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Tikit by Cireson Announces Winners of the Tikit ITSM Awards

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SAN DIEGO, July 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Tikit by Cireson, the leading Microsoft-aligned IT Service Management (ITSM) platform, today announces the winning organizations for the Tikit ITSM Awards.

This awards program was designed to recognize organizational achievements in the ITSM space using Tikit. Specifically, these awards aim to showcase customer successes, recognize achievements made by customers they can share with the ITSM community, inspire others in the ITSM space and offer networking opportunities among Tikit customers. By recognizing the outstanding contributions of these organizations with both the Tikit and broader ITSM communities, we hope to encourage more organizations to enhance their service desk and overall improve the employee experience across their organization. 

When asked about this new awards program, Director of Product Management at Tikit, Adam Dzyacky, said: “The Tikit ITSM Awards were created not just as a place to give creators a chance to show off their service management expertise, but as a way to draw attention to the very real day-to-day work issues everyone deals with and how they are being improved, and ultimately solved. The submissions the Tikit Team has received highlight the creativity, dedication and passion teams across the board have for improving their internal request processes.”

The Tikit ITSM Awards consist of five categories:

Best ITSM ProcessBest Power Automate FlowBest Custom ReportingBest Multi-Department ExperienceBest Tikit Virtual Agent Branding

For the Best ITSM Process, the winner is SERVEONE. SERVEONE is a Korean-based global procurement solution expert that upgrades procurement management and contributes to the sustainable innovation of clients. For their submission, SERVEONE outlines how when initially vetting ITSM solutions, it was critical to find a solution that easy to implement and intuitive for their workforce which consists of more than 1,200 employees across seven countries and eight corporate entities. As a result of Tikit’s implementation, SERVEONE has been able to achieve an ITSM process which has centralized their service desk needs while simultaneously allowing them to harness data to optimize their workflows and introduce much needed optimization with such a lean IT team servicing so many end users. Specifically, they have been able to improve productivity by more than 30%.

“For years, I had wanted to identify areas for improvement based on internal feedback and reports from IT service requests across the company, while still maintaining productivity with our understaffed IT team. Using just email and Teams had its limitations, so I knew we needed a proper ITSM solution. However, implementing an ITSM solution requires significant commitment and change management from the top to the bottom of the organization, which discouraged me and our IT staff for many years until we finally incorporated Tikit as a key foundation in our digital transformation journey for internal IT services. Winning this award means we can receive more attention and recognition from our management and employees regarding the importance of facilitating Tikit. This will create a virtuous cycle for improving the effectiveness of our business applications and increasing the productivity of our IT staff,” shared Tac-Seung Chung, IT Planning in Platform Business at SERVEONE.

For Best Power Automate Flow, the winner is Southern Illinois University (SIU). SIU is a public university located in southern Illinois, specifically in Carbondale, Il., USA. SIU was chartered in 1869. As of 2023, they had a total enrollment of 11,359 students from all 50 USA states as well as more than 100 countries. For their submission, SIU outlines their Power BI access request process. They use an API call to add information input into a Microsoft Form into an adaptive card that appears within the Custom Form answers dropdown. As Microsoft Forms are used in many of their processes, this was an essential piece of the puzzle for them. Ultimately, the full process has yielded positive results across the entire team noting it has helped the entire organization become more productive.

“We pride ourselves in our efficient and innovative processes, so it is a huge honor for both my team and I to be receiving this award. Being recognized by the product I spend every day in, is super rewarding, and it couldn’t come from a better product team. We have had nothing but good interactions with the Tikit team and are so appreciative of all of the hard work that they have put into this product, we especially love the way they accept feedback, make quick changes and implement new features. I cannot thank you enough for this recognition and can’t wait to see what the future of Tikit has in store for us here at Southern Illinois University Carbondale,” shared Alexis Stallman OBrien, Associate, Information Technology Support, Information Technology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

For Best Custom Reporting, the winner is 98 Ventures. 98 Ventures is a South Carolina, USA-based executive management solutions company, servicing companies across various industries including logistics, fulfillment services and technology. For their submission, the 98 Ventures team shares how their journey with Tikit began with the desire to bring IT support back in-house versus outsourcing to an MSP. Upon implementation, they immediately recognized and addressed the need to establish KPIs to bring visibility into the team’s work. Reports created by the team include open tickets, equipment requests & returns, ticket source, ticket category, tickets by type, ticket create and close dates, lifecycle status and more. To further promote awareness across the organization, the 98 Ventures team share their report dashboards on a mounted TV in the offices where their team works, refreshed every five minutes.

“This is amazing! It was great collaborating with our in-house analytics team to create our custom reports. These reports provide our newly established IT team with the critical information necessary to be efficient and successful. The reports they were able to create are invaluable to a new team like ours. Our analytics team members take great pride in what they do and Tikit really provides a platform for them to shine,” said Phil Jenkins, IT Manager at 98 Ventures.

For Best Multi-Department Experience, the winner is also 98 ventures. As existing champions of Tikit, the 98 Ventures team have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to adoption of Tikit’s functionality. Their Multi-Department experience is no exception to this commitment. For their submission, 98 Ventures outlines how they scaled multi-department rollout across their organization over time leading up to Tikit deployment to seven departments, with eight and nine planned in the near future. Ultimately, describing their experience with Tikit and providing a “one stop shop” for their IT support needs.

“Winning the Best Multi-Department Experience award is a proud moment for us. It validates our team’s hard work in integrating Tikit across various departments, creating an efficient and unified support system. This recognition reinforces our goal of providing a seamless and efficient ‘one-stop shop’ for support across all departments in our organization,” shared Hailey Keel, BI Automation and Process Lead at 98 Ventures.

Additionally, for Best Tikit Virtual Agent Branding, the winner is 98 Ventures. The Tikit Virtual Agent works exclusively for the end users in an organization to submit service requests, report incidents and self-service using the AI-powered service catalog. With an intuitive interface using natural language processing, Tikit Virtual Agent elevates the end user experience and increases engagement by empowering users to self-serve with AI-powered ticket deflection. For their submission, 98 Ventures was a clear champion of Tikit Virtual Agent having not only custom branded it, but having done it twice. With custom colors, graphics, name, description and overall esthetic to align with their organizational goals, 98 Ventures embodies the customization intended with Tikit Virtual Agent.

“The past year or so of using and working with the team at Tikit has been incredible. The team is always working on an exciting new feature and getting feedback from their clients, and it’s almost as if they’ve been one or two steps ahead of our needs the entire way,” shared Josh Mingus, Director of Information Systems at 98 Ventures. Adding, “When Tikit announced this competition, I thought we had a good chance to win something based on the time, thought and effort our team has put into these solutions as well the feedback and input we’ve received from the team at Tikit. Never did I think we’d bring home THREE of the possible five awards. Winning the best Tikit Virtual Agent branding award is especially exciting, as our branding has evolved with our use of the platform. This has not only allowed us to keep our users engaged and excited but has also helped us to share our vision of how Tikit helps further our mission and core values. We’re grateful to the team at Tikit for giving us the opportunity to be a part of these awards and are excited to see what the future holds for this platform and our organization.”

The Tikit Team extends their deep appreciation to all the organizations who took the time to submit to the Tikit ITSM Awards.

“The opportunity to learn about the innovative ways our customers are leveraging Tikit for their ITSM needs has been truly inspiring. At Tikit, we are passionate about driving innovation within the ITSM community, and we are honored to have such a dedicated and engaged customer base,” said Paul Sutton, co-founder of Tikit by Cireson. “Our commitment to listening to direct customer feedback is the cornerstone of our development process. Partnering with outstanding organizations allows us to continuously enhance our Microsoft-aligned ITSM solutions, ultimately improving the employee experience.”

About Cireson

Cireson is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner focused on creating software solutions that natively integrate with Microsoft technology. With Cireson, you can choose to centralize your business processes on-premise with their Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM) products or in the cloud with their Cloud-based Microsoft 365 ITSM Solution, Tikit. As Microsoft Service Management experts, Cireson technology is designed to maximize the value of your existing Microsoft investments. For more information, visit Cireson.com.

For More Information:

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Caladium Systems Launches Happiffie, India’s First AI-powered Celebration Platform

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CHENNAI, India, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Caladium Systems today announced the launch of Happiffie, India’s first AI-powered Celebration Growth Platform, introducing a smarter way for customers to discover, compare, book, and manage celebrations while helping businesses connect with high-intent customers through intelligent technology.

Designed for weddings, birthdays, corporate events, social celebrations, parties, festivals, and more, Happiffie brings together over 400 celebration occasions and 1,000+ celebration experiences on a single AI-powered platform.

India’s celebrations industry continues to rely heavily on referrals, manual coordination, inconsistent pricing, and fragmented vendor discovery. Happiffie addresses these challenges by combining AI-powered recommendations, transparent price discovery, secure bookings, payments, and event management into one seamless platform.

A key innovation is Happiffie’s Reverse Auction, where customers simply submit their celebration requirements and verified vendors compete by offering customised proposals. Instead of spending hours searching and negotiating, customers can compare multiple qualified offers and choose the vendor that best matches their preferences and budget.

“Customers can now book the experience of their choice with the vendor of their choice, in the budget of their choice. At the same time, vendors receive qualified business opportunities matched to their category, location and capabilities, creating value for both sides of the marketplace,” said Pradhyumna T Venkat, Founder & CEO, Happiffie.

“Every major industry eventually reaches a point where technology fundamentally changes how it operates. Travel did. Hospitality did. Mobility did. We believe celebrations are next,” added Pradhyumna.

The platform is powered by Experience Intelligence™, a proprietary framework that combines over 15 years of celebration industry expertise with Artificial Intelligence to deliver smarter recommendations based on customer intent, preferences, and celebration needs.

Whether planning a wedding, birthday, corporate event, baby shower, anniversary, or festival celebration, customers can manage the entire journey—from vendor discovery and quotations to payments and execution—through a single platform.

Alongside its launch, Happiffie has opened registrations for vendor partners across Chennai and Tamil Nadu, with a phased expansion planned across India. The platform aims to build one of the country’s largest AI-powered celebration ecosystems, helping businesses generate qualified leads and grow more efficiently.

“Our vision is not simply to build another marketplace but to create the technology infrastructure that powers celebrations. Reverse Auction is the first step towards building a smarter, more transparent, and AI-driven celebration economy that benefits both customers and businesses alike,” added Pradhyumna.

Built on the experience of planning and executing over 5,000 weddings and celebrations, Happiffie combines deep industry expertise with AI to simplify celebration planning and transform how India celebrates.

For more information, visit www.happiffie.com. Vendor registrations are now open at www.happiffie.com/vendor-registration.

About Happiffie

Happiffie is India’s first AI-powered Celebration Platform, connecting customers, venues, event professionals, and celebration businesses through one intelligent ecosystem. Built on over 15 years of industry expertise, the platform combines Artificial Intelligence with Experience Intelligence™ to deliver smarter celebration planning across more than 1,000 celebration experiences spanning weddings, corporate events, birthdays, social celebrations, parties, and festivals.

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Beko Publishes 2025 Integrated Report, Charting Years of Progress Toward Net Zero

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As Beko releases its 2025 Integrated Report, the company’s third consecutive inclusion on TIME’s global sustainability ranking — retaining the #1 position in its industry — underscores the progress documented within it.

ISTANBUL, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Beko published its 2025 Integrated Report, offering a comprehensive account of the company’s financial, environmental and social performance over the past year. In parallel, Beko has been named one of TIME Magazine’s World’s Most Sustainable Companies for the third year running, retaining the #1 position in its industry. The recognition, awarded in partnership with Statista, independently corroborates years of deliberate, measurable progress.

The report documents concrete results across Beko’s global manufacturing footprint. In 2025:

Energy efficiency projects across production sites saved 69,562 GJ of energy, avoiding 5,297 tonnes of CO₂e emissions.Waste recycling across all manufacturing facilities reached 98.6%, against a target of 99%.Renewable energy installed capacity reached 96 MWp, up from 90.2 MWp the prior year. Beko also reached 63.5% green electricity on the path to 100% across all manufacturing by 2030.Water efficiency and rainwater harvesting projects across locations delivered total water savings of 219,114 m3.

Behind these figures is a broader manufacturing transformation. Three of Beko’s manufacturing facilities have been recognised within the World Economic Forum’s Global Lighthouse Network, with the Ulmi plant earning the additional, and rarer, designation of Sustainability Lighthouse. The principles behind Ulmi’s approach are being extended across Beko’s broader manufacturing ecosystem, as the company scales low-impact production. Beko currently operates 13 smart factories globally — equipped with artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics capabilities — with a target of 17 by the end of 2026.

On the circular economy side, Beko’s refurbishment centres across multiple locations reintroduced more than 148,000 appliances into the market in 2025 alone. The company recycled 1.98 million WEEE units through its own recycling facilities since 2014, and used 31,665 tonnes of recycled plastics in its products in 2025.

Across its product portfolio, 72.6% of Beko’s turnover in 2025 came from low-carbon products — a figure that reflects both the scale of the company’s energy-efficient product range and growing consumer demand for appliances that address environmental concerns.

“Being recognised by TIME three years in a row matters because it reflects that sustainability is a foundational part of Beko’s business,” said Can Dinçer, CEO of Beko. “Our factories undergo a twin transformation where we encounter both decarbonization and digitalization. That progress is deliberate and measurable, and our Integrated Report sets out exactly how. As the world prepares for COP31, the most credible thing a company can do is demonstrate its work rather than declare it. That is what we are doing.”

TIME’s annual list evaluates more than 5,000 companies worldwide across environmental and social performance, transparency and ESG reporting. Beko’s continued inclusion under increasingly rigorous standards points to a business model where sustainability is structurally embedded across operations, supply chains and product portfolios.

In addition to its Integrated Report, the Company has also published its second TSRS-compliant sustainability report, prepared in accordance with the Türkiye Sustainability Reporting Standards (TSRS), Türkiye’s adoption of the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards issued by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). The report is publicly available and provides detailed disclosures on the company’s climate-related risks, opportunities, governance, strategy and performance.

About Beko

Beko is an international home appliance company with a strong global presence, operating through subsidiaries in more than 55 countries with a workforce of around 45,000 employees and production facilities spanning multiple regions—including Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Beko has 22 brands owned or used with a limited license (Arçelik, Beko, Whirlpool*, Grundig, Hotpoint, Arctic, Ariston*, Leisure, Indesit, Blomberg, Defy, Dawlance, Hitachi*, Voltas Beko, Singer*, ElektraBregenz, Flavel, Bauknecht, Privileg, Altus, Ignis, Polar). Beko is the largest white goods company in Europe with its market share (based on volumes) and reached a consolidated turnover of 10.7 billion Euros in 2025. Beko’s 28 R&D and Design Centers & Offices across the globe are home to over 2,000 R&D employees and hold more than 4,500 international registered patent applications to date. The company has achieved the highest score in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) in the DHP Household Durables industry for the seventh consecutive year (based on the results dated 16 October 2025).** The company has been recognized as the 89th most sustainable company on TIME Magazine and Statista’s 2026 list of the World’s Most Sustainable Companies and has been the sector leader for three consecutive years. Beko’s vision is ‘Respecting the World, Respected Worldwide.’ 

www.bekocorporate.com

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**The data presented belongs to Arçelik A.Ş., a parent company of Beko.

 

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JustMarkets Releases Market Analysis on How Foreign Exchange Markets React to CPI Surprises

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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, July 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — JustMarkets today released a new market analysis examining how foreign exchange markets react to Consumer Price Index (CPI) surprises and outlining key considerations for traders preparing for inflation data releases. The analysis explains why the gap between actual CPI data and market expectations, rather than the headline inflation figure itself, is often the primary driver of currency market movements.

What people often miss on CPI day is that the number itself isn’t what moves the market. The common reaction is to check whether the headline number is high or low, but it’s all priced in advance. According to JustMarkets, the real driver of EUR/USD is the gap between the actual number and what the market was positioned for.

Even an unchanged reading can cause dollar weakness if traders expect higher inflation, while weaker numbers that beat consensus expectations may drive dollar strength. Citing Federal Reserve research, the price driver is a surprise component rather than the headline.

Why the Expectation Gap Is More Important Than the Level

Forex is driven by expectations for interest rate decisions, with inflation impacting central bank policy. Key factors influencing this reaction include:

Main factors:

Monthly CPI and core CPICore services inflationRevisions to the previous period dataCentral banks policy pricing

Year-over-year data is less important in terms of price impact than monthly and core data.

How to Calculate Surprise

Start with the simplest metric: Surprise = Actual CPI − Consensus CPI. 

Consensus comes from the economic calendar’s forecast and reflects the market positioning. And then you need to check the market reaction through rates. The sequence typically runs: CPI surprise → change in front-end yields → USD movement → the sentiment adjustment.

Traders frequently employ this methodology in combination with the JustMarkets Economic Calendar to track high-impact releases in real time.

What the Intraday Move Actually Looks Like

CPI reactions usually happen in three stages. The first one is a headline shock with the potential algorithm’s reaction within a few seconds. Then comes the interpretation stage, with a time frame of 15-60 minutes and analysis of core numbers and yield confirmation. And then either continuation or reversal happens.

Approaches to Trading CPI Day

There are two common approaches to CPI.

The momentum approach requires the consistency of headlines and core surprises with yields’ confirmation. Most traders wait until the first minute’s candle is closed to avoid false signals.The fade approach requires dislocations like the absence of yield confirmation to FX movement or dislocations between headlines and core numbers. In this case, traders wait 10−20 minutes for exhaustion of the initial move and reversal setup search.

Risk management is crucial. Most traders limit their position size to 0.25%-0.50% of their equity because of widening spreads and slippage. Sometimes the decision to trade off is more optimal during extreme volatility than forced entry.

One Way to Prepare for the Next CPI Day Release

A simple way to get ready is to monitor EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY pairs and an economic calendar with events’ importance. The workflow is simple: Economic calendar → release → Trading platform.

The final step brings traders to the execution platform. Many turn to JustMarkets, which offers CFDs on these currency pairs, with execution stability and fast market access that make it well suited for high-volatility macro events.

Disclaimer: For informational purposes only. Trading financial instruments involves significant risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Ensure you understand the risks involved and trade responsibly.

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