FINANCE
Westland Insurance Group Ltd. | February 02, 2023
Westland Insurance Group, one of Canada's largest and fastest-growing independent property and casualty insurance brokers, has announced the launch of its new Small Business Solutions brand. The company has been a leader in the small business market for a long time, and this brand launch will ensure that its small business insurance advisory practice continues to be recognized as a leader across Canada.
Over a million businesses in Canada have less than 200 employees. These small businesses are the backbone of the Canadian economy. Westland assures that small business owners and entrepreneurs have the appropriate protection so that their businesses can still survive and grow if they suffer a loss. Westland's Business Advisors are experts in small business insurance so that owners don't have to be.
Through Canada's major insurance providers, Westland's Small Business Solutions practice provides market-leading product solutions, including numerous programs exclusive to Westland. Professional and responsive Business Advisors from Westland deliver a seamless client experience, allowing business owners to focus on running their businesses.
“Canadian small business owners play such an important role in our economy, and we want to be their number one choice for insurance,” said Jamie Lyons, Westland’s President & CEO. “By segmenting our Commercial brands, we can focus on what makes each group of clients special and tailor our services directly to them. By bringing our Small Business Solutions brand to life, we’re able to show our small business insurance expertise and bring Canadian business owners peace of mind knowing their life’s work is protected,” he further added.
(Source – Globe Newswire)
About Westland Insurance Group
Westland Insurance Group is one of Canada's largest and most rapidly expanding independent insurance brokers. Westland continues to expand from coast to coast, trading over $2.5 billion in premiums. Brokers at Westland offer expertise and advising services across the business, agricultural, personal, employee benefits, and specialty insurance areas. Since its founding in 1980, Westland has remained a family-owned business dedicated to serving its industry partners, clients, and local communities.
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TECHNOLOGY
Qualys | February 09, 2023
On February 8, 2023, Qualys, Inc., a pioneer and leading supplier of cloud-based information technology, security, and compliance solutions, announced the extension of its TruRisk platform to meet the requirements of both major corporations and small and medium-sized companies. The two services, VMDR TruRisk Bundles and Enterprise TruRisk Management, will assist businesses in mitigating cyber risk throughout their infrastructure and fostering company growth.
Cybersecurity Solutions customized for Small and Medium Businesses
The new package from Qualys integrates vulnerability management detection and response (VMDR), patch management, and multi-vector EDR into SMB-specific products. These packages, VMDR TruRisk, VMDR TruRisk FixIT, and VMDR TruRisk ProtectIT, provide simple, easy-to-deploy, all-inclusive cybersecurity solutions to monitor, remediate, and guard against continually evolving cyber threats to mitigate risk. In addition, its partners can provide additional Qualys services to clients and expedite the onboarding process due to the simple packaging and price.
VMDR TruRisk FixIT: Offers risk-based detection and remediation with VMDR TruRisk and Qualys Patch Management.
VMDR TruRisk: Brings Qualys Cloud Platform and VMDR to SMBs.
VMDR TruRisk ProtectIT: Delivers VMDR TruRisk FixIt plus multi-vector and business context-based malware and ransomware protection for all endpoints.
Enterprise TruRisk ManagementEnterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) from Qualys unifies cyber risk. ETM lets clients incorporate third-party security, vulnerability, and IT technologies into the Qualys ecosystem to transform data from numerous sources into action with a single, effective cyber risk management program. This method helps organizations communicate, manage risk, and reduce it quickly by combining security with ITOps.
About Qualys, Inc.
Qualys, Inc. is a pioneer and leading supplier of cloud-based security, compliance, and IT solutions, with over 10,000 subscription clients globally, including most of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 500. It enables businesses to simplify and automate their security and compliance solutions on a single platform for increased agility, improved business results, and significant cost savings. The Qualys Cloud Platform uses a single agent to continuously deliver vital security intelligence, allowing businesses to automate the full range of vulnerability detection, compliance, and safeguards for IT systems, workloads, and web applications across on-premises, servers, endpoints, containers, public and private clouds, and mobile devices.
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TECHNOLOGY, IDEAS
Analytix | March 17, 2023
Analytix Solutions has recently launched Business Transformation Services for small to mid-market sized companies. The new Business Transformation Services division will focus on offering Strategic Business Consulting, Operational Consulting, and Automation Services. Each of these services is meticulously designed to help SMBs create a scalable business model, boost profits, drive innovation and stay ahead of the competition.
Led by Alok Bhatt – Senior Vice President of Analytix, Business Transformation division will help clients with their strategic objectives, optimize processes and automate systems to achieve operational excellence. Alok has 17+ years of experience being a trusted transformation partner to both SMB and Fortune 500 clients. He holds a Six Sigma Black Belt, an MBA and has an engineering degree. "Our clients have expressed an interest in optimizing their cost of operations and modernizing their business through digital transformation. Analytix now offers our SMB clients Business Transformation services, which were previously only available to large companies. A strong team of consultants and automation experts will be set up to provide this high value and high impact service to our clients." Alok said.
Analytix Business Transformation division is poised to help SMBs scale their businesses by providing access to affordable consulting and automation services. The Business Transformation team possesses extensive experience in business consulting along with a deep understanding of industry specific processes and relevant technology offerings.
Our Strategic Business Consulting Services offer solutions to specific business problems and initiatives. We specialize in Business Process Management, where we help our clients define and document their processes along with building the right controls to drive performance and compliance. We also review the technology landscape of our clients to create a roadmap for digital transformation. We help our clients reduce their customer churn by improving their customer experience. Our risk advisory services help with compliance to industry process standards like ISO, data privacy, SOC2, HIPAA, and management of financial, operational, information security, and regulatory risks.
Our Business Transformation Team also offers Operational Consulting Services that focus on cost optimization by improving operational efficiencies. We implement a three-pronged solution: restructuring the organizational design based on capability vs capacity including leveraging of offshoring solutions, streamlining processes with LEAN and Six Sigma, and automating manual, and repetitive tasks. This helps clients achieve cost optimization while driving higher innovation.
Third and the most interesting part of our services is the Automation. Analytix provides a unique approach by offering Automation-As-A-Service, where clients pay a minimal upfront fee for process assessment and then the benefits of automation are shared between the client and Analytix. This "gain-share" model is a win-win for both parties as the client pays only a share of the total effort saving benefits that Analytix has delivered. Our automation team has developed various tools and integrations that deliver quick results for clients. We offer process-based and dataflow based automations through the latest platforms available today. Our cloud-based automation tools require zero-code change in the client tech-eco system and provide web-based orchestrator controls to start, stop or schedule automations.
John Matthew, COO of Analytix explains, "Transforming business processes to make operations more efficient can help businesses realize exponential results to both productivity and profitability. Mid-market sized businesses can often benefit the most from business transformation. Adding Business Transformation to our offerings as a single-source solutions provider is a natural progression in our business strategy, as we identify ways to support our clients' business growth. This is an area where we can really, positively impact our clients and partners, implementing innovative measures to increase their business's profitability while reducing overall costs."
About Analytix
Analytix Solutions is a single source solutions provider, dedicated to providing core business services to clients across a range of industries since more than 15 years. Our experienced team of professionals deliver services and solutions that empower small and midsize companies to make informed business decisions that lead to long-term growth and profitability. We provide finance, accounting, IT, data management, virtual assistant, healthcare, and audiovisual (AV) solutions to a range of industries. Deep, cross disciplinary expertise, coupled with our ability to integrate technology and automation into our solutions uniquely position us to help our clients thrive and grow in a competitive market.
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