MARKETING STRATEGY
ShardSecure® | June 16, 2022
ShardSecure, inventor of the innovative Microshard™ technology that mitigates data security and privacy risks in the cloud, is delighted to announce a new strategic partnership in its Channel partner program with cybersecurity services company Braxton-Grant Technologies. Braxton-Grant provides compliance, managed security, training, and technical support services for clients in finance, government, healthcare, education, and more.
An IT advisor with more than 20 years of experience, Braxton-Grant Technologies designs and implements custom cybersecurity solutions. Their customers in commercial and government sectors will benefit from the ShardSecure's Microshard technology to augment their data security and data privacy measures.
"'Forward thinking' and 'leading edge' describe the ShardSecure platform for protecting data," said Braxton-Grant CTO Claude Braxton.
"'Forward thinking' and 'leading edge' describe the ShardSecure platform for protecting data," said Braxton-Grant CTO Claude Braxton. "Partnering with ShardSecure became a no-brainer after watching the product in action. Their ability to provide advanced data security in the cloud, on-prem, and in hybrid environments allows us to support most customer use cases. Braxton-Grant is looking forward to growing with ShardSecure as we help our customers protect their sensitive data."
Microshard technology desensitizes sensitive data by digitally shredding it into microshards that are too small to contain sensitive data. Those microshards are then mixed with poison data and distributed to multiple, customer-owned storage locations of the customer's choosing. Its self-healing data also reverses unauthorized data deletion and tampering — including ransomware — for data at rest.
Microsharding renders sensitive data unintelligible and of no value in the wrong hands, enabling that data for multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments to help ensure data security and privacy. The three-step Microshard process drastically mitigates the impact of a data breach.
ShardSecure's self-healing data supports business continuity through its RAID-5-like ability to reconstruct data impacted by storage service outages. This approach protects against the effects of data loss and allows business operations to continue unaffected during an outage.
"Our Channel partners are vital in helping us sustain our rapid growth. Braxton-Grant has been a respected, trusted advisor to their customers for a quarter of a century, and we are delighted to partner with their world-class team," said Bob Lam, CEO and Co-Founder of ShardSecure. "Through Braxton-Grant, we look forward to helping more customers achieve greater data security and resilience with our Microshard technology."
About Braxton-Grant Technologies
Braxton-Grant Technologies is a trusted IT advisor with more than 20 years of experience designing, developing, and implementing custom cybersecurity solutions. With a highly trained and certified sales and engineering team, it identifies the business solutions that work best for a company's industry and processes.
About ShardSecure
ShardSecure is changing the nature of data security. It believes that all organizations can easily and securely enjoy the benefits of cloud adoption without surrendering control of their data. Inventors of patented Microshard technology, ShardSecure cloud-enables sensitive data by desensitizing it in multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
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MARKETING DATA
Khoros, EveryoneSocial | July 07, 2022
Khoros, an award-winning leader in digital-first customer engagement software and services, today announced it has partnered with EveryoneSocial, the leading employee advocacy platform.
The partnership combines the power of Khoros’s social media management solution (including content management, publishing, social listening, and governance) with tools in EveryoneSocial that help brands engage their employees and support marketing, sales, recruiting, and communications initiatives across social media. By leveraging the technologies of Khoros and EveryoneSocial, digital marketers can align content, messaging, and campaigns with a brand’s employee advocacy program to boost awareness, maintain reputation, and even help drive their business’s bottom line.
"We're excited to partner with EveryoneSocial to help brands enhance their customer experience by empowering their best champions: their employees. Together, we're giving brands an expanded toolkit that maximizes their digital marketing strategies on social to reach a wider audience and ensures every team member across the organization—from marketers to recruiters—is sharing the right messages to help create customers for life,” said Chris Tranquill, chief strategy officer at Khoros.
“We know social media leaders want the convenience of an all-in-one solution, but we also know that they don’t want to settle for mediocre tools. They want the best, which is why we’re so excited to be partnering with Khoros. This partnership brings together the market’s leading social marketing and employee advocacy platforms to give our customers the tools they need to generate maximum ROI,” said Cameron Brain, CEO & Co-Founder of EveryoneSocial.
“We know social media leaders want the convenience of an all-in-one solution, but we also know that they don’t want to settle for mediocre tools. They want the best, which is why we’re so excited to be partnering with Khoros. This partnership brings together the market’s leading social marketing and employee advocacy platforms to give our customers the tools they need to generate maximum ROI,” said Cameron Brain, CEO & Co-Founder of EveryoneSocial.
Khoros is unique in the industry with its ‘single pane of glass’ platform to manage omnichannel customer interactions. In addition to its award-winning social marketing capabilities, the Khoros platform also features best-in-class digital customer care products for contact centers, enterprise-grade communities software, and valuable voice of customer (VoC) insights—all powered by its patent-pending, AI-powered orchestration engine.
To learn more about Khoros’s digital customer engagement platform and services, visit khoros.com. For additional information about EveryoneSocial’s employee advocacy platform, visit everyonesocial.com.
About Khoros
Khoros’s award-winning customer engagement platform helps over 2,000 global brands, including one-third of the Fortune 100 companies, create customers for life. With over 20 patented technologies, Khoros connects every facet of customer engagement, including digital contact centers, messaging, chat, online brand communities, CX analytics, and social media management. Combined with our top-rated services, the Khoros platform enables brands to connect with customers throughout their entire digital journey.
Khoros powers more than 500 million daily digital interactions and leverages AI to turn these interactions into actionable insights. Primarily owned by Vista Equity Partners, Khoros is recognized as one of the Best Places to Work both nationally and locally across our 11 offices around the world. For more information, visit khoros.com.
About EveryoneSocial
EveryoneSocial is the platform that transforms employees into influencers by empowering them to authentically create and share content on social media.
Many of the world’s highest-growth companies – including Qualtrics, T-Mobile, and Highspot – use EveryoneSocial to engage employees, expand brand reach, and drive organic social media ROI.
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CHANNEL PARTNERSHIPS
Zebra Technologies | June 30, 2022
Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), an innovator at the front line of business with solutions and partners that deliver a performance edge, today announced a new, vertical market specialization for government and education technology providers in North America. The Public Sector Specialization Program, developed as a strategic component of Zebra’s PartnerConnect program, will support federal, state and local government, as well as K-12, colleges and universities.
Zebra’s Public Sector Specialization Program recognizes partner expertise and investment in government and education technology solutions. Qualified program members will have access to unique business-building benefits including growth incentives, go-to-market support, pre-qualified leads, marketing funding, increased channel account management and planning as well as a customizable logo recognizing their expertise in the industry.
“Zebra’s PartnerConnect Public Sector Specialization Program reflects our continued commitment to help our partners differentiate themselves while also helping governments and educational institutions meet their digital transformation needs,” said Bill Cate, Vice President of Marketing and Channels, Zebra Technologies.
“Zebra’s PartnerConnect Public Sector Specialization Program reflects our continued commitment to help our partners differentiate themselves while also helping governments and educational institutions meet their digital transformation needs,” said Bill Cate, Vice President of Marketing and Channels, Zebra Technologies. “By uniting Zebra’s innovative solutions with resellers’ expertise, local presence and unique capabilities, we can help public sector entities untangle complex technology needs to achieve new levels of productivity, accuracy, and speed that benefits their staff and constituents.”
Zebra’s public sector solutions empower front-line personnel by enhancing communications, streamlining workflows and providing situational awareness to improve critical decision making and gain a performance edge. Agencies deploying school and facility security, warehouse management, eCitation, healthcare and inspections and maintenance solutions can leverage Zebra’s complete product portfolio and partner ecosystem to enhance operational efficiency, reducing time-consuming and error-prone administrative tasks. Zebra’s solutions adhere to the highest security standards while providing manageability and longevity, freeing resources for public service and enabling convenient and precise control of end user experiences.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Zebra’s new North American PartnerConnect Public Sector Specialization Program will support government and education technology providers serving federal, state and local government, as well as K-12, colleges and universities.
Qualified program members will have access to business-building benefits such as go-to-market support, pre-qualified leads, marketing funding, and growth incentives.
The PartnerConnect program makes it easier for partners to work with Zebra and differentiate themselves while rewarding them for their commitment, competency and performance.
ABOUT ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES
Zebra (NASDAQ: ZBRA) empowers organizations to thrive in the on-demand economy by making every front-line worker and asset at the edge visible, connected and fully optimized. With an ecosystem of more than 10,000 partners across more than 100 countries, Zebra serves customers of all sizes – including 94% of the Fortune 100 – with an award-winning portfolio of hardware, software, services and solutions that digitize and automate workflows. Supply chains are more dynamic, customers and patients are better served, and workers are more engaged when they utilize Zebra innovations that help them sense, analyze and act in real time. Zebra recently expanded its industrial automation portfolio with its Fetch Robotics acquisition and increased its machine vision and AI software capabilities with the acquisitions of Adaptive Vision, antuit.ai and Matrox Imaging. Zebra is #25 on Newsweek’s inaugural list of America’s Most Loved Workplaces and #79 on Forbes’ list of America’s 500 Best Midsize Employers. Learn more at www.zebra.com or sign up for news alerts. Follow Zebra’s Your Edge blog, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, and check out our Story Hub: Zebra Perspectives.
ZEBRA and the stylized Zebra head are trademarks of Zebra Technologies Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ©2022 Zebra Technologies Corp. and/or its affiliates.
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CHANNEL PARTNERSHIPS
Yooz | May 23, 2022
Accounts Payable (AP) automation market leader Yooz announced the company has another addition to its leadership team, naming Jennifer Andreas as the North American Head of Channel Partnerships.
In her new position, Jennifer is responsible for continuing to foster current Yooz valued partnerships and the Finance and Accounting ecosystems, such as system integrators with a prime focus on Sage, Sage Intacct, Microsoft, NetSuite ERP integrators, ISVs in the ERP sector, digital payment and DMS space, and major CPA firms throughout the US. Additionally, Jennifer is working to develop and identify new partnerships that expand and solidify the Yooz foothold as the top AP automation solution in the market. Creating and maintaining valued partnerships and strengthening a brand’s market presence are areas in which she has excelled for almost 30 years.
“The experience and knowledge Jennifer brings with her is going to help propel Yooz to a wholly new level, She has a proven record of applying her vast understanding of the channel and using it to help propel brand recognition/market reach. I am looking forward to collaborating with her as she puts her plan in motion, and I am extremely excited about what is to come.”
Cody Manning, NORAM Chief Sales Officer
Andreas brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in all aspects of partnership, development and strategy in IT and change management, believing that the way to real success is developing a true mutually beneficial relationship that helps both sides meet and surpass their growth targets. This idea of investing in partnerships and realizing mutual value a trademark of her work - ties directly into Yooz’s core values of striving for excellence and sharing a customer-centric ambition. It is one of the one of the primary factors behind her decision to join the Yooz family and a key factor in her fit as a team member.
“I’m looking forward to locking arms with Yooz leadership to build something that will directly impact the company’s growth over the next 1-2 years and beyond,” said Andreas. “I’m thrilled at the prospect of working with a company that places the same emphasis and value on partnerships as I have developed throughout my career, understanding and uniquely fostering valuable relationships with each partnership.”
One of Andreas’ immediate areas of focus will be addressing partnerships in specific verticals such as construction, manufacturing, distribution, automotive and hospitality. Her primary goal is to help organizations understand that they can significantly benefit from the time and cost ROI of seamlessly-integrated automation, while also strengthening their supply chains for a wider economic reach through the support and help of solid, mutually beneficial partnerships.
About Yooz
Yooz provides the smartest, most powerful and easiest-to-use cloud-based Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) automation solution. It delivers unmatched savings, speed and security with affordable zero-risk subscriptions to more than 4,000 customers and 200,000 users worldwide.
Yooz’s unique solution leverages Artificial Intelligence and RPA technologies to deliver an amazing level of automation with extreme simplicity, traceability and end-to-end customizable features. It integrates seamlessly with more than 250 financial systems, exceeding any other solution on the market.
Yooz is a fast-growing, award-winning, SaaS innovator that is the perfect fit for mid-size organizations across all sectors. It has been recognized as a Great Place to Work®, 10 Best Cloud Solution Provider by Industry Era, Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) by THINKstrategies, Top 10 Accounting Solution Provider by CFO Tech Outlook, and Top 50 Company to Watch by Spend Matters.
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