Palo Alto, California, October 1, 2020 – 4me, Inc., a leading enterprise service management (ESM) software vendor that enables seamless collaboration between internal and external service providers, is delighted to announce a partnership with VitalityHealth to provide IT Service Management and ESM through 4me in the cloud.

The implementation of 4me significantly reduces software costs, speeds up the transition to ESM and facilitates collaboration with external providers

VitalityHealth, a leading health insurer in the UK, is bringing in the technology to provide a better experience for employees, with greater flexibility and customisation of service delivery. The partnership ensures accountability and consistency of service management to employees looking for enhanced productivity.

The service also integrates with multiple IT suppliers and service providers within Vitality, and systems provided from their parent company, Discovery.

Service Integration and Management (SIAM) is a core function of 4me that enables Vitality to pass requests smoothly between their strategic partners, regardless of their chosen service management solution. With the ability to build consistent processes across providers, any request reassigned by Vitality now remains visible and is tracked to the affected service level agreement. For strategic partner, Tata Consulting Services (TCS), this meant integrating with ServiceNow, and at Discovery, 4me connects to CA Service Manager.

Charles Bresler, Chief Information Officer at Vitality said: “Partnering with 4me allows Vitality to bring together a number of key support services in one place, providing employees with a one-stop-shop for a range of service requests, improving their experience and improving results.”

Several support domains have been set up in 4me for IT and other support functions, such as Facilities Management and HR. 4me also allows secure trusts to be established so these internal service providers can also work together.

“Vitality made this change after looking at what its service management solution was trying to achieve and the improvements they wanted to make,” said Cor Winkler Prins, CEO and co-founder of 4me. “Having a solution that is faster, more user-friendly and easier to maintain frees up the time large enterprises need in order to focus on the quality of service they obtain from their internal and external providers.”

The implementation was undertaken by Revo 4me Services and delivered in 88 days. The consulting and training was provided remotely due to Covid-19, meaning the go-live date went as planned. Vitality switched to 4me with 450 support experts on the same day.

 About 4me

4me, Inc. is the provider of 4me, a SaaS service management solution that allows large enterprises to collaborate seamlessly with their managed service providers, while gaining real-time insight into the level of service they receive.

Founded in 2010, 4me is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Visit www.4me.com

About Vitality – positively different health insurance, life insurance and investments Vitality is part of Discovery Limited, a worldwide insurer and investment manager protecting more than eight million members in 18 countries worldwide, across Europe, the United States, Australia, South Africa, Canada and China. 

Vitality pioneered the ‘shared-value’ insurance model, a unique approach based on the scientifically proven principles of behavioural economics. Through this model, Vitality helps members take a more active role in managing their own wellness, encouraging them to develop healthy long-term habits that are good for them, good for the company and good for society. The effect is positive for all stakeholders – members benefit from better health, financial rewards and additional incentives; employers benefit from healthier, more productive, and more engaged employees; and Vitality benefits from a healthier membership base. 

About VitalityHealth

VitalityHealth is one of the UK’s leading private medical insurers. Through applications of the shared value model to health insurance, VitalityHealth incentivises members to get healthy, motivating better lifestyle choices and rewarding them for doing so. All VitalityHealth members receive Core Cover, giving them access to private GP video consultations within 48 hours and a Full Cover Promise (including full cover for eligible in-patient and day-patient consultant’s fees). For more information, visit www.vitalityhealth.co.uk 

October 7, 2020, Oshawa, ON -- Atrium Realty Group explains how they have managed to rule the real estate industry. The document they released also explained their secret to becoming the industry specialist in Ontario. Atrium Realty Group is a well-known name that serves Oshawa with high performing real estate services. This company has been in business for a few years now with more than 62 years of collective experience handy. This real estate company recently revealed its secret behind their success and happy clients around the Ontario areas.

The company recently released a document stating that the main area to look after being real estate agents in Oshawa is that they are best in the work they do. The main reason for their success is that they only perceive clients and handover their projects to different Oshawa realtors with specific experience. When asked further, the company’s spokesperson said that we pay much importance to the fact that the Oshawa real estate agents take a project in which they are well-aware of the neighborhood and have worked on similar projects before.

In addition to these basic requirements, the real estate company makes sure that all of its Oshawa realtors work full-time with 100 percent commitment. This helps the clients receive satisfactory results with faster turnarounds in selling as well as helping clients to buy or rent one. Their strategy to only hand over the projects to the agents that are well-known with the neighborhood has been helping their case until this date.

Atrium Realty Group has also released a document urging the people to look for certain features before hiring the real estate agents in Oshawa. Some of the most noteworthy were looking for their experience, credentials, past experience with similar cases, knowledge of the neighborhood, and testimonials from past clients. You can reach this company and look for one of the best Oshawa real estate agents with this company if you have property or interested in buying one in the nearby areas.

About the Company

Atrium Realty Group is a real estate agency that offers services to clients in Durham Region and Kawartha Lakes in Oshawa, Ontario. The company has a collective experience of 62 years being in the real estate industry and has donned more than 100 clients yearly. The company is well-known for its experienced realtors that offer high-quality services and well-researched problem-solving advice.

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Jasmine LaCroix
Atrium Realty Group Inc., Brokerage
3-136 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON, Canada
9055560566
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On July 22, 2020, the French Government updated its Cross Ministries Note relating to ‘community masks’ to include specific requirements for face masks with a clear window.

According to the update, masks with a clear window must conform to the following criteria:

• Impermeable material must not exceed 50% of the mask surface
• Impermeable material must not exceed 50% of an 8cm diameter circle. The center of the circle is the midpoint between the nose and mouth of the wearer
• Permeable material must make up at least 50% of the mask surface and must have an air permeability greater than or equal to 300 L/m2/s
• Interface between the permeable material and the impermeable material must not leak
• Impermeable material should not be pierced, to avoid leaks
• Filtration efficiency at 3µm for the permeable material shall be the same as for other ‘general public’ masks defined in previous versions of the Cross Ministries Note (Annex I): 90% for Cat 1 and 70% for Cat. 2 according to DGA test method
• To avoid leakage along the edges of the mask, it must allow a fit on the face that includes the nose and chin and the adjustment at the mouth must not create a retention zone that can accumulate carbon dioxide
• Washable window masks must be able to be cleaned as other kinds of washable masks except for ironing (Annex I)

‘Community masks’ are face masks used by the general public in daily life. They do not meet the standards necessary for medical use.

The latest update ensures face masks with a clear window maintain the required standards for breathability and filtration.

The COVID-19 pandemic has meant many of us are now wearing face masks regularly in our daily lives. One issue associated with this is that people cannot see the mouth and lips of the speaker. This can create problems for lip readers.

It also hides facial expressions, which can be a major problem for both adults and children, who often need the reassurance of seeing a smile.

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DataMesh Group deploying its payment technology to enable automatic least cost routing to eftpos’ Australian debit payment system. The Company sees $500 million per annum reduction in transaction fees for Australian merchants when fully implemented.

Sydney, Australia, October 6, 2020 -- Australian financial payment systems and software solutions provider, DataMesh Group (‘DataMesh’ or ‘the Company’) is pleased to announce it has developed a unique capability to automatically apply least cost routing (LCR) technology within Australia’s debit card payment system for its customers.

LCR allows for the best economic outcome for merchants on contactless (tap-and-go) debit card payments by sending them through the debit network that costs the least to accept. It enables a debit payment to be uniquely "flagged" as a specific debit card transaction and sent to the lowest cost debit network, resulting in the lowest cost fee structure for the merchant.

Without LCR, the transaction is sent to the default debit network programmed on the customer’s card, which may not be the lowest cost debit network, resulting in higher transaction costs for merchants.
Merchants will use DataMesh’s ground-breaking software to enable automatic selection of LCR for debit transactions, resulting in lower costs for merchants by routing through eftpos.

DataMesh’s software can read the card/phone/watch, decipher whether it’s a debit or credit payment and attach the relevant message to the transaction before it’s sent to eftpos via the acquirer (potentially any bank), which has awarded the transaction the applicable fee structure. Merchants are then charged the lowest payment fees on debit transactions.

The Sydney-based fintech is among the first companies to have found a way to automatically select LCR on a tap-and-go debit payment.

DataMesh’s software can be uploaded on existing hardware terminals, negating the need for merchant acquirers to buy new terminals, nor requirements for action by merchants or cardholders.

eftpos, the Australian Retailers Association (ARA), and retailers have been pushing for LCR, with the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) saying it will consider regulation if it’s not made widely available to merchants.

Currently, debit cards represent around 70 percent of all card transactions in Australia, so DataMesh LCR technology translates into significant transaction cost savings for merchants.

DataMesh Group CEO Mark Nagy said:
“The unique least cost routing capability developed by DataMesh is a massive win for Australian merchants, especially in this era of contactless payments.

“eftpos’ debit card network accounted for more than two billion cheque and savings transactions in 2019 worth around $130 billion. DataMesh is working with eftpos and other payments industry members in the push for least cost routing, and to bring down fees for merchants in what is a very challenging environment for retailers and consumers.

“Conservative estimates suggest a potential reduction in fees for merchants of up to $500 million dollars nationally per year if LCR was fully implemented.

“DataMesh LCR software is compatible with many legacy merchant terminals and most acquirers. We estimate more than half of card terminals in Australia are currently unable to fully support LCR, so our technology provides an effective solution and removes the need for acquirers to undertake costly hardware upgrades.”

DataMesh is focused on vastly improving and modernising merchants’ outdated backbone payment systems. It has developed solutions that not only fix current payment system issues for merchants but can increase their business efficiency through new and improved integrated technology.

Last month, the Company announced it had signed a major long-term agreement with national retail giant Peregrine Corporation under which DataMesh has become the company’s sole payments provider.

Peregrine is using DataMesh’s LCR capability through its acquirer to effect significant payment cost savings to its business, which had a reported annual turnover of $2.2 billion last year.

DataMesh’s software is fully developed in Australia, with all IP owned by DataMesh. DataMesh is Australian owned, and its technology is Australian built and operated.

DataMesh operates under PCI Standards Council and the Australian Payments Network regulations. DataMesh’s switching platform is EMV and PCI-DSS Level 1 certified for Card Present (CP) and Card Not Present (CNP) transactions.

About DataMesh Group:
DataMesh Group is focused on revolutionising the current payment systems available to Australian merchants, delivering integrated payment capabilities and valuable customer insights through bespoke payment and data processing solutions.

The Company’s proprietary financial switching platform (Unify™) has resolved payments technology and compliance issues for major retailers and their customers while maintaining robust relationships with banking and regulatory partners.

It is the world’s most modern and powerful cloud and terrestrial-based financial switching solution available on the market. DataMesh Group's suite of financial payment systems hardware, software, infrastructure and data analytics products provide streamlined, low cost and flexible payment solutions integrated to leading point-of-sale (POS) systems and various next-gen payment devices.

DataMesh technology enables retailers to design the experience they deliver to customers, creating a hub for commerce and data that merchants, acquirers, card schemes and third parties can use to achieve better business outcomes.

DataMesh operates under PCI Standards Council and the Australian Payments Network regulations.

DataMesh’s switching platform is EMV and PCI-DSS Level 1 certified for Card Present (CP) and Card Not Present (CNP) transactions. Data collected by its software is always safe and secure. www.datameshgroup.com

Contact:
Brooke Swartz
DataMesh Group
Barangaroo
Sydney NSW Australia
0426018076
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