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01732 759725 12 BULLETIN Brother UK secures royal approval Brother UK has been commended for the third time by the Princess Royal Training Awards for its dedication to developing its people. The awards recognise employers that have created outstanding training and skills development programmes, and that can prove the value of investing in learning and development to address a wide range of business needs. Managing Director Phil Jones, said: “Learning and development is not only an ethical responsibility for leaders at every level; it’s also a commercial necessity. People are at the heart of our sustained business success and it’s fantastic that this has been recognised, once again.” Brother used its employee engagement toolkit – a multi-device digital platform providing colleagues and their managers full access to their training and development portfolio – to demonstrate that learning and development is integral to the organisation, is designed and delivered effectively and efficiently, and has an impact on the success of the organisation and its people. The UK business has also played a leading role in helping its global parent company, Brother Industries, to join the FTSE4Good Index – a select group of the world’s most environmentally and socially sustainable companies. The Index measures the performance of companies demonstrating strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice, which includes household names such as Apple, Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson. The listing reflects the global business’s success in working to meet the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, from tackling climate change and resource depletion, to reducing environmental pollution and destruction of the ecosystem. www.brother.co.uk Thales expands technology partner ecosystem Thales has unveiled an expansion of its data protection ecosystem to more than 300 technology partners, a move that will enable enterprises to reduce cyber risk and secure their digital transformation initiatives in new markets including Blockchain, Cloud, DevOps, IoT and Code Signing. Through these expanded technology integrations, which now include more than 500 IT products and services, Thales is enabling more organisations to integrate its data encryption, hardware security modules, key management and access management technologies with their existing IT infrastructure and cloud services to protect applications, data and identities. This will empower organisations to implement centralised data protection and access management controls for the whole customer journey. www.thales.com Alibaba Cloud named strong performer Alibaba Cloud has been recognised in The Forrester New Wave: SaaS Marketplaces, Q2 2020 report as a strong performer for its marketplace offerings. The report evaluated software-as-a-service marketplaces of the eight most significant providers in the category. In the evaluation, Forrester noted that Alibaba Cloud: “can match up with any firm for scale and features,” with its “thousands of SaaS applications and sophisticated features across all major areas of the marketplace including search, transaction, and management console.” In addition, Alibaba Cloud also received a “differentiated” rating in the criteria of management console, AI and automation as well as roadmap. Alibaba Cloud customers also commented that they are satisfied with the number of resources and quality assurance that the marketplace provides. www.alibabagroup.com Kodak Alaris announces global alliance with UiPath Kodak Alaris has announced a global alliance with UiPath, one of the world’s leading RPA software companies. The collaboration will enable both companies’ channel partners and customers to leverage Kodak Alaris’ award-winning information capture solutions and UiPath software to accelerate digital transformation by automating and streamlining business processes. The companies also introduced their integration via the Alaris Capture Pro to UiPath Orchestrator Connector, which provides a seamless connection between fully indexed, high quality images from Kodak scanners and UiPath bots. The UiPath RPA platform automates sequences of repeatable processes, minimises disruption, uncovers efficiencies and provides insights, making the path to digital transformation fast and cost-effective. Once information is captured via the scanner, software robots complete repetitive, rules-based tasks such as moving files and folders, extracting structured data from documents and executing processes with it. Vanilda Grando, Director Global Sales Development, Alaris division of Kodak Alaris said: “Intelligent information capture combined with RPA is especially powerful for finance, IT and IT services, operations and information governance. The combination of Kodak Alaris scanners, software and services, with UiPath’s RPA platform will enable partners to take their customers’ information capture to the next level, making total automation and paper-free processes a business reality.” www.AlarisWorld.com Targus partners with Samsung Targus has been offered the unique opportunity to create and develop tech accessories that support the Samsung Mobile ecosystem of devices as a Global Tier 1 Partner and DeX Accessory Partner. As part of the partnership, Targus will offer products that are not only compatible with Samsung Mobile DeX devices but are also able to support any software updates made by Samsung, making it easier for Samsung users to extend the usefulness of their device. The partnership also ensures that Targus technology products included in the agreement will be recognised as original and authorised products by Samsung. https://uk.targus.com Vanilda Grando