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DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At WasteExpo 2021 in Las Vegas, AMP Robotics Corp. (AMP), a pioneer in AI, robotics, and infrastructure for the waste and recycling industry, announced key company milestones executing against its plan to sustainably improve and scale the recovery of recyclables. These achievements coincide with the companys ongoing market expansion and continued innovation cycle to modernize the domestic and global recycling system.

We entered 2021 with momentum driven by strong demand for our recycling AI and automation solutions, and it continued through the first half of the year as we continued to deploy systems at scale and doubled year-over-year revenue, said Matanya Horowitz, founder and CEO of AMP Robotics. Our investment in operational scale is paying off as we see even stronger adoption of our technology, with customers re-ordering systems to install in other facilities that they own. We continue to innovate with the pilot of our automated secondary sortation facility, as well as the launch of AMP Clarity, our new waste characterization software. AI is powering real-world solutions for the recycling system that may have seemed out of reach not long ago.

Recycling data milestones chart path to overcoming industry barriers

A lack of data transparency, reliability, and consistency on the performance of material recovery has been a longstanding obstacle to recycling modernization. Data is the foundation of the companys AI platform, AMP Neuron, whose artificial neural network has created the largest known real-world dataset of recyclable materials for machine learning. With the power of this data, AMP has achieved two milestones:

The modularity of the standalone AMP Vision system provides economically viable, pervasive sensor technology that can be deployed at operations across the recycling system so this data can be collected throughout different facilities, waste sheds, and municipalities.

New gripper technology enables performance breakthrough

AMP also continued to innovate new material-specific feature sets and performance enhancements to support more precise automated sortation and rapid recovery of high-value commodities. With more than one dozen patents or patents pending, the company has focused its R&D efforts on continuous improvements to the performance and reliability of its flagship robotic sorting system, AMP Cortex. In recent months, AMP has been testing a new gripping technology that pushes the existing boundaries of its proprietary robotic path planning to accelerate pick speeds beyond what had previously been considered possible.

In June, AMP marked a breakthrough, recording speeds of up to 140 picks per minute on a single robot and a sustained rate of 120 picks per minute on many common picking layouts. This can translate to an increase of more than 50% in recovery for unevenly distributed material streams. This latest innovation is focused initially on optimizing the recovery of recyclable fiber like mixed paper, OCC (corrugated cardboard), and SOP (sorted office paper). AMP will be beta-testing these new performance features in the field with select customers over the next three to six months and expects to commercialize the offering more broadly as a feature upgrade by the end of 2021.

Addition of key personnel supports expansion

Over the last year, AMP has rapidly scaled its business to meet demand. In less than 12 months, the company has doubled its staffhiring in finance, operations, engineering, product management, sales, marketing, service, and talent management.

Following the installation of the companys first robotic system in Europe in late 2020, AMPs pipeline continues to grow. Based in the UK, and to support the expansion of its business in the region, Gary Ashburner has joined AMP as its EMEA general manager to build out the companys European infrastructure, leading customer and partner acquisition, pre- and post-sales consulting, system design, supply, installation, training and service.

After the companys successful launch of its automated secondary sortation model, AMP added Bart Weihl as vice president of facility operations to lead the team managing the buildout of its future facilities. Prior to AMP, Weihl was vice president at Barnes Aerospace and held advanced manufacturing and supply chain roles at Owens Corning, GE, and Boeing.

About AMP Robotics Corp.

AMP Robotics is modernizing the worlds recycling infrastructure by applying AI and automation to increase recycling rates and economically recover recyclables reclaimed as raw materials for the global supply chain. The AMP Cortex high-speed robotics system automates the identification and sorting of recyclables from mixed material streams. The AMP Neuron AI platform continuously trains itself by recognizing different colors, textures, shapes, sizes, patterns, and even brand labels to identify materials and their recyclability. Neuron then guides robots to pick and place the material to be recycled. Designed to run 24/7, all of this happens at superhuman speed with extremely high accuracy. AMP Clarity provides data and material characterization on what recyclables are captured and missed, helping recycling businesses and producers maximize recovery. With deployments across North America, Asia, and Europe, AMPs technology recovers recyclables from municipal collection, precious commodities from electronic scrap, and high-value materials from construction and demolition debris.

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Company Hypergrowth and New AI, RPA and Security Portfolio Additions Contribute to Award Win from Leading Analyst Firm

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 30, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Uniphore, an early leader in Conversational Service Automation (CSA), today announced that it has been awarded the 2021 Frost & Sullivan Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award in Conversational Automation.

The Frost & Sullivan-authored award recognizes Uniphores comprehensive and innovative approach to addressing customer needs with the development and support of its CSA platform via its best-in-class underlying AI technology. The report is the result of an independent, non-sponsored evaluation by Frost & Sullivans analyst team and calls out Uniphores commitment to innovation and creativity, financial performance, operational efficiency, and growth potential.

"Because of the pandemic, enterprise automation has really accelerated the transformation of enterprise conversations, with a specific focus on customer experience (CX). To solve some major challenges and eliminate customer frustration across the board, we know that AI-driven conversational automation is the key," said Umesh Sachdev, CEO and co-founder of Uniphore. "Frost & Sullivan is a leading analyst firm that has expertise and experience in this space to truly understand what businesses need to succeed. It is an honor to be recognized by them for our innovative solutions and hypergrowth, and we look forward to continuing to change customer service for the better."

Bringing Digital Transformation to the Contact Center

According to the report, Uniphores comprehensive product portfolio "addresses the ongoing trend of companies seeking to simultaneously transform customer care digitally while using technology to rein in costs and boost revenue." In particular, the award recognizes the recent additions of U-Assist Assurance which leverages RPA technology to register promises or assurances made to customers during a call in real-time and manage the fulfillment of those promises after the call ends to ensure they are kept and U-Trust a voice biometric-based solution that provides agent authentication and secures sensitive customer data during an interaction. Both additions to the Uniphore CSA platform ensure that it is "well positioned to help customers move from fundamental point solutions to company-wide strategic automation."

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"Uniphore has been at the forefront of conversational automation for years and continues to impress," said Nancy Jamison, Industry Director, Information & Communications Technologies at Frost & Sullivan. "Following a challenging year across the board for businesses, customer service and employee experience, Uniphore has set a stake in the ground with its vision for conversational process automation by honing in on the ways that humans communicate and building solutions to improve that communication."

Strong Commitment to Future Innovation and Growth in the Enterprise

Uniphore was also recognized for its strong growth potential, based on its recent achievements and future plans. In January 2021, the company acquired Emotion Research Labs to incorporate cutting-edge emotion AI technology into its product suite and broaden its use cases for customer engagement. By leveraging facial emotion recognition and sentiment analysis, Uniphore will be able to enhance video engagements that have become so prevalent in the COVID and WFH-era. These features have broader implications for increasing productivity and engagement across the enterprise not just in the contact center.

The award follows a strong year of growth across the board for Uniphore. Most recently, in March 2021, Uniphore announced its $140M Series D funding round to drive its technology and market leadership in AI, automation and machine learning across the enterprise. Over the last year, Uniphore also made a strategic acquisition of video and emotion AI company, Emotion Research Labs. It has won significant deals with some of the worlds largest telecom providers, insurance companies and financial service organizations, and established strong partnerships with global customer experience (CX) providers including Tech Mahindra, Sitel, Firstsource and WNS.

Uniphore is already on track for another strong year and expects to have $100M in contracted annual recurring revenue (ARR) and hire more than 300 employees in fiscal 2022 based on a forecast of continued hypergrowth.

Read the full report and learn more about Uniphores CSA platform here.

About Uniphore:

Uniphore is the global leader in Conversational Service Automation. The Companys vision is to disrupt an outdated customer service model by bridging the gap between human and machine using voice, AI and automation to ensure that every voice, on every call, is truly heard. Uniphore enables businesses globally to deliver transformational customer service by providing an automation platform where digital agents take over transactional conversations from humans, coach agents during calls, and accurately predict language, emotion and intent. All in real-time. With Conversational Service Automation, enterprises can now engage their customers to effectively build loyalty, improve customer experience and realize operational efficiencies.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Automated Material Handling Equipment - Global Market Trajectory & Analytics" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Global Automated Material Handling Equipment Market to Reach $59.5 Billion by 2026

Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Automated Material Handling Equipment estimated at US$39.3 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$59.5 Billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 7.2% over the analysis period.

Adapting manufacturing for COVID-19 crisis will require automation and Industry 4.0, which in turn will substantially increase the growth potential for manufacturing automation market. Technologies such as automated assembly lines, real-time plant monitoring equipment, and manufacturing data collection system, will gain traction among industrial enterprises seeking to manage their facilities with fewer staff.

Automated material handling equipment such as robotic systems find extended use in the aerospace industry. The use of automated baggage handling systems is gaining prominence in airports, due to the growing need for security and the subsequent adoption of stringent guidelines for ensuring the same.

Material handling in the automobile industry mostly comprises automated handling systems such as robots that are used for spot welding and related tasks. Food & beverage industry players are increasingly using automated systems for a range of manufacturing, packaging and distribution operations.

Robots, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record a 9% CAGR and reach US$30 Billion by the end of the analysis period. After a thorough analysis of the business implications of the pandemic and its induced economic crisis, growth in the Automated Storage & Retrieval Systems (ASRS) segment is readjusted to a revised 6.4% CAGR for the next 7-year period.

Robots are becoming viable options for tasks where there is considerable risk to humans. Material handling robots can be used to feed, transfer or disengage tools and parts, from one location or one machine to another. The ability of robots to work around-the-clock without fatigue has extended the use of robotics in packaging applications.

An ASRS is the combination of several equipment and equipment controls which not just store and handle but also retrieve materials with a defined level of automation. ASRS can greatly save on labor costs and also accommodate specialized storage needs of warehouses. Modern ASRS are also suitable for temperature-controlled product storage and retrieval.

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1. MARKET OVERVIEW

2. FOCUS ON SELECT PLAYERS (Total 263 Featured) -

3. MARKET TRENDS & DRIVERS

4. GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE

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The software can be scaled from individual agents to brokerages, and centers heavily on collaboration between colleagues, agents and leads as the basis of relationships.

Shaker, a real estate CRM and transaction management software company, has announced in a press release a series of updates that includes close to 100 new multiple listing service integrations, automated text marketing and social media lead monitoring.

The company launched as Clerestory out of an incubator program called High Alpha. Now rebranded and independent, Shaker provides real estate teams with a suite of tools to streamline client communication and collaboration by blending transaction management, a client communication hub, workflow automation and nurture campaigns, according to a report by Inmans Lillian Dickerson.

The software can be scaled from individual agents to brokerages, and centers heavily on collaboration between colleagues and agents and leads as the basis of relationships.

Shaker will leverage the MLS connections to automatically link data to new transactions created in its software. The advantages to this are many but primarily result in input time saved and data uniformity. The connections can also load photos.

Listening to the needs of our customers and finding simple, elegant ways to bring their needs to our platform is at the heart of everything we do, Chris Lucas, CEO of Shaker, said in the press release. These new features are a reflection of what our audience is demanding; an all-in-one platform thats easy to use and connected to core systems used by agents every day.

Text outreach campaigns can be triggered by milestone dates in the long-term lead-agent relationship and transaction lifecycle. Previous clients can be added to campaigns as well.

Social media profiles for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter can be linked to CRM records and monitored from within Shaker for relevant mentions and reasons to follow up.

Shaker is only the latest to announce advanced automation in its proptech platform. The industry is rapidly moving toward hands-off solutions that empower agents to do much more in less time. Naturally, customer relationship management and transactions are the most worthy targets of automation given their overall difficulty and importance.

Shaker is based in Indianapolis.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Growth Opportunities Driven by Top Trends in 2021" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

As people learn to embrace uncertainty, the top trends outlined at the beginning of 2021 will bring about significant changes in the way societies work and live. Changes in user behavior patterns will trigger major growth opportunities influenced by changes in consumption and business models.

Emerging advancements in technologies, such as AI and automation, will lead the way as countries and businesses continue to fight COVID-19 globally. Connectivity and flexibility in work structures will blur the physical boundaries between workplaces, cities, and homes. In 2021, limits will be pushed in healthcare innovation as nations consistently strive to fight COVID-19 and protect their citizens.

The Top 8 trends outlined at the beginning of 2021 include the following:

As industries shift to the 'new normal,' companies must lead a smooth transition toward a secure, multi-channel, work-from-anywhere, and connected workspace; embrace automation; adopt a 'digital-first' approach, and build a clear 'circular strategy' and encourage corporate consciousness. By adopting these pivotal positions, companies can capitalize on opportunities and drive growth.

The following are the key growth opportunities that will emerge from top trends in 2021:

Behavioral analytics for the hyper-personalization of the consumer journey: As consumers worldwide try to adjust to the new normal, consumption patterns and behavioral sentiments have significantly shifted, permanently impacting global markets. Identifying key data points to navigate this change can help companies reduce new consumer acquisition costs and improve lead generation costs.

New health, wellness, and well-being (HWW) solutions embedded in vehicles post COVID-19: Changing purchasing priorities amidst the socio-economic downturn caused by the pandemic will drive the shift toward HWW components inside the vehicle. Healthcare digitalization and the emergence of mHealth apps and their integration in the vehicle for a clean and pathogen-free interior, driver monitoring, and health diagnosis are expected to gain a strong foothold in the industry.

Consumerization of digital mental health: The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent uncertainty have negatively affected mental health and have widened the barriers for people already suffering from illnesses. Digital technologies will play an important role in supporting and treating mental health conditions, thus driving the decentralization and democratization of mental care services.

Internet of homes: The future home will become the 'central hub' for connected living. COVID-19 has accelerated the need for homes to evolve into on-demand workspaces, entertainment centers, fitness spaces, and telehealth centers. Seamless connectivity will facilitate the standardization of platforms across the intelligent device ecosystem.

Key Issues Addressed

Key Topics Covered:

1. Strategic Imperatives

2. Top Trends for 2021

3. Key Growth Opportunities

4. Next Steps

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Chemical Logistics Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2021-2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Global chemical logistics market to grow at a CAGR of around 6% during the forecast period (2021-2026).

Chemical logistics refers to the services that help in monitoring procurement, planning and implementation of various supply chain-related activities in the chemical industry.

It also offers management of resource procurement, material flow, transportation, distribution services, warehouse and storage and other value-added services. Chemical logistics can track consumer centers and perform marking and labeling functions for various chemicals and raw materials based on their toxicological and physicochemical nature.

Owing to these benefits, reliable logistics systems are a crucial component of the chemical industry as they are highly responsive, adaptable and necessary for constantly analyzing the market changes.

Significant growth in the chemical industry is one of the key factors driving the growth of the market. Furthermore, the increasing demand for automation and modernized green warehouses in the chemical industry for sustainable business operations is providing a boost to the market growth.

With the growing concerns regarding energy conservation and environment protection, chemical manufacturers are increasingly investing in cost-effective warehousing solutions that combine green practices and smart technology, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), smart sensors and robotics.

The vendors are also providing digital tools to automate chemical logistics and to process data with enhanced productivity, efficiency and convenience.

Other factors, including increasing awareness regarding product security and safety in the chemical industry, along with extensive research and development (R&D) activities and rapid industrialization across the globe, are projected to drive the market further.

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Competitive Landscape:

The competitive landscape of the industry has also been examined with some of the key players being

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1 Preface

2 Scope and Methodology

3 Executive Summary

4 Introduction

4.1 Overview

4.2 Key Industry Trends

5 Global Chemical Logistics Market

5.1 Market Overview

5.2 Market Performance

5.3 Impact of COVID-19

5.4 Market Forecast

6 Market Breakup by Type

6.1 Rail

6.2 Road

6.3 Pipeline

6.4 Sea

6.5 Others

7 Market Breakup by Service

7.1 Transportation

7.2 Warehousing

7.3 Others

8 Market Breakup by Region

9 SWOT Analysis

10 Value Chain Analysis

11 Porters Five Forces Analysis

12 Price Indictors

13 Competitive Landscape

13.1 Market Structure

13.2 Key Players

13.3 Profiles of Key Players

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A new report describes how a collection of automation technologies including RPA, low-code tools, chatbots and machine learning, are converging atop the application layer.

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Automation is changing the paradigm that development was limited to app development and delivery professionals with specialized skills, a new report from Forrester finds. Today, with low-code tools and robotic process automationbuilders, "business users and non-coders can now build bespoke workflows and customized functionality," according to the Automation is the New Fabric for Digital Business report.

But a piecemeal approach to automation technology has created as many problems as it has solved, according to the report. One issue is that tactical automation undersells transformative potential.

SEE: The CIO's guide to quantum computing (free PDF) (TechRepublic)

While automation is the enabler supporting transformation at multiple levels, "tactical, cost-focused automation disconnected from digital transformation goals can inhibit this broader vision."

Other issues outlined in the report:

Islands of automation lead to a myopic view of the possible. Companies are crisscrossed by multiple automation programs that each exist in its own silo. For example, a company's finance team may use RPA while the IT team champions low-code or artificial intelligence and the contact center dabbles in chatbots. Automation silos between different tech initiatives prevent teams from reaping the obvious synergies between these convergent technologies.

Overreliance on a single automation technology causes suboptimal outcomes. Companies can overcommit to a given automation technology without considering whether it's the best approach to achieve a goal. This syndrome can be avoided by using holistic automation governance approaches.

The report quotes Pavan Subramanya, director of intelligent automation at Fiserv, who said the company has pivoted to focus on the business problem rather than the technology to solve it. "Today, our automation architects' approach is to design the technology solution using multiple tools to deliver the most optimal solution that fits the business case," Subramanya said. "All technologies are open for consideration, including low-code applications, chatbots, RPA, BPMS, IVR automation, SMS gateways and AI."

Tactical approaches create technical debt. Tactical automation can often temporarily patch over pockets of inefficiency, allowing CIOs and CFOs to defer modernization investments, the Forrester report said. The tactical approach "only lets inefficient legacy processes and applications stay broken. And if you let processes proliferate without strong governance, automation might only end up making them more brittle. This causes unpredictability in the short term and creates long-term technical debt, which impedes transformation later," the report said.

Today's diverse automation options are already beginning to coevolve and converge into a broad weavea "fabric" that sits above the app layer, Forrester said. This fabric combines digital workers and AI agents such as chatbots with event-based and integration-centric orchestration.

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Forrester defines the automation fabric as a system for whole-of-business automation that integrates multiple adjacent and complementary automation technologies, process architectures, organizational behaviors and partner co-innovation models, to support the goals of human-centered automation and an autonomous enterprise.

An automation fabric is not a product available on the market but organizations can buy the technologies that they need to flexibly address their transformation goals, Forrester said.

The automation fabric is weaving together diverse technologies to reduce the complexity of underlying application and process landscapes, enabling work and empowering workers, the report said.

When this occurs, the fabric starts acquiring characteristics such as processes woven throughout, and the ability for applications to "express themselves through the fabric," the report said.

SEE:Machine learning can help keep the global supply chain moving(TechRepublic)

The fabric also orchestrates interactions between humans and bots. AI capabilities are injected into the fabric, which offers opportunities for new forms of engagement. The fabric's extensibility also promises support for future use cases, the report said.

"Many real-world processes are disconnected from the ambit of process automation. Imagine a world where a user-created workflow triggers an automated process that ends in a robot flipping a burger or a drone delivering a package," the report said. "Such workflows are difficult to engineer today but will become commonplace in three years as sensors, drones, robotics and 5G proliferate. Due to its flexibility and openness, the automation fabric can extend to support cloud robotics platforms and several emerging use cases."

The report recommends organizations adopt five behaviors to help create success with the automation fabric:

Make user and customer experience a key focus. Automation design often has no user experience or CX support. This is at odds with the fact that employees and customers are often those who interact the most with automation. Organizations must make CX tools, such as customer journey mapping, a core part of the automation toolkit, the report said.

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The last few years have marked the dawn of the global digital transformation trend, and accounting services have not remained untouched. For thousands of accountants and professional bookkeepers in the UK, government incited transfer from offline accountancy into online has been either shocking, liberating, challenging or exciting anything but unnoticed.

The course to ultimate accounting automation will only continue gaining pace, confirms Ilya Kisel, the COO of Synder:

We have been working on our software product for accounting automation for a few years, and we only see the demand rising. The interest in smart technology solutions for accounting tasks is growing, not only from the side of entrepreneurs, like e-commerce businesses with thousands of transactions to account for monthly. We are happy to see that people providing professional accounting services have become our loyal customers as well.

When we talk about digitalising accountancy, technological progress is about making peoples lives easier simplifying and streamlining processes that would take more time and effort to complete otherwise. Implementing the right automation technology is the crucial step in the evolution of the industry. It is all about progress, about becoming better, more efficient and profitable in the long run.

We can speculate for a long time about the reasons behind the technological evolution of accountancy, whether it was forced by the official incentives like Making Tax Digital. Or, on the contrary, the digitalisation trend caused such programmes to appear. One thing is clear, what is happening today is the natural course of global economic development. As a result of being an integral part of the financial system, accounting services cant stand avoid these wider trends. Automation is here to stay. What this means for accountants is yet another question worth discussing.

In Synder, we pay special attention to working with accountants, to their needs and problems that they need to solve daily doing their jobs. We want to make sure that these problems can be solved easily by our software.

The best part about automation is that it virtually eliminates the need to repeatedly do mundane tasks manually, such as data entry and reconciliation. All these can seamlessly be performed by our product, which is just a tiny part of its capabilities, and of what it can do for accountants.

Our team is on top of the data synchronisation market. We are parsing almost every transaction detail. The precision is incomparable to any other solution you can possibly use. What is even more important to highlight, our product is working for you, not instead of you. That is the right mindset for the professionals to start embracing technology.

Internal research shows that, despite the elevated comfort and convenience of using software for monotonous tasks, some people are still somewhat reluctant to adopt technology in their day-to-day life.

Understandably, it can be difficult to accept change. Especially when you have been working in a certain way for decades and are accustomed to it. Suddenly, you have to shift your whole perspective and the way you know how things work it is not easy. But it is what needs to be done to stay afloat.

I would say that it is what the pandemic has taught us. Every challenge, every obstacle comes with an inquiry for a change. This change brings in the potential for new opportunities, innovations, and new solutions that help us become even better than we had been before.

One of the greatest concerns, of many who have been doing accounting by hand, is how to get years of data online without losing anything or creating a total mess in the records. But dont let fear stand in the way of transferring your accounting data into an online system. Synder is the product that can help initiate this transition smoothly.

Synder has an actionable solution to help accountants achieve digitalisation in the most untroubled and safe manner. If you have been working in Excel, there is a simple way to import all the data from spreadsheets into accounting software when using Synder.

It doesnt matter how many clients you manage or how many connected payment platforms your clients have. Synder is superior in synchronising data from multiple sources simultaneously without creating duplicates or missing transactions.

If your client is selling on Shopify with PayPal, Synder will reconcile it correctly. It is not a problem to convert currencies for international sales and calculate sales tax either, and you will never get a duplicate with it.

It will become surprisingly easy to manage even the most difficult tasks in Synder. You can save hours of work time and loads of effort once you delegate the data processing duties to the machine.

Accountants can take advantage of such features as smart rules, automatic categorisation, itemisation, and reconciliation. All of which you can have ready in Synder with a few clicks. Generating detailed financial reporting (accurate P&Ls, balance sheets, income by customer statements) becomes a matter of seconds.

Case Study: One of our long-time clients, Anne, an accountant with five years of experience, came to us with the request to upgrade her reporting routine. She needed to streamline the tax calculations and the preparation of financial statements. For this task, we offered Anne to test our upgraded Per Transaction Synchronisation feature. Anne was a bit sceptical at first, because she had tried Per Transaction Sync once before, but with a different tool, and it didnt work well at all. Moreover, she got pretty used to Daily Summary reports and didnt want to get swamped under the loads of data. What we knew for sure was that Daily Summary reporting would not solve her problem at all. Instead, we offered her a free trial to try how Synder does it. When she saw how neat and detailed her Income by Customer reports and tax calculations became, she changed her attitude towards detailed sync immediately. No other tools allowed her to categorise and classify data with the desired level of accuracy before.

The machine accuracy guarantees a stable, predictable and forecasted accuracy in the calculations. The automation can distinguish the gaps, the duplicates, the missing data and help avoid discrepancies.

There is no sound reason for a professional to stay away from the technological changes that are happening in the industry today. Modern software has developed into a smart and helpful assistant, humbly working 24/7, delivering the best results so that accountants can focus on providing a top-notch service, fulfilling analytical, managerial, and consulting tasks for your clients.

Synder helps you feel comfortable in this role, supporting the automation of your accounting processes and transferring clients data online most efficiently and securely. Dont postpone this transition, as the solution is right here.

Synder is FREE to test and has no time limits for your trial period. Sign up now and try the best solution for accounting automation for yourself.

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Weather crosses with local Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) staff on ABC Radioin regional WA have come to an endahead of station automation later this year.

Weather observers Daniel Hayes and David Murray will complete the program of de-staffing regional offices first announced in 2015when they are redeployed from Broome to capital cities at the end of the year.

"They're moving things like the radio crosses away while they can and I guess we're still here, maybe, as a bit of a fallback for a little while," Mr Hayes said.

The final weather read this week ends 31 years of BOM staff delivering weather updates to Kimberley residents on ABC Radio.

Mr Hayes said it was a sad day in his 20-year career with the BOM.

"We've been privileged to be able to talk to the local media and get ourselves into the community in that way," he said.

"Apart from the five-minute commute, it's probably one of the things I'll miss most when we move to the capital cities."

ABC Kimberley: Ben Collins

One of the main aims of theBOM's 2015 strategic plan was to lower the cost of operations and review regional staff.

At the time it wassaid there were more than 30 employees in the 24 regional stations that would be de-staffed.

The maintenance of the automated regional stations and servicing the automatic weather balloon launchers is likely to be conducted by a mix of BOM staff flying into regional towns and locally employed contractors.

Staff will remain at the Learmonth Solar Observatory and the Giles Weather Station.

In a statement to the ABC, the BOM said advances in technology hadchanged the need to have people onsite all the time.

"The prime drive for these changes is delivering a better service to regional communities, where automation significantly increases the observations," the statement said.

"Tropical cyclone forecasts and warnings for Broome and surrounding areas will continue to come from the team of meteorologists in the Perth offices, as they have for many years."

WA LaborKimberley MP Divina D'Anna said the loss of jobs in the region was the Commonwealth's fault.

"I understand the federal government has been phasing BOM stations to automation over the years, resulting in jobs leaving the regions," she said in a statement.

"It is always a sad day when a job leaves the Kimberley."

The ABC contacted Melissa Price, the Federal Member for Durack, but had not received a response at the time of publishing.

ABC Kimberley: Ben Collins

Both Mr Hayes and Mr Murray have seen weather observations become progressively automated over their entire careers.

"Dave had been out at Halls Creek for seven years and I'd been down at Port Hedland for seven years," Mr Hayes said.

"Both of those stations have now been automated."

Mr Murray recalled superseded technology, including the Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder, which used a glass sphere and cardboard.

"We would put the cardboard in this little slot and change it before sunriseand it scorches a little line," he said.

"We used to have to pull it out and count the number of hours the sun had been out for the day.

"Now there's an array of about 10 instruments out on a post that's actually taken over from that one manually read gauge."

Mr Murray said hewould miss being the local weather man in a small community most of all.

"It's one of the most amazing parts of the job actually being able to give feedback to the public," he said.

"Even when you walk down the street in a small town like Broome, you get asked what's happening."

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YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - In today's Home Grown, we look at a way that man and machine can co-exist side by side in the field.

There are millions of dollars invested in harvesting each year, but with a continuous labor shortage, it makes it difficult to get crops out of the dirt.

Thinning, weeding and spraying have already shifted to machine labor in our area.

Harvesting, on the other hand, is much more difficult because a robot would have to replicate a human being.

"You're looking at something. You're evaluating it. You're making a decision," said Dennis Donohue, executive director of the Western Growers Association. "You know, if you're looking at a strawberry, is it red, does it have white shoulder, is it no good."

Harvesting is a difficult process because a machine would have to have the same evaluation capabilities as a farmer.

Even though nothing can compare to the human eye, farmers feel switching to harvest automation is a necessary step in feeding America.

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Home Grown: Harvest automation is the newest farmer on the field - KYMA