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Ohio Department of Education & Workforce Approves An Array of 95 Percent Group Science of Reading Solutions

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2 years ago

May 23, 2024

Evidence-based Tier 1 and intervention solutions will help teachers implement science of reading effectively in Buckeye State classrooms

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill., May 23, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — 95 Percent Group LLC, the trusted source for comprehensive, proven literacy solutions, announced today the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce approved an array of its science of reading aligned solutions to accelerate literacy skills in the Buckeye State. The recent materials adoption was in support of the Read Ohio initiative to implement science of reading aligned instruction in all schools across the state.

In addition to the company’s 95 Phonics Core Program®, which was approved as a core foundational skills program for grades K-2, 95 Literacy Intervention System™, 95 Phonics Lesson Library™, 95 Phonics Chip Kit™, 95 Phonemic Awareness Suite™, and 95 RAP™ (Reading Achievement Program) were included on Ohio’s “Approved Evidence-Based Reading Intervention Programs” list.

“Ohio education leaders have made a deep commitment to accelerating literacy skill development for all students,” said Brad Lindaas, CEO of 95 Percent Group. “I am proud that 95 Percent Group’s literacy solutions already serve many schools in Ohio, and excited that today’s news will increase access to our offerings statewide. Our programs provide Ohio teachers with a powerful foundational skills program and intervention tools that integrate with any existing curricula and are proven to accelerate reading skills.”

95 Percent Group’s core and intervention programs are already in use in Ohio elementary classrooms, and educators have high praise for the progress they are seeing in student literacy skill development. All K-3 students at Fairless Elementary School, for instance, receive core instruction with 95 Phonics Core Program, and teachers are using 95 Phonics Lesson Library for intervention with small groups of students.

“Our scores are now above pre-COVID test scores. And, thanks to 95 Percent Group, our Acadience 2nd and 3rd grade data is close to a true pyramid,” said Adam Amato, elementary reading instructional specialist.

Rebecca Tompkins, curriculum director, Sycamore Community Schools in Cincinnati, Ohio, said, “95 Percent Group’s implementation is of the utmost importance; it will have the longest-lasting impact on all students and as these students’ become adults.”

95 Percent Group products approved by the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce are:

–95 Phonics Core Program: a Tier 1, structured literacy solution that adds an explicit phonics strand to the daily reading block to ensure that all students receive consistent, evidence-based and research-aligned core phonics instruction to improve outcomes. The program is rated as Strong on the Evidence for ESSA website for Tier 1, Whole-Class Instruction, confirming that it meets federal standards under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) for demonstrating evidence of efficacy.

–95 Literacy Intervention System™: an award-winning digital platform that puts the tools for diagnosing skill gaps, digitally grouping students with similar needs and assigning targeted reading instruction at teachers’ fingertips.

–95 Phonics Lesson Library™: an evidence-based, turnkey program for Tier 2 intervention that offers three levels of phonics instruction and easy-to-use, fully prepared lessons that help teachers provide students with the targeted intervention they need to fill specific skill gaps.

–95 Phonics Chip Kits™: a fun and effective tool to help students understand phonics patterns through the use of manipulatives and sound-spelling maps.

–95 Phonemic Awareness Suite™: a comprehensive program for developing awareness of speech sounds for students in grades K-1. Aligned with the latest research on phonemic awareness and part of the One95 Literacy Ecosystem™, the suite includes core and intervention lessons, intervention tools, assessments and teacher professional learning.

–95 RAP™ (Reading Achievement Program): part of the One95 Literacy Platform™, 95 RAP is a proven, Tier 3 digital learning platform designed to support teachers as they deliver targeted interventions to young learners with persistent reading difficulties, including dyslexia.

About 95 Percent Group

95 Percent Group is an education company whose mission is to build on science to empower teachers—supplying the knowledge, resources and support they need—to develop strong readers. Using a structured literacy approach, the company’s One95 Literacy Ecosystem integrates professional learning and evidence-based literacy products into one cohesive system that supports consistent instructional routines across tiers and is proven and trusted to help students close skill gaps and read fluently. 95 Percent Group is also committed to advancing research, best practices, and thought leadership on the science of reading more broadly.

For additional information on 95 Percent Group, visit: https://www.95percentgroup.com.

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Lisa Wolfe, L. Wolfe Communications for 95 Percent Group, 1 3129538085, lwolfe@lwolfe.com, www.95percentgroup.com

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Foresite Named 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year for North America

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53 minutes ago

April 21, 2026

Recognition highlights leadership in practitioner-governed, AI-enhanced security operations

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Apr. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Foresite Cybersecurity today announced it has been named the 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year in the North America category, presented at Google Cloud Next ’26 in Las Vegas.

Foresite named 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year

Organizations looking to operationalize AI-driven security on Google Cloud can learn more at next.foresite.com.

Foresite delivers fully managed security operations on Google Security Operations (SecOps), enabling customers to detect and respond to threats in seconds, reduce investigation fatigue, and maintain continuous audit readiness without expanding internal teams.

Operating as the human control layer for AI-driven security, Foresite combines Google’s agentic investigation capabilities with practitioner-validated accountability. Every autonomous investigation is reviewed and authorized by a named analyst before response actions are executed, giving customers clear visibility into how decisions are made and risk is managed.

“The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name Foresite a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.”

As a Google Cloud Premier Partner with Security and MSSP specializations, Foresite delivers managed services through its Catalyst platform — extending Google SecOps with operational governance, automation, and continuous compliance capabilities. Over the past year, the company expanded its SecOps delivery practice while sustaining 96% customer retention, reflecting growing demand for managed, AI-enhanced security operations.

Across its managed services portfolio, Foresite delivers a 90% reduction in mean investigation time and sub-15-second automated threat response for its customers — enabling security teams to focus on strategic risk decisions rather than alert triage.

Foresite’s approach to managed security operations on Google Cloud was the subject of an independent Technical Validation by Enterprise Strategy Group (now part of Omdia), commissioned by Google in August 2025. The report examined how Foresite’s Catalyst platform extends Google Security Operations to deliver threat detection, investigation, and response for organizations at varying levels of security maturity.

“Our Technical Validation of Foresite’s Catalyst platform examined how practitioner-led governance can extend Google Security Operations to deliver measurable detection and response outcomes. Google Cloud’s Partner of the Year recognition independently confirms what our analysis identified — that platform-native expertise, rather than tool access, is what differentiates managed security outcomes for mid-market and enterprise organizations.”— Tony Palmer, Practice Director, Omdia (formerly Enterprise Strategy Group).

“We’re entering an era where AI can investigate threats at machine speed,” said Jeremy Hehl, Chief Evangelist at Foresite. “Enterprise organizations need confidence that those decisions are governed and aligned to real business risk. This recognition from Google Cloud reinforces our focus in helping customers operationalize AI security at scale.”

Foresite is showcasing its Agentic SOC capabilities at Google Cloud Next ’26, demonstrating how security teams can move beyond alert monitoring to govern autonomous response using Google SecOps, Google Threat Intelligence, and AI security controls.

Foresite is purpose-built for organizations that need enterprise-grade security operations without enterprise-scale friction. The company delivers the operational rigor and platform expertise these organizations require to run Google SecOps effectively — without the overhead of building and staffing a full internal SOC.

About Foresite Cybersecurity
Foresite Cybersecurity is a Google Cloud Premier Partner providing managed security operations, compliance automation, and threat intelligence services. Through its Catalyst platform, Foresite helps organizations operationalize AI-driven security with practitioner-led governance and measurable risk reduction. Learn more at foresite.com.

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Tredence Awarded 2026 Google Cloud Global Industry Solutions Partner of the Year Award for Retail

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53 minutes ago

April 21, 2026

Trusted for driving the data & AI strategy for 8 of the top 10 retailers, powering $2 trillion in retail revenue

LAS VEGAS and BENGALURU, India, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tredence, a global AI and data science solutions company, today announced it has been named the 2026 Google Cloud Services & Industry Solutions Partner of the Year for Retail. This award reflects Tredence’s demonstrated ability to deliver measurable customer impact at scale. Notably, this is Tredence’s third such distinction, having previously been recognized in CPG and Gaming, a testament to Tredence’s unmatched depth, breadth, and impact across the industries it serves.

For the world’s leading retailers, Tredence has consistently delivered the full AI transformation journey — migrating, modernizing, and deploying scalable AI applications and agents on Google Cloud, powered by Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise. In FY25, Tredence drove transformative impact across 25+ strategic retail accounts spanning four continents, delivering measurable business outcomes and accelerating Google Cloud adoption at unprecedented scale. Tredence’s impact has been defined by three core motions:

Modernization at scale, building agentic foundations – Tredence executed some of the world’s most complex retail cloud migrations, including the largest-ever cloud migration in retail history, migrating 12 petabytes of data for 40,000+ analytics users with 100% operational continuity, and a landmark platform overhaul delivered ahead of schedule, reducing total cost of ownership by 20–40% and building the unified data foundations that power agentic AI at scale.Accelerating agentic AI adoption – Tredence deployed 100+ AI/ML accelerators, including 10+ retail-specific multi-agent systems built on Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise, eliminating up to 70% of manual effort, automating up to 98% of manual ticketing processes, and cutting temporary labor costs by 20%, compressing months of deployment into weeks across some of the most complex retail environments in the world.Delivering global impact at measurable scale – Tredence drove transformative outcomes across every retail format and across geographies unifying supply chain data across 20,000+ stores to automate retail media insights, deploying a full agentic platform in just 6 months for a major wholesale retailer, and delivering greenfield Google Cloud wins, proving that the Tredence and Google Cloud partnership delivers measurable impact across every retail segment and scale of ambition.

“The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name Tredence a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.”

“Winning Google Cloud’s Retail Partner of the Year reflects one thing: the outcomes we deliver for the world’s most admired retailers, consistently and at scale,” said Amanpal Dhupar, Vice President, Head of Retail at Tredence. “We are the trusted Data and AI partner for 8 of the top 10 global retailers and have built a team of world-class retail practitioners, a proprietary accelerator ecosystem powering over $2 trillion in global retail sales, and a last-mile operationalization capability.”

Tredence recently launched its Transformative Agentic Commerce Solution Accelerators at NRF 2026. Built on Google Cloud services, these accelerators can be customized for each retailer to address unique needs and deliver faster time-to-value.

Tredence will showcase these capabilities at Google Next, Booth #2911, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

About Tredence:

Tredence is a global AI and data science solutions provider focused on solving the last-mile problem in AI, the gap between insight creation and value realization. Tredence leverages deep domain expertise, data platforms and accelerators, and strategic partnerships to provide tailored, cutting-edge solutions to its clients. The company has 4,200+ employees across the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Riyadh, London, Toronto, and Bengaluru, serving top brands in Retail, CPG, Hi-tech, Telecom, Healthcare, Travel, and Industrials.

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dbt Labs Wins a 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award

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53 minutes ago

April 21, 2026

PHILADELPHIA, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — dbt Labs, the leader in standards for AI-ready structured data, announced today that it has received the 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year award for Data and Analytics: Data Pipelines and Governance. dbt Labs works together with Google Cloud to provide the foundation for an organization’s transition to AI leadership and innovation. The combination of rich data warehousing capabilities and the democratization of complex data transformation removes technical barriers, enabling analysts and business leaders to accelerate their time-to-value.

dbt Labs is being recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping joint customers manage data at scale on Google Cloud and turn it into trusted, actionable insights with speed and efficiency. Thousands of organizations run dbt on Google BigQuery globally, an integration designed to accelerate the delivery of trusted analytics and AI. By consolidating data transformation into a single, unified tool, joint customers quickly gain increased operational efficiency through advanced orchestration features. dbt Labs empowers customers to manage and trust results, ensuring high-quality data is ready to power analytics and AI initiatives both today and in the future.

“Every AI strategy needs to be underpinned by a standardized foundation and process to control, govern and document progress for high-quality, trusted results,” said Shawn Toldo, Vice President, Worldwide Partner Ecosystem at dbt Labs. “Together, dbt Labs and Google Cloud enable organizations to build that foundation for an AI-ready future. We are excited for the recognition and growing partnership with Google.”

“The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name dbt Labs a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.”

This recognition is the latest example of dbt Labs’ momentum since launching on Google Cloud Marketplace one year ago. The partnership’s trajectory is driven by extensive global adoption and usage across diverse industries and a rapidly expanding community of active practitioners. Additionally, dbt Labs’ partner team earned two Google Partner All Star awards, reinforcing the deep collaboration and commitment to driving mutual success.

By bringing Google AI capabilities into dbt workflows, joint customers gain the trustworthy, well-documented, governed foundation that reliable analytics and AI demand. To learn more about how dbt Labs and Google Cloud are enabling AI-ready data pipelines, watch the on-demand webinar “Building dbt Models Faster with Google AI” at https://www.getdbt.com/confirmation/building-dbt-models-faster-with-google-ai-recording.

About dbt Labs
Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help data practitioners create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt is the standard for AI-ready structured data. Powered by the dbt Fusion engine, it unlocks the performance, context, and trust that organizations need to scale analytics in the era of AI. Globally, more than 80,000 data teams use dbt, including those at Siemens, Roche and Condé Nast.

Learn more at getdbt.com, and follow dbt Labs on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

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