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Tech and Personal Finance Sustainability Innovators Announce Partnership and Co-Branded Experience

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St. Louis-based plug partners with Treecard to create sustainability-driven shopping experience for consumers, exclusively benefitting global reforestation efforts

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — plug, a leading online retailer of in-demand personal tech devices, announces a partnership with Treecard, the debit card app that is reforesting the planet. Treecard will offer the plug shopping experience to its users, housing a fully integrated, Certified Pre-Owned tech shop through the Treecard app. This collaboration aims to maximize the environmental impact of both brands.

Discarded electronic products, e-waste, represents 2% of trash in landfills and equals 70% of overall toxic waste.

The partnership between these rapidly growing brands is rooted in a shared commitment to the environment and providing access to sustainable products and services. plug connects people around the world to reliable, Certified Pre-Owned devices, making it affordable and easy to make an environmentally-conscious tech purchase. Treecard helps debit card users to adopt greener habits and plants trees as they spend.

“Treecard gives a portion of our profits to Ecosia, our tree planting partner, to plant and protect trees in biodiversity hotspots where they are needed most,” said James Cox, co-founder of Treecard. “As a results of our customer’s efforts we expect to fund over 5,000,000 trees this year, and the addition of this all-new, integrated plug shop allows us to bring more value to customers and, ultimately, plant even more trees.”

The tech shop is now accessible through the Treecard app and offers visitors full access to the plug catalog of available devices. Since 2009, plug has saved over one million devices and Treecard has helped to plant more than 180 million trees in over 32 countries. With every purchase made, this partnership is contributing exclusively to the reforestation efforts and the goal of saving more than two million devices from landfills by 2025.

“Reducing e-waste is at the heart of plug’s mission,” said Oday Alaytum, founder and managing partner of plug. “As technology prices rise and global e-waste volumes continue to grow, customers are looking for a way to save on today’s popular technology and make environmentally-friendly purchases. Increasing our exposure to like-minded consumers through this partnership with Treecard not only broadens access to reliable and sustainable tech, but prevents more devices from reaching landfills.”

Unneeded, unused, and discarded electronic products, known as e-waste, represents 2% of America’s trash in landfills and equals 70% of overall toxic waste. According to the EPA, e-waste is the fastest growing municipal waste stream in America but a large number of what is labeled as “e-waste” is actually whole, discarded electronic equipment or parts that are readily marketable for reuse or can be recycled for materials recovery. The energy saved by recycling one million laptops is equivalent to the electricity used by 3,657 U.S. homes in a year.

More information on plug can be found at the company’s website, www.plug.tech, or Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X (formerly Twitter), Pinterest, or YouTube pages at @plugbettertech. Learn more about Treecard at www.treecard.org, or Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), or LinkedIn pages at @treecardapp or on Instagram at @treecard.

About plug
plug, formerly eCommsell, is a St. Louis-based consumer electronics provider and online retailer that connects people to reliable, renewed devices. The company was founded by Oday Alyatim in 2020 to make it affordable and easy for people to get the most out of their personal technology purchases and help reduce unnecessary e-waste. plug hand tests and certifies every device it sells through its rigorous 90+ point ‘Certified Pre-Owned Assurance’ certification process, providing a one-year performance warranty and 30-day, money-back guarantee on all devices sold. plug is ‘Responsible Recycling’ or ‘R2’ certified, and has helped, along with its sister company Comm Depot, to prevent over one million working devices from reaching landfills since 2009.

About Treecard
Treecard is an empowering green app that rewards customers by planting real trees when they adopt greener habits. From walking to shopping, Treecard’s community can turn their everyday actions into trees and support other vital environmental projects. Treecard’s mission is to make it easy and fun for anyone to have a positive impact on our planet, no matter where they are in their sustainability journey. Trees are planted where they are needed most and protected by vetted and responsible tree-planting organizations, shoulder-to-shoulder with local communities.

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RRC and BattGenie Partner to Deliver Smarter, Safer Energy Storage Solutions

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AUSTIN, Texas, May 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — RRC Companies, a leading full-scope engineering firm in renewable energy, and BattGenie, a battery software company known for its AI-enhanced, physics-based modeling and battery management platform, have signed an exclusive strategic partnership to deliver innovative Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) solutions for the utility-scale energy market.

The collaboration marks a major advancement for the renewable sector. For RRC, it expands its ability to support owners and developers with smarter, safer, and more profitable battery storage infrastructure. For BattGenie, it means partnering with one of the most trusted engineering firms in utility-scale energy.

“We know the product; RRC knows the market,” said Manan Pathak, CEO and Co-founder of BattGenie. “This partnership bridges innovation with execution. We’re excited to align with a company that has deep expertise in utility-scale energy storage systems and a shared mission to maximize the value of BESS assets.”

Central to the partnership is BattStudio, BattGenie’s unified platform that delivers accurate state estimation, dynamic charge/discharge control, and predictive analytics across four integrated layers: simulation (BattSaaS), modeling (BattMaaS), data analytics (BattDaaS), and performance management (BattPaaS). BattStudio has been proven to double battery life and reduce charging time for a variety of applications. This technology complements RRC’s engineering and SCADA capabilities, especially its RIVR™ platform, enabling seamless integration of BESS performance insights from design through operations.

When integrated with RIVR, BattStudio will add cloud-based predictive analytics and real-time energy management, offering a powerful solution for BESS performance.

Together, RRC and BattGenie will provide:

Real-time battery behavior modelingPredictive insights on safety, maintenance, and efficiencyExtended battery lifeEnhanced safetyReduced charging timeDynamic EMS/SCADA optimizationRevenue gains from energy arbitrage, frequency regulation, and peak shavingLower CAPEX through reduced bufferCell/pack model parameter estimation

“Advanced software, when paired with the right engineering partner, unlocks real performance gains in the field,” said Bill Bong, President and Co-founder of RRC Companies. “This partnership combines BattGenie’s deep product intelligence with our engineering and field expertise to deliver storage systems that exceed expectations.”

RRC and BattGenie are already helping BESS clients improve their asset value. Moving forward, they will leverage BattStudio and RIVR to help organizations maximize energy storage ROI.

Organizations interested in the technology can contact Mike Kraft, SVP of Corporate Development at RRC Companies: mikekraft@rrccompanies.com

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Alteryx Introduces a Unified Platform for Enterprise Analytics and AI Orchestration

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Alteryx One unifies the full Alteryx suite with new platform tools that unlock the value of enterprise data, empowering analysts to leverage data platforms and accelerate AI initiatives

IRVINE, Calif., May 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Alteryx, Inc., a leading AI and data analytics company, today announced Alteryx One, a unified suite of AI-powered analytics capabilities that give customers greater flexibility to automate and scale analytics across their data ecosystems. The release also introduces new features that simplify access to trusted, governed, and AI-ready enterprise data.

A Unified Platform for AI-Powered Analytics

Traditional analytics solutions often force trade-offs between flexibility, governance, and innovation. Alteryx One eliminates these barriers by unifying powerful analytics automation, low-code, no-code data prep and blend, AI assistance, cloud flexibility, and enterprise governance, into a seamless, centrally managed platform.

The introduction of a centralized portal allows customers to seamlessly manage their entire Alteryx portfolio, regardless of deployment model. Alteryx’s new AI Control Center offers unified orchestration, combining licensing management with built-in security, governance, and visibility into all AI interactions, including large language models (LLMs). This centralized control helps ensure consistent access and usage policies across the platform.

“This launch marks a major step forward in making analytics accessible, collaborative, and intelligent,” said Ben Canning, Chief Product Officer at Alteryx. “The future of AI-powered analytics is about choice and connection. Alteryx One empowers organizations with the flexibility to access analytics in any way they need and to help ensure their data is AI-ready. This release is built to help organizations scale insights, automate intelligently, and stay ahead of AI, on their own terms.”

With new tiered packaging and a unified licensing portal, Alteryx One provides organizations with centralized control over user access, permissions, and license management, enabling secure, scalable analytics across the enterprise.

Direct Access to Data Platforms

As enterprise data increasingly moves to the cloud, organizations need faster, more secure ways to work directly with their cloud data without costly data movement or unnecessary replication. Alteryx One delivers this by making data platforms an extension of the analytics environment with expanded connectivity and deeper integrations, such as Pre-/Post-SQL support for In-DB tools, enabling more advanced data processing.

Additionally, real-time data access via Live Query for Databricks, the Data and AI company, and Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, turns Alteryx into a direct window into the data platforms. Customers can now work with massive datasets in real time, accelerating data preparation while maintaining security and performance.

Alteryx One also introduces shared connectors and plans, enabling IT teams to establish secure, reusable connections to cloud data sources. To support broader enterprise needs, Alteryx One expands connectivity with new and updated connectors for platforms like Azure Synapse, Qlik, and Starburst, along with enhancements to improve cloud pushdown processing. Together, these enhancements simplify cloud adoption for analytics teams and deliver faster access, lower costs, and stronger governance without compromising flexibility or control.

Delivering Trusted, AI-Ready Data

Customers like Siemens Energy are leveraging Alteryx to extract, prepare, and blend data — fostering data democratization, and a digital mindset. This transformation includes the successful adoption of AI and LLMs, for example, to unlock valuable insights from previously hard-to-access and non-digitized data. By integrating Alteryx with a data platform and LLMs, Siemens Energy has developed an AI-powered chatbot that enables users to query extensive document repositories. 

“With Alteryx and our citizen development approach, we are increasing our digital capabilities and providing vital data access to people who didn’t have it before — at scale, rapidly, sustainably, and with real operational impact across multiple use cases,” said Tim Kessler, Head of Data, Models & Analytics at Siemens Energy. Unified platforms simplify the path for organizations aiming to follow trailblazers like Siemens Energy in utilizing AI-ready data for transformative outcomes.

A recent Alteryx survey found that data integration continues to be a significant challenge for data analysts. Nearly half (46%) of analysts report that data quality issues are their biggest obstacle when preparing data. This challenge is amplified as more organizations move their data to the cloud, increasing the demand for faster and more seamless access to data in cloud data platforms. In today’s AI-driven business environment, these difficulties inhibit organizations’ ability to efficiently prepare data for analytics and AI applications.

As organizations seek to balance the benefits of AI initiatives and the challenge of AI governance for broad usage analytics, Alteryx One delivers scaled access to data and AI across the business for all knowledge workers in one unified platform. New capabilities include:

Magic Reports (General Availability): Automatically generate dynamic, tailored reports in Auto Insights with the help of AI. Magic Reports brings automation and intelligent assistance to the reporting experience, making it faster and easier to create, customize, and share insights. Spend less time building reports and more time driving decisions.

Alteryx Copilot (Public Preview): Provides an interactive AI assistant that guides users from question to workflow, offering intelligent real-time support, smart tool recommendations, and automated workflow generation. Alteryx Copilot goes beyond a traditional chatbot. Not only does it deliver insights, but it actively builds workflows in real time, transforming inputs into action.

GenAI Tools (Private Preview): Brings the power of generative AI directly into workflows to automate complex tasks, generate insights, and orchestrate logic in new ways. With seamless integration into enterprise-approved LLMs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini, users can move beyond traditional automation and explore new possibilities with AI inside Alteryx.

To learn more:

Visit the Alteryx One page

Read the Alteryx blog: Experience the New Era of Analytics with Alteryx One

ABOUT ALTERYX
Alteryx is a leading AI and data analytics company that powers actionable insights to help organizations drive smarter, faster decisions with AI-ready data. More than 8,000 customers around the world rely on Alteryx to automate analytics, improve revenue performance, manage costs, and mitigate risk across their businesses.

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Billtrust Announces Groundbreaking AI Advancements

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Introduces Multi-Agent Architecture, Billtrust Autopilot, its Agentic AI Assistant, AI-powered Credit and Collections

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J., May 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Billtrust, a B2B order-to-cash and digital payments market leader, today announced a series of revolutionary AI advancements at its annual Billtrust Insight 2025 conference, held May 13-15, 2025, in Dallas, Texas. These innovations, including a new multi-agent platform architecture and Billtrust Autopilot, its advanced agentic AI assistant, are set to transform the landscape of B2B accounts receivable (AR) automation, driving unprecedented efficiency, accuracy and insights for businesses worldwide. 

Billtrust’s distinct AI differentiators are:

Network Data Advantage: Billtrust’s AI solutions derive their intelligence from the industry’s largest network of buyer-supplier relationships, creating a virtuous cycle of continuous learning and improvement that cannot be replicated by point solutions.Multi-Agent Architecture: Billtrust’s multi-agent AI ecosystem uses specialized agents that collaborate across financial operations, providing coordinated intelligence and actions rather than disconnected insights.Financial Domain Expertise: Billtrust has 24+ years of AR experience developing purpose-built software for finance professionals, with deep domain expertise embedded in every interaction, recommendation, and autonomous workflow.

Multi-Agent Architecture Supported by Unparalleled Data Access and AR Experience

With finance professionals seeking holistic visibility into their AR processes to maximize cash flow and reduce manual efforts, Billtrust introduced the next evolution of its platform, with hundreds of specialized AI agents that work together on users’ financial tasks. Instead of one AI agent performing every function, different agents handle specific tasks. These agents communicate and collaborate, making the processes more efficient and effective, especially for complex AR processes.

This multi-agent approach ensures clients receive a coordinated, intelligent response across their entire financial ecosystem. By delivering personalized recommendations and smart automation, it accelerates cash flow, reduces manual effort, and drives measurable business impact. 

The Billtrust platform is also redesigned to better leverage Billtrust’s unparalleled resource of supplier and buyer data, pulled from nearly 25 years of anonymized transactions across all areas of AR. This allows Billtrust to understand who businesses transact with and how they transact, offering clients intelligent insights and autonomous capabilities derived from the industry’s largest financial data network and coupled with deep domain expertise.

“We are excited to unveil our latest AI advancements at Billtrust Insight 2025 and show our clients the future of accounts receivable,” said Sunil Rajasekar, Billtrust CEO. “While agentic AI is an accelerant to our industry-leading AR software, it is crucial to recognize that AI is just a tool. Using it in core workflows like order-to-cash without the necessary expertise can be dangerous. There is no substitute for the insights and experience that Billtrust offers to get the most powerful outcomes.”

“By leveraging agentic AI capabilities within accounts receivable software, customers gain a significant strategic advantage in navigating the complexities and financial pressures of the evolving global economic landscape,” said Kevin Permenter, Senior Research Director, Enterprise Applications at IDC, a global market intelligence firm. “Billtrust has dedicated substantial resources to developing a powerful AI and analytics plan aimed at enabling its clients to fully leverage the vast capabilities of AI, ultimately driving favorable business results.” 

Autopilot Enables Enhanced Autonomous Capabilities

Billtrust Insight attendees witnessed the unveiling of Billtrust Autopilot, its agentic AI assistant, reflecting the platform’s enhanced autonomous capabilities and intelligent insights, while empowering financial teams to optimize cash flow, mitigate risk, and uncover strategic opportunities with ease.

Billtrust Autopilot pulls data from multiple sources to provide a unified view of AR performance. This level of integration ensures that AR teams have access to accurate and up-to-date information at all times. Whether it’s setting up custom workflows, defining KPIs, prioritizing or creating collections emails, or configuring alerts, Billtrust Autopilot can be adapted to fit the unique requirements of any organization to become an extension to their team. This flexibility ensures that businesses can better focus on strategy while maximizing the value of their AI investment and achieving their financial goals.

“Unlike generic AI tools that provide interesting but disconnected insights, Billtrust Autopilot is purpose-built for financial professionals,” said Rajasekar. “Every capability is designed to address the full spectrum of AR challenges and opportunities.”

AI-powered Collections and Credit Announced

Billtrust Insight attendees were also introduced to new agentic email capabilities within its Collections platform to streamline collections inboxes, saving time and allowing users to focus on more strategic tasks. Designed to accelerate case creation and dispute resolution, AI agents autonomously organize messages into themes including payment promises, disputes, and other common types then leverage Billtrust Autopilot to draft personalized responses.

In addition, future 2025 enhancements were announced, including Collections Optimized Procedures, coming in Q3 and Dynamic AI Credit Lines in Q4. With Optimized Procedures, AI agents will identify how and when to execute procedures to maximize on-time payments, taking the guesswork out of collections management by leveraging buyer behavior to recommend what to say, when to say it, and through which channel. With Dynamic Credit Lines, agents will offer recommendations to reduce risk and boost revenue growth with ongoing payment history analysis optimizing credit limits across all accounts.

Billtrust Insight 2025 offers a broad array of educational sessions, user groups, workshops, and customer breakouts covering best order-to-cash and B2B payments practices, industry benchmarking, and new products and initiatives.

About Billtrust
Finance leaders turn to Billtrust to get paid faster while controlling costs, accelerating cash flow and maximizing customer satisfaction. As a B2B order-to-cash software and digital payments market leader, we help the world’s leading brands move finance forward with AI-powered solutions to transition from expensive paper invoicing and check acceptance to efficient electronic billing and payments. With more than $1 trillion invoice dollars processed, Billtrust delivers business value through deep industry expertise and a culture relentlessly focused on delivering meaningful customer outcomes.

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