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Blue Sky Capital Strategies, LLC awarded Leasing and Financial Services agreement with Premier Inc

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NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Blue Sky Capital Strategies, LLC, a specialized advisory firm in equipment leasing and equipment financing announced its continued focus on helping organizations reduce costs, improve financial flexibility and mitigate risk through experienced lease structuring, contract negotiations and financing advisory services has been awarded a national group purchasing agreement for Leasing and Financial Services with Premier, Inc. effective July 1, 2026.

“Most organizations are paying more than necessary because equipment finance agreements often contain negotiable pricing, structure and term components that are not fully optimized,” said Jim Cross, co-CEO of Blue Sky Capital Strategies. “Blue Sky’s advisory team brings over 25 years of advisory experience, analytical discipline, contract lifecycle management strategies and real-time market intelligence to help clients achieve significant savings, with historical engagements delivering an average savings of 20%.”

“Hospitals are facing one of the tightest capital environments in a decade, and equipment refresh decisions on imaging, surgical robotics, and lab automation are getting deferred or financed under terms that don’t provide the lowest total cost for the asset lifecycle,” said Jim Cross, co-CEO of Blue Sky Capital Strategies. “Premier members will now have access to the same lease structuring, real time market intelligence and contract management advisory services that we provide for our clients — applied at the scale of Premier’s alliance.”

Blue Sky Capital Strategies supports clients by reviewing lease and finance proposals, identifying cost‑saving opportunities, evaluating supplier and lender terms, and negotiating financing structures that best align with business and balance sheet objectives. Its advisory process is designed to improve transparency, strengthen negotiating leverage and significantly reduce total contract cost.

The firm’s experience spans equipment leasing strategy, lease vs purchase analysis, contract review, supplier coordination and savings optimization. By combining market experience with proprietary real time market intelligence, Blue Sky helps clients uncover savings opportunities that typically remain hidden in complex leasing and financing agreements.

What Member Health Systems Gain Access To

Through the partnership, Premier alliance members can engage Blue Sky for:

Lease structuring and RFP support for medical equipment acquisitions, including imaging, surgical, laboratory, and IT capitalFunding Source contract negotiations across captive, bank, and independent equipment finance sourcesASC 842 lease accounting analysis, classification support, and reporting workflowsTotal cost of contract (TCC) modeling to support lease-versus-purchase decisions and value analysis committee reviewsEnd-of-lease management including buyout analysis, return condition reviews, and re-lease structuringIndustry-leading liability management software includes centralized document repository and financial analysis tools.

Why It Matters Now

U.S. healthcare systems are confronting shrinking margins and rising labor costs, deferred capital projects, increased equipment costs and elevated borrowing costs. Equipment finance — historically, a procurement back-office function — has become a meaningful lever for protecting operating margins and accelerating clinical capability investments.

Independent advisory addresses a structural gap: most equipment lease terms are negotiated between the health system and the captive, independents, and bank lessors with limited buyer-side benchmarking. Blue Sky’s role under the Premier partnership is to bring institutional benchmarking, structuring and negotiating expertise with disciplined life cycle management to member-side decision-making.

Premier is a leading technology‑driven healthcare improvement company. Playing a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, Premier unites providers, suppliers and payers to make healthcare better with national scale, smarter with actionable intelligence and faster with novel technologies. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier offers integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, advisory services and other solutions in service of its mission to improve the health of communities.

About Blue Sky Capital Strategies, LLC

Blue Sky Capital Strategies, LLC is an advisory firm focused on equipment leasing, equipment financing and commercial contract optimization. The firm works with organizations seeking stronger pricing, better terms and more effective financing strategies for business‑critical equipment acquisitions. www.blue-sky.capital

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Dnotitia’s Seahorse AI Storage Wins AI Application Award at FMS 2026

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Company showcases a vector-search accelerator card powered by its newly unveiled VDPU chip and invites global storage partners to explore product integration and joint commercialization

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Dnotitia Inc. (Dnotitia), an AI data infrastructure and semiconductor company, today announced that its Seahorse AI Storage has won the AI Application Award at the FMS 2026 Best of Show Awards. Dnotitia was also named a finalist in the Startup Business Growth Award category.

The winning entry presented Seahorse AI Storage as an AI-native storage platform for reliable, on-premises enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). It addresses a practical challenge facing enterprise AI by transforming proprietary structured and unstructured data, including documents, into searchable, traceable knowledge while keeping sensitive information under the organization’s control.

Future of Memory and Storage is a leading global conference for the memory, enterprise storage, semiconductor, data center and AI infrastructure industries. According to the event organizers, FMS 2026 is expected to bring together more than 3,500 attendees from over 1,500 organizations and more than 100 exhibitors.

Dnotitia is showcasing the award-winning Seahorse AI Storage alongside a vector-search accelerator card powered by its newly unveiled VDPU chip at Booth 1144. The exhibit demonstrates how Seahorse software and VDPU acceleration can add AI-native retrieval and knowledge capabilities to enterprise storage products.

As enterprises move RAG and AI-agent services into production, demand is growing for storage systems that can prepare, index and serve enterprise knowledge. This creates an opportunity to add AI-native retrieval and knowledge capabilities to existing enterprise storage products.

Seahorse AI Storage brings document processing, knowledge management, vector retrieval, and AI-service integration into a unified platform. It analyzes document structures such as layouts, tables, charts and contextual relationships, and combines semantic search with methods designed to locate specific terms, figures and clauses. Retrieved information can be linked to its original source, enabling users to verify the evidence behind an AI-generated response.

The platform supports cloud deployment as well as on-premises and air-gapped environments, where data security, control and traceability are critical. Unlike a standalone vector database, Seahorse integrates the processes required to prepare, synchronize, retrieve and serve enterprise knowledge, reducing the number of separate systems customers must build and operate.

Dnotitia’s VDPU, or Vector Data Processing Unit, is a purpose-built processor for vector search and graph traversal. By processing vector operations closer to stored data, the VDPU is designed to reduce host CPU workload and unnecessary data movement. Dnotitia develops the processor together with its Seahorse vector database and storage software through hardware-software co-design.

At FMS 2026, Dnotitia is publicly unveiling its first VDPU chip, integrated into a vector-search accelerator card. The company is seeking collaboration with global storage vendors and AI infrastructure partners in product integration, jointly developed AI storage systems, enterprise proof-of-concept (PoC) projects and joint commercialization.

“AI bottlenecks are expanding beyond computing performance to data storage and retrieval,” said MK Chung, CEO of Dnotitia. “In the AI era, storage is evolving beyond simply retaining data to helping AI find the right information accurately and quickly based on meaning. This award validates Seahorse AI Storage’s ability to meet these requirements.”

Dnotitia’s selection as a Startup Business Growth Award finalist recognizes the company’s progress in advancing its VDPU and Seahorse technology stack, semiconductor development and global enterprise engagements.

Dnotitia will exhibit at Booth 1144 at FMS 2026 through Aug. 6. Storage vendors and AI infrastructure partners are invited to meet the company to discuss product integration, joint solution development and enterprise PoC opportunities.

Storage vendors and AI infrastructure partners are invited to meet the company to discuss product integration, joint solution development and enterprise PoC opportunities.

About Dnotitia

Dnotitia develops AI systems, the data infrastructure behind them and semiconductor technologies for data-intensive AI workloads. Its portfolio includes Seahorse, an AI-native data and storage platform combining vector retrieval, enterprise RAG and agent knowledge capabilities, and the VDPU, a processor designed to accelerate vector-data workloads. Dnotitia is headquartered in Seoul and operates a U.S. office in San Jose, California.

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ISHCMC Class of 2026 Records Two Perfect IB Scores and a Cohort Average of 34.5

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Vietnam’s leading full-continuum IB World School outperforms global benchmarks across every headline measure, with 64% of graduates earning the IB Bilingual Diploma

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The International School Ho Chi Minh City (ISHCMC) today announced the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme results for its Class of 2026. The cohort of 116 graduates achieved an average score of 34.5 points against a global average of 30.9, with two students earning the maximum score of 45 out of 45.

The school recorded a 95% diploma pass rate, compared with the global average of 83%. Almost 10% of the cohort scored 40 points or above.

Class of 2026 results at a glance

Two students achieved a perfect score of 45 out of 45Cohort average of 34.5 points, against a global average of 30.995% diploma pass rate, against a global average of 83%64% of graduates earned the IB Bilingual Diploma, more than double the global rate of 27%Eight students, almost 10% of the cohort, achieved 40 points or moreOver 40% of students achieved 35 points or higher85% of students achieved at least 30 points

The bilingual result is a standout. At 64%, ISHCMC’s Bilingual Diploma rate is more than double the global figure and reflects a community of over 25 nationalities in which learning across languages is standard practice rather than an add-on.

“These results reflect more than academic achievement. They are a testament to the dedication, resilience, and growth of our students, supported by the teachers, families, and community who have shaped their journey. We are incredibly proud of the Class of 2026 and the legacy they carry forward,” said Mr. Marco Longmore, Head of School at ISHCMC.

A full IB-continuum journey

ISHCMC offers a connected IB continuum education from Early Explorers through Grade 12. Many members of the Class of 2026 have grown and learned within our community for years, developing the skills, confidence, and approaches to learning needed to thrive in the Diploma Programme. Through experiences such as the Extended Essay, Theory of Knowledge (TOK), and Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS), students deepen their knowledge and grow as independent, thoughtful learners. Supported by dedicated educators, advisors, and university counselors, each student follows a personalized pathway that prepares them to succeed at leading universities and beyond.

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transcosmos donates to Wakayama Prefecture via the corporate furusato nozei, receives the Medal of Dark Blue Ribbon and a certificate of appreciation

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In FY2026, donates to the Create a Family-Friendly Environment/Place for Children Project and Wakayama Digital Creative Center Project

TOKYO, Aug. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — transcosmos today announced it donated to Wakayama Prefecture through the corporate version of furusato nozei, Japan’s hometown tax donation program. On July 28, 2026, transcosmos received the Medal of Dark Blue Ribbon in recognition of its fiscal year 2025 donation and a certificate of appreciation for its fiscal year 2026 donation at a ceremony held at the Wakayama Prefectural Government Office. 

transcosmos established Wakayama Branch Office in 1974. Since then, the company has been providing BPO services that support corporate back-office operations as well as CX services, including contact centers.

Last year, transcosmos made a donation in support of Wakayama Prefecture’s Wakayama Digital Creative Center Project and Wakayama Create a Child-Centered Society Project. This year, the company continued its support by making a donation to the Wakayama Digital Creative Center Project and the Create a Family-Friendly Environment/Place for Children Project.

By supporting Wakayama Prefecture’s digital creative and parenting-related projects and addressing social challenges, transcosmos aims to expand its social impact as a business and maximize the well-being of society as a whole. As a company committed to local communities, transcosmos will continue to contribute to the creation of a sustainable society and environment through regional revitalization and environmental initiatives.

*transcosmos is a trademark or registered trademark of transcosmos inc. in Japan and other countries.

*Other company names and product or service names used here are trademarks or registered trademarks of respective companies.

About transcosmos inc.

transcosmos launched its operations in 1966. Since then, we have united superior “people” with cutting-edge “technology” to enhance the competitive strength of our clients by providing them with superior and valuable services. transcosmos currently offers services that support clients’ business processes, focusing on both sales expansion and cost optimization through our 188 bases across 36 countries/regions with a focus on Asia, while continuously pursuing Operational Excellence. Furthermore, following the expansion of the e-commerce market on a global scale, transcosmos provides comprehensive One-Stop Global E-Commerce Services to deliver our clients’ excellent products and services to consumers in 46 countries/regions around the globe. transcosmos is committed to treating the challenges of its clients and society as its own—discussing and addressing their issues from planning to execution—and Make It Real, Together. Visit us here https://www.trans-cosmos.co.jp/english/

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