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Oplogics Partners With Axonify to Gamify Employee Awareness Programs That Reduce Online Security Breaches
[August 05, 2015]

Oplogics Partners With Axonify to Gamify Employee Awareness Programs That Reduce Online Security Breaches


ATLANTA, Aug. 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Oplogics, a division of What's Up Interactive, and Axonify, a leading eLearning platform that delivers learning in a fun, bite-sized and personalized way, have partnered to provide an enhanced employee security awareness program. The two organizations combine marketing agency content with eLearning and gamification components to change employees' behavior and reduce online security breaches.

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Axonify serves a wide range of industries and more than a few well-known companies – like Toys"R"Us, PepBoys, Johnson & Johnson and Walmart – with learning and awareness initiatives that continue to add value in sales, customer service, and worker safety.

Oplogics draws from 25 years as an interactive marketing agency to deliver engaging web and video content that's easy for employees to understand and fun to experience to clients such as AT&T, American Cancer Society and Emory University.

The partnership is a great fit as Oplogics provides the agency quality content to populate the proven Axonify eLearning platform. 

The Aberdeen Group's comprehensive study: The Last Mile in IT Security: Changing User Behavior pulled from 29 benchmarks, 3,500 enterprise accounts over 4.5 years. Assuming 1,000 employees and $200M in revenue, their findings were that an employee awareness and behavior modification program can:

-       Reduce IT security risks by about 60%.

-       Provide an 80% chance of saving $1.M per 1,000 users annually



-       Provide a 20% chance of saving $4.5M per 1,000 users annually 

"This partnership aligns perfectly with Axonify's continual learning philosophy, which aims to help organizations use learning ongoing to positively influence employee behavior," said Christine Tutssel, SVP of Strategic Initiatives, Axonify. "Through the Axonify eLearning platform, organizations can see the effect learning has on their employees because they have measurable data that ties results to business outcomes. We're thrilled to partner with organizations, like Oplogics, that understand the value of learning and the impact it can have on the business as a whole."


"We're excited about this partnership. Our content will be the fuel for Axonify's eLearning platform, and provide a superior employee awareness and behavior modification program focused on preventing online security breaches. This will also foster friendly competition among employees and give managers detailed analytics on their teams initial baseline of knowledge and improvement over time," said George Duffield, VP of Business Development for Oplogics.

About Oplogics

A division of What's Up Interactive, the Oplogics platform is designed to reduce the risk of online security breaches by increasing employee awareness and improving their behavior.  Oplogics draws on 25 years as an interactive marketing agency to deliver web and video content that is easy for employees to understand and fun to experience.  From phishing to passwords, social media to encryption, Oplogics helps companies enhance their investment in security hardware and software to reduce risk.  Build Awareness. Drive Behavior. Reduce Risk. http://www.oplogics.com/

About Axonify

The Axonify platform enables organizations to easily engage employees in the learning process through the delivery of personalized, bite-sized content in the form of daily questions and information in topic areas those organizations care about. Using concepts of behavioral science combined with gamification, Axonify is proven to improve sales and service levels, reduce safety incidents and other areas of loss, and support employee performance across the board. The system creates a real-time, personalized knowledge map, employee by employee, which identifies and closes individual knowledge gaps. Participation and success rates are measured and correlated to specific corporate outcomes that drive revenue or reduce expenses. Axonify is your simpler way to a smarter company, every day.

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