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UberMedia, the leading provider of aggregated mobile location data and intelligence, today announced the beta launch of Vista AI, a fully anonymized mobile location intelligence platform that delivers actionable insights to businesses without compromising accuracy or quality. The beta launch of Vista AI coincides with the release of Mobile Location Data University (MLDU), an UberMedia-sponsored online resource center dedicated to educating businesses and consumers on the complexities, uses, and analytic potential of mobile location data. Vista AI is expected to officially launch later this year.

Vista AI builds on UberMedia’s consumer-conscious approach to mobile location data and allows users to better understand consumer behavior and market trends, as well as to assist in site selection and trade area modeling. Backed by UberMedia’s best-in-class accuracy, quality and scale, Vista AI provides businesses with access to tailored, market-level insights regarding their consumers and competitors, while successfully navigating the complexities associated with individual device data.

Vista AI’s simple online interface allows users to easily construct highly customized location queries to find solutions to their business challenges. Using Vista AI’s powerful technology, UberMedia is then able to analyze quickly and return fully anonymized data sets from its vast network of mobile location data suppliers, delivered in a variety of formats, including insight datasets, interactive reports, or even an API.

“We believe mobile location data is best used to analyze trends and aggregate consumer behavior,” said Gladys Kong, CEO of UberMedia. “With the California Consumer Privacy Act coming into effect in 2020, our goal is not only to comply with consumer privacy legislation, but also to give customers the peace of mind that they can still use our platform to answer their business questions with fully anonymized and aggregated insights.”

Additionally, Vista AI offers users access to ‘Market Potential,’ a powerful new feature that captures insights with anonymized and aggregated human movement data from massively pre-processed data. With more accurate modeling and easy-to-use formatting, ‘Market Potential’ helps users identify hidden opportunities by better understanding:

Retail Potential: Information related to the retail potential of residents and workers within the geography;
Dispersion: Pre-processed movement data that identifies patterns of movement into and out of a specific geography;
Pulse Daypart: Count and device density within a geography by hour of day and day of week;
Pulse Trend: Ranking of geographies based on growth in mobile activity over time.
Vista AI expands UberMedia’s leadership in using location intelligence to enhance business strategy for diverse industries, including commercial real estate, retail and tourism.

In addition to announcing the beta launch for Vista AI, UberMedia also announced the launch of Mobile Location Data University (MLDU), the industry’s first online resource center dedicated to educating businesses and consumers on the complexities, uses, and analytic potential of mobile location data. MLDU is sponsored by UberMedia and TSCG Analytics, and includes partners such as Environics Analytics, Miren.co, BI Spatial, and X-Mode.

As an independent, online resource, MLDU will feature educational content contributed by industry leaders, changemakers, and thought leaders to better educate consumers and support professionals working with mobile location data. Through easily accessible lessons in the form of articles, videos, and downloadable documents, MLDU makes learning mobile location data and understanding its potential as simple as possible.

“As the location intelligence market has expanded, the level of noise, misinformation, and misleading marketing claims have grown in parallel to the business opportunities. We heard loud and clear from our customers that there is a pressing need for independent expertise dedicated to providing clarity in this crowded marketplace,” said Gregg Katz, Chief Strategy Officer at TSCG Analytics. He added, “We’re excited that UberMedia also recognized this need and co-sponsored this valuable resource with us. ”

At its release, MLDU includes non-technical educational content that assists analysts, marketers and business managers at various stages of working with mobile location data. From a basic glossary to advanced concepts on trade area modeling, MLDU defines mobile location data, details how to use it, and recommends ways to work with vendors through informative articles explaining what questions to ask mobile location data vendors and how to evaluate their responses.

“From our interactions with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) in the media and marketing industry, we realized that an equivalent need existed in the mobile location data market,” said Kerry Pearce, Chief Product Officer and SVP Engineering at UberMedia. “We take pride in launching MLDU and look forward to continuing to work with our partners and competitors to further the development of an ethical and responsible industry resource.”

For more information on Mobile Location Data University and to view currently published resources, please visit: https://www.mldu.org. To learn more about potential MLDU partnerships and opportunities to contribute content, please contact [email protected]

Retailers are invited to visit UberMedia during RECon 2019 in Las Vegas this week (Booth N1318) to learn more about Vista AI, UberMedia’s complete location intelligence offering, and MLDU.

Source: UberMedia
http://www.ubermedia.com.

Today Deloitte, MIT and Datawheel released the third major update to Data USA, a data visualization platform with more than 400,000 monthly visits. This third update includes a “Viz Builder” tool, which allows users to build custom data visualizations using data from over a dozen U.S. public sources.

Deloitte, MIT and Datawheel Launch New ‘Viz Builder’ in Data USA 3.0, Enabling Users to Create Millions of New Visualizations

Along with this new feature, Data USA releases an improved, open source and scalable design.

Data USA is a free and open, publicly available platform that has become one of the main sources for Americans to access public data. The comprehensive visualization engine integrates, visualizes and distributes publicly available data pulled from multiple public sources, such as the U.S. Department of Education, Census Bureau, Department of Labor, and Department of Health and Human Services.

“The US government produces tons of valuable data every year; however, there are not many tools to make sense of it, fuse it, sift through it, and visualize it, making it inaccessible to all but the most skilled data scientists,” said Matt Gentile, principal, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP and one of the creators of Data USA. “We’re working to close that gap and make that data useful, relevant, and understandable, to those in the public sector, private sector, and the general population. This release will put relatable statistical evidence about the economy, the workforce, public health and education in the hands of everyone to drive basic decisions, such as what the best parts of the country to find a job as a nurse.”

“We’re very excited to unveil the newest installment of Data USA, along with all the new features that come with it,” said Cesar Hidalgo, MIT Media Lab faculty and co-founder of Datawheel. “With this new update, Data USA continues to prove itself to be a flagship project showing what is next in this new wave of open data sites.”

Data USA 3.0 includes more data sets, but also updated features that enable users to more easily visualize public data. Features like the data cart and visualization builder allow users to dig deeper into the data than ever before. For example, users can now visualize the number of people working in an industry that belong to a specific demographic, such as an ethnic group and gender as shown here. This level of depth was not possible in previous versions of Data USA.

The new visualization builder feature allows users to see data differently, creating a consolidated view of useful data on a wide range of topics, such as:

Drug overdose and death rates by county
Customer profiles across geographic regions
Black females working in the software industry by state
Admissions for universities in the Boston-metro area
Deloitte, MIT and Datawheel launched Data USA in April 2016 and have continued to add more data, modify and evolve the platform. In its first year, Data USA delivered more than 2.5 million sessions, with the majority of visitors coming from organic search.

About Deloitte
Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world’s most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500 and more than 5,000 private and middle market companies. Our people work across the industry sectors that drive and shape today’s marketplace to make an impact that matters — delivering measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in our capital markets, inspire clients to see challenges as opportunities to transform and thrive, and help lead the way toward a stronger economy and a healthy society. Deloitte is proud to be part of the largest global professional services network serving our clients in the markets that are most important to them.

About Datawheel
Datawheel is an award winning software company that provides end-to-end digital transformation solutions capable of integrating, distributing, and visualizing multiple streams of data. With multiple clients in the U.S., Chile, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Estonia, among others, Datawheel has become a leader in the development of digital transformation solutions for the public sector.

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As the volume and variety of regulated communications increase, the supervision challenges and risks for financial services organizations (FSOs) only become more complex. To address this, NICE Actimize, a NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) business and the leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, has enhanced its Intelligent eCommunications Surveillance solution with next generation machine learning capabilities, intelligent analytics and investigative tools to strengthen surveillance detection and case management, reduce false alerts, and drive down compliance costs.

While today’s heightened regulatory requirements place greater surveillance demands on FSOs, certain legacy surveillance technology may make the job harder. For example, lexicon-based surveillance systems (which focus on specific words rather than understanding the communications’ context) can overwhelm compliance analysts with false alerts, often leading FSOs to increase staff size to manage this volume. Analysts may also spend inordinate amounts of time manually reconstructing trades and managing investigations. The latest release of NICE Actimize’s intelligent eComms Surveillance solution addresses these challenges with intelligent analytics to improve detection and accuracy.

Chris Wooten, Executive Vice President, NICE, stated: “NICE Actimize is a pioneer in applying machine learning and AI to communications surveillance, and over the past seven years we’ve continued to enhance our capabilities in this area. Many leading financial institutions, both on the buy-side and sell-side, currently leverage our solutions to improve their compliance programs’ detection accuracy, total cost of ownership and efficiency. We’ve also been acknowledged by analyst firms for our robust and comprehensive analytics capabilities and promising roadmap. This newest release of our eCommunications surveillance solution, with its next generation machine learning and our award-winning ActOne investigation and case management solution, brings communications surveillance detection and investigative efficiency to a whole new level.”

In addition to the above benefits, NICE Actimize’s Intelligent eCommunications Surveillance Solution, can:

Reconstruct trades up to fifty times faster (in minutes instead of days or weeks), so analysts spend less time on manual work and more time proactively managing risk.
Reduce the cost of compliance by automating compliance workflows and improving overall efficiency of compliance analysts by up to 80 percent.
Reduce regulatory and business risk by using advanced machine learning techniques and Natural Language Processing (NLP) driven analytics and models to automatically review 100 percent of regulated employee communications.
Achieve full compliance with MiFID II, Dodd-Frank and FX Global Code regulations around communications surveillance.
Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) through intelligent analytics and cloud deployment.
How Intelligent eComms Surveillance Works
The new release of Intelligent eCommunications Surveillance, which adds machine learning classification on top of NICE Actimize’s already robust Natural Language Processing speech and text analytics, enables FSOs to more accurately detect risky communications and extract quote and trade details from communications. As analysts review flagged communications in the ActOne investigation and case management interface, they’re now able to classify those communications based on their relevancy, business topic and asset class. The system then learns from this feedback, to bolster detection accuracy even further.

The ActOne case management platform also applies automation and intelligence to the compliance investigation process. Robotics automate repetitive, manual investigative tasks, while policy-driven workflows guide analysts through each action they need to take. Analysts can also use ActOne to collaborate with team-members, escalate cases, upload documents and notes, and share detailed findings, resulting in significantly streamlined investigations. The system can automatically reconstruct complete trades in minutes, by instantly searching and correlating billions of records across linked data sources (including trades, orders, voice recordings and electronic communications).

About NICE Actimize
NICE Actimize is the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions for regional and global financial institutions, as well as government regulators. Consistently ranked as number one in the space, NICE Actimize experts apply innovative technology to protect institutions and safeguard consumers and investors assets by identifying financial crime, preventing fraud and providing regulatory compliance. The company provides real-time, cross-channel fraud prevention, anti-money laundering detection, and trading surveillance solutions that address such concerns as payment fraud, cybercrime, sanctions monitoring, market abuse, customer due diligence and insider trading. Find us at www.niceactimize.com, @NICE_Actimize or Nasdaq: NICE.

About NICE
NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) is the world’s leading provider of both cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions that empower organizations to make smarter decisions based on advanced analytics of structured and unstructured data. NICE helps organizations of all sizes deliver better customer service, ensure compliance, combat fraud and safeguard citizens. Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, are using NICE solutions. www.nice.com.

The Intelligent Security Operations Center (ISOC) Vision Helps Organizations Accelerate Investigations and Optimize Security Operations

gent Security Operations Center (ISOC), the Situational Intelligence Platform provides a suite of integrated features that enable complete situational control in complex security environments. This integrated, modular and flexible platform drives a better user experience, facilitates real-time monitoring, provides greater situational awareness, and helps security teams respond faster and more efficiently to situations when they occur.

Customers and the market at large face mounting business and security challenges, and that has propelled Verint to infuse more analytics and automation into its Situational Intelligence Platform. These innovations are critical because cyber and physical security threats are becoming more prevalent while data is growing exponentially, driving organizations to seek more advanced solutions to better address risk.

Automating Intelligence

Security managers and operators rely on a multitude of solutions and systems to ensure comprehensive protection, which results in an enormous volume of data to analyze. This influx of information can often be overwhelming, and in most cases, manual processes are needed to manage an event across all security components for full awareness, which is a significant barrier to automation.

Verint’s ISOC concept is designed to address this challenge head on. The ISOC aggregates multiple systems into a single interface and exposes it to an analytic layer that results in the delivery of Actionable Intelligence. The ISOC facilitates utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to analyze data across an enterprise’s domains and assess how it impacts the business as a whole. By unifying data to enable the detection and identification of risks, enterprises can move to a more predictive threat model.

Unified Operations

Verint’s Situational Intelligence Platform consists of several modules that can be implemented separately or as part of the integrated platform.

One of the platform enhancements announced today is VMS One™. With this enhanced module, users gain a single, consolidated platform for the ISOC with video at the center and seamless correlation of sensors and alarms, allowing operators to immediately gain complete situational control while determining the appropriate intelligence-powered response. The solution fuses all relevant information, such as video, alarm notification, device state, analytics meta-data, search output and more, onto a dynamic GIS-map based interface, providing a clear and immediate picture of an incident and enabling faster and more efficient response. In addition to VMS One, the enhanced platform provides new capabilities in the Dispatch™, FaceDetect™ and Incident Management™ modules.

“As threats continue to grow in complexity, mission-critical organizations face significant challenges,” said Alan Stoddard, vice president and general manager, situational intelligence solutions, Verint. “Each component of our suite of solutions is a critical part of our intelligent security strategy developed to address customer requirements for a more effective, intelligent approach to security operations and risk management. Now, our customers are equipped with comprehensive options designed to further synchronize IT, cyber, and security operations across infrastructures and proactively address and mitigate modern-day threats.”

Global businesses operate in complex environments in which opportunities, requirements, and regulations can vary widely, change quickly, and evolve significantly over time. New technologies will continue to improve business operations, enhance strategic partnerships, and increase situational awareness. All of this is part of the effort to gain a more predictive risk model within the enterprise to prevent rather than react. To learn more about Verint solutions for the ISOC, contact us or visit us at booth #26049 during the ISC West conference in Las Vegas, April 10-12.

About Verint Systems Inc.
Verint® (Nasdaq: VRNT) is a global leader in Actionable Intelligence® solutions with a focus on customer engagement optimization, security intelligence, and fraud, risk and compliance. Today, over 10,000 organizations in more than 180 countries—including over 85 percent of the Fortune 100—count on intelligence from Verint solutions to make more informed, effective and timely decisions. Learn more about how we’re creating A Smarter World with Actionable Intelligence® at www.verint.com.

IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented IdentityTM, and a leading U.S. company with in-market biometric applications for local, state, and federal law enforcement, departments of motor vehicles, and homeland security, announced their latest matching system release with an improved facial recognition algorithm. IDEMIA’s algorithm outperformed other U.S. government agency providers in the latest Facial Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT), which was conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The results reconfirm the company’s ongoing 40-plus year history as an industry leader in biometrics.

The NIST tests evaluated 127 software algorithms from 39 different developers. The test results reported facial recognition technology performance in one-to-many (1:N) scenarios, comparing one face image against a large database of face images in order to return one or more matching images.

The NIST testing results reflect that IDEMIA outperformed other similar providers that offer facial recognition solutions to U.S. government agencies by 30% for 1:N matching. This result was shown in both controlled portrait as well as the challenging area of Wild Image testing, which includes images from non-compliant persons.

IDEMIA strongly advocates for privacy-first, responsible and lawful uses of facial recognition technology. The company has made significant investments in its algorithm research framework that ensures rapid operationalization of research algorithms into real world products and solutions. This investment has translated into IDEMIA’s facial recognition algorithm ranking as one of the top performers with various demographic groups in the latest NIST FRVT test.

“As the leading U.S. provider for government AFIS and facial recognition programs, IDEMIA has a long history of developing highly accurate, scalable and rapidly deployable biometric technology. NIST’s FRVT results are further evidence of the new standard we have set with our suite of facial recognition technologies,” said Donnie Scott, Senior Vice President, Public Security for North America at IDEMIA. “We combine one of the most comprehensive algorithms on the market with industry-leading service to ensure that our partners achieve exceptional business and mission outcomes.”

NIST test results: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8238.pdf

About IDEMIA

IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, provides trusted technology enabling citizens and consumers alike to perform their daily critical activities (such as pay, connect, travel and vote), in the physical as well as digital space.

Securing our identity has become mission critical in the world we live in today. By standing for Augmented Identity, an identity that ensures privacy and trust and guarantees secure, authenticated and verifiable transactions, we reinvent the way we think, produce, use and protect one of our greatest assets – our identity – whether for individuals or for objects, whenever and wherever security matters. We provide Augmented Identity for international clients in the Financial, Telecom, Identity, Public Security and IoT sectors.

With 13,000 employees around the world, IDEMIA serves clients in 180 countries.

For more information, head to www.idemia.com.

OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX), (TSX: OTEX), a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), is exhibiting at AIIM Conference 2019 in San Diego, March 26-28, showcasing the latest intelligence, integration and automation advances in its industry-leading Content Services portfolio.

OpenText Content Services help organizations readily access critical business information through the delivery of “content in context” for both structured and unstructured data. By connecting content to the digital business, OpenText Content Services accelerate productivity, improve governance and facilitate transformation through off-cloud and cloud deployments.

“OpenText remains at the forefront of Content Services through continued innovation. New features and platform enhancements are helping our customers solve business challenges and develop competitive advantage,” said Stephen Ludlow, OpenText Vice President of Product Marketing and AIIM Board Member. “The content services industry is advancing with the enhanced flexibility and scalability promised by the cloud. Our deployment of EIM as a service, flexible industry-relevant apps, and compelling microservices and APIs are leading an industry-wide transformation in how customers seize the value of their information.”

OpenText will be showcasing several recent innovations at the AIIM Conference reflecting the company’s ongoing commitment to three critical areas for Content:

Integration: OpenText Extended ECM solutions feature new levels of integration with business-standard applications such as Microsoft® Office 365™ and SAP®—resulting in a smooth flow of information and wider application of governance protocols across the enterprise.
Automation: Business administrators can now configure process tasks to automatically generate documents, update workspaces and kick-off workflows based on events within lead business applications.
Intelligence: OpenText AI-augmented capture utilizes the AI and analytics capabilities of OpenText™ Magellan, introducing next-gen capabilities that understand natural language elements such as sentiment and complex concepts contained in documents.
OpenText will be jointly presenting with leaders from Pacific Life to discuss how secure, cloud-based information management help to transform their business.

Engage with OpenText at AIIM

Conference attendees can access demos and further information at OpenText’s booth (31 and 32) at the AIIM Conference tradeshow.
Fred Sass, OpenText Senior Director of Product Marketing will address the conference on “Five Ways that Automation, Integration, and Intelligence are Redefining Content Services” on March 26 at 4:30 pm.
Riley McIntosh of Pacific Life and Alison Clarke from OpenText will present a case study on how to build a strong information management framework on March 27 at 10:15 am.
*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms, Karen Hobert, Michael Woodbridge, Monica Basso, 25 October, 2018. This report was previously titled the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management.

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About OpenText
OpenText, The Information Company™, enables organizations to gain insight through market leading information management solutions, on premises or in the cloud. For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX) visit opentext.com.