The Verden Group selects Clinigence for its Marketplace Solutions Program, one of the few most innovative and high-quality offerings available to practices. Nyack, NY and ATLANTA, GA, Nov 1, 2011—Clinigence, a next-generation clinical business intelligence technology vendor, announced a strategic affiliation with The Verden Group today to introduce Clinigence’s collaborative software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for measuring and visualizing clinical quality, patient […]

ATLANTA — Oct. 11, 2011—Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ: JCDA), a leading global provider of call center technology designed to improve the interaction between agents and their customers, announced today the latest release of its leading web-to-host solution,Jacada® Interface Server (JIS) V9.0. With updated browser support and extensions to the Jacada knowledge base, JIS V9.0 enables customers to stay current on their strategic technology […]

Tom Glaser (l) and Laurie Olivier (r) meet with executive leadership of the SAICC in Johannesburg. During a private visit to South Africa last month, AICC President Tom Glaser and Past Board Chairman Laurie Oliver (Veritas Venture Partners) visited with the staff and executive committee of the South Africa-Israel Chamber of Commerce.  Before relocating to Atlanta in 2000, Olivier had served on the […]

Tel Aviv-based Gazit Globe’s US subsidiary Equity One Inc. has sold 36 shopping centers across the Southeast to US-based Blackstone Group for $473.1 million. Equity One will use the proceeds to repay debt, finance redevelopment plans, and make future acquisitions.  Most of the shopping centers are in Atlanta, Tampa, and Orlando. Others are in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and Maryland. In […]

Tel Aviv-based Verint Systems has acquired Atlanta-based workforce management solutions provider Global Management Technologies Corporation (GMT) for $42 million. GMT’s software and services are mainly used by retailers, expanding Verint’s offerings in this field.  Verint is now one of Atlanta’s largest software companies, having acquired Witness Systems here for $950 million in 2007 for which they were named AICC’s “Deal of the Year”. […]

Rehovot-based Evogene and Bayer CropScience AG whose US headquarters is in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, have reached a milestone in their joint research collaboration in wheat. Utilizing Evogene’s proprietary tools, more than 200,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (‘SNPs’) across the wheat genome were identified as part of the companies’ efforts to improve wheat through the application of advanced breeding techniques. SNPs are single-nucleotide […]

Aaron Ciechanover, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, delivered a standing-room-only Distinguished Lecture at Georgia Tech in Atlanta on Oct. 4th on “Drug Development in the 21st Century: Are We Going to Cure All Diseases?” Ciechanover, who is on the faculty of medicine at the Cancer and Vascular Biology Research Center at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, walked his audience through […]

Asheville’s own Bob Deutsch has been nominated for the JFNA’s Community Heroes Award. The WNCJF Board, in recognition of Bob’s many years of service to Jewish philanthropy in our  community, nominated Bob in late September. The finalists will be determined based on votes received. Anyone can vote and can vote  once each and every day. Please go to http://www.jewishcommunityheroes.org/nominees/profile/bob-deutsch/ and vote for […]