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IRIS Expands HR Marketplace to Help Customers Unlock Employee Potential and Improve Retention

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New partnerships with Cornerstone and StaffCircle bring powerful learning and performance management tools to the IRIS ecosystem 

LONDON, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — IRIS Software Group (IRIS), a leading global provider of accounting, education, HR, and payroll solutions, has announced new strategic partnerships with Cornerstone OnDemand and StaffCircle to enhance its HR Marketplace offerings. As workforce planning and employee retention rise to the top of the HR agenda, driven by ongoing talent shortages, rising costs, and shifting employee expectations, IRIS is helping businesses meet these challenges head on. These new partnerships offer HR leaders access to powerful, easily integrated tools to boost engagement, performance and development without added complexity. The new partnerships are now live in the IRIS HR Marketplace, giving customers immediate access to comprehensive workforce agility through Cornerstone’s Galaxy platform, and AI-assisted performance management through StaffCircle.

Recent research indicates that 77% of the global workforce is either not engaged or actively disengaged with their workplace, making it difficult for businesses to reach organisational goals. In contrast, businesses with an engaged workforce experience an 18% increase in staff productivity, a 23% increase in profitability, and a 78% decrease in absenteeism. A key driver of engagement is access to meaningful learning and development opportunities, which not only support individual growth but also underpin effective succession planning and long-term employee retention. 

Stephanie Coward, Managing Director for HCM at IRIS, said: “With employee disengagement and retention challenges at an all-time high, businesses need powerful, flexible tools to build and support high-performing teams. Our partnerships with Cornerstone and StaffCircle bring more choice to our HR Marketplace, giving businesses access to cutting-edge workforce management solutions that integrate seamlessly with their existing software. By enabling access to performance and learning platforms in one place, we’re empowering HR leaders to create dynamic environments where employees can grow, contribute and stay.” 

Delivering a complete employee lifecycle solution

Cornerstone enhances IRIS’ capabilities by integrating workforce agility solutions that make it easier for organisations of any size tor sector to elevate their people, support self-directed learning, career mobility, and development. With access to over 51,000 in-demand skills and a vast library of premium content, Cornerstone enables businesses to drive continuous growth, remain competitive, and achieve long-term success. 

“Today’s business challenges can’t be solved with yesterday’s tools. HR leaders need integrated, intelligent solutions that not only respond to talent shifts but anticipate them,” said David Wood, GVP Alliances at Cornerstone. “Together with IRIS and StaffCircle, we’re streamlining that complexity by putting the power of AI-driven development, performance, and skills strategies right at their fingertips. This collaboration brings our workforce agility solutions directly to HR leaders who need them most – delivering immediate value, seamless integration, and the flexibility to grow at pace.” 

Similarly, StaffCircle connects IRIS’ HR offerings with its AI-driven performance management, skills-based development, and real-time engagement tools creating a comprehensive approach to talent management. StaffCircle’s platform enhances career development and succession planning – a top priority for 49% of organisations – by providing tools that help identify high-potential talent, create competency frameworks, and build structured development plans. This enables HR teams to nurture leadership pipelines, foster internal mobility, and ensure long-term business resilience by cultivating the next generation of leaders within the organization.

Mark Seemann, CEO & founder of StaffCircle, said: “Our strategic partnership with IRIS adds significant value to the IRIS ecosystem. Employee Performance and Development are top priorities for customers, and by integrating with a platform as robust and intuitive as StaffCircle, IRIS is equipping HR and L&D leaders with the tools they need to support, grow, and retain their people. Together, we’re enabling smarter, faster decision-making, underpinned by real-time people data.” 

IRIS’ HR Marketplace provides businesses using IRIS Cascade with the opportunity to streamline processes further with unique API integration, developed using IRIS’ own technology – eliminating the need for manually importing and exporting data between systems and mitigating the risk of error, inefficiency, and duplication. IRIS Cascade delivers a fully-integrated, centralised HR and payroll solution, used by more than 260,000 employers and managing 800,000 employees.

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About IRIS Software Group   

Founded in 1978, IRIS Software Group is a global provider of mission-critical, cloud-hosted software solutions and services to more than 100,000 customers across 135 countries. IRIS is a trusted partner to businesses, finance, HR and payroll teams, educational organisations, and accountancy firms of all sizes, providing innovative operational solutions that streamline complex processes, maintain compliance, and unlock growth. Through simplifying, automating and providing insights on everyday mission-critical tasks for organisations of all shapes and sizes, IRIS ensures customers can look forward with certainty and confidence. IRIS is certified as a 2024 Great Place to Work® in the UK, Ireland, India, Romania, Canada and the USA. Follow IRIS on FacebookTwitterInstagram and LinkedIn. More information on its award-winning software solutions can be found here.        

About Cornerstone

Cornerstone powers the potential of organisations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI platform for workforce agility, meets organisations where they are. With Galaxy, organisations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organisations and 140 million users in 186 countries use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organisations and people today. 

About StaffCircle

Founded in 2017, StaffCircle is an award-winning performance management and employee development platform used by 150+ UK and US mid-market businesses. StaffCircle empowers organisations to drive performance, increase engagement, and build strong career pathways through its unified, data-rich platform. More information on StaffCircle’s award-winning software solutions can be found here.

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Electrolux Group to end production in Jászberény, Hungary

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STOCKHOLM, April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Electrolux Group has decided to end production at the Jászberény, Hungary factory, which manufactures built-in and freestanding refrigeration products. Production is expected to cease by the end of 2026. A restructuring charge of approximately SEK 0.6 billion, of which SEK 0.3 billion is cash related, will be reported as a negative non-recurring item affecting operating income for Region Europe, Middle East & Africa and Asia-Pacific in the second quarter of 2026.

The decision follows a review of the company’s strategy to strengthen cost competitiveness and increase agility through production footprint optimization. This is driven by the current competitive environment, which is impacted by stagnant market demand, price pressure, and increasing constraints on cost competitiveness. The planned site closure will impact approximately 600 employees.

Electrolux Group will fully meet demand for refrigeration products by leveraging existing operations as well as working with external OEM partners. The decision does not affect the local sales and marketing activities managed by the Budapest office. 

This is information that AB Electrolux is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out below, on 22-04-2026 08:30 CET.

For more information:

Ann-Sofi Jönsson, Head of Investor Relations & Sustainability Reporting, +46 73 025 1005

Maria Åkerhielm, Investor Relations Manager, +46 70 796 3856

Henry Sjölin, Investor Relations Manager, +46 76 863 51 85

Electrolux Group Press Hotline, +46 8 657 65 07

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MediaGo and hipto Secure Another Les Cas d’Or Gold in Performance Marketing

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, MediaGo, a global intelligent advertising platform, and hipto, France’s premier lead generation specialist, won Gold in the “Content and Vertical Industries” category at the prestigious French digital marketing awards, Les Cas d’Or. Recognized for a benchmark performance marketing campaign in the health insurance sector, this award—voted on by over 40 brand marketing directors—serves as further authoritative validation of MediaGo’s technical prowess and service capabilities in the European market.

Following previous wins of Gold in the Native Advertising category and Bronze in the Banking & Insurance Acquisition category, this latest industry honor marks another significant milestone. It underscores that MediaGo’s localized native advertising capabilities, along with its ability to apply deep learning technologies in complex user acquisition scenarios across France and Europe, have earned high acclaim from both the market and industry experts, cementing its position at the forefront of the industry.

The French health insurance market is highly competitive and saturated. Local advertisers have long relied heavily on search and social media channels, resulting in persistently high CPAs and significant traffic inflation. Addressing these industry pain points, MediaGo and hipto collaborated to pioneer a new growth trajectory, establishing the open web as the third core acquisition pillar alongside search and social. By leveraging premium local news and information publishers in France, they seamlessly integrated native ads into media environments, providing the insurance sector with a scalable, replicable growth blueprint to effectively counter traffic inflation.

This award-winning campaign focused on scaling the acquisition of high-intent leads in the insurance sector. It successfully overcame three structural challenges inherent in traditional bidding models: reactive algorithms, high cold-start costs, and the difficulty of balancing scale with efficiency. This achievement further validates MediaGo’s strong operational capabilities and its innovation in native advertising within the French market.

Powered by five deep learning models and the newly upgraded SmartBid 3.0, MediaGo precisely predicts the conversion probability of each ad impression in real time. Paired with hipto’s high-frequency creative iterations (3–5 times per week), MediaGo continuously identifies high-potential audience clusters, further enhancing targeting precision. In addition, SmartBid 3.0’s unique “global learning” mechanism reduced the cold start learning cycle for new campaigns by 50%. This partnership enabled campaigns to achieve stable monetization from day one.

By utilizing SmartBid 3.0’s MaxCV mode, hipto’s campaigns achieved a dual breakthrough in both scale and efficiency. Data shows an immediate 32% uplift in monthly conversion volume and a threefold increase in lead volumes over the longer term, successfully expanding market share within a saturated vertical. Additionally, native ad CTR surpassed the industry benchmark by 53%, demonstrating the platform’s ability to precisely target high-intent users. Notably, even with a 48% increase in mobile budget allocation, CPA decreased by 2.6%, proving that volume scaling and margin preservation can coexist.

Leo Ye, Head of Partnerships at MediaGo, stated: “Winning the Les Cas d’Or Gold for Performance Marketing is a strong endorsement of MediaGo’s technical strength and localized service capabilities. We remain committed to a performance-driven, advertiser-centric approach, deepening our footprint in the French market to help advertisers break through growth bottlenecks in a saturated landscape.”

Looking ahead, MediaGo will continue to deepen its presence in Europe. With deep learning at its core, the platform aims to continuously enhance its native advertising capabilities and localized operations, delivering tangible value to global advertisers and empowering partners to achieve high-quality, sustainable business growth in complex market environments.

About MediaGo

MediaGo is a leading intelligent advertising platform. Based on deep learning algorithms, MediaGo empowers businesses of all scales, creating tangible value for companies. With 12 operational centers worldwide, MediaGo has successfully provided localized and comprehensive business growth services to over 10,000 partners.

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Dandelion Civilization launches a Human Intelligence Platform to make talent risk visible before it becomes expensive

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New Human Intelligence Platform helps employers assess role fit, team dynamics, and early behavioral risk to avoid costly talent decisions.

AMSTERDAM, April 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Dandelion Civilization today announced the launch of its Human Intelligence Platform at HR Tech Europe 2026, introducing a new approach to talent management and workforce decision-making, built around behavioral intelligence rather than instinct alone.

The launch addresses a problem many organizations already understand but still struggle to solve. Talent mis-matches are expensive, early misalignment is difficult to correct, and quality of hire remains hard to improve because the real consequences often appear months after a decision is made. Industry estimates frequently place the total cost of hiring a new employee at several times the position’s salary, especially when poor fit leads to replacement, lost productivity, and disruption.

While much of the HR technology market has focused on the hiring stage itself, Dandelion Civilization is taking a different route. The platform is designed to help employers understand how people are likely to perform in real conditions by revealing how they think, act, and interact across hiring, team development, and workforce risk.

At the core of the platform is a behavioral intelligence layer that creates continuous, evolving profiles of individuals and teams. Rather than relying only on CVs, interviews, or static questionnaires, Dandelion Civilization uses behavioral simulations to surface signals around decision making, collaboration, pressure response, and alignment. According to the company’s launch materials, the product is built around three core areas: hiring intelligence, team dynamics, and behavioral risk. It is designed to support decisions before day one, strengthen visibility into how individuals affect team performance, and identify patterns that may point to conflict, disengagement, or misalignment before those issues damage business outcomes.

“We are not creating another assessment tool,” said Dmitry Zaytsev, Founder and CEO of Dandelion Civilization. “We are building the infrastructure for better talent decisions. Companies often discover the true cost of misalignment too late, when trust weakens, performance slips, or the hiring process has to begin again. We want to make those signals visible earlier, when organizations can still act on them.”

The company says the platform is designed to fit into existing workflows without technical friction. Employers send a link, candidates complete an online simulation, and talent teams receive a decision-ready report. The launch deck states that the simulation takes around 20 to 40 minutes, requires no integration, and works in any browser.

While the platform begins with hiring, Dandelion Civilization is positioning the launch as the first step toward a broader layer of human capital intelligence that can support team design, talent development, and earlier visibility into people related risk over time.

About Dandelion Civilization
Dandelion Civilization is building a Human Intelligence Platform that helps organizations understand how people think, act, and interact across the employment lifecycle. Using behavioral simulations and digital profiling, the platform supports hiring, team development, and earlier visibility into workforce risk. Its launch materials describe the product as a system designed to reduce talent blind spots and reveal behavior beyond profiles.

 

 

 

 

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