Yearly Archives: 2023
Octily Expands to Asia Pacific Region, Delivering Unique Cornerstone OnDemand Customization
Where Octily's clients are based
From the U.S., all over Europe, to Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and Australia.
BERLIN & SINGAPORE, March 7, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Octily, the creative studio for Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD), announces its expansion to the APJ region with a new Senior Project Manager located in Singapore, more multilingual team members, ongoing collaboration with local implementation partners, and a strong connection to CSOD in South Korea. This development follows successful Cornerstone customization work for well-known companies headquartered between Hong Kong and Japan, which offered a glimpse of a huge opportunity in the region.
"The Asia Pacific expansion is the next logical step for us," said Robert Bucher, Founder and CEO of Octily. "Working with Cornerstone account managers, solution consultants, partners, and Fortune 500 clients in APJ, we've found the same needs as their European/U.S. counterparts. Companies want to personalize their employees' HR experiences, drive adoption, and deliver outstanding user journeys - but have limited access to resources for customization or are simply not aware of the possibilities. Octily is filling this gap by bringing more than seven years of expertise to the area."
Octily's growing team now includes Susan Smit, a dedicated Senior Project Manager located in Singapore with a deep background as a Learning Technologist for one of the world's largest food companies; Simen-Ling La, lead Senior Project Manager with Vietnamese roots and previous CSOD project management experience at one of the best-known fast-food chains; and Keisuke Tanaka, web developer with native Japanese-language skills. In addition, Octily is working with TalearnX, a leading HR consulting firm in Asia that strives to solve business challenges by empowering the people operations department.
"Looking at our 100% remote setup, I'm very proud to see what a colorful, capable, and international team we have become. We are very optimistic about working with the CSOD team and partners in the APJ region to help organizations get the most out of their strategic investments in talent and learning experiences," Rob concluded.
Partnership with Cornerstone OnDemand
"The word 'customization' is not familiar with SaaS products like Cornerstone OnDemand. However, our customers' desire for creativity, to help learners reach their last step of conquering Learning and Development, cannot be neglected," said DJ Park, Cornerstone OnDemand Senior Solution Consultant in Seoul, South Korea. "With Octily, enterprise customers in the Far East, especially in Korea, were not only able to witness their creative ideas come to life, but were also able to make the Cornerstone experience a much more robust one. The integrity, work ethic, and thorough consultation from team Octily are critical factors of our customer-centric partner teamwork that cannot be found elsewhere. Plus, their knowledge of the solution is just a cherry on top," DJ concluded.
Collaboration with Implementation Partner TalearnX
Octily has a strong track record of collaboration with other organizations and loves to team up with partners. In the APJ region, Octily joins forces with TalearnX to work with some of Asia's greatest companies. Teng Mun Chow, Director at TalearnX, shared his experience working with the Octily team. "Octily exhibits professionalism and technical competency that is unrivaled. We have had the honor of working with Octily on challenging customizations, and Octily has surpassed our expectations. The experience is awesome and refreshing. Octily is definitely the right company to partner with," he concluded.
About Cornerstone OnDemand
Cornerstone powers the future-ready workforce with a next-generation talent experience platform designed to unite technology, data, and content and inspire a work environment of growth, agility, and success for all. With an AI-powered, skills-forward, experiential platform built on an open architecture designed for neutrality and scale, Cornerstone helps organizations modernize their learning and development experience, deliver the most relevant content from anywhere, accelerate talent and career mobility, and establish skills as the universal language of growth and success across their business. Cornerstone serves over 7,000 customers and 100 million users and is available in 180 countries and 50 languages. Learn more at https://cornerstoneondemand.com
About Octily GmbH
Octily is the only creative studio with a 100% focus on customization and personalization of Cornerstone OnDemand. As a long-term certified Cornerstone OnDemand partner, Octily leverages over two decades of deep work in HR software development and user experience. Octily makes the impossible - possible. With a 100% remote team spanning from Berlin, Germany, to San Francisco, USA, and Singapore, Octily firmly believes in remote work, a small environmental footprint, and maximum use of productivity, communication, and collaboration tools. Over the past seven years, Octily has helped global HR teams from more than 75+ organizations customize their web-based SaaS solutions. Organizations including Deutsche Post DHL, Electrolux, Henkel, Linde, Sidel, and Xella have trusted Octily in 250+ unique projects for their 20+ million users worldwide.
For more information, visit https://octily.com, download http://octi.ly/overview or contact us at octily@octily.com
Contact Information:Robert Bucher
CEO
press@octily.com
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Original Source: Octily Expands to Asia Pacific Region, Delivering Unique Cornerstone OnDemand Customization
HotelRunner Launches ‘Autopilot’, Ushering in a New Era of Data-Driven Smart Automations in Travel and Hospitality
HotelRunner Autopilot
HotelRunner launches 'Autopilot' ushering in a new era of data-driven smart automations in travel and hospitality
LONDON, March 7, 2023 (Newswire.com) - HotelRunner, the leading accommodation and travel technologies platform, launches Autopilot at ITB Berlin 2023. Having garnered great attention with its innovative business intelligence platform 'Insights' which was unveiled last year, and getting the new year off to a running start with recent funding news, HotelRunner introduces its AI-driven, intuitive, and smart platform to automate the sales, distribution, and operations of the accommodations.
Setting out with the goal of automating all daily operations of a hospitality business, from marketing activities to pricing strategies, HotelRunner introduces Autopilot. The new platform leverages the reservations volume processed in HotelRunner which is more than 3 million in the past year alone.
Accommodation businesses can effortlessly implement sophisticated sales and pricing strategies by transferring all their daily operations and industry expertise to the Autopilot platform as a set of rules and automations.
As the driving force behind the industry with its superior technology, HotelRunner stays ahead of the curve in meeting the future needs of all the stakeholders in the travel and accommodation industries. The Autopilot platform, born from years of research and development and industry experience, has been designed in a way that accommodations can interact with the entire tourism ecosystem. Not only it enables a property to automate its operations, but also evolves to encompass the collective knowledge of all industry players contributing to a property's success. Thus, HotelRunner leads the creation of a first-of-its-kind automation marketplace. With this innovative platform, HotelRunner maps out the future of tourism technologies.
"The Autopilot platform is a crucial component of our comprehensive vision to serve and advance the travel and hospitality industries. We began the era of data-driven decision-making in hospitality with the launch of the Insights platform in November last year. With the Autopilot, we firmly build upon this vision, cracking the doors of a new era where software serves people, rather than the other way around," says Ali Beklen, Founder and Managing Partner of HotelRunner.
"With our innovative Autopilot technology, we challenge conventional wisdom in hotel management and offer a fresh perspective to the industry. By leaving manual processes behind, we offer our partners effortless efficiency and strive to increase their profitability. Driven by AI and evolving constantly, the Autopilot is just the starting point of the revolution we aim to ignite in the travel and hospitality industries. We are setting a new standard for industry players to do business and interact with each other," adds Arden Agopyan, Founder and Managing Partner of HotelRunner.
The Autopilot platform allows properties to:
- Automate pricing and availability by seasons, holidays, and weekends.
- Monitor reservation activity in real-time and take action according to the demand.
- Benefit from AI-based recommendations and alerts to maximize their profits.
- Minimize the workload with automations that work fully integrated with their PMS and channel manager.
HotelRunner Autopilot has been in the closed beta program for one year, and has already been contributing to the increasing revenues of the properties using the platform. Click here to get detailed information about the HotelRunner Autopilot platform and to start using it.
Contact Information:Suheyla van Taarling
Head of Brand
suheyla@hotelrunner.com
00905314010303
Original Source: HotelRunner Launches 'Autopilot', Ushering in a New Era of Data-Driven Smart Automations in Travel and Hospitality
6’2″ Colorado High School Volleyball Player Combines Love of the Sport With Passion for Science
Lilia Donaldson #11
Lilia Donaldson continues her winning streak as the leader of kills, blocks, and hitting percentage.
BOULDER, Colo., March 6, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Rising volleyball star and Boulder, Colorado native, Lilia Donaldson, finishes high school season at the top and continues to excel in the club season with Roughriders Volleyball Club. The 6'2", 17-year-old Middle Hitter, graduating from Fairview High School in 2023, leads the teams in blocks, kills, and hitting percentage and also named to the Colorado All Conference team. She planned to put that experience to work for her at a California university with a verbal agreement to an offer that was reversed in the Winter when the head coach resigned.
Donaldson's most recent stats:
- .47 hitting (2023 club season to date)
- 100+ kills (2022/2023 high school and club seasons)
- 65 blocks (2022/2023 high school and club seasons)
As the high school and club team captain the last two seasons, Donaldson was also named Defensive Player of the Year two years in a row for her high school team. Driven by her goal to be an all around contributor, she has grown in her offensive skills.
"Lilia is one of those players that is so coachable and her work ethic drives her to never stop learning," says Rough Riders Volleyball Club Coach and Program Director, Ryan Glavor, former player at University of Hawaii and former coaching staff at University of Colorado.
Donaldson also excels in the classroom with a 3.9 GPA out of 4.0, including AP level courses in Chemistry, Physics, and Psychology. She was named Academic All State First Team this year This will prepare her for her future academic plans of studying Chemistry to lead her to a career in forensics.
Her extra curricular interests round out her leadership in and out of the classroom. She has been a lead volunteer for community fire relief efforts helping 1,000 Colorado families who lost their homes to the Marshall Fire this year. She has been an independent physics tutor for younger high school students and had a Summer Internship in Biomimetic Dentistry blending her love of science with real applications in dentistry.
While Lilia's passion for excelling on and off the court have resulted in college volleyball offers at multiple universities, she is searching for a team and school that fit her goals of contribution on both sides.
If you represent a collegiate volleyball team and would like to discuss opportunities with Lilia, you can email jeff@focusedbrands.com.
You can learn more about Lilia at https://bit.ly/liliadonaldson.
Contact Information:Jeff FocusedBrands
Media
jeff@focusedbrands.com
720-431-7300
Original Source: 6'2" Colorado High School Volleyball Player Combines Love of the Sport With Passion for Science
Tim Morehouse Fencing Club Fencer Nickolas Rusadze Wins Gold at USA Fencing’s Junior Olympics
Nickolas Rusadze
Nickolas Rusadze Wins Gold at USA Fencing's Junior Olympics\n\nImage Credit: Serge Timacheff
DENVER, March 2, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Tim Morehouse Fencing Club announces that South Salem resident Nickolas Rusadze, who trains at the fencing club, is now a Junior Olympic gold medalist.
Competing in the Cadet Men's Foil Championship event at USA Fencing's Junior Olympics, Rusadze won gold in an event that featured 289 of the best Men's Cadet Foil fencers in the country. He trains at the Tim Morehouse Fencing Club in Port Chester, NY with his father and coach, two-time Olympian Slava Grigoriev (Kazakhstan).
Additionally, Rusadze won a fifth-place medal in Junior Men's Foil just two days before.
His cadet win puts the 15-year-old Rusadze in fourth place in the country for the under-17 foil fencers, narrowly missing the cut for the 2023 World Championship Team. His sights are set on making the 2024 World Championship Team.
This win is one of many racked up this season by this 15-year-old. He won gold at the Coupe de Danube 2023 in Bratislava, Slovakia, in the Cadet Men's Foil event in mid-January. Later that month, he won silver in Cadet Men's Foil at the Napoli Cadet International in Italy.
Rusadze, who attends John Jay High School in South Salem, NY, has emerged as one the most dominant cadet fencers in the world. But, his mother Eka Rusade says, "There is always room for improvement," adding, "Nickolas works a lot — he trains six times per week on average, balancing school and practice."
At the Junior Olympics, it is tradition for the coach of the winner to also get a medal. For a son and his father to share this accomplishment, it was a touching moment, particularly when Nickolas placed the medal around his father's neck.
"The time to celebrate has passed," says Grigoriev. "There are many tournaments in front of him and the main focus now is to maintain his level or raise the bar higher."
Rusadze will be back in action starting March 1 at the Junior & Cadet Pan-American Championships in Bogotá, Colombia. He will be representing the United States in the Cadet Men's Foil event.
The foil program at Tim Morehouse Fencing Club is one of the strongest in the country, thanks to Head Foil Coach Slava, who has built this program over the past four years.
Tim Morehouse Fencing Club has won the most National Youth medals for fencing four years in a row. The club has been ranked #1 in producing High School All-Americans three times and regularly places in the top five for most High School Academic All-Americans. Alumni of Tim Morehouse attend top schools around the country including Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, Notre Dame, MIT, and Penn State.
Tim Morehouse Fencing Club is the premier fencing club in the tri-state area, offering fencing instruction and competitive training in Manhattan, Westchester (Port Chester), and Connecticut (Stamford).
Contact Information:Kate Waylett
info@timmorehousefencing.com
317-886-8243
Original Source: Tim Morehouse Fencing Club Fencer Nickolas Rusadze Wins Gold at USA Fencing's Junior Olympics
Mizuno and ROXY Release ‘WAVE RIDER 26 ROXY’ Running Shoes
PEACHTREE CORNERS, Ga., March 2, 2023 (Newswire.com) - On March 1, Mizuno will be releasing the "WAVE RIDER 26 ROXY," the brand's first collaborative running shoe with ROXY, a brand for women who love beach culture and active lifestyles.
The collaboration between ROXY, a brand that celebrates women with positive energy and supports female athletes such as world-class surfers, and Mizuno, which encourages top athletes and sports enthusiasts to always go further under the brand slogan "REACH BEYOND," was realized as a result of their common aspirations. The collaboration was further strengthened by the two brands' shared commitment to global environmental preservation.
The collaborative model is based on the WAVE RIDER 26, a running shoe for beginner and intermediate runners. The shoe offers excellent comfort that will keep runners moving forward, and the sole is made with Mizuno's proprietary "MIZUNO ENERZY," a highly resilient sole material. In addition, Mizuno's core function, "MIZUNO WAVE," provides both cushioning and stability. They are available in two colorways, a warm pink combined with coral and turquoise, and the design incorporates a stylish surf spirit that will make anyone want to run from the beach to a favorite park.
The shoes are made with recycled polyester and plant-derived materials, and consideration is also given to reducing the environmental impact in the manufacturing process. Both brands have held the utmost respect for nature for almost 30 years, and their commitment and passion for protecting the global environment, which is our playground, have come together to create this product.
Features of the "WAVE RIDER 26 ROXY"
The WAVE RIDER series is Mizuno's most popular running shoe series, with over 10 million pairs sold globally since its debut in 1997, and is characterized by its smooth running comfort. The "WAVE RIDER 26," on which the "WAVE RIDER 26 ROXY" is based, is the 26th generation model in the series.
MIZUNO ENERZY
"MIZUNO ENERZY," which is used in the "WAVE RIDER 26 ROXY," is Mizuno's proprietary material that provides soft cushioning and high-energy return and was developed by utilizing the brand's extensive knowledge on resilience accumulated through the development of equipment outside the category of shoes as a general sporting goods manufacturer.
Made with environmentally friendly materials
The "WAVE RIDER 26 ROXY" is made of eco-friendly materials. Recycled polyester is used for the mesh upper and mesh lining material, and the "MIZUNO WAVE" plate is made with bio-based thermoplastic derived from castor beans.
Design
Based on the functionality, style, and femininity that the ROXY brand values, the shoe has adopted a design that is inspired by mountains and oceans. They are available in two colors, pink and coral, and turquoise, and can be matched with apparel products, including tops and bottoms from ROXY.
Contact Information:Leila Taylor
Communications Specialist
leila.taylor@mizunousa.com
7704537804
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Original Source: Mizuno and ROXY Release 'WAVE RIDER 26 ROXY' Running Shoes
The Art of Pickleball Launches New Platform
ENCINITAS, Calif., February 21, 2023 (Newswire.com) - Total Sports, LLC, recently announced the launch of The Art of Pickleball (AOP), designed to be the most expansive resource for pickleball players and instructors in the world.
Created in partnership with top professional players and coaches, The Art of Pickleball provides comprehensive online instruction and virtual coaching for every aspect of the game.
Subscribers can access instructional videos for all levels of play to work on specific shots and skills, learn in-game strategies, develop tactics and view drills from top pros. The platform features extensive information on injury prevention, dynamic warmups and strength and conditioning - all specific to pickleball.
AOP also offers a complete library of practice plans and match analysis as well as a roster of coaches available for remote, virtual training that can be purchased in one-hour sessions.
The site features both free content and monthly or annual "Pro" memberships that provide access to all resources on the platform. Pro memberships are available for $7.99 per month or $79.99 annually for a limited time.
Total Sports partnered with top-ranked pros Steve, Jennifer and Callan Dawson to build The Art of Pickleball. The site features experienced pros and coaches from around the country who have won more than 80 Open, National and International championships, multiple Triple Crown Titles and over 10 Tournament of Champions trophies. The coaching team features multiple PPA and APP Tour players who are also IPTPA, PPR and IFP-certified instructors.
AOP's vast roster of coaches allows for instruction from a wide variety of teaching viewpoints and playing philosophies.
"Pickleball is such a diverse sport in terms of age, skill level and style," says renowned coach Steve Dawson. "We set out to create something that wasn't previously available: a resource where people can learn from all types of instructors and experienced professionals. There isn't just one way to learn how to play or teach pickleball."
Mark Tilson, President of Total Sports, says The Art of Pickleball will continue to expand. "We are already working with more coaches around the country that will soon be featured on the site," he says. "New content and resources will continuously be added, and we'll always be looking for innovative ways to connect our audience with the top names in the game."
About Total Sports
Founded in 2011, Total Sports, LLC owns and operates The Art of Coaching properties, including The Art of Pickleball, The Art of Coaching Volleyball, The Art of Coaching Softball and The Art of Coaching Football. The Art of Coaching is the leading provider of online coaching and training resources, with in-person and virtual coaching clinics and workshops in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. The company is the global leader in digital coaching content, supporting nearly 100,000 subscribers worldwide.
Contact Information:Mark Tilson
President/COO
tilsonm@theartofcoaching.com
760-634-9734
Original Source: The Art of Pickleball Launches New Platform