Product Launch

Hong Kong – September 23, 2026 -- Regent Hong Kong has opened The Terrace, a new indoor-outdoor waterfront venue positioned above Victoria Harbour, adding a 290-square-metre (3,122-square-foot) events space to the hotel's commercial portfolio.

Venue capacity targets both large-scale receptions and intimate corporate gatherings

The Terrace accommodates up to 250 guests for cocktail-style receptions and up to 108 guests for seated banquets, giving Regent Hong Kong a flexible asset for weddings, private dinners, milestone celebrations, VIP receptions, product launches and brand experiences.

Houston – September 23, 2026 -- PCS Software has launched PCS Advantage, a benefit program that pools the purchasing power of its entire customer base to secure enterprise-level pricing on fuel, lodging and driver recruiting for small and mid-sized carriers. Three benefits are live immediately for all active PCS customers, with additional categories in development.

Collective scale unlocks discounts previously reserved for the largest fleets

Negotiated national rate programs have historically required volume that individual mid-market operators could not reach on their own. PCS Software aggregates demand across its full customer community and negotiates contracts on that combined basis, then passes the terms back to each enrolled carrier regardless of fleet size.

Oceanside, Calif. – September 23, 2026 -- LAMVIN, a Catalyst Acoustics Group brand, has launched Sonic Theater Board, a rigid, black sound-absorptive panel targeting reverberation control in commercial, educational, hospitality, and entertainment spaces.

Product ships in field-cuttable boards for renovation and new-build projects

The panels are offered in standard 4' x 8' boards, plus 2' x 2' and 2' x 4' tiles, and can be trimmed on site with a standard utility knife to fit virtually any ceiling grid. LAMVIN says the design targets faster installation timelines for contractors working across both retrofit and new construction jobs.

Provo, Utah – September 23, 2026 -- Qualtrics unveiled Healthcare XM, a new platform built on Press Ganey's proprietary data and what the company calls the world's largest human experiential dataset, aimed at helping health systems and health plans simulate care changes, predict patient behavior, and act on safety risks before they escalate.

Qualtrics builds Healthcare XM on Press Ganey data to close the industry's experience gap

The platform runs on the Qualtrics XM Data & AI Platform and combines decades of Press Ganey benchmarks, regulatory expertise, and predictive analytics. It covers five domains: patient experience across HCAHPS and CAHPS journeys, member experience including Medicare CAHPS and Stars ratings, workforce engagement and retention, safety and quality signals such as NDNQI and PSO data, and consumer and brand positioning.

San Francisco – September 23, 2026 -- Juniper Square, which operates as the technology and fund administration partner for more than 2,300 private markets general partners (GPs) worldwide, has launched Capital Intelligence, a new CRM product that embeds Nasdaq eVestment Market Lens institutional data directly into GPs' existing investor relations workflows.

Product taps a database of 30,000+ institutional firms and 70,000+ mandates

Capital Intelligence is built on Nasdaq eVestment Market Lens, which covers more than 30,000 institutional firms, 70,000-plus mandates, and 100,000-plus investment professionals. The tool automatically refreshes investor and consultant records inside Juniper Square's CRM, combining structured relationship data with qualitative signals such as pacing plans, consultant sentiment, and allocation trends.

Quakertown, Pa. – September 23, 2026 -- DEXIS unveiled a coordinated set of upgrades spanning hardware, software, cloud and service offerings across its dental imaging ecosystem, unveiled during the company's ILLUMINATE virtual keynote.

NOMAD Pro 3 upgrades handheld X-ray hardware with improved image quality and durability

The new NOMAD Pro 3 builds on DEXIS' handheld X-ray system, adding enhanced image quality and durability while maintaining safety-first engineering standards. Separately, the ORTHOPANTOMOGRAPH OP 3D gains a Motion Correction feature that reduces the impact of patient movement on CBCT image clarity without requiring hardware changes.

Gaithersburg, Md. – September 23, 2026 -- DRB Group will launch two mortgage joint ventures in January 2027, pairing its DRB Homes and DRB Elevate 55+ brands with regional lending partners Acrisure Mortgage and Alta Home Lending.

DRB Group splits U.S. mortgage strategy into east-west joint ventures

The homebuilder will operate DRB Mortgage with Acrisure Mortgage across its eastern markets, while DRB Home Loans will serve western buyers through Alta Home Lending. Both platforms are scheduled to go live in January 2027, aligning financing with DRB's national homebuilding footprint.

Richmond Hill, ON – September 23, 2026 -- Edsby has launched Forms & Workflows, a digital approvals system designed to eliminate paper-based permission slips, medical disclosures and code of conduct sign-offs across K-12 school districts.

Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board becomes first deployment partner

Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, an Ontario district serving 34,000 students and an Edsby client since 2014, is among the first to roll out the new system, using it to digitize field trip permission processes. Owen McIntosh, the district's Information Technology Manager, said the board evaluated multiple vendors before selecting Edsby, citing the company's willingness to tailor the solution to the board's specific approval hierarchy.

Paris – September 23, 2026 -- A 200-gram smartphone requires more than 266 kilograms of raw material extraction, part of an annual global total exceeding 319 million tons of upstream materials pulled from the earth to manufacture smartphones alone, according to data cited by refurbished-tech marketplace Back Market.

The company estimates that figure equals the material weight of more than 900 Empire State Buildings extracted every year, driven in large part by a typical 2- to 2.5-year device upgrade cycle. Back Market is now calling for a legally mandated 10-year device standard covering durability, repairability and long-term software support, arguing that extending a smartphone's productive life to a decade instead of 2.5 years could avoid roughly 757 kilograms of raw material extraction per device.

Jakarta – September 23, 2026 -- Shanghai Electric (SEHK: 02727, SSE: 601727) presented three energy transition solutions at Enlit Asia 2026, held Sept. 22-24 in Jakarta and attended by more than 11,000 delegates and 280 exhibitors across the ASEAN power sector.

Shanghai Electric targets thermal power decarbonization with hydrogen-blend gas turbines

The High-Efficiency Power & Decarbonization solution covers modular steam turbines for H- and F-class combined-cycle systems, heavy-duty gas turbines capable of running on up to 30% hydrogen blending, and coal-fired power retrofit packages aimed at cutting fuel consumption and lowering carbon intensity in markets such as Indonesia.