who was recently named the National Retail Association's Innovation Champion of the Year due to the implementation of its new digital workplace initiative. The project involved significant organizational changes with a particular focus on team engagement and retention. Axsium guided Target through the strategy, planning, execution and testing phases of its digital workplace transformation. Now, Target employees can use their smartphone to access on-the-spot training, send and receive communications instantly with managers, executives and each other, swap shifts, and better manage their time and tasks. Read latest news here.

Axsium brings to the market a unique set of services that combine its expertise in workforce management and digital transformation, allowing retailers to take back control of their digital workplace and provide their associates with the tools they need to improve productivity and enhance the customer experience.

"Target had a big vision and we are proud to have played an important role in their achievements," said Axsium Group President Bob Clements. "Employees are more engaged and feel more valued, customers are receiving better service, and the company is maintaining a consistent brand across all locations while achieving productivity and profit targets. We look forward to working with our other customers on similar initiatives."
For more information, visit Axsium during NRF at booth #324.

About Axsium Group

Axsium Group helps organizations around the world improve their performance by maximizing the productivity of their people. We do this by providing innovative and insightful consulting services focused in three areas. First, we help our clients establish a realistic strategy and roadmap to reach their people-related goals. Second, we focus on streamlining and defining new processes to improve the way people work, their productivity and their impact on their organization. And third, we implement and support technology that help all levels of the organization achieve their objectives. http://www.axsiumgroup.com

LogiSense Announces Appointment of New Chief Executive Officer

LogiSense, a global leader in usage-based rating and subscription billing solutions announced today that they have appointed Adam Howatson, as their new Chief Executive Officer to lead the company in its next phase of innovation and growth. Click here.

In his new role at LogiSense, Howatson will take over from founder and current CEO, Flavio Gomes, whom will now move into the role of Executive Chairman where he will continue to provide strategic vision and counsel while continuing to support the customer, sales and marketing efforts of the company.

"I have known Adam for nearly two decades and have had the pleasure to work alongside him as a valued member of our board. He is an exceptionally talented professional with a proven track record of execution, leadership and vision. When the time came to identify the right successor for LogiSense It was clear that Adam would bring the large scale business operations experience that we need to fulfill our global potential. I look forward to supporting Adam and helping him drive exponential growth." - Flavio Gomes, Executive Chairman of the Board, LogiSense.

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LogiSense's Board issued the following statement: "Adam Howatson brings deep industry experience at driving growth with large scale enterprises. With his broad experience in the enterprise software market, we are confident that Adam will deliver diligent and compelling insights that will allow LogiSense to accelerate growth in key markets and far surpass our competitor's customer experience and technical innovation in the rating and subscription billing space." Read here.

Previously in his career at OpenText, Howatson amassed an impressive track record of delivering successful results in myriad of roles across the organization. Heading up Product and Engineering organizations, Howatson was at the helm of a multi-market portfolio in excess of 1 billion USD in revenue composed of enterprise-grade content management, customer experience and business process management solutions for Global 10,000 customers. Most recently, Howatson held the position at OpenText of Chief Marketing Officer, including leadership of the company's Global Partnerships & Alliances organization. During his 17-year tenure, Howatson was pivotal in OpenText's growth and scale from approximately 150 million USD in revenue to near 2.8 billion USD with employee base growth from approximately 500 to 12,000 people world-wide.

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"Put simply, I'm here to lead LogiSense in its next phase of innovation and growth. The team has already established strong credibility with impressive customers as a leading billing provider - now it's time to take that foundation and deliver continued growth and innovation for our customers and partners," said Howatson. "With our next generation of innovative technology being released in early 2019, we will continue to provide customers with the flexibility to launch new innovative products and services at the pace, scale and performance they need to beat the competition. Whether they are an IoT provider, UCaaS operator or an enterprise with complex billing or subscription requirements - LogiSense will be the only platform that can offer the capacity to execute and out-compete on their current and future business models, with configuration, not code." Howatson's CEO appointment was effective January 2, 2019.

LogiSense is known for their expertise in solving the most complex billing problems allowing their customers to innovate while maintaining a level of back office agility not yet seen in these markets.

Founded in 1998, LogiSense currently employs 70 employees in their head office located in Cambridge, Ontario. Over the past three years, LogiSense has been making considerable investments into its existing technology, positioning itself for an explosive next phase of growth. Read this here.

About LogiSense
LogiSense provides licensed and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) usage rating, mediation and subscription billing solutions for the Internet of Things, telecommunications, unified communications and enterprise service providers. LogiSense's carrier-grade solutions are built on its proprietary, real-time usage rating and subscription billing platform, LogiSense Billing. LogiSense designed the solution from the ground-up to be service, medium and provider agnostic, enabling it to grow with customers as they evolve their business operations and end user offerings. Providing the flexibility and scalability to address the service, billing and back-office realities facing today's rapidly-evolving service providers and enterprises. Founded in 1998, LogiSense currently services more than 40 customers in six countries. More info: http://www.logisense.com | Twitter: @LogiSense | Linkedin:LogiSense on Linkedin

Rembrandt Etchings: States, Fakes and Restrikes Exhibit Provides an Opportunity to Spot a Forgery Press Release

Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, known collectively as Rembrandt, is one of the most influential printmakers in art history. He created copper plate etchings that featured a wide range of subjects — from self-portraits to studies of street life. His etched prints showcase comedic expression and sober social commentary that have inspired innumerable printmakers for centuries.

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Stetson University's Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center will display more than 40 of the master artist's etchings during the free "Rembrandt Etchings: States, Fakes and Restrikes" exhibit, Jan. 18-March 1, with an opening-night reception on Friday, Jan. 25, 6-8 p.m. Complimentary parking is available in the East Arizona Avenue parking lot off of Amelia Avenue and visitor parking spaces throughout campus. Read all the related news.

The exhibition, which is on loan from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, examines the issues with authenticating Rembrandt's etchings and how to determine if an etching is a forgery by showing how copper plate etching prints are created. The display also includes first-state pulls from the artist's lifetime, restrike prints from the 17th to 20th centuries and fakes that are highlighted in red.

A first-state pull means that Rembrandt etched the copper plate and pulled it through the press and then onto the paper. Restrikes are etchings that were from Rembrandt's original copper plate that he etched, but were pulled by someone else after his death. The fakes were created from a counterfeit plate and not Rembrandt's copper plate etching.

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Tonya Curran, director of the Hand Art Center, believes this exhibit may provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Rembrandt's copper plate etchings.

"Rembrandt was an incredible printmaker who was using copper plate etching, which was a newer medium at the time," said Curran. "This method of printmaking allowed a diversity of lines and greater depth of value. It differed from engraving in that it is a chemical process rather than a physical process. The acid in copper plate etching allowed more curvature in the lines and a softness not often seen in engravings."

"The Rembrandt Etchings exhibit exposes students and the community to art history in the world and educates them about fakes," said Curran. "Art has value, but you want to know what is original or counterfeit. This exhibit is very special because not everyone has an opportunity to see an original Rembrandt and it's nice to have this prestigious display at the Hand Art Center on Stetson University's historic campus in DeLand."

Katya Kudryavtseva, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history, will be discussing the difficulties of attributing Rembrandt's artwork during "The Pains of Attributions in the Visual Arts: The Rembrandt Project" presentation on Thursday, Feb. 7, 7-8 p.m., in the duPont-Ball Library, room 25L. The event is free and open to the public.

Details along with a date and time will be announced shortly about copper plate etching printmaking fine artist Chelsea Smith's free presentation.

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Sunday, January 13, 2019

One Dress, One Vision, Five Days

The Junior League of Boston (JL Boston) will hold its second annual Little Black Dress Initiative (LBDI) from February 25 through March 1 to raise awareness about the effects of sexual or domestic violence against women. Advocates will wear the same black outfit for five consecutive days and buttons that read, "Ask Me About My Dress," to prompt conversations about these key issues in the communities of Greater Boston.

"We are honored to launch the LBDI campaign for a second consecutive year as it serves to deepen the impact that our members are already making in Greater Boston communities," said Michelle Lentz, 2018- 2020 JL Boston President. "We are proud to serve as advocates for the issue of sexual and domestic violence against women and girls, bringing broader awareness and working to make a positive change in the lives of those affected."

The Junior League of Boston raised over $30,000 in 2018 and aims to raise over $50,000 in 2019. The funds raised from the campaign enable JL Boston to deliver on its mission to develop the potential of women and improve communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. The Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC) and Catie's Closet have been chosen as the two community partners and beneficiaries of this year's campaign. BARCC works to end sexual violence for all people through healing and social change, and Catie's Closet works to improve school attendance by providing clothing and toiletries to children in need, right within their schools.

"We're so thankful for the Junior League of Boston's commitment to ending sexual violence. For more than 100 years, the determined and altruistic women of JL Boston have put their efforts toward improving the communities around them. For 45 years, BARCC has provided free and confidential services to survivors of sexual violence and their loved ones. Thank you for partnering with us to make Greater Boston a safer and stronger community," shared BARCC's executive director, Gina Scaramella. Read this here.

While raising funds through online donations, participants of LBDI will harness the power of social media by sharing their personal stories, connections, and insights on sexual and domestic violence in the communities of Greater Boston. Join the conversation on social media by using the hashtag #LBDIBoston. Read this for more information.

If you would like to serve as an advocate, please sign-up online (https://members.jlboston.org/?nd=vms_public_form&form_id=47). You don't have to be a Junior League of Boston member to participate. We also invite you to attend the LBDI kickoff event on February 7, 2019. For more information, visit the kickoff event's registration page (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/little-black-dress-initiative-kick-off-tickets-53314209235).

About the Junior League of Boston:

The Junior League of Boston is part of the Association of Junior Leagues International, an organization of 291 Junior League chapters in four countries. The organization is composed of dedicated and creative women from varying backgrounds and interests, who committed to promoting voluntarism, developing tomorrow's healthy and confident women and leaders and improving communities through effective action and leadership.

To donate to JL Boston and help expand our impact, please visit http://www.jlboston.org.

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Contact
Lindsey Shepardson
External Communications
Junior League of Boston
externalrelations(at)jlboston.org

Beppu City "NO SIDE" Project Kicks Off, With The Aim Of The World's Highest Hospitality Project Through the Fusion of Rugby and Hot Springs

Beppu City, Oita Prefecture, sets its eye on the "Rugby World Cup 2019 ™ Japan Competition" in September and launches the "NO SIDE" project aiming to offer the world's greatest hospitality event combining rugby and hot springs.

Starting January 2019, the world's hottest "War Cry" movie is unveiled by Beppu City to the world. Over 200 citizens take part in the movie "NO SIDE - BEPPU CITY" (URL: https://youtu.be/7d0alsJC36c). Read news here.

■The hospitality project unique to Beppu City aiming to fuse rugby and hot springs

　Beppu City is scheduled to usher in the national teams of New Zealand, Australia, and Wales national team as an official campground for "Rugby World Cup 2019 ™ Japan Tournament" set to take place between September 20 and November 2. Many rugby fans are expected to come. The unique concept hatched by Beppu City to extend hospitality is "the fusion of rugby and hot springs".
　In November 2016, Beppu city announced the "Yu-enchi(Spamusement Park)" project(https://youtu.be/UbMmhQYoAsM) that blended amusement parks and hot springs. The announcement movie became a topic in many countries around the world for its pledge to secure 1 million views, leading the city to the opening of the " Yu-enchi( Spamusement Park ) " park in July 2017.Building on that experience, the ctiy wished to "develop hospitality for the world's strongest rugby and lager fans with the world's strongest attraction of hot springs." The city will organize various events as a whole in step with the NO SIDE project.

■A hospitality movie born from the study of commonality between rugby and hot springs as a learning material.

　"NO SIDE - BEPPU CITY" released today to the whole world is a commonality project movie that literally embodies "the fusion of rugby and hot springs".The film starts with the scene of a young man enjoying the charm of the hot springs. When he picks a pail, however, the scene changes drastically. Clad in one bath towel, he starts running with the pail in one hand. Robust men attempt to attack him to rob the pail, the key item of the movie, one after another. As the bodies run hard onto each other, the young man passes the pail to a buddy who appears behind the group. He also organizes scrums as he runs through the hot springs town onto the goal.
　The producer has studied commonality between rugby and hot springs, both warming people in the world, extensively and condensed the essence into the film in an attempt to emphasize the attractiveness of rugby and hot springs to both fans. Various scenes unfold mainly on the pail, serving as explanations of many rules and skills that will help the audience naturally learn each play in the game while following the story.

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■From active rugby players to city officials and ordinary citizens.
The world's hottest "War Cry" played by over 200 citizens.

　At the climax of the movie, Beppu citizens gave big hands to the young man who arrived at the stadium through various difficulties, everyone chanting with a pail in hand. They dance the hospitality dance, each clad in one bath towel only. The dance is the original performing art developed by choreographer "air:man" with the motif taken from "War Cry" (*) performed by powerful team members before a rugby game. The dance represents the strong desire of Beppu city to show the best hospitality to the world.

*War Cry: The voice and dance of battle performed by the whole team members before the game, clapping their hands and stamping their feet to show off their power and boost their motivation.

　Over 200 volunteer citizens, mainly former rugby players, participated in the film production. They included active high school rugby club members and advisers and city office employees, who played rugby before, among many ordinary citizens, who would treat visitors during the event, in a show of unity of the whole city. The movie was shot in late November when the mercury dropped to 5 degrees C. All participants brought their pails from their homes. They played their roles in 15 scenes with only one bath towel. The event became the world's hottest "War Cry", filled with the enthusiasm of Beppu citizens for hospitality. Read here.

　Beppu City will advance various hospitality initiatives starting with the release of this movie.

■Movie overview
-Movie title: "NO SIDE - BEPPU CITY"
-Release date and time: January 7, 2019, noon
-Official URL: https://youtu.be/7d0alsJC36c
-Producer: Beppu City, Oita Prefecture
-Planning & Production: Invisible Designs Lab + Drill