Circa is pleased to announce a formal partnership with EngageRocket, a leading employee engagement and performance software based in Asia that empowers companies to enable human connections at scale. Circa is partnering with EngageRocket to provide its U.S. customers and prospects access to their employee experience solutions to improve employee engagement and productivity. The purpose of this partnership is to improve business outcomes across the shared customer base and support federal contractors' retention efforts with their employee experience software. EngageRocket will refer Circa's SaaS-based technology solutions to their customers while Circa offers its customers access to EngageRocket's employee experience and feedback solutions. Circa provides OFCCP compliance management and recruiting technology solutions to deliver qualified candidates on an equitable playing field for organizations to build high-performing, diverse teams.

Simfoni, the next-generation digital solutions provider for procurement intelligence, eSourcing and tail spend management, announced that it has acquired Michigan-based Xeeva, a fellow leader in AI-powered spend management and procurement technology solutions. This will be Simfoni's second strategic acquisition in 2022, as the company continues to leverage synergistic opportunities to deepen its solution and support competencies, accelerate growth, and solidify market dominance in indirect (tail spend) management and AI-driven spend analytics and eSourcing solutions. This acquisition marks another significant milestone for Simfoni whose goal is to deliver best-in-class, composable, spend management solutions on a global scale. Over the last year, Simfoni has been the recipient of a litany of industry awards and acknowledgements which have further strengthened its global positioning as a recognized market leader in tail spend management. It is anticipated that this latest acquisition will fortify Simfoni's place as one of the top 10 procurement technology providers, globally. Simfoni's innovative Composable Procurement approach combined with its deep domain expertise has collectively provided the company with a competitive edge as procurement teams look outside traditional solutions to achieve superior spend visibility and automation.

Version 1 is celebrating 25 years in the IT industry this year and we continue to be trusted by global brands to deliver IT solutions that drive customer success. Version 1 is not just a Microsoft Gold Partner, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and an Oracle Platform Partner; we are also an award-winning employer and our employees are at the heart of Version 1. We invest in a strong culture of wellness through programs that help our employees create their journey toward optimal wellbeing. This framework is based on the'Strength in Balance' theme and this is seen again in our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Team motto "Bring Your Difference". As the volume of data managed by Version 1 customers continues to grow, many organisations struggle with defining their strategy, and shaping the technology solutions that will enable them to fully realise the value of the data they hold.

Companies are constantly faced with obstacles and hurdles that impact the efficiency of their business processes and operations. To successfully manage these obstacles, organizations must seek technology solutions that adequately address their data and turn information into usable knowledge. Doing so will allow companies to have healthy growth with partners, customers, and their workforce. To grow in these areas, companies should lean on technology solutions that are easily scalable across various business areas – for example, an insight solution specializing in information insight. One of the most prominent areas that make insight solutions "masters of scale" is the ability to automate repetitive and monotonous tasks.

GEICO is more than insurance, it's truly a tech company at heart. GEICO's Technology Solutions is rapidly expanding to keep up with its growth in the digital space. GEICO Technology Solutions is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer. The Machine Learning Engineer is a highly motivated technical leader in machine learning space to drive ML strategy and architecture for GEICO, and will play a critical role shaping the ML landscape that helps GEICO transforms into a data driven company. Machine Learning Engineer has deep expertise in both ML architecture and ML engineering disciplines to ensure that strategy and tactics align.

The rise of AI-enabled technology is being felt in nearly every aspect of our lives--and the rate at which it is being adopted is exhilarating. These rapid technological advancements offer significant benefits to any business, large or small, that welcomes their benefits, from expediting repetitive tasks and accelerating data analysis to augmenting human capabilities. It's evident that 2021 sparked a shift in AI adoption and openness to the technology--partially due to the pressures the pandemic put upon businesses to digitally transform and adjust their work dynamics. In fact, 52% of organizations pivoted to adopt AI solutions sooner than they had expected and cited the pandemic as the reason. Tomorrow's leading businesses have an opportunity to welcome technology that can radically change the way work is done for the better.

The Fintech industry's rapid growth and use of new technologies to meet the rise in demand for online services has brought with it increased levels of cyber crime. Criminals have taken advantage of the benefits digital banks offer to access money, launder illicit money and fund terrorism worldwide. The growth in technology for blockchain and digital payments provides new opportunities for criminals to launder funds at faster speeds and larger scales than they might have been able to previously. According to UK Finance, criminals stole a total of £753.9 million through fraud in the first half of 2021, an increase of 30% compared to H1 2020. With the huge amounts of data that Fintechs process, it's no mean feat to detect potential money laundering activities using manual processes.

How Emerging Technologies are Shaping the Future of Supply Chain and its impact in addressing the Supply Chain Challenges? The supply chain industry has witnessed a paradigm shift, especially in recent times due to the disruption caused by the Pandemic. The industry is now considering an intrinsic part of the overall business strategy, thanks to the Covid-19, which has made the adoption of Digital Transformation a need of the hour in every industry. Besides, supply chain networks face enormous pressure caused by rising and shifting customer expectations for various products and services. The pre-covid era faced challenges relating to additional customer service requirements or fulfilment needs. The businesses responded by ramping up hiring and also throwing more people to address the problems.

The world of marketing is a dynamic, ever-changing landscape. The modern marketer needs a toolkit that can keep up with the evolving tactics and strategies. Marketing automation has emerged as a solution to this need for marketers who want a more efficient way to manage their digital marketing efforts. It's a system that automates many of the repetitive tasks associated with managing a website or social media accounts so you have time for other important work. But what exactly does it do?

The fundamental goals of healthcare are to improve people's lives and to prevent and treat disease. We may think of technology and artificial intelligence as tools for diagnostic and medical advancements like robotic surgery, "smart" prosthetics, or vaccine rollout. But the industry is discovering how the use of AI prevents healthcare fraud, waste and abuse (FWA), how advanced data security and cybersecurity solutions prevent security breaches, and how biometrics and machine learning protect patient information. Hospital directors are grappling with national losses of $300 billion to FWA each year and the constant threat of ransomware attacks, privacy breaches and identity theft. The massive scale of pandemic-related healthcare digitization increased these risks, causing healthcare leaders to seek better solutions.