Technology & Innovation
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SAP’s McDermott Reassures Staff in Wake of President Trump’s Travel Ban
With a lot of uncertainty surrounding President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban, SAP CEO Bill McDermott has criticized the move, and is reassuring employees of the software giant’s dedication to their well-being, writes Eric Auchard for Reuters. Addressing the company’s 84,000 employees across the globe, McDermott emphasized SAP’s non-discrimination policies, adding that “we are always…
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SAP’s Hiring Spree Transitions from Sales to Research and Development, Cloud Delivery
Frenzied growth at software giant SAP in Newtown Square has filled its offices with new hires — and will likely continue to fill them throughout 2017. But there’s been a big shift in the offices SAP’s newest employees are moving into. The company’s early 2016 focus on new sales and marketing expertise has been replaced…
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Marketing Technology Consultants from Swarthmore Share Bold, Billion-Dollar Prediction
Researchers at Swarthmore’s marketing technology consultancy, Raab Associates, have predicted that the Customer Data Platform market will reach $1 billion by 2019, writes Dom Nicastro for CMS Wire. The company has come to this conclusion after in-depth analysis of 27 vendors that generated more than $300 million in revenue last year. The researchers have included…
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Radnor’s eMoney Advisor to Hire 100 or More Employees This Year
Radnor’s eMoney Advisor, a firm that makes software for financial advisors, is following some great advice: it has posted a 59 percent revenue growth streak since its sale to Fidelity Investments by founder Edmond Walters in 2015. And eMoney Advisor has been on a tear with its workforce expansion too. The company has since relocated…
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SAP on Cusp of Hiring Bonanza as 150 New Jobs Headed for Delaware County
There are 150 new jobs coming to Newtown Square thanks to SAP, writes Joseph DiStefano for the Philadelphia Inquirer. The business software producer is planning to add 400 new jobs to its Pennsylvania locations, with 150 of them headed to its U.S. headquarters in Newtown Square. The Delco location already employs close to 3,000 people,…
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Amazon’s New Concept of Automated Grocery Store Just Business as Usual for Wawa
In Amazon Go, the e-commerce giant has a fully automated grocery store that is poised to threaten all kinds of competitors, but Wawa won’t likely be one of them. “Self-service automation is quickly becoming the status quo for the grocery and convenience store industry,” consultant Gene Marks wrote in The Washington Post. However, “East Coast…
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Siblings from Broomall Are Finalists in $10 Million, Global Contest to Recreate Star Trek Device
Star Trek was a half-century ahead of its time. Only now are four siblings and natives of Broomall on the cusp of bringing to life a mobile diagnostic device reminiscent of the tricorder, a medical scanning device used by the likes of Dr. McCoy and Dr. Crusher in the science-fiction entertainment franchise. Emergency room physician…
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Region Flush with $6 Million for Digital Healthcare Startups
A big prize awaits the healthcare startups with the most promising cure to the industry’s future digital needs: a share of a new $6 million pie. The fund is the collaborative result of Philadelphia area leaders Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Independence Health Group, and Safeguard Scientifics, according to a PhillyVoice report by…
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At Forefront of Business Intelligence, Radnor’s Qlik Just What Market Has Been Waiting for
Radnor’s Qlik, which provides software solutions that automate data analytics and reporting to help make sense of the mountains of available digital data, seems to be exactly what the market has been waiting for, writes Bruce Rogers for Forbes. Qlik is one of the biggest and most successful self-service, business intelligence software companies with almost…
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New Execs of Fast-Growing Relay Network in Radnor Discuss Plans Moving Forward
Following the $12 million raised from its private stock sale in June, Radnor’s Relay Network has brought in its first Chief Product Officer and a new Chief Technology Officer to complement the company’s rapid growth, writes Michelle Caffrey for the Philadelphia Business Journal. CTO Steve Higgins and CPO Lisa Guillaume join the existing 50 employees,…
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In Newtown Square, SAP Situated for Global Reach
When SAP first landed in America in 1989, the newly intercontinental company based in West Germany – with an acronym that stands for Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing – set up shop in tiny Lester, near the Philadelphia International Airport. SAP’s location on Stevens Drive was close in proximity to one of its…
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Couple from Springfield Designing ‘Everything That Captivates’ in Exton, Beyond
With a client portfolio that includes some of the most recognizable and diverse brands in the world, there’s no reason STUDIOetc in Uwchlan Township shouldn’t be a household name in its own industry and beyond. “I admit that sometimes I think clients hesitate to tell other companies about us because they want us to always…
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Brainchild of Wallingford Native, Veeva Systems Formulates Billion-Dollar Future
Concocted by a business-minded Delaware County native and cultured in Silicon Valley, Veeva Systems has grown into an unstoppable biotech cloud computing giant that’s intent on becoming a multibillion-dollar global leader by 2020. Matt Wallach, who grew up in Wallingford and graduated from Strath Haven High School in 1990, co-founded Veeva as a unique hybrid to…
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Newtown Square’s SAP the Model for Corporate Cancer Support
From its North American headquarters in Newtown Square, SAP is not only fueling Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot, but also providing the corporate world with an excellent model for employee cancer support. The software developer is leading the way in “how innovative companies, led by compassionate executives, embrace the health and wellbeing of their…
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SAP’s Autism at Work Program Lauded by Washington Post
The Autism at Work program, created by SAP, Newtown Square’s software giant, is helping people with autism find employment by overcoming the obstacles of their condition, writes Abigail Abrams for The Washington Post. SAP decided to start the program three years ago to get more people with autism into its workforce. By 2020, SAP is…
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Radnor’s Qlik Expands Services with New Apps
Radnor’s Qlik, a leader in visual analytics, has announced the expansion of its Qlik Consulting Services with the addition of Qlik Accelerate, which delivers applications designed and built by industry experts for real-life business scenarios. With Qlik Accelerate, businesses are able to gain faster insights into their data, maximize the quality of their applications, minimize…
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Radnor’s Safeguard Scientifics Hires First-Ever Chief Technology, Innovation Officer
Radnor-based Safeguard Scientifics has welcomed the president of Wayne’s Mobiquity, Scott Snyder, as its first-ever Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, writes Michelle Caffrey for the Philadelphia Business Journal. “I’m excited about what Safeguard has already built and the ability to interact with these almost 30 companies in the portfolio,” said Snyder, who is also a…
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Springfield’s Apacheta Helps Healthcare Providers Take Advantage of Low-Cost Mobile Logistics
Apacheta, Springfield’s mobile business solutions provider, is helping healthcare providers switch from expensive upfront hardware and software mobile logistics to a subscription-based cloud service and lower-cost Bring Your Own Device system, writes Jim Butschli for Healthcare Packaging. “We live in a world that values instant gratification, thanks in part to the majority of operational systems…
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