by sadmin | Sep 21, 2017 | consumer electronics, direct sales, industry, sales
It’s a fact: 8.3% of the entire US adult population is a direct sales rep. Whereas the entire direct sales
industry is setup to bind the sales reps and hold them back in many ways, the mission of Go Fish, the first online marketplace for the $189 Billion global direct selling industry, is to “liberate” each and every one.
Prior to Go Fish, sales reps were balled and chained to a limited product line. And, in order to make a sale, had to pound the pavement or hold awkward product “parties” in their home with strangers. To rub salt into wounds, they were required to fork up as much as $800 just to join and get a “starter kit” ($300 – $500 worth of inventory). For sales reps and wannabe sales reps on a low income, the current system was anything but benevolent, and prevented many from developing an income, becoming self-sustainable and achieving financial freedom.
Enter Go Fish. Now sales reps can join a direct sales team for free, instantly be given their own products website and a back-end management website where they can sell any products in the entire marketplace and, using an innovative face-to-face video platform, can interface with customers thousands of miles away.
And Go Fish’s ground-breaking business model is designed to grow virally rapidly via three compounding factors of viral growth: (1) Go Fish recruits Merchants, (2) Merchants recruit sales reps, then (3) sales reps recruit other sales reps as well as customers. And to further increase the rate of user growth, Merchants, Sales Reps, and Customers can utilize the virality of their social media.
“We’ve taken a 100-year-old proven industry that was desperately in need of innovation,” says Joseph M. Baliva, Go Fish’s Founder, “and using sophisticated technology and a benevolent user-friendly approach, helping as many as possible earn as much as possible by selling an array of products online, we’ve vastly improved upon it. You might say Go Fish was 100 years in the making.” Baliva, a true believer, adds, ”Like the old adage says, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime. Well, now, millions of unchained sales reps can Go Fish and earn for a lifetime.”
by sadmin | Sep 21, 2017 | appaik, claim, Computer, insurance
Canadian software company spins aerospace tech to launch new offering that closes claims in record time.
NGRAIN brings AI and computer vision to process photos taken with a smartphone, opening the door for insurers to appraise and settle claims in moments.
NGRAIN, the leading provider of damage assessment software using artificial intelligence and 3D technology, unveiled today a new offering for insurance carriers and solution providers looking to automate the handling of insurance claims. Spun off of proprietary technology the company originally developed for use in aerospace and defence, NGRAIN offers insurers the ability to use AI to process photos of vehicles and property.
Estimates for claims can be automatically written and processed immediately following the First Notice of Loss. Instead of waiting days or weeks to have a vehicle or property appraised for damage, NGRAIN brings AI and computer vision to process photos taken with a smartphone, opening the door for insurers to appraise and settle claims in moments — without any human involvement.
“About 40% of the time and cost of processing a claim comes from the need to assign appraisers or adjusters to assess damage by hand,” says Dr. Barry Po, Senior Director, Product and Business Development. “With our AI-powered damage assessment technology, we’re excited about the potential to dramatically improve the ability of insurers to be there for their customers when they are needed most in a time of loss.”
NGRAIN customers include all branches of the US Department of Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces. NGRAIN also supplies Lockheed Martin with the Battle Damage Assessment and Repair capability used on the F-35 and F-22 stealth fighters. Within insurance, the company works with major insurance carriers, appraisers, and auto repair operators across North America.
by sadmin | Sep 20, 2017 | ambyint, audio technology, partner, product optimization, venture
Mercury Fund leads Series A with co-investors GE Ventures, Statoil Technology Invest and Cottonwood Venture Partners to accelerate innovation in production optimization
Ambyint, the emerging leader in AI-driven artificial lift and production optimization, today announced
a $11.5 million Series A funding round led by Mercury Fund with participation by GE Ventures, Statoil Technology Invest, and Cottonwood Venture Partners. Funding will be used to expand deployments of Ambyint’s oil and gas artificial lift optimization solutions in the US and Canada, while continuing to build toward the ultimate vision of enabling autonomous well operations.
Well operators have responded to current market conditions by drastically reducing staff, but many have struggled to take advantage of recent advances in remote monitoring and data analytics that can have a substantial impact on reducing lease operating expense (LOE) of their existing fleet of producing wells. Operators who do gather data often lack the data science foundation or a large repository of training data to create value quickly.
Ambyint delivers substantial operating improvements to customers by combining the best of traditional physics-based methods with modern artificial intelligence and machine learning. Ambyint’s data science success is fueled by the industry’s largest repository of labeled training data, totaling nearly 100 million operating hours of hi-resolution data. Using Ambyint’s high resolution adaptive controllers, Ambyint continues to build both the size and quality of its industry-leading data lake. As a result, Ambyint has already helped customers show 20%+ reductions in LOE and as much as 10% improvements in production volumes, while improving safety.
“Ambyint’s ground-breaking artificial lift and production optimization solutions deliver compelling value to oil and gas producers,” said Alex Robart, CEO of Ambyint. “Artificial intelligence has shown huge promise in multiple industries, but we believe that many customer and vendor attempts to use advanced AI will not be successful, not because the core machine learning techniques are inadequate, but rather due to the lack of high resolution, labeled training data. Ambyint has spent over a decade building one of the largest repositories of high quality production and optimization data that is used to train and improve our advanced analytics capabilities. As a result, our customers see significant improvements in both operating expense and production volumes.”
“Securing significant investments from leaders in the Industrial Internet, SaaS and digital oilfield investment communities support our market-leading technology and will enable us to scale our business with new offerings and geographic expansion,” said Nav Dhunay, COO and Founder of Ambyint. “Our investors recognize how Ambyint’s production optimization platform changes the game by utilizing industry proven optimization algorithms with leading edge machine intelligence.”
“We believe there is no better time to invest in oilfield production efficiency and optimization given the expected industry trends for the next several years,” said Adrian Fortino, Partner at Mercury Fund. “The combination of the management team’s industry expertise and network and the Ambyint platform and team was the perfect fit for our investment themes.”
“The application of artificial intelligence for artificial lift optimization offers a unique opportunity to not only enhance production but also improve overall production efficiency,” said Desikan Sundararajan, Team Lead for Statoil’s Research & Technology group. “Furthermore, this level of automation will also provide operators with active real-time monitoring of wells and likely reduce the number of site visits, thereby minimizing Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) risks.”
“Despite the uncertainty in the oil and gas market, we’ve seen several themes hold constant over many cycles in the industry,” said Ryan Gurney, Managing Partner of Cottonwood Venture Partners. “The need for improving operational efficiency through the application of advanced technologies is now more important than ever. We are just at the beginning of seeing what artificial intelligence, data science and distributed sensor networks can do to disru
pt the status quo. Ambyint has emerged as a leader in the segment by delivering cutting-edge solutions to its customers.”
Source: PRWeb
by sadmin | Sep 15, 2017 | 2017, Award, education, microsoft, partner, SSB, U.S., winner
As it continues to help education institutions manage and structure data from all sources to address the important issues of constituent and internal engagement, full lifecycle management, and consistency in communications, SSB today proudly announced it has won the Microsoft
US Public Sector 2017 Partner of the Year Award. Microsoft’s US Public Sector 2017 Partner of the Year Award recognizes SSB for exemplary commitment to Microsoft and to the Education field.
“This is a great honor and reflects the effort and expertise SSB has brought to the evolution of utilizing a robust approach to managing data to drive results in the Education category,” said SSB Senior Partner Bryan Smith. “The foundational data platform SSB has created and optimized for Education is enhanced by the power of Microsoft Azure.”
Winners were chosen from more than 100 organizations across the US Public Sector segment areas they serve.
The Microsoft US Public Sector 2017 Partner of the Year Awards honor partners that have demonstrated business excellence in delivering Microsoft solutions to multiple customers over the past year. This award recognizes SSB as succeeding in effective engagement with its local Microsoft office while showcasing innovation and business impact, driving customer satisfaction, and winning new customers.
SSB helps Higher Education institutions achieve a higher level of engagement with their varied audiences by capturing, standardizing, cleaning, integrating, and reporting on data that is combined from any number of disparate sources and structured for use by any number of outputs, such as automated marketing, email management, operational evaluations, and much more. This creates active and actionable business intelligence that allows the institution to ensure that it is delivering the right message, at the right time, to the right person, while also improving the speed and quality of decision making, eliminating communication silos, and aligning goals and metrics.
“The 2017 Public Sector Partner of the Year Award winners represent the most innovative and transformative work being done across our partner community, serving the mission of customers across US Government and Education.” said Gail Thomas, Vice President, US Public Sector, Microsoft. “We are honored to recognize SSB as a recipient of Microsoft’s US Public Sector 2017 Partner of the Year Award.”
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.
by sadmin | Sep 11, 2017 | America, Dynamic, Hitachi, Sponser, Summit
Hitachi Solutions America, a leading provider of global industry solutions based on
Microsoft Dynamics, is pleased to announce its gold-level sponsorship of the 2017 Dynamics 365 CRM and
AX User Group Summits in Nashville from October 10-13. At Booth #918, Hitachi Solutions America will discuss how organizations can navigate their digital transformation journey with Dynamics 365 and Hitachi Solutions’ industry-leading solutions.
The annual User Group Summit provides a forum for professionals across the User Group to collaborate and share ideas. Attendees gain exclusive access to customized content, best practices, networking opportunities, and the opportunity to dig into the latest version of Dynamics 365 and even
Dynamics AX, and
CRM.
“We are thrilled to have sponsored the User Group Summit for over a decade,” said Tom Galambos, President at Hitachi Solutions America, Ltd. “The annual User Group Summit provides an unrivaled opportunity for attendees, sponsors, and innovators to stay on the cutting-edge of industry trends through collaboration and educational opportunities.”
This year, Hitachi Solutions America is sharing expertise and insight into the Microsoft Cloud platform, including Microsoft Dynamics 365, CRM AX, Analytics IoT, Ecommerce and Managed Services under the slogan “Let Hitachi Solutions be your Most Valuable Partner.”
Hitachi Solutions America recently collaborated with Nucleus Research, a global provider of investigative, case-based technology research and advisory services, to develop an
ROI Calculator for Dynamics 365. For attendees curious about what financial impact Dynamics 365 would have on their business, the ROI Calculator helps show the business value of a potential Dynamics 365 implementation. Hitachi Solutions America will have team members on hand at Booth #918 to walk through the ROI Calculator, discuss the results, and answer any questions.
Another solution that will be highlighted at the User Group Summit is the
IoT Predictive Service Hub. The solution, built on proven Microsoft technologies including Dynamics 365 Field Service, Azure IoT Suite, Power BI and R integrated with SQL Server, helps organizations transform the maintenance optimization process from one of repair and replace to predict and fix.
Hitachi Solutions America also provides
Hitachi Solutions Ecommerce, a powerful, end-to-end ecommerce and web store solution that seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales and Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, in addition to Dynamics GP, NAV, and SL. Customers receive a unified shopping experience whether they access the web store on a desktop or mobile device. Hitachi Solutions Ecommerce offers a comprehensive set of Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) capabilities that increase online sales while lowering operation costs.
