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Integrations with Key Software Systems and Dispatch Science unify independent contractor onboarding, compliance, insurance, dispatch, and payments.

SCOTTSDALE, AZ, UNITED STATES, February 18, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Openforce, the leading compliance and workforce management platform for commercial relationships between contracting companies and their 1099 independent contractors, today announced new strategic integrations with Transportation Management System (TMS) providers Key Software Systems and Dispatch Science.

The integrations create a connected, end-to-end workflow that links independent contractor onboarding, compliance, insurance, settlement, and deductions directly with transportation operations. Contracting companies can move faster from contractor approval to dispatch while reducing compliance risk, manual work, and operational friction.

“These integrations deliver immediate, tangible value to mutual clients by eliminating the costly historical gaps between compliance and operations,” said Wendy Greenland, CEO of Openforce. “These integrations allow transportation and logistics companies to achieve operational excellence and 1099 compliance. Our TMS integration strategy allows each system to do what it does best; the TMS manages execution, while Openforce handles the complexity of compliance, insurance, and payments. Together, we’re enabling transportation businesses to scale 1099 programs quickly, confidently, and compliantly.”

As transportation organizations increasingly rely on independent contractors to meet demand, fragmented systems and manual processes have become a barrier to scale. Openforce’s TMS integrations ensure only approved; compliant independent contractors flow directly into operational systems, eliminating manual handoffs, improving data accuracy, and accelerating productivity.

“We couldn’t be more excited about announcing our partnership with Openforce,” said Charlie Pisciotta, President of Key Software Systems. “The integration between our platforms allows customers to eliminate manual processes, reduce compliance risks, and accelerate contractor onboarding while maintaining full operational visibility; and that’s just the start. Openforce has been a phenomenal partner, and they share our vision of empowering logistics providers through automation and innovation.”

“At Dispatch Science, our cloud‑native TMS is built to shape the next era of logistics, not just keep pace with it,” commented Arthur Axelrad, CEO & Co-Founder, Dispatch Science. “Partnering with Openforce accelerates that mission by uniting two powerful platforms to eliminate friction, elevate compliance, and unlock truly scalable contractor operations. This integration isn’t just an improvement; it’s a catalyst for the future of intelligent, connected delivery ecosystems.”

Openforce serves as the system of record for 1099 onboarding, compliance, insurance, and payments, while TMS partners support dispatch, routing, and execution. Once a contractor is approved in Openforce, their status is automatically synchronized with the TMS, enabling seamless progression from onboarding to dispatch.

For mutual clients, the impact is measurable: independent contractor time-to-productivity drops from weeks to days, compliance visibility moves to real-time monitoring, and the administrative burden that previously consumed management attention is automated. The result is a scalable foundation for growth without added complexity, while minimizing misclassification risk and settlement errors. This will deliver a smoother, more transparent independent contractor experience.

As independent contractor networks continue to expand across transportation and logistics, Openforce’s growing TMS partner ecosystem reflects the industry’s shift toward integrated platforms that unify compliance, operations, and payments, supporting long-term, compliant scale.

About Openforce
Openforce^® is the leading compliance and workforce management software and payments processing platform for managing the commercial relationships between contracting companies, vendors who provide workforce labor, and independent contractors (ICs). Its cloud- based software is a vital tool that empowers contracting companies to operate with confidence by addressing compliance risks and lowering operational costs through AI-powered onboarding, insurance enablement, contracting, and settlement processing (including vendor invoicing and deduction management) technology. In addition, Openforce provides customized insurance solutions tailored to ICs and critical business tools that ICs need to manage their small businesses and increase their profits. Openforce also serves the Insurtech market with its innovative insurance policy administration software solution tailored to IC insureds that minimizes carrier losses and increases profits for insurers, brokers, and agents. Openforce is a portfolio company of Boston-based private equity firm Riverside Partners.

About Key Software Systems
Key Software Systems provides performance-driven Delivery Management and Optimization software for final mile carriers, drivers, shippers, 3PLs. Its comprehensive platform is designed to automate operations, optimize driver performance, and strengthen brand visibility through a robust set of tools that connect every stakeholder across the delivery lifecycle. By streamlining workflows and enhancing real-time execution, Key Software Systems enables logistics organizations to operate more efficiently, scale with confidence, and deliver exceptional service.

About Dispatch Science
Dispatch Science is a cloud-native transportation management system, purpose-built for last-mile shippers, couriers, and delivery businesses. Powered by cutting-edge AI and intelligent algorithms, the platform puts route optimization and driver performance at the heart of operations—driving faster deliveries, reducing costs, and maximizing fleet efficiency. From seamless order entry to automated billing, with real-time visibility, Dispatch Science transforms every step of delivery workflows, enabling logistics businesses to scale smarter, serve customers better, and stay ahead of the competition.

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NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, February 18, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — DataArt, a global software engineering firm that delivers breakthrough data, analytics, and AI platforms, today introduced Artisyn, an AI-enabled operating model that redefines how enterprises build, scale, and govern software. The methodology combines AI agents, unified project context, and reusable code foundations with enterprise governance standards — embedding intelligence throughout the design, development, testing, and deployment process.

Built with and for clients, Artisyn systemizes how DataArt invests in, applies, and evolves its delivery practices over time, bringing together reference architectures, reusable foundations and AI-enhanced workflows. The goal is to help teams standardize non-differentiating work while preserving full ownership of what makes their business unique, enabling faster, more predictable outcomes. Artisyn is designed to evolve continuously as DataArt’s teams contribute proven accelerators and AI capabilities to the delivery flywheel, ensuring clients benefit from cross-industry learning.

As AI becomes a standard part of enterprise software development, organizations face growing complexity around governance, auditability, and consistency across teams and tools. Many organizations struggle to apply AI consistently across the software lifecycle, from strategy and problem shaping through build and deployment. Artisyn enables teams to integrate AI into delivery work while maintaining oversight, quality, and regulatory alignment.

Designed for Modern Enterprise Delivery

Artisyn reflects DataArt’s philosophy that AI should support and improve how teams work rather than replace human judgment or creativity. It represents an evolving way of working with clients, grounded in co-creation and continuous learning, using AI to strengthen how software is designed, built and delivered to achieve business outcomes.

Backed by DataArt’s $100M data and AI investment deployed in a disciplined, demand-led way, Artisyn provides systematized delivery methods, reusable foundations, and partner-aligned reference architectures that support real-world enterprise requirements. It mechanizes repeatable setup, testing, and delivery activities so DataArt’s 6,000+ engineers can focus on architecture, user experience, domain logic, and problem-solving.

“We’re not trying to automate creativity or judgment,” explained Allan Wellenstein, Senior Vice President, DataArt Solution Advisors. “We’re automating the scaffolding work that has to be done anyway. Artisyn reflects how we build the future with our clients, learning from each engagement and applying those lessons consistently over time. It helps teams focus effort on what truly differentiates their business.”

“From an engineering standpoint, Artisyn embeds AI directly into the process for how software is designed, built, tested, and delivered,” said Yuri Gubin, Chief Innovation Officer at DataArt. “By systemizing repeatable parts of the delivery lifecycle, teams can apply AI in a predictable and governed way, while maintaining control over architecture, data, and the technical decisions that matter most.”

A Partner-Aligned, Multi-Cloud Delivery Platform

Artisyn works inside client environments and alongside the tools teams already use without introducing a proprietary runtime, control plane, or abstraction layer. It builds on partner-native architectures and best practices across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake, and Databricks, helping enterprises apply AI in ways that align with ecosystem-recommended security, compliance, and operating models.

Artisyn includes a set of practical components teams can use in day-to-day delivery work, including:

SDLC agents that mechanize setup, coding, testing, and delivery tasks — from story development and code review to DevOps workflows — across cloud environments

Foundations and business solution starter kits that provide reusable building blocks designed to evolve with client needs

Frameworks that support alignment, governance, and predictable delivery execution

Developer tooling and demos that support onboarding, reuse, and client collaboration

The platform integrates with major cloud AI services, including AWS Bedrock and Amazon Q, Azure AI Studio and Copilot Studio, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI and Model Garden, ensuring alignment with partner-recommended architectures, security practices, and operational patterns.

Governance, Compliance, and Predictability by Design

Artisyn was developed to address the realities of enterprise delivery, particularly in regulated environments. Rather than introducing new controls, it systemizes governance practices DataArt has applied for years. Security and compliance considerations, including ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI DSS, are addressed through established delivery practices and reference architectures rather than treated as add-ons. All implementations operate within client environments, ensuring that data and intellectual property remain under client control.

Evidence of Impact from Real Delivery Environments

Across projects using Artisyn-enabled workflows, teams have reported faster prototyping cycles of up to 70%, improved development efficiency of up to 30%, and higher accuracy in GenAI outputs, exceeding 90% in defined use cases. In cost-focused engagements, teams have also seen engineering cost reductions of approximately 15% and faster delivery timelines, depending on scope and maturity.

Today, it is used internally and in selected client engagements, including in regulated environments such as financial services and clinical trials, where governance and auditability are critical. These engagements build on broader AI adoption efforts across DataArt, where more than half of client accounts now use AI-enabled delivery and teams report consistent time savings from AI embedded in delivery workflows.

This approach was mentioned in the 2025 Gartner^® “How to Evolve Your Pricing Model for AI Services” report, which described Artisyn as DataArt’s structured approach to integrating AI into enterprise service delivery, reflecting a shift toward asset-backed, outcome-aligned service models.

DataArt continues to focus on building custom software for clients across industries, including financial services, healthcare, travel, and media. Artisyn provides the delivery foundation that supports this work, enabling teams to respond to evolving client needs, regulatory requirements, and technology shifts with greater confidence and control.

For more information, please visit: https://www.dataart.com/artisyn

Gartner, AI Vendor Race: How to Evolve Your Pricing Model for AI Services, Danny Ryan, Robert Brown, 13 October 2025.

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Native integrations reduce setup time and ongoing maintenance by making it easy to ingest, index, and continuously update data from enterprise systems

TRONDHEIM, NORWAY, February 18, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Vespa.ai, the creator of the leading AI search platform for large-scale, real-time applications, and Nexla, the leading AI-powered data integration platform for agents, today announced a strategic partnership to address a key bottleneck in AI application development: moving production-ready data into scalable, high-performance AI search and retrieval systems.

With over 500 connectors, Nexla addresses this challenge by turning data variety from any enterprise system (structured/unstructured, batch/streaming, internal/external, modern/legacy) into ready-to-use data products for AI and Agents, while Vespa provides the distributed search, vector retrieval, and real-time inference capabilities required to serve AI-powered applications at scale.

As part of the partnership, Nexla launched native Vespa integrations that make working with Vespa faster and simpler:

Vespa Connector in Nexla: Seamlessly pipes data from sources such as Amazon S3, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, APIs, and even existing vector databases directly into Vespa.
Vespa Nexla Plugin CLI: Automatically generates draft Vespa application packages, including schema files, directly from Nexla’s metadata-defined data products (Nexsets), dramatically reducing setup time and configuration errors.

These capabilities allow teams to migrate from other vector databases, sync operational databases into Vespa, or continuously update Vespa indexes using batch, streaming, or CDC pipelines without writing code.

The combined solution is especially valuable for organizations building or scaling:
AI search and RAG applications requiring hybrid retrieval across vectors, keywords, and structured filters
High-throughput, low-latency systems serving billions of documents with real-time updates
Complex ranking and inference pipelines, including multi-phase ranking and LLM integration

Nexla prepares and governs the data; Vespa executes advanced retrieval, ranking, and inference where the data lives.

Saket Saurabh, CEO & Co-Founder, Nexla.com: “Data integration and intelligent retrieval are two sides of the same coin in modern AI architectures. Nexla unlocks data variety, transforms and delivers enterprise grade ready-to-use data; Vespa.AI makes it searchable and actionable in real time. This partnership creates a powerful combination for organizations building agentic RAG, recommendation systems, and AI-powered search at scale.”

Jon Bratseth, CEO, Vespa.ai: “Vespa is built for teams that need precision, performance, and real-time execution at scale. By partnering with Nexla, we’re simplifying large-scale deployment by removing friction between data preparation and production AI search, while reducing time-to-value. Together, we’re helping teams move from raw enterprise data to production-grade AI search and RAG systems faster and with far more control.”

For more information: https://blog.vespa.ai/vespa-nexla-partnership/

About Nexla
Nexla is an enterprise-grade, AI-powered data integration platform for agents that unlocks data from any data source into production-ready data products for AI and agents. With support for 500+ connectors and multiple integration styles, including ELT, ETL, streaming, APIs, and agentic RAG, Nexla enables teams to build and manage data flows without writing code. Nexla processes over one trillion records per month for leading companies across industries.

About Vespa
Vespa.ai is an AI search platform used by companies such as Spotify, Yahoo, and Perplexity to power large-scale, real-time search, recommendation, and retrieval-augmented generation applications. The platform combines vector search, keyword retrieval, structured filtering, and machine-learned ranking in a single distributed system designed for high-throughput, low-latency workloads. Vespa is available as open source and as a managed cloud service.

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New Cyber Alerts support the NCC’s commitment to make online safety clear, trusted, and actionable

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, February 18, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The National Cybersecurity Center (NCC) today announced the availability of Cyber Alerts, a new, free public-service offering designed to help people understand and respond to real online threats. Designed for individuals and families, Cyber Alerts provide timely, non-technical notifications of scams, threats, and risks, making the alerts easy to understand and act on.

As online activity increases, scams and digital threats are affecting people across age groups in the U.S. more than 18,000 individuals under the age of 20 and over 101,000 adults aged 60 and older have reported being impacted by online scams. Despite the scale of the issue, many individuals and families remain unsure of what actions to take.

“When it comes to staying safe online, it’s hard to know what’s real or who to trust,” said Dr. Rachel Gardner, Director of Product Development of the National Cybersecurity Center. “Cyber Alerts help close that gap by giving people timely awareness and clear, actionable guidance on what to do.”

Real-world Cyber Alerts People Can Actually Use

NCC’s Cyber Alerts are free and notify subscribers when scams, threats, or emerging online risks may affect them. Each alert pairs clear, non-technical guidance that explains the issue, outlines simple steps to protect against threats, and helps individuals respond quickly to urgent risks.

For example, a recent cyber alert issued by the NCC highlighted the leak of more than 149 million exposed login credentials, putting users of major platforms, including Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Netflix, and others, at risk. The alert detailed a massive leak of 149 million unprotected login credentials — including Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, iCloud, .edu, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Netflix, OnlyFans, and Binance accounts — and urged users to immediately change passwords, enable two-factor authentication, and monitor accounts for unauthorized activity.

Cyber Alerts include:

Notification when a new or emerging online risk is identified

A brief explanation of the issue and the potential impact

Suggested actions individuals may consider to help protect their accounts and information

Cyber Alerts are available to everyone for free as part of the NCC’s public service mission. Individuals can sign up to receive alerts by visiting https://nationalcybersecuritycenter.org/sign-up/.

Cyber Alerts Expand the NCC’s Public-Service Role in Online Safety

Building on its work across education, industry, and government, the NCC is expanding how it delivers timely information to help individuals navigate an increasingly connected world. Cyber Alerts represent the next step in how the National Cybersecurity Center supports online safety as a public service.

“Building a cyber-resilient society requires more than reacting to individual incidents,” said Greg Oslan, CEO and Chairman of the National Cybersecurity Center. “It means making online safety a daily priority, where people have consistent access to information they can trust as technology and risk continue to change.”

About the National Cybersecurity Center

The National Cybersecurity Center (NCC) is a nonprofit that helps people and organizations reduce cyber risk. The NCC makes online safety clearer and more practical by translating complex cybersecurity problems into action-focused guidance.

As a trusted public-service resource, the NCC brings together industry, government, and academic expertise to build cyber resilience and enable informed decision-making. The NCC leads awareness, knowledge, and solutions that strengthen online safety for all.

For more information, visit https://nationalcybersecuritycenter.org/.

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