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News, Tech

Clarity Stack announces major revamp to its sales intelligence software

Rapidly-growing sales intelligence SaaS provider, Clarity Stack, today announces the release of its new product offering along with a complete website and platform overhaul, giving customers the best experience to date.

The award-winning start-up company, founded in 2018 by entrepreneur Ben Harper, continues to enhance and evolve both its technology and vision for the future with this latest development, which sees the merging of its separate sales stack products into an all-in-one platform to streamline user experience and help businesses champion a more efficient sales process, enabling them to close more deals.

With the new product release, customers can build a tailored sales intelligence bundle that best suits their business requirements and current sales needs giving them greater flexibility; whether that be access to basic prospect contact details and business data, full access with additional features such as qualified, ready-to-buy sales leads, or something in between.

What’s more, shifting focus to one overarching platform and investing in cutting-edge machine learning technology allows Clarity Stack’s sales intelligence to become even more streamlined, accurate, and valuable to customers – enabling them to make more effective fact-based sales decisions for faster revenue growth.

“Following our successful rebrand in January 2022 and the launch of our mobile app in May, our new product release is the natural next step for us to provide further functionality enhancements and a better-quality service and user experience for our customers.” Said Clarity Stack founder and CEO, Ben Harper.

Scott Roberts, CTO, added, “After all the hard work that’s gone into building our new product offering, including a complete overhaul of our website, I’m looking forward to seeing our customers benefit from the changes we’ve implemented and ultimately win more business.”

 

About Clarity Stack

Clarity Stack were founded in 2018 and specialise in B2B data, insight and lead generation. Its mission is to help businesses sell better by harnessing the power of sales intelligence to enable teams to make better decisions.

The company is registered in the UK and US with its HQ situated in Warmington, near Peterborough, and employs more than 50 people across the two locations with more than 700 active customers. The software caters to all types of businesses around the world. Find out more at www.claritystack.com.

News

UK organisations can detect sanctioned entities in their third-party supply chains, with new ethiXbase module

As the need for UK organisations to ensure their supply chains are free from sanctioned organisations intensifies, value chain sustainability expert, ethiXbase, has launched its new digital Sanctions Risk Instant Questionnaire to help companies protect themselves from sanctions exposure.

So far at least 1,200 Russian individuals have been sanctioned by the UK Government as have 115 Russian entities, with more likely as the war in Ukraine continues. Non-compliance with the regulations could mean up to 10 years imprisonment, and/or fines for offending directors/organisations.

In light of this, ethiXbase, a member of the United National Global Compact (UNGC), has launched the Sanctions Risk Instant Questionnaire, enabling UK organisations to identify directors, ultimate beneficial owners and shareholders within their third parties, allowing them to more thoroughly screen against sanctions. .

The questionnaire is a new module for the market-leading ethiXbase 360 platform, a cost-effective and risk-based approach to third-party risk management. It allows businesses to proactively collect ownership and directorship information on third parties to enhance ongoing sanctions screening. This module can be delivered to all third parties, within a day, to complete quickly and easily.

James Swenson, Managing Director, Research and Operations, at ethiXbase, comments: “Is your third-party supply chain exposed to recent sanctions on Russian individuals and entities? Do you fully understand your third-party shareholders and directors’ structure, and if one of them is associated with the sanctions? Have you considered what this might mean for your business and operations? These are important questions that organisations and leaders need to ask themselves, as the risks are potentially great.

“It’s not only legally, but ethically and morally important for organisations to ensure their third-party supply chains are free from sanctioned individuals and businesses too. We’re therefore pleased to launch the ethiXbase Sanctions Risk Instant Questionnaire to help organisations avoid costly lessons. We have devised a simple and automated short-form questionnaire that will instantly allow them to identify those third parties that might be associated with a sanction risk.

“The new questionnaire is easy to implement and can be delivered to all or part of an organisations’ third parties within a day with the ethiXbase efficiency which our clients have come to know, love, and rely upon. The automation and risk assessment module will allow them to receive automated notifications when a sanction risk is identified instantly.”

 

To find out more about the ethiXbase Sanctions Risk Instant Questionnaire, take action today and visit: https://ethixbase.com/sanctions-risk-instant-questionnaire-truly-understand-who-you-work-with.

To view an ethiXbase webcast on how to protect businesses from sanctions exposure, click here.

 

About ethiXbase:

ethiXbase is a value chain sustainability solutions business that delivers robust technology and data analytics to assist corporates and third parties, create and maintaining sustainable business practices. We create the most intuitive, robust, and configurable platform to help firms globally, elevate their third-party supply chain in the areas of Anti-Corruption, Human Rights, Environment, and Labour.

Education, News

Caption.Ed levels the playing field for thousands of learners with brand new features

Caption.Ed, developed by CareScribe, is assistive technology that provides highly accurate, multi-lingual, and subject-specific captions for any live or pre-recorded media, including face-to-face conversations. And this April, Caption.Ed gets even better as all-new features launch in its new version.

The next generation of Caption.Ed software, live April 4th, lets users take meaningful notes alongside their transcripts so that they never miss out on what’s important. With Caption.Ed, you can annotate notes against any audio or video, highlight key information and upload additional media to support your notetaking.

All of your Caption.Ed sessions are then available to revisit at a later date, meaning you can scroll back over what was missed, revise what was said and recall why it was important.

Caption.Ed is offered as tiered packages where users can upgrade or downgrade to suit their needs. It comprises:

·         Caption.Ed Lite – For individuals who need notes, with slimmed down captioning and transcription requirements.

·         Caption.Ed Pro – For individuals who need notes, with full captioning and transcription functionality.

·         Caption.Ed Notes – For individuals who just need to take notes without transcription.

People can register their interest now via the Caption.Ed website and book a demo with a member of the CareScribe team.

 

What sets Caption.Ed apart?

Caption.Ed is designed with accessibility at its heart. In fact, it was developed by people who have accessibility needs which is why Caption.Ed has accessibility requirements baked into its very design. It has an unobtrusive user interface (UI) which takes up only a small amount of your screen, and also has the ability for the user to change the text size or the appearance of their captions to help with readability.

It’s designed to work seamlessly across in-person and online teaching, making it the perfect solution for the future of hybrid learning.

Caption.Ed is also fantastic at captioning topics which use complex terminology such as health and life science classes, social sciences, or law. It also works across different languages including: French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Dutch, Danish and Simplified Chinese.

Richard Purcell, CareScribe Director comments; “I really struggled with my dyslexia at school, medical school and finally at work. Ever since it’s been my mission to level the playing field. I founded CareScribe with the aim of improving accessibility and inclusion for everyone – be that in education or the workplace.”

 

Captioning is not just for deaf students

Captioning is often seen as a solution for people who are deaf or who have hearing loss but it has much wider applications.  Netflix recently reported that 80% of people watching their platform use subtitles. Most have no hearing loss but find that captions help to focus attention and boost comprehension. This can be an essential aid for people with neurodiverse traits that may affect working memory, concentration, writing speed and even those learning English as an additional language. For example, Caption.Ed is benefiting people with:

·         Dyslexia

·         Autistic spectrum disorder

·         ADHD

·         Auditory processing disorder

·         Mental Health Conditions

Purcell adds, “Thousands of people are already using Caption.Ed to allow them to remove barriers and participate more fully in their studies or in the workplace. As with all great assistive technology, Caption.Ed can be useful for just about anyone. Caption.Ed should be a game-changer for work, study and home life and I’m so excited to introduce our new version to users.”

 

The development of Caption.Ed  

Dr Richard Purcell is both a director at CareScribe and an NHS Doctor.  In 2013 he worked with a fellow medical student to create Medincle, a piece of software to help students cope with some of the complexities of medical jargon which has since been adopted across the UK healthcare and education space.

Richard has been developing assistive software ever since but in 2020 he put the company on hold to go back and work full time as an NHS doctor during the start of the pandemic, followed by a brief stint at St. Peter’s Hospice in Bristol. At the end of 2020 he returned to full time software development and his company CareScribe has grown from three to 30 members over the last year.

 

Key features of Caption.Ed

·         Works across live or pre-recorded media including: online meetings, classes and presentations as well as face-to-face conversations.

·         Caption.Ed provides highly accurate and subject-specific captions, for subjects such as scientific, medical or legal content.

·         Caption.Ed can capture and transcribe speech in many different languages including French, Italian, Spanish and Simplified Chinese.

·         Alongside their transcripts, users can add annotations in real time, upload additional media, and highlight important pieces of information to refer back to with ease at a later date

·         Users can revisit their past sessions and listen back to their lecture, seminar or meeting in order to recall what was said, revise and add to their annotations and export everything in a variety of formats.

·         Caption.Ed supports PC, Mac and mobile devices.

·         It works where you do, including: Panopto, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Echo360, Blackboard, Google Meet and many more!

Caption.Ed is already being used across many colleges and UK universities, including the University of Cambridge, St Andrews University, Edgehill University and many more. It’s also recommended by assessors within the Disabled Student Allowance and Access To Work.

 

How can Caption.Ed support staff in education?

In both schools and universities, Caption.Ed ensures that teaching is accessible to everyone, regardless of ability. This helps create independent learners and also allows institutions to save money on costly human note-takers.

Universities typically have to caption large amounts of media across different platforms. Caption.Ed allows content producers (such as lecturers) to generate highly accurate and subject specific captions for any of their media instantly. Transcription tasks can also be delegated across the team, which helps to reduce workloads for individuals and editing of transcripts can be done within Caption.Ed’s editing suite.

For administrators at schools and universities, Caption.Ed can help these users:

·         Take more effective minutes alongside your meetings in real time

·         Write up, download and circulate notes from meetings at a much quicker rate

·         Transcribe interviews and edit them with ease

With this in mind, Caption.Ed will be especially useful for pastoral staff and those who deal with SEND and Pupil Premium learners.

Food & Drink, Food and Drink, News

Luxury Brownie Baker Unveils Brand New Vegan Treat

B is For Brownie adds Madagascan single-origin chocolate vegan brownie to its growing product range.

B is For Brownie based in Rutland is renowned for their use of luxury single-origin chocolate in their recipes, and to the delight of the vegan community – who up until now, could only stare longingly at pictures on B is For Brownie’s Instagram – Lou Cox, founder and Head Brownie Baker has confirmed that the vegan addition is now available online.

Early taste tests for the new recipe have been universally positive, with rave reviews from some very well-respected foodies.

Chocolate writer and award-winning bean to bar chocolate maker Dom Ramsey writes, “I’m very happy with them. The flavour is good and rich, and I like the texture, it’s the perfect balance of cakey and fudgy. I wouldn’t have known they were vegan!”

Influential food writer and editor, Sophie Farrah said, “Recently Lou has been working long and hard to create the ultimate vegan chocolate brownies.”

Sophie continues, “And I confirm that she has nailed it. It’s rich, fudgy, and seriously chocolatey. Completely and utterly delicious!”

When asked about the baking process, Lou, who founded the company back in 2015 with a mission to create a luxury brownie using only the very best ingredients, had this to say, “it’s been very tricky with lots of versions and test bakes!”

“It’s especially tricky with a vegan brownie, as the eggs and butter are no longer present, and they are normally so key to flavour and texture.”

Lou goes on to explain that the vegan butter alternative and oat milk were carefully chosen to provide the textures and flavours that brownie fans will instantly recognise.

“Of course, the single-origin Madagascan chocolate is the main focus of the final recipe. It’s incredibly flavourful, and because terroir contributes to the final flavour of the cacao, each harvest will result in an exciting tweak to flavour. An element of surprise which translates very well when baked into a vegan chocolate brownie.

To learn more, visit https://www.bisforbrownie.co.uk/

Health, News

Celsium wearable smart thermometer system launches promising 10x more accuracy than current devices

A new smart thermometer is launching which promises up to 10x more accurate measurements, making it the most accurate wearable solution. Celsium is a medical grade wearable smart thermometer that links to an online platform, taking automatic readings every four seconds and instantly alerting the user when temperature rises even a fraction.

Eight years in development, Celsium measures true body temperature (core body temperature), not just skin temperature, which is impacted by surroundings and can be a misleading measurement. Celsium offers an accuracy of +/- 0.2oC (core temp), compared with +/- 1.5 oC – 2.0 oC for most devices on the market.

Celsium is a medical grade device available to both the consumer and healthcare markets. It utilises a small sensor attached under the armpit which links to an app via Bluetooth for simple to use, accurate temperature monitoring.

One of just a handful of clinically-validated consumer thermometers in the UK, Celsium can be used by the whole family. It retails at £70.00, is guaranteed for 12 months and is available to buy from Celsium.com.

Behind Celsium is Andy Mahoney, founder and CEO, who set out to develop an accurate and easier to use solution, after encounter the issues with current products firsthand when trying to conceive his first child. He quickly realised that not only was it hard to measure temperature at all hours of the night and day, it was also clumsy and often not accurate. He drew on his 15 years’ background in healthcare to develop this smart, accurate temperature monitoring platform.

Andy commented: “Growing up in a medically minded household and having worked in healthcare for many years, when my wife and I couldn’t find an accurate thermometer despite buying numerous devices I took up the challenge to develop one myself. When I scratched the surface, I was amazed to find that measuring temperature is still largely based on the first thermometer, invented over 300 years ago! To say the temperature monitoring was due for re-invention is somewhat of an understatement, especially when you consider how important body temperature is an indicatory of our health”.

“Celsium is simple, constant and accurate. It’s useful for individuals and families as it allows you to monitor body temperature accurately in real-time, from your smartphone, and it’s non-invasive. I believe body temperature is massively under utilised largely due to the poor products we have to work with. Temperature is central to the way our bodies function, it’s such an important signal. With the right solution, I firmly believe temperature will facilitate earlier and more accurate diagnosis in the future.”

Andy added: “Celsium is on a mission is to change the way the world utilises temperature. We want to make it easier for people to understand their temperature, raising the bar for temperature as a diagnostic tool and explore new areas of temperature science not previously researched. The potential for temperature to provide early insight to illness and disease is huge. Until now we haven’t had the technology to investigate this. Celsium will unlock this ‘hidden science’ in so doing creating what we believe will be never before seen early warning signals to health problems developing.”

About Celsium

Celsium works with:
Apple devices with iOS 10.0 and above.
Android devices with Android 8.0 and above.

Each pack contains
· 1x Celsium temperature sensor
· 5x disposable adhesive patches (mild strength)
· 1x CR2025 battery
· Unlimited App use
· Unlimited support

Adhesives are low irritation

Leisure, News

OLPRO launches new 2021 range of products with eco-friendly tree-planting initiative

OLPRO has launched pre-orders for its new 2021 range of major outdoor leisure products, along with a pledge to plant one tree for each OLPRO product sold.

In celebration of the company’s 10 year anniversary as a business, OLPRO’s all-new range of products will be available in 2021 and includes the very latest in innovative tents, awnings and camping accessories. This includes; the Odyssey – OLPRO’s largest inflatable 8 person tent; the Gemini – a 4 person vis-a-vis tent; the Ranger – backpacking tent; the Pod – a kitchen tent; the Hive – campervan awning and the Lunar campervan awning.

The tree-planting guarantee that OLPRO has launched in partnership with UK-based, Ecologi, is expected to lead to the planting of thousands of trees within the first year. It also forms a significant step in OLPRO’s ambition to become a carbon-neutral company that benefits the environment that its customers love so much.

Following a record-breaking Summer, OLPRO has seen a 101% increase in orders year on year, as well as a 79% increase in the number of visitors to its website. There has also been an increased demand for camping products internationally and, during the year so far, OLPRO has already sold its products to a total of 22 different countries.

Daniel Walton, Founder of OLPRO, said: “The entire OLPRO team is really excited to be launching our new product range for 2021. With OLPRO now available in more countries than ever before, we look forward to seeing more customers around the world enjoy the products that our team have been perfecting in product development for the last 2 years.

“Demand for camping equipment and camping holidays in general has been unlike anything we’ve ever experienced before, and we know that many campsites are already well-booked even for the summer of 2021. At OLPRO, we’ve nearly doubled the amount of staff we employ in customer services, just to keep up with this increased demand. So we know that our customers will be able to book in their next big holiday with the added excitement of being able to enjoy a new world class OLPRO product and the world class service that goes with it.”

Elliot Coad, Managing Director of Ecologi, said: “We’re excited to be helping OLPRO make a significant impact on the climate emergency. At Ecologi we strive to make climate action as simple as possible and we are always excited to see how our customers implement our ideas. We look forward to planting thousands of trees together with the OLPRO team.”

Camping has become one of the most popular choices for staycations, as holiday-goers opt for the safety of being able to enjoy fresh air and still maintain social distancing. Campsites have ensured there is a good amount of distance between pitches, and have worked to improve cleaning measures to ensure all campers are safe.

To pre-order OLPRO’s new range of products and for more information on their newly launched tree-planting scheme, visit their website: www.olproshop.com