Nolan Transportation Group Appoints Geoff Kelley As President To Lead Next Phase of Growth

Corporate Development | Sales Leadership | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing | Transportation Tech

Nolan Transportation Group (NTG), one of the largest and fastest-growing non-asset truckload freight brokerages and provider of third-party logistics services in North America, announced veteran logistics industry executive Geoff Kelley will join the company as president.

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NCR to Provide Digital Connected Services to Ahold Delhaie to Increase Store and IT Availability

Fintech

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the global enterprise technology provider for the retail, banking and hospitality industries, and Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest grocery retailers, today announced a five-year services contract to transform support for the retailer’s stores in the Netherlands.

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Ahold Delhaize to Increase Store and IT Availability with NCR Digital Connected Services

Fintech

NCR Corporation, the global enterprise technology provider for the retail, banking and hospitality industries, and Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest grocery retailers, today announced a five-year services contract to transform support for the retailer’s stores in the Netherlands.

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Envistacom Partners with Dispersive Networks to Deliver Ultra-Secure Connectivity Through a “Dispersive™ Virtual Network” (DVN) Cloud

Marketing

Dispersive Networks Virtual Network offers a highly secure alternative to traditional point-to-point VPNs with the ancillary benefit of faster delivery of real-time data.

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Gimme Announces Major Upgrade of Flagship DEX Adapter with Gimme Key Pro

Data Governance | Data Science & Analytics | Southeastern Software Association | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing

Engineered for Advanced DSD Applications, Gimme Key Pro Will Offer the Ability to Recharge With Expected Lifetime Over Twice That of Original

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VoiceNation Partners with the Virtual Phone App Ninja Number to Provide Enhanced Live Answering Services 

Southeastern Software Association

VoiceNation, a nationwide, industry-leading provider of voice services, has announced today a partnership with a virtual phone system app, Ninja Number. VoiceNation specializes in offering personalized 24/7 answering services, including weekends and holidays, while Ninja Number creates a business phone number on users’ smartphones.

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Somerset Trust Company Replaces Legacy Solutions with Alogent’s Enterprise Capture Software Suites for Document, Information and Item Processing

Data Governance | Fintech

Somerset Trust Company, a full-service community bank, has expanded its footprint to include document and check processing with Alogent’s FASTdocs suite of content and information management (ECM / EIM), and its ImagePoint suite for item processing.

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Georgia State’s Arun Rai Receives LEO Award for Lifetime Achievement in Information Systems

Education/STEM

Arun Rai, Regents’ Professor of the University System of Georgia and director of the Center for Digital Innovation at Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business, has received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement, the highest recognition in the field of information systems.

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SaaSOptics Announces Subscription Management Platform for Xero Customers

CX | Fintech

New integration with Xero brings B2B SaaS businesses support for GAAP/IFRS-compliant revenue recognition and the metrics and analytics needed for growth

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Stratix Strengthens its Senior Leadership Team with Three Executive Hires

Mobility

Stratix Corporation (“Stratix”), a leading provider of managed mobility services in the U.S., today announced three strategic hires to its senior leadership team. Brad Ferguson joins Stratix as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Alex Kalish joins as Chief Strategy and Solutions Officer (CSSO) and Kip Wagner as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). As Stratix continues to scale, Ferguson, Kalish and Wagner will support the company’s mission of empowering companies through mobility as the largest, most experienced pure-play managed mobility service provider in North America.

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DHG Welcomes Kate Leverone as Managing Director in Private Equity and Transaction Advisory Practices

Fintech

Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP, a U.S. top 20 public accounting and advisory firm, is pleased to welcome Kate Leverone as a Managing Director in its Private Equity and Transaction Advisory practices.

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Money Mart Enables Mobile Check Cashing to Over One Million Customers with Alogent’s Hosted Mobile Deposit Services

Fintech | Mobility

Alogent announced today that Money Mart Financial Services has implemented its Mobile Check Cashing Service, powered by Alogent’s Mobile Deposit Services (MDS) offering, a fully hosted mobile check acquisition and processing platform.

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Jewel Burks Solomon Named U.S. Head of Google for Startups

Corporate Development | CX

Jewel Burks Solomon has been hired as the first Head of Google for Startups in the U.S. and will be based in the Atlanta office.

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TAG Corporate Development Announces New 2020 Board Leadership & Members

Corporate Development

TAG’s Corporate Development Society is pleased to announce the appointment of new leadership and members to their 2020 Board of Directors.

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Comcast NBCUniversal Launches SportsTech, A Global Accelerator for Sports Technology Startups

Media & Entertainment

SportsTech will feature an unprecedented partnership of three of Comcast NBCUniversal’s sports brands – NBC Sports, Sky Sports and Golf Channel – alongside NASCAR and two US Olympic sports organizations: U.S. Ski & Snowboard and USA Swimming.

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City of College Park Turns to Comcast for Smart City Capabilities

Smart Communities & Sustainablility | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing

The City of College Park announced it has partnered with Comcast to install sensors that will alert the municipality when its trash receptacles are nearing full capacity.

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Windham Brannon Starts 2020 with the Naming of Three New Principals

Fintech

Growing Firm Continues to Develop Top Tax and Accounting Talent

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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and Sharecare team up to empower all Arizonans to improve health and well-being

Digital Health

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona, the state’s largest locally based healthcare insurer, and Atlanta-based digital health company Sharecare announced a strategic partnership to empower every Arizonan, regardless of insurance coverage, to improve their holistic health and well-being. Additionally, this deal provides exclusivity to BCBSAZ as the only Arizona-based health plan to offer the Sharecare platform to members or commercial customer groups.

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Optimizing Placements of Computing Workloads

Cloud

Today, 90% of enterprise-generated data is processed through traditional or cloud data centers. By 2025, Gartner predicts that only 25% of enterprise-generated data will be processed in the same way as computing workloads move to the edge.

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A Smart Buildings Implementation Model for Interdisciplinary Teams

No longer are buildings built to provide just a comfortable location for which to work, live, learn, and heal. Today, buildings are required to deliver secure technology services and engaging, productive experiences to its occupants all while making sure the structure is efficient, reduces costs, and has a lower environmental impact.

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Blue Ridge Announces Date for BLUEPRINT 2020

Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing

Blue Ridge today announced that its user conference, BLUEPRINT 2020, will be held in Atlanta on April 26–28, 2020 at the Omni Hotel at The Battery Atlanta™. BLUEPRINT is a practical, hands-on annual conference for supply chain leaders, managers and users of Blue Ridge solutions that includes over 20 hours of training and development to improve inventory optimization.

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PDI Releases New Study On Evolving Consumer Preferences Towards Loyalty Programs And Rewards Currencies

Cloud | Marketing | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing

The ‘Road to Rewards 2019’ Report Uncovers Changing Consumer Priorities, Retailer Challenges and Mobile Technology Shifts

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“Connected Roads” Lane Markings on The Ray to Improve Driver Safety  & Facilitate Safe Testing of Self-Driving Vehicles  

Infrastructure | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing

All lanes of the 13 miles of Interstate 85, from the Georgia-Alabama border to Exit 13-LaGrange, are now marked with 3M’s Connected Roads All Weather Elements striping technology.

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