Coherent Introduces Next-Generation Ultralow-Cost Matrix UV Lasers for Marking Applications in Consumer Goods, Industrial Electronics, and Packaging

PITTSBURGH, June 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Coherent Corp. (NYSE: COHR), a leader in advanced laser processing solutions, today announced the introduction of its next-generation ultralow-cost Matrix nanosecond pulsed UV lasers for high-contrast marking applications in consumer goods, industrial electronics, home appliances, and packaging.

The increasing adoption of ecofriendly non-contact laser marking in consumer devices and packaging is driving the demand for cost-effective UV lasers that enable permanent, damage-free marking. The new Matrix UV lasers from Coherent are diode-pumped solid-state lasers that provide superior marking quality at half the entry price of existing solutions.

“We are able to market Matrix lasers at extremely compelling cost of ownership models by internally sourcing key optical components and leveraging our large manufacturing and service footprint in Asia,” said Dr. Christopher Dorman, Senior Vice President, Solid-State Lasers Business Unit, Europe. “We believe that the market for the next-generation ultralow-cost Matrix will expand quickly, driven by the demand for more environmentally sustainable alternatives to adhesives, inks, and labels for high-contrast marking of plastics.”

The new Matrix lasers are available with 5 W and 10 W output power and operate at a pulse repetition rate ranging from 50 kHz to 300 kHz. The lasers can achieve more than 15,000 hours of maintenance-free operation, enabling reliable high-volume production. The Matrix lasers can output up to 200 µJ of pulse energy at 355 nm for the most demanding applications and are based on Coherent’s field-proven UV technology.

Coherent will exhibit at Laser World of Photonics, in Munich, Germany, June 27-30, stand B3.321; Laser Korea, in Seoul, July 5-7, stand 4101; and Laser World of Photonics China, in Shanghai, stand 8.1D240, July 11-13. At these conferences, Coherent will showcase the most recent additions to its broad portfolio of differentiated solutions for materials processing.


About Coherent

Coherent empowers market innovators to define the future through breakthrough technologies, from materials to systems. We deliver innovations that resonate with our customers in diversified applications for the industrial, communications, electronics, and instrumentation markets. Headquartered in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, Coherent has research and development, manufacturing, sales, service, and distribution facilities worldwide. For more information, please visit us at coherent.com.


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Digital Water Saves Millions for Communities, According to Leading Utilities

Digital Water Saves Millions for Communities, According to Leading Utilities

18 Water Utility Experts Share Playbook for Digital Transformation and Community Impact

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Leading water utilities are increasingly embracing data analytics and digital technology to optimize their operations, save millions for communities and increase water networks’ resilience to climate change.

Insights from 18 global water utility leaders and experts that are influential in early-stage digital adoption are featured in a new paper from water technology leader Xylem (NYSE: XYL) and Bluefield Research. These utility experts share perspectives on how “going digital” is helping them to solve big water challenges in their communities. Their shared expertise provides a blueprint to accelerate the modernization of 400,000 water, wastewater, and stormwater systems worldwide.

Utilities that participated in the paper implemented digital technology to save billions of gallons of water, prevent millions of gallons of sewer overflow pollution, and save millions of dollars in energy costs.

For example, in Cincinnati, Ohio, theMetropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati used data and digital solutions to give its existing infrastructure new capabilities.

“We grabbed our combined sewer overflow monitoring data, flow monitors, and real-time control facilities, and tied them together in a SCADA system. The insights were mind-blowing,” Reese Johnson, Compliance Services Division Superintendent at MSD, said.

In Queensland, Australia, Unitywater used leak detection technology to reduce lost water and revenue, and used smart meters to help reduce leaks for customers.

“We learned a lot from our initial 1000-meter pilot project before launching the smart meter network as a second step. Smart water meters have been a sustainable decision, both environmentally and financially,” Daniel Lambert, Unitywater Executive Manager of Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions, said.

Chinese utility Beijing Drainage Group (BDG) is leveraging digital technologies to optimize energy usage and cut carbon emissions. By implementing a suite of control systems for aeration, chemical dosing, and drainage, BDG has already cut annual energy use by 10 to 15%.

The utility leaders and experts featured in the new paper, Ripple Effect: A Movement Towards Digital Transformation, demonstrate how incremental approaches to digital adoption can lead to powerful outcomes.

“Utilities are transforming the water sector and delivering big benefits for local communities — saving money, preventing leaks and overflows, and cutting emissions,” Matthew Pine, Chief Operating Officer at Xylem, said. “Learning from the experiences of these pacesetters, utilities of all sizes, and at any stage of digital maturity, can accelerate their transition to more affordable and more sustainable infrastructure.”

View the paper and associated resources at: www.xylem.com/RippleEffect

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Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company committed to solving the world’s critical water, wastewater, and water-related challenges through technology, innovation, and expertise. Our more than 22,000 diverse employees delivered combined pro forma revenue of $7.3 billion in 2022. We are creating a more sustainable world by enabling our customers to optimize water and resource management and helping communities in more than 150 countries become water-secure. Join us in the effort at www.xylem.com and Let’s Solve Water.

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Adobe Unveils New Innovations Across Adobe Experience Cloud

Adobe Unveils New Innovations Across Adobe Experience Cloud

  • Adobe announces availability of Adobe Product Analytics for enterprise customers, as well as major enhancements to Adobe Mix Modeler, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform and Adobe Journey Optimizer

  • Used by 87% of Fortune 100 companies, Adobe Experience Cloud continues rapid expansion across numerous sectors including financial services, automotive and retail with customers including Accenture, Adidas, Daimler Benz, Lufthansa, Henkel, H&M, Hugo Boss, Otto, Prada Group, Publicis, Real Madrid, Salomon, Santander, smart Europe, Stellantis, TeamViewer, TSB Bank, TUI Group and Volkswagen

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) kicked off Adobe Summit EMEA 2023 – the industry’s leading Digital Experience Conference – by unveiling new innovations in Adobe Experience Cloud, the world’s leading customer experience management solution. The new offerings enable brands to deliver highly personalized experiences across any touchpoint, while maximizing operational efficiency.

“As enterprise businesses navigate through an uncertain business climate and price conscious consumers, consistently delivering engaging and personalized experiences will be paramount to accelerating profitable growth,” said Amit Ahuja, senior vice president, Digital Experience Business at Adobe. “Our latest innovations empower brands to activate data in new ways that drive customer engagements, along with efficiencies and cost savings.”

Global brands rely upon Adobe Experience Cloud – the industry’s leading platform for delivering, measuring and personalizing customer experiences – to drive real business growth. Adobe Experience Cloud is the trusted choice of over 12,000 customers, including 87% of Fortune 100 companies, 74% of Fortune 500 companies and leading EMEA brands including Accenture, Adidas, Daimler Benz, Lufthansa, Henkel, H&M, Hugo Boss, Otto, Prada Group, Publicis, Real Madrid, Salomon, Santander, smart Europe, Stellantis, TeamViewer, TSB Bank, TUI Group and Volkswagen.

New Innovations in Adobe Experience Cloud

  • Adobe Product Analytics: Product teams now play a bigger role in the overall customer experience, as new feature launches can often cement or derail user loyalty. Insights from product usage, however, are often disconnected from other teams. Product Analytics, now available to customers, provides self-service capabilities for product teams to understand customer adoption and usage. These insights are unified with data from other organizations such as marketing through Customer Journey Analytics (CJA), so that the brand has a more comprehensive view of how a customer engages with a brand digitally. CJA customers including General Motors, Otto, The Coca-Cola Company, TSB Bank and Warner Bros Discovery work with Adobe to drive business growth through real-time insights.
  • Adobe Mix Modeler: Marketers are under increasing pressure to prove the impact of their campaigns, but the scale and fragmentation of modern-day marketing makes it difficult to answer simple questions on where to invest resources. In travel and hospitality, for instance, brands struggle to define how an increase in paid search could impact bookings. With Mix Modeler Adobe has an AI-powered, self-service solution that helps teams accurately measure campaigns, and drive planning efforts across paid, owned and earned channels. Insights are anchored in rich data from Adobe Experience Platform, augmented with external data sources from ad networks to social media platforms. Today, Adobe is expanding access to Mix Modeler globally, working with brands to maximize the impact of every dollar.
  • Next-Generation Adobe Experience Manager: Adobe has reimagined Experience Manager so that users of any skill level can easily update content for their brand’s digital properties, delivering impactful experiences using popular tools such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs. Even without CMS expertise, teams can create, edit and publish all from the same document, with security controls to ensure only authorized users can make changes. Today, Adobe is expanding access to the latest Experience Manager offering for brands around the world, so that organizations can deliver personalized and engaging experiences with greater speed. Early adopters include Hanesbrands, PGA TOUR, Volvo Trucks and WESCO International, who are leveraging the new AEM to provide their organizations true content velocity and increasing experience delivery.
  • Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform(Real-Time CDP): Adobe unveiled new advanced audience management capabilities in Real-Time CDP that will greatly accelerate the time it takes to deliver impactful, personalized experiences. Brands can now work with new data partners across the globe, scale first-party data with look-alike audiences, as well as automatically ingest existing audience segments from anywhere in the organization – from data warehouses to CRM systems – into Real-Time CDP, with built-in governance and new management features such as the ability to surface the highest-value segments and enrich them with other data. Powered by Adobe Experience Platform, applications including Adobe Journey Optimizer and Customer Journey Analytics work in concert with Real-Time CDP for brands to orchestrate omnichannel experiences and gain insights to make continuous improvements. Leading European brands including AIDA, Henkel, EY, NatWest, Prada Group, PRISA Media, Real Madrid and William’s Racing are leveraging Real-Time CDP to deliver personalized customer experiences in moments that matter.
  • Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO): Adobe previewed an AI-powered update to AJO, a next generation journey management application used by leading brands to orchestrate one-to-one customer experiences across touchpoints such as web, email, mobile, SMS and offline channels. An infusion of AI that includes an experimentation feature will provide brands with powerful testing capabilities to inform decision-making. Across any industry, brands can see the real-time impact of promotional offers or marketing content, as customers move between owned digital channels, in-store shopping, social media and more. Brands can lean on AJO as a central hub to drive their omnichannel strategy, ensuring that all campaigns and experiences they initiate work in harmony with real-time customer interactions.

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Adobe Brings World’s First AI-Accelerated Content Supply Chain Solution to Europe To Fuel Experience-Led Growth

Adobe Brings World’s First AI-Accelerated Content Supply Chain Solution to Europe To Fuel Experience-Led Growth

  • Comprehensive solution connects Adobe Experience Cloud and Adobe Creative Cloud, empowering brands to drive efficiencies and major cost savings while delivering personalization at scale

  • Solution adds Adobe Firefly for Enterprise to accelerate content creation, offering a creative generative AI solution designed to be commercially safe

  • Top European brands, consulting firms and agencies adopt solution to transform content operations

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Today, at Adobe Summit EMEA 2023 – the industry’s leading Digital Experience Conference – Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced enhanced features for its Content Supply Chain solution and showcased strong momentum among European customers and partners. Adobe’s solution, which connects Adobe Experience Cloud and Adobe Creative Cloud applications to deliver personalized customer experiences and drive experience-led growth, now includes Adobe Firefly for Enterprise, accelerating content creation with the market’s only commercially safe creative generative AI solution.

Adobe’s Content Supply Chain solution improves the end-to-end process of producing and delivering content to fuel effective customer experiences. At most organizations, the content supply chain is a web of disconnected workflows and systems that often break down, challenging teams faced with rising content demands. As a result, many brands are paying spiraling costs, missing revenue opportunities and dealing with team burnout, while struggling to deliver engaging customer experiences that drive real business impact.

“As demand for content continues to surge, Adobe is the only company with the expertise and portfolio to connect the end-to-end content creation and delivery process for optimized performance,” said Amit Ahuja, senior vice president, Adobe Experience Cloud platform and products at Adobe. “We’re excited to bring our unique Content Supply Chain solution to European customers, empowering them to deliver personalized experiences that translate to substantial business value.”

The world’s largest brands trust Adobe to help them create and deliver engaging content and customer experiences. Accelerated by Firefly and new Adobe Sensei GenAI services, Adobe alone provides the full range of industry-leading creative and experience applications, integrations and services necessary to support every step of the content process – from planning and production to delivery and analysis. Adobe’s Content Supply Chain solution equips brands to build high-functioning systems that deliver the effective, personalized content customers now expect, while providing leaders with unparalleled visibility and control across operations and costs.

Key features include:

  • Scaling content creation with generative AI: Adobe’s solution will speed and ease content creation by deeply integrating a variety of generative AI capabilities and services. New Firefly for Enterprise extends commercially viable image generation across teams and companies, empowering millions of enterprise users to leverage Firefly both as a standalone service, and within Adobe Express, so anyone can quickly and easily generate, edit and share standout, on-brand content. New Sensei GenAI services leverage multiple large language models to generate and modify text-based experiences. Anchored in Adobe Experience Platform, these services bring an organization’s data and content together under a common language model. This rich data set allows brands to train generative AI models on proprietary customer insights, customizing the output for brand-specific use cases. One new feature in Adobe Experience Manager, Marketing Copy Generation, allows brands to quickly create and modify on-brand copy for digital “front doors” such as websites and mobile apps.
  • Easing the burden with automation: While all brands must navigate complex data, governance and localization requirements, European companies face special challenges due to a variety of regulations, languages and cultural considerations they must navigate. Adobe’s Content Supply solution automates many of these processes, helping brands deliver relevant, effective content while complying with both customer expectations and regulatory standards.
  • The power of Adobe: Adobe’s Content Supply Chain solution brings together Adobe Creative Cloud for Enterprise, Adobe Workfront, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Express for Enterprise, Frame.io and Adobe’s Firefly and Sensei GenAI capabilities – as well as an array of integrations and services.

Customer and Partner Momentum

Many global and European brands are already starting to leverage Adobe’s new solution to scale personalization and achieve efficiencies. Early adopters include luxury clothing brand Asprey, Cisco, Philip Morris and premium all-electric automotive brand smart Europe.

“The prospect of implementing the content supply chain is hugely exciting,” said Aidan Connor, chief technology officer at Asprey. “The ability to use generative AI to produce quality digital content, faster – and at scale – would be a game-changer for Asprey. This innovative technology will save on costs, while empowering us to generate personalized content we need to deliver exceptional customer experiences. Our work with Adobe has already proven incredibly valuable – one of the biggest advantages has been the way each product works together to transform our digital offering as a brand. We’re incredibly excited at the prospect of optimizing our content creation and elevating our entire digital consumer experience.”

“We at smart Europe are excited about Adobe’s Content Supply Chain solution as it enables us to plan, create, manage, edit, use and customize assets in a single environment, helping us to be cost efficient and reduce complexity across workflows,” explains Björn Schick, CXO at smart Europe.

Adobe is also partnering with top global consulting firms and media agencies – including Accenture, IBM, Omnicom and Publicis – to help brands transform and optimize their content supply chains.

About Adobe

Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

© 2023 Adobe. All rights reserved. Adobe and the Adobe logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Adobe Brings Firefly and Express to Enterprises

Adobe Brings Firefly and Express to Enterprises

  • New Enterprise offering delivers Adobe Firefly and Adobe Express to address surging demand for content creation and efficiencies across organizations

  • Firefly will be available to all employees across an Enterprise to generate and distribute on-brand content quickly and easily

  • New Firefly for Enterprise is Adobe’s generative AI offering that is designed to be commercially safe

  • Adobe plans to enable businesses to be able to custom train Firefly with their own branded assets, generating content in the brand’s unique style and brand language

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) kicked off Adobe Summit EMEA 2023 – the industry’s leading Digital Experience Conference – with a powerful, new generative AI offering that brings Adobe Firefly and Adobe Express to enterprises around the world. Firefly for Enterprise is designed to address the surging demand of digital content at scale and help enterprises streamline and accelerate content creation while optimizing costs. The new company-wide offering enables every employee across an organization, at any creative skill level, to use Firefly to generate beautiful, on-brand, ready-to-share content that can be seamlessly edited in Express or Creative Cloud.

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Across nearly every business function today, the need to create compelling content for internal and external audiences has skyrocketed. For creatives, marketers, product managers, sales teams and many other roles to do their jobs successfully, individuals must keep pace with content required for communicating and collaborating with internal stakeholders, as well as for enterprise customer engagements and personalization initiatives. Express bridges workflows between creative professionals and marketers through integrations into Creative Cloud applications like Photoshop and Illustrator as well as Experience Manager, the world-class CMS solution.

Designed to be commercially safe, this new offering will bring generative AI image creation and editing capabilities to millions of enterprise users who will be able to modify images in Creative Cloud, Express and Experience Manager. Users can also create standout content with inspiration from Express’ beautiful, high-quality collection of templates, fonts, Stock images, videos and music. Express is an all-in-one content creation app that makes it fast, easy and fun to design and share standout social media posts, videos, images, PDFs, flyers, logos, presentations and more.

“Enterprise leaders expect content demands will increase by five-fold over the next two years, making it imperative for them to drive efficiencies internally,” said David Wadhwani, president, Digital Media Business at Adobe. “This new enterprise offering empowers users of any skill level to instantly turn ideas into content with Firefly, while tapping into the power of Express and Creative Cloud to quickly modify assets and deliver standout designs.”

As part of this new offering, users will be able to access Firefly through the standalone Firefly application, Adobe Express and Creative Cloud, and Adobe plans to enable businesses to be able to custom train Firefly with their own branded assets, embedding the power of Firefly into their own ecosystem and generating content in the brand’s unique style and brand language using APIs to increase automation. Firefly is designed to be safe for commercial use and enterprises also have the opportunity to obtain an IP indemnity from Adobe for content generated by certain Firefly-powered workflows allowing them to deploy it across their organization with confidence. Hundreds of brands including Dentsu, IBM and Mattel are already working with Adobe to explore how Firefly can help drive efficiencies, reduce costs and accelerate their content supply chains.

Commercial Viability

Firefly is the most differentiated generative AI solution available today and Firefly for enterprise is an offering that generates commercially viable, professional quality content at speed. Firefly’s first model is trained on Adobe Stock images, openly licensed content and other public domain content where copyright has expired. Adobe Stock’s hundreds of millions of professional-grade, licensed images are among the highest quality in the market, and help ensure Firefly won’t generate content based on other peoples’ or brands’ IP.

Since its launch in March, Firefly beta users have generated over 200 million images. Photoshop users have generated over 150 million images in just two weeks using the new Generative Fill feature powered by Firefly.

Content Credentials

As generative AI becomes more prevalent in everyday life, consumers demand to know whether a piece of content was created by a human, AI-generated or AI-edited. Because Firefly automatically attaches a Content Credentials tag that indicates that generative AI was used, every image created using Firefly will have more transparency built in. Content Credentials are a free, open-source tool that serve as a digital “nutrition label” and can show information such as name, date and the tools used to create an image, as well as any edits made to that image. They remain associated with content wherever it is used, published or stored, enabling proper attribution and helping consumers make informed decisions about digital content. Content Credentials were designed by Adobe in partnership with the Content Authenticity Initiative and over 1,000 members.

Availability

Adobe Express for enterprise is available today. The new Adobe Firefly for enterprise offering will be available in the second half of 2023.

Tune In: Adobe Summit EMEA

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About Adobe and Artificial Intelligence

Adobe is making the world more creative, productive and personalized with AI as a co-pilot that amplifies human ingenuity. For decades, Adobe has delivered hundreds of intelligent capabilities across Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud through Adobe Sensei, enabling customers to create, work and collaborate more efficiently.

Firefly, Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models, brings even more precision, power, speed and ease directly into Adobe workflows. It is the most differentiated generative AI offering in the market, trained on a unique dataset that generates commercially viable, professional-quality content.

Adobe Sensei GenAI services are redefining how businesses deliver customer experiences by delivering more speed and productivity across Adobe Experience Cloud workflows. Sensei GenAI will enable brands to instantly generate and modify text-based experiences across any customer touchpoint and leverage different LLMs. These innovations are anchored in Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), which brings customer data and content together across an organization under one common language model.

As a trusted partner to individuals and businesses of all sizes, Adobe develops and deploys all AI capabilities with a customer-centric approach and according to its AI Ethics principles to ensure content and data transparency. Content Credentials provide “nutrition labels” for digital content and are a key pillar of Adobe’s AI principles.

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Adobe Summit EMEA Spotlights Major New Innovations and Customer Momentum Across Europe

Adobe Summit EMEA Spotlights Major New Innovations and Customer Momentum Across Europe

  • Newly announced innovations connect Adobe Experience Cloud and Creative Cloud, and will bring generative AI into its creative and enterprise applications, while expanding Adobe’s Content Supply Chain solution to Europe

  • Adobe Experience Cloud is now used by 87% of Fortune 100 companies, including leading B2B brands, and continues rapid expansion of footprint across numerous sectors including healthcare and financial services

  • Adobe shared its net zero target and accelerated its 100% renewable electricity for operations to 2025

  • Event highlights European customers including Accenture, Adidas, Covento by Vestas, Crédit Agricole, Daimler Benz, Henkel, H&M, Hugo Boss, Prada Group, Publicis, Real Madrid, Salomon, Santander, Stellantis, TeamViewer, TSB Bank and Volkswagen

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) kicked off Adobe Summit EMEA 2023 – the industry’s leading Digital Experience Conference – by unveiling a wide range of product innovations across Adobe Experience Cloud, the world’s leading customer experience management solution, Adobe Express, the all-in-one content creation app that makes it fast, easy and fun to design and share standout content and Adobe Firefly, the world’s most differentiated generative AI offering, together empowering brands to accelerate experience-led growth.

Now relied upon by over 12,000 customers – including 87% of the Fortune 100 and 74% of the Fortune 500 – Adobe Experience Cloud is the industry’s leading platform for delivering, measuring and personalizing customer experiences, powering top European brands such as Accenture, Adidas, Covento by Vestas, Crédit Agricole, Daimler Benz, Henkel, H&M, Hugo Boss, Prada Group, Publicis, Real Madrid, Salomon, Santander, Stellantis, TeamViewer, TSB Bank and Volkswagen among many others. From industry-specific solutions including Adobe Experience Cloud for Healthcare to highly personalized marketing engines for financial services and business-to-business use cases, Adobe empowers enterprises across the world to drive experience-led growth.

“Today’s digital economy, coupled with the heightened expectations of consumers, means organizations must be laser-focused on customer experience as the great differentiator,” said Anil Chakravarthy, president, Digital Experience Business at Adobe. “Through the combination of Adobe’s industry-leading enterprise applications and strong innovation engine, we are in the perfect position to help brands rise to this challenge and drive sustainable, experience-led growth.”

Recent Adobe research revealed that 88% of marketing and CX leaders say content demand has at least doubled over the last two years, while nearly two-thirds expect content demand will grow by five times over the next two years. To help European businesses meet surging content demands and deliver impactful customer experiences, Adobe announced that it is bringing its Content Supply Chain solution to Europe, in partnership with top global consulting firms and media agencies including Accenture, IBM, Omnicom and Publicis. The new solution equips brands to increase the velocity of content development while providing customer experience (CX) leaders with unparalleled visibility and control across operations and costs.

Adobe also announced the expansion of Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models that generates commercially viable, professional-quality content that is designed to be commercially safe – into new enterprise-ready solutions that will address the surging demand for digital content. Firefly and Adobe Express for Enterprise will bring Firefly to all employees across an organization, empowering anyone to generate, edit and share standout, on-brand content quickly and easily. As part of this new offering, Adobe plans to enable businesses to be able to custom train Firefly with their own branded assets, generating content in the brand’s unique style and brand language. Additionally, powerful new Adobe Sensei GenAI services for enterprises have debuted in Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe Experience Manager and Marketo Engage, enabling businesses to dramatically accelerate productivity and deliver personalized customer experiences at scale.

Additional Product Innovations Announced at EMEA Summit

  • Express with Firefly reimagines Adobe’s popular all-in-one content creation app and integrates new Firefly generative AI technologies. Today’s release brings the power and precision of Adobe’s popular photo, design, video, document and generative AI tools into a new all-in-one editor, turning previously time-consuming tasks – removing image backgrounds, creating standout social video content, editing PDFs and animating characters through audio – into fast, easy and fun experiences. Now embedded directly into Express workflows, Firefly enables creators at all skill levels to generate unique images and text effects from just a description to enhance social media posts, posters, flyers and more.
  • Adobe Experience Platform enables personalized insights and engagements, connecting Adobe Real-Time CDP, Adobe Journey Optimizer and Customer Journey Analytics to help brands drive the next phase of their digital transformations: wide-scale personalization at moments that matter, while keeping customer data safe and secure. New global partners and advanced audience management capabilities will greatly accelerate the delivery of personalization campaigns, enabling brands to automatically ingest audience segments from anywhere in the organization into Real-Time CDP, with built-in governance and new management features such as the ability to surface the highest-value segments.
  • New Adobe Experience Cloud innovations bring greater versatility and AI-powered features to multiple applications. Adobe today announced the availability of Adobe Product Analytics to enterprise customers, its new tool providing product teams with self-service capabilities to fully understand customer adoption and product usage. Adobe also expanded access to Adobe Mix Modeler and the next-generation Adobe Experience Manager globally, as well as debuting AI-infused updates to Adobe Journey Optimizer, offering brands powerful experimentation and testing capabilities to inform decision-making.

Adobe & Sustainability

As part of Adobe’s longstanding commitments to sustainability and climate action, the company announced at Summit EMEA that 100% of its operational electricity demand will be met with renewable electricity by 2025 – a decade ahead of the original goal – through a mix of local and regional solar, wind and green tariffs. The company shared its commitment to meeting its net zero target by no later than 2050 and is already making progress towards that goal.

Availability

Adobe Express for enterprise is available today. The new Adobe Firefly for enterprise offering will be available in the second half of 2023.

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All-New Adobe Express With Firefly Revolutionizes How Creators and Brands Design and Share Standout Content

All-New Adobe Express With Firefly Revolutionizes How Creators and Brands Design and Share Standout Content

  • Adobe Firefly Generative AI now integrated directly into Express workflows, enabling one-of-a-kind designs with speed and ease

  • Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and Acrobat technology embedded in Adobe Express, making it fast, easy and fun to create standout content

  • New all-in-one Express app is the perfect web complement to Adobe’s Creative Cloud applications

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) kicked off Adobe Summit EMEA 2023 – the industry’s leading Digital Experience Conference – by introducing a new beta version of Adobe Express, the all-in-one content creation app that makes it fast, easy and fun to design and share standout social media posts, videos, images, PDFs, flyers, logos and more. Powered by decades of Adobe’s world class creative technology, and now with Adobe Firefly, Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models, embedded directly into content workflows, Express is revolutionizing the way everyone –from creative professionals, creators, students, enterprises and brands – can create, collaborate and share standout content at the speed of their imaginations.

The latest version of Express brings the power and precision of Adobe’s popular photo, design, video, document and generative AI tools into a new all-in-one editor, making tasks like creating standout social video content, touching up images, editing PDFs and laying out amazing designs, fast and easy. With PDF support integrated into the all-in-one editor, it’s now even easier to import, edit and enhance PDFs to create visually stunning documents. Seamless integration with Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Experience Manager makes it simple to stay synced across applications, collaborate in real-time and deliver on-brand content at scale, whether you’re an individual, small business or large enterprise.

Firefly is now embedded directly into Express workflows, enabling creators at all skill levels to generate images and text effects with simple text prompts to enhance social media posts, posters, flyers and more. The integration of Firefly, a differentiated generative AI offering that is trained on a unique dataset, with Express will allow enterprises to produce limitless variations of on-brand creative collateral, scaling content creation beyond creative teams. Firefly content is trained on a unique dataset and tagged with Content Credentials, bringing critical trust and transparency to digital content wherever it travels. Firefly in Express makes creating standout content even easier, bringing more AI-power to the largest collection of beautiful, high-quality design and video templates, photos, music and assets for inspiration to get started.

“The new release of Adobe Express brings together technology from Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and Acrobat with our Firefly generative AI models into a fun and easy web application experience allowing everyone, from individuals to large organizations to create content that stands out,” said David Wadhwani, president, Digital Media Business at Adobe. “Creators can now make stunning videos, designs and documents faster than ever before and our seamless workflows with our flagship applications give Creative Cloud subscribers even more control over the creative process.”

The Perfect Complement to Adobe’s Flagship Applications Across Creative Cloud, Experience Cloud and Document Cloud

Express is the perfect web complement to Creative Cloud, Experience Cloud and Acrobat applications. Now Creative Cloud members can seamlessly import, edit and stay synced across applications, collaborate in real-time and action quick tasks for social media creations or concept approval, all while empowering teams to stay on brand. For enterprises, seamless integration with Creative Cloud applications and Experience Manager democratizes creativity beyond design teams, and means organizations are enabled to create, collaborate and deliver content velocity at scale. Small and medium business owners can easily plan, schedule, preview and publish standout content, all from one place. Students can now work more collaboratively in real time to create shared projects, school posters, webpages, animated videos and more, while educators can get started quickly to create standout infographics, book reports and more, by easily adding unique visual elements, animation and effects.

Express Coming to Google Bard

Adobe is partnering with Google to bring Firefly and Express to Bard, Google’s experimental conversational AI service. In the coming months, Firefly will become the premier generative AI partner for Bard, powering and highlighting text-to-image capabilities. With the new Bard by Google integration, users at all skill levels will be able to describe their vision to Bard in their own words to create Firefly generated images directly in Bard, and then modify them using Express to create standout social posts, posters, flyers and more with inspiration from the largest collection of beautiful, high-quality templates and assets.

Additional Innovations in Adobe Express Include:

  • New all-in-one editor gives users the ability to make high-impact design elements, engaging video and images, stunning PDFs, animation and standout content ready for Instagram, TikTok and all their favorite channels and platforms.
  • Firefly integrated into Express makes it possible to generate custom images and text effects from just a description, using Text to Image and Text Effects features.
  • New video, multiple page templates and design elements bring even more inspiration to the largest collection of beautiful, high-quality content, now with nearly 200 million assets including video and design templates, royalty-free Adobe Stock images, video and audio assets, almost 22,000 fonts plus more icons, backgrounds and shapes.
  • PDF support in the new all-in-one editor makes it even easier to import, edit and enhance documents to create visually stunning PDFs.
  • More AI-power helps creators to take the guesswork out of design, and quickly find the perfect addition to content or get personalized template recommendations that fit unique styles, to create social media posts, videos, posters, flyers and more.
  • Quick actions like remove background in images and videos, animate a character using just audio, convert to GIF and edit PDFs, make it even easier to create standout content quickly and simply.
  • Real-time collaboration and seamless review and commenting capabilities add speed to the creation process. Easily access, edit and work with creative assets from Photoshop and Illustrator directly within Express, or add linked files that always stay in sync across apps.

  • Animations like Fade In, Pop, Flicker, Bungee bring text, photos, videos and assets to life in a new way. With Animate from Audio, powered by Adobe Character Animator, watch characters come to life with lips and gestures syncing to recorded dialogue.

Tune In: Adobe Summit EMEA

To watch the Adobe Summit EMEA keynotes online, as well as explore the event’s sessions, network with peers or speak live with an Adobe expert, visit the Summit EMEA web experience.

Availability

The latest release of Adobe Express is now available in beta. You can access Adobe Express beta for desktop, available free to all users—mobile is coming soon. For existing Adobe Creative Cloud members, the Adobe Express premium plan is included.

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Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

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Adobe Adds Powerful New Sensei GenAI Services Across Experience Cloud To Accelerate Profitable Growth for Enterprises

Adobe Adds Powerful New Sensei GenAI Services Across Experience Cloud To Accelerate Profitable Growth for Enterprises

  • Adobe Sensei GenAI provides a co-pilot for marketers and other customer experience teams to boost productivity and reimagine customer experience management

  • Leveraging multiple large language models within Adobe Experience Platform, teams can fine tune outputs and create on-brand experiences that drive wide-scale personalization

  • New Sensei GenAI services are now available in Adobe Experience Cloud applications including Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe Journey Optimizer and Marketo Engage

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) kicked off Adobe Summit EMEA 2023 – the industry’s leading Digital Experience Conference – by announcing powerful generative AI innovations in Adobe Experience Cloud, the world’s leading customer experience management solution. Powered by Adobe Sensei GenAI, the new offerings will be natively integrated across Customer Journey Analytics, Experience Manager, Journey Optimizer and Marketo Engage for enterprise businesses to accelerate productivity and personalize customer experiences.

“The imperative for brands around the world today is achieving profitable growth, and the combination of driving internal efficiencies and delivering a great customer experience is critical to success,” said Anil Chakravarthy, president, Digital Experience Business at Adobe. “Generative AI is the great unlock in this equation, and with our latest Sensei GenAI innovations we are delivering organizations a true co-pilot to accelerate and enhance their efforts.”

Sensei GenAI services leverage multiple large language models (LLMs), including Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and FLAN-T5, for brands to generate and modify text-based experiences. These services are anchored in Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), which brings an organization’s data and content together under a common language model. This rich data set allows brands to train generative AI models on proprietary customer insights, customizing the output for brand-specific use cases.

The new Sensei GenAI services will fundamentally transform the ways brands connect with their customers and how they use Adobe’s enterprise applications:

  • Customer Journey Analytics with Natural Language Queries: Brands will be able to query their data and answer critical questions about their businesses. Part of Customer Journey Analytics, which brings together data from online and offline touchpoints, the natural language interface will allow teams to instantly find out what is driving revenue and boosting engagement, while dramatically lowering the barrier for non-technical users to generate actionable insights.
  • Customer Journey Analytics with Intelligent Captions: Now generally available, intelligent captions will help brands quickly understand the charts and graphs that are created by Customer Journey Analytics. Across different data visualizations, Sensei GenAI will instantly produce text-based descriptions on key takeaways, enabling teams to get from data to insights with greater speed.
  • Marketo Engage with Dynamic Chat: Dynamic Chat provides brands an automated way to interact with prospects who engage online, addressing questions on products while assisting sales teams with custom responses and summarized interactions. Powered by Sensei GenAI, Dynamic Chat can now be used directly in Marketo Engage, the marketing automation solution of choice for leading B2B brands.
  • Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Journey Optimizer with Marketing Copy Generation: Available today in beta, Sensei GenAI in Experience Manager Sites allows brands to create and modify copy for digital “front doors” such as websites or mobile apps. By selecting tone of voice and key words, teams can edit, rephrase or summarize copy in a few simple clicks. Users can train the generative AI model with their own collateral, ensuring content remains on-brand. In Journey Optimizer – built on AEP and used to orchestrate omnichannel experiences – brands can instantly create message variations for additional touchpoints such as email, web and mobile messaging.
  • AI Assistant for Adobe Experience Platform: As Experience Cloud powers digital transformation for leading brands, Adobe has amassed a wealth of knowledge on how teams drive value from technology investments. AI Assistant for AEP, a preview powered by Sensei GenAI, lets users query a knowledge base via natural language and instantly access support materials for any application in Adobe Experience Cloud.

Adobe Firefly for Enterprise

Adobe also announced today Firefly for Enterprise, a new offering designed to help enterprises streamline and accelerate their content supply chain while optimizing costs. The new company-wide offering enables every employee across an organization, at any creative skill level, to use Firefly as a standalone service, as well as with Express and Creative Cloud applications to generate, edit and share standout, on brand content quickly and easily. As part of this new offering, Adobe plans to enable businesses to be able to custom train Firefly with their own branded assets, embedding the power of Firefly into their own ecosystem and generating content in the brand’s unique style and brand language. Firefly is designed to be safe for commercial use and enterprises also have the opportunity to obtain an IP indemnity from Adobe for content generated by certain Firefly-powered workflows allowing them to deploy it across their organization with confidence.

Tune In: Adobe Summit EMEA

To watch the Adobe Summit EMEA keynotes online, as well as explore the event’s sessions, network with peers or speak live with an Adobe expert, visit the Summit EMEA web experience.

About Adobe and Artificial Intelligence

Adobe is making the world more creative, productive and personalized with AI as a co-pilot that amplifies human ingenuity. For decades, Adobe has delivered hundreds of intelligent capabilities across Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud through Adobe Sensei, enabling customers to create, work and collaborate more efficiently.

Firefly, Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models, brings even more precision, power, speed and ease directly into Adobe workflows. It is the most differentiated generative AI offering in the market, trained on a unique dataset that generates commercially viable, professional-quality content.

Adobe Sensei GenAI services are redefining how businesses deliver customer experiences by delivering more speed and productivity across Adobe Experience Cloud workflows. Sensei GenAI will enable brands to instantly generate and modify text-based experiences across any customer touchpoint and leverage different LLMs. These innovations are anchored in Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), which brings customer data and content together across an organization under one common language model.

As a trusted partner to individuals and businesses of all sizes, Adobe develops and deploys all AI capabilities with a customer-centric approach and according to its AI Ethics principles to ensure content and data transparency. Content Credentials provide “nutrition labels” for digital content and are a key pillar of Adobe’s AI principles.

About Adobe

Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

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Clean Energy Inks New Fueling Agreements with Customers Looking to Reduce Carbon Emissions with RNG

Clean Energy Inks New Fueling Agreements with Customers Looking to Reduce Carbon Emissions with RNG

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (NASDAQ: CLNE), the largest provider of the cleanest fuel for the transportation market, announced a slew of new deals with several well-known consumer brands and some of the nation’s largest and most environmentally-conscious transit agencies.

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Clean Energy customer Big Blue Bus was one of the country's first municipal transit agencies to convert its entire fleet to RNG. (Photo: Business Wire)

Clean Energy customer Big Blue Bus was one of the country’s first municipal transit agencies to convert its entire fleet to RNG. (Photo: Business Wire)

Liberty Coca-Cola, one of the country’s largest bottlers and distributors of Coke and other brands and serving the Northeast U.S., has signed a fueling contract with Clean Energy to power trucks in New York and Philadelphia with renewable natural gas (RNG). These are its first trucks to operate on RNG, a sustainable fuel made from organic waste that significantly reduces carbon emissions by an average of 300% versus diesel.

“Liberty Coca-Cola strives to be the best corporate citizen we can be in the communities where we do business, and having a cleaner-operating and more sustainable fleet with RNG is a good way to that,” said Stanley Walker, distribution manager, Liberty Coca-Cola. “RNG reduces carbon emissions and improves air quality easily and cost-effectively.”

Electrolux North America, a leading global home appliance company, has signed a fueling agreement with Clean Energy for an estimated 200,000 gallons of RNG to be used by new trucks from a contracted carrier that will fuel at Clean Energy’s station in Ontario, CA.

Recology, a waste management company, has inked new and extended RNG supply and maintenance contracts for an anticipated 800,000 and 6.5 million gallons respectively. Recology stations in Gilroy, Brisbane, and Davis, CA support more than 150 RNG trucks. Additionally, Recology has contracted Clean Energy to build a new RNG station In Snohomish, WA that is projected to fuel 30 trucks.

Long-time customer and an early adopter of RNG, the Big Blue Bus in Santa Monica, CA has signed a maintenance agreement for its fleet of 195 transit buses that fuels with an anticipated 7.5 million gallons of RNG. In 2015, Big Blue Bus became one of the country’s first municipal transit agencies to convert its entire fleet to RNG. Nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to a cleaner environment, Big Blue Bus transports 44,000 passengers daily across a 58-square-mile service area.

“We count Big Blue Bus as one of our most important customers because the leadership role the transit agency plays in tackling the issues of clean air and climate change,” said Chad Lindholm, Clean Energy Senior Vice President. “Fueling their fleet of buses with RNG provides immediate and significant carbon reductions, while improving air quality for people who live in and around the community of Santa Monica.”

“Our longstanding partnership with Clean Energy helps us deliver on our mission to provide affordable and sustainable transportation, while creating healthier, more livable communities. Further, our adoption of renewable natural gas aligns with our strategic goal to implement a full zero-emissions fleet by 2030,” said Ed King, director, Santa Monica Department of Transportation.

Clean Energy has been contracted by Gold Coast Transit to maintain its station in Oxnard, CA which uses an estimated 4 million gallons of RNG for 82 transit buses.

Channel Island Dairy Farms has signed a contract for an estimated 300,000 gallons of RNG for heavy-duty trucks operating in the Corcoran, CA area.

The Birmingham Jefferson County Transit Authority has signed a maintenance agreement with Clean Energy for its Birmingham, AL station. The station is expected to use an anticipated 2 million gallons of fuel for 186 transit buses.

The City of Tucson has signed a maintenance agreement with Clean Energy to support its fleet operations. The station uses an anticipated 2 million gallons of fuel to power 150 transit buses and refuse trucks.

Valley Regional Transit in Boise, ID has inked a maintenance agreement with Clean Energy. The station uses an expected 1.7 million gallons of fuel to power its fleet of 30 transit buses.

Grand Canyon National Park, AZ has signed an agreement with Clean Energy to maintain its station. The station is anticipated to provide 1.5 million gallons of fuel for 30 park shuttle buses.

Sweeping Corporation of America, the nation’s largest power sweeping company, has signed a contract for a projected 250,000 gallons of fuel to power 78 trucks in Northern and Southern California.

Campbell’s Trucking Company in Tacoma, WA has signed a fueling deal for an expected 300,000 gallons of fuel for 15 heavy-duty trucks.

About Clean Energy

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. is the country’s largest provider of the cleanest fuel for the transportation market. Our mission is to decarbonize transportation through the development and delivery of renewable natural gas (RNG), a sustainable fuel derived from organic waste. Clean Energy allows thousands of vehicles, from airport shuttles to city buses to waste and heavy-duty trucks, to reduce their amount of climate-harming greenhouse gas. We operate a vast network of fueling stations across the U.S. and Canada. Visit www.cleanenergyfuels.com and follow @ce_renewables on Twitter.

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This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including without limitation statements about amounts of natural gas expected to be produced or consumed; numbers of vehicles expected to be deployed, fueled, maintained, or financed; the environmental and other benefits of Clean Energy’s fuels; the timing and scope of construction, maintenance, and other projects; the impacts of legislative and regulatory developments; and the value and scope of contracts. Actual results and the timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements made herein speak only as of the date of this press release and, unless otherwise required by law, Clean Energy undertakes no obligation to publicly update such forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances. Additionally, the reports and other documents Clean Energy files with the SEC (available at www.sec.gov) contain risk factors, which may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in this news release.

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Clean Energy customer Big Blue Bus was one of the country’s first municipal transit agencies to convert its entire fleet to RNG. (Photo: Business Wire)

U.K. Firms Look to Clouds for SAP Transformation

U.K. Firms Look to Clouds for SAP Transformation

Rapid growth in SAP ERP adoption has led to a corresponding increase in outsourcing for managed application services, ISG Provider Lens™ report says

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Demand for SAP services in the U.K. has grown steadily in the last 12 months, as more enterprises look to move their ERP systems to the cloud, according to a new research report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm.

The 2023 ISG Provider Lens™ SAP Ecosystem report for the U.K. finds the growth of large SAP S/4HANA transformation projects in the United Kingdom is being driven by SAP’s looming discontinuation of support for SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) 6.0 and by increasing interest in the company’s cloud-based RISE with SAP program as a means of improving operational efficiency and speed. Service providers have responded by expanding their offerings and developing solutions that deliver end-to-end services for SAP S/4HANA transformation.

“U.K. service providers are keenly aware of changes in the SAP market,” said Yadu Singh, ISG EMEA lead, digital platforms and solutions. “In response, they’ve stepped up to act as full-fledged business partners for their clients.”

According to the ISG report, providers have adopted a variety of approaches to take advantage of the growing SAP market and to differentiate themselves from their competition – including through development and use of proprietary tools, accelerators and solutions. Leveraging their nearshore and offshore resources, many providers for the midmarket segment have used automation to quickly transform their SAP services. Providers are also building roadmaps specific to each industry they serve, taking into account the nuances and challenges of each sector, ISG says.

Meanwhile, consulting firms have sought to increase their own footprint in the SAP market by leveraging their niche expertise in tax advisory and finance transformations, the ISG report says. These firms have reaped the benefits of global and regional acquisitions that have enhanced their capabilities in SAP S/4HANA transformations. Despite these efforts, they still have a long way to go in expanding their product portfolios and increasing their competitive strength, ISG says.

“Large-scale transformation projects can be incredibly complex,” said Jan Erik Aase, partner and global leader, ISG Provider Lens Research. “Enterprises are seeking providers that can offer end-to-end services.”

The report also examines how providers are investing in skills development and increasing the number of SAP-certified staff to meet enterprise demand for skilled business partners.

The 2023 ISG Provider Lens™ SAP Ecosystem report for the U.K. evaluates the capabilities of 32 providers across four quadrants: SAP S/4HANA System Transformation – Large Accounts, SAP S/4HANA System Transformation – Midmarket, Managed Application Services for SAP ERP and Managed Platform and Cloud Services for SAP ERP.

The report names Accenture, Capgemini, Eviden (Atos), Infosys, TCS and Wipro as Leaders in three quadrants each, while HCLTech, IBM and LTIMindtree are named as Leaders in two quadrants each. Birlasoft, Hexaware, Kyndryl, Tech Mahindra and T-Systems are named as Leaders in one quadrant each.

In addition, LTIMindtree is named as a Rising Star — a company with a “promising portfolio” and “high future potential” by ISG’s definition — in two quadrants. PwC is named as a Rising Star in one quadrant.

The 2023 ISG Provider Lens™ SAP Ecosystem report for the U.K. is available to subscribers or for one-time purchase on this webpage.

About ISG Provider Lens™ Research

The ISG Provider Lens™ Quadrant research series is the only service provider evaluation of its kind to combine empirical, data-driven research and market analysis with the real-world experience and observations of ISG’s global advisory team. Enterprises will find a wealth of detailed data and market analysis to help guide their selection of appropriate sourcing partners, while ISG advisors use the reports to validate their own market knowledge and make recommendations to ISG’s enterprise clients. The research currently covers providers offering their services globally, across Europe, as well as in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, the U.K., France, Benelux, Germany, Switzerland, the Nordics, Australia and Singapore/Malaysia, with additional markets to be added in the future. For more information about ISG Provider Lens research, please visit this webpage.

A companion research series, the ISG Provider Lens Archetype reports, offer a first-of-its-kind evaluation of providers from the perspective of specific buyer types.

About ISG

ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business partner to more than 900 clients, including more than 75 of the world’s top 100 enterprises, ISG is committed to helping corporations, public sector organizations, and service and technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services, including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory; managed governance and risk services; network carrier services; strategy and operations design; change management; market intelligence and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006, and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG employs more than 1,600 digital-ready professionals operating in more than 20 countries—a global team known for its innovative thinking, market influence, deep industry and technology expertise, and world-class research and analytical capabilities based on the industry’s most comprehensive marketplace data. For more information, visit www.isg-one.com.

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