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SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ —

News Summary: 

• Webex Desk Camera: perfect for both the home or the office with an industry-first AI feature.
• Webex Desk Hub: introduces a brand new category that simplifies hotdesking.
• Webex Desk: packed with intelligent features users want like noise cancellation and virtual backgrounds.

Today at WebexOne, Cisco expanded its line-up of collaboration devices designed to empower the remote worker and enable a safe return to the office. The three new devices joining our intelligent Webex device portfolio are Webex Desk Camera, Webex Desk Hub and Webex Desk. 

It’s clear that the future of work will involve a combination of remote and on-site interactions, known as hybrid-work. As the hybrid workplace takes shape, it’s important that you have seamless, smart experiences whether you’re at home or in the office—or somewhere in between. Together with the rest of Cisco’s intelligent portfolio, the new devices announced today provide such experiences.

“Customers are telling us that they are rethinking their office spaces—many are moving towards hybrid work with more people working at home and more hotdesks in the office,” said Jeetu Patel, SVP and GM, Security & Applications, Cisco. “So we are excited to be introducing two new devices, Webex Desk Camera and Webex Desk, that can be used at home or in the office as well as a brand new device called the Webex Desk Hub—a first for the industry—that allows personalized working in a shared space.”

Details:

• Webex Desk Camera. Packed with the intelligent features you already know from our video portfolio – like facial recognition and occupancy metrics – the Webex Desk Camera is perfect for both the home or the office. And in an industry first that no other USB camera can do, you can now mute and unmute your microphone with a simple gesture—without ever touching your computer. Powered by the Webex platform like the rest of our desk portfolio, IT can manage the Desk Camera at scale so you’ll never miss an update and never be without support. This means that even in an ever-evolving workplace, IT can meet the needs of the workforce – wherever they are.

• Preview: Webex Desk Hub. With many organizations rethinking and reconfiguring their office space,  getting back to the office may mean less desk space and more hotdesking for employees. With the new Webex Desk Hub, it’s super simple to make any available desk your personal space.  This new category of device is powerful enough to provide amazing quality video meetings and phone calls but also allows you to pair, charge, and connect all the things you’ve come to rely on for productivity and collaboration such as your own camera, headset, display, laptop and mobile. It is wrapped with intelligence to provide a consistent experience that enables you to get stuff done. In addition, Webex Desk Hub lets you reserve a desk using your laptop, badge or cell phone to authenticate your identity. This is not a basic device for hotdesking as you know it; the Webex Desk Hub is truly built for a new way of working. Of course, it’s not only easy to use but also to manage. The Webex Desk Hub gathers real-time environmental data, occupancy, and desk usage to help manage the new office space. Or use it to deploy digital signage with reminders to help enable a safe return. 

• Preview: Webex Desk. Just like it’s “big sister” the Webex Desk Pro, the Webex Desk allows you to engage your audience by using slides or videos as your backdrop while you present—a feature we call “immersive presenter”. It transforms your experience by enabling you to connect to meetings, co-create and stay productive whether you’re at home or in the office. It is competitively priced for an all-in-one device with intelligent features users want like noise cancellation, virtual backgrounds and facial recognition. Use it as your primary display and connect to any meetings service. With a high-quality camera, microphone and speakers, it is super simple to set up, with no IT or technical knowledge required. You can be up and running in minutes.

Additional Resources

• Also announced today: the all new Webex with more than 50 new features and the new Webex App Hub with integrations to simplify workflows.
• Comes on the heels of Cisco announcing an agreement to acquire IMImobile and intent to acquire Slido.

About Cisco 

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. Cisco inspires new possibilities by reimagining your applications, securing your data, transforming your infrastructure, and empowering your teams for a global and inclusive future. Discover more on The Network and follow us on Twitter.

Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco’s trademarks can be found at www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company.

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FORT MYERS, Fla., Dec. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Chico’s FAS (NYSE: CHS), a leading omnichannel specialty fashion retailer for women, today announced it is offering same-day delivery from its’ Chico’s, White House Black Market and Soma boutiques across the U.S. The same-day service is now available in 97 percent of the company’s boutiques for last-minute holiday shopping.

Chico’s FAS entered into a new strategic partnership with Roadie, the delivery platform with the nation’s largest local same-day footprint, to offer customers the safety and convenience of shopping online for their favorite intimates, pajamas, apparel, shoes and accessories and the option to request four-hour, same-day delivery at the time their BOPIS and curbside orders are available for pick up. The partnership with Roadie is the latest in a series of investments to accelerate Chico’s FAS digital transformation and enhance its position as a customer-led, digital-first company.  

“Chico’s FAS moved swiftly to provide same day delivery as an additional shipping option for customers, even when holiday shipping deadlines have passed,” said Molly Langenstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Chico’s FAS. “As a customer-centric company, we are regularly creating opportunities to shop our brands with ease, confidence and convenience, whether customers are shopping for themselves or purchasing gifts for family and friends who may live out of state.”

The company continues grow its digital footprint across each of its brands, which is driven, in part, by its omnichannel investments. Nearly two years ago, Chico’s FAS launched StyleConnect^TM, its proprietary digital styling tool to connect customers with her style expert to receive personalized styling advice. This fall, the company expanded its digital footprint by accelerating the launch of MyCloset^TM, a personalized shopping feature to augment customers’ closets by coordinating with past purchases. As a result, all three brands are experiencing higher digital conversion rates and increases in digital sales. Partnering with Roadie expands the company’s omnichannel presence by providing an additional shipping option when customers use Chico’s FAS digital channels to shop their favorite styles. 

“This holiday season, shoppers are relying on same-day delivery more than ever to get their gifts in time while staying safe,” said Marc Gorlin, Roadie’s Founder and CEO. “Whether you’re shopping for someone else or you just need a special sweater for your holiday Zoom calls, we’re proud to help Chico’s, White House Black Market and Soma shoppers get whatever they need, right to their doorsteps.”

ABOUT CHICO’S FAS, INC.

Chico’s FAS is a Florida-based fashion company founded in 1983 on Sanibel Island, Fla. The Company reinvented the fashion retail experience by creating fashion communities anchored by service, which puts the customer at the center of everything we do. As one of the leading fashion retailers in North America, Chico’s FAS is a company of three unique brands – Chico’s^®, White House Black Market^® and Soma^® – each thriving in their own white space, founded by women, led by women, providing solutions that millions of women say give them confidence and joy.

Our Company has a passion for fashion, and each day, we provide clothing, shoes and accessories, intimate apparel and expert styling in our brick-and-mortar boutiques, digital online boutiques and through StyleConnect^TM, the Company’s proprietary digital styling tool that enables customers to conveniently shop wherever, whenever and however they prefer.

As of October 31, 2020, the Company operated 1,310 stores in the U.S. and sold merchandise through 68 international franchise locations in Mexico and 2 domestic franchise airport locations. The Company’s merchandise is also available at www.chicos.com, www.chicosofftherack.com, www.whbm.com, www.soma.com and www.mytelltale.com as well as through third-party channels.

ABOUT ROADIE
Roadie is the nation’s first “on-the way” crowdsourced delivery platform. Founded in 2014, Roadie works with consumers, small businesses and corporations across virtually every industry to provide a faster, cheaper, more scalable solution for scheduled, same-day and urgent delivery. With over 200,000 verified drivers, Roadie covers 89% of U.S. households — the largest local same-day delivery footprint in the nation.

Roadie is backed by Warren Stephens of Stephens Inc.; The Home Depot; the UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund; Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures; David Bonderman, founder of TPG Capital; Guggenheim Partners’ Executive Chairman Alan Schwartz; Square Co-founder Jim McKelvey; among others. For more information, visit www.roadie.com.

Contact:
Pashen Black
Director, Corporate Public Relations
239-218-3388

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SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ —

News Summary: 

• The new Webex App Hub is a premier collaboration app ecosystem that includes prebuilt integrations.
• These integrations make it easy for users to move seamlessly between their favorite apps and for IT to simplify workloads by adding Webex into existing applications. 
• Today we announce several key integrations: Box, Dropbox, Miro, MURAL, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Workplace from Facebook; many more coming soon. 

Announced today at WebexOne, the all new Webex is not just a powerful suite of apps, it is also a platform that helps everyone to have a seamless experience as they move between Webex and their other favorite apps. Our platform starts with a powerful programmability and extensibility layer via our open APIs and SDKs.  This lets anyone get the capabilities they need with Webex– across calling, messaging, meetings, devices, intelligence and analytics. 

To ensure everyone can benefit from this platform, today we announce the new Webex App Hub. Available today, the App Hub is where we make it easy for users to find and use integrations within a Webex messaging space, and soon you’ll be able to experience the same thing in a Webex meeting. Users will be able to easily add and collaborate with third-party applications while in a Webex meeting, then save the work to follow up afterwards. Of course, the App Hub also is great for IT managers who are looking to make native integrations company-wide.

“Our vision with building a strong open ecosystem-based approach for partners is to make sure that regardless of the application someone is using, they can work seamlessly with Webex, where the experience is magical and fully integrated for the user,” said Jeetu Patel, SVP and GM, Security & Applications, Cisco.

Today we announce the following upcoming integrations, and many more will soon follow:

Box: Get the most of your Webex meetings with content stored in Box. Currently, Box and Webex are integrated such that you can easily share and manage Box content when you’re in Webex. We are now taking this integration to the next level so that from within Box, you get embedded access to Webex enabling you to start or schedule a Webex meeting, and share content with a Webex Space – either with an existing Space or a newly created Space – all without leaving Box. All Webex content sharing events are captured in the Box activity feed.

Aaron Levie, CEO, Box: “As we continue to manage our ‘new normal’, organizations are continuously looking for tools that help employees work more securely and seamlessly from any device, location, and application. We are thrilled to expand our partnership with Cisco to create an even deeper integration between Box and Webex that enables secure work for our joint customers.”

Dropbox: For Dropbox users, the powerful integration coming between Dropbox and Webex will help drive more effective meetings. Click and select a file in Dropbox to share during a Webex meeting. Leverage Dropbox in Webex to easily capture notes, agendas, and follow-up tasks to share with the team or move from chat to a meeting without leaving the UI. Meeting artifacts such as recordings are accessible in Dropbox after the meeting for offline playback.

Drew Houston,
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
, Dropbox: “We lose a lot of context when working remotely, and it’s easy for things like meeting notes, action items, comments, and follow-up tasks to get lost in the shuffle of video meetings. We’re excited to team up with Webex to provide an organized, centralized repository to keep teams connected and ensure people never miss a beat, no matter where they’re working from.”

Miro: Harness the power of visual thinking and team collaboration by using Miro within Webex. This integration allows you to embed any Miro board directly inside of your Webex project space for everything from ideation and workshopping to product planning and design without ever leaving your meeting.

Andrey Khusid, Miro CEO and Founder, Miro: “Now more than ever, it’s critical for enterprise teams to have swift access to tools that boost engagement and creativity. The seamless integration between Miro and Cisco’s Webex gives meeting participants the collaborative superpowers they need.”

MURAL: Offering an enhanced layer of engagement to video meetings from within Webex, MURAL helps distributed teams share, think, and solve problems together through visual collaboration. The integrated solution will give every team member a voice and makes remote planning, Agile ceremonies, design sprints, brainstorming sessions, and client collaboration more productive and fun. 

Mariano Suarez-Battan, co-founder and CEO of MURAL: “The world’s largest enterprise companies look to MURAL to help teams collaborate securely and visually so their ideas can be understood, improved, and acted on faster. Combined with Webex video technology, MURAL helps teams activate imagination together, no matter where they are.”

Salesforce:  Bringing Webex and Salesforce together can make sales activities and motions 10x better and help drive quotes to cash. Within Salesforce, your Webex meetings, messages and calls will be associated with Leads and Opportunities.  These custom Webex objects will be delivered through the Salesforce AppExchange.

ServiceNow: Our integration with ServiceNow incident management means Webex actions related to Meetings, Calling and Messaging become “in agent” workflows, eliminating manual repetitive tasks and context switching.

Chirantan “CJ” Desai, Chief Product Officer, ServiceNow: “Organizations are continuing to seek digital tools that enable seamless experiences for their employees and customers in the COVID economy. ServiceNow is pleased to be working with Cisco to provide incident management experiences that will enable more seamless Webex collaboration and communication for users.”

Workplace from Facebook: Workplace and Cisco are coming together to improve employee communications for all organizations, particularly those with frontline employees and distributed teams split between working in-office and from home. Now, joint customers can broadcast Webex video live to Workplace and users will also be able to interact (like, comment, react, ask questions, use polls, etc.) during Webex broadcasts, for real-time engagement. Upcoming product experiences will include being able to use Workplace with Webex hardware, and Workplace live engagement features being brought into the Webex experience. Additionally, we have announced a combined offer: Webex customers who are new to Workplace will receive six months’ access to Workplace Advanced at no cost. Workplace customers who are new to Webex will receive special discounts off Webex software and hardware devices (all offers subject to limitations).

Karandeep Anand, VP, Workplace from Facebook: “Cisco’s industry-leading video conferencing technology, security, and scalability, coupled with Workplace’s community-building engagement platform for businesses, built on 15+ years of experience connecting people on Facebook, is a powerful combination. In just a single click, companies will be able to use Cisco’s hardware and software to go live and connect directly with others through reactions, comments, and Q&As – turning broadcast experiences into real asynchronous conversations, regardless of where or how people work. Together, we are able to offer the best of breed from both companies that will unlock engagement at levels like never before.”

About Cisco 

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. Cisco inspires new possibilities by reimagining your applications, securing your data, transforming your infrastructure, and empowering your teams for a global and inclusive future. Discover more on The Network and follow us on Twitter.

Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco’s trademarks can be found at www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ —

News Summary: 

• All new Webex for meetings, messaging and calling announced with a ton of new functionality.
• Expanded People Insights with new features that deliver highly personalized insights and actionable recommendations to individuals and teams.
• New Webex Contact Center that delivers powerful new benefits for agents, customers and businesses of all sizes.
• Also announced today: three brand new devices for workers and the new Webex App Hub with integrations to simplify workflows.
• Comes on the heels of Cisco announcing an agreement to acquire IMImobile and intent to acquire Slido.

Today, at WebexOne, Cisco announced a wave of Webex innovation to help organizations collaborate seamlessly and transform their employee and customer experiences. Taking place today and tomorrow, WebexOne is Cisco’s premier digital collaboration conference that brings together thought leaders, customers and partners to discuss the future of work.

Webex has a rich history of helping employees innovate and remain productive wherever they are. Since the pandemic, Webex has not only continued to help businesses thrive, it has also been an integral platform for governments to continue to lead remotely, doctors to meet with patients safely, and educators to teach students at a distance. It’s clear that the future of work will involve a combination of remote and on-site interactions, known as hybrid-work. Cisco has a clear vision of how technology can help customers realize that future today and create a more inclusive world for all.

“Cisco’s purpose is to power an Inclusive Future, and collaboration technology plays a critical role in leveling the playing field so everyone is able to participate in the global economy regardless of geography, language and personality type. This is why we are driven to deliver a Webex experience that is 10x better than in-person—and at the same time make in-person interactions 10x better too,” said Jeetu Patel, SVP and GM, Security & Applications, Cisco. “Webex enables a shift towards hybrid working and less reliance on geography-based hiring, opening the global economy and giving everyone a seat at the table—no matter where the table is. Our team is passionate about delivering this vision which fuels every device we build, every line of code we write, and every feature we create.”

More than 50 innovations announced today fall into three areas: seamless collaboration, smart hybrid work experiences, and intelligent customer experiences, all built on the rock-solid security and privacy synonymous with Cisco.

The All New Webex

The Webex team is laser focused on making sure users have what they need to do exceptional work. The all new Webex available today, provides a single secure place for connecting and getting things done: call, meet and message in one app. New features are being added across all modes, and the app includes our unique, real-time presence capability, so you always know who is available.

New in meetings.
Among the many features being added to Webex, here are some of our favorites:

In the app today

• Noise cancellation and speech enhancement: No more loud typing or rustling papers interrupting your train of thought. Webex automatically detects and suppresses common noises, so you can concentrate. 
• Transcriptions and closed captioning: Remove the need for extensive note-taking. Transcripts are searchable, so team members who miss a meeting can quickly catch up.
• Highlights and action items: Webex Assistant will create these on your verbal command.
• Enhanced video layouts: Who do you want to see? You can change your video layout with a simple slider control.
• Webex Huddle:  Quickly call specific team members into a spontaneous meeting with a single click. No scheduling required—a single click and you’re in a quick team huddle to get stuff done.

Coming soon

• In-meeting gestures:  Like the presentation? Simply give a “thumbs up” with your hand and our AI translates your motion into a thumbs up on the screen for all to see. This is an industry first, coming in CY 2021. 
• Immersive sharing:  Share your presentation, video or application as a dynamic background with your video overlayed, for a more immersive experience. Coming in CY 2021.
• Real-time translation: As of February, you will be able to participate in your native language and get localized, real-time transcription of the active speaker, available in 10+ languages. Each meeting attendee can choose the language they want without impacting other users. Languages include: English, Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Dutch, and Japanese.
• Save and share meeting artifacts: Meeting artifacts and recordings are instantly saved within your Webex app. View recordings in your Webex task bar or within the content section of 1:1 and group spaces.
• Really big meetings: Need to host a Webex Events session with up to 25,000 fully participating attendees? You’ll soon be able to do that.  You’ll be able to host even more—up to 100,000—using the new Webex Events native live streaming coming later this month.
• Meeting templates: Give everyone a chance to speak with round table templates and more. Put time limits on your meetings with quick syncs. 

New
 in messaging.
We’ve added some great new features to help you focus on what matters most.

• No more looking for key projects and people: With our industry leading AI, Webex is the only messaging app that learns which projects, spaces and people are most important to you and elevates them to the top of your list. Available Q1 CY 2021.
• No more missed messages: You can manually highlight important messages and tasks with new Webex message pinning and mark as “unread”. Available Q1 CY 2021.
• No more missed meetings: In February, Webex will automatically share recordings to 1:1 and group spaces specified by you.

New in calling.

• Webex calling interactive voice response and video on hold:  Video menus simplify call routing while video on hold engages users in new ways. 
• Easily escalate a phone call to a Webex meeting:  Escalate a 1:1 telephone call into a Webex video meeting and get the full Webex experience with AI features, transcriptions, notes and action items, and recordings.
• New ways to buy: Customers can now take advantage of new calling plans with PSTN delivered directly from Cisco. This will be available in the US in mid-December, Canada in the first quarter of 2021 and many more countries globally throughout the year.

New in analytics:

Daily interactions are the fabric of effective collaboration. Last year, we introduced People Insights profiles. Now, we’re expanding People Insights with a new suite of features. Powered by the Webex Graph, these new features deliver highly personalized insights and actionable recommendations to individuals and teams.

• For individuals, People Insights can highlight trends that go beyond your Outlook calendar including when your days typically start and stop, time spent on video calls and more.

• For teams, you can visualize, in aggregate, team interaction patterns within Webex to ensure your team is building and maintaining the right communication patterns and relationships to be effective. The tool can also inform strategy to ensure more inclusion across a team.

The All New Webex Contact Center

The new Webex Contact Center delivers powerful new benefits for businesses, customers, and agents to drive intelligent customer experiences:

• Now businesses of all sizes (even with the smallest of contact centers) can have the robustness of a cloud contact center with thousands of agents on day one. 
• A next-generation microservices architecture enables rapid feature innovation while open APIs allow for easy customization.
• Customers benefit from a digital-first experience and can now connect their way – whether chat, email, voice and now text and social.
• New AI-powered voice and chat bots can answer the easy questions and route the tricky ones to contact center agents, with all the related background served up so customers won’t have to repeat themselves.
• Agents will no longer be blindsided by customer sentiment now that Webex Experience Management is integrated with Webex Contact Center.

Additional Resources:

• Blog: Welcome to the All New Webex by Cisco’s Javed Khan
• Blog: What’s New for December by Webex Team
• Video: the All New Webex

About Cisco 
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in technology that powers the Internet. Cisco inspires new possibilities by reimagining your applications, securing your data, transforming your infrastructure, and empowering your teams for a global and inclusive future. Discover more on The Network and follow us on Twitter.

Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. A listing of Cisco’s trademarks can be found at www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company.

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MELVILLE, N.Y., Dec. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — While businesses continue navigating through a hybrid work environment, Canon U.S.A., Inc. and its channel partners are offering solutions that can help organizations and their employees stay connected and maintain access to critical business information – regardless of location. Showcasing the quality of these solutions, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging solutions, is the recipient of two Buyers Lab (BLI) 2021 Pick Awards in the Document Imaging Software Category: Outstanding Cloud Output Management Solution for uniFLOW Online, and Outstanding Information Governance Solution for Therefore.

“Working with documents is increasingly a digital process, especially in the age of COVID-19,” said Lee Davis, associate director of Software/Scanners, Keypoint Intelligence. “Businesses are leveraging all kinds of software and services to supplement their existing document hardware, pushing their productivity to the max. For the last year, we’ve been testing a wide range of these solutions, from print and fleet management solutions that enable businesses to control costs and optimize efficiency, to full blown content management and workflow platforms that can automate entire business processes. Today, we honor the standout performers for their productivity-enhancing features and exceptional value, ease of use, and other key attributes.”

Based on rigorous testing, including evaluation of key attributes such as features, usability, and value, these awards recognize the most impressive solutions evaluated by Keypoint Intelligence during the previous 12-month test cycle:

Outstanding Cloud Output Management Solution: uniFLOW Online
Continuing to solidify its position as a leading cloud output management platform, with features such as Secure Printing, cost tracking, mobile printing, and scan workflows, uniFLOW Online receives BLI’s Outstanding Cloud Management Solution award. Keypoint Intelligence also highlights the solution’s latest version for its Microsoft Universal Print integration, as well as improved scan workflow, security features, device and print management, and mobile capabilities.

In addition to offering solutions designed with efficiency and quality in mind to help its customers navigate through the hybrid work environment, Canon helps meet the demands of today’s distributed workforce through ease of use and consistency across its imageRUNNER ADVANCE DX multifunction printers in the office and desktop imageCLASS multifunction printers at home. These solutions can be connected with the uniFLOW Online solution to provide security features, detailed reporting, and potential cost savings to support employees across disperse locations. 

Outstanding Information Governance Solution: Therefore
Due to its strong security and information governance features, Therefore receives the BLI Pick Award for Outstanding Information Governance Solution for the third consecutive year. Specific security and information governance features that stood out to Keypoint Intelligence include its e-signature support, tight version control, audit trails detailing who accessed and/or made changes to documents, and automated data retention (and destruction) policies. In addition, this highly customizable information management platform is equipped to deliver a powerful business process automation engine, supported by security and high-quality document management features.

“As these unprecedented times have accelerated alternative ways of working, Canon U.S.A., Inc., has showcased its commitment to meeting industry trends and customer demands by offering solutions specifically designed to support a hybrid work environment,” said Shinichi Yoshida, executive vice president and general manager, Canon U.S.A., Inc. “We are honored to receive recognitions in two areas that have been particularly important this year, and look forward to continue supporting customers through our high-quality solutions for years to come.”

For more information, please visit www.usa.canon.com.

About Keypoint Intelligence
For almost 60 years, clients in the digital imaging industry have relied on Keypoint Intelligence for independent hands-on testing, lab data, and extensive market research to drive their product and sales success. Keypoint Intelligence has been recognized as the industry’s most trusted resource for unbiased information, analysis, and awards due to decades of analyst experience. Customers have harnessed this mission-critical knowledge for strategic decision-making, daily sales enablement, and operational excellence—improving business goals and increasing bottom lines. With a central focus on clients, Keypoint Intelligence continues to evolve as the industry changes by expanding offerings and updating methods, while intimately understanding and serving manufacturers’, channels’, and their customers’ transformation in the digital printing and imaging sector.

About Buyers Lab Software Pick Awards
Document Imaging Software Picks stand alone in the industry and are hard-earned awards as they are based on rigorous testing, including evaluation of key attributes such as features, usability, and value. Each product that passes its lab test earns a Platinum, Gold, Silver, or Bronze rating, with the best performers qualifying as Pick contenders.

About Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions to the United States and to Latin America and the Caribbean markets. With approximately $33 billion in global revenue, its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE:CAJ), ranks third overall in U.S. patents granted in 2019^† and is one of Fortune Magazine’s World’s Most Admired Companies in 2020. Canon U.S.A. is dedicated to its Kyosei philosophy of social and environmental responsibility. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company’s RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss and follow us on Twitter @CanonUSA.

^†Based on weekly patent counts issued by United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Availability and specifications are subject to change without notice.

Many variables can impact the security of a customer’s device and data. Canon does not warrant that the use of features will prevent malicious attacks, or prevent misuse of devices or data or other security issues.

Canon is one of two investors in Therefore Corporation.

Canon U.S.A., Inc. is a client of BLI.

All referenced product names, and other marks, are trademarks of their respective owners.

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Collectively, the forum represents a quarter million working Canadians

TORONTO, Dec. 8, 2020 /CNW/ – On November 30, Sun Life Canada brought together 70 presidents, CEOs and C-suite leaders to discuss the mental health crisis in Canada. In partnership with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), the forum highlighted the important role of workplaces, and specifically the role CEOs and presidents play, in supporting the mental health of employees.

“We were already experiencing a mental health crisis in Canada. Since the pandemic began, nearly 60 per cent of Canadians have reported a further decline in their mental health,” said Jacques Goulet, President, Sun Life Canada and Lumino Health. “As leaders of some of Canada’s largest workplaces, we have the responsibility to act. We must set the tone from the top and ensure our organizations are psychologically safe. The presidents and CEOs in the forum represent 250,000 Canadian employees. Together, we can build a more resilient Canada, a critical component of Canada’s pandemic recovery.”

Recent Workplace Survey
While a majority of Canadians report a decline in their mental health during COVID-19, a recent survey conducted by Sun Life found only one-third (34 per cent) of employed Canadians have received additional support or resources from their employer to help manage their mental, physical or financial wellness. Of those respondents who have received additional support, only 68 per cent received mental health support, 40 per cent received physical health support, and 25 per cent received financial health support.

Sun Life is pleased to partner with CAMH to elevate mental health in Canada as a priority. The partnership includes hosting an annual Business Leader Mental Health Summit starting in April 2021 where we will be inviting leaders to talk about their progress and address challenges. Sun Life is also using CAMH’s Workplace Mental Health Playbook for Business Leaders to expand support and resources for employees.

“Employee mental health is one of the most important issues facing workplaces today–and it’s inspiring to see so many leaders from Canada’s top companies ready to champion the cause,” said Deborah Gillis, President & CEO, CAMH Foundation. “By stepping forward to not only address, but to champion mental health in the workplace, business leaders have the opportunity–and quite frankly, the responsibility–to bust the stigma and fear that holds too many Canadian workers back from talking about and getting the help they need.”

About Sun Life
Sun Life is a leading international financial services organization providing insurance, wealth and asset management solutions to individual and corporate Clients. Sun Life has operations in a number of markets worldwide, including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of September 30, 2020, Sun Life had total assets under management of $1,186 billion. For more information, please visit www.sunlife.com.

Sun Life Financial Inc. trades on the Toronto (TSX), New York (NYSE) and Philippine (PSE) stock exchanges under the ticker symbol SLF.

About CAMH
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, as well as one of the world’s leading research centres in its field. CAMH combines clinical care, research, education, policy development and health promotion to help transform the lives of people affected by mental health and addiction issues. CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre.

Note to editors: All figures in Canadian dollars

SOURCE Sun Life Financial Canada