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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

AX Semantics Launches AI-Powered Automated Content Generation For Financial Services Sector

AX Semantics, an AI-powered, natural language generation (NLG) leader, today announced a new range of content generation software for the financial services and banking sector. Available in more than 110 languages, AX Semantics' addresses the pain point of recurring financial reports, regulatory filings, executive summaries, and other written communication - all of which typically require massive amounts of financial data from disparate sources to be gathered, analyzed and translated into text customized for a broad range of audiences and languages. AX Semantics' NLG software powered by AI automates these processes. It produces smartly-written narratives that read the same as if a human wrote them -- automating tedious, resource-intensive tasks and allowing financial firms to access "new gold" by analyzing and understanding their customer and product data faster than their competitors.

Financial analysts, brokers, and executives face the demand to quickly update the content required by state and federal laws and regulations, such as details about investment plans, risk assessments, and financial filings -- all of which must be updated regularly. AX Semantics' NLG software enables finance employees to effortlessly turn mountains of data into real-time actionable written narratives, create reports, descriptions of terms and loans, draft regulatory filings, and documents detailing investments -- all with minimal training -- freeing up bandwidth for higher-value activities and responsibilities.

"Financial services companies now have a simple way not only to produce content but to also rapidly revise it when there has been an important development or a new regulation -- saving significant resources in terms of man-hours and costs," said Saim Rolf Alkan, CEO and founder of AX Semantics. "Financial reports that used to take analysts and executives days to produce can now be completed in seconds using AX Semantics."

AX Semantics content generation features for finance include:

Mario Berger, risk advisory director at Deloitte, said the firm experienced an almost 80% reduction in time spent on projects like recurring reports by using content generation software. "In our estimation, projects in this environment are significantly more successful if parts or even the entire 'path' of the process is automated – i.e., data management, for example, using Natural Language Processing. We consider the fundamental potential to be very high."

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In the finance sector, AX Semantics currently works with Deloitte, Creditreform, Ebner Stolz and others - as well as more than 500 customers in sectors like media, pharmaceutical, e-Commerce, including Fortune 500 companies such as Porsche and Nivea.

AX Semantics offers a subscription-based service, with fees between $279 and $1699 per month for financial services companies and banks of all sizes. A managed service is also available on top of the self-service platform for new product development purposes and customers that don't have qualified in-house resources. The software is 100% SaaS – everything is available via a web browser, with no programming or IT departments required. Self-service with integrated e-learning allows customers to start automating text within 48 hours, often less. Learn more at sales@ax-semantics.com.

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About AX Semantics
AX Semantics is an AI-powered, natural language generation (NLG) software company built to address today's biggest content generation challenges. Our sophisticated SaaS-based solution effortlessly creates vast quantities of content at scale - to populate an entire website, tackle time-intensive financial reporting and regulatory requirements filings, fill a news section with earnings reports, generate 1000s of product descriptions for e-commerce brands, produce social media content, create easy-to-read weather and news reports, and more. We make automated content generation - in more than 110 languages, in a manner of minutes - a reality for customers of all sizes within the e-commerce, business, finance and media publishing sectors.

Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California, AX Semantics is a privately-held company backed by Airbridge Equity Partners. Follow us on social at Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook, or learn more at https://en.ax-semantics.com.

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Supercharged Performance for Open Source Databases

rENIAC, the drop-in data accelerator first deployed on Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Cards, today announced that it has received Series A funding led by Intel Capital with participation from UMC Capital, Leawood Venture Capital, Divergent Capital, Bullpen Capital, Upheaval Investments and J-Angels.

Already in use by leading organizations including a major telco and major media studio, rENIAC has developed an ultrafast data engine to power the increasing requirements of data center and edge applications, particularly those based on artificial intelligence and machine learning. rENIAC's FPGA-backed Data Engine supercharges applications so customers can process massive data sets in real time, maintain service-level agreements (SLAs) for end users and eliminate time spent on performance tuning.

"The amount of data required for real time, customer-facing applications is impossible to operationalize when managed through software alone, and many organizations are struggling to build infrastructure that supports their AI, ML or IoT initiatives," said Prasanna Sundararajan, CEO and co-founder of rENIAC. "We are proud to provide the first drop-in data accelerator so customers using open source databases can 'right size' their existing data architecture - and avoid the pain of database migration or application refactoring while improving the end user experience."

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With patented technology, rENIAC combines the benefits of software with the power of FPGAs and tiered data architecture to deliver 10x higher throughput at sub millisecond latency compared to open source databases alone. This enables customers to retrieve data more quickly in order to help prevent fraud, process payments, provide personalized recommendations and perform other revenue-increasing actions in real time while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

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rENIAC can be deployed on premise or in the cloud and works with standard servers and FPGAs from major providers like Intel and Xilinx. With no required changes to existing data architecture or application software, rENIAC can be deployed in minutes and delivers performance increases almost immediately.

"For data services where every millisecond counts, we see increasing use of hardware accelerators," said Patrick Dorsey, vice president and general manager of Programmable Solutions Product Marketing at Intel. "The rENIAC Data Engine drop-in accelerator powered by Intel FPGAs and SSDs can deliver higher data throughput with minimal changes to the software stack, which makes it easier for customers to develop and deploy in the data center."

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About rENIAC:
rENIAC's Data Engine accelerates and optimizes existing open source database implementations for data-centric applications like AI, ML, fraud prevention, payment processing, identity resolution and recommendation engines. rENIAC is flexible and deployed in minutes on prem, hybrid or in the cloud. By combining the power of FPGAs with proprietary software, rENIAC provides industry leading customers with reduced CPU usage and node count, increased performance, and consistent, predictable SLAs unattainable through a traditional database alone.

About Intel Capital:
Intel Capital invests in innovative startups targeting artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, datacenter and cloud, 5G, next-generation compute and a wide range of other disruptive technologies. Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested US$12.6 billion in more than 1,560 companies worldwide, and 677 portfolio companies have gone public or participated in a merger. Intel Capital curates thousands of business development introductions each year between its portfolio companies and the Global 2000. For more information on what makes Intel Capital one of the world's most powerful venture capital firms, visit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intel-capital/overview.html or follow @Intelcapital.

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Episcopal Relief & Development Receives $600,000 Grant from Islamic Relief USA to Expand Work to Combat Violence Against Women and Girls in Liberia

Episcopal Relief & Development has received a second, three-year, $600,000 grant from Islamic Relief USA (IRUSA) to expand a ground-breaking partnership with the humanitarian arm of the Episcopal Church of Liberia (ECL-RD) to combat gender-based violence in Liberia. This program, which equips faith and community leaders to transform harmful cultural and religious attitudes towards women, is also supported by a grant from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, The Laura Ellen & Robert Muglia Family Foundation, and other generous donations.

Liberia is considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world for women and children. More than 50% of Liberians live in poverty and the country has some of the highest rates globally of violence against women and girls. Violence takes many forms, including female genital cutting, child marriage and economic violence such as the denial of education. According to the United Nations, 39% of women experience physical or sexual intimate partner violence at least once in their lifetime. Faith and community leaders play a critical role in helping shape positive cultural views on gender equality.

"Women have been crucial in peacebuilding and development in Liberia, and this International Women's Day we celebrate their economic, cultural and political achievements," said Chiseche Mibenge, Director of Gender Initiatives for Episcopal Relief & Development. "Islamic Relief USA's generous support for ECL-RD's work with faith leaders to attain gender equality is an affirmation of Liberian women's dignity and the transformative impact that the program has had on communities."

Launched in 2015, the initial phase of the project worked to engage faith leaders in two counties, developing a gender-based violence prevention toolkit and training 84 Christian and Muslim faith leaders to speak out against violence against women and girls in their communities. The program also equipped faith leaders to more effectively support survivors of violence. Through trainings and organized events, this core group of leaders then reached out to 679 imams and priests. This second phase of the project, Scaling Up Faith Leaders Engagement to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG Liberia), continues the work in the initial two counties, and expands to two additional ones in order to train and equip 237 faith leaders and 360 youth leaders across 54 townships. The overall goal of VAWG Liberia is for over 28,000 women and girls to experience less intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence, and to have increased access to support services. Read latest news here.

"Islamic Relief USA's partnership in this program has been instrumental in shifting harmful attitudes and behaviors towards women and girls," said Annette Musu Kiawu, the National Director for Episcopal Church of Liberia Relief & Development. "They have inspired a spirit of reconciliation in our multi-faith society and helped us to recognize the value of engaging both Christian and Muslim faith leaders to transform communities.

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"Islamic Relief USA is proud of its partnership with Episcopal Relief & Development that has focused on tackling one of the most pressing issues impacting women and girls in Liberia," said Sharif Aly, CEO of Islamic Relief USA. "Through a comprehensive, faith grounded approach, we have been able to build trust throughout communities and make significant progress towards combating gender-based violence in an oftentimes highly volatile environment."

To learn more about Episcopal Relief & Development's work to empower and promote the rights of women in Liberia, visit http://www.episcopalrelief.org.

ABOUT EPISCOPAL RELIEF & DEVELOPMENT:
For over 75 years, Episcopal Relief & Development has been working together with supporters and partners for lasting change around the world. Each year the organization facilitates healthier, more fulfilling lives for more than 3 million people struggling with hunger, poverty, disaster and disease. Inspired by Jesus' words in Matthew 25, Episcopal Relief & Development leverages the expertise and resources of Anglican and other partners to deliver measurable and sustainable change in three signature program areas: Women, Children and Climate. Be alert to read related news.

Blair Sign Programs Celebrates Twenty-Five Year Anniversary

BLAIR SIGN PROGRAMS, a leading national sign and experiential design company, has announced the happening of its 25-year Anniversary. For the past two and one-half decades, BLAIR SIGN PROGRAMS has successfully designed and built signs and sign programs, for national retailers, commercial retail and mixed-use developers. The company has achieved a reputation for excellence as a design/build company with a deep design inventory of custom sign and graphic solutions for national retail and commercial retail development.

"Since our founding in 1995, BLAIR SIGN PROGRAMS has experienced the evolutionary and recently, revolutionary changes within the national retail and commercial retail environments," said Scott Blair, the company founder and president. "We, too, have evolved and have experienced many exciting developments since our founding. For example; we have gone from neon to LED illumination and from drafting tables to CAD/CAM design and manufacturing." Blair said, "We will continue to grow and develop. We are exploring 5G related technologies, are adding experiential design elements and continue to develop protocols for re-purpose/re-image development. The next twenty-five years look to be as promising and exciting as our first twenty-five."

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Blair went on to say, "We are also taking our 25-year Anniversary as an opportunity to recognize the many achievements and contributions of the people that have made our company possible. First, our incredible employees are the reason we have achieved our success. Also, we recognize our client/partners who gave to us their trust and confidence along with the opportunity to do what we do best; design and build signs and sign programs." Click here.

BLAIR SIGN PROGRAMS is a full-service design/build company that provides exterior signs and sign programs for national retail, commercial retail and mixed-use developments. The company was founded in 1995 with the goal of blending integrity, talent and authentic design to create property identity and branding solutions. BLAIR SIGN PROGRAMS is performance driven and adds value by way of its exterior sign design, build and install from coast to coast.

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Growing Integrated Design Firm JZA+D Announces Recent Hires in Architecture, Interiors, Marketing

The award-winning integrated design firm Joshua Zinder Architecture + Design (JZA+D) has announced a slate of four new hires, as the firm looks to expand its robust portfolio in the hospitality, retail, workplace, institutional and residential sectors. Globally diverse and multidisciplinary, the incoming new talent will help sustain development efforts while providing higher levels of service and design excellence to JZA+Ds growing national client base, according to firm leaders.

Joining JZA+D are architectural designer Shuoqi Ziong; project architect Julia Compton, AIA; interior designer Nancie Giardina, and graphic designer Alexandra Nita. Hailing from diverse backgrounds, these four emerging design professionals have found a home — and dedicated mentorship — in a firm known for their multidisciplinary approach to highly sustainable and contemporary design aesthetics and aspirations.

Founding principal and architect Joshua Zinder, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, and partner Mark A. Sullivan, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, have earned a reputation for identifying and nurturing talented professionals as part of the firm's long-term growth trajectory in varied markets including corporate, hospitality, cultural, commercial and residential building projects.

"We're proud of our dynamic team and new leadership, who draw from varied backgrounds and training to energize our integrated studio approach," says Zinder. "Their contributions are essential to continued growth in dynamic, competitive markets while maintaining the level of design excellence and innovation that our clients have come to expect."

Integrating design talent

Partners since 2018 — and friends for over 30 years — Zinder and Sullivan emphasize their approach as a multidisciplinary, integrated design studio that packages architecture, interior design and other services into potent solutions to meet mission-critical client needs. In support of continued growth and the firm's highly successful approaches to design and client service, JZA+D has enlisted experienced professionals and emerging talents for its primary disciplines.

Architect Julia Compton, AIA, has worked for architectural firms in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Massachusetts since receiving her B.Arch from the Rhode Island School of Design. Known for fostering the careers of women in architecture and design, JZA+D expects clients will benefit from Compton's deep experience, demonstrated by her portfolio which includes cultural institutions such as Sinai Temple in Illinois and municipal clients like the Princeton Merchants Association. She has also led on multiple hospitality projects including locations for Au Bon Pain.

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With a degree from the University of Pennsylvania's design school, architectural designer Shuoqi Ziong has worked on a variety of projects for JZA+D including for The Venetian Resort-Casino in Las Vegas, the headquarters of MedAvante ProPhase in Princeton, N.J., and a mixed-use tower for a university in Zhengzhou, China. Adding depth to JZA+D's vibrant interior design team, Nancie Giardina draws on her previous experience, illustrated by her substantial portfolio of hospitality, gaming and entertainment projects amassed since earning her B.S. in interior design from Philadelphia University.

Rounding out the firm's recruits, graphic designer Alexandra Nita brings to bear her background in product and industrial design, along wither her passion for visual branding, to direct all visual assets related to client branding, social media collateral, web design, product design and marketing materials for JZA+D. A graduate of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Nita also has a Master's degree from Domus Academy in Milan, Italy.

"Clients depend on us for building and design solutions that are innovative, cost-effective, sustainable and magnetic," says JZA+D partner Sullivan. "We're confident in the capabilities and experience brought by these recent additions to our team. With their contributions, we'll further accelerate our work to deliver on our client promise."

JZA+D's lengthy roster of clients, goals for expansion and commitment to collaboration will create valuable opportunities for their staff and the recent team additions. "Our portfolio includes both regional and global opportunities to serve clients in hospitality, office, residential, educational and research science sectors, among others," says Zinder, adding that the design partnership Landau Zinder, with architect Michael Landau, AIA, has added projects in worship and community buildings Jewish congregations around the country.

About Joshua Zinder Architecture + Design (JZA+D)
Located in Princeton, New Jersey, the emerging practice JZA+D was founded in 2006 by principal Joshua Zinder, AIA, to deliver multidisciplinary services for sustainable and contemporary buildings, interiors and product designs. The collective educational and professional experience of JZA+D's staff spans more than 95 years in global markets, and its staff is encouraged and inspired to be cooperative partners, good listeners and creative problem-solvers. JZA+D has won numerous design awards and its work has been seen in publications around the world. The staff actively participates in trade and professional organizations such as AIA, NCARB, USGBC, ACSA, IIDA, IOREBA, NJRA and Gotham Networking. More than half of the firm's architectural staff is LEED accredited. For more information, please visit http://www.joshuazinder.com. Read related news now.

Monday, March 9, 2020

Increased Demand On Unified Communications Infrastructure Stresses Under COVID-19

TeleMate.Net Software's unified communication and collaboration analytics products and services provide critical insight helping organizations successfully execute plans to protect their employees and combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As government travel advisories are being updated regularly, many organizations have chosen to limit or in some cases ban employee travel for the foreseeable future. Furthermore, organizations are rapidly developing and implementing strict policies that encourage employees to work from home in the event they or a family member are feeling ill. Continue reading.

Efforts to continue productive business interactions while limiting activities that can contribute to the pandemic spread, have led to an exponential increase in the use of video conferencing and other real-time virtual meeting solutions that reside in the unified communications & collaborations portfolio. Major unified communications manufactures like Cisco System, Microsoft and Zoom respectively are offering their WebEx, Teams and Video collaboration tools at no charge to help during these unprecedented times.

Organizations are scrambling to ensure that they are prepared to meet the increased demand for their chosen unified communications and collaboration services. Prior to the current pandemic, many organizations introduced these unified communications and collaboration services to a fraction of their overall workforce. This essentially means that critical elements like concurrent user licensing, capacity and bandwidth availability have all been fine-tuned to normal business as usual adoption. Today each of those critical elements, which points to overall user experience, must be monitored and recalibrated to accommodate the COVID-19 pandemic driven increases.

As organizations rapidly shift from face to face in person interactions to virtual methods, the quality of that virtual experience will play a large role in the overall quality of interaction which can directly impact business outcomes. This heavier than normal burden on IT resources means that IT has to find ways to be proactive in an effort to reduce the negative impact of poor service quality and speed time to remedy so that users have the level of reliability required to execute in this new environment.

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TeleMate.Net Software's Predictive UC Analytics and Agile Monitoring platform is giving organizations the needed edge required to successfully enable the flood of new users with the communication tools to navigate this fluid environment. Functions like executive dashboards to help C-levels prioritize business value with environmental changes and proactive trouble shooting that enables IT to manage quality of experience.

"During a crisis, real-time information makes all the difference" said Steve Tabaska, TeleMate's CEO. "At this time, uninterrupted collaboration between organizations is important and more specifically, uninterrupted collaboration between pharmaceutical companies, medical facilities and government agencies is paramount to eradicating the COVID-19 virus."

ABOUT TELEMATE:
The leader in unified communications & collaboration analytics and service monitoring for organizations with large populations of knowledge workers who depend on the availability and quality of communications, collaboration and meeting platforms to positively impact business outcome.

To learn more about TeleMate.Net, visit us at http://www.TeleMate.Net, or contact us at info@TeleMate.Net, or call us at 1-855-790-3369.

Red Giant Recreates Half-Dad from Pixar’s “Onward” in New Cheap Tricks Episode

Red Giant has just released another Cheap Tricks episode, featuring half-dad, a father who is conjured back to life with only his legs and feet, from Pixar's "Onward" - now playing in theaters. In this Cheap Tricks episode, now out on YouTube, Dan "Hashi" Hashimoto, the Action Movie Dad, shows viewers a range of techniques for erasing characters from static and dynamic shots using 3D plate projection for a live-action remake of half-dad from "Onward." Viewers will also learn how Maxon Cinema 4D is used to create a more animated version of "dad legs."

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"I think that knowing how to erase things from a handheld shot is a skill that could prove useful in a million different ways," Hashi explains. "You may never need to create dad legs per se...but there are lots of reasons that visual effects are used to erase limbs in movies." Be alert to the latest news.

Focusing on camera tracking, basic plate projection, masking and particle & lens flare plugins, Hashi demonstrates three levels of difficulty approaching how to erase the top part of his body while keeping his legs moving around in After Effects. Many tools from Red Giant Complete were used to help create the effect including Trapcode Particular, which was primarily used to create the magical particles coming the "magical wand" seen in the video that was used to diminish Hashi into a pair of legs. Other tools used included plugins from Magic Bullet Suite and VFX Suite. In the last 10 minutes of the tutorial, Hashi creates a CG version of half-dad by utilizing Maxon Cinema 4D and Adobe's Mixamo.

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The full set of tools used includes:

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Download the project files for "Onward Half Dad Effect" on the Red Giant tutorial page.

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Members of the media are invited to review Red Giant Complete as well as any individual tools or product suites from Red Giant. For more information or to request a product review kit, please contact Megan Linebarger at megan@zazilmediagroup.com. Read this here.

About Red Giant
Red Giant is a software company made up of talented artists and technologists who collaborate to create unique tools for filmmakers, editors, VFX artists, and motion designers. Our company culture is focused on finding balance between work and life – we call it "the double bottom line" – this philosophy helps us ignore complexity in favor of building simple tools that yield giant results. Over the last decade, our products (like Magic Bullet, Trapcode, Universe and PluralEyes) have become the standard in film and broadcast post-production. With over 250,000 users, it's nearly impossible to watch 20 minutes of TV without seeing our software in use. From our experiences as artists and filmmakers, we aspire to not only provide tools for artists, but inspiration as well. Watch our films, learn from over 200 free tutorials, or try our software at http://www.redgiant.com.