Technology & Innovation
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Pay Package for SAP’s CEO Causes Stir with Shareholders
The annual compensation package for Bill McDermott, SAP’s Newtown Square-based CEO, is causing some controversy with shareholders, writes Joseph DiStefano for the Philadelphia Inquirer. His $17 million, cash-and-stock package is nowhere near the largest in the industry. However, it has been under scrutiny as SAP is Germany’s most valuable company, and one of Europe’s largest…
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Legally Blind Teacher at O’Hara Sees Brighter Future, Thanks to Technological Breakthrough
After spending most of his adult life virtually blind, Cardinal O’Hara High School teacher and Morton resident, Ed Allen, is able to see again, thanks to the help of an eSight device, writes Peg DeGrassa for the Springfield Press. Legally blind from Stargardt’s disease since he was 15, Allen’s peripheral vision meant he had to…
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SAP’s Top Talent in Newtown Square Promoted to Greater Leadership Roles
A pair of SAP’s Newtown Square executives is taking the global software company to new heights. Robert Enslin is rising up to take charge of the cloud, while Jennifer Morgan is being promoted to carry the banner of customer operations in Enslin’s absence. “We have always considered it a privilege to nurture careers and leaders,”…
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Smartphones Create Pervasive but Underestimated Type of Addiction
In the absence of face-to-face communication, valuable social skills aren’t learned, and in the overflow of information, self-control is lost. Together, these cultural issues are compounding to cause a sweeping epidemic: smartphone addiction. And it’s worse than many people give it credit. “What’s interesting is that the body and the brain respond pretty much the…
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Havertown’s TreCom Helping Track Medical Marijuana
Havertown information technology firm TreCom Systems Group will be on the cutting edge of the state’s growing medical marijuana industry. As a subcontractor part of MJ Freeway’s $10.4 million contract for “tracking medical marijuana from seed to sale and creating a registry for patients, caregivers, and practitioners to participate in the program,” TreCom will literally…
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Pegasus Technologies Broadens Its Geographic Footprint, Expands to Third Office
Pegasus Technologies – a managed IT service provider with offices in Kennett Square and Media that provides support to small and medium-sized businesses in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey – is adding a third office location in Wayne. This office will enable Pegasus to better extend its IT services to Main Line and Northern Delaware…
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SAP Offering $4,000 to Help Make a Digital Dream Come True
More than $4,000 in prizes await the business entrepreneur who comes up with the most creative dream for putting SAP software to use. The Newtown Square software giant’s new Dream Digital contest is calling for two-minute videos or essays of an SAP-inspired dream now through April 23 ahead of National Small Business Week in May,…
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SAP’s Business Reimagined Tour Commences at Home in Newtown Square
SAP is only freshly listed on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list, but the software company with its North American headquarters located in Newtown Square is intent on climbing from 59th to No. 1 — and fast. SAP recently celebrated that accolade with its kickoff of a 150-city tour through the United…
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Get a Chance to Present Your Idea at Philly Tech Week 2017
The 2nd annual Technical.ly Introduced: A Curated B2B Event during Philly Tech Week 2017 presented by Comcast will give business owners the chance to present their ideas in front of some of the most successful companies in the region, writes Lauren Giles for Technical.ly Philly. Among the companies attending the event are Amtrak, Power Home…
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In ‘Highly Unexpected’ Move, Wayne’s PetCoach Acquired by Petco
PetCoach, the three-year-old Wayne startup that offers online access to vets 24/7, has been acquired by pet-specialty retailer Petco for an undisclosed amount, writes Diane Mastrull for the Philadelphia Inquirer. “It’s highly, highly unexpected and great,” said Brock Weatherup, who himself purchased the company from founder David Martin in July last year. Martin stayed on…
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SAP a Subscriber to Its Own Technological Innovations
SAP isn’t just a leading pioneer of global business software for its customers; it’s also a leading pioneer of tech-savvy benefits for its employees. “SAP uses its own technology to help its employees do their jobs better and not feel lost in a software company with 21,000 employees in North America, some 3,500 in its…
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Wayne Company Brings Data Analytics to Golf Courses Nationwide
The nationwide trend of closing golf clubs and growing management costs may be reversed with the help of a new cloud platform from Wayne’s OnGolf, writes John George for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The platform consolidates all the relevant data required for successful golf management. This includes weather conditions, usage of pesticides and fertilizers, moisture…
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Radnor’s ControlRad Systems Raises $3 Million Ahead of Debut Product Launch
New eye-tracking radiation technology is catching the eyes of medical device investors, as Radnor’s ControlRad Systems just generated $3 million from the sale of private stock. The funding gets ControlRad halfway to its $6 million goal as it prepares for the launch of its debut product, according to a Philadelphia Business Journal report by John…
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Newtown Square’s SAP Makes Its Debut on Fortune’s Best Employers List
Newtown Square’s SAP America has made its debut on Fortune’s annual list of its 100 best employers, landing at No. 59, writes Michelle Caffrey for the Philadelphia Business Journal. The North American headquarters of the German enterprise software company has secured a spot on the list, thanks to its global employment opportunities and the unshakeable…
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Controlling Access To Your Business’s Online Assets
By Julie Friedman Bacchini Tell me if this sounds familiar – you need to access your web site and no one knows where the login information is. Even worse? The person who set up your web site or its hosting hasn’t worked at your company for years. Suddenly, the “Forgot Password” option has become completely…
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Radnor’s eMoney Advisor Collects 10 Medals at Annual Stevie Awards in Las Vegas
Its software helps financial advisors answer million-dollar questions from their clients, and for all the other questions encountered by users of eMoney Advisor, the Radnor firm has an award-winning staff ready to provide its two cents. eMoney Advisor just brought home 10 awards from the 11th annual Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service in…
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SAP Exec’s Secret to Success: Don’t Do Business with People You Don’t Trust
Software technology has revolutionized 21st-century business, and an Abington native who has traveled the world with SAP recently opened up some of the source code for his blueprint to success. “The cultural shift with businesses is incredibly important, and that always comes down to trust and understanding one another’s goals,” said Executive Vice President for…
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Chester’s PharmaTouch Launches Restructured Brand, Revamped Website
Chester’s PharmaTouch has restructured its brand and launched a new website as part of its evolution into a customer-first provider for the pharma, biotech, healthcare, and animal sciences industries. The new brand focuses on a number of new solutions based on the PharmaTouch CoreTouch Cloud Platform. This software as a service product includes sophisticated tools…
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