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Pittsburgh Tech Council Member News July 15, 2020

Stories Compiled from PTC Members

Matrix Continues to Expand Localized Efforts Through Mexico City Operations

Matrix, the only global ad sales platform built for media, expands their Mexico City operations to both support localized product and service solutions and customers in the Latin American Market. Matrix’s global media ad sales platform, Monarch, runs on a fully localized Spanish version, delivering a highly intuitive experience, enterprise-wide, that enables users to optimize advertising revenue. With a well-established team in place and continued growth of product suite, Matrix deemed now the time to expand operations to ensure customers in the market have access to and are capitalizing on their latest solutions designed to improve ad workflow automation across all media sectors.

To support this effort, Matrix recently announced the addition of Biren Bharucha as VP of Enterprise Sales to lead the effort of expanding the Matrix footprint and customer base. Biren is based out of the US but will receive additional support from the company’s newest hire, Alejandro Irazaba, a Sales Executive who will work out of the Mexico City office to serve and support new and existing customers in the Latin American market. Matrix has also added Sr. Developers and QA resources to their team in Mexico City, who will help further extend the company’s service offering and enhance operational efficiencies. More specifically, the team will play a pivotal role in executing the company’s data analysis and AI strategies.

 

Meerkat Village Pilot Launches to Help Children with Special Needs

Integrated Village successfully launched the Meerkat Village pilot and is planning the full release for the summer of 2020.  

Meerkat Village is unique because it:

  • is designed to empower families and integrate service provision for children with social, emotional and behavioral needs; 
  • enables adults to communicate and develop strategies, define and document the use of those strategies on a single page, and collect outcome data with ease; and 
  • remains with each family until their child turns 18 at no additional cost. 

On April 27th, a Westmoreland county mom opened the very first village for her 5 yr old child. Less than an hour after opening the village and signing electronic consent forms, the child’s early childhood education (ECE) teacher, ECE supervisor, early intervention (EI) teacher, therapeutic staff support (TSS) professional and behavioral specialist consultant (BSC) accepted invitations from the mother and were able to communicate as a team within the software.  Start to finish, 52 minutes is unheard of speed for bringing families and professionals together.  Dr.Crystal Morrison, Integrated Village CEO says “In the past, it’s taken almost 52 days for me to arrange meetings with my son’s treatment team and teachers.  Connecting adults and allowing them to communicate in 52 minutes is revolutionary!  Just imagine how that efficiency and effective communication will improve outcomes for children everywhere!”  Even more impressive is the family will have access to the virtual village at no additional charge until the child turns 18.  The village will remain a tool and resource as the child grows, independent of transitions in providers, services, schools, locations, etc.  Read more here.

 

Sycor Releases Back-to-Work Tracking App

Many companies have reduced the acute risk of infection for their employees by shifting to working from home. Now that governments and businesses are gradually opening back up, returning to the office is becoming more of an option. However, employees must still be protected and, if necessary, infection chains must be traced.

The free Sycor.Back2Work app supports you and your employees in returning to your accustomed workplace. By using the app, regulations regarding social distancing can be applied easily and clearly. Get more details here.

 

Abator Launches 360-Access Online Service to Make the World a More Disability-Inclusive Place

Over 54 million Americans live with a disability. Despite these staggering numbers, and a discretionary spending budget of $490 billion, the disability community’s needs are often still misunderstood and unmet at restaurants, hotels, retail stores and more. That’s why Abator, a women-owned IT consultant company, is pleased to announce the launch of 360-Access, a revolutionary next step in the natural evolution of support for the disability community. 

360-Access is an online service that allows businesses to submit dependable information regarding the accessibility of their establishment for those with disabilities to review on mobile and desktop devices prior to making personal arrangements. 360-Access will officially go live on July 26, 2020 to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), with a percentage of every 360-Access sale donated to disability organizations.

Creating a business account with 360-Access is a very simple online process. Businesses provide their facility’s accessibility features, address and contact information. After businesses are accepted into the database, a 360-Access partner logo will then be provided to the business to utilize on their website to indicate their commitment to serving the disability community. 

To learn more about 360-Access, please visit: 360-access.com.