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ATLANTA, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — (NASDAQ: RDFN) –  As much of the country continues to take stock of the damage inflicted by Hurricane Ida, RentPath (rentpath.com), a leader in the apartment and home rental industry and the company behind Rent.com and ApartmentGuide.com, is partnering with property owners to help those most in need.

In addition to rental listings, RentPath offers a suite of advanced software solutions to multifamily properties, enabling efficient communication with tenants. With many properties either damaged or uninhabitable in Ida’s wake, RentPath is offering property managers in affected communities free access to Media Center PRO, its state-of-the-art automated resident communications platform, for the next 60 days. Access to Media Center PRO will enable property managers to easily stay in touch with renters around safety protocols and recovery efforts  as repairs continue.

With free access to Media Center PRO, property managers can access one unified inbox for simplified two-way text and email messaging. This flexibility allows property managers to send real-time updates and alerts community-wide or directly to individual renters with ease. Examples of critical notifications include emergency office hours and availability, safety procedures, changes to maintenance protocols, and updates on repairs and remediation.

In addition to free communication tools, RentPath is highlighting immediately available apartments and rentals on its listing network to assist with quickly re-housing thousands of displaced renters. The multifamily digital marketing company moved quickly to launch alerts on its highly trafficked web properties (Rent.com, ApartmentGuide.com, Rentals.com) to highlight properties available for immediate move-in in affected communities and surrounding areas.

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“Our heart goes out to those impacted by Hurricane Ida and particularly those who have been displaced,” says RentPath CEO Jon Ziglar. “Leveraging technology to connect people with a place to live is at the heart of what we do every day at RentPath, and our platform is perfectly positioned to help at this critical moment. By enhancing the ability of property managers and renters to communicate, as well as making it easier for those in urgent need to find available housing, we hope to remove at least a small part of the enormous burden ahead for those impacted by Hurricane Ida.” 

About RentPath

RentPath is the only marketing and automation platform that engages prospective tenants through the entire renter journey, maximizing leads and occupancies with unparalleled ROI. Through its broad network of rental listing sites including Rent.com, ApartmentGuide.com and Rentals.com, RentPath connects property owners and managers with over 10 million high-intent, in-market renters per month. In addition, the RentPath platform powers a full suite of best-in-class digital marketing solutions across search advertising, social media, email marketing, web chat, resident communication, reputation management and more. RentPath’s holistic solutions simplify the rental search experience for renters while driving occupancies and efficiencies for property managers and owners. RentPath is a Redfin Company.

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LONDON, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today announced the availability of “IT’s changing mandate in an age of disruption,” a new report from The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU), supported by Appian. The report’s findings are rooted in a twin survey, conducted by The EIU, of more than 1,000 IT decision-makers and senior business executives at major corporations around the globe.

The survey results highlight the shortcomings of existing IT systems. IT backlogs are significant and IT’s control over the digital infrastructure is slipping. As business demand for new software applications grows, more work is spilling into non-IT development, and most business leaders expect that trend to increase.

In parallel, there is overwhelming agreement that applications need to improve to make organizations more responsive to changing business conditions. 83% of respondents say adapting better to external change requires moderate-to-considerable IT infrastructure and apps improvement.

“The report shows organizations are expecting more from IT at a time when employees and enterprise data are more dispersed than ever. With Low-code, IT can gain agility and deliver the complex applications that businesses need,” said Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian.

The survey data also highlights a path forward. The need for business agility, spurred by the COVID pandemic, is causing IT to forge a new role based on delivering organizational resilience. When asked for the most impactful areas to improve, the top three responses were supporting remote workers (72%), Integrating information and workflows across the organisation (69%) and changing systems and processes quickly (69%).

Additional report highlights include:

• 3-12 months is the average backlog for planned IT projects, and the situation is worsening as business project demand outstrips IT budget growth.
• 55% of respondents say business units already do more than IT to procure or develop new applications.
• 53% of business decision-makers believe the volume of applications built or sourced by non-IT business units will increase over the next 12 months.
• 75% of business decision-makers state that when procuring or creating new applications, they prefer to keep their data where it is rather than move it to new repositories.
• 61% of business decision-makers report that they’ve had to cancel a digital project because the proposed app or solution could not access the right data.
• Despite the importance of advanced automation technologies, 71% of respondents report that relatively few of their applications have AI and/or machine learning capabilities, and 57% report that RPA projects often fail.

To learn more, download the full report, and talk to Appian about how low-code automation accelerates IT and improves business collaboration, performance, and resilience.

About the Report
“IT’s changing mandate in an age of disruption” is a survey-based report written by The Economist Intelligence Unit and supported by Appian. The 1,002 survey respondents represent IT and business decision-makers across six sectors (financial services, insurance, healthcare, the public sector, oil and gas, and energy and utilities) and nine countries (the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and Australia). One third are C-level executives and the remainder work at the director level or above. Half of the respondents work in organisations with annual revenues of over US$1bn. The report supplements the survey findings with secondary research and in-depth interviews with experts at organizations including BP, BUPA Australia & New Zealand, Capital One, Mayo Group, Unilabs, and Uniper.

About Appian
Appian helps organizations build apps and workflows rapidly, with a low-code automation platform. Combining people, technologies, and data in a single workflow, Appian can help companies maximize their resources and improve business results. Many of the world’s largest organizations use Appian applications to improve customer experience, achieve operational excellence, and simplify global risk management and compliance. For more information, go to www.appian.com.

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LONDON, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today announced its 2021 International Partner Award Winners at Appian Europe, a low-code automation virtual conference. This annual award, now in its fourth year, recognizes top strategic partners that have successfully deployed solutions on the Appian Low-Code Automation Platform.

Appian’s 2021 International Partner Award Winners include the following:

Value Award – Wipro
Wipro has been awarded the 2021 Value Award in recognition of their outstanding achievement in creating innovative solutions, solving client challenges, and delivering value on the Appian Low-Code Automation Platform. The Wipro team has collaborated with Appian seamlessly, worked tirelessly and shown exceptional commitment to our customers during a challenging year. The result of this close partnership is winning one of the largest deals in the region this past year at an international health organization.

Innovation Award – NextWave
NextWave is the winner of the Innovation Award for creating and delivering innovative Finance of the Future and Model Risk Management solutions for some of the world’s largest banks, asset managers, and Fintechs on the Appian platform. NextWave has also expanded their Appian business with the addition of senior Finance industry experts leading major Appian programs and experienced Appian developers as trusted specialists in the Financial Services industry. NextWave’s groundbreaking ‘One4One’ programme has transformed the lives of 11 young people to date and marks them as an organization with an innovative social enterprise purpose beyond their core business.

Growth Award – First Technology
The Growth Award goes to First Technology for their success in winning new customers across key industries in banking, insurance, and transportation in the Netherlands. An Appian Partner since 2015, First Technology has also been proactive and successful in expanding opportunities in existing customer accounts in the Netherlands. These initiatives have enabled rapid growth and expansion of their business into the UK, Nordics, and DACH region beyond its home base.

Transformation Award – KPMG Belgium
KPMG Belgium is the recipient of this year’s Transformation Award for their pre- and post-deal work with Appian over two years to secure a large deal with a leading insurance company, enabling the insurer to transform their processes, elevate their customer experience, and use Appian to its full innovation power. The close collaboration between KPMG and Appian has been instrumental to this success. It has set a high bar for future projects in the region and has opened other opportunities within the insurance industry and beyond.

EMEA Reseller of the Year – Procensol
Procensol has been a trusted and valued Appian partner in the UK for over a decade. As the winner of the 2021 Appian EMEA Reseller of the Year Award, Procensol achieved the highest new software revenue contribution, expanded within existing accounts, and added new customers from Financial Services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing.

“Our partners are instrumental to the continued growth of Appian and the success of our joint customers,” said Erik de Haas, VP of Alliance for EMEA and APJ at Appian. “These award winners have delivered impactful business results for customers across key industries by delivering agile services and innovative solutions on the Appian Low-Code Automation Platform.” 

About Appian
Appian helps organizations build apps and workflows rapidly, with a low-code automation platform. Combining people, technologies, and data in a single workflow, Appian can help companies maximize their resources and improve business results. Many of the world’s largest organizations use Appian applications to improve customer experience, achieve operational excellence, and simplify global risk management and compliance. For more information, go to www.appian.com.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG),  the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, today announced that DC BLOX, a provider of interconnected multi-tenant data centers across the Southeastern U.S., has adopted FlashBlade®, Pure’s unified fast file and object (UFFO) storage solution, delivered via Pure as-a-Service™ to power the growing storage infrastructure needs of its customers and accelerate local economic growth.

DC BLOX’s customers include regional life sciences organizations that collaborate globally – from genomic sequencing service labs and large research institutions, to hospitals that leverage crucial research for patient care, including hard-to-diagnose medical anomalies. However, to collaborate effectively on a global scale and advance pivotal industry research, these organizations require split-second access to massive volumes of information often stored in specialized equipment and databases. In fact, a single genome center alone can generate six petabytes of data per year. Without the right underlying infrastructure, researchers are burdened by a time-intensive waiting period, and the collaboration process is severely obstructed.

Using Pure’s FlashBlade® delivered via Pure as-a-Service™, however, DC BLOX offers customers fast, secure, and resilient data pipelines that can adeptly handle growing amounts of unstructured data, while keeping prices for data-intensive workloads competitive and continuing its regional expansion of data centers. FlashBlade enables DC BLOX customers to quickly process large, complex genomic workloads supported by high performance and capacity, and at pricing that reflects actual consumption.

DC BLOX is also leveraging Pure’s Evergreen Storage™ subscription, which allows it to upgrade with no disruptions and expand its Pure infrastructure when needed.

“With Pure, we can effectively provide clients with the storage, connectivity, and cloud infrastructure needed to operate and collaborate worldwide, while seamlessly adding capacity on demand without incurring the disruption and cost of a forklift upgrade every few years. Together, we’re empowering customers to focus on their businesses instead of allocating precious resources to managing storage infrastructure. Additionally, Pure is so well engineered that we no longer have to deal with much day-to-day maintenance and can focus on DC BLOX’s regional expansion.” — Chris Gatch, Chief Technology Officer, DC BLOX.

“The sheer amount of unstructured data is exploding today, arming organizations with the ability to drive next-generation insights and make critical business breakthroughs. We’re excited to work with DC BLOX to offer customers an efficient and reliable way to consume this modern data and ultimately power innovation and growth globally.” — Amy Fowler, VP, Strategy and Solutions, FlashBlade Business Unit, Pure Storage.

Read the full case study at https://www.purestorage.com/customers/dc-blox.html and to learn more, visit:

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  Pure as-a-Service
  
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  Pure Storage Evergreen
  

About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across multiple clouds. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies in history, Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure’s ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world.

Pure Storage, the “P” Logo, Evergreen, FlashArray, FlashBlade, Pure1 and Pure as-a-Service are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pure Storage. All other trademarks or names referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners.

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FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BIOLASE, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIOL), the global leader in dental lasers, and Healthy Smiles for Kids of Orange County (Healthy Smiles) are inviting dental professionals in the Orange County area to an awareness reception around the shared mission to improve the oral health of children in the community.

The event is open to all members of the dental community and will be held Sept. 24 from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at the BIOLASE Learning Center, at 27042 Towne Centre Dr, Foothill Ranch, Calif. Guests can hear testimonials from families treated at Healthy Smiles as well as providers who have used BIOLASE’s Waterlase dental lasers to transform the dental experience one smile at a time. BIOLASE will also present HSK with a new Waterlase i-Plus all-tissue laser at the event, to commemorate the partnership.

“We are excited to bring more members of the dental community in on a cause that is so close to our hearts, and in on the fun that we have with our long-standing partner, Healthy Smiles,” said John Beaver, President and CEO of BIOLASE. “It has been moving over the years to see our mission of advancing density embraced by so many in the area, and we continue to seek out ways that we can give back. I believe this is just another step in reaching our goal of raising a generation of kids not afraid of going to the dentist.”

Since 2018, Healthy Smiles and BIOLASE have collaborated on local programs directed at prevention, outreach and education, access to treatment, and advocacy in the community. 1 in 3 children living in Orange County are reported to have tooth decay, while 1 in 10 children living in the area have never visited a dentist. Healthy Smiles’ clinics and school-based programs have provided critical dental services to underserved children since 2003, reaching around 100,000 children and parents each year.

“This year we hit a milestone of our millionth child served since inception,” said Ria Berger, Chief Executive Officer of Healthy Smiles. “It is partners like BIOLASE that make a number like this possible. We are deeply appreciative of BIOLASE for their support, and offering the Healthy Smiles team, and the families who have benefited from our services, a platform like this event to share their stories.”

For more information on the event and to RSVP visit HSK Event.

About BIOLASE, Inc.

BIOLASE is a medical device company that develops, manufactures, markets, and sells laser systems in dentistry and medicine. BIOLASE’s products advance the practice of dentistry and medicine for patients and healthcare professionals. BIOLASE’s proprietary laser products incorporate approximately 271 patented and 40 patent-pending technologies designed to provide biologically and clinically superior performance with less pain and faster recovery times. BIOLASE’s innovative products provide cutting-edge technology at competitive prices to deliver superior results for dentists and patients. BIOLASE’s principal products are revolutionary dental laser systems that perform a broad range of dental procedures, including cosmetic and complex surgical applications. BIOLASE has sold over 41,200 laser systems to date in over 80 countries around the world. Laser products under development address BIOLASE’s core dental market and other adjacent medical and consumer applications.

About Healthy Smiles for Kids of Orange County (Healthy Smiles)

Healthy Smiles has been at the forefront of innovation to address the pediatric dental epidemic affecting Southern California for over 18 years. As a community- based nonprofit organization, Healthy Smiles is dedicated to improving the oral health of Orange County’s most vulnerable children: the very young, those with special healthcare needs, and those with government dental insurance. Since 2003, Healthy Smiles has served approximately 1 million children and their families by offering collaborative programs directed at prevention, advocacy, outreach, education, and access to treatment. Through its partnerships with the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) and the University of Southern California (USC) Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, Healthy Smiles ensures that underserved children receive the highest quality of care they deserve to lead happy and healthy lives.

For updates and information on Waterlase iPlus®, Waterlase Express™, and laser dentistry, find BIOLASE online at www.biolase.com, Facebook at www.facebook.com/biolase, Twitter at www.twitter.com/biolaseinc, Instagram at www.instagram.com/waterlase_laserdentistry, and LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/biolase.

BIOLASE®, Waterlase® and Waterlase iPlus® are registered trademarks of BIOLASE, Inc.

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CHENGDU, China, Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Senmiao Technology Limited (“Senmiao” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: AIHS), a financing and servicing company focused on the online ride-hailing industry in China as well as an operator of its own online ride-hailing platform, today announced the signing of a new contract with Shanghai Lutuan Technology, an affiliate of Meituan (HK: 3690), China’s leading e-commerce platform for services focused on its “Food + Platform” strategy.

According to this new cooperation agreement, online ride-hailing requests and orders will be completed on Meituan’s platform (“the major platform”) utilizing Senmiao’s network of cars and drivers for a set monthly fee. This new agreement will have no impact on drivers’ incomes, and drivers’ incentives will be paid by the major platform going forward.

In August 2021, Senmiao leased cars and provided related services to approximately 1,200 drivers in Chengdu who operated their online ride-hailing businesses through the major platform under the new partnership model.

Xi Wen, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Senmiao, stated, “We are pleased to continue our partnership with Meituan under this new model, whereby we provide Meituan with access to our network of cars and drivers in Chengdu and Guangzhou. In turn, our drivers benefit from increased access to potential riders utilizing the major platform for various services. We believe this arrangement will become even more favorable to Senmiao’s operations over the long term, and we look forward to the potential opportunity to expand this relationship to other cities.”

About Senmiao Technology Limited

Headquartered in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Senmiao provides automobile transaction and related services including sales of automobiles, facilitation and services for automobile purchase and financing, management, operating lease, guarantee and other automobile transaction services as well as operates its own ride-hailing platform aimed principally at the growing online ride-hailing market in Senmiao’s areas of operation in China. For more information about Senmiao, please visit: http://www.senmiaotech.com. Senmiao routinely provides important updates on its website.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements 

This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements (including those relating to the operation of Senmiao’s ride-hailing platform) are subject to significant risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those detailed from time to time in the Senmiao’s filings with the SEC, and represent Senmiao’s views only as of the date they are made and should not be relied upon as representing Senmiao’s views as of any subsequent date. Senmiao undertakes no obligation to publicly revise any forward-looking statements to reflect changes in events or circumstances. 

For more information, please contact:

At the Company:
Yiye Zhou
Email: [email protected] 
Phone: +86 28 6155 4399

Investor Relations:
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Carolyne Sohn, Vice President                                   Lucy Ma, Associate
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ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Sept. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. today announced the acquisition of Bedford Hills, NY-based Lloyd Bedford Cox., Inc. (LBC). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 1921, LBC is a fourth-generation retail insurance agency providing comprehensive insurance coverage, services and risk assessment tools to high-net-worth individuals and families throughout the United States, Europe, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. J. Jeffers Cox and his associates will remain in their current location under the direction of Patrick Kennedy, head of Gallagher’s Eastern region retail property/casualty brokerage operations.

“The LBC team has earned a great reputation for its expertise in serving emerging affluent and high-net-worth clients, and this provides us an opportunity to expand our high-net-worth practice in a key market,” said J. Patrick Gallagher, Jr., Chairman, President and CEO. “I am delighted to welcome Jeff and his team to our growing global company.”

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE:AJG), a global insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting services firm, is headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. The company has operations in 57 countries and offers client service capabilities in more than 150 countries around the world through a network of correspondent brokers and consultants.

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MCLEAN, Va.
, Sept. 14, 2021/PRNewswire/ — Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today announced the latest version of the Appian Low-Code Automation Platform. The new release makes it faster and more efficient to build enterprise applications through major enhancements in low-code data, complete automation functionality, user interface (UI) creation, and application deployment.

Enterprise data can be slow and difficult to manage for any organization. Building low-code apps is simple and visual, but integrating data still requires a host of database skills. The Appian low-code data architecture intelligently and automatically reshapes your data for optimum performance based on your application designs. Users may source data from anywhere, without needing to migrate it. Visually combine, extend, and model relationships between varied data sources, and automatically optimize data sets for performance, without coding or database programming.

The latest version of Appian makes it easier to access, relate, and transform enterprise data:

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  Take advantage of data sync
  
  to build your applications faster. Data sync allows you to rapidly build applications around your enterprise data.
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  Access more of your data without sacrificing performance
  
  with double the number of rows a record type can sync from a source—from 500,000 to 1,000,000.
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  Relate more of your data with confidence
  
  with new one-to-many record type relationships that provide a holistic view of your data.
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  Auto-generate business processes
  
  straight from data records so users can take informed action while viewing unified enterprise data.

The new version of Appian also introduces new features for improved automation, UIs, connected systems, and application deployment enhancements that allow you to do the following:

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  Develop automations more efficiently
  
  by recording each step you take within your web browser each time you click or type.
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  Make robot executions faster
  
  by skipping setup and cleanup for consecutive RPA executions when processing batch items.
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  Design more attractive UIs
  
  by creating applications with finer spacing controls to get the exact look you want and reduce clutter during design.
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  Use Connected Systems to connect to data sources
  
  and use object level security for greater control over access to data.
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  Streamline deployments
  
  by adding database scripts to packages as you develop, instead of waiting to upload your database scripts during deployment.

“The Appian low-code data architecture is revolutionary in defining how developers work with enterprise data to rapidly build applications,” said Malcolm Ross, Deputy CTO at Appian. “We’re reinforcing the Appian Low-Code Promise that when you create apps with Appian, you should expect to build your apps 10x faster, reduce your maintenance costs by 50%, and gain superior functionality as compared to traditional development.”

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Appian helps organizations build apps and workflows rapidly, with a low-code automation platform. Combining people, technologies, and data in a single workflow, Appian can help companies maximize their resources and improve business results. Many of the world’s largest organizations use Appian applications to improve customer experience, achieve operational excellence, and simplify global risk management and compliance. To learn more, visit



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