• Local Technology Consulting Company Launches New Podcast

    Local Technology Consulting Company Launches New Podcast

    You may have heard of local technology consulting company, IT Edge, in our publications before. Founded over 30 years ago, IT Edge has been dedicated to helping small businesses all throughout Chester County ever since. Now you can get IT Edge’s professional help and advice completely free of charge. It may seem too good to…

  • ZeroEyes, Conshohocken-Based Gun-Safety Detection Provider, Gains Local Collaborator

    ZeroEyes, Conshohocken-Based Gun-Safety Detection Provider, Gains Local Collaborator

    ZeroEyes — whose experts created an A.I.-based gun detection video analytics platform that gained the U.S. Department of Homeland Security imprimatur — is partnering with a collar-county tech firm. LawOfficer.com reported the collaboration. Together, ZeroEyes (Conshohocken) and United Safety & Survivability Corp. (Exton) will work to make U.S. public transportation safer through artificial intelligence gun-detection…

  • IT Edge Details How Managed IT Can Help Small Businesses

    IT Edge Details How Managed IT Can Help Small Businesses

    Today, almost all of the business world is built with technology. Whether you’re hosting websites, or managing client information with spreadsheet software, technology is an integral part of day to day functions at any given business.  Unfortunately, when technology is so prevalent, there are bound to be issues. Life and business move too quickly for…

  • Penn Community Bank Deploys Loan Origination System to Enhance Customer Experience

    Penn Community Bank Deploys Loan Origination System to Enhance Customer Experience

    Penn Community Bank announced it has implemented the Lenders Cooperative Loan Origination System (LOS), which is focused on small business and commercial product lending. The LOS platform provides a fully online digital experience for the bank’s customers, allowing them to apply for their capital needs anytime, from anywhere. In addition to the enhanced front-end customer…

  • Qlik to Assist Leading IT Innovator in Analyzing, Drawing Insight from Data

    Qlik to Assist Leading IT Innovator in Analyzing, Drawing Insight from Data

    Qlik has announced that NTT Data Corporation, the leading innovator of IT and business services, has adopted Qlik Sense to analyze and actively draw insights from highly dense procurement data on externally acquired IT products and services. NTT Data has been at the forefront of transforming businesses through digital and IT modernization and managed services, enabling…

  • Citadel Credit Union Hires Sheri Perkins to Lead Its Retirement & Wealth Management Division

    Citadel Credit Union Hires Sheri Perkins to Lead Its Retirement & Wealth Management Division

    Sheri Perkins has joined Citadel Credit Union’s executive leadership team as the Senior Vice President and Head of Citadel’s Retirement & Wealth Management division and as the Program Manager for CUSO Financial Services, L.P. (CFS). This is a senior leadership role for the company in which Perkins will provide guidance and oversight for the award-winning…

  • Firstrust Bank Chairman Richard Green Leveraged Eagles’ Super Bowl Loss into Brand Wins

    Firstrust Bank Chairman Richard Green Leveraged Eagles’ Super Bowl Loss into Brand Wins

    Super Bowl LVII, a fan disappointment, had a better outcome for the Firstrust Bank brand and chairman Richard Green. Jeff Blumenthal explained in the Philadelphia Business Journal. Green, whose Conshohocken institution is the team’s official bank, noted an organizational uplift after the NFC Championship win. “All of our staff and our customers are much more…

  • Citadel Credit Union Earns High Praise from Fortune Magazine

    Citadel Credit Union Earns High Praise from Fortune Magazine

    Citadel Credit Union has earned some high praise from Fortune this month. Not only has Citadel been named one of the nation’s 10 best banks and credit unions for February 2023 by Fortune Recommends — the global media organization’s independent arm dedicated to helping readers make smart decisions about the financial and business-related products they…

  • Qlik Helps Boost Store Operational Performance for Companies Like Urban Outfitters

    Qlik Helps Boost Store Operational Performance for Companies Like Urban Outfitters

    Founded in 1970 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Urban Outfitters is a lifestyle retailer selling women’s and men’s clothing and accessories, a range of items for interior furnishing and décor and a music and technology collection. With 550 stores in the USA and 100 across Europe and the UK, gaining daily visibility of actionable data was…

  • C&N’s Stacey Sickler Appointed to the Mortgage Partnership Finance Advisory Council

    C&N’s Stacey Sickler Appointed to the Mortgage Partnership Finance Advisory Council

    Stacey A. Sickler, SVP/Director of Mortgage Services, has been appointed as a member of the Mortgage Partnership Finance (MPF) Advisory Council, representing C&N’s membership institution, FHLBank Pittsburgh. The MPF program provides funding through the FHLBank Pittsburgh for conforming mortgage loans, enabling Sickler and her team to offer reasonably priced, 30-year fixed rate mortgages serviced by…

  • Are You Ready for the Recent Retirement Enhancements from the Secure Act 2.0?

    Are You Ready for the Recent Retirement Enhancements from the Secure Act 2.0?

    In December 2022, Congress passed the $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act to avert a shutdown and fund the federal government for fiscal year 2023. Attached to this 4,126-page bill is the Secure Act 2.0, which changes retirement planning as we know it. The Secure Act 2.0 builds on the original Secure Act passed in 2019…

  • C&N Wealth Management Names Philip Prough Chief Investment Strategist

    C&N Wealth Management Names Philip Prough Chief Investment Strategist

    C&N Wealth Management has named Philip Prough as its Chief Investment Strategist. With more than 30 years of industry experience, Prough will lead the development and expansion of the C&N Wealth Management team’s customized investment management offering to new and existing markets. C&N Wealth Management Names Philip Prough Chief Investment Strategist “Wealth management has been…

  • Marketing Mastery with IT Edge: How Analytics Reporting Can Serve Your Business

    Marketing Mastery with IT Edge: How Analytics Reporting Can Serve Your Business

    In today’s day and age, the internet can be a businesses’ best friend or its worst enemy. This all depends on where a business stands with technology. For the consumer, on the other hand, the internet is a tool that opens all sorts of doors to services they can employ, products they can buy, or…

  • WSJ: Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, Named Leader in Public Cloud Report

    WSJ: Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, Named Leader in Public Cloud Report

    Information Services Group (ISG) — a Stamford, Connecticut technology research and advisory firm — named Blue Bell-headquartered Unisys Corporation a leader in providing public cloud-based services. The recognition was published in the ISG publication, Provider Lens Public Cloud — Solutions and Services. The distinction was carried in the Wall Street Journal. The ISG analysis examines…

  • Pennsylvanians Routinely Fail to Claim Millions in Lottery Prizes

    Pennsylvanians Routinely Fail to Claim Millions in Lottery Prizes

    Pennsylvania residents fail to claim an average of $17 million in Pennsylvania Lottery prize money each year, according to a staff report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Last year’s tally was relatively low, with $8.2 million uncollected in prizes. In 2021, however, Pennsylvanians left $20.5 million on the table. From 2012–2021, the unclaimed annual average was…

  • Bryn Mawr Professor Coauthors Book Addressing Timeless Question: Does Money Buy Happiness?

    Bryn Mawr Professor Coauthors Book Addressing Timeless Question: Does Money Buy Happiness?

    The relationship between finances and satisfaction has been contentious for centuries. A new book, The Good Life, sheds light on the timeless conundrum, as Chris Taylor reported for Reuters. Marc Schulz, one coauthor, is professor of psychology at Bryn Mawr College. His analysis is part of the world’s longest study on happiness. Since 1938, Harvard…

  • WSFS CARES Foundation’s $2.4 Million in Donations Last Year Bring Us Closer to ‘a Day When Everyone Will Thrive’

    WSFS CARES Foundation’s $2.4 Million in Donations Last Year Bring Us Closer to ‘a Day When Everyone Will Thrive’

    The WSFS CARES Foundation, the charitable giving arm of WSFS Bank, provided grants and donations totaling more than $2.4 million to community organizations located across Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania in 2022. In addition to the grants, Team WSFS, the WSFS corporate volunteer program, saw associates volunteer more than 17,000 hours in 2022 through community…

  • Pa.’s Fourth Congressional District Makes Forbes Ranking for Key Household Metric in Montco

    Pa.’s Fourth Congressional District Makes Forbes Ranking for Key Household Metric in Montco

    Pennsylvania’s 4th Congressional District, which encompasses the majority of Montgomery County, is one of the wealthiest in the nation, writes Andrew DePietro for Forbes. Forbes recently analyzed all of the congressional districts that comprise the 116th Congress that started in January 2021 and will run until January 2023 to determine which have the highest median…