Advanced Technology Development Center Seeks AgeTech Applicants for Fall 2021 ATDC Venture Showcase
Twelve Georgia-based companies focused on solutions for senior citizens will be featured on a virtual platform used by investors.
Aptos Advances European Growth Strategy with Appointment of Thilo Freund as General Manager EMEA
Business Process Management | Cloud | CX | International Business
Aptos recently appoints Thilo Freund as General Manager EMEA, allowing advances in the European Growth Strategy. With in-depth experience in technology, Freund represents the most recent top-tier software executive hired by Aptos. This progression in the Aptos executive team strengthens their presence in EMEA and all other regions as well.
Four Finalists Ready to Compete When CodeLaunch Visits Atlanta
Business Process Management | Corporate Development
CodeLaunch announced its four Finalists who have competed in a month’s long competition for the first-ever CodeLaunch outside of Dallas/Ft. Worth. The CodeLaunch ATL Finalists are competing for a the coveted professional hackathon to accelerate their product development. The event takes place on August 18, 2021.
Blu Jam Café Upgrades Operations with NCR Technology
| Blu Jam Café is changing the way Los Angeles does breakfast – not only with its iconic Crunchy French Toast, but also with a hunger for innovation. The popular breakfast eatery partnered with NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), a leading provider of end-to-end software and technology that runs restaurants, to elevate its customers’ experience with Aloha Essentials. |
University of Georgia Small Business Development Center To Host Google Analytics Webinar
The University of Georgia’s Small Business Development Center will be leading a Using Google Analytics To Make Better Business Decisions webinar on August 26, at 2 p.m., via Zoom. The 1.5-hour class will focus on helping participants utilize Google Analytics, which is a free tool, to understand what is happening on their website. To learn more and register, visit www.georgiasbdc.org/southern or call (912) 651-3200.
Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study
Business Process Management | Cloud | Corporate Development | CX | Data Governance | Data Science & AI | Digital Health | Fintech | Information Security | Infrastructure | Marketing | Media & Entertainment | Product Management | Smart Communities & Sustainablility | Southeastern Software Association | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing | Transportation Tech
Enterprises Can Achieve a 332% ROI Over Three Years When Using WSO2 Identity Server for CIAM According to New Independent Total Economic Impact Study
The independent study highlights how WSO2 Identity Server helps organizations to significantly lower costs, modernize and consolidate their customer identity and access management, save developer time, and accelerate market offerings.
SURELOCK TECHNOLOGY WELCOMES VICE PRESIDENT OF ENGINEERING!
Cloud | Digital Health | Education/STEM | Information Security | Infrastructure
SureLock Technology is proud to announce and welcome Harley Sherrer as the Vice President of Engineering. Harley joins SureLock Technology with over 18 years in the technology industry including sales and services.
Synergis Hires New Executive Vice President of Strategy
Sales Leadership | Workforce Development
| Synergis, an IT and creative staffing agency, is pleased to announce the addition of Tracey Klein to its leadership team. As Executive Vice President, Strategy, Klein will be responsible for the overall growth strategy of the company and planning for the future of its workforce solutions. |
PDI Announced as Program Honoree for ACG Atlanta’s 2021 Georgia Fast 40
Global petroleum and convenience store technology provider is recognized for exceptional
growth and consistent earnings year-over-year
Atlanta-Based SOLTECH Opens News Office in Florida
SOLTECH, an Atlanta-based leader in custom software development, IT staffing, and technology consulting, today announced it will be opening a new office in Florida to accommodate its rapid client growth, and regional demand for staffing and software development solution services.
Growth and innovation of Fintech in Georgia highlighted in 2021 TAG Fintech Ecosystem Report
More than 200 fintech companies, 39,000+ employees
$400 million+ invested in Georgia’s fintech community in 2021
STEM Careers Plentiful in Georgia, But Talent Pipeline Running Dry
Web series to highlight solutions for success in tech economy
WSO2 Acquires Platformer to Extend Kubernetes Capabilities of Choreo Next-Generation Integration Platform as a Service
Blockchain | Business Process Management | Cloud | Corporate Development | CX | Data Governance | Data Science & AI | Fintech | Information Security | Infrastructure | International Business | Marketing | Media & Entertainment | Product Management | Smart Communities & Sustainablility | Southeastern Software Association | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing | Transportation Tech
Platformer Console for speeding Kubernetes deployments complements Choreo iPaaS capabilities for rapidly delivering cloud native apps, APIs, and digital services.
WSO2 Introduces Choreo, a Next-Generation Integration Platform as a Service for Cloud Native Engineering Using the Choreo iPaaS, now in public beta, developers can engineer in low-code and code simultaneously; build, test and deploy in Kubernetes; manage APIs; share them in a marketplace; and observe performance—all within hours not weeks
Blockchain | Business Process Management | Cloud | Corporate Development | CX | Data Governance | Data Science & AI | Digital Health | Fintech | Information Security | Infrastructure | International Business | Media & Entertainment | Product Management | Southeastern Software Association | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing | Transportation Tech
| Enterprises worldwide are accelerating their digital transformation initiatives, with many starting years earlier than originally planned. But, too often, these initiatives are hampered by the lack of deep technical expertise required to get projects off the ground and deliver digital products and solutions. WSO2 addresses this challenge with today’s introduction of Choreo, the new integration platform as a service (iPaaS) for cloud native engineering. |
8 Things You Should Be Doing to Prevent Ransomware Attacks
Business Process Management | Cloud | Data Governance | Data Science & AI | Fintech | Information Security | Infrastructure | Southeastern Software Association | Young Professionals
| By: Karl Bickmore, CEO, Snap Tech IT
If you’re not concerned about the risk of ransomware, then I wonder what deserted island you’re on. Ransomware is so prevalent that businesses should take all the necessary precautions available to them. To help you out, we’ve listed the top 8 ways you can protect your business network from ransomware attacks: |
How to Leverage Amazon Prime Day in the B to B World
CX | Marketing | Sales Leadership
Liger Partners provides marketing tips on how to leverage Amazon Prime Day as a business.
Top Ways to Measure Managed Service Provider Transparency
Business Process Management | Cloud | Data Governance | Digital Health | Fintech | Information Security | Infrastructure | Southeastern Software Association | Young Professionals
| By: Shawn Brown, COO, Snap Tech IT
The ability to make sound strategic business decisions is at the core of every business owner. For that to happen, business owners must secure the flexibility to thoughtfully plan and prioritize their next move. That’s tough to do when you when the expertise isn’t in your back pocket, coupled with the inability to see IT challenges on the horizon. Partnering with a Managed Service Provider should offer a level of transparency that can be seen in the way strategic business decisions are made. While expertise is an integral component to consider when selecting an MSP, it’s not the only factor that should drive your decision. Dig deep to find the level of transparency with your MSP that will garner a trusting relationship while positioning your business for success. |
Swan Lake Beta Release of Ballerina Programming Language Lowers Barriers to Delivering Cloud-Native Applications
Blockchain | Business Process Management | Cloud | Corporate Development | CX | Data Governance | Data Science & AI | Digital Health | Fintech | Information Security | Infrastructure | International Business | Marketing | Media & Entertainment | Product Management | Smart Communities & Sustainablility | Southeastern Software Association | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing | Transportation Tech
Santa Clara, CA – June 2, 2021 – Increasingly enterprises are turning to cloud-native applications that integrate APIs, events, data, microservices, serverless apps, and other digital assets throughout their organizations and across the ecosystems in which they participate. Ballerina is the open-source language for cloud-native programming and integration designed to support these organizations with a unique bidirectional mapping of sequence diagrams and code. The new Swan Lake Beta release, available today, radically simplifies how developers build and deploy cloud-native applications through an intuitive syntax for developing services and APIs, seamless JSON support, and built-in concurrency control.
PDI Innovation Connects the Convenience and Petroleum Industry Ecosystem
The company reduces complexities by enabling automation and better customer experience
The ABM Agency Continues 2021 Growth, Welcomes 3 New Hires
The ABM Agency has experienced growth well into the second quarter of the year, hiring three new employees in May.
Georgia State to Offer Online Master of Actuarial Science Program in Fall 2021
| Starting fall 2021, the Department of Risk Management & Insurance at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business will offer its highly regarded Master of Actuarial Science (MAS) degree online, allowing working professionals from any location to study at the school ranked first in North America for actuarial science research. |
FLEETCOR® Completes AFEX Cross-Border Acquisition
| FLEETCOR Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FLT), a leading global business payments company, today completed the acquisition of Associated Foreign Exchange (AFEX), an international cross-border payments provider. By acquiring AFEX, FLEETCOR® builds upon its corporate payments line of business and strengthens its position as one of the largest global business payment companies in the world. |
WSO2 Hosts CIAM Roundtable Webinar to Discuss Modern Customer Identity and Access Management Trends, Challenges, and Solutions
Blockchain | Business Process Management | Cloud | Corporate Development | CX | Data Governance | Fintech | Information Security | International Business | Southeastern Software Association | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing | Transportation Tech | Young Professionals
WSO2, the leader in digital transformation technology, announced its plans to host a roundtable webinar on the current state of customer identity and access management (CIAM) applications, existing challenges, and innovative solutions to overcome them. The virtual roundtable will take place on June 17, 2021, at 10:30 AM IST / 01:00 PM SGT. It will feature a panel of distinguished multi-disciplinary experts and senior management from the telecommunications and banking sectors. The registration page can be accessed at https://wso2.com/webinar/ciam-trend-chat-apac.
Colonial Pipeline Cyber-Attack: Understanding the Threat
Business Process Management | Cloud | Data Governance | Devops | Fintech | Information Security | Mobility | Southeastern Software Association | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing | Transportation Tech | Young Professionals
By: Shawn Brown, COO, Snap Tech IT
With the recent fallout surrounding the Colonial Pipeline cyber-attack felt across much of the country, I think it’s important that businesses embrace key takeaways on the techniques used in this attack and heighten our sense of awareness to detect when things are going wrong in our environment. Educating ourselves on the many shared techniques of these criminal groups, like DarkSide, will serve as an added layer of protection to our IT environments, and in many cases, our infrastructure as a whole.
Qoppa PDF Processing API Now Available on Rapid API
Business Process Management | Cloud | Product Management | Young Professionals
| Qoppa PDF Processing API is now available on Rapid API.
See how this makes it easier to connect to Qoppa’s hosted document services and start processing & converting PDF documents more efficiently! |
WSO2 Announces Free Linux Systems Administration and DevOps Engineering Training Program
Cloud | Corporate Development | Data Science & AI | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | Education/STEM | Fintech | Southeastern Software Association | Workforce Development | Young Professionals
| Aimed at closing the skills gap, the company commits to a program that builds foundational digital skills by providing access to high-quality computer science training resources. |
Global Atlanta-based Fintech PPRO announces new appointments to executive and leadership teams, preps for another year of hypergrowth
Following rapid expansion spurred on by a global e-commerce boom, PPRO is announcing the appointment of newly created roles to its executive and leadership teams. Chief Commercial Officer, Claire Gates, and Senior Vice President of Banking and Payments Strategy, Tony Glasby, have joined PPRO just weeks after a second major investment announcement headlined by new investors JPMorgan Chase & Co. In addition to the newly created executive and leadership roles, PPRO will also be welcoming Jean Christian Mies to the executive team as the General Manager for Latin America.
Arun Rai Appointed Inaugural Holder of Howard S. Starks Distinguished Chair at Robinson College of Business
Arun Rai, Regents’ Professor of the University System of Georgia and co-founder and director of the Center for Digital Innovation at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business, is the inaugural holder of the Howard S. Starks Distinguished Chair. The appointment was approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on April 13
Technical Project Engineer-Are Your Technical Skills Being Challenged in a Fulfilling Career?
Business Process Management | Cloud | Data Governance | Fintech | Information Security | Southeastern Software Association | Supply Chain, Logistics & Manufacturing | Young Professionals
Challenge. Growth Opportunities. Work hard, play hard culture. Not the current state of affairs? If you’re looking to expand your skills & take your IT career to the next level in an environment brimming with opportunity, collaboration & access to ongoing training & development, read on to see what people are saying about Snap Tech IT.
