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SCI 360 Announces Industry Advisory Board to Expand Financial Services Growth
CINCINNATI - November 2, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
SCI 360, the leader of Salesforce Consulting Apps and Services for the Financial Services vertical, today announced an Industry Advisory Board to provide strategic guidance and support the company's growth in the Financial Services vertical; specifically Banking and Insurance Services. The Board will assist in deepening SCI 360's role as a trusted advisor to CEOs and leaders.
Every company today is grappling with unforeseen issues transforming their industry. Specifically, the Insurance Sector has been challenged with the increase of medical inflation, increase in treatment, extra-contractual exposures, and staffing shortages. CEOs are looking for trusted advisors who understand their industry and business challenges, and can help them harness the power of advanced customer centric platforms to go digital fast; reducing expenses and averting risk.
The SCI 360 Industry Advisory Board brings together the most accomplished business leaders from across Insurance and Banking industries to offer proven leadership, expertise, and a unique understanding of the transformational potential of SCI 360's products and services. They will provide strategic guidance and help increase business value to our customers.
"Our customers, and partners, are looking for trusted advisors to help digitally transform and deliver exceptional customer experiences," said Michael Sturgis, President and Chief Executive, Chairman of the Advisory Board, SCI 360. "Our customers are our number one focus and our Industry Advisory Board will be instrumental in our ability to accelerate our customers' success."
New members of the Industry Advisory Board named today:
Insurance Markets
- Brian Passell, Former Chief Claims Officer, Progressive Insurance, Partner at Razors Edge Consulting (link)
- Edgar Meza, Chief Claims Officer, Fred Loya Insurance
- Scott Kohl, Senior Vice President, Kemper Insurance
MGA, Reinsurance, and TPA Markets
- Joe Pietrangelo, General Manager of Auto MGA, LLC
For more information about SCI 360, visit www.sci360degrees.com
ABOUT SCI 360
Our founders, former Insurance executives, are some of the earliest adopters of Salesforce. SCI 360 was founded in 2009 on the principles of Trust, Experience, Understanding, Knowledge, and Expediency. SCI 360 is a Certified Salesforce Partner with over a decade of Insurance industry vertical expertise. The Team at SCI 360 has unparalleled Insurance and Technology expertise, pioneering advanced solutions that empower insurers and support the lifecycle from binding of policy through claims processing.
Contact Information:
Diane Belforti
Marketing
[email protected]
(888) 318-5121
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SCI 360 Announces Industry Advisory Board to Expand Financial Services Growth
CINCINNATI - November 2, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
SCI 360, the leader of Salesforce Consulting Apps and Services for the Financial Services vertical, today announced an Industry Advisory Board to provide strategic guidance and support the company's growth in the Financial Services vertical; specifically Banking and Insurance Services. The Board will assist in deepening SCI 360's role as a trusted advisor to CEOs and leaders.
Every company today is grappling with unforeseen issues transforming their industry. Specifically, the Insurance Sector has been challenged with the increase of medical inflation, increase in treatment, extra-contractual exposures, and staffing shortages. CEOs are looking for trusted advisors who understand their industry and business challenges, and can help them harness the power of advanced customer centric platforms to go digital fast; reducing expenses and averting risk.
The SCI 360 Industry Advisory Board brings together the most accomplished business leaders from across Insurance and Banking industries to offer proven leadership, expertise, and a unique understanding of the transformational potential of SCI 360's products and services. They will provide strategic guidance and help increase business value to our customers.
"Our customers, and partners, are looking for trusted advisors to help digitally transform and deliver exceptional customer experiences," said Michael Sturgis, President and Chief Executive, Chairman of the Advisory Board, SCI 360. "Our customers are our number one focus and our Industry Advisory Board will be instrumental in our ability to accelerate our customers' success."
New members of the Industry Advisory Board named today:
Insurance Markets
- Brian Passell, Former Chief Claims Officer, Progressive Insurance, Partner at Razors Edge Consulting (link)
- Edgar Meza, Chief Claims Officer, Fred Loya Insurance
- Scott Kohl, Senior Vice President, Kemper Insurance
MGA, Reinsurance, and TPA Markets
- Joe Pietrangelo, General Manager of Auto MGA, LLC
For more information about SCI 360, visit www.sci360degrees.com
ABOUT SCI 360
Our founders, former Insurance executives, are some of the earliest adopters of Salesforce. SCI 360 was founded in 2009 on the principles of Trust, Experience, Understanding, Knowledge, and Expediency. SCI 360 is a Certified Salesforce Partner with over a decade of Insurance industry vertical expertise. The Team at SCI 360 has unparalleled Insurance and Technology expertise, pioneering advanced solutions that empower insurers and support the lifecycle from binding of policy through claims processing.
Contact Information:
Diane Belforti
Marketing
[email protected]
(888) 318-5121
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Wrkspot Offers Solutions to Hotels’ Post-COVID-19 Challenges
Guests are returning to hotels as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes. However, hotels still face labor shortages, meaning many hotels are overwhelmed with tasks and guest requests. Wrkspot provides a solution that solves that problem for hotels of all sizes.
Wrkspot is the developer of a software solution to help streamline hotel operations and resolve labor challenges, replacing clipboards, walkie-talkies and spreadsheets with a single digital tool that combines human resources information systems (HRIS) and operations management.
Last week, hospitality data analysts STR reported that demand for hotel rooms in September 2022 was just 6% less than pre-pandemic levels, making it the fifth consecutive month of global demand at more than 90% of pre-pandemic levels.
Meanwhile, a survey this summer by the American Hotel & Lodging Association found that nearly all (97%) of respondents were experiencing staffing shortages, while almost half (49%) experienced severe staffing shortages. And Bloomberg reported in July that more than half of hospitality workers will not go back to their former jobs.
That combination indicates that hotels need a way to work more efficiently, said Raja Epsilon, founder and CEO of WrkSpot. "WrkSpot gives hoteliers the ability to do more with less - fewer people, which is a big concern in this labor market, as well as less time and fewer tools. Running all of your operations on one platform means that your data is connected, communication is faster & easier, and you don't spend time translating information from one system to another - no double or even triple-work."
Even today, Epsilon said, hotels are run largely on paper and pencil and by people who are walking the property or using walkie-talkies. That makes for an inefficient process that is vulnerable to errors and duplication of effort.
"Say a housekeeper goes home sick or doesn't show up at all. Now those rooms have to be reassigned," Epsilon said. "That means someone has to go out and walk the halls to find housekeepers who are already at work and give them additional rooms. That someone is then not able to focus on the job they're supposed to be doing, and there are the endless distractions that become possible as soon as you stop focusing on your task."
Walkie-talkies provide immediate communication, but without privacy, and without the precision of written communication, which leads to mistakes. "All of that means a room may not be cleaned or towels may be delivered to room 214, instead of 241," Epsilon said. "Those aren't tragedies, but the cost adds up."
A digital solution also generates and stores operational data instantly, instead of by requiring input from paper records. That provides hotel managers with access to information they can use to be smarter about how they run their business, he explained.
WrkSpot also streamlines hotel operations by putting all of the back-of-the-house operations systems in a single tool, adding value by combining different elements of the management system. That means staff do not need to train on and juggle multiple systems, transferring information from one tool to another.
"For example, when someone's information goes into WrkSpot during the hiring and onboarding process, it's attached to that person when the general manager is building schedules," Epsilon said. "That means all of the required information is there to create a payroll file. That same person also uploads their completed paperwork to their record and gets training assignments, including videos from a library the hotel creates, all in WrkSpot."
Wrkspot customers also can take advantage of integrations like the new Choice PMS and HotelKey PMS integrations that improve the pace of housekeeping assignments and adjust in real-time as guests check out. It also has deep functionality, such as automated communication that alerts managers when an employee is about to move into overtime, and chat that translates between languages, so there is no delay or confusion between employees who speak different languages.
Together, Wrkspot adds up to cost savings at a time when hotels face thinner margins, as business rebounds and overtime costs may spike. Epsilon said that Wrkspot users report time saved in communication and in scheduling people down for routine tasks, as well as in more efficient scheduling of housekeeping and maintenance requests, and tracking which rooms have already been serviced. Managers also have more visibility into scheduling and clock-in/out, ensuring scheduling matches budget.
"We also see much faster guest request response, because everyone can see that a request is being taken care of and who it's assigned to, so you don't have multiple people on the same request and the person closest to that guest can take care of the problem quickly," Epsilon said. "That means better guest satisfaction, which leads to better reviews, which leads to higher bookings."
Wrkspot also assists managers with hotel portfolio management, enabling them to see both individual hotels as well as patterns across properties. "If you are examining employee attrition rates, you can look at trends by department and other criteria, then dig into individual hotels to see if the problem is driven by one or two properties or is a portfolio-wide trend," Epsilon said. "Seeing that kind of pattern without juggling spreadsheets and files is worth a lot."
WrkSpot goes beyond problem-specific solutions to handle the entirety of hotel operations, including labor management, in one integrated solution. It also provides a training platform and document management system, both of which are integral to digital transformation for hotels. "I think of it as helping hoteliers solve problems they don't yet know that they have," Epsilon said.
To learn more about how Wrkspot integrates and streamlines all aspects of hospitality management, visit wrkspot.com.
About Wrkspot
WrkSpot, founded in 2017, is the developer of a revolutionary software suite for hotel portfolio management that integrates HRIS, operations management and communication in a single app. By managing and engaging staff, controlling costs and streamlining operations, and improving compliance and safety, WrkSpot allows hotel managers to avoid being bogged down by the unavoidable details of hotel operations.
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Westbury’s Beloved Nursery is a Magical Christmas Destination
WESTBURY, N.Y. - November 2, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
Hicks Nurseries, Long Island's largest and premier garden center, transforms into a magical destination for Christmas. A trip to the beloved nursery has been a holiday family tradition for decades, and their free events include pictures with Santa, a live brass band, letters to/from Santa and an animated Christmas story walk-through.
The beautifully decorated store provides inspiration as well as many picture-perfect moments.
- The Christmas gallery features an exquisite display of fully decorated lifelike Christmas trees and holiday décor that highlight the latest trends as well as traditional favorites.
- There are more than 90 pre-lit lifelike trees on display in the artificial tree yard exclusively made for Hicks Nurseries.
- A vast selection of farm-fresh live Christmas trees come in the end of November in sizes up to 14 feet and can be pre-ordered now to avoid the rush.
- The greenhouse is stocked with the finest indoor plants, including seasonal poinsettias, amaryllis and Christmas cactus.
"We are a one-stop-shop for everything you need for Christmas," said Felix Cutrone, store manager at Hicks Nurseries. "Our selection is unmatched and the experience we create around the shopping aspect is treasured by generations of customers."
The experience includes the following free events:
Animated Christmas Story: The all-new children's story, "A Stroll with Santa," is open daily Nov. 14 through Dec. 31. The walk-through features six animatronic scenes and read-along story cards. Hicks Nurseries collects donations at the end of the walk-through of non-perishable food items for Long Island Cares.
Meet & Take Pictures with Santa: Santa will be at Hicks daily, Monday-Friday 1-4 pm and 5-8 pm; Saturday and Sunday 10 am-1 pm and 2-6 pm, Nov. 25 through Dec. 23.
Live Brass Band: A popular brass band helps customers get into the holiday spirit with lively music weekends Nov. 26 through Dec. 18, 12-3 pm.
Mail a Letter to Santa: Drop a letter in the North Pole mailbox and get a response from Santa himself. Mailbox is open Nov. 14 through Dec. 19.
For more information visit Hicks Nurseries Christmas Events
ABOUT HICKS NURSERIES
Hicks Nurseries is Long Island's largest and premier garden center, family-owned and -operated since 1853. Dedicated to helping its customers achieve success in their homes and gardens, Hicks Nurseries provides expert and friendly advice along with an exceptional selection of quality products including indoor and outdoor plants, outdoor furniture, planters, lawn care, seasonal décor including artificial Christmas trees and more. They also offer complete award-winning landscape design/build services. Hicks Nurseries is located at 100 Jericho Turnpike in Westbury, NY. Follow on social media @hicksnurseries and learn more at https://hicksnurseries.com/
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Eleni Roselli
Director of Marketing
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516-334-0066 x 1239
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Asia-Pacific’s Travel Industry Could Be the First to Recover by 2023
MELBOURNE, Australia - November 2, 2022 - (Newswire.com)
According to Inspiring Vacations, provider of exciting worldwide experiences including tours to Alaska, Scandinavia tours and everywhere in between, the pace of recovery for the tourism industry has been strong, as more places reduce or remove travel restrictions and the demand pent up during the pandemic is released.
Inspiring Vacations explains that certain factors pose a risk to the recovery of the travel industry around the world including rising inflation, high energy prices, labour shortages at airports and lockdowns in China.
Despite these concerns, the annual report produced by London-based World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) shows that Asia-Pacific is expected to recover at an incredibly strong pace. The report highlighted that tourism revenue dropped in the Asia-Pacific by 59% in 2020, which was more than anywhere else in the world.
The Alaska tours operator explains that in 2021, with most countries in the region maintaining strong border restrictions, recovery to the travel industry was muted. The WTTC report showed revenue from tourism in Asia-Pacific contributed only 16% to regional gross domestic product while in Europe that figure was 28% and 23% in North America.
This year, however, the WTTC report indicates that Asia-Pacific travel revenue is expected to contribute 71% to the overall economy. Inspiring Vacations says travel in the region is skyrocketing, with restrictions eased or removed in most countries.
The WTTC report expects Asia-Pacific's travel industry to continue to gain traction with positive growth forecast in 2023 and 2024. It estimates that by 2025, travel revenue will contribute 32% more to the region's GDP than pre-pandemic levels.
In more exciting news for the industry, the WTTC report predicts that 126 million new jobs will be added in the next decade, with 65% of the new jobs expected to be in Asia-Pacific.
A proudly Australian owned and operarted company, Inspiring Vacations offers tours to suit everyone at unbeatable, value for money prices. To discover more about exciting worldwide experiences including guided tours of Alaska and tours to Scandinavia, get in touch with Inspiring Vacations.
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1300 88 66 88
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