Innovate Utah NEW IDEAS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM UTAH COMPANIES

KT Tape, an American Fork-based provider of kinesiology tape and exercise recovery products, has released KTHealth+ AIM, a daily drink mix designed to help improve the body’s inflammatory response to the aches and pains associated with physical exertion. AIM is a drug-free dietary supplement with botanical ingredients such as turmeric, ashwagandha, organic beet root powder, zinc, vitamin D and vitamin C.

“At KT Tape, we know being healthy means taking care of your body inside and out,” said Greg Venner, KTTape CEO and president. “Every day, millions of Americans may be impacted by the aches and pains associated with inflammation in the body. That’s why we teamed up with nutrition experts to create an everyday, great-tasting drink mix support for a healthy inflammatory response.”

Venner said the product supports inflammatory response with ingredients such as turmeric as well as ashwagandha and organic beet root powder, provides immune support with vitamins C, D and zinc, and promotes digestive health with Fibersol-2, inulin and a black pepper extract. The product is plant-based, GMO-free, sugar-free, gluten-free, soy-free and contains no preservatives, artificial flavors, colors or artificial sweeteners. Its sweetness is due to natural fruit flavor and sweeteners such as monk fruit extract and stevia leaf extract.

AIM is available in peach mango, citrus orange and pineapple orange guava flavors as well as unflavored. It is available at the KT Tape website or from Amazon.

BambooHR, a cloud-hosted human resources software platform based in Lindon, has announced it has added Ease to the 119 applications in its Marketplace platform. Ease is an online benefits enrollment solution designed for insurance brokers and used by employers. BambooHR now offers customers an integration that will eliminate duplicative data entries between HR and benefits systems, reducing the risk of errors and saving joint customers time, the company said. “Ease provides a simple way to set up and manage benefits, giving employees access to key details related to their benefits and employment in one place,” said Shama Madhvani, director of business development and strategic partnerships at BambooHR. “For joint customers of BambooHR and Ease, our new integration further simplifies this process by automatically syncing employee information from BambooHR to Ease.”

Lehi-based Gabb Wireless, a provider of safe tech for children, has launched Gabb Music, a music streaming service the company believes to be the largest clean music library curated specifically for kids. Gabb Music includes songs by popular artists from nearly every era and genre, without any swearing, innuendo or drug references. “Music is the No. 1 requested item from our Gabb kids and parents. Instead of settling for another music service, we built our own filtration system and experience. This will allow kids and teens to listen to many of the hits without the explicits,” said Nate Randle, CEO of Gabb Wireless. “We built safe tech from the ground up, and now we’re doing it with music.” Randle said Gabb Music was created to prioritize kid safety from the start.

Jewel360, a Springville startup, has launched its new cloud-based retail management software for retailer jewelry merchants. The platform supports retail jewelry business operations with real-time visibility and control over in-store and online sales, inventory, repairs, customer communications and marketing. It also includes real-time integration with Clientbook, a customer management and engagement platform. “We’re excited to bring Jewel360 to the industry and support jewelry retailers with a truly modern solution unlike any other,” said Nick Gurney, general manager of Jewel360. “We’ve combined decades of jewelry expertise with industry-leading technology to design an all-in-one solution to help retailers streamline operations and increase sales. To date, customers that have switched to Jewel360 have increased sales by 20 percent or more.” Jewel360 was showcased at the recent JCK Luxury Jewelry Show in Las Vegas.

Provo-based medical imaging technologies company Novarad has released CryptoChart Lite, a web-only version of its CryptoChartmedical image sharing system, which provides secure digital health records storage and transfer via encrypted QR code or web access code. Novarad is providing CryptoChart Lite at no cost, allowing providers and patients simple, streamlined, fully secure access to medical imaging, effectively removing accessibility challenges no matter the geographical distance or setting. “One of the recurring frustrations by providers and patients alike is sharing information from different facilities while maintaining strict privacy.” said David GrandPre, senior product director for Novarad. “Being able to send large digital files like medical images quickly with a built-in viewer anywhere in the world helps simplify access, improve patient outcomes and lower the cost of providing world-class care anywhere.”

Experience management platform Qualtrics, based in Provo, has introduced an application to help employers improve employees’ sense of safety and overall well-being at work. Qualtrics’ Safe Workplace solution helps employers use experience data — how employees think and feel about work — to understand employee sentiment in key drivers to determine the scope of how safe employees feel working in a physical environment. “The global pandemic has brought employee safety, health and well-being to the forefront of business priorities, and it can be challenging for leaders to know how to best support their employees,” said Jay Choi, Qualtrics chief product officer for EmployeeXM. “Qualtrics’ safety and well-being solutions offer employers a science-based approach to understanding the evolving needs and expectations of their employees and making changes that meaningfully improve people’s experiences at work.”

Security Metrics, a data security company in Orem, has introduced the Pulse Security Platform, a platform that provides small and medium-sized businesses with tools, training and support to fight threat actors and provide business network threat visibility. The platform helps businesses with both e-commerce and business location network security. Kelly Redd, director of product management for Security Metrics, said, “For IT teams without a dedicated security staff who need fundamental cyber protection, SecurityMetrics’ Pulse Security Platform is a security operations service that’s built on the Pulse platform and uses network traffic analysis to provide threat visibility. Unlike other offerings, our product provides white-glove service at an accessible price.” Also, as part of the Pulse platform, SecurityMetrics offers Shopping Cart Monitor, an e-commerce solution that helps vendors by detecting digital skimming.

Orem-based Studies Weekly Online, an online curriculum company that opened its online learning for free in response to the COVID pandemic, has launched a post-pandemic, more robust virtual learning platform it calls Studies Weekly Online 3.0. The new platform is more user-friendly and built with teacher feedback. Similar to popular learning management software for education, the fresh format functions like a digital classroom, making it easier to find lesson plans, videos and activities and adapt to all student learning styles, the company said. “The Studies Weekly team feels strongly that educational publishing companies need to step it up and give teachers and students the best virtual learning experience possible,” a company release said. “It is all about helping teachers give students a quality education so they can succeed in life.”