Day: August 3, 2021

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Synchronoss Personal Cloud Solution Selected for Integration into Japan’s Kitamura Online and Retail Channels

New partnership will allow Japanese retailer to offer content storage as it seeks to digitize more of its services

BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Aug. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNCR), a global leader and innovator of cloud, messaging and digital solutions, today announced that Kitamura, a Japanese multimedia retailer, has selected the Synchronoss Personal Cloud solution for integration into its online and retail channel. The addition of personal cloud will give Kitamura’s online and retail customers the ability to back up and manage their valuable digital content, including photos and videos, from any device.

Kitamura is one of Japan’s leading retailers offering image-related services and products, including cameras, photo printing, video dubbing, photo studio, photo books and so on. The retailer has over 1,000 retail locations across the country with over 20 million paying visitors each year and approximately 10 million consumers registered in its online services. Through this integration, Kitamura will be able to provide seamless online and retail experience with the new white-label personal cloud offering.

“We are excited to be partnering with Synchronoss to integrate its personal cloud solutions across our online and retail channels,” said Hajime Yanagisawa, Managing Executive Officer, Kitamura. “We have always been committed to bringing customers’ memories to life through the medium of photography, and this cloud offering is the next step in not only enabling our customers to enjoy their memories but to also store, organize and manage them safely and securely. We’re looking forward to bringing this new service to our customers as we continue our journey towards digitizing our offering.”

Synchronoss’ white-label personal cloud has been adopted by mobile operators and other companies across the globe. The solution gives their customers a safe, secure cloud experience and the ability to store and sync digital content – a key to building brand loyalty and customer satisfaction in an increasingly online world. It also delivers to those organizations the flexibility to quickly add additional value-added services that strengthen the bottom line.

Anthony Socci, President of Synchronoss International, said he is delighted to be working with Kitamura on its new cloud offering. “This cloud solution will be instrumental to Kitamura as it increases its digital touchpoints and seeks to create new revenue streams beyond its traditional printing and camera retail business. We look forward to collaborating with Kitamura as it brings new, innovative services to its customers,” he said.

To learn more about Synchronoss cloud solutions, visit synchronoss.com/solutions/cloud.

About Synchronoss
Synchronoss Technologies (NASDAQ: SNCR) builds software that empowers companies around the world to connect with their subscribers in trusted and meaningful ways. The company’s collection of products helps streamline networks, simplify onboarding, and engage subscribers to unleash new revenue streams, reduce costs and increase speed to market. Hundreds of millions of subscribers trust Synchronoss products to stay in sync with the people, services and content they love. That’s why more than 1,500 talented Synchronoss employees worldwide strive each day to reimagine a world in sync. Learn more at www.synchronoss.com

About Kitamura
Kitamura is a leading company of photographic and video-related products and services in Japan. The company owns Japan’s largest in-house laboratories (photo and video processing factories) and delivers its services and products via more than 1,000 retail stores nationwide and online. It’s the company’s mission to provide services to shape customer memories not only at that moment but also for decades to come, restore photos, and revive precious memories.

Media Contacts

For Synchronoss: Anais Merlin, CCgroup, E: synchronoss@ccgrouppr.com

Investor Contact
For Synchronoss: Todd Kehrli/Joo-Hun Kim, MKR Investor Relations, Inc., E: investor@synchronoss.com

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Laserfiche lance un package d’automatisation des processus d’entreprise pour soutenir la réouverture numérique post-pandémie des organisations

LONDRES, 3 août 2021/PRNewswire/ — Laserfiche – principal fournisseur SaaS de gestion intelligente de contenu et d’automatisation des processus d’entreprise – a annoncé aujourd’hui l’introduction d’un package Digital Reopening de modèles de processus préconstruits visant à soutenir les efforts des organisations pour restaurer, récupérer, réimaginer et reconstruire le travail dans un monde post-pandémique.

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Le nouveau package est une extension d’une collection existante de plus de 100 modèles de solutions qui permettent aux utilisateurs de Laserfiche de télécharger des diagrammes de processus, des flux de travail, des champs de modèles et des rapports, qui peuvent tous être configurés pour répondre aux exigences opérationnelles spécifiques d’une organisation pour un déploiement rapide de la solution.

Linda Ding, directrice principale du marketing stratégique chez Laserfiche, a déclaré : « Laserfiche s’est engagé à soutenir les organisations de tous les secteurs d’activité dans leur réponse rapide à la pandémie. Nous avons travaillé avec des clients innovants, des leaders de l’industrie et des partenaires technologiques pour développer des modèles de flux de travail à faible code qui peuvent être déployés rapidement, dans le but d’accroître l’accessibilité des services et la visibilité des procédures de sécurité lorsque les employés, les clients, les étudiants et les électeurs en ont le plus besoin, et de redonner du temps aux dirigeants des organisations pour qu’ils se concentrent sur le bien-être de leurs communautés et l’avenir de leur entreprise. »

Le package comprend trois catégories d’automatisation des processus que les utilisateurs peuvent utiliser dans des contextes variés : intervention d’urgence à court terme, modernisation des flux de travail à moyen terme et transformation numérique à long terme. Les premières de ces nouvelles solutions sont disponibles dès maintenant, et des versions supplémentaires sont prévues pour août et octobre 2021. La version initiale comprend les solutions suivantes :

  • Le rapport quotidien des symptômes des employés permet un dépistage plus rapide des employés et favorise la sécurité au travail. La solution permet aux employés de soumettre un rapport quotidien de symptômes en ligne avant de commencer à travailler pour la journée. Un représentant des ressources humaines est averti par courrier électronique si un employé a une température élevée, signale des symptômes ou a été en contact avec une personne diagnostiquée avec le COVID-19. Ces employés sont alors informés par un e-mail automatisé qu’ils doivent rester chez eux et se reposer ou qu’il leur est recommandé de travailler à distance.
  • L’enquête sur l’expérience du travail à domicile soutient les efforts continus des employeurs pour surveiller le bien-être des employés qui travaillent à distance. Les employeurs peuvent utiliser cette solution d’enquête pour évaluer dans quelle mesure leurs employés s’adaptent au travail à domicile, ce qui fonctionne bien et ce qui pourrait être amélioré. Les questions de l’enquête peuvent être facilement adaptées aux besoins de l’organisation.
  • Le suivi de l’inventaire et la demande d’équipement permettent aux équipes informatiques de suivre le matériel fourni aux employés distants et de gérer l’inventaire des équipements. Pour suivre le matériel initialement utilisé au bureau, les employés fournissent les informations associées à leur matériel, comme le numéro d’identification de l’appareil, via un formulaire électronique. Ce formulaire peut également être utilisé pour demander du matériel supplémentaire. Lorsqu’une demande de matériel supplémentaire est soumise, un représentant informatique est automatiquement désigné pour attribuer le matériel à l’employé.
  • Le questionnaire de retour au travail permet aux employeurs de recueillir les informations nécessaires, telles que les symptômes des employés et le calendrier de retour au travail prévu, afin d’informer et de soutenir la stratégie de réouverture de l’entreprise. Sur la base des réponses des employés, ceux-ci peuvent être affectés à une cohorte ou à une phase spécifique qui s’aligne sur les conseils des autorités sanitaires locales, correspond à votre stratégie de réouverture et permet à votre organisation de gérer la capacité des bureaux.
  • La demande de congé COVID-19  permet de se conformer à la loi Families First Coronavirus Response Act, qui prévoit que les employés bénéficient d’un congé de maladie payé ou d’un congé médical et familial étendu pour des raisons liées au COVID-19. Un employé peut soumettre une demande de congé par le biais d’un formulaire en ligne ; elle est ensuite automatiquement assignée à un représentant des ressources humaines pour examen et approbation. Un e-mail automatique informe l’employé de l’approbation ou du refus de sa demande.

En plus de permettre le déploiement rapide de solutions automatisées, le package Digital Reopening donne aux organisations les outils pour suivre les demandes et traiter les données, ce qui permet une optimisation continue. Des organisations du monde entier ont tiré parti de Laserfiche tout au long de la pandémie, en développant une infrastructure informatique et des plans de continuité des activités robustes, et en transformant l’expérience numérique des employés et des clients lors de perturbations majeures. Pour en savoir plus sur la façon dont les organisations ont utilisé Laserfiche tout au long de la pandémie et dans la planification de l’avenir, visitez la page de ressource Digital Reopening de Laserfiche.

Notes à l’intention des rédacteurs

À propos de Laserfiche

Laserfiche est le principal fournisseur de logiciels à la demande offrant des solutions de gestion intelligente du contenu et d’automatisation des processus opérationnels. Grâce à de puissants flux opérationnels, à des formulaires électroniques ainsi qu’à la gestion et l’analyse de documents, la plate-forme Laserfiche® accélère les processus d’affaires, ce qui permet aux dirigeants de se concentrer sur la croissance globale de leur entreprise.

Laserfiche est une pionnière en matière de gestion du contenu des entreprises pour éliminer l’utilisation du papier au bureau. Aujourd’hui, son approche de développement axée sur le cloud intègre les innovations en matière d’apprentissage machine et d’IA, afin de permettre aux entreprises de plus de 80 pays de passer au numérique. Les clients issus de tous les horizons – gouvernement, éducation, services financiers, soins de santé, fabrication – font appel à Laserfiche pour accroître leur productivité, prendre de l’expansion et offrir des expériences client axées sur le numérique.

Basés dans différents bureaux aux quatre coins du globe, les employés de Laserfiche s’engagent à réaliser la vision de l’entreprise : renforcer l’autonomie des clients et inspirer les gens à repenser comment la technologie peut transformer leurs vies.

Pour communiquer avec Laserfiche :

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Laserfiche launches business process automation package to support organisations’ post-pandemic digital reopening

LONDON, Aug. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Laserfiche — the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation — has today announced the introduction of a Digital Reopening package of prebuilt process templates aimed at supporting organisations’ efforts to restore, recover, reimagine, and rebuild work in a post-pandemic world.

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The new package is an expansion to an existing collection of over 100 solution templates that allow Laserfiche users to download process diagrams, workflows, template fields and reports, all of which can be configured to fit an organisation’s specific operational requirements for rapid solution deployment.

Linda Ding, senior director of strategic marketing at Laserfiche said: “Laserfiche is committed to supporting organisations across industries in their quick response to recovery from the pandemic. We worked with innovative customers, industry leaders and technology partners to develop this package’s low-code workflow templates that can be deployed quickly, with the goal of increasing accessibility of services and visibility into safety procedures when employees, customers, students and constituents need them most; and reclaiming time for organisational leaders to focus on the well-being of their communities, and the future of their enterprise.”

The package includes three categories of process automation users can utilise for a variety of contexts: short-term emergency response, medium-term workflow modernisation, and long-term digital transformation. The first of these new solutions are available now, with additional releases planned for August and October 2021. The initial release includes the following solutions:

  • Daily employee symptom report enables faster pre-screening for employees and supports continued safety at work. The solution allows employees to submit a daily symptom report online before starting work for the day. A human resources representative is notified by email if an employee has an elevated temperature, reports any symptoms or has come in contact with anyone diagnosed with COVID-19. These employees are then notified via automated email to stay home and rest or are recommended to work remotely.
  • Work from home experience survey supports employers’ ongoing effort to monitor employee well-being while working remotely. Employers can use this survey solution to assess how well their employees are adjusting to working from home, what works well, and what could be improved. Survey questions can be easily tailored to organisational needs.
  • Inventory tracking and equipment request enables IT teams to track hardware provided to remote employees and manage equipment inventory. To track hardware originally used in-office, employees provide information associated with their hardware, like device ID number, via an electronic form. The form can also be used to request additional equipment. When a request is submitted for additional hardware, an IT representative is automatically designated to assign equipment to the employee.
  • Return to work questionnaire allows employers to collect needed information such as employee symptoms and intended return to work schedule to inform and support organisation’s reopening strategy. Based on employee answers, they can be assigned to a specific cohort or phase that aligns with guidance from local health officials, corresponds to your reopening strategy and enables your organisation to manage in-office capacity.
  • COVID-19 time-off request helps support compliance with the Families First Coronavirus Response Act to provide employees with paid sick leave or expanded medical and family leave for reasons related to COVID-19. An employee can submit a time-off request via an online form; it is then automatically assigned to a human resources representative for review and approval. An automated email notifies the employee whether the request is approved or denied.

In addition to enabling the rapid deployment of automated solutions, the Digital Reopening package gives organisations the tools to track requests and process data, allowing for continuous optimisation. Organisations around the world have leveraged Laserfiche throughout the pandemic, developing robust IT infrastructure and business continuity plans, and transforming the digital experience for employees and customers during major disruptions. To learn more about how organisations have used Laserfiche throughout the pandemic and in planning for the future, visit Laserfiche’s Digital Reopening Resource Page.

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About Laserfiche

Laserfiche is the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation. Through powerful workflows, electronic forms, document management and analytics, the Laserfiche® platform accelerates how business gets done, enabling leaders to focus on growth across the enterprise.

Laserfiche pioneered the paperless office with enterprise content management. Today, Laserfiche’s cloud-first development approach incorporates innovations in machine learning and AI to enable organisations in more than 80 countries to transform into digital businesses. Customers in every industry — including government, education, financial services, healthcare and manufacturing — use Laserfiche to boost productivity, scale their business and deliver digital-first customer experiences.

Laserfiche employees in offices around the world are committed to the company’s vision of empowering customers and inspiring people to reimagine how technology can transform lives.

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Nigerian Doctors Strike Amid Coronavirus Third Wave

ABUJA, NIGERIA – Doctors in Nigeria’s state-run hospitals have walked off the job over what they call poor salaries, insurance, and facilities despite a third wave of coronavirus infections. Hospitals were already struggling to cope with the caseload and health authorities fear the strike, which began Monday, could overwhelm them and end up costing lives.

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, or NARD, said the goal is to compel the government to uphold an earlier agreement on pay arrears, hazard allowances and honor benefits for families of members who die in service to the country. The government, for its part, said it was not aware of the plan for the doctors to go on strike.

But as the country faces a third coronavirus wave caused by the lethal delta variant, health authorities said the strike action is dangerous.

 

Ndaeyo Iwot is the executive secretary at the Abuja Primary Health Care Board.

“It is expected to affect those that are 50 years and above particularly those with co-morbidities,” Iwot said. “The effect of the disease is most likely to be aggravated.”

Out of about 42,000 registered doctors in Nigeria, some 16,800 or 40%, are residents.

Union officials have said there will be no exception for doctors responding to coronavirus cases at hospitals.

Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi is the national president of the association.

“There’s no better time to have a strike action,” Okhuaihesuyi said. “And as it stands, we have waited patiently for them to try and sort out the issues concerning the welfare of our members, those we lost, those that are still alive. And we actually want to apologize to Nigerians generally but at this stage you can’t blame us.”

Nineteen members of NARD have died since the pandemic started. The union is also demanding improvement on health care facilities across state-run centers.

In April, the union suspended a 10-day strike that stalled activities in various state health facilities.

The latest strike action comes as President Muhammadu Buhari visits Britain for medical reasons. He is expected to return to Nigeria during the second week of August.

 

 

Source: Voice of America

 

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Biggest US Food Company Mandates Coronavirus Vaccinations

WASHINGTON – Tyson Foods, the biggest U.S. food company, said Tuesday it is requiring all its employees to be fully vaccinated, joining a growing list of employers who are making vaccination a condition of further employment.

For months, Tyson said it has encouraged its 139,000 workers to get vaccinated, but to date only about 56,000 have been inoculated.

“We did not take this decision lightly,” Donnie King, Tyson’s president and chief executive, said of the mandatory vaccination requirement.

“We take this step today because nothing is more important than our team members’ health and safety, and we thank them for the work they do, every day, to help us feed this country, and our world,” he said in a letter to Tyson workers.

Under the Arkansas-based company’s policy, Tyson workers at its U.S. locations must be vaccinated by October 1, with workers at its foreign locations vaccinated by November 1, although it plans to make exceptions to the directive for legitimate medical or religious reasons.

After individual workers are vaccinated, Tysons said it would pay them a $200 bonus, similar to what some other companies are doing to encourage vaccinations.

The U.S. meat-packing industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, with critics saying Tyson, among others, has not done enough to protect its workers. Early in the pandemic last year, Tyson was forced to close some of its meat processing plants because of an outbreak of the virus.

The federal government said in May it was legal for employers to require their workers to get vaccinated.

As the virus seemed to be a diminished threat weeks ago, many companies started to make plans to reopen offices and there was little talk of requiring mandatory vaccinations.

Now, with the surging spread of the highly transmissible delta variant of the virus, major employers by the day are requiring vaccinations before employees can return to offices in the coming weeks.

U.S. President Joe Biden ordered more than 2 million federal workers to get vaccinated, without threatening to fire them if they did not. But he said they would be required to undergo frequent testing for the virus if they refused to get inoculated.

“Unlike a year ago, we have the ability to save lives and keep our economy growing,” Biden said Monday on Twitter. “We know we can dramatically lower the cases in the country. We can do this. Get vaccinated.”

The number of vaccinations in the U.S. had dropped for weeks, but with the spread of the delta variant, first discovered in India, the number of inoculations is on the rise again, to about 800,000 on Sunday.

But so are the number of new infections, to about 85,000 a day in the last week, up from about 10,000 daily a month ago. Some analysts say the number of new daily cases could reach 300,000 this month.

With the surge in the new cases, numerous companies have ordered their employees to get vaccinated, including the search engine company Google, social media company Facebook, the movie supply company Netflix, giant retailer Walmart, clothier Saks Fifth Avenue, The Washington Post newspaper, financial firms BlackRock and Morgan Stanley and ride share companies Uber and Lyft.

Major U.S. medical professional groups have called for mandatory vaccinations, but millions of health workers remain unvaccinated, with many workers resisting.

On Monday, the U.S. said it reached a new milestone, with 70% of all adults having at least one vaccination shot of the typical two-shot regimen, a figure achieved a month after the July 4 Independence Day goal that Biden had called for.

The government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that not quite half of the country’s total population of 332 million people has been fully vaccinated.

 

 

 

Source: Voice of America

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Don’t miss Australia’s largest Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual art event

Digital DAAF, 2020

Photo by Dylan Buckee

DARWIN, Australia, Aug. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) will open Friday 6 August via its cutting-edge digital platform, connecting audiences around the world with Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander creatives.

Presented by Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation (DAAFF), now in its 15th year, the DAAF program will run from 6-11 August. The program features a highly anticipated digital art fair and an online Public Program that includes artist masterclasses and artists talks.

George Tjungurrayi Ward, Tingarri, acrylic on linen, 300x760mm 2021

Image courtesy of Warakurna Artists

DAAFF will also showcase two First Nations fashion events including the annual National Indigenous Fashion Awards (NIFA) and the winner announcement will be live streamed across NITV’s social media channels on 3 August, direct from the Darwin Convention Centre, Australia. The vibrant Country to Couture runway will also be presented on 4 August.

DAAF is internationally celebrated as a world-class program and pays homage to the world’s oldest living culture. It is the only event of its kind that connects artists, performers and Art Centres from Australia’s most remote regions with domestic and international audiences, eager to snap up stunning and authentic works.

DAAFF Executive Director, Claire Summers says the program generates significant flow-on benefits for Australia’s Indigenous communities, where 100 per cent of the sales from each artwork is returned to Art Centres, the artists and their communities.

Rita and Monica Watson at Ninuku Arts

Photo by Meg Hansen

“We are honoured to be able to profile over 70 Indigenous owned Art Centres and open up the rich storytelling, culture, and history behind these works of art,” says Ms Summers.

Commenting on the decision to pivot from a physical event to an online strategy, Ms Summers adds, “We’ve already had overwhelming interest in our Public Program, with many of the workshops at capacity. Last year we welcomed the largest global audience we have ever seen thanks to our digital offering.”

DAAF connects Indigenous and non-Indigenous art and culture audiences through its unique event to celebrate the vibrant heritage of Australian First Nations Peoples, providing an important meeting place for artists and designers to share stories and traditions through their chosen medium.

The DAAF program includes:

  • Tuesday 3 August |National Indigenous Fashion Awards (NIFA)
  • Wednesday 4 August | Country to Couture
  • 6-11 August | 15th Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF)

For access to the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, register daaf.com.au/art-fair-2021

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