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Valona introduces cutting-edge foresight tools for global enterprises

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2 weeks ago

November 6, 2024

Bridging the gap between operational market intelligence and foresight

HELSINKI, Nov. 6, 2024 /CNW/ — Valona, a global forerunner of AI-driven competitive and market intelligence solutions, is launching a partnership to help companies worldwide integrate foresight with market insights. This initiative enhances strategic readiness by enabling enterprises to anticipate market trends and develop alternative future scenarios.

Valona partners with FIBRES and integrates the market-leading Valona AI platform with FIBRES’ foresight tools. This partnership provides businesses with a unique combination of advanced AI capabilities for real-time insight and forward-looking intelligence. It equips organizations with intuitive tools to visualize future trends and scenarios, enhancing decision-making, strategic agility, and proactive risk management.

The ability to map and track critical weak signals guides senior leadership in steering the company strategically and sustainably in a rapidly changing market landscape.

Kimmo Havu, Valona CEO, states, “Our partnership bridges the gap between strategic foresight and operational market intelligence, providing integrated tools and comprehensive understanding to inform strategies concerning customers, competitors, and suppliers.”

He continues, “Most of our customers operate globally in highly innovative industries where the volume of relevant data has exploded. Making sense of this data is crucial for better decision-making and future scenario building — this is exactly what we want to achieve with this partnership”.

Havu emphasizes foresight’s potential beyond top management, influencing tactical decisions like pricing and product launches. “Mastering foresight provides a competitive edge, keeping companies ahead of trends and disruptions,” he concludes.

Panu Kause, FIBRES CEO, shares his enthusiasm about the partnership: “We are excited to integrate our tool for futures intelligence with the Valona platform. Continuous foresight is a key focus for global organizations today, and our combined tools allow businesses to uncover blind spots, visualize foresight, and develop resilient, future-proof strategies.”

About Valona Intelligence

Valona Intelligence, the premier market and competitive intelligence AI-solution provider acknowledged by Forrester and Gartner, blends generative AI with expert analysis to deliver crucial, relevant insights for large enterprises and manufacturers.

Delivering hyper-relevant, real-time global insights, Valona empowers business leaders to understand their market environment, risks, and opportunities, equipping them with foresight and a global outlook. Supported by an industry-expert analytical team, the Valona AI-powered platform helps businesses meet growth targets, venture into new markets, enhance product development, anticipate supply chain disruptions, manage market threats, and outpace competition.

Valona maintains a proprietary database of over 200,000 unique, industry-specific global business data sources. The information is harvested to generate valuable insights for over 350,000 daily users, translating data from over 120 languages into English.

By monitoring the global business environment 24/7, Valona has served Fortune 500 companies like Goodyear, HSBC, Bosch, Philips, and Cintas since 1999, providing strategic foresight to shape their future.

Learn more about Valona: valonaintelligence.com

Media contact:
Kati Tammisto
CMO, Valona Intelligence
Kati.tammisto@valonaintelligence.com
+358 40 775 7162

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Oberon Securities Advises Keens Steakhouse in Sale Transaction

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1 hour ago

November 23, 2024

Oberon Securities acted as exclusive advisor to Keens Steakhouse in the sale transaction.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Oberon Securities, a New York-based middle market investment banking firm, acted as exclusive advisor to Keens Steakhouse in the sale transaction announced yesterday.

With more than 70 senior bankers serving businesses across the country and around the world, Oberon is one of the fastest growing New York City based middle-market investment banking firms. Its clients benefit from the market credibility associated with the firm’s longstanding relationships with many of the nation’s largest and most prestigious institutional investors. Oberon’s approach has generated numerous long-term, multi-transaction client engagements and attracted investment bankers who have spent their careers working with middle-market companies.

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Steven Alschuler, Oberon Securities, 1 917-647-2151, steve@alschulerpr.com, https://oberonsecurities.com/

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Specified Technologies Inc. Unveils Firestop Clash Management and Locator Updates

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4 hours ago

November 23, 2024

SOMERVILLE, N.J., Nov. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Specified Technologies Inc. has announced their latest Firestop Clash Management (FCM) and Firestop Locator (FSL) releases. FCM automates the process of locating and assigning firestop solutions to conditions within Autodesk® Revit®, enabling firestop novices to find firestop solutions like a firestop expert. In this latest release, STI has further expanded the capabilities of FCM by integrating it with their firestop documentation and compliance tool, Firestop Locator (FSL). FSL enables contractors and facilities’ teams to document the status, location, and products used for any and all fire life safety services across a building.

In the latest update for FSL, teams can now create custom items to track any service on their project beyond the base six (Penetration, Joint, Extinguisher, Door, Damper, and Barrier). Teams can also modify the base six items to include project specific inspection and maintenance requirements and any other details that they would like to be tracked.

With this new integration, decisions made during the design phase of a building using FCM are seamlessly passed into FSL during the construction phase, giving implementation teams a jump start on work to be done. This integration also improves data integrity and eliminates the guesswork in the field of determining what firestop systems and products are to be used where.

“We’re proud of the latest releases of FCM and FSL and look forward to continuing to support the fire life safety community,” says Justin Pine, Sr. Manager of Software & Services.

Specified Technologies Inc. promotes life and building safety by developing innovative fire protection systems and accompanying digital tools that help stop the spread of fire, smoke, and hot gases. Our SpecSeal® and EZ Path® product lines are engineered for easy installation and deliver powerful performance, often resulting in lower installed costs. Since firestopping is our only business, we concentrate all our resources on providing the highest quality, fully tested, innovative firestopping solutions.

Contact: Jess Bern; jbern@stifirestop.com

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ZICC: Internet Experts Pay Attention to the Development of Artificial Intelligence

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5 hours ago

November 23, 2024

BEIJING, Nov. 23, 2024 /CNW/ — During the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference, ZICC interviewed Internet experts from all over the world.

Lampros Sterg, UNESCO Chair in AI & Data Science, said that AI can accelerate social progress, but it needs to be used properly to avoid its negative effects in order to benefit citizens and society. Latif Ladid, the president of the IPv6 Forum, called for the establishment of a global governance system to allow artificial intelligence technology to serve humanity for good. South Korean computer scientist Kilnam Chon shared insights on AI’s positive role in healthcare. He urged global efforts to ensure AI safety and prevent its misuse in weapons. Indian entrepreneur Bibin Babu said he believes that AI will not replace humans, but will create more new jobs.

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