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LARGO, Fla., Nov. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Law firm management and legal technology consulting firm Affinity Consulting Group announces its designation as NetDocuments Implementation Partner of the Year and Strategic Law Worldwide Partner of the Year for 2020. The awards were received at NetDocuments’ annual Elevate event.

NetDocuments is the leading secure multitenant cloud-based content services and productivity platform for law firms, corporate legal teams and business organizations. NetDocuments partners provide a unified sales, implementation, integration and service experience for their clients.

Awarded by the NetDocuments professional services team, the Implementation Partner of the Year honor is given to the partner with the highest quality of implementation, along with the highest customer feedback ratings among partners. Strategic Law Worldwide Partner of the Year is awarded to the NetDocuments partner with the highest sourced business in the strategic law segment.

“Affinity works very closely with the NetDocuments professional services team in both pre- and post-implementation services,” says Reza Parsia, vice president of strategic partner management for NetDocuments. “They have the highest satisfaction ratings from implementation services surveys. Affinity also put a concerted effort into growing their pipeline and marketing efforts in the strategic law space this year, and they had the highest sourced business in this market, with double-digit growth.”

The awards reflect a long-standing culture of continuous quality improvement, collaboration and customer service within Affinity’s document management, client success and client engagement teams.

“Helping firms choose, implement and really leverage a document management system is challenging, but rewarding work,” says Affinity managing partner Debbie Foster, who credits the firm’s client-first approach for its satisfaction ratings and growth. “I am so proud to work with a team of professionals that makes magic happen for our clients every single day.”

“We share these awards across our organization, from our consultants to our migration engineers, application developers, project managers, client engagement managers, client relationship managers and the administrative teams that support them,” says Greg Bray, Affinity’s director of document management. “I have been truly humbled by the hard work, creativity and dedication from the NetDocuments services teams that have led to us receiving this acknowledgment.”

About Affinity Consulting Group

Affinity Consulting Group is a management and technology consulting company serving law firms, corporate legal departments and bar associations that inspires, enables and empowers legal teams of all sizes to work more efficiently. The firm’s holistic approach addresses the roles of people, process and technology in optimizing performance. For more information visit www.affinityconsulting.com.

Media Contact

Vicki LaBrosse
Edge Legal Marketing
651-552-7753
[email protected]

MONTREAL, Nov. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As part of its biennial celebration of the Great builders of the Quebec economy, the IGOPP has named Louis Audet, Executive Chair of the Board of Cogeco, and Madeleine Paquin, President and CEO of LOGISTEC, as the laureates of its sixth edition.

Since this initiative was launched in 2010, the IGOPP has been celebrating the boldness, innovation and outstanding merits of the exceptional business builders who are shaping Quebec’s economy.

The two 2020 laureates are a shining example of the contribution made to Quebec society by long-standing, family-owned businesses. The IGOPP is very pleased to recognize their economic success and their social commitment.

The Chair of IGOPP’s Board, Yvan Allaire, praised the two honorees: “The IGOPP is especially pleased to highlight the success of companies such as Cogeco and LOGISTEC, which are a compelling example of what we call a ‘capitalism of owners,’ that is, a capitalism forged by companies that are controlled by entrepreneurs and their families who have established long-lasting businesses.”

“Cogeco and LOGISTEC are committed to the long term and are strongly influenced by family values,” added François Dauphin, the IGOPP’s President and CEO. “They have developed a form of ownership that ensures the continuity of their control in Quebec. Their success and their exceptional contribution to the Quebec economy are a particularly enlightening example for new generations of entrepreneurs.”

A bronze plaque for each of the laureates will be added to the Wall honouring the Great builders of the Quebec economy, on the mezzanine at 1000 de la Gauchetière West, which features more than a dozen builders. The following people have been honoured since 2010: Laurent Beaudoin, Paul Desmarais Sr., Alain Bouchard, Serge Godin, John and Eric Molson, André Chagnon, the Lemaire and Pomerleau families, and the financial and agricultural cooperative movement, specifically Dorimène and Alphonse Desjardins.

This Wall is intended to remind future generations of the efforts made by the entrepreneurs who have built and will continue to build important, sustainable businesses in the Quebec economy.

About the companies-laureates:

Cogeco

Cogeco is a diversified communications company that provides Internet, video and telephony services, as well as operating 23 radio stations across Quebec. Established by Henri Audet more than 60 years ago, Cogeco has become a major company under the direction of Louis Audet who has led it for 25 years. Cogeco has become a leader in the highly competitive cable and broadcasting sectors.

With its entrepreneurial culture based on human values, calculated risk-taking and technological innovation, Cogeco has become one of North America’s largest communications companies.

LOGISTEC

Founded more than 68 years ago, LOGISTEC is a publicly traded company with operations in a number of sectors: maritime services, environmental services and services related to water technologies.

With operations in 38 ports and 65 terminals in North America, LOGISTEC is a leader in its industry. The company’s success is rooted in the vision and leadership of its founder, Roger Paquin, and is based on the business acumen, determination and commitment to excellence demonstrated by Madeleine Paquin, who succeeded her father as President and CEO in 1996.

About IGOPP:

Created in 2005 by two academic institutions (HEC Montréal and Concordia University – The John Molson School of Business), the Stephen Jarislowsky Foundation and the Autorité des marchés financiers, the Institute for governance (IGOPP) has become a centre for excellence about governance of public and private organizations. Through research and publications, seminars on value-creating governance^®, policy papers and board evaluation and governance interventions, IGOPP has become a key reference on all issues of governance in the private and public sectors.

Information:

Majida Lamnini
, MBA (c)
Director of Strategic Initiatives – (514) 439-9301- [email protected]

Vancouver, BC, Nov. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mojio, a leading connected mobility platform and SaaS solutions provider achieves the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ program award for its rapid revenue growth, entrepreneurial spirit and bold innovation. The program recognizes Canada’s 50 fastest-growing technology companies with the highest revenue-growth percentage over the past four years. Mojio ranks No. 7, with a 3,612% revenue growth from 2016 to 2019. This is the third consecutive year that Mojio has been recognized in the Top 10.

No.1 in British Columbia, Mojio was also ranked No. 50 in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, a roster of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America.

Mojio’s CEO Kenny Hawk credits a customer-centric approach with the company’s explosive revenue growth. “We’ve delivered Mojio’s connected mobility solutions from Vancouver to global customers by empowering our team to build products and services that drivers love,” said Hawk. “Our technical and design teams’ hard work fueled this growth. We’re truly honoured to be recognized amongst this impressive group of innovative technology companies.”

“This year’s Fast 50 winners should be especially proud of this designation, as their role in the fabric of Canadian business—particularly during these turbulent times—is crucial,” said Erica Pretorius, partner and national leader for the Technology Fast 50 program at Deloitte Canada. “Their bold vision and true commitment to innovation allow them to not only improve today’s world, but also shape tomorrow’s, despite the constant uncertainty. This year’s winners are proving themselves resilient, innovative and adaptable, all in an unpredictable year defined by economic instability and the continuing public health crisis.”

To qualify for the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranking, companies must have been in business for at least four years, have revenues of at least $5 million, be headquartered in Canada, own proprietary technology, conduct research and development activities in Canada and invest a minimum of five percent of gross revenues in R&D.

About the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program is Canada’s pre-eminent technology awards program. Celebrating business growth, innovation and entrepreneurship, the program features distinct categories, including the Technology Fast 50 ranking, Enterprise Fast 15, and Companies-to-Watch. The program also recognizes companies within the North American Technology Fast 500 ranking, identifying technology companies in the United States and Canada.

The 2020 program sponsors include Deloitte, RBC, CBRE, Clarity Recruitment, and Lafond. For further information, visit www.fast50.ca.

About Deloitte

Deloitte provides audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, and related services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. Deloitte serves four out of five Fortune Global 500® companies through a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries and territories bringing world-class capabilities, insights, and service to address clients’ most complex business challenges. Deloitte LLP, an Ontario limited liability partnership, is the Canadian member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited. Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and its member firms.

Our global Purpose is making an impact that matters. At Deloitte Canada, that translates into building a better future by accelerating and expanding access to knowledge. We believe we can achieve this Purpose by living our shared values to lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact.

To learn more about how Deloitte’s approximately 312,000 professionals, over 12,000 of whom are part of the Canadian firm, please connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.

About Mojio

Scalable, secure and hardware-agnostic, Mojio is the platform and SaaS solution provider of choice to build, launch and scale connected mobility services. Mojio’s platform and mobile apps deliver a smarter, safer and more convenient car ownership experience for the global driving community. With over 15 billion miles of driving data gathered from more than a million vehicles, Mojio’s big data analytics framework uses machine learning to generate actionable insights, unlocking the next generation of revenue streams for companies throughout the automotive value chain.

Founded in 2012, Mojio has growing teams in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, and counts some of the world’s biggest brands as customers, investors and partners, including Amazon, Bosch, Deutsche Telekom, Microsoft, T-Mobile and Vivint. Mojio is a career-accelerator for driven tech professionals looking to fuel the future of connected mobility. To learn more about joining our team, please visit Mojio’s careers page.

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ATLANTA, Nov. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Jacada, Inc., a pioneer of intelligent customer service automation, has announced its newest strategic partner, Servion Global Solutions, a leading Contact Center and Customer Experience (CX) solution provider headquartered in Princeton, NJ. The partnership enables Servion to resell, deploy and support Jacada’s entire customer service automation portfolio globally.

Businesses continue to compete on customer experience more so than on price or product. The pandemic has only exacerbated the challenges for laggards in this race, even as customer experience leaders contend with newer challenges — anxious customers, drastic changes in the supply chain and a work-from-home workforce.

While cloud adoption, artificial intelligence and automation are commonly found in recipes for recovery and reimagination beyond the pandemic, contact center leaders must move forward with a data-driven mindset and plan for sustainable progress, not just the rapid deployment of various technologies. That’s easier said than done, and that’s why Jacada and Servion are partnering to put the power of Jacada’s low code contact center automation suite in the hands of Servion’s trusted consultants and engineers who have been designing and delivering game-changing contact center and customer experience solutions for over 25 years.

“As the customer experience technology stack, particularly, in an around the contact center, gets more complex, diverse, and disparate, Jacada’s low code middleware for contact center automation comes in handy to harmonize enterprise silos and elevate the customer experience in record time and cost,” mentioned Yochai Rozenblat, CEO of Jacada. “Servion’s trusted expertise in designing and delivering such contact center and customer experience transformations makes for a partnership designed for value creation,” he added.

“We are excited to partner with Jacada to extend our CX and Contact Center capabilities with their AI-powered self-service and robotic process automation technology,” said Laurent Philonenko, CEO at Servion Global Solutions. “Servion’s expertise in implementing and managing technology solutions combined with Jacada’s innovative products will allow us to further enhance customer and agent experience across multiple channels, reduce operational costs, and improve overall business efficiency for customer service or sales,” he added.

While Jacada and Servion have collaborated previously, the companies have now made the partnership more strategic and global to accelerate digital transformation initiatives for clients particularly interested in scaling conversational AI and robotic process automation within the customer operation. The global Servion team has gone through a formal enablement process and is ready to help clients harmonize silos and elevate their customer experience.

About Jacada

Jacada is a global enterprise software provider in the customer service automation space, with award-winning robotic process automation and conversational AI capabilities. Our clients and partners use Jacada Interact, our low code automation platform, to design, build and manage intelligent virtual agents for their customers and employees. Solutions harmonize silos and elevate CX in weeks without having to rip or replace existing assets.

About Servion Global Solutions

For more than 25 years, Servion has been trusted by customer-centric brands for architecting, implementing, and managing Contact Centers and Customer Experience (CX) solutions. Servion delivers complete solutions for businesses to innovate in providing digital experiences using the best available technologies while maximizing their existing investments. Our 1,000 CX professionals apply their passion and deep domain expertise to the entire build-run-optimize solution lifecycle. Servion has helped 600 enterprises across the globe deliver great experiences to their customers, partners, and employees. For more information, visit https://www.servion.com.

For press inquiries, contact Scott Merritt via phone at 770-361-5900 or email at [email protected]

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Shift (Nasdaq: SFT), a leading end-to-end ecommerce platform for buying and selling used cars, today announced senior management will present to the investment community and host individual and small group meetings at the following upcoming investor conference:

Wells Fargo TMT Summit
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2020

A live and archived webcast of the presentations will be available on the investor relations section of the Shift website, investors.shift.com.

About Shift

Shift is a leading end-to-end auto ecommerce platform transforming the used car industry with a technology-driven, hassle-free customer experience. Shift’s mission is to make car purchase and ownership simple — to make buying or selling a used car fun, fair, and accessible to everyone. Shift provides comprehensive, digital solutions throughout the car ownership lifecycle: finding the right car, having a test drive brought to you before buying the car, a seamless digitally-driven purchase transaction including financing and vehicle protection products, an efficient, digital trade-in/sale transaction, and a vision to provide high-value support services during car ownership. For more information, visit www.shift.com.

Investor Relations Contact:

Jennifer Jarman, The Blueshirt Group
[email protected]

Media Contact:

Jeff Fox, The Blueshirt Group
[email protected]

Source: Shift Technologies, Inc.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —  Motorq, the connected car API company and General Motors innovated a new approach to streamline the delivery of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles to fleet owners and operators during supply chain disruptions caused by COVID-19. For the first time, the companies integrated GM’s OnStar^TM Pre-Delivery data service, with Motorq’s cloud-based platform to allow fleet managers to accurately identify and track the location of vehicles throughout the logistics lifecycle. What began as a short-term fix is now becoming a new standard for fleet management.

Pre-delivery fleet tracking has always presented challenges as automotive manufacturers move hundreds of thousands of vehicles from factories, to staging lots, on trailers, to dealers and ultimately to the customer. Work and travel restrictions stemming from Covid-19 made this process even more difficult, as factories were idled, inventory movements were limited and dealership personnel were sporadically available. It was hard for fleet owners to obtain timely, accurate information about the status of their orders.

GM and Motorq are working to solve this problem by leveraging the embedded telematics data services from OnStar^TM to track and display vehicle location via a private, secure web-based portal. Upon receiving consent, Motorq’s cloud-based platform “ingests” vehicle data (like VIN, location, status, etc.) in real-time and presents it to fleet managers in the portal. With this new service, fleet managers for the first time can see the status and location of all tracked vehicles at any given moment. In addition to the live feed, fleet managers can also receive a daily status report delivered via email.

“It is said that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ and COVID-19 certainly created the need for a new approach for tracking fleet vehicles,” said Arun Rajagopalan, co-founder and CEO of Motorq. “The benefits of this new approach have been embraced by fleet managers and we believe this can become the new industry standard for pre-delivery vehicle intelligence and management.”

“We saw a huge opportunity to leverage the power of OnStar for an entirely new use case – helping fleet customers better track the location and status of their vehicles, many of which were mission-critical for the response to COVID-19,” said Ed Peper, U.S. Vice President at General Motors Fleet. “Our collaboration with Motorq enabled us to quickly solve a short-term problem and create a new long-term opportunity for our customers as well.”

Any large fleets with an existing GM Fleet Account Number are eligible to participate. Interested parties should contact [email protected].

About General Motors

General Motors (NYSE:GM) is a global company committed to delivering safer, better and more sustainable ways for people to get around. General Motors, its subsidiaries and its joint venture entities sell vehicles under the Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Holden, Baojun and Wuling brands. More information on the company and its subsidiaries, including OnStar, a global leader in vehicle safety and security services, can be found at http://www.gm.com.

About Motorq Inc.

Motorq is a venture-backed connected-car data and analytics software platform company that enables large fleet owners and fleet management companies to leverage data and actionable insights from the emerging, fragmented set of advanced connected-car systems. Motorq’s cloud-based system performs ingestion, normalization, stream analytics processing, and data provisioning via APIs and other methods. Businesses use Motorq as a tool to implement connectivity-derived insights better, faster and cheaper, so they can focus on their core. Additional information is available at www.motorq.com.

ENACOMM to integrate Boku verification of device ownership, possession into Fraud Control Module, enabling dynamic interaction channel behavior that thwarts suspected fraudsters

TULSA, OK, Nov. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via NewMediaWire — ENACOMM Fraud Control Module (FCM) users will soon have an additional weapon to use against fraudsters, thanks to a new partnership between ENACOMM and Boku. Financial institution and credit card company customers of ENACOMM will be able to utilize Boku’s identity verification solutions in conjunction with the FCM to help reduce fraud and account takeovers (ATOs).

The ENACOMM Fraud Control Module uses customizable fraud indicators to identify, report and stop suspected fraudsters with rule-based actions. FCM users will now also be able to deploy Boku as an additional layer of security, to quickly verify legitimate users and identify likely fraudsters using signals from mobile service providers.

Through its global network of mobile carriers, Boku provides real-time signals to confirm that consumers are, in fact, who they say they are. These signals now power ENACOMM applications to dynamically change behavior discreetly, ensuring that fraudsters are unable to circumvent the extra security.

“A common tactic used by fraudsters is to hijack an accountholder’s phone number and use it as proof of identity to access account information,” explained David Jackson, ENACOMM Executive Vice President of Strategic Products. “Ensuring that a consumer has both legitimate ownership and possession of their phone number allows us to eliminate this type of fraud.”

When inconsistent or likely fraudulent phone behavior is detected, ENACOMM’s customer servicing applications (web, mobile, IVR, and virtual personal assistants) can automatically require further authentication, remove high-risk application options such as funds transfers or PIN changes, and/or route users to fraud queues. Based on mobile identity signals from Boku, FCM users can also create new fraud rules that, when triggered, will prompt the system to perform one or more actions, such as send an email alert to the fraud team with details on the incident.

“Boku uses mobile identity signals to detect and mitigate fraud, wherever it may originate,” commented Stuart Neal, Chief Business Officer for Identity at Boku. “Our partnership with ENACOMM ensures that their customers can dramatically reduce if not eliminate mobile device-based fraud, which frequently targets the financial services industry.”

To find out more about ENACOMM’s FinTech solutions, go to www.enacomm.net. To learn more about Boku, visit www.boku.com.

About ENACOMM

ENACOMM is a FinTech provider of a digital gateway that can talk to any core platform to support open banking and affordable solutions that modernize the user experience for bank customers and credit union members, rivaling the customer service technologies offered by the biggest financial institutions with the deepest pockets, and that transform operations through the strategic application of data. Utilizing web, mobile, real-time alerts, SMS texts, email, voice, chatbots and other communication technology channels including digital voice assistants that enable Conversational Voice Banking, ENACOMM harnesses artificial intelligence, big data, voice biometrics and more to help organizations provide customers and members with a best-in-class, omnichannel self-service experience that is convenient, secure, and user-friendly. A frontrunner in self-service technologies including intelligent, personalized interactive voice response (IVR) for over three decades, the company’s customer base ranges from community credit unions and community banks to the largest financial institutions in the United States. Offering financial institutions intelligent interactions and user authentication technologies as hosted services or on-demand through the “cloud,” ENACOMM was named a “Top 10 Retail Banking Solution Provider” by Banking CIO Outlook magazine. ENACOMM processes more than 1,000,000 customer interactions and automated data transactions every day.

About Boku

Boku Inc. is a leading global provider of mobile payment and mobile identity solutions. Boku’s technology platform, which is linked to more than 200 mobile wallets and network operators worldwide, verifies user identity, executes payments, and provisions new services, simplifying daily mobile interactions between consumers and digital organizations.

Boku’s technology platform is used in over 59 countries with over 815 million verified transactions in 2019, contributing $5 billion to the digital economy. Businesses that currently employ Boku’s platform to simplify sign-up, acquire new paying users and prevent fraud include global leaders such as Apple, Discover, Experian, Facebook, FIS, Fiserv, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Paypal, Sony, Spotify and Western Union.

Boku Inc. was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in London, UK, with offices in various locations globally including in the US, Mumbai, Munich, Beijing, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Taipei, and Tokyo.

For more information, contact:

Lauren DuBois

(917) 573-2485

[email protected]

DALLAS, Nov. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Calyx^®, a leading provider of compliant mortgage software solutions used by banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders and brokerages nationwide, announced today its Path^® loan origination software (LOS) is now integrated with Marksman^®, the industry-leading product and pricing engine (PPE) from Mortech^®.

Path is an innovative, cloud-based solution designed to simplify the loan process while still providing lenders the controls and flexibility they need to run their business. The data-driven LOS is completely configurable to the lenders’ specific needs, including workflows, roles, organizational structure and compliance controls. As a result of this integration, Path users will now be able to seamlessly access accurate, real-time product and pricing information from leading wholesalers, correspondents and investors via the Mortech platform.

The Mortech platform automatically delivers best execution pricing with real-time rates factoring in base price, SRP, LLPA’s and profit margin. It also simultaneously compares PMI premiums and eligibility. Because the process is automated, there is no need to manually search and compare rates, fees and guidelines. Users can customize default settings to see specified loan types or rates from designated wholesalers and investors. This system also monitors investor guideline eligibility.

Mortech has an established integration in the Calyx flagship LOS, Point^® and is available to all mutual users.

“We are excited to be working with Calyx to help bring simplicity and automation to our lenders workflow. By providing access to real-time mortgage offers, we enable a more streamlined approach for borrowers searching and comparing rates. In today’s high-volume origination environment, automation is more important now than ever,” says Doug Foral, General Manager at Mortech.

Thomas Hennen, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Calyx, said: “The decision to integrate with Mortech was an extremely easy one. The company is a leader in automation and is known for its competitive pricing and dedicated customer service. Also, in a category where implementation can run 150 to 180 days, Mortech is able to onboard lenders as fast as two to three weeks.”

About Mortech
Mortech supplies thousands of mortgage professionals with a number of services and tools, such as all-in-one pricing, customer retention, rate notification, custom rate sheets, loan product eligibility and guideline services. Founded in 1987, Mortech is based in Lincoln, Neb. and is owned and operated by Zillow Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:Z and ZG).

Mortech is a registered trademark of Zillow, Inc. For more information, visit: http://www.mortech.com/.

About Calyx

Calyx^® is an established provider of compliant mortgage software solutions used by banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders, and brokerages nationwide. The company’s easy-to-use technology, including its online borrower interview, loan origination systems, and secure electronic signature software, is designed to streamline, integrate and optimize all phases of the loan process for customers of various sizes, workflows, channels and complexities. Combined with its extensive network of integrated partners, Calyx products deliver a true digital mortgage solution that maximizes profitability and enhances the customer experience. For more information, call (800) 362-2599 or visit www.calyxsoftware.com.