Middle Atlantic launches phase two of web-based Configurator

FAIRFIELD, N.J. — March 31, 2016 — Middle Atlantic Products has unveiled the second phase of its award-winning Web-based configuration tool. A key component of the middleatlantic.com customer portal, the next generation of the Configurator provides added functionality, an improved interface and overall enhanced website user experience — demonstrating Middle Atlantic's ongoing commitment to provide E-Tools that simplify users' jobs and allow them to build great systems. Engineered to facilitate the easy selection, configuration, quote, and purchase process for customer projects, the revolutionary tool now boasts more than 10,000 registered users since its launch one year ago.

"We've seen rapid growth in the number of Configurator users and received extremely positive feedback in the short time it's been online. Our dedicated Configurator team has been hard at work improving the users' digital experience," said Dan Tarkoff, vice president of customer experience, Middle Atlantic. "From beginners to experts, we want our customers to be able to build intuitive, personalized systems that match the exact design and installation needs of today's demanding A/V environments. With built-in intelligence for even greater ease of use, phase two reflects our core philosophy and the positive customer experience we strive for."

Configurator's phase two features include:• 'Quote My Customer' Tool: Users can easily add profit margin markup to quotes of saved projects. By simply entering the desired profit margin as a dollar value, percentage, or target growth for each component, the margin markup tool will automatically perform the calculations.• Updated My Projects Page: Updated with an option for separating 'Draft' projects from 'Quoted' projects, the My Projects page allows for quick access and organization of each. Additional navigation features include auto sort by date and pagination.• 17 Additional Rack Series: Nearly every rack series offered by the company is now available, with the update's addition of 17 Middle Atlantic racks, including the popular CEDIA Hall of Fame AXS and SRSR series. With these additional rack series, there are now, even more, options to create, personalize, and design an infrastructure system to fit almost every project need.

Accessible from anywhere in the world via any Web-enabled device, Middle Atlantic's leading-edge configuration solution streamlines the selection of suitable products and accessories for any type of system via smart recommendations — along with a priced materials list and a personalized quote with the profit margin built in. With 24/7 access, users can also export CAD and other design documents to be easily integrated into their standard design process, enabling the creation of new projects, a stored history of projects, and convenient direct online ordering.

"As an integrator and a Middle Atlantic customer, working with the Configurator simply makes my job easier. For example, instead of ordering a list of parts, I can now bundle my entire product list into one part number — streamlining the ordering process," said Hong Cheng, vice president of technical operations, Karcher Group. "I'm excited to see the additional functionality and rack series options that phase two will bring to my projects."

Based on extensive research and feedback from the company's integration partners, the platform was developed to enhance and expedite the design and ordering process. By leveraging the robust platform, users can easily browse through the Middle Atlantic catalog, automatically generate quotes on projects with or without pricing, and receive orders pre-assembled or with download assembly instructions from the site. The feature-rich platform eliminates scheduling woes normally associated with the design and specification process.

Middle Atlantic's Configurator is available at www.middleatlantic.com and does not require downloads or any additional software to operate.

Middle Atlantic Products has been part of the Legrand group since Legrand acquired it in 2011.

About Legrand

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Its comprehensive offering of solutions for use in commercial, industrial, and residential markets makes it a benchmark for customers worldwide. Innovation for a steady flow of new products with high added value is a prime vector for growth. Legrand reported sales of $6 billion in 2014. Legrand has a strong presence in North America, with a portfolio of well-known product lines that include C2G, Cablofil, Electrorack, Middle Atlantic, Nuvo, On-Q, Ortronics, Pass & Seymour, Quiktron, Vantage, Watt Stopper, and Wiremold. Legrand is listed on Euronext Paris and is a component stock of indexes including the CAC40, FTSE4Good, MSCI World, ASPI, Corporate Oekom Rating, and DJSI (ISIN code FR0010307819). More information is available at www.legrand.com.

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CrowdReviews.com Reveals Tips for Selecting Web Design Companies

SANTA FE, NM--(Marketwired - March 31, 2016) - CrowdReviews.com, a platform for reviewing and ranking design and development companies, has released a guide assisting those in search of web design services. The tips outline key strategies businesses can use to identify web design companies most likely to design a website which meets their needs and objectives. While the tips are not a guaranteed guideline for selecting the right web design company, the tips can help reduce the risk of selecting a web design firm which doesn't consistently meet their customer requirements.

First, CrowdReviews.com recommends that buyers consider web design companies which have in-depth reviews written about their work online. As the Internet has become a primary source for researching vendors, it has also become an opportunity for vendors to create reviews which may be biased towards the side of the provider. It is recommended for buyers to not only try to identify reviews which may be critical of web design companies, but to utilize multiple reviews and review sources. Many web design companies will offer testimonials and examples on their own website; CrowdReviews.com houses reviews written by actual customers of web design services.

Second, it is recommended for buyers to find vendors which have experience in designing websites similarly to what they are expecting. Many web design companies feature examples of their design work on their own website or have links to websites they have completed design work on. It can be beneficial to not only review past designs completed, but to connect with the customers to confirm the work was completed by the design firm and to obtain additional testimonial towards the credentials of the web design firm.

Those searching for effective web design companies can visit:

https://www.crowdreviews.com/best-web-design-companies.

Those interested in joining CrowdReviews.com can visit the following page to register or claim their profile:

http://www.crowdreviews.com/#registration.

About CrowdReviews.com

CrowdReviews.com is a crowdreviewing platform which ranks over 500 software categories and 200 service categories.

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Turing School of Software & Design Launches New Program

  March 30, 2016 --

Denver, Colorado (PRWEB) March 30, 2016

Turing School of Software and Design, a nationally recognized non-profit programming school, formally launched their new Front-End Engineering program. Front-End Engineering marks the launch of their second program, and was created to fulfill the demand for qualified engineers with a strong foundation in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Front-End developers, also known as client-side developers are currently in high demand. Turings Front-End program is designed to provide the best learning experience for students to acquire job-ready programming skills to enter a career as a front-end developer.

I want Turing to do for coding what MIT did for engineering, said Jeff Casimir founder and executive director, Turing School of Software & Design. Our focus from the beginning has always been about quality over quantity. We designed the new Front-End Development program specifically to surpass expectations that the industry has for new software developers ensuring that our alumni are the most prepared among their competition.

During the Front-End program, students will learn to build applications in the browser for both mobile and desktop platforms, using all core languages. Turing has focused on recruiting instructors for the Front-End Engineering program based on their background in education first, and exceptional programming experience second; fully preparing students to enter a career in front-end engineering upon program completion.

Front-End Engineering program is accepting applications now at https://www.turing.io/.

Since 2014, Turing School of Software and Design has trained 131 students to become Web Application developers. Within 120 days of program completion, 96% of graduates find full-time employment, with a yearly average starting salary of $75,000. Turing is 100% dedicated to student success.

About Turing School of Software & DesignTuring School of Software & Design has operated as a Colorado non-profit since 2014, specializing in Web Application Development and Front-End Engineering. Turing values come from a desire to create a more diverse workforce and to properly prepare students to enter the workforce upon program completion. As a registered Colorado non-profit, Turing answers to no investors or outside interest, strategies and decisions are guided solely by what will lead to the best learning experience for students.

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ArchConf Software Architecture Training Conference in La Jolla Is Nearly Sold Out; Organizers Announce Second ArchConf Event in December, 2016

San Diego, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/29/2016 -- ArchConf, a four-day intensive software architecture training conference scheduled for April 4 - 7, 2016 in La Jolla, California is nearly at capacity, organizers announced today. In reaction to the near sell-out, a second ArchConf event has been scheduled for December, 2016 in Clearwater, Florida.

The four-day ArchConf training event features nearly 80 in-depth, 90-minute training sessions on topics including Agile design, scalable systems, microservices, evolutionary architecture, distributed systems, continuous delivery, service-based architecture, design principles, soft skills, web application security, enterprise messaging, data architecture, architecture patterns, cloud architectures, measuring and profiling and modular Java.

Careers in software architecture are projected to grow by nearly 30 percent over the next decade according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the job title comes with a median annual salary of $121,000 according to Pay.com.

"Software architects are responsible for designing IT systems that solve business problems, typically acting as a liaison between management and technical teams that develop the solutions," explains Jay Zimmerman, the founder of ArchConf Software Development Conference. "The field is exploding, but it's changing so fast that our country's training infrastructure hasn't caught up. That's why we created ArchConf, the educational event for software architects, technical leaders, and senior developers."

The conference is produced by the same company that presents the "No Fluff Just Stuff" Java Software Symposiums in 18 major cities across the U.S. Speakers scheduled to appear include:

Husain Al-Mohssen is a Data Scientist with EnerNOC whose main focus is engineering science and its application to create profitable products that serve hundreds or thousands of users. He has extensive software engineering experience as a developer, maintaine r and architect in the areas of enterprise software, high performance computing, and the "Big Data" domain. Al-Mohssen is also an accomplished mechanical engineer.

Emad Benjamin, a Principal Architect with VMware, helps VMware customers virtualize and tune large-scale Java platforms handling thousands of transactions per second. He is the author of two books in the Java architecture space, "Enterprise Java Applications Architecture on VMware," and "Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms."

Michael Carducci For nearly 20 years, Carducci was a software engineer moonlighting as a magician. Now he's a magician moonlighting as a software engineer. In both endeavors he has dedicated himself to mastery and has gained deep insights both from his eclectic interests, entrepreneurial spirit, and experience that spans the full stack, the entire project life cycle, and several technologies.

Ksenia Dmitrieva A web security expert, Dmitrieva is an Associate Principal C onsultant at Cigital where she performs penetration testing and code review for clients in financial services, entertainment, telecommunications, energy, and enterprise security industries. Her current concentration is on researching HTML5 technologies and new JavaScript frameworks, their security implications, vulnerability discovery and remediation.

Neal Ford is the Director and Software Architect at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of six books, including "The Productive Programmer."

Dillon Gardner A principal member of EnerNOC's data science team, Gardner focuses on using the growing set of energy time series data to design innovative experiments, architect machine learning algorithms, and extract new-found business insights from massive sets of data.

Tudor Gîrba, an award-winning software architect, believes software assessm ent must be recognized as a critical software engineering activity. He is the author the "humane assessment method" to help teams to rethink the way they manage large software systems and data sets. He leads the work on the Moose platform for software and data analysis, and founded the Glamorous Toolkit project for rethinking the IDE.

Douglas Hawkins, a VM Engineer at Azul Systems, has been passionately developing software for the past 10 years – creating applications for bioinformatics, finance, and retail. To make byte code more accessible, he created the open-source Java Assembler Kit (JAK) which provides a fluent API for producing Java byte code and includes a REPL to allow for interactive experimentation.

Dave Hendricksen, a big data architect for Thomson Reuters, is the co-author of "12 Essential Skills for Software Architects," "12 More Essential Skills for Software Architects," and "12 Essential Big Data skills for software architects." He holds a master's degr ee in Computer Science with a specialization in compiler design, and a master's degree in the Management of Technology with a specialization in strategic management, along with multiple patents focusing on information management and retrieval.

Janelle Klein, the CTO @New Iron, is author of "Idea Flow Learning Framework," a strategy for optimizing developer experience and software predictability. Her development background includes data-intensive analytic systems from financial core processors to factory automation, supply chain optimization and statistical process control (SPC). As a Technical Mentor, Klein focuses on teaching thinking and decision-making skills.

Kirk Knoernschild, a software developer and mentor, is the author of "Java Application Architecture," which presents eighteen patterns that help developers design modular software. He takes a keen interest in design, architecture, application development platforms, agile development, and the IT industry in gener al, especially as it relates to software development.

Peter Pavlovich, Principal Architect at EnerNOC Labs, is a technology addict and evangelist and has led many grass-roots efforts to introduce leading edge, advanced technologies and development processes. He has authored and delivered numerous technical seminars on a variety of topics including Ruby on Rails, Grails, Git, Angular, Meteor, Flex, GWT and AOP.

Mark Richards As a software architect, Mark has been involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of microservices architectures, service-oriented architectures, and distributed systems in J2EE and other technologies, and is the author of the definitive book "Software Architecture Fundamentals."

Nathaniel Schutta is a software architect and adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota focused on mobile and making usable applications. He is the author of two books on Ajax, and co-author of the book "Presentation Patterns" with Neal Ford and Mat thew McCullough.

Brian Sletten is a forward-leaning software engineer who focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies.

Matt Stine, A 15-year veteran of the enterprise IT industry, Matt is the author of "Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures" from O'Reilly. Matt is an expert on lean and agile software development methodologies, DevOps, architectural principles, patterns and practices, and supporting microservices architectures with Cloud Foundry and Spring.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., is an instructional professor at the University of Houston and a speaker at several international conferences. He has authored multiple books, including Practices of an Agile Developer (with Andy Hunt) and his latest, Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expr essions.

About ArchConfArchConf is an educational event for software architects, technical leaders, and senior developers presented by No Fluff Just Stuff. ArchConf brings together many of the software architecture industry's best project leaders, developers, authors, and trainers for four days of in-depth training in software architecture.

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Apple and Google are struggling to design simple software

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Right now, millions of consumers are facing a simple problem. Or rather, they're facing a problem with simplicity, as both the number of smart products and the functions of those products multiply.

I was recently reminded of this when I tried to quickly snap a picture at a recent Apple event. I tried to double-click the home button on my locked Galaxy S6 to call up the camera. But I took just a moment too long, triggered the fingerprint reader and unlocked my phone instead — and completely missed the shot.

It was a momentary irritation. But it did make me — at the ripe, old age of 30 — a little wistful for the days when buttons on devices had one function. And it also made me sympathize with the many readers I hear from who say that managing their devices, or even just using basic software, is just getting too complicated.

They're not alone. Take, for example, a 2016 Accenture study, which found that 16 percent of consumers who've tried to buy an Internet of Things device found it too complicated to use. Even worse, 18 percent of consumers couldn't even get those devices to connect to the Internet. Or a 2015 study from J.D. Power's interactive vehicle report found that one-fifth of drivers using cars with smart dashboards never even tried to use 16 of 33 common vehicle software features such as automatic parking.

That's not a function of slowing innovation or technological progress — these features have been developed and shipped in finished products. If most people still don't understand how to use them? That's a design problem.

"We've moved into an age where the ubiquity and complexity of toolsets outpace the ability to leverage them tastefully," said Jason Mayden, a Stanford design fellow who once led design for Nike's Jordan Group and worked on the company's wearable fitness tracker, the Fuel Band. "It can't look like a science project. People don't want Star Trek. They want Minority Report."

But software isn't getting easier to use. In fact, it's quite the opposite.

For years, the simplicity crown has gone to Apple, which has been a ferocious champion for clean design that doesn't give you more information than you strictly need. "We're rolling off of five to eight years with a set of thoughts, promulgated initially by Apple, that is almost cultish that simplicity must come first," said designer John Underkoffler of Oblong Industries — who, by the way, actually did design those futuristic menus in "Minority Report."

But now, even at Apple, the crown is showing signs of slipping. For example: have you looked at iTunes lately?

What started as a simple program for buying, storing and downloading music has morphed into a much larger program for TV shows, movies, podcasts, apps, streaming music and device management. At times, it can feel like a building that's being repeatedly expanded and renovated in a new architectural style every time.

Or, as Underkoffler puts it, "It started out as a charming bungalow. Now it's got turrets, a garage for a Zamboni, and a helipad on the top."

There's been a recent wave of Apple criticism from long-time supporters, including the very-respected Walt Mossberg, who worry the company's lost its way when it comes making simple programs that just work. And that may be true. But it would be impossible to expect Apple to keep iTunes as simple as it was when it was first introduced. That's just not the world we live in anymore.

Companies like Apple and Google are expanding the scope of what they offer — they aren't hawking one kind of hardware or one type of software, but rather a combination of both, often with several cloud services thrown in for good measure. Apple is no longer a focused iPod-and-Mac company. So the current version of iTunes has to offer so much more than just a way to get digital music. Google (or Alphabet) is no longer just a search bar on a Web page, it's a whole ecosystem of information, software programs and an expanding universe of devices. The simple designs of the past products from these companies were never meant to accommodate the range of offerings that are now demanded by consumers.

Yet while companies are offering more functionality to their customers, it is true that they're not presented in a way most of us can use. Even when things are designed to be clean, its often not done clearly enough. Removing unnecessary text, for example, is one way to easily clean up a design. But I often get e-mails from readers asking me about symbols they don't understand on their phones. (Biggest offenders, per my inbox: Android's copy and paste icons, and iOS's share icon.)

Which gets us to the next problem: simple design is far from simple. Underkoffler believes another part of the current problem is also that we're asking our devices — particularly our smartphones — to handle way more work than they were ever designed to take.

"The suggestion from Apple and others is that you can forget your laptop and your desktop, forget about adult computing — all you need is this little thing," he said. Steve Jobs, Underkoffler said, famously compared PCs and tablets to cars and trucks and pointed out that not everyone needs a heavy-duty truck to do everything. But now we're doing more work on phones, he said, which is frankly a ridiculous thing to do.

"You've given people more of a skateboard or a unicycle. You can't bring the groceries home on that," he said.

Reuters/Dado RuvicMen silhouetted against a video screen pose with the Samsung Galaxy S3, Nokia Lumia 820, and iPhone 4 smartphones.

In other words, simplicity itself can't be the aim all of the time, he said.

"There's danger of making things so simple that everyone can use them, because then there's not that much to do and not that much to learn on a device," he said. "And once you've made that assertion, you've painted yourself into a corner. And we end up kind of where we are now."

Meanwhile, these challenges are only going to get tougher as digital interfaces show up in more unexpected places — and sometimes with even less real estate than your standard smartphone screen. Communicating effectively is going to be even more key as companies have to convey information on watch faces, the domes of thermostats or — very crucially, when it comes to clarity — on the dashboard of your car.

The hope is that companies may take this opportunity for a design reset. Underkoffler pointed to the recent introduction of products like the iPad Pro as an example of a reaction to simplicity that went too far, with tablets that have sort of morphed back into an earlier form with support for keyboard, trackpads and styluses to actually support the behaviors of users, rather than trying to create new ones.

That seems about right to him, he said. "The way we think about it at Oblong is that things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler," he said.

So, with all of these factors at play and more changes to come, is there anyone out there who's doing clear and simple design well?

Mayden had an answer pretty quickly: Tesla.

The car company, Mayden said, is answering the right kinds of questions from a design standpoint, looking not only at the new technology but also thinking about how their product fits into consumers' lives. That combines the skills of designers and technologists, he said, and earns them his pick for the current design champions of the world.

"I think Tesla's the closest, because they started out by saying we want to make a better vehicle and it happens to be electric. They took the approach of better problems to solve," Mayden said. "And I think Elon [Musk, Tesla's chief executive] as a person is the craftsman — more Charles Eames than Tony Stark."

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Janome: A Case of Rejuvenating a Tired Website

Company: Janome

Janome is one of the world's largest manufacturers of sewing machines. Its mission is to produce machines that inspire creativity and innovation, but are simple to use. The company has divisions all over the world; in America, the company is headquartered in Mahwah, N.J.

(janome.com)

Business Challenge

Janome wanted to overhaul its website--not just to make it easier to use, but also to make it more appealing to a younger generation of sewers inspired by creations they see on such sites as Pinterest and Etsy.

Vendor of Choice: Episerver

Episerver provides content management software and ecommerce technology. It has offices across the globe; its U.S. headquarters is in Nashua, N.H.

(episerver.com)

THE PROBLEM IN-DEPTH

Janome was founded in Japan in 1921, but America is its largest subsidiary. Therefore, Janome America is sort of the "proving grounds for everything on the marketing side," says Michael Seminara, marketing manager for Janome America. "Everything we put out then goes global."

When executives at Janome--which has been on the web since the 1990s--decided to relaunch the company websites, the American version of the site was chosen as the first one to be redone. Subsidiaries in other countries would follow suit once it was successfully up and running. When Seminara was hired in February 2014, he was immediately charged with spearheading the relaunch.

"We needed a way to show off the beauty of our products," Seminara says of the relaunch. Simply put, the previous site wasn't getting the job done, Seminara states. As recently as 2013, he says, the site was "really static," and it "took forever [for users] to find things." Another big drawback? There were no ecommerce capabilities.

By making the site more user-friendly and more comprehensive, the needs of the customer would be better served. A new customer, Seminara says, wants to spend half an hour researching online "and find out everything they can find out before they make a purchase, so we had to make sure all that content was there, nice and easy for people to get."

Another goal Janome had for the new website was to capture younger customers. In addition to integrating social media into the site-which hadn't been done before-Seminara says Janome wanted to invite "inspiring artisans to come in and make projects for us, and attract that younger audience. A 35-year-old doesn't get inspired by something a 70-year-old makes or likes. But a 70-year-old does get inspired by something a 35-year-old makes."

Seminara says Episerver was one of two vendors Janome considered for the site's relaunch. Janome looked at the other companies the vendors had worked with. The fact that Episerver powers the website for the appliance manufacturing giant Electrolux helped tip the scales in its favor. "They're a major player in their space, and that's what we are," Seminara says.

THE SOLUTION

Seminara says that when he started with Janome in February 2014, the company was finalizing its deal with Episerver, and development on the new site began that month. Bob Egner, VP of product management and marketing for Episerver, says his company collaborated with website design company iMedia, which did the work on the design and implementation of the site. "We had, through the combination of the Episerver team and the iMedia team, all the right resources to help with the support and strategy [Seminara] had in mind," Egner says.

"What we've done is built a lot of technology that makes it easy to create ... relevant experiences [and] user-generated content that's inspirational," he adds.

Egner says Episerver software is built on a Microsoft .Net stack, but adds that the "more important set of functionality we've put together in the Episerver platform" is a focus on usability. "The design objective we have internally is to make publishing a website as easy as posting your update on Facebook," he says. "Making it easier to use is just so refreshing to our customers."

With a company like Janome, Egner says, the development process starts by mapping out the customer journey-which is what the customer arriving at the site should be able to achieve. Once that's done, "you can start to build the strategy around the experiences that you want to support," Egner says-and then the design effort begins. This is followed by content development, coding, loading the content into the system, and then an extensive test cycle to make sure "everything is working smooth [and] the system is resilient and ready to go when it starts getting hit with the additional traffic that's expected to come in," Egner says.

The new site was launched in November 2014. This was in time for the holiday shopping season, but it also provided plenty of time for the site to be out there before February-a crucial month, as that's when Janome typically launches new machines. "We definitely knew that the majority of the new traffic was going to happen in February 2015," Seminara says.

Episerver has also helped Janome roll out personalization tools on its site. For example, Seminara says, when a new customer buys a Janome machine and registers it on the website, he or she will be given suggestions for accessories and projects specific to that machine.

    

Source: Janome: A Case of Rejuvenating a Tired Website

Synopsys to Showcase Software Integrity Platform for 'Software Signoff' at Black Hat Asia

SINGAPORE, March 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced it will showcase its Software Integrity Platform, a comprehensive suite of software security testing solutions for software signoff, at Black Hat Asia in Singapore (March 29-April 1). Through a combination of best-in-class automated testing and analysis tools, Synopsys' Software Integrity Platform empowers organizations to reduce risk, cost and time to market by rapidly detecting and fixing critical security vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle and supply chain.

The Software Integrity Platform enables robust application security testing for software ranging from enterprise web applications to embedded software and IoT devices. The platform is designed to facilitate "software signoff," a unique and rigorous approach introduced by Synopsys to secure software with integrated development and testing processes. Software signoff provides elevated confidence in the quality and security of software by implementing a series of automated testing processes at critical progression points throughout the software development lifecycle and software supply chain.

Synopsys, a global leader in electronic design automation and semiconductor IP, entered the software security market in early 2014 with the acquisition of Coverity, Inc., a pioneer in static application security testing solutions. Since then it has built its leadership in the security space with other security acquisitions including Codenomicon Ltd., Seeker by Quotium, Protecode Inc./a> and the Goanna product.

Synopsys' Software Integrity Group provides security products and services on a global scale and has aggressive plans to expand its presence in Asia-Pacific and Japan to meet growing market demands. As a silver sponsor and exhibitor at Black Hat Asia, one of the premier security conferences in the Asia-Pacific region, Synopsys will showcase its portfolio of software security testing solutions to an audience of security professionals and stakeholders representing organizations from all over the region. In Asia Pacific, Synopsys' Software Integrity Group has offices in Singapore, Japan, China, India and Australia.

"Tools in our portfolio are already being used by 15 of the top 20 global software companies to improve the quality and security of their products, so introducing the Software Integrity Platform as an integrated solution for enabling 'software signoff' is the next step," said Andreas Kuehlmann, senior vice president and general manager of Synopsys' Software Integrity Group. "Educating security professionals and developers about our broad set of software testing solutions and how they can be used together to address the fundamental vulnerabilities behind most cyber attacks is a very important part of our strategy."

"With such a large population of developers and a growing number of software companies, the need for security testing solutions in APAC is greater than ever," said Geok Tan, senior director of APAC sales, Synopsys. "Black Hat Asia draws a lot of forward-thinking security professionals from all over the region, and it's an ideal venue to unveil the Software Integrity Platform to this market."

Combining the technologies and expertise of innovative security vendors such as Codenomicon, the firm that discovered Heartbleed, and Coverity, a pioneer in static analysis, Synopsys provides one of the broadest and most powerful toolsets for software security testing in the market. The Software Integrity Platform includes:

Coverity® solution – an industry leading static analysis tool for early detection of critical vulnerabilities in source code.

Protecode™ solution – the industry's first software composition analysis (SCA) tool leveraging source code and binary analysis to detect and manage known vulnerabilities and other risks introduced by open source and other third-party code in the software supply chain.

Defensics® solution – an advanced network protocol fuzz testing tool for discovering unknown vulnerabilities and preempting zero-day attacks.

Seeker® solution – a pioneering Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) tool for detecting exploitable vulnerabilities in web applications with zero false positives.

Test Advisor™ solution – an automated test optimization tool for assessing the impact of code changes and prioritizing testing efforts.

To learn more about Synopsys, the Software Integrity Platform and software signoff at Black Hat Asia, visit booth #B07 in the Cassia Ballroom of the Marina Bay Sands. Synopsys executives and security experts will be available for private meetings and press briefings upon request.

About SynopsysSynopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™ partner for innovative companies developing the electronic products and software applications we rely on every day. As the world's 16th largest software company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and is also growing its leadership in software quality and security solutions. Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing applications that require the highest quality and security, Synopsys has the solutions needed to deliver innovative, high-quality, secure products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.

Editorial Contacts:Mark Van Elderen (Software Integrity Group)Synopsys, Inc.415-266-6408mvanelde@synopsys.com

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WEB DESIGN & INTERNET MARKETING , ESSEX

Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; interface design; authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software; user experience design; and search engine optimization. Often many individuals will work in teams covering different aspects of the design process, although some designers will cover them all. The term web design is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end (client side) design of a website including writing mark up. Web design partially overlaps web engineering in the broader scope of web development. Web designers are expected to have an awareness of usability and if their role involves creating mark up then they are also expected to be up to date with web accessibility guidelines.

Having spent years designing and building websites I know what works in terms of usability and incorporat e this knowledge all through the design process. It's no good having a great looking website if it's difficult for your customers to navigate or find what they are looking for, it's crucial to get this right from the start so you stand out from your competitors in the right way.We create our on-line shops using Shopify e-commerce web design software – a powerful, elegant and flexible system that gives us the freedom to design your online shop the way you want!

We offer web design services to the UK and beyond. We create websites that are engaging, simple to navigate and have good SEO (search engine optimisation) as a cornerstone of the build. We design a great variety of websites from simple 2 or 3 page sites to full blown eCommerce and large dynamic websites built on CMS platforms.We believe in keeping our work open source so that you and your website aren't tied to our company. Using Joomla, WordPress, Magento and Drupal (amongst other systems) we provide bespoke solutio ns for you and will advise on what we feel is the best way forward to get to what you need to achieve online.We offer tuition for self maintained websites or we can offer support contracts if you do not have the time or desire to update your site yourself. Our service is personal so if you have a problem or question you know who you can email or call for a response.

We feel we offer a unique service in the web design industry by offering professional websites with on going support at reasonable prices. We understand you need to get on with running your business and we aim to make our services and support as cost effective and affordable as possible. Our pricing policy is transparent and easy to understand, you will be able to receive a costing for having your website designed, built, hosted and maintained, with no hidden extras or nasty surprises.

Having spent years designing and building websites I know what works in terms of usability and incorporate this knowledge all through the design process. It's no good having a great looking website if it's difficult for your customers to navigate or find what they are looking for, it's crucial to get this right from the start so you stand out from your competitors in the right way.We create our on-line shops using Shopify e-commerce web design software – a powerful, elegant and flexible system that gives us the freedom to design your online shop the way you want!

We believe in keeping our work open source so that you and your website aren't tied to our company. Using Joomla, WordPress, Magento and Drupal (amongst other systems) we provide bespoke solutions for you and will advise on what we feel is the best way forward to get to what you need to achieve online.We offer tuition for self maintained websites or we can offer support contracts if you do not have the time or desire to update your site yourself. Our service is personal so if you have a problem or question you know who you can email or call for a response.We focus our online creative and development skills to your business and what you need. We listen, absorb and translate your ideas, thoughts and aims into web and digital media which will market your business and services in the most effective way possible, to the right people at the right time.

Working with many local businesses within the Chelmsford and Essex area, as well as our London based clients, we are ideally positioned to cater for your website, design and digital media needs.To get more information , Please have a Click on web design Essex .

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Axis Launches New Tools to Simplify the Design and Specification of Systems of Any Size and Complexity

Axis Communications, the market leader in network video, today announced the launch of two design platforms that simplify and streamline security system design. AXIS Design Studio is specifically designed for use by independent consultants to design complex, enterprise systems leveraging existing design software. System integrators and installers can utilize AXIS Site Designer to design security solutions for small and mid-sized systems.

"Axis (News - Alert) is committed to making security easy and achievable for any sized system. We listen and incorporate market feedback into our product design and accessories. Now, we've expanded our system design tool offering with the launch of AXIS Design Studio and AXIS Site Designer," said Fredrik Nilsson, general manager, Axis Communications, Inc. "These platforms simplify the design process and help achieve the customer's objectives with a successful installation of Axis products."

Information about the new platforms, as well as the complete offering, will be available to attendees at the Axis booth (#14051) at ISC West on April 6-8.

AXIS Design Studio

AXIS Design Studio is the result of a partnership with Iomnis Surveillance Solutions, merging 3D virtualization with current Axis design tool competencies to improve the accuracy and efficiency of system designers' workflow. The 3D modeling environment provides an immersive experience to simplify camera placement and accurately specify field of view. Product selection in the virtual world can be easily leveraged to produce deliverables, such as camera schedules and field of view footprint, with seamless integration to the online portal.

Designers can continue to build on the project from the 3D environment or begin a new design using the integrated online portal, dependent on the stage of the project. The portal simplifies camera selection by using interactive filtering tools to select the required product and accessories, including server and storage solutions. Once the design is complete, exporting a bill of material, server requirements and a unified CSI (News - Alert) specification is a mouse click away.

"AXIS Design Studio not only streamlines the project design process, but also immerses the designer in a virtual modeling environment," said Geoffrey Bauer, A&E program manager, Axis Communications (News - Alert), Inc. "This powerful platform enables consultants to design a complete project quickly and accurately by providing intuitive decision-making tools, eliminating time-consuming calculations and creating project deliverables. By streamlining the workflow, it allows consultants to increase their efficiency and focus on what they do best - all without sacrificing quality of service."

Leveraging architectural files from Revit®, AutoCAD® or SketchUp®, system designers can virtually walk through a space, which can help engage the customer in the design process regardless of their familiarity with security products. The online portal quickly compiles projects, which can be securely synced to the cloud or downloaded to a local server.

AXIS Design Studio is supported by Axis Application Development Partners (ADP), including Aimetis Corporation and Milestone Systems. AXIS Design Studio is available today to qualified Axis Architecture & Engineering Program partners in North America. AXIS Design Studio is initially available only in English.

AXIS Site Designer

Axis provides system integrators and installers with an intuitive new web application that reduces the time and effort needed to design complete security solutions for small and mid-sized systems. AXIS Site Designer works online and offline to recommend cameras and recording solutions, saving time when specifying and designing end-to-end solutions for sites with up to 100 cameras. It includes easy-to-use templates for a variety of security requirements and gives interactive guidance on the selection of cameras, recording products and accessories needed for a complete surveillance solution.

The app features a selection of templates for common installation scenarios. A visual camera selector recommends cameras based on operational requirements, such as required resolution, camera coverage and light conditions. It is easy to find the right mounts and other accessories for any camera since the tool only presents compatible components. A storage calculator provides recommendations for suitable recording solutions based on typical scenarios. Finally, the tool produces a complete bill of materials that includes all components in the system.

AXIS Site Designer can be accessed for free at sitedesigner.axis.com and can be used with tablets, laptops or PCs.

About AxisAxis offers intelligent security solutions that enable a smarter, safer world. As the market leader in network video, Axis is driving the industry by continually launching innovative network products based on an open platform - delivering high value to customers through a global partner network. Axis has long-term relationships with partners and provides them with knowledge and ground-breaking network products in existing and new markets.

Axis has more than 2,100 dedicated employees in more than 50 countries around the world, supported by a global network of over 80,000 partners. Founded in 1984, Axis is a Sweden-based company listed on NASDAQ Stockholm under the ticker AXIS. For more information about Axis, please visit our website www.axis.com.

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Invizon Web Design and Development expands to Merrill

Invizon LLC, based in Viroqua, Wis., announces the opening of their new corporate headquarters in Merrill. Founded in 2006, Invizon is a full-service professional and reliable provider of software development services and cost-effective web based solutions. Invizon provides business application development, ecommerce development and web marketing solutions to local, state, national and international businesses. Invizon continues its operation of a second development center in Viroqua.Kevin Sather, Invizon's founder/CEO, contributes his company's accomplishments to its commitment to customer satisfaction.

"We provide customized web-design that meets our clients' specific business needs. We are not limited with web-design solutions like so many other web design companies. Our ability to customize web sites goes hand in hand with business innovation and results in customer satisfaction."

Invizon's business success also includes a strong work ethic, attention to detal, close communication with clients and thinking outside the box.

Unlike other software and web design companies, Invizon does not outsource their work. All of Invizon's software and web design and development is completed in-house.

"This practice not only boosts Invizon's customer satisfaction rate, it enables senior programmers and engineers to mentor the new hires, and provides new employment opportunities for the skilled workforce in the Wausau region," Sather said.

Although a small company, Invizon has created many new high-skilled positions in Merrill. Sather and his wife, Mary, are conscious of the employment opportunities they have brought to Lincoln County.

"Expanding to Merrill and providing highly-skilled employment opportunities is our personal contribution to a great community," Sather said.

Opening an office in Merrill is one example of Sather's belief in thinking outside the box. When most businesses would relocate to a large city, Sather chose to expand to Merrill. He knew he could find the additional talent he needed by working closely with Northcentral Technical College (NTC), located just 20 minutes away in Wausau.

A member of the NTC Community Advisory Board, Sather helps guide the curriculum in their IT departments with his real world business input.

While Invizon may be located on Main Street, their business clientele can be found on Wall Street."Our customers are all sizes – Fortune 500, mid-size and startups," Sather said.

No matter the size, Invizon is dedicated to helping their clients with software development, web design, ecommerce and web development. To learn more about Invizon LLC, visit http://invision.com or call 715-722-0360.

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DPReview is hiring! Software development manager

DPReview is hiring! We're looking to add a Software Development Manager to our Seattle-based team. Bring your creativity, passion and talent to help us build the next generation of our web and mobile experiences. Responsibilities include building and managing our team of engineers, listening to audience feedback and driving DPReview's technical vision. See all of the details below.

DPReview.com is seeking a talented, passionate, creative developer to help us craft the look, feel, and functionality of the world's most popular digital camera website. The right candidate will be capable of defining the technical vision for the product, as well as leading the team in achieving that vision.

Our engineers work closely with a small in-house product management and editorial team. Fast, scrappy development and testing, combined with regular (sometimes daily) deployment ensures that no one gets the chance to fall into a rut and that everyone has the opportunity to help shape projects from concept to delivery. You will listen to our audience, help drive our goals, and leverage our unique position in the photographic industry, and to constantly strive for better, smarter ways to deliver the content, services, and community tools that have made the site the success it is.

You'll be excited by the opportunity to build rich interactive user experiences on a large-scale public facing website. Your core focus will be to build the next generation of DPReview web and mobile experiences, including shopping and comparison tools for photographic gear, community and social features focused on photography enthusiasts, and special products in support of Amazon teams. DPReview has enough traffic to pose interesting performance challenges, so a solid knowledge of SQL, database design, and optimization techniques is important.

While we are part of Amazon, DPReview has its own unique culture, with a small but cohesive team of editorial staff and developers. You'll feel like you're at a small startup, with lean, product-focused processes, but with all the upsides of working for a large company.

DPReview.com runs primarily on .NET, but any solid experience with web technologies is sufficient. Also, we collaborate with other Amazon teams to develop features and widgets for Amazon.com, which provides the unique opportunity to show your work to a much larger audience than DPReview's millions of daily visitors.

Basic Qualifications

Equivalent experience to a Bachelor's degree based on 3 years of work experience for every 1 year of education

4+ years professional experience in software development

Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, complexity analysis, databases, and web technologies

Proficiency in at least one modern server-side programming language (such as C# or Java) and a client-side language (JavaScript); HTML and CSS experience is assumed

Preferred Qualifications / Experience 

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Build and manage a team of engineers. Recruit, hire, mentor, and coach technical staff

Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

Demonstrated leadership ability as a lead software developer

People management, team building and mentoring experience

Experience taking a leading role in building complex software such as large-scale public websites that have been successfully delivered to customers

A track record of handling ambiguity well, translating loose product and project requirements into effective customer solutions

Hands-on expertise in many web technologies, ranging from front-end user interfaces through back-end systems and all points in between

Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, etc.

Strong UX intuition and demonstrated UI design skills

Solid database design experience with an emphasis on performance

Experience with systems administration

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Web Application Developer

Uncharted Software is a creative, dynamic group specializing in tailored visual analytics software research, design and development. We are world leaders in the design and implementation of high-end information visualization applications utilizing 2D and 3D graphics, featuring advanced analytics and user interface concepts.  Ongoing projects at Uncharted include design and development for a variety of platforms, large interactive displays, mapping and GIS, desktop software, and highly visual/interactive web applications.  Our software products are used all over the world and have won numerous awards including five IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) contests since 2006.

Uncharted is looking for Web Application Developers in the Vancouver/Victoria area to join our agile team. You will create highly interactive web applications using cutting-edge technology, with a strong attention to detail and a continuous focus on quality and improvement.

 Desired Skills & Experience

Strong JavaScript, CSS, SPA experience, SPA frameworks (Angular, etc)

Sound hands-on experience with the REST pattern, MVC, N-tiered architecture. Java and node.js.

RDBMS, NoSQL (ElasticSearch). Graph databases – nice to have

Appreciation of build systems (Grunt, Gulp, Gradle, etc.), tooling (git, linting, Vagrant, etc.), TDD, CI, deployment (Docker)

Experience building user interfaces. Viz/graphics a plus (d3, canvas, ol/leaflet, WebGL, etc.)

Experience or interest in learning: Cluster computing (Spark, Hadoop, HDFS), functional programming (Scala), data science/machine learning

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

To work at Uncharted you must be able to meet Security Clearance Requirements including a police background check.

Check out our website at www.uncharted.software

We thank all applicants in advance, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Web designing services provider : why does your business need a web design service?

Details WhaTech Channel: Web Design Press Release Published: 23 March 2016 Submitted by akshay WhaTech Pro Trial News from OrsInfotech - Web designing and Development Viewed: 0

Professional web design is extremely important for each business, despite the fact that you won't not know about it. The nature of your web site design services can attract guests to your site, or push them away. This is the reason employing the right web design services is something that no business ought to overlook. How about we investigate a percentage of the things you ought to search for.

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Professional web designers ought to be willing to offer sites that are professional, and which are anything but difficult to explore. Numerous individuals concentrate on web site design services that give them an awesome looking page, yet not one that is basic for clients to get it.

This is a major oversight, and one that'll bring about your guests to leave in huge numbers - nobody needs to manage a difficult to utilize website, particularly when there are a lot of contenders out there.

It's particularly imperative to pick web site design services that comprehend the requirements of individuals with inabilities, and additionally more established clients. You'll be searching for expert web design which obliges your craved gathering of people, obviously - a page that is for the most part intended for youthful gamers is not as liable to be worried about ease of use as one that is for the overall population.

Be that as it may, ensuring that text styles are huge and lucid, hues have satisfactory complexity, and all route is clear and evident is simply great web design.

Great web design services will give your site a straightforward and simple to utilize seek interface, also. Ensure this pursuit isn't excessively strict - it'll keep clients from finding what they need on the off chance that it can't see through accentuation, seek term variations, and grammatical mistakes.

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Affordable web design services ought to additionally be creative and offer different web design choices. They ought to likewise have the capacity to alter to suit your requirements and supplement custom activity if vital.

The staff that would be helping you would likewise should be cordial and comprehension of your needs. They ought to comprehend that what you are doing is for your business and like you they ought to additionally want to succeed in offering you some assistance with running your business through the services that they are putting forth.

In addition, client backing ought to dependably be accommodated on the off chance that something turns out badly. The client backing ought to have the capacity to help you whether online or onsite relying upon the details that you are encountering.

Website upkeep ought to additionally be accommodated frequently relying upon your inclinations to guarantee that the website would dependably be effective and superb in giving its services.

The best point of preference offered by affordable web design services is the value that they would be putting forth you. As the name infers, the costs is affordable and would but rather taken a toll you contrasted with other web design services.

They would have the capacity to furnish you with an upfront quotation of the cost required for your website. Likewise, they would not be charging you for additional superfluous shrouded costs.

It is in this manner critical that when searching for web design services, make certain to search for the company that offers superb quality however at an affordable expense.

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Integrated Design Tools Relaunch Website With New Design, Products and UX

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Integrated Design Tools are offering a wider range of products than ever, requiring a more robust and high-end website capable of presenting the products in their best light to potential customers.

March 21, 2016 /MarketersMedia/ --

Digital imaging is one of the most important resources available in today's online culture, and creating captivating imagery, both still and moving, requires groundbreaking technology in order to be able to take people's breath away. High speed cameras can slow down time or capture the instant a bullet breaks a pane of glass. These products have therefore become more popular than ever, and Integrated Design Tools, Inc. (IDT) has relaunched their website to better showcase their extended range of high spec, high speed cameras.

The new cameras capable of producing up to 2K resolution to ensure crystal clear detail, while capturing up to an astonishing 5,000 frames a second, even in challenging lighting conditions. Each product has been created with different priorities and purposes in mind, to ensure that people can capture incredible imagery, no matter what they are trying to achieve.

The new website design works hard to encapsulate and promote the capability, build quality and amazing value of these products. The site showcases the cameras using compelling HTML 5 design and improved user experience, including seamless mobile phone load times. The written descriptions allow people to understand both technical details, and the possibilities for each camera in cinematic, visual terms.

A spokesperson for IDT Vision explained, "This new website design is our best to date, and is the ideal platform on which to promote the widest range of high speed image capturing technology we have ever created. We have iterated our devices to ensure that they perform to the highest standards in the most testing conditions. We have cameras optimized for rugged conditions, underwater capture, and even moving camera stations. The website also gives us a platform to promote software, connections and other accessories. We can even post news on future products, so individuals on the cutting edge can check in with our R&D department for updates and release dates."

About Integrated Design Tools: IDT is committed to providing simple, elegant solutions for customers with specialist digital-imaging needs. Integrated Design Tools, Inc. (IDT) believe that staying in constant motion makes them the top innovators in the field, using today's great ideas as a platform to expand their vision into tomorrow. Their devices are created by a small team of highly experienced experts to be not only sophisticated but also easy to use.

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ITNcr, Web Design Company

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Pressbox (Press Release) - ITNcr is your one-stop Solution Comapny to provide Website Design, Website Development, Software Development, CMS Development, Custom Application, E-Commerce Development, SMO and SEO Services.

ITNcr has been launched with a clear vision to become multi-skilled and multi-dimensional IT service providers with a focus on high end strategic solutions along with the ultimate aim to evolve and become a leading One Stop internet strategy consulting company.We have all the capabilities to provide integrated online marketing solutions for small and medium business across the globe and are ready for challenges in terms of timely delivery, quality expectations of clients and measurable results. Our focus is not industry specific as we strongly feel that only the expertise of our team matters in everything that we do. We are committed to create excellent interactive experiences while designing, executing and managing online strategies for y our organizations and in turn improving ROI having thrust in complementing your brand.

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ARM Edition of Elsevier's Popular Book Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface Now Available

ARM Edition of Elsevier's Popular Book Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface Now Available

Features the ARM (R) v8-A Architecture to Present the Fundamentals of Computer System Design

CAMBRIDGE, MA --(Marketwired - March 17, 2016) - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has published the ARM edition of its bestseller Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. Written by educators David Patterson and John Hennessy, the new edition features a subset of the ARMv8-A architecture presenting the fundamentals of hardware technologies, assembly language, computer arithmetic, pipelining, memory hierarchies and I/O. ARM designs processors and related technologies at the heart of the world's most advanced digital products, including 85 percent of the mobile computing market.

"We are excited to partner with ARM on this latest edition of Computer Organization and Design," said Todd Green, Publisher, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, an Elsevier imprint. "Just as previous editions of Drs. Patterson and Hennessy's textbook brought parallel processing and cloud computing to the forefront, Computer Organization and Design: ARM Edition continues the evolution, presenting the modern ARM architecture to students studying to become tomorrow's computer engineers."

The book explores the post-PC era with examples, exercises and material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing and the cloud. It includes updated content featuring tablet computers, cloud infrastructure, and the ARM and x86 (cloud computing) architectures. An online companion website provides links to the included DS-5 Community Edition (a professional quality tool chain developed by ARM), as well as additional advanced content for further study, appendices, glossary, references and recommended reading. The book is part of the Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design.

"The Computer Organization and Design textbook has inspired generations of computer scientists and engineers worldwide," said Khaled Benkrid, Director, Education and Research, ARM. "The new ARM edition of the textbook includes a Community Edition of ARM DS-5 Development Studio that supports the ARMv8-A architecture. This means students and engineers are able to get hands-on practice in professional programming with the architecture that forms the basis of 85 percent of all mobile computing devices shipping today."

Co-author David Patterson has been teaching computer architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, since joining the faculty in 1977, where he holds the Pardee Chair of Computer Science. His teaching has been honored by the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, the Karlstrom Award from ACM, and the Mulligan Education Medal and Undergraduate Teaching Award from IEEE. Professor Patterson received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award and the ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award for contributions to RISC, and he shared the IEEE Johnson Information Storage Award for contributions to RAID.

Co-author John Hennessy is the tenth president of Stanford University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1977 in the departments of electrical engineering and computer science. President Hennessy is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM; a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, and the American Philosophical Society; and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his many awards are the 2001 Eckert-Mauchly Award for his contributions to RISC technology, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, and the 2000 John von Neumann Award, which he shared with David Patterson. He has also received seven honorary doctorates.

Elsevier uses proprietary tools to identify knowledge gaps in fields such as computer organization and design. Editorial teams then strategically fill those gaps with content written by key influencers in the field, giving students, faculty and researchers the content they need to answer challenging questions and improve outcomes. This new book is a key example of how Elsevier is enabling science to drive innovation.

The book is available on the Elsevier Store and from leading book and ebook retailers worldwide.

Notes for EditorsE-book review copies of the new book are available to credentialed journalists upon request. Contact Robin Hayward at R.Hayward@elsevier.com.

About ElsevierElsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, deliver better care, and sometimes make groundbreaking discoveries that advance the boundaries of knowledge and human progress. Elsevier provides web-based, digital solutions -- among them ScienceDirect, Scopus, Elsevier Research Intelligence and ClinicalKey -- and publishes over 2,500 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and more than 33,000 book titles, including a number of iconic reference works. Elsevier is part of RELX Group, a world-leading provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. www.elsevier.com

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QBE Australia and New Zealand Insures its Digital Future with New Responsive Web Experience

Content authors will use Sitecore to seamlessly publish content to any consumer device with individual pages more easily customised and created, improving the timeliness of response to consumers.

SYDNEY, 17 March 2016 – Sitecore®, the global leader in experience management software, has announced that QBE Australia and New Zealand has gone live with the Sitecore® Experience Platform.

QBE's new website can now provide members with a responsive digital experience, enabling the business to establish one-to-one relationships with its customers on any device, while providing an innovative experience through the delivery of personalised content based on the customer's preferences.

Content authors will use Sitecore to seamlessly publish content to any consumer device with individual pages more easily customised and created, improving the timeliness of response to consumers.

The Sitecore deployment follows a comprehensive market review of the company's existing web properties.

Marcus Marchant, Head of Digital, QBE Australia, said Sitecore offered several key features that appealed to QBE. "Firstly, it's built from the same, all in one product technology stack so it's easier to manage and is also highly secure, robust and scalable," Marchant said.

"Secondly, and most importantly in terms of user experience, it provides customers with a digital experience that is engaging, personal and relevant. The end result being they receive tailored content that better meets their needs, and achieve greater engagement with the website."

Sitecore strategic partner Deloitte Digital was chosen by QBE to design, build and deploy the new digital experience, delivering a contemporary design and an intuitive user experience that is responsive and engaging.

In line with the new design and UX, QBE also took a strategic approach to content, ensuring it demystifies the role of insurance and helps customers make informed decisions about their needs.

Improved analytics and personalisation will also mean QBE can engage more deeply with its customers by better understanding their behaviour and intent.

The net result of Sitecore and Deloitte successfully partnering to deliver the new site will help improve customer experience and Net Promoter Scores, making it easier for people to engage with and do business with QBE.

"We see our website as a key driver for supporting direct new business growth and maximising customer lifetime value," said Marchant. "As a result, we were looking for a solution that would equip the organisation with better analytics capabilities and marketing automation functionality.

"While content will play a critical role in communicating the value of our services, Sitecore's ability to improve customisation, agility, feature set and development opportunities is also important in helping improve our customer experience."

In Australia, QBE Insurance provides one of the broadest product ranges of any insurer and offers all major lines of general insurance cover for personal and commercial risks. With more than 30 offices across all states and territories, QBE seeks to understand its customers and develop competitive, flexible insurance cover that works for them, striving to deliver the highest level of service from quote to claim.

About Sitecore

Sitecore is the global leader in experience management software that enables context marketing. The Sitecore® Experience Platform™ manages content, supplies contextual intelligence, and automates communications, at scale. It empowers marketers to deliver content in context of how customers have engaged with their brand, across every channel, in real time. More than 4,600 customers—including American Express, Carnival Cruise Lines, easyJet, and L'Oréal - trust Sitecore for context marketing to deliver the personalised interactions that delight audiences, build loyalty, and drive revenue. For more information, visit: sitecore.net.

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MadCap Software Launches Latest Version of Leading Technical Authoring Software for Modern Multi-Channel Publishing

March 16, 2016 10:00 ET | Source: MadCap Software, Inc.

La Jolla, CA, March 16, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

MadCap Software, Inc., the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Visual Studio, today announced that MadCap Flare 12 is now available. Flare, MadCap's flagship software, is the industry's most advanced single-source, multi-channel authoring and publishing solution, supporting the ability to publish to a number of devices and formats including print, Web, desktop and mobile.

MadCap Flare 12 expands MadCap's commitment to enabling the delivery of modern online and print documentation in the languages of users' choice. MadCap Software already offers the only professional authoring and publishing solution that allows customers to take advantage of creating and publishing a responsive HTML5 output with top navigation, which more closely resembles a modern, search engine-optimized, and completely customizable informational website.

MadCap Software continues its industry-leading innovation by building on these capabilities in version 12. The new release now includes a Custom Responsive Layout Editor that puts the power of creating responsive content and output in authors' hands, without requiring in-depth knowledge of cascading style sheets (CSS) or requiring the assistance of Web development expertise. Additionally, Flare 12 offers new multilingual output functionality, enabling a project to be published in multiple languages—all within the same Web or print output. Complementing these features are several new and enhanced capabilities for empowering content authors with greater efficiency and control.

"Users want to access the information they need across the multiple devices they rely on, accelerating the move of multi-channel, responsive publishing into the mainstream," said Anthony Olivier, MadCap founder and CEO. "With MadCap Flare 12, we continue to drive the next generation of online technical content delivery by empowering authors with fast, easy responsive design via our new editor. At the same time, multilingual Web and print output support for our global customers in Flare 12 advances our industry-leading approach to publishing content in multiple languages and viewable in formats of users' choice—from print to the Web, mobile devices, and desktops to embedded in software."

Olivier added, "In version 12, we have placed a great emphasis on enhancing the authoring experience with Flare. While a great deal of product development always focuses on end users, the publishing capabilities and integrations, this latest release of Flare has added a lot of features and functionality the author is going to love."

Communications Professionals Highlight Flare 12 Benefits

"MadCap Flare 12 is an impressive offering with a renewed dedication to the power of single-sourcing and a focus on the importance of the authoring environment," said Denise Kadilak, Blackbaud Inc. information architect. "The additional condition options and style sheet management settings offer users a new level of granularity for controlling outputs, and the improvements to the style sheet editor in conjunction with the addition of the Responsive Layout pane invites users of all skill levels to investigate the endless possibilities awaiting them in the CSS."

"The new features and enhancements to existing features extend Flare to new levels of customizability while making it easier for authors to generate bleeding-edge outputs," said Neil Perlin, owner, Hyper/Word Services. "Flare 12 represents a new benchmark for authoring tool power."

"Another MadCap Flare release that delights! Flare 12's many enhancements are going to make my work processes easier and my projects simultaneously more powerful yet simplified," said Nita Beck, consultant, Nita Beck Communications. "I'm looking forward to the new responsive layout editor, snippet conditions and snippet variables, hyperlinks and cross-references to more destinations than ever, sortable tables, variables in more places than ever, side-by-side editing of style sheet mediums, style conditions, improved Word output, and more."

Custom Responsive Layout Editor

The all new Custom Responsive Layout Editor in version 12 builds on MadCap Flare's capabilities for creating responsive "frameless" HTML5 output with top navigation that more closely resembles a modern website. Using it, authors can place elements in a Web page and tell the CSS where to display images and how content should respond when viewed on different devices. The Custom Responsive Layout Editor provides robust functionality for controlling responsive layouts for Web, tablet and mobile displays. At the same time, the easy-to-use software requires no coding, and enables content authors to complete responsive designs within minutes, not hours. As a result, authors are empowered to take online output design into their own hands rather than relying on Web developers.

New Multilingual Capabilities

New multilingual output functionality in MadCap Flare 12 enables global companies to more easily deliver content to customers in their language of choice by letting authors publish the same project in multiple languages—all from the same print and Web output. Users can choose the order in which languages will appear in the PDF output, for example: English first, French second, Spanish third. Additionally, the multilingual output feature complies with grammar rules for different languages, so for instance, Arabic will read from right to left while English will read from left to right. For the Web-based output, users of the documentation will be able to select the language of their choice using a language drop-down in the upper right portion of the webpage.

In addition to multilingual output, MadCap Flare 12 now provides the appropriate smart quotes for each language. Notably, MadCap Flare can import translated content from MadCap Lingo and any other third-party computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool.

Features For Enhanced Usability, Efficiency and Control

MadCap Flare 12 offers several new features and enhancements for enriching usability and enabling greater authoring efficiency and control. The user interface has been significantly updated to focus on the six targets recommended for modern content: responsive HTML5, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA), and EPUB e-book file format. A completely redesigned Style Sheet Editor offers multiple side-by-side medium views (Web, tablet and mobile), more complex selectors, and support for media queries, among other features. Version 12 also delivers a range of snippet enhancements, including the ability to pin snippets, set up snippet groups, apply snippet conditions to individual snippets, and set up snippet variables.

Additional features in MadCap Flare 12 include:

The ability to preserve tracked changes in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF output.

Support for 64-bit computing to enhance performance.

Improved support for high dots-per-inch (DPI) monitors and tablets to leverage advancements in display technology.

The ability to insert page breaks independent of HTML elements.

Advanced table sorting to provide tables that resemble those in applications, such as Microsoft Excel.

Enhancements to the glossary, index sorting, source control, XML Editor, drop-down text, expanding text, and master page functionality in MadCap Flare.

MadCap Flare With MadPak Suite for a Seamless Experience

MadCap Flare 12 is accompanied by new releases of MadCap Contributor and MadCap Analyzer, which are part of the fully integrated MadPak Professional Suite. MadPak is the industry's most comprehensive technical authoring suite and the only one featuring five fully integrated, XML-based products to create a seamless experience for documentation professionals, translators, and other content authors. For example:

Enable subject matter experts (SMEs) and managers to provide the author with content and feedback on drafts using MadCap Contributor.

Author and publish technical documentation, knowledge bases, policy and procedures, and more, using MadCap Flare—in print, on the Web, on desktops, or on mobile devices.

Provide screenshots with callouts using MadCap Capture.

Create interactive software simulation movies and video tutorials with MadCap Mimic.

Scan, identify and fix any content issues in advance of publishing with MadCap Analyzer.

Additionally, MadCap Flare is integrated with the MadCap Lingo translation product. MadCap Lingo offers translation memory support and enables a more integrated authoring and translation workflow by eliminating the need for any file transfers—preserving both the content and formatting. It also provides content statistics, such as word count and translation estimates, to facilitate project and budget planning.

Availability and Pricing

MadCap Flare 12 is available today, separately and as part of MadPak. Standalone pricing for Flare is $1,448 per license, which includes Bronze-level maintenance and support. Subscription options start at $67 per month. The MadPak Professional Suite pricing is $1,958 per license, which includes Bronze-level maintenance and support. Subscription options start at $92 per month. For more information on MadCap Software's enterprise multi-user and floating license models, visit:

About MadCap Software        

MadCap Software, Inc. is a trusted resource for the thousands of companies around the globe that rely on its solutions for multi-channel authoring and publishing, multimedia, and translation management of their professional documentation. Whether delivering technical, medical, marketing, business, or human resources content, MadCap's products are used to create corporate intranets, Help systems, policy and procedure manuals, knowledge bases, instruction manuals, user guides, and more to any format, including high-end print, online, desktop, mobile or responsive HTML5. MadCap services include product training, consulting services, translation and localization, and an advanced developer certification program. Headquartered in La Jolla, California, MadCap Software is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the content development industry. Learn more about MadCap Software at www.madcapsoftware.com.

MadCap Software, the MadCap Software logo, MadCap Flare, MadCap Analyzer, MadCap Contributor, MadCap Lingo, MadCap Mimic, and MadCap Capture are trademarks or registered trademarks of MadCap Software, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Other marks are the properties of their respective owners.

Rebecca Hurst Kinetic.PR for MadCap Software rebecca@kineticprllc.com 650-679-9282

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XD is the new user experience design tool from Adobe

The new design tool from Adobe empowers UX designers to help deliver mobile apps and web sites, quickly and easily. (Adobe)

US software major Adobe on Tuesday announced the immediate availability of an early release of its much anticipated user experience (UX) design and prototyping solution Adobe Experience Design CC (Preview).

The new tool empowers UX designers to help deliver mobile apps and web sites, quickly and easily.

User experience designer is a person that develops a product for enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty by improving the usability, ease of use and pleasure in the product.

First demonstrated as Project Comet at "Adobe MAX" in October 2015, Adobe is releasing this Preview to invite the UX design community to share their feedback, ensuring that designers give critical input into the evolving product feature set.

Adobe Experience Design (XD) is available as a free download to anyone with an Adobe ID and the company expects the first commercial release to be available, for Adobe Creative Cloud members, later this year.

"Designers have been waiting for the right UX tool to simplify app and web experience design. From the beginning this has been a constructive collaboration between our team and the design community and we look forward to the feedback from creatives worldwide," Paul Gubbay, vice president of Creative Cloud product management at Adobe, said in a statement.

Adobe XD is available for Mac OS and in the future will add mobile companion apps for iOS and Android, in addition to bringing the desktop app to Windows 10.

Further integration with Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC is planned as well as support for essential Creative Cloud features, such as CC Libraries and Adobe Stock.

Source: XD is the new user experience design tool from Adobe