By combining Dow Jones Factiva’s deep expertise in legal, regulatory, and sustainability intelligence with Presight’s sovereign AI infrastructure, the collaboration aims to create predictive compliance systems that go far beyond today’s reactive models. Furthermore, these solutions will run in secure, sovereign-grade environments, meeting strict data residency and security requirements.

Transforming Risk Intelligence into Proactive Compliance

The joint innovations will integrate generative AI, explainable models, and real-time contextual reasoning. Consequently, compliance teams will gain the ability to spot risks early and act decisively. Planned initiatives include:

• KYC & UBO Agent – Mapping complex ownership structures worldwide.
• Sustainability Tracker – Monitoring environmental and compliance risks in real time.
• Legal & Policy Risk Agent – Detecting cross-border legal shifts before they impact operations.
• Adverse Media Monitoring – Using sentiment-aware analytics to flag reputational risks.
• Sanctions Intelligence Engine – Uncovering indirect exposure to sanctioned entities.

Thomas Pramotedham, CEO of Presight, explained:

“This collaboration brings together Dow Jones Factiva’s unmatched regulatory data and Presight’s sovereign-scale AI capabilities. It’s Applied Intelligence in action.”

Regional Focus with Global Ambition

Initially, the partnership will focus on GCC-based clients, including sovereign wealth funds, central banks, and Tier 1 banks. However, plans are already in motion to expand into Southeast Asia, North Africa, and the United States — regions where secure, intelligent compliance tools are in high demand.

Joel Lange, EVP and GM of Dow Jones Risk & Research, said:

“As challenges grow more complex, this collaboration could be a pivotal step toward next-generation risk solutions.”

A New Standard for Governance

Presight and Dow Jones Factiva aim to set a benchmark for compliance — making it auditable, autonomous, and future-ready. In today’s fast-moving, interconnected world, they are shaping governance into a proactive advantage instead of a reactive duty.

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The changes to the Riverbed partner program are aligned to Riverbed’s new sales strategy, works more closely with partners to acquire new customers, and drive account penetration with new technologies and flexible consumption models. To support this new sales strategy, Riverbed will work with partners to focus on Riverbed’s new and existing enterprise and public sector sales accounts.

To lead these changes, Riverbed recently welcomed Bridget Bisnette as Vice President, Global Channels and Commercial Sales. Bisnette is responsible for global channel strategy and synchronizing Riverbed’s efforts through the channel, managing the partner program, focusing on enablement to drive partner productivity and integrating them into the commercial sales motions. For over 30 years, Bisnette has held a wide range of global roles in the IT industry, at companies such as Cisco Systems, Standard Micro Systems, and AST Computers. At Cisco Systems, she held leadership roles in areas such as Enterprise Vertical Partnerships, Commercial Alliances, Channels Marketing Programs and Channel Certification.

“I am pleased to join Riverbed at such an exciting time in the industry and in the history of the company. It’s been a very exciting six months as we solidified the commercial expansion and evolved Riverbed’s channel strategy and partner experience,” said. “The transformation in the IT industry is being affected by changing customer expectations. Business models, sales processes and certification models, among many other things, are being impacted. This is going to be a very good thing for our industry because it shifts the focus to customer success and customer lifetime value. With the launch of Riverbed Rise and other key enhancements to our partner experience, Riverbed is poised to lead this change and deliver mutual success with partners.”

Bisnette and the Riverbed channel organization has focused on delivering a new partner experience in 2018 with the launch of Riverbed Rise that includes the new program, a new partner portal, more robust marketing tools with dedicated partner social channels, revamped programs and simplified discounting schedules.

Riverbed Rise is built on simplicity, flexibility and profitability for partners. It simplifies how partners achieve and continue to maintain their status. The program uniquely adapts to multiple business models and partners’ needs. More importantly, it rewards achievement across key strategic activities and joint sales priorities. Partners began earning benefits effective January 2, and will remain at their current program level until the end of July, with the full implementation of Riverbed Rise beginning in August.

This year Riverbed partners will convene at the Riverbed Partner Summit in Huntington Beach, California beginning April 30, 2018 to discuss opportunities to drive more business and accelerate customer success in a cloud and digital world.

Riverbed is delivering solutions to help companies transition from legacy hardware to a new software-defined and cloud-centric approach to networking, and improve end user experience, allowing enterprises’ digital transformation initiatives to reach their full potential. Riverbed’s integrated platform delivers the agility, visibility, and performance businesses need to be successful in a cloud and digital world. By leveraging Riverbed’s solutions, organizations can deliver apps, data, and services from any public, private, or hybrid cloud across any network to any end-point. These solutions include Riverbed SteelConnect,SteelCentral, SteelHead and SteelFusion.

SteelConnect is an SD-WAN (Software-Defined WAN) solution that provides unified connectivity and policy-based orchestration spanning the entire network – LAN/WLAN (including cloud-based Riverbed Xirrus Wi-Fi), WAN, data center and the cloud, with one-click connectivity and optimization into Microsoft Azure and AWS, managed centrally from a cloud console.

Riverbed SteelCentral is a complete performance management platform and control suite that uniquely provides unified visibility spanning all aspects of user experience, application, and network performance.

Riverbed SteelHead is a solution for accelerated delivery of applications across the hybrid WAN, speeds the performance of cloud applications by overcoming the combined challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency on the WAN. This improves the experience for end users – regardless of their location.

Finally,Riverbed SteelFusion is the first and only branch and remote office infrastructure solution designed to enable a software-defined edge and centralizing 100% of branch data and services into data centers and the cloud without compromising local performance or availability for workers at the edge.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms report states, “Endpoint protection is evolving to address more of Gartner’s adaptive security architecture tasks such as hardening, investigation, incident detection, and incident response. Security and risk management leaders should ensure that their EPP vendor evolves fast enough to keep up with modern threats.”

“We believe that our positioning as a Challenger position is a sign of our continued progress in delivering the best in endpoint protection to businesses, without impacting on their systems or creating unnecessary overheads,” commented Ignacio Sbampato, Chief Business Officer at ESET. “Enterprises can rely on ESET’s knowledge and insight to keep their organizations protected, and we consider our position in this Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms as a genuine reflection of our development as global player in information security.”

According to Gartner’s IT Glossary, “Gartner Magic Quadrants offer visual snapshots, in-depth analyses and actionable advice that provide insight into a market’s direction, maturity and participants. Magic Quadrants compare vendors based on Gartner’s standard criteria and methodology. Each report comes with a Magic Quadrant graphic that depicts a market using a two-dimensional matrix that evaluates vendors based on their Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Congratulating RheinBrücke and speaking at the event, alongside Craig McCollum, EVP, Americas, Hesham El Komy, Senior Director, International Channel said, “We are delighted to have a partner like RheinBrücke that has over seventy-five highly qualified associates to deliver excellence and inspire customer satisfaction, and in doing so, create the foundation for sustained business growth and enable business transformation to stay ahead of the competition.”

“RheinBrücke’s strong growth in EMEAI can be attributed to the successful execution of our Epicor ERP strategy. In line with Epicor’s strategy of providing industry specific ERP solutions and cloud first deployments, we have invested in a team of solution architects with extensive domain knowledge in Manufacturing, EPC/Construction and Distribution. Between our unrivalled technical capabilities and our focus on the mid-market segment, leveraging our global footprint, today, we have over forty clients in the EMEA region across our service offerings including ALCON, Al Hajery Group, Arabian Industries Group, Bin Hindi Group, Federal Mogul Auto Parts, FLSmidth A/S, Kern und Sohn, Sandoz GmBH and ZF-TRW Automotive”, said Suresh Chandrasekharan, Chief Solutions Architect at RheinBrücke.

“In today’s competitive marketplace, we understand that our clients want to make every investment count. We are committed to helping enterprises optimize their IT costs and I would like to thank the Epicor channel team for their relentless support throughout our journey. The award exemplifies this commitment to our customers, industry and the Epicor community,” said Srikanth Gaurav, Chief Mentor and Operations Officer of RheinBrücke EMEA.

Along with Epicor ERP solutions, RheinBrücke also provides Epicor HCM as one of their services. RheinBrücke has a HR Technical Centre of Excellence of highly skilled Epicor HCM certified consultants that leverage Epicor to streamline and automate processes and improve efficiency and productivity of HR departments at organizations across EMEAI. As a value add to Epicor HCM, in June 2015, RheinBrücke launched EpicPay, a payroll solution for Middle East countries built on the Epicor HCM platform. EpicPay is seamlessly integrated with Epicor and helps automate the payroll process, avoiding the issues associated with manual payroll processing. The solution has been extremely well received in the region and in just over fifteen months since the launch, six enterprises in the GCC and one in Africa have already successfully implemented EpicPay.

“We have had several significant customer wins across the Middle East, making it one of our strategic markets. We have recently opened our second office in Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) and significantly expanded our solutions, support and sales teams to help our growing Middle East business and our plan is to double market share in the region by 2018” concluded Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, Director Epicor Practice, RheinBrücke.