On March 16th, Zuznow will compete at Temenos' unique innovation event, and present Zuznow's automatic front-end development platform to c-level executives from banks and other financial services
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NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Temenos, the software specialist for banking and finance, has selected Zuznow to present during its upcoming Innovation Jam in Miami, joining 15 other fintech companies in the Innovation Jam series. On March 16th, 2017, Zuznow will demonstrate the value of its automatic front-end development platform, and will show how it helps banks and financial organizations to stay ahead of the market trends. Meet Zuznow at the Temenos Innovation Jam in Miami and see how you can build your online banking omni-channel presence in a click! Rachel Batish, Zuznow's CRO said: "Cooperating with technology leaders, such as Temenos, opens many new doors for us and helps us connect with a large number of prospects who are looking to stay innovative and unique, while simplifying their front-end development processes. Presenting Zuznow in the Innovation Jam in Miami is only the first step in this cooperation, and we are honored and proud to be selected to participate." Zuznow will present a demo of its unique AI-based automatic front-end development platform and will demonstrate its new kit of conversational UI solutions for businesses. "As banks look for new ways to address today's challenges, we have seen a rise in banks investing in fintech. We view this mutual collaboration between banks and fintechs as crucial in order for banks to continue to achieve success, and to better serve their customers, which is why we began hosting these Innovation Jams. Through endeavors like the Innovation Jams, we look to foster closer collaboration between banks and fintechs, and ultimately propel our clients to the forefront of the market with the latest technology discoveries," stated Enrique O'Reilly, Temenos Regional Director of Latin America. The Miami Innovation Jam will take place at the Private Key Club, in Wynwood, Miami. The full-day event will include demo presentations from fintech companies and startups showcasing their innovations to industry-leading banks and financial institutions, including Temenos' world-class clients. About Zuznow
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We all know by now that voice control and conversational UI are changing the way we interact with our devices. Chatbots and voice-controlled Siri-like assistants are determining how we consume information, products, and services. How can your business take advantage of this emerging trend? What are the challenges and fast wins, and what’s the fastest way to get there? More than anything, we need to talk naturally. That is the key to success. The human-machine interface — or in simple terms, the way we interact with machines — has evolved tremendously over the years. In the beginning, when computing power was extremely scarce and expensive, investing that resource on a user interface just didn’t make sense. Today, when our smartphones pack more computing power than a supercomputer did in the past, technology vendors can afford to invest in making the human-machine interaction more natural and intuitive. For many years, a textual interface was the only way to interact with computers. It started with commands with a strict format and evolved into free, natural-language text. A common use of textual interaction is the search engine. Today we can write a natural sentence such as “search for a cheap flight from NYC to Paris” and Google will provide me with a list of relevant cheap flights. A new evolution for textual interfaces is chatbots. The usage of chatbots is an interesting shift, where human-machine textual interaction becomes more natural, like a text conversation with a friend. A later stage of human-machine interface was the graphical user interface (GUI), which mimicked the way we perform mechanical tasks in real life, like pushing a button to turn on/off a device. The GUI became extremely popular during the ’90s with the introduction of Microsoft Windows. The latest advance of graphical interfaces is the introduction of touchscreen devices; this represents a more natural way of doing tasks than with a mouse. A new way to interact with machines is voice-based computing. Machines now recognize our voice, understand our conversation, respond back, and provide assistance. Being a natural interaction method for humans, voice computing will tremendously increase user engagement with applications and will increase KPIs by providing a natural way for people to achieve their goals. Gartner predicts that by 2018, 30 percent of our interactions with technology will be through “conversations” with smart machines. But with the opportunities that this whole new world is offering for businesses come the challenges: multiple APIs, security, development time, multiple business logics, multiple SDKs…
Just like any new technology, voice computing adds another challenge for CTOs and CIOs in small and large enterprises because it requires a new set of developer skills. To enable voice-control interaction, developers must have profound knowledge of machine learning, voice recognition, and natural language processing. To build a team to fully support such initiatives, companies are forced to invest a large amount of money and resources, whereas the ROI is not always there to justify such an investment. I believe this situation is a gift. With all the challenges we see, it is obvious that new interaction forms, and new touch-points with our clients, are a pure gift for every business. Front-end has been a growing challenge for the past two decades now, when new devices and operating systems introduced to the market added another layer of complexity in a world of new opportunities. Businesses must look for the right tool that will help them to react in real time to market UI and UX trends, with the goal of continuously increasing their clients’ engagement. They should be using platforms that can help them implement seamlessly advanced GUI, native features, and voice-control features in a low-code web development environment. Chen Levkovich is the founder and CEO of Zuznow , a mobile development platform.

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We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing. — Daniel H. Wilson
We all use robots , or robot-made products, on a daily basis. Throughout recent history robots have replaced humans, eliminating the drudgery of repetitive jobs and achieving new efficiency. It began in factories with menial manufacturing tasks, and today we’re seeing it in many white collar jobs. If you think about it, robots build our cars and clean our houses, but today we also enjoy these: AI applications automate financial, travel, and legal processes; e-discovery software, used in law firms, has replaced the document analysis and scanning formerly performed by paralegals; robo-advisers, such as Wealthfront and Betterment, take over for expensive financial advisers and make financial advice accessible to everyone. And this is just the beginning. Why do we need robots? Technology is driving our lives. New and traditional businesses invest heavily in technology, using it to constantly improve their efficiency and attractiveness. When we examine traditional businesses in the financial industry, health care, utilities, and education, we notice they rely greatly on and invest in IT. To be able to respond to the growing demand for technology and its ongoing improvement, these organizations are forced to hire more and more employees, resulting in an overwhelming increase in operational costs. The problem is that as business-driven needs continue to grow, this becomes a never-ending cycle. Adding more developers to respond to this growing gap has become an unscalable, unprofitable, and unsustainable solution. Will robots replace humans? To respond to market needs, organizations will have to incorporate more tools and more automation into their processes. Statistics show that enterprises are investing less in manual professional services and more in platforms and tools, hoping to reduce development time and costs and become more efficient. To successfully replace IT workers and developers with “robots,” organizations must first identify the right opportunities: places where there are massive manual investments with fairly simple decision making. Once the tool is trusted, more complicated decision-making processes can be automated, accelerating time-to-market and offering a simple and seamless way to respond to business needs and requirements. The more advanced the AI is, the more automation will ease the IT burden and the more that can be achieved. Robots, or robo-software, will eventually replace developers (as well as other functions in the software development life cycle) and will prove to be the only solution able to support the ongoing demand. Developers should support this
Many developers oppose automation tools, fearing for their jobs and in some cases their unique expertise. However, the truth is that most IT departments fall so far behind demand that by accepting the usage of AI tools, platforms, and automation, they will successfully and effectively prove their efficiency and capacity. Many initiatives are blocked today due to IT constraints, whether due to time or human resources limitations. To fix this, AI, robots, and robo-software must be adopted by both high-level executives and on-the-ground developers for the benefit of the organization, its clients, and its employees. Chen Levkovich is the cofounder and CEO of Zuznow , a mobile development platform.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Zuznow & IBM announced a joint cooperation to empower enterprise customers to leverage the Zuznow development platform to automate front-end development projects. IBM and Zuznow have been partnering for the last 2 years and this is another step forward in the joint cooperation between the two companies. Zuznow, an IBM AlphaZone accelerator alumnus, developed the first and only automatic front-end-as-a-service platform, offering a full and comprehensive solution for front-end development projects, including mobile-app and mobile-web development, desktop web application UI and UX projects, as well as compliance and browser compatibility. Zuznow's Dashboard
As part of this unique project, the Zuznow platform will be integrated with the IBM Bluemix platform, with a plan to incorporate the Zuznow service within the Bluemix marketplace. Once integrated with IBM marketplace; enterprise customers will be able to test and purchase the Zuznow platform directly from Bluemix, and take advantage of the Zuznow rapid application platform for all front-end development projects. In addition to enjoying IBM secured cloud services, users will enjoy a seamless integration and provisioning process, as well as the high availability and scalability offerings of the Bluemix platform. Chen Levkovich, Zuznow's CEO said, "The IBM platform enables us to provide a secure and scalable solution, without the need to develop all the infrastructure in house. As IBM AlphaZone accelerator alumni, we have enjoyed IBM's continuous support over the last few years. This joint project is a new peak in our relationship and we are looking forward to more to come." "Since joining IBM Alpha Zone class #2, Zuznow has been a close partner of IBM," says Lior Weitzman, Startups & Developers Ecosystem Manager, IBM Israel. "Integrating our cutting edge mobile, AI and cloud technologies. We strongly believe that the Zuznow mobile development platform can help our enterprise clients to keep up with the growing demand for mobile development. Supporting Zuznow in getting a grant from the Israeli Innovation Authority is just another milestone in our partnership, which I expect to grow as we move forward." Avi Hasson, head of the Israeli Innovation Authority explained further that "the Israeli Innovation Authority mandate is to advance and promote Israeli innovative technologies and help them scale up. Cooperation with large corporates, such as IBM, serves a springboard for Israeli startups to open up to new markets and succeed worldwide. With IBM's support and guidance, I believe that Zuznow's technology will benefit dozens and hundreds of enterprise customer already this year. " 
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We live in a technology-driven world, where mobile devices are an essential part of our lives. In the span of just one year (2015-16) the App Store and Play Store recorded 18.5 million app downloads , proving the fact that we are getting increasingly dependent on apps. Related:  Why Your Small Business Needs a Mobile App
It comes as no surprise, then, that enterprises are adopting mobile strategies for their businesses in order to connect better to their target audiences, improve their bottom line and enhance their productivity. Speaking of that, a survey by Apperian found that enterprise apps fueled mobile strategies for several firms. An outstanding mobile strategy involves choosing an app that helps companies reach their goals, streamline their workflow, collaborate easily and securely handle communication and data sharing. Here are some of the top enterprise apps to help you achieve a stellar mobile strategy. Susie by Zuznow
One of the best technologies we have seen in the recent past is the introduction of virtual assistants like Siri, Google Now, Alexa and Cortana . Without a doubt, these make our lives easier, especially when we are on the fly and could do with some assistance. Similarly, enterprises can do with some help from speech-recognition software. They can leverage the potential of virtual assistants to solve complexities, enhance efficiencies, reduce operational costs and increase customer engagement. The only drawback they might face is high costs and limited resources, which are required to develop an AI-based software. Enter Susie . This integrated Siri-like plugin for enterprises, developed by AI-based mobile app development platform Zuznow, can be used to create a conversational user interface (UI) for any enterprise mobile app within a few hours. The tool is easy to use, incredibly useful and easily adopted by any enterprise without the need for specialized resources or skills. It's also a great add-on for enterprises that want to give an extra edge to their existing mobile app and, therefore, enhance their customer-engagements. TunnelBear
Need remote access to internal networks and security assurance? Turn to TunnelBear , which simplifies the process of setting up a virtual private network (VPN) for free. Available for both Android and iOS devices, the app connects you to an independent network that enables you to securely browse the internet, with privacy from hackers, ISPs etc. Even when you are browsing by using wifi hotspots, you can be assured that the data will be encrypted. Also, TunnelBear offers super speedy connections in more than 20-plus countries, so speed issues are nil. The best thing about this app is that businesses can scale it according to their requirements. And that’s not all. The app also offers 500 MB of free data every month to users, which is a great incentive! Moiety
Creating customized schedules for the entire workforce becomes simplified with Moiety . This new app on the block is helpful for seamlessly handling a number of schedules at a time. Enterprises can use it to:
Create unlimited, customized groups or “crews” and invite people to join. Create custom events, tasks, contacts and locations. Use it without any distracting texts, calls or emails. Get alerts and status updates for each event. Keep calendars private and allow contacts access only to specific events to which they are invited. Apart from all these features, the app offers the biometric/touch ID login option to keep all the information private and safe. It is still the early days for Moiety, but the app can be counted on to add some exceptional features in the future. GSuite
Enterprises have been using Google’s cloud-based services and apps for a long time now. So, it’d be a tad bit unfair to the search engine giant to exclude G Suite from this list. A part of Google’s rebranding efforts, G Suite includes apps that meet a major chunk of your enterprise needs. Divided into four major sections, these are:
Communication -- Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar, Google+
Storage -- Google Drive
Collaboration -- docs, forms, slides, sheets, sites
Management -- Admin, Vault
In essence, G Suite is an apt choice for workplace support . The free-trial period of 30 days (no software download or credit card usage) makes it a must-try for all enterprises, large and small. Related:  5 Mobile Apps for Modest Business Owners
Having a mobile strategy that aligns with your firm’s goals and customers’ demands can significantly contribute to your enterprise’s success. If you are new to the field and don’t know how to start, begin with the basics these apps offer. Before you know it, you’ll ace your mobile strategy.

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Temenos Innovation Jam is a competition to find the best fintech firms. This competition takes the form of regionalized demo-based events that it calls Innovation Jams. Each Innovation Jam includes between 7 and 14 participants showcasing their solutions, all competing for a place in the final which is held at the Temenos Community Forum in Dublin.

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NEW YORK , Feb. 28 , 2017 / PRNewswire / -- Temenos Innovation Jam , the software specialist for banking and finance , has selected Zuznow to present during its upcoming Innovation Jam in Miami , joining 15 other fintech companies in the Innovation Jam series .

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Zuznow's automatic mobile adaptation platform solves every enterprise challenge of transforming hundreds and thousands of web applications to mobile, for the purpose of improving work efficiency and creating new revenue streams. Zuznow's platform specializes in large systems and complex back-end infrastructures, reducing by more than 90% the complexity, costs, time-to-market and level of personnel involvement. Requiring no code re-writing or proprietary APIs, Zuznow serves as a one-stop-shop for the adaptation of B2C, B2E, B2B and legacy applications.

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