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19 September, 2021
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Ahead of Salesforce Dreamforce, Five New Product Innovations Drive Growth in Today’s Work-from-Anywhere World
84% of Marketers Say Customer Expectations Are Changing as Digital Experiences Become More Sophisticated New Product Innovations Include Slack-First Sales Cloud, Tableau for the Enterprise, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Einstein Automate
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — 19 September 2021 — Salesforce has launched five new product innovations in the run up to its Salesforce Dreamforce event, supporting organizations in driving growth in today’s work-from-anywhere world.
In this digital-first world, companies need to deliver moments that are connected, relevant, and human in order to develop trusted relationships that build loyalty and grow revenue. Between rapidly changing markets and demand for sales roles growing 65% in the past year, leaders require tools that support a new way of digital-first selling to meet customer expectations. In fact, 84% of marketers say that customer expectations are changing as digital experiences become more sophisticated.
“Salesforce is at the forefront of evolving sales playbooks to meet the needs of customers in the digital-first, work anywhere world,” said Bill Patterson, EVP & GM, CRM Applications, Salesforce.
New Salesforce Sales Cloud Innovations Help Companies Sell Smarter and Grow Revenue Faster
Salesforce has introduced three new Sales Cloud innovations, giving sales teams everything they need to accelerate growth through AI-powered insights, integrated sales enablement resources, and self-service options that put power in customers’ hands. The new Sales Cloud innovations include:
Revenue Intelligence: Equipping sales leaders with insights throughout the entire sales and revenue cycle, from closing deals to setting forecasts to building new pipelines, is imperative as sales organizations evolve from relying on intuition to hard data.
Sales Enablement: Smooth onboarding, training, and development experiences for sales reps are essential to creating engaged teams; retaining and attracting strong talent; and ultimately closing deals.
Subscription Management for Revenue Cloud: Companies are shifting to focus more on B2B buying and subscription management through self-service, and sales leaders need to be able to quickly launch new products and services across a variety of channels — from e-commerce storefronts to in-app. Existing Revenue Cloud capabilities give businesses the agility to make buying processes faster and easier, while accelerating new revenue streams and efficiency.
Tableau launches new innovations and enterprise plans to strengthen organization-wide analytics
Tableau, the world’s leading analytics platform (NYSE: CRM), has unveiled new data and analytics platform capabilities. The new enterprise capabilities and new enterprise subscription plans will help customers advance their digital transformations by empowering everyone in an organization with trusted and governed data, driving greater success with data and analytics at scale and better business outcomes.
Key new capabilities and improvements are focused on:
Managing the data chaos and enabling data governance at scale. New capabilities are making data challenges easier to manage, easier to scale, and easier to trust, including data prep, governance, and centralized row level security
Ensuring analytics scales with enterprise demand, including enterprise reference architecture and dynamic scaling.
Resource Management: IT teams can better optimize the performance of Tableau Server by defining application resource limits.
New Automation and AI Innovations from Service Cloud Transform the Contact Center to a Digital HQ for Service Teams
Salesforce has announced new AI-powered workflows and contact center innovations in Service Cloud to power effortless experiences for service agents and their customers. New workflows built into the Customer 360 platform enable customer service teams to predict, route, and solve customer needs — sometimes before the customer is even aware a problem exists.
Additionally, new digital contact center innovations for video, chat, voice and workforce engagement offer more effortless experiences for both customers and service teams. Features include: AI-powered workflows for trusted service at scale, effortless experiences with a Digital Service HQ, and Salesforce customers can deliver effortless experiences with Service Cloud 360.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Introduces AI-Based Engagement Scoring, Data Integrations to Help Marketers Boost Personalization
Salesforce has introduced new AI-powered innovations for Marketing Cloud that help companies humanize every interaction; make trusted, first-party data the foundation of their digital strategy; and optimize marketing impact with unified analytics. The innovations announced today include Einstein Engagement Scoring in Salesforce CDP, Einstein Designer, Interaction Studio Templates, and Datorama Connectors.
Today’s news builds on the recently announced innovations that combine the power of Slack and Salesforce to help marketers build digital HQs that transform collaboration and deliver insights fast, improve their strategies through streamlined workflows, and enable quicker decisions.
Salesforce Adds New Robotic Process Automation, AI Capabilities to Einstein Automate
Salesforce has rolled out three new Einstein Automate products to help every Salesforce customer, regardless of technical background, use low-code tools to automate time-consuming, manual processes and integrate data across systems right from their digital HQ.
Einstein Automate is a portfolio of workflow automation, integration, digital interactions, and AI capabilities embedded across Salesforce Platform. The new products include MuleSoft RPA (Robotic Process Automation), Einstein Document Reader and Digital Process Automation.
15 September, 2021
Siemens Healthineers Showcases Cutting-Edge Laboratory Diagnostic Portfolios at EGY Health 2021
Siemens Healthineers is a global leader in diagnostic imaging, laboratory diagnostics and health IT
Cairo, Egypt, 8th September 2021
Siemens Healthineers, a leader in healthcare imaging and diagnostic technology, is showcasing a variety of its cutting-edge laboratory diagnostic portfolios at the EGY Health International Congress and Exhibition taking place on September 7-9, 2021, in the Egyptian International Exhibition Center (EIEC).
“Industry events, such as EGY Health, that convene an impressive depth and breadth of stakeholders from across the medical field are crucial to the mission of Siemens Healthineers,” said Michael Schmermer, Managing Director Siemens Healthineers - Egypt, Djibouti, Eretria, Sudan, and Libya. “We know that strong partnerships improve access to healthcare. We look forward to strengthening our existing partnerships and creating new business relationships as we continue to drive innovation to help humans live healthier and longer.”
Siemens Healthineers is not only featuring innovative products from several portfolios at the event but is also presenting during the Congress. On Sept. 9th, Eng. Mohamed Gharib, Automation & Diagnostics IT Business Manager, Middle East and Africa at Siemens Healthineers will be speaking on the topic of lab digitalization and workflow excellence.
Throughout the three-day event, Siemens Healthineers will be showcasing some of it laboratory diagnostic solutions such as Covid-19 portfolio: FTD SARS COV 2, Clinitest Covid-19 AG rapid test, and SARS COV 2 antibody (Total & IgG); the Atellica portfolio: Atellica Solution, Atellica Neph 630, and Atellica Hematology; the Hemostasis portfolio; the POC portfolio, the Atellica VTLI, Atellica DCA, and the Atellica Urine.
Siemens Healthineers is a leading medical technology company with over 120 years of experience, 18,500 patents globally, and over 50,000 employees in more than 70 countries. An estimated five million patients worldwide everyday benefit from the company’s innovative technologies and services in the areas of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging, laboratory diagnostics and molecular medicine as well as digital health and enterprise services.
About Siemens Healthineers
Siemens Healthineers AG (listed in Frankfurt, Germany: SHL) is shaping the future of healthcare. As a leading medical technology company headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, Siemens Healthineers enables healthcare providers worldwide through its regional companies to increase value by empowering them on their journey towards expanding precision medicine, transforming care delivery, improving the patient experience, and digitalizing healthcare.
Siemens Healthineers is continuously developing its product and service portfolio, with AI-supported applications and digital offerings that play an increasingly important role in the next generation of medical technology.
These new applications will enhance the company’s foundation in in-vitro diagnostics, image-guided therapy, in-vivo diagnostics, and innovative cancer care. Siemens Healthineers also provides a range of services and solutions to enhance healthcare providers’ ability to provide high-quality, efficient care to patients.
In fiscal 2020, which ended on September 30, 2020, Siemens Healthineers generated revenue of €14.5 billion and adjusted EBIT of €2.2 billion. Following the acquisition of Varian Medical Systems, Inc. the company has approximately 66,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available at www.siemens-healthineers.com.
Roblox Corporation Generated $841M in Revenue in H1 2021, a Massive 132% Increase YoY
As one of the most popular games globally, Roblox continues generating huge profits from its massive fan base. In Q2 2021, the popular kid-friendly creation platform reported more than 43 million daily active users, the highest number to date, while the revenues from in-game purchases surged to record levels.
According to data presented by MejoresApuestas.com, Roblox Corporation generated $841 million in revenue during the first half of 2021, a massive 132% increase year-over-year.
Quarterly Revenue More than Doubled in a Year
Initially released for PCs in 2006, Roblox became an instant hit drawing millions of players from across the globe each day. However, the popularity of the free-to-play gaming platform exploded in 2020, driving revenues and the number of users to new highs. Despite COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing orders being lifted in many parts of the world, user engagement on Roblox has never been higher, and the revenue figures confirmed that.
The Roblox Corporation generates almost all of its revenue through the sales of its virtual currency, "Robux," which players can use to purchase virtual items on the platform.
During 2020, the company's revenue grew by 25% quarter-over-quarter and hit $310 million in Q4 2020. However, it seems that 2021 might become a record year for the US video game developer.
Statistics show Roblox Corporation generated $387 million in revenue between January and March, a 25% increase quarter-over-quarter. However, during the next three months, quarterly revenue jumped to $454.1 million, showing a 126% increase year-over-year. Statistics also show that Q2 2021 was the highest-earning quarter in the company's history.
The Number of Active Roblox Players Jumped by 42% YoY
The user-generated gaming content and other immersive virtual experiences on the Roblox platform continue driving impressive user base growth.
The company's official data showed the number of daily active users hit an all-time high of 43.2 million in the second quarter of 2021, 42% more compared to a year-ago period. Nearly one-third of all users, or 12.1 million, were from the United States and Canada, the largest Roblox market. In fact, statistics showed that by the mid-2020, over half of kids and teens under the age of 16 in the United States played the game.
However, other countries across the globe also witnessed a surge in the number of Roblox fans. With 11.8 million daily active users in the second quarter of the year, Europe ranked as the second-largest Roblox market. Asia followed with 7.2 million users, respectively.
SODIC & CIB Ink Mortgage Finance Protocol
Cairo, Egypt: September 2021
Leading real estate developer SODIC announced the signing of a collaboration protocol with the Commercial International Bank (CIB), to provide mortgage finance solutions to SODIC customers.
The protocol entails providing diverse payment plans for delivered units in accordance with Egypt’s mortgage finance laws and regulations. SODIC customers will have the opportunity to buy ready for delivery units offered for sale in the company’s different projects on a payment plan up to 20 years.
SODIC’s existing customers can also benefit from this protocol when listing their homes for sale, capitalizing on SODIC’s resale platform that will avail the same extended payment plan for their buyers.
The signing ceremony was attended by Magued Sherif, SODIC’s Managing Director; Amr El-Ganainy, CEO Institutional Banking & Ahmed Issa CEO of Retail Banking at CIB, and senior members of both entities.
Commenting on the agreement, Magued Sherif, SODIC’s Managing Director said: “We are excited to collaborate with our long standing partner CIB with its strong and proven track record in the banking sector. This protocol comes in line with our customer-focused approach to offer new financial solutions that facilitate the home-buying decision for our existing and potential customers.”
Commenting on the agreement, Amr El-Ganainy, CIB’s Chief Executive Officer Institutional Banking said: “It is always a pleasure to join forces with SODIC one of our most reputable clients. This mortgage protocol marks another successful milestone in CIB & SODIC strong relationship. This protocol would offer a payment scheme up 20 years as an alternative financing solutions for unit buyers which comes in line with the bank’s strategy to support the real estate market in specific and the CBE directives in this sector at large.”

