ASC X12 Announces a New Publicly Available Change Request System

ASC X12 Announces a New Publicly Available Change Request System

FALLS CHURCH, VA — (Marketwire) — 01/28/13 — Accredited Standards Committee X12 () announced today at its January Standing Meeting that it has launched a new Change Request Management System. This new website, , provides the ability for industry stakeholders to make suggestions for revision to be considered for incorporation into the next version of ASC X12-s Technical Reports Type 3 (TR3s)."Since it has been over a year since the federal mandate of ASC X12 005010 TR3s, we expect and ap

McCann Erickson Uses Send Word Now to Communicate With Employees During Hurricane Sandy

McCann Erickson Uses Send Word Now to Communicate With Employees During Hurricane Sandy

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwire) — 01/28/13 — Send Word Now, the leading worldwide provider of and and , announced today that global advertising agency network McCann Worldgroup used Send Word Now-s notification platform to send out critical messages to employees in the New York area when Hurricane Sandy struck the northeastern United States in October of 2012.On Sunday, October 28, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy was headed up the East Coast, the company used Send Word Now-s alerting platform to send

Message Bus Partners With AdStack to Deliver Key Insights for Marketing and Transactional Email

Message Bus Partners With AdStack to Deliver Key Insights for Marketing and Transactional Email

CORTE MADERA, CA — (Marketwire) — 01/28/13 — Message Bus, the pioneer of cloud-based infrastructure for email, mobile and social messaging, today announced a key partnership with AdStack, a real-time advertising optimization platform used to automatically optimize and manage digital marketing campaigns. The partnership empowers organizations with best of breed technology on two critical fronts: 1) an on-demand cloud-native service for sending email and mobile messages across marketing, trigg

Large and Growing Market in Facial Treatments: Kalorama Report

Large and Growing Market in Facial Treatments: Kalorama Report

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwire) — 01/28/13 — Facial rejuvenation treatments such as topical treatments, derma fillers, botulism treatments and lasers reached $3.8 billion worldwide, increasing 9.1% from $3.2 billion in 2010 according to Kalorama Information. The healthcare market research publisher says the aging population and a focus on appearance will drive the market for facial rejuvenation products to $6.6 billion by 2017. Developing countries such as Brazil, China, India, Russia, Mexico, S

Gartner Says the Convergence of Social, Information, Mobile and Cloud Will Impact Sourcing Strategies in 2013

Gartner Says the Convergence of Social, Information, Mobile and Cloud Will Impact Sourcing Strategies in 2013

.2013 – Sourcing managers must consider the opportunities and risks presented by the convergence of social, information, mobile and cloud when re-evaluating sourcing options, delivery models and vendors, according to Gartner, Inc.
"Social, information, mobile and cloud shouldn-t be considered in isolation as market forces," said Linda Cohen, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "The convergence of these forces, which Gartner calls the Nexus of Forces, is wh