Luis Villalon had a vision of an automation future, he knew robotics will culminate into one of the main technologies of automation and hence incorporated Target Robotics. Luis was right, today there is no complete automation without robotics, further more, automation is just one part of robotics. One can say that since the beginning, Target Robotics’ focus has been on robotics as the core business, developing expertise on industrial processes done by robots. The company is a leader in Mexico in providing turnkey solutions from design engineering and simulation all the way through installation, start-up and project management designed by experienced engineers focused mainly on industrial, applications.

Target Robotics culminated into a market leader in technology-driven solutions providing expertise in automated processes with robots because they understood automotive industry leads the manufacturing automated processes. Hence, the company keeps 50 percent of the business in automotive industry, and 50 percent in general industry, mainly food and beverages. In that way, Target Robotics stakes all new technology, manufacturing concepts, innovations process and procedures, high standards, project developing methodology, new components, devices and safety standards, from the automotive industry, and applies it into the general industry, becoming one of the leaders in general industry.

” Target Robotics culminated into a market leader in technology-driven solutions providing expertise in automated processes with robots because they understood automotive industry leads the manufacturing automated processes.”

Target Robotics has two main strategies that drives them towards success: people and concepts. Target Robotics have hired just graduated engineers from best public universities of Mexico and trained them single handedly to transform them into experts. The other success strategy is Target Robotics concepts, called “simple automation”. Target Robotics copies the operator movements and emulates it via robots, using all robot functionality, flexibility and advanced software functions, giving features like tact sense and vision capabilities, using all this data to make decisions and acquiring high performance. “Simple automation” also avoids the use of external PLC, using the robot processor. Other main feature that “simple automation” have is to avoid the use of pneumatic elements, external motors, gears, cams, shafts, bands, chains, and any mechanical subsystem, trying to let the robot to make all the job.

This year Target Robotics developed a multi-functional robotic system to un-palletize, orient and wash plastic trays; align and accommodate many types of products in different defined configurations and load it inside the tray; then stack and palletize the trays with the product. All the processes in one system, using all software robot features like decision maker based on vision system, auto-recovery functions, safety compliance, auto diagnosis, plug & play, small footprint and autonomous. Before this new disruptive system, the customer usually had to purchase five stations, one for each process, full of mechanisms. The cost of these five stations was three times higher, the footprint was ten times bigger and required four operators per shift. The power consumption, spare parts, complexity to adjust and low flexibility was a nightmare. Through Target Robotics customers can reduce the return of investment from 4.5 years to less than one.

Due the necessity to research and develop an enhanced robotic version of the prevalent manufacturing systems,and to re-invent many industrial processes, robotizing it, Target Robotics will build, in 2019, the Target Robotics University, where hundreds of design engineers will get the acknowledge of innovation, disruptive, exponential and continuous changing technology to develop robotics systems for all kind of industries and all type of industrial process. In the coming years, this will be the origin of a research, development and manufacturing center for the new generation of robotics systems, that will be competitive all over the world.

Insider threats are now the fastest growing cybersecurity concern in any industry. Further, it has been observed that 60-percent of security breaches are caused by an organization’s own employees. Armed with this insight, Larry Thompson, CEO of Veriato, has worked to pivot the company’s technology and messaging approach from an employee monitoring software to an industry leading solution for actionable user behavior analytics and user activity monitoring.

Thompson brings more than two decades of leadership and management experience with domestic and multi-national corporations and his vision has helped the company to realize a bigger potential. His vision has changed the course of Veriato’s development, positioning the company to evolve at an unprecedented rate.

” It’s true that bad actors are always learning, growing and becoming more devious, making it even more critical for us as software providers to continue to advance faster than the threats they pose. “

According to Thompson, security is a powerful, yet intangible component in any workplace, making it difficult to communicate its true value to customers. But the value of security is immense and the consequences of ignoring it are dire. Each year, companies spend billions of dollars to streamline the manufacturing process to increase profits, without paying attention to the fact that these new production facilities may be located in countries that have little or no IP protection laws. Within weeks, a company’s secrets can be leaked to produce generic counterfeit products, creating a huge problem for organizations everywhere.

Veriato specializes in curbing insider threats by applying insight and actionable intelligence to the activities and behaviors of users: employees, contractors, and those who seek to steal their credentials. Thompson’s forward thinking nature has not only helped Veriato to evolve, but has also helped customers better understand the value that Veriato’s technology can deliver, creating a safer, more secure business environment.

Veriato is creating a difference in the market by developing Insider Threat Detection technology that gives companies visibility into, and an understanding of, the human behaviors and activities occurring within their network – thus curbing the threat of breach from insiders. The analytics provided through Veriato software helps businesses to identify meaningful anomalies in resource access, data movement and user behavior — that occur during insider attacks. The behavioral patterns in Veriato’s system monitors and provides an unprecedented level of visibility into the online activity of users allowing companies to enact a robust data protection strategy.

In a working example, Veriato’s Insider Threat Detection technology helped Miami-based wholesale and e-commerce distributor JEG & Sons identify and recover $1.2 million of product stolen via employee theft. The data captured by Veriato provided the clear evidence of the wrongdoings, which police used to later capture the individuals involved and recover the stolen property. This was a 2,400-percent return on investment for JEG & Sons. Additionally, Veriato has helped thousands of companies win Trade Secrets violation and IP Theft cases worth hundreds of millions of dollars all over the world using uncontested evidence generated by Veriato software.

Looking forward, Veriato will continue to innovate and find new ways to differentiate itself in an ever-changing market landscape, developing new technologies to address new problems. The company predicts that 2019 industry trends will include mass awareness and adoption as the scope of the security risks posed by insiders is realized. Veriato intends to stay ahead and keep their customers one-step ahead when it comes to securing data and intellectual property.

“It’s true that bad actors are always learning, growing and becoming more devious, making it even more critical for us as software providers to continue to advance faster than the threats they pose,” said Thompson. “We will continue to provide our customers with solutions that are developed with tomorrow’s security in mind.”

Veriato

Management

Larry Thompson
CEO

Description

Veriato provides employee activity monitoring and behavior analytics software for business, government, and education.

“The desire to not just build a successful business but one that will inspire and empower the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities by incorporating technology in a scalable solution,” this has been the motto of Daniel Etra, CEO of Rethink—a global health technology company providing cloud-based treatment tools, training and clinical supports for individuals with developmental disabilities and their caregivers. With a significant dearth of trained professionals (there are only approximately 25,000 Board Certified Behavioral Therapists) available to meet the needs of a growing population with a developmental disability (approximately 450 million individuals birth-21 globally), Rethink set out to create a scalable solution that would make clinical best practice treatment tools and supports available to the individual and their caregiver(s) no matter where they are located.

Beginning with a focus on families caring for a dependent with a developmental disability, Rethink, under Etra’s leadership, has expanded its product range to serve all entities revolving around the care of this population. Today, Rethink’s three divisions – Education, Employer and Behavioral Health are offering treatment tools and supports for caregivers in the US Department of Defense, Managed Care, Medicaid, federal, state and social service agencies, public school districts, Fortune 500 employers and families in the U.S. and over 120 countries globally. It is pertinent to mention that the Rethink platform connects through data a network of stakeholders across a continuum of care and provides deep content and analytical tools within each vertical.

” I can’t think of any benefits we’ve ever added to our suite that got so much attention and so many letters to our president, thanking him for bringing Rethink on, and what a difference it was going to make in their lives. “

Providing research-based teaching strategies grounded in the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), the award-winning Rethink program includes a comprehensive online individualized treatment program with over 1,500 video-based demonstrations – developed by internationally-recognized experts in the field – to train caregivers, parents, professional and paraprofessional staff how to manage problem behaviors as well as teach an individual with a developmental disability critical skills. Automated data-based reports track progress in real time, facilitate coordination across care team members, and allow for robust data analytics on outcomes. In addition, Program Specialists can also utilize Rethink as a form of job-embedded professional development and to augment coaching caregivers and other support staff.

Rethink also offers a range of technology-enabled remote service options, ranging from short-term web-based consultations with Rethink’s Board-certified behavioral therapists to ongoing program development initiatives supported by an in-house team of clinicians. In addition, Rethink’s practice management offering allows for the tracking of service authorizations and cost of treatment as it relates to clinical outcomes. Rethink serves individuals at all levels of development and ages ranging from point of diagnosis through early adulthood.

According to Etra, one of the most critical needs in employee benefits is supporting employees caring for a child with a developmental disability such as autism or ADHD. That is why Costco Wholesale decided to be proactive and offer unique supports such as the Rethink program to these employees, who make up nearly 20 percent of the workforce. As Donna Sexton, the Director of Employee Benefits at Costco, notes, “I can’t think of any benefits we’ve ever added to our suite that got so much attention and so many letters to our president, thanking him for bringing Rethink on, and what a difference it was going to make in their lives.”

Rethink has been termed as unique in the marketplace by offering a scalable and fully integrated solution to addressing the needs of individuals with a developmental disability and their caregivers. Rethink’s employees share a deep passion for having a social impact and drive continuous innovation in the products that Rethink offers. “We are in the process of expanding our core product offering beyond treatment tools and supports for dependents with a developmental disability and their caregivers to adults with a developmental disability, including supporting those individuals in the workplace,” adds Etra.

Rethink

Management

Daniel Etra
CEO

Description

Rethink Behavioral Health provides intuitive and comprehensive tools for turn-key clinical solutions, training and practice management.

With the rapid pace at which technology is growing, it is more important than ever to consider the significance of network security in a business. Georgia based Layer 3 Communications has culminated into a professional services organization that provides hosted and managed solutions, cyber security solutions, and complex infrastructure engagements. Layer 3 Communications has garnered impressive amount of clients owing to their methodical consultative approach in working with clients to help solve problems. “We work with our clients to understand their environment, pain points, needs and requirements. Our engineering team has vast knowledge and experience in leading technologies and across various environments,” says Rodney Turner, President and CEO, Layer 3 Communications.

Layer 3 Communications was founded in 1998 and has three managing partners Josh Bailey, Rodney Turner and Craig Wall. Layer 3 Communications soon after its inception culminated into one of the most sought after an engineering firm that specializes in providing complex network services and products. Along with its’ hosted solutions, the company provides its’ customers with design, management, optimization and ongoing support of network infrastructure and security including real-time monitoring and zero-day threat mitigation.

” We work with our clients to understand their environment, pain points, needs and requirements. Our engineering team has vast knowledge and experience in leading technologies and across various environments “

Layer 3 Communications’ Infrastructure Architects work with the customer to understand the goals and objectives of the project. Through a series of meetings with the client, Layer 3 Communications develops the network architecture using leading technologies to provide the right solution for the situation. Once the network architecture has been agreed upon by all parties, Layer 3 Communications puts together a design document. The design document acts as a guide for the implementation team to pre-configure and stage the network in our lab environment. “After the network has been pre-configured and staged, we schedule a maintenance window with our client to implement the solution. After the solution has been implemented, we perform tests to verify the network is functioning per the design document,” adds Rodney.

The company offers Complex Infrastructure and Engagements including Network audits, Network design and proof of concept, large scale project deployments, project management and problem resolution. Under Cyber Security Solutions they offer tools to heighten your networks security posture and keep it there, in addition, we offer vulnerability management, Penetration Testing, Distributed Denial of Service Attack, Incident Response, Security Elements Management and Layered Security Analysis. Layer 3 Communications hosted and managed solutions include network management and support, infrastructure as a service and business continuity.

In an instance, Angleton Independent School District (AISD) providing quality education experience for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade wanted to install current phone technology and approached Layer 3 Communications. The company discussed a number of phone system options with AISD and decided to go with ShoreTel VoIP for its fast implementation and complete flexibility. The result was saving tons of money along with the ease to manage the communications systems. Since then, Layer 3 Communications has performed two network security upgrades and two voice upgrades for AISD, with the next big step being the addition of emergency notification and mobility.

Layer 3 Communications will continue to grow. The areas of growth will include territory expansion, new service offerings, new technologies, and expanded client base. Layer 3 Communications will serve any and all types of clients. We have 20+ years of experience supporting large hospital systems, K-12, higher education, government agencies, fortune 500 companies,and enterprise clients of all sizes.

David Erickson is a telecom pioneer. He is unique in the sense that he owns his company — free of debt, free of reporting to a board of directors, and most importantly, able to offer a free service to his customers. Since inception, David has culminated into a dedicated leader proven by his loyalty, discipline, and commitment.

In the early days of FreeConferenceCall.com, he was what he likes to refer to his 2001 self as a “one-man band.” After purchasing the FreeConferenceCall.com domain from GoDaddy for $10, he set his sights high. David wanted each person who called the support number to be a customer and in order to do that, he had to be available at all times. So, for 918 days straight—365 days a year, 24 hours a day—he answered every single call that came into the customer service line.

” Honestly, I am just eternally grateful for my customers because they are the ones who have taken our company to the next level time and time again. “

Commitment was his middle name. Erickson was the accounting team, the development team, the operations team, the marketing team—there wasn’t a hat he wouldn’t wear. It’s clear that the focus of FreeConferenceCall.com has always been on its customers.

Eighteen years later, the 150+ person company continues to be rooted in this belief. The 24/7 Customer Care department answers approximately 14,000 calls, 2,500 emails and 1,000 chats a month. These daily interactions with users from around the globe transformed the company into the worldwide leader it is today. “When my customer in Florida needed to mute everyone on the call, we created a touchtone command to easily do that. When my customer in Australia asked for a way to store recordings, we provided free storage in every account,” says Dave. “Honestly, I am just eternally grateful for my customers because they are the ones who have taken our company to the next level time and time again.”

David has a lot to be proud of these days including FreeConferenceCall.com being named the second largest audio-conferencing provider in the world based on minute volume and it is estimated to have been used by 2% of humanity, more than any of its competitors.

This is a testament to the high-caliber, free service that he provides. Despite its simple platform, which allows users from every country in the world to freely connect and collaborate, it has grown into a global phenomenon. Every FreeConferenceCall.com account includes free audio and video conferencing, screen sharing, recording, storage, chat, drawing tools, international calling, desktop applications and so much more.

So, how does it work? Let’s say you are living in the United States and you need to connect to a co-worker traveling in the United Kingdom. The person in the U.S. will dial into their local number and provide the co-worker with the UK number in their account. Once both parties have dialed in, they will be connected on the same bridge for absolutely no cost to either participant. “It’s really unheard of to be giving what we give out—for free. No one else in the industry is doing what we are doing for zero cost,” explains Erickson.

The depths of the company’s popularity have always been known by the staff, but it was in 2006 when the service went viral and FreeConferenceCall.com became a household name. The platform quickly became a go-to conferencing service for businesses, educators, pastors, taxi drivers, non-profit organizations, government officials and even presidential candidates. “We had no idea Barack Obama’s campaign team was using our service in 2007 until we watched a documentary and heard our famous hold music. To think you can run a campaign of that magnitude and sophistication on FreeConferenceCall.com without ever talking to a salesperson was mind-blowing,” says David.

Next on the docket at FreeConferenceCall.com? Stepping into the podcasting world. The development team has been fast at work innovating, developing and creating a new mobile app called Bullhorn. Podcasting listeners can tune into any series in the library with the option to stream or dial-in without having to use cellular data—a feature that no other company in the space offers.

Industry Era has named David Erickson as a 2018 Top CEO because of his constant mission to enhance his company’s offerings for a more seamless experience. David’s entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to customers and commitment to fostering a thriving company culture have fueled FreeConferenceCall.com’s growth and earned him this recognition.

Aveteran of enterprise software with over two decades of SaaS experience, Kirk Krappe is co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apttus, the category-defining Quote-to-Cash (QTC) software company. A term coined by Krappe, Quote-to-Cash signifies the end-to-end sales process starting from a buyer’s intent to purchase, all the way to the collection of revenue. A two-time Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist and Forbes 2015 Unicorn Class – Entrepreneur of the Year, Krappe has been the driving force behind Apttus consistent growth since its 2006 founding. Additionally, according to Morgan Stanley, while there are several “Unicorn” founders in Silicon Valley today, Krappe is the only one in the space to have hit this valuation milestone while still remaining CEO.

Apttus decade-long leadership of the Quote-to-Cash industry uniquely qualifies it to help enterprises automate and improve business processes. Utilizing a patented combination of SaaS-based applications, Apttus offers the industry’s only Intelligent Cloud Platform, maximizing revenue and business outcomes for companies of all sizes, including 100 of the Fortune 500. Enhanced by Machine Learning and Max, Apttus offers the market’s most comprehensive QTC footprint, spanning solutions for: Configure Price Quote(CPQ), Contract Lifecycle Management(CLM), Revenue Management, E-Commerce, Analytics and Salesforce/Microsoft integration (X-Author). With more than 600 enterprise customers and over 1 million users worldwide, Apttus is the industry’s fastest-growing provider of QTC solutions.

Under Krappe’s leadership, Apttus pioneered and defined the Quote-to-Cash software space and today, the company is a leader in the supporting segments, that combined, make up the QTC process. Now with the advent of Apttus Max, the world’s first and only QTC intelligence agent, the company has redefined this market yet again. Max’s creation was entirely driven by Krappe’s vision, as he believed ultimately Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning driven sales advancement tools would become common place. As a result, he facilitated a strategic partnership with Microsoft and in leveraging its engineering resources, and working alongside some of the largest enterprises in the world, Max was successfully brought to life.

” As CEO, I always do my best to successfully inspire my employees to authentically believe in the company’s mission – Tier One Everything “

After creating analyst recognized solutions in Quote-to-Cash, Krappe and Apttus have once again pushed the software industry forward with its advancements in applied AI, developing modern solutions that drive tangible results. “Apttus brings the future of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to a business audience, by pioneering new and cutting-edge ways to interact with business software: automating selling strategies and incentives that adjust in real-time and positively impact revenue,” says Krappe.

One of Apttus enterprise customers, Thomson Reuters Legal, a $3.4Bn division of its parent company, has experienced tremendous gains as a result of deploying Apttus award winning solutions. After modernizing the department’s entire order capture strategy, Thomson Reuters better enabled its global sales force, and turned its customer experience into something more positive. Today as a result, Thomson Reuters is in the also in the process of rolling out Apttus to the rest of the divisions within legal, and is currently deploying it in both its Finance/Risk business, as well as its Tax business.

Krappe’s vision and dedication have truly solidified the Quote-to-Cash (QTC) category and as the author of the Amazon best-selling book “Intelligent Quote-to-Cash: The Outcome-Based Approach to Transforming Your Business,” Krappe is assisting users in understanding why Quote-to-Cash is the most valuable part of business. Fostering a world class mentality internally and externally also plays a huge part in Apttus booming success, and Krappe is 100% dedicated to creating a diverse work environment with employees of various backgrounds. Born in South Africa and having lived in the UK, Germany and France, Krappe is a huge believer in giving employees from all walks of life a fair opportunity in the workplace and is a strong supporter of women, with Apttus being known for having the #1 ratio of female to male employees in a tech company in the Silicon Valley. “As CEO, I always do my best to successfully inspire my employees to authentically believe in the company’s mission – Tier One Everything,” concludes Krappe. Undoubtedly Kirk’s global perspective has reinforced his conviction that the best team is one that leverages all types of people, as long as they are dedicated to success.

Apttus

Management

Kirk Krappe
Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO

Description

Apttus provides Quote-to-Cash solutions, including Configure-Price-Quote(CPQ), Contract Management, E-Commerce, and Revenue Management.

Due to the rapid changes in the financial and banking industry, banks have to adapt and transform their business with minimal cost to acquire more customers and streamline their operations through the adoption of new technologies. Jordan based Pio-Tech’s main goal is to develop a ready-to-use solution enabling banks to improve their performance, enhance their decision-making process, increase revenue and improve employees’ productivity. The company started with two main products—Bank-BI® and Bank-BPM®—developing them through the years and expanding their operations and services around the world, specifically, Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia.

Since the beginning, Pio-Tech has been steadfast in believing their motto of investing in research and development, adopting best of breed technologies and designing new platforms for banks that can help them attract and target new customers, develop new products that cover all their customers’ needs with the lowest cost to investment ratio. The company believes that to grow and prosper, one must look after the interest of the customers who are part of the bank’s organization, the reason they have culminated their relationship with customers based on transparency and trust to help them achieve their strategic approach throughout the years.

” Regulations, Competition and Strong management “

The company’s product—Bank-BI® gives a vantage point above the fray, with ready to use analytics, reporting tools and applications which various stakeholders across the bank can use at any time or anywhere through different devices, thereby, enabling and empowering them to optimize their ability to leverage and act on critical information. Bank-BI® users have the power to obtain the information needed to make the best possible decisions for the bank’s growth and success. Supported by the power of Bank-BI® matured banking data model, banks ensure the relevant data is known in advance and accordingly collected from these disparate systems to provide a true single source of information to the whole bank. By implementing Bank-BI®, Pio-Tech ensures that the bank enjoys a single platform that can provide all the banks analytical and reporting requirement for the three main banking management pillars namely, “Regulations, Competition and Strong management”.

Pio-Tech believes and maintains a three stages methodology: firstly to verify and ensure that the bank is collecting the proper information and data in alignment with the above mentioned three management pillars while applying proper controls to monitor the collected data quality and integrity. Implement BI technology platform that can provide each type of user with the relevant and convenient tools to access his information while delivering out of the box ready to use business models. Implementing various engines and utilities that can help the bank to comply with international regulations, calculate the profitability across various segments and monitor its performance against its set objectives or against the peers.

In an instance, Pio-Tech implemented the Bank-BI® DWH Solution at KCB Bank of Kenya to advance its technology infrastructure and enhance the decision-making process, the solution enabled KCB to automate the process of generating the needed reports, enhance and speed-up the business decisions and the overall business performance.

For the road ahead, Pio-tech will continue to serve its customer to maintain a strategic position in the banking industry by introducing new modules that can help banks stay compliant with regulatory requirements, engage better with their customers and increase their profitability. In addition, the company is increasingly producing new services, along with launching new branches in different markets and signing agreements with new partners in order to provide localized support and implementing services. The company aims to continue assisting their clients to provide the best services to its customers, manage the customer journey, utilization of banks’ resources in a better way, and help banks operate better using certain technologies like Blockchain, Analytics and Big Data.

Pio-Tech

Management

Rand Hashem
Managing Director

Description

Pio-Tech is a System Integrator and Business Solutions Provider with a commitment to perpetual innovative performance powered by strategic alliances with distinguished business partners and internal skillful & visionary team of consultants dedicated to enriching our customers with bright Ideas for enterprise management solutions.

As the steadfast leader of Incessant Technologies, Vijay Madduri, CEO has maintained a single aim for the past decade, to build a formidable organization that strongly sticks to core principles and values, yet be agile and responsive to changing customer needs. “At Incessant technologies, our core principles are “Customer Focus”, “Experienced & Passionate Consultants”, “Effective Leadership” and “Good People Management” along with our Value system PRIIDE (Passion, Respect, Integrity, Innovation, Dedication and Excellence) automatically translates to Happy and Successful Customers, which in turn has made Incessant into a successful Digital Process Automation (DPA) Services Organization,” says Madduri.

Madduri is extremely passionate in upgrading his skills and believe in a continuous learning culture. In past two years, he has completed two executive leadership trainings at Yale and Singularity University( Silicon Valley ) to understand the bleeding edge exponential technologies . This trait has cascaded to Incessant and made it a high learning organization, where every consultant undergoes at least 12 to 16 hours of training in each quarter and are well known as high learning experience organization, compared to the peers in the similar space. “Quality of consultants and rigour, high learning culture, never give up attitude is at core and has helped us to earn the status of ‘Trusted Partner’ both with our customers as well as with our partners such as Pegasystems and Appian. Due to this, we have achieved a very high CAGR (Compounded Annual Growth Rate) of 70% over the first 10 years of Incessant,” adds Madduri.

” Dreaming big and working hard to make it reality goes a long way “

Incessant offers data driven reusable automation testing frameworks, enabling continuous delivery & integration and production support & maintenance framework, which help customers not only to reduce the overall cost, but also to improve quality and speed and streamlines the development and maintenance cycles. Incessant’s BPM Practice has unmatched certification levels in the industry, thereby providing highly experienced teams on customer engagements. With experience of over 200 successful BPM implementations and a proprietary software delivery methodology, Incessant delivers significant value to customers in Insurance, Banking & Financial Services, Government and Manufacturing.

In an instance, for one of the largest Australian Investment Bank and diversified Financial Services Group, Incessant has streamlined their Home Loan Origination Process by automating more than 120+ Business Steps and seamlessly integrating with 19 internal and external systems. With an unparalleled Pega BPM expertise combined with strong domain knowledge, Incessant helped the Customer in building a robust solution with Pega platform orchestrating the end-to-end Loan Origination process. The solution interfaces with various systems and integrates data from multiple channels to drive process efficiencies. The solution has many predefined business rules and workflows in a digital environment. “Achieving the ‘Most Trusted and Responsive partner’ status with as many customers as possible is our strategy to overcome the market competition. We believe that delighting the customers would always help us staying ahead of competitors,” explains Madduri.

Advising the budding entrepreneurs Madduri says that the new Digital World offers numerous opportunities to entrepreneurs and having a core set of values that one does not deviate from is helpful. Also focussing on employee welfare and customer success takes one to achieve new heights.

Madduri has taken Incessant to new heights on his own terms and aims at building the organization as one of the most sought after solution providers. They have been investing heavily in the areas of Robotics, Automation and AI which would greatly improve our Customer’s efficiency and makes their workforce more productive and responsive to their customers. “Dreaming big and working hard to make it reality goes a long way,” concludes Madduri.

Today’s cyber Landscape has created a demand for organizations to deal with a tremendous occurrence of events ranging from advanced threats, new and outdated technologies, regulatory demands, buzzwords and demands from the board. The CIO is tasked with balancing everything from advanced threats to navigating and meeting compliance and or various standards, essentially upkeep is impossible.

“We all live in a hybrid world. Cyber is part of life and knowing how to cross a street is the same as knowing how to behave in the digital world. The digital revolution already occurred and it’s on us as business leaders to rapidly adapt to the new reality,” says Elon Kaplan, Ph.D., CEO and Co-Founder, Cytegic.

The company through their unique offering; Automated Cyber Risk Officer (ACRO) continually assesses an organization’s cyber risks, while advising effective risk reduction planning and equipped an easy to use financial impact wizard. ACRO provides a valuable, simple to operate cloud-based or on-premise automated end-to-end solution, simplifying risk reduction planning while providing value and financial impact with tangible results.”ACRO’s scientific approach provides digital-related risk oversight across the entire organization.

” We all live in a hybrid world. Cyber is part of life and knowing how to cross a street is the same as knowing how to behave in the digital world. The digital revolution already occurred and it’s on us as business leaders to rapidly adapt to the new reality, “

“With cutting-edge patented technology Cytegic’s ACRO provides best in industry cyber risk management with unprecedented accuracy, agility and user-friendliness,” adds Kaplan.

ACRO provides firms with recommendations on specific operational defensive actions while helping determine which resources should be allocated to match risk tolerance and business strategy.

Using a big-data analytical system, with patented methodology and algorithms, allows ACRO to calculate thousands of correlations between threat vectors and defence vectors at any given time. The outcome of these calculations gives insight into cyber risk per every business asset and business environment across the organization. Moreover, this gives the user a clear action-items list for minimizing risk and focusing funds only where it matters.

ACRO provides immediate benefit by saving organizations time, resources and overhead, but more importantly they utilize their current resources to lower risk and financial impact to their most valuable assets. On top of this, the solutions allow users to perform at their convenience, compliance and standards reports as compared to a periodic edition.”Once deployed ACRO can give alerts every time Cyber risk exceeds the organizations threshold,” asserts Kaplan.

A specific instance to note, a midsized bank was looking at CRM solution and determining on cloud v/s on- premise. This was the typical security v/s business people story. After adopting ACRO, the CISO was able to simulate the risk profile of CRM on cloud v/s on on-premise and in less than a week they were able to work together with the business people to provide a well protected CRM deployed in the cloud, making them one of the first banks to move to the next generation of utilizing a CRM in the cloud.

Cytegic is currently working on a “light” version of the system that will allow for “Rapid Self Assessments” by small and medium organizations that up until now felt left out. This will allow many new users to perform maturity and risk assessment as well as simple compliance assessments quickly and easily, without having to endure long deployment and auditing processes. The company is also creating an AI layer of budget optimization for remediation planning that builds alternative plans according to rules and demands of the customer to optimize bang for the buck for each step and for end result. “I see Cytegic as the trusted partner of any leader – government, enterprise, small firms – to navigate safely and efficiently among cyber risks and focus on the real value creation of his organization,” concludes Kaplan.

Cytegic

Management

Elon Kaplan,
CEO & Co-Founder

Description

Cytegic provides Automated Cyber Risk Officer (ACRO) for continually assessing organizations cyber risks, while advising effective risk reduction planning and equipped an easy to use financial impact wizard.

Behavioral health and its fluctuating status affect the overall health and wellness of a person. The effect that any behavioral health issues have on chronic or acute diseases is daunting. Screening, monitoring and treating patients with behavioral health issues will, therefore, create an outsized impact on their well-being. Leading healthcare systems nationwide are using Tridiuum to address behavioral health and improve the well-being of their patients.

Tridiuum began formally (under a different name) in 2001 largely as a research think tank focused on building technology to support the therapeutic practice of feedback-informed care (FIC), whereby behavioral health clinicians could leverage support feedback to calibrate the approach of intervention and, finally, quantify outcomes in this important area. From a desktop application in 2001 to today’s cloud-based Tridiuum1 platform architecture and iOS-based patient experience, the company has grown from 300,000 patient interactions to more than 1.1 million in 2017 alone.

” The idea is to provide a supportive environment for people to get better and improve with respect to not only their behavioral health, but also their overall health and well-being “

The beauty of Tridiuum’s technology platform is twofold: First, Tridiuum’s web-based assessment process encourages patients to openly and honestly share details of their conditions. Given this feedback, providers can more accurately evaluate and treat them. Second, Tridiuum can seamlessly integrate with most health organizations’ IT systems and electronic health records (EHRs). In fact, updates to a patient’s records are made in less than 30 seconds.

This allows for the key stakeholders involved in the patient’s care to collaborate on their conditions. With Tridiuum, providers can even compare behavioral health assessments by date, session by session.

The Tridiuum behavioral health platform, Tridiuum1, is used to evaluate and inform therapeutic decisions made in real-time by providers as part of the clinical process. It all starts with the provider-facing screen of Tridiuum’s web-based platform. The company calls it “The Clinical Home.” It features graphics and metrics that track the episodic progress of each patient over the duration of treatment, whether it starts in primary care or in the psychologist’s office and continues through in-person therapy or via video as telebehavioral therapy. The Clinical Home maintains a patient’s psychological history; notes about medications they’re on and the regularity taken at prescribed doses; alcohol or substance use data; and information on other factors.

Tridiuum’s Behavioral Health Index (BHI) is a key driver of treatment. When patients first complete the web-based assessment before their initial treatment session, their cumulative responses about the nature and severity of their condition, substance use and other behaviors are analyzed. The algorithms in Tridiuum’s platform generates an Expected Treatment Response (ETR) curve that predicts how well a patient will do in behavioral health treatment over the course of care. The BHI is plotted against the ETR at each subsequent appointment, allowing providers to objectively determine if treatment is progressing well. A decreasing BHI score indicates lessening symptom severity and that the treatment is working. A rising BHI score indicates worsening symptoms and that a change in treatment program is warranted.

“One of Tridiuum’s clients, a Boston-based health system, was facing challenges in managing and tracking its behavioral health population of 35,000 patients. The health system selected the Tridiuum platform to overcome that. Today, the health system is fully managing and tracking the success of its behavioral health treatment programs and is well on the way to bringing the total medical cost of that care in line with the rest of its patient populations.

One of Tridiuum’s clients, a Boston-based health system, was facing challenges in managing and tracking its behavioral health population of 35,000 patients. The health system selected the Tridiuum platform to overcome that. Today, the health system is fully managing and tracking the success of its behavioral health treatment programs and is well on the way to bringing the total medical cost of that care in line with the rest of its patient populations.

Tridiuum

Management

Mark Redlus
CEO

Description

Tridiuum provides a cloud-based health management platform that supports clinical care by screening for issues, managing patient progress, and quantifying outcomes.