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Algonquin Studios’ Management Team Honored on Business First’s List of Who’s Who in Technology 2012

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Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) June 27, 2012

Steven Raines, Algonquins Chief Executive Officer, and Stephen Kiernan II, Algonquins President were both included in Buffalo Business Firsts Whos Who in Technology 2012 list, published by the paper on Monday, June 18th.

According to Donna Collins, Senior Editor at Business First, the executives included on the list represent the companies that appear on Business First’s annual top lists of companies in the technology sector, including office equipment and telecommunications companies, technology companies, and wireless service providers.

Mr. Raines has been building Internet and Intranet applications, electronic commerce systems, scalable enterprise-wide infrastructures, order entry systems and production analysis software using Microsoft technologies since 1995. Prior to co-founding Algonquin, he was a Senior Programmer/Analyst at SOFTBANK Services Group (now Client Logic) and earned a Bachelor of Arts in English, with Honors, from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Mr. Kiernan has been designing and building solutions for the web, print, and CD-ROM since 1998. He has extensive knowledge of many web-based technologies, including: Active Server Pages (ASP), HTML, CSS, XML, and XSL. Before joining Algonquin Studios, Kiernan worked as a multimedia consultant in Boston, MA, with clients including Bentley Motors, Houghton Mifflin, and Marriott Hotels. He earned his Masters of Business Administration at the State University of New York at Buffalo and holds a Bachelor of Science in Corporate Multimedia from the State University of New York College at Fredonia.

About Algonquin Studios – Algonquin Studios is a professional services firm providing world-class software development, customized IT services, web design and web content management systems, and business and technology consulting since 1998. Algonquin Studios provides expert business solutions for many industries including health care, legal, financial, and not-for-profit. The company is headquartered in the heart of downtown Buffalo, surrounded by squares, shops, restaurants, architectural attractions, and all the other gems of the city, and has a Manhattan office, located on Wall Street, in the center of the city’s bustling financial district.







Choice Logistics Announces New Transportation Management Service

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New York, NY (PRWEB) June 11, 2012

Choice Logistics, the leading provider of critical service parts logistics, announced today that it has formally launched its transportation management solution. Known as Choice Transportation Management Services (CTMS), the solution is already delivering a strategic advantage to early adopters.

Through Choice Logistics, we have identified important insights and substantial savings for our company as we optimize international shipments in partnership, said Nigel Weston, Vice President of Supply Chain for Elekta Limited, a human care company pioneering significant innovations and clinical solutions for treating cancer and brain disorders. The analysis and visibility of key performance indicators from CTMS is a critical component of our strategic plan, enabling us to make continuous improvements in our service supply chain.

In the past, Choice Logistics managed international overnight shipments by leveraging the available transportation options of its vendor base to provide a spectrum of services to its clients. CTMS is the result of significant investments in people, process, information, and technology to actively manage transportation services. Choice Logistics opened its own accounts with major carriers and developed an extensive decision support platform that enables the selection of the most efficient and effective carrier and shipping lane for each and every shipment, worldwide. Its Global Logistics Center (GLC) manages overnight international shipments of critical service parts by the minute, allowing clients to schedule field service engineers with precision. The CTMS dashboard is continually refreshed with order activity, alerting the GLC to any potential for delays so that an intervention can be arranged.

In the world of high-tech service parts logistics, international overnight shipping options are as critical as same-day delivery, said Michael Notarangeli, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Choice Logistics. CTMS provides the level of governance and visibility our clients require to make strategic decisions, such as centralizing high-value inventory or expanding internationally.

Elekta has been a Choice Logistics client for more than seven years, and the majority of its shipments of service inventory are international overnight. With a lean staff, Elekta depends on Choice Logistics to deliver critical spare parts for hospitals and treatment centers as promised and to keep its supply chain staff informed of any exceptions. The Choice Logistics team includes transportation analysts who mine the CTMS data generated and find new opportunities for cost savings and customer service enhancements every week.

About Choice Transportation Management Service (CTMS)

CTMS is a new, value-added service option from Choice Logistics, offering active management of critical overnight shipments, even those delivering a single service part or replacement product. With a decision support engine built upon real-world experience in carrier and lane selection, CTMS provides technology companies with the same level of information, access and control for international overnight deliveries as they have with Choice Logistics same-day domestic services. CTMS is currently available in Europe, with a specialized traffic desk in Tilburg, Netherlands, that is linked to the Global Logistics Center in New York City. CTMS will be available worldwide by the end of 2012.

About Choice Logistics

Choice Logistics provides customized logistics solutions that enable global technology manufacturers, value-added resellers, and third-party service organizations to meet the high-availability requirements of their customers. Its global network of strategic stocking locations, linked by dependable transportation solutions, a unified technology platform, and a performance-driven culture, turns time-critical systems support into premium service offerings that generate profitable revenues, build solid reputations, and strengthen customer relationships. To learn why service-driven companies such as Avaya, Bayer Healthcare, Canon, Cisco, Cox Communications, Dell, EMC, and Pendum trust Choice Logistics as their service parts logistics partner, call 1-800-861-6900, extension 4107, or visit the company’s website at http://www.choicelogistics.com.







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zumBrunnen Presenting Educational Session on Bricks with Sustainable Mortar at Annual Risk Management Conference for The Association of Boarding Schools

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Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

zumBrunnen, Inc., an independent building consulting firm, is presenting an educational workshop at The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) and Campus Outreach Services (COS) Annual Risk Management Conference being held June 20-22, 2012 at the historic Hotel Dupont in Wilmington, DE. The conference will bring together boarding school leaders and senior administrators for an in-depth look at best practices on key risk management issues. The conference will help boarding schools identify, evaluate and manage risk by exploring proven policies and practices that are legally sound, fiscally prudent and logistically feasible. John zumBrunnen, Founder and President of zumBrunnen, Inc., will present an educational session focusing on the essential resources executives need in their tool bag to identify and mitigate risk associated with poorly-managed facilities. His session is titled Bricks with Sustainable Mortar.

Executives will learn how to identify facility management teams that are not up to current standards utilizing a self-assessment tool. They will also learn about various methodologies and proprietary techniques used for facility assessment and how to integrate these concepts and tools into a replacement reserve plan. Attendees will discover how information gathered from the assessment process and budgeting phase can yield a truly dynamic report (not a one-time, static report that ends up as a dust cover in a year or two) that ultimately helps lower risk, reduce operating costs and lessen environmental impact.

The building consultants at zumBrunnen specialize in providing educational clients with comprehensive facility assessments and capital replacement reserve budget studies, trademarked as Campus Wide FacilityForecast

SunGard Launches New Version of its Ambit Core Banking Solution for Balance Sheet Management

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Kuala Lumpur (PRWEB) June 24, 2012

SunGard Launches New Version of its Ambit Core Banking Solution for Balance Sheet Management

SunGard has unveiled a new version of Ambit Core Banking, its universal core banking system, to help banks stabilize earnings and respond to margin pressure. Ambit Core Banking now includes balance sheet and risk management tools embedded into the core banking system in addition to retail deposits and lending, commercial banking, trade finance, and treasury management.

Providing balance sheet and risk management tools as an embedded component of a core banking system will help banks have a more accurate view of risk across the enterprise. Ambit Core Banking uses a single data model to help improve data consistency, accuracy and transparency of balance sheet information as an integrated component of core banking infrastructure.

In addition to providing accurate balance sheet and risk management data, Ambit Core Banking also offers workflow tools to help banks embed risk management processes into decision making across the organization. It helps banks interpret and use balance sheet risk information for improved strategic decision making, such as discontinuing unprofitable channels, and adjusting risk appetite or capital on reserve.

Michael Araneta, research director at IDC Financial Insights said Multiple post-crisis challenges have exposed the flaws in legacy architectures and driven a renewed focus on systems modernization. But today the biggest drivers for core systems transformation are underpinned by the need for more rigorous risk management practices, stringent regulatory compliance capabilities and the health and stability of the balance sheet a banks single most important asset.

Ambit Core Banking is based on the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) standards and built using a componentized service-orientated architecture, allowing banks to implement only the functionality they require in a manageable and phased way. This approach also enhances a banks organizational agility as it helps the bank to adapt more quickly to market changes.

Hans Tesselaar, executive director of BIAN said, “Banks are under pressure to deliver innovative products that enhance the customer experience, while also increasing flexibility and reducing costs. Adopting a service-oriented architecture will help banks migrate to a more modern infrastructure in a measured and managed way.

David Hamilton, president of SunGards banking business, said, Banks are reevaluating, and in some cases rebuilding, their operational models in order to help them restore profitability. The role of a core banking system is no longer simply that of a transaction processing engine, but is the primary provider of data into balance sheet management systems. The ability for banks to embed balance sheet management strategies across the organization will become essential to the ongoing stability of the bank.

About BIAN

BIAN is a not for profit organization which seeks to accelerate the adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the banking industry by promoting convergence towards a common services landscape and semantic standards which makes it easier and more cost-effective to integrated such services.

About SunGards Ambit

SunGard’s Ambit is a banking solution suite for retail, commercial and private banks. It provides banking professionals with solutions that support front-, middle- and back-office operations, as well as solutions for financial management, risk and performance. Ambit helps banks retain and acquire customers, improve staff efficiency and effectively measure and allocate their capital. For more information, visit http://www.sungard.com/ambit.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the worlds leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 17,000 employees and serves approximately 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 4.5 billion, SunGard is the largest privately held software and services company and was ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 in 2011. Look for us wherever the mission is critical. For more information, please visit http://www.sungard.com

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo and Ambit are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.