Rethinking Test Automation: The Case for Moving Beyond the User InterfaceCognizant
Rapid development models are forcing quality teams to balance speed with coverage. To enable both effective and efficient testing in this environment, businesses need to replace conventional UI-based automation techniques with more holistic approaches.
Business Process as a Service for Utilities: From Meter to CashCognizant
As utilities adopt smart meters, smart grids and other innovative digital technologies, deploying business process as a service (BPaaS) offers great benefits for operational efficiency, customer service and controlling IT expenses.
The Case for Mobility: How New-Age Utilities Can Energize Operations and Boos...Cognizant
For utilities feeling the pinch, mobility offers a vast array of potential increased efficiencies and customer service activities. We outline a multi-stage path to become a mobility-enabled utility enterprise.
As technology demands on logistics services providers (LSPs) become more intense, organizations are seeking to integrate or consolidate their third-part logistics (3PL) providers' solutions for tasks such as warehousing, inventory management, shipment management, cross-docking, order management, bar coding, analytics and far more. We offer a roadmap for selecting whether to make such a transition in logistics systems via a big bang or phased/pilot approach.
Companies in the warranty management system market are fulfilling business continuity plans amidst the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. They are maintaining operational readiness to address challenges created by the pandemic. In order to ensure employee and partner safety, companies in the warranty management system market are adhering to guidelines issued by local governments and health organizations to successfully contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Rethinking Test Automation: The Case for Moving Beyond the User InterfaceCognizant
Rapid development models are forcing quality teams to balance speed with coverage. To enable both effective and efficient testing in this environment, businesses need to replace conventional UI-based automation techniques with more holistic approaches.
Business Process as a Service for Utilities: From Meter to CashCognizant
As utilities adopt smart meters, smart grids and other innovative digital technologies, deploying business process as a service (BPaaS) offers great benefits for operational efficiency, customer service and controlling IT expenses.
The Case for Mobility: How New-Age Utilities Can Energize Operations and Boos...Cognizant
For utilities feeling the pinch, mobility offers a vast array of potential increased efficiencies and customer service activities. We outline a multi-stage path to become a mobility-enabled utility enterprise.
As technology demands on logistics services providers (LSPs) become more intense, organizations are seeking to integrate or consolidate their third-part logistics (3PL) providers' solutions for tasks such as warehousing, inventory management, shipment management, cross-docking, order management, bar coding, analytics and far more. We offer a roadmap for selecting whether to make such a transition in logistics systems via a big bang or phased/pilot approach.
Companies in the warranty management system market are fulfilling business continuity plans amidst the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. They are maintaining operational readiness to address challenges created by the pandemic. In order to ensure employee and partner safety, companies in the warranty management system market are adhering to guidelines issued by local governments and health organizations to successfully contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) solutions have now been a part of the broader wholesale energy trading application landscape for around 20-years, having evolved in step with both business and technology trends over that time period. As a result of this evolutionary process, there are a large number of diverse solutions on the market that address any number of combinations of industrial segments, energy commodities, geographic locations, and functional reach.
Global supply chains have been steadily growing in complexity for years – spurred by the proliferation of e-commerce and increasing consumer expectations (widely deemed the “Amazon Effect”). More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those pre-existing dynamics and further highlighted the failings of a traditional, siloed, supply chain framework, as many companies found themselves underprepared and slow to respond to a shifting market environment. As a result, businesses have been motivated to re-evaluate their current technology and processes and are seeking solutions that emphasize visibility, adaptability, and automation across the supply chain.
At Catalyst Investors, we believe software and tech-enabled services enabling more efficient supply chain management are poised for outsized growth in the coming years. We are excited to meet and partner with growth stage companies that are driving forces behind more efficient supply chains.
In the world of E/CTRM software much is changing and at a fair pace. Driven by a plethora of new business needs, massive shifts in technology, and changes in software procurement behavior, it is a software category that is ripe for a true paradigm shift. In a paper written a few years ago, Commodity Technology Advisory (ComTech) outlined a potential solution to some of the issues that have plagued buyers of E/CTRM software for decades.
In that paper, the authors proposed a different approach to architecting E/CTRM solutions – that is creating an ecosystem of software capabilities rather than relying on the monolithic applications that have, or invariably will, become increasingly expensive and difficult to deploy, update and maintain.
ComTech noted that such an approach was both technically feasible given the advent of cloud technologies and desirable as it helped solve the myriad of business issues buyers face today. Since then, business trends have continued to evolve in directions around data management, digitalization and automation, and collaboration. More recently, lockdowns and the need for business continuity have only served to push the envelope faster and further.
The 2018 Commodity Technology Advisory’s vendor perception study was conducted to establish end-user and market influencer perceptions of the CTRM vendors to determine market leadership perceptions as well as buying criteria, demand levels, and brand awareness of the different vendors. The research comprised of a comprehensive set of questions that end users and others (including industry consultants but excluding vendor personnel) were invited to answer as an internet survey. The survey was open for responses between May 21st and September 30th, 2018 and collected some 195 responses.
Complaints Management: Integrating and Automating the ProcessCognizant
Manufacturers of medical devices are highly regulated and serve various types of customers. Today, these companies can take advantage of a cloud-based, integrated platform, Cognizant's MedVantage(TM), to manage and resolve customer complaints and connect with them throughout the complaints-management life cycle.
Digital transformation through integrationCetrixSaudi
The business world is undergoing a revolution. With the proliferation of technology across our lives and work, industries around the world are realising that the tried and trusted methods that have kept them moving forward might no longer suffice. Consumers today are connected, informed, and unprecedentedly technologically savvy, and as a result, the companies they deal with are expected to be the same.
Life sciences companies can avoid unnecessary risks and common sources of cost escalation by optimizing and centralizing the management of their promotional material references.
In the presentation, you will find a supply chain overview, problem and solution element, process flow, and roadmap. Supply chains are increasing in complexity due to the number of relationships with companies and their partners that supply chains have. These challenges have created a demand for efficient and accurate supply chain management strategies that can re-shape the way companies can work. This demand has led to the emergence of technologies such as Predictive Analytics. can be used in sales forecasting.
Multi-commodity ETRM’s are becoming too expensive to implement, and maintain ...CTRM Center
Since ETRM software was first introduced around 20-years ago, developers have continually sought to move from developing solutions designed to support specific commodities such as crude oil, natural gas, and electric power, to building solutions that catered for multiple energy commodities. In part, their objective was to reduce costs – specifically integration costs, but without a doubt, part of the objective was self-serving, as this also allowed them to broaden the appeal of their software to a larger and more lucrative market.
Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) solutions have now been a part of the broader wholesale energy trading application landscape for around 20-years, having evolved in step with both business and technology trends over that time period. As a result of this evolutionary process, there are a large number of diverse solutions on the market that address any number of combinations of industrial segments, energy commodities, geographic locations, and functional reach.
Global supply chains have been steadily growing in complexity for years – spurred by the proliferation of e-commerce and increasing consumer expectations (widely deemed the “Amazon Effect”). More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those pre-existing dynamics and further highlighted the failings of a traditional, siloed, supply chain framework, as many companies found themselves underprepared and slow to respond to a shifting market environment. As a result, businesses have been motivated to re-evaluate their current technology and processes and are seeking solutions that emphasize visibility, adaptability, and automation across the supply chain.
At Catalyst Investors, we believe software and tech-enabled services enabling more efficient supply chain management are poised for outsized growth in the coming years. We are excited to meet and partner with growth stage companies that are driving forces behind more efficient supply chains.
In the world of E/CTRM software much is changing and at a fair pace. Driven by a plethora of new business needs, massive shifts in technology, and changes in software procurement behavior, it is a software category that is ripe for a true paradigm shift. In a paper written a few years ago, Commodity Technology Advisory (ComTech) outlined a potential solution to some of the issues that have plagued buyers of E/CTRM software for decades.
In that paper, the authors proposed a different approach to architecting E/CTRM solutions – that is creating an ecosystem of software capabilities rather than relying on the monolithic applications that have, or invariably will, become increasingly expensive and difficult to deploy, update and maintain.
ComTech noted that such an approach was both technically feasible given the advent of cloud technologies and desirable as it helped solve the myriad of business issues buyers face today. Since then, business trends have continued to evolve in directions around data management, digitalization and automation, and collaboration. More recently, lockdowns and the need for business continuity have only served to push the envelope faster and further.
The 2018 Commodity Technology Advisory’s vendor perception study was conducted to establish end-user and market influencer perceptions of the CTRM vendors to determine market leadership perceptions as well as buying criteria, demand levels, and brand awareness of the different vendors. The research comprised of a comprehensive set of questions that end users and others (including industry consultants but excluding vendor personnel) were invited to answer as an internet survey. The survey was open for responses between May 21st and September 30th, 2018 and collected some 195 responses.
Complaints Management: Integrating and Automating the ProcessCognizant
Manufacturers of medical devices are highly regulated and serve various types of customers. Today, these companies can take advantage of a cloud-based, integrated platform, Cognizant's MedVantage(TM), to manage and resolve customer complaints and connect with them throughout the complaints-management life cycle.
Digital transformation through integrationCetrixSaudi
The business world is undergoing a revolution. With the proliferation of technology across our lives and work, industries around the world are realising that the tried and trusted methods that have kept them moving forward might no longer suffice. Consumers today are connected, informed, and unprecedentedly technologically savvy, and as a result, the companies they deal with are expected to be the same.
Life sciences companies can avoid unnecessary risks and common sources of cost escalation by optimizing and centralizing the management of their promotional material references.
In the presentation, you will find a supply chain overview, problem and solution element, process flow, and roadmap. Supply chains are increasing in complexity due to the number of relationships with companies and their partners that supply chains have. These challenges have created a demand for efficient and accurate supply chain management strategies that can re-shape the way companies can work. This demand has led to the emergence of technologies such as Predictive Analytics. can be used in sales forecasting.
Multi-commodity ETRM’s are becoming too expensive to implement, and maintain ...CTRM Center
Since ETRM software was first introduced around 20-years ago, developers have continually sought to move from developing solutions designed to support specific commodities such as crude oil, natural gas, and electric power, to building solutions that catered for multiple energy commodities. In part, their objective was to reduce costs – specifically integration costs, but without a doubt, part of the objective was self-serving, as this also allowed them to broaden the appeal of their software to a larger and more lucrative market.
'In My Eye' is how I see things, it's not always in a language that others speak, as it concerns symbols and colours. Dr. Ali Anani's recent discussion, on Linked In, called 'Visual Storytelling Using interlinked Standardized Charts' led me to consider the third, or in between element on a PH scale. The first association my mind connected to was the three doshas of Ayurvedic medicine, which led further into the field of vibrating molecules to the philosophising of Wassily Kandinsky. The presentation is a view, from the eye of an artist aka Isabella Wesoly
As insurance companies are highly regulated, the use of real data for testing and developmen t may be putting them at risk of non-compliance with international regulations. Research has also found that customer loyalty towards insurance companies is dependent upon the perception that the institution is taking every measure to protect the customers’ personal financial information.This whitepaper explores the various data masking techniques and the best practices of protecting sensitive data.
In episode #16 of the Vital Way we have a special guest Sajah Popham who'll tell us all about herbal alchemy, spagyrics, how paracelsus revolutionized medicine, similarities between Tomsonian herbalism, Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, and much more.
To prosper in this new environment insurance companies can look to the cloud, in conjunction with other technologies, to help drive reinvention of their business model to offer new services and create direct, multi-channel relationships with customers
Overview of JPA (Java Persistence API) v2.0Bryan Basham
JPA (Java Persistence API) is a JCP Standard for Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) persistence for the Java platform, both JavaSE and JavaEE. This talk will discuss and show examples from the latest version of the spec: JPA v2.0. Based upon influences from a variety of technologies that competed with the original JavaEE EJB specification for Entity beans, JPA promotes the use of light-weight POJO-based Entity objects and a simple EntityManger interface to control the CRUD operations to the backend RDBMS. Even with the rise of NoSQL data stores, there are still many applications that are well suited to a relational database solution and JPA is my favorite ORM tool for Java development.
In the talk I will present:
* Entities
* Entity Operations
* Query Language
* Containers & Deployment
* "In Practice" common problems, solutions and patterns of use
As the concerns over use of ayurveda medicines containing bhasmas of heavy metals are on rise, we will take a closer look at the process of preparing bhasmas and use of heavy metals prescribed in ayurveda.
Policy Administration Modernization: Four Paths for InsurersCognizant
The pivot to digital is fraught with numerous obstacles but with proper planning and execution, legacy carriers can update their core systems and keep pace with the competition, while proactively addressing customer needs.
Infosys – Automobile Warranty Management System | ProcessInfosys
The Automobile Warranty Management System helps in building an agile platform for business users to develop, maintain, simulate and amend frequently changing business decisions
201305 Tech Decisions: Insurers Missing the BoatSteven Callahan
Detail article on how insurers could gain significant advantage by rigorous application of analytics to their claims operations. Not just in finding fraud, but in FNOL, workflow management, subrogation, recovery and litigation as well.
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When your basic accounting needs are no longer met by the limitations of QuickBooks, it’s time to upgrade to Intacct, the cloud-based, best in class, financial management software. Intacct scales with your business, automates your processes, and integrates with your other applications.
Why are Businesses Leaving QuickBooks for Intacct?
Intacct Improves Your Speed and Efficiency
With QuickBooks you often end up spending hours completing manual tasks to compensate for the way it works. Intacct eliminates this unneeded costly time investment by automating time-consuming processes, such as multi-entity/multi-location close and reporting, multi-currency management, revenue recognition, project accounting, and billing. You’ll discover that you have more time to focus on growing your business.
Increased Visibility and Flexibility in Usage.
With Intacct as your cloud-based solution, you can view your financial and operational performance anywhere, anytime. All you need is an Internet browser connection and a smartphone, tablet, or laptop. Intacct’s flexible system lets manage, analyze and summarize information the way you want using pre-defined or custom reports and dashboards.
Intacct Integrates with Other Applications and Eliminates Data Re-entry Time
Intacct integrates with best-in-class applications, such as Salesforce, and works with your other business systems seamlessly. Avoid the headaches of having to re-enter data from other applications into your financial system. When it’s time to upgrade from QuickBooks, Intacct is the best replacement.
Cloud-based Intacct Saves Money and Decreases IT Problems.
Intacct accounting software is cloud-based, allowing you to eliminate hardware costs, software maintenance, and upgrade problems. Intacct also provides industrial strength back-up and disaster recovery so your accounting system is secure. When your IT concerns decrease, your company can spend your time and resources focusing on strategic business goals.
Output- and Outcome-Based Service Delivery and Commercial ModelsCognizant
To extract more from IT sourcing arrangements, buyers and providers must embrace value-based models that prioritize measurable and meaningful results over human resource-oriented inputs.
Control of energy bills helps increase the visibility of overall usage and fees that can be used to boost cost-effectiveness and sustainability.
This task is often handled in-house manually , which makes it very labor intensive and time consuming. Collecting and standardizing data, entering in into a database, and analyzing data to find improvements becomes a process of time management.
Tiered Application Management: Meeting the Need for Speed and ReliabilityCognizant
Deploying a multitiered approach to application management, guided by analysis of historic performance issues, helps companies respond to digital requirements while cutting costs.
Q2 Highlights:
Revenues grew 19% YonY and 8.2% QonQ
Profit after taxes were up 12.2% YonY and 17.0% QonQ
Order intake of US$ 176 mn, marking the 10th consecutive quarter of sequential increase in order intake
The Board recommends an interim dividend of Rs 10 per share as interim dividend. The record date for this payout will be 5th November 2019.
Consolidated revenues for the quarter under review grew 19.0% over the same period last year and 8.2% sequentially over the preceding quarter to Rs 1038.5 crore. EBITDA margin for the quarter expanded to 18.3%, up 118 basis points QoQ.
Among verticals, Insurance grew 15.3% QonQ contributing 31.1% of overall revenues, BFS expanded 9.4% QonQ contributing to 16.7% of revenue, and Travel Transport and Hospitality (TTH) was up 5.8% QonQ contributing to 27.8% of revenue. Other segments collectively grew 0.8% QonQ and they now represent 24.4% of overall revenues.
Digital revenues grew by 56% YoY and 18% QoQ, contributing to 38% of the total revenues in the quarter under review. Americas, EMEA, APAC and India contributed 49%, 37%, 10% and 4% of the revenue mix.
Fresh business of US$176mn was secured by the company during the quarter. As a result, the order book executable over the next twelve months has also increased to US$405mn.
“We have delivered robust revenue and margin performance yet again in line with our stated intent to drive robust, predictable and profitable growth for our business. The fundamentals of the business continue to be strong, as reflected in the sustained deal wins and the operating margin threshold that we have established,” said Mr. Sudhir Singh, Chief Executive Officer, NIIT Technologies Ltd.
Acknowledgements:
A TBR Perspective on Transform at the intersect - NIIT Technologies and the near future of Digital and Post-digital Transformation
A special blog by NelsonHall on how NIIT Technologies Delivers Digital Transformation with Capacity & Capability at Speed and Scale
HfS Research PoV on Change the game with verticalized AI: NIIT Technologies’ unique play as a post-digital firm
Q1 Highlights:
Revenues grew 16.7% YoY.
Profit after taxes up 2.0% YoY on reported basis, up 17.3% YoY after adjusting for non-recurring expenses.
Order intake of US$ 175 mn, marking the 9th consecutive quarter of sequential increase in order intake.
The quarter under review had one-time non-recurring expenses of Rs. 235 mn translating to a negative impact of 240 bps. Adjusted for that, the EBITDA margin for the quarter stood at 16.9%, an expansion of 103 basis points YoY, and PAT increased 17.3% YoY to Rs 100.6 crore.
In constant currency terms, BFS expanded 2.8% QoQ contributing to 16.5% of revenue, Travel & Transportation (TT) was up 5.9% QoQ contributing to 28.3% of revenue and Insurance grew 6.6% QoQ contributing 29.1% of overall revenues. Others segments collectively grew 1.5% QoQ and they now represent 27.0% of overall revenues.
Digital revenues grew 46% YoY contributing to 34% of the total revenues. Americas, EMEA, APAC and India contributed 49%, 35%, 11% and 5% of the revenue mix.
The Company secured fresh business of US$175mn during the quarter. The order executable over the next twelve months has also increased to US$395mn.
“We registered a good performance in Q1FY20 and the fundamentals of the business are strong,” said Mr. Sudhir Singh, Chief Executive Officer, NIIT Technologies Ltd.
Acknowledgements:
NIIT Technologies ranked #1 in ‘Business Understanding’ for the second consecutive year in ‘Whitelane’s 2019 UK IT Sourcing Study’.
NIIT Technologies named as a Leader among midsize agile software development service providers, by Forrester Research Inc., an independent research and advisory firm, in their report, The Forrester WaveTM: Midsize Agile Software Development Service Providers, Q2 2019.
NIIT Technologies companies Incessant Technologies and RuleTek received Pega Partner Award 2019 for ‘Excellence in Growth and Delivery’.
FY’19 Key Highlights
• Revenues expand 22.9%
• Operating profit up 28.7%
• Operating margin improved 80 bps to 17.6%
• Net Profits improved by 43.9%
• Cumulative order intake for the year is USD 646 MN. Up 27% over previous year
FY’19 Geo mix
Americas- 49%
EMEA-33%
India-8%
APAC- 10%
FY’19 Industry mix
Insurance- 28.7%
BFS- 16.1%
Travel & Transportation- 26.9%
Leadership Speaks
“FY 19 was one of the most successful years in our firm’s history. Not only did we deliver very significant growth but we also increased operating margin simultaneously. Our strategy of transforming the three industries we serve at their intersection with emerging technologies continues to differentiate and drive growth.”
Mr. Sudhir Singh, Chief Executive Officer, NIIT Technologies Ltd.
“The year was characterized by strong deal momentum. Order intake improved steadily in each quarter with large deal wins and new logo additions. USD 170 m of fresh business was secured during the quarter”.
Mr. Arvind Thakur, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, NIIT Technologies Ltd.
“With strong leadership in place, the platform is set for our next phase of growth”.
Mr. Rajendra S Pawar, Chairman, NIIT Technologies Ltd.
Acknowledgements
• Recognized in the Best of The Global Outsourcing 100® list produced by IAOP
• Positioned as a Leader in the NelsonHall NEAT Report for RPA & AI in Banking 2019
Q2 FY19 PAT up 66.3% YoY
Q2 Highlights:
• Revenues up 23.1% YoY and 10.0% QoQ
• Strong improvement in Operating Profits, by 37.2% YoY and 25.1% QoQ
• Operating Margins expand by 186 bps YoY and 217 bps QoQ
• Fresh Order Intake expands to USD 160 Mn
NIIT Technologies delivers robust 145% growth in PAT for FY’16NIIT Technologies
NIIT Technologies Limited, a leading global IT solutions organization, announced its financial results for the year FY15-16 resulting in revenues of `2,682 Crores, operating profits at `473 Crores and net profits at `280 Crores.
4 factors to consider before finalizing a Cargo Management SystemNIIT Technologies
With a gradual increase in the air cargo traffic year on year, most airlines and cargo handling companies are increasingly facing challenges in cargo management. Cargo handling has become extremely complex and unpredictable, involving multiple stakeholders with multi-warehouse operations in a multi-location environment. An efficient cargo management system can enhance service capabilities and significantly improve customer experience, while saving precious time and money, especially at the time when the industry faces an uphill battle to restore competitiveness and increase its share of trade growth.
Unlock value potential from Cargo Management OperationsNIIT Technologies
Cargo Management Systems are beneficial in times where quantity of cargo and burden on infrastructure has increased. The improved cargo turnaround rate, easy integration with system landscapes and partner networks make it an effective solution.
New Distribution Capability benefits and challengesNIIT Technologies
Is NDC (New Distribution Capability) in Airlines a norm or a phenomenon?
Explore the benefits and challenges of New Distribution Capability: goo.gl/K5n5wO
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
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3. Current Environment
The insurance industry is confronting significant challenges –
pricing, diversified billing and payment options and real time self
service capabilities.
changing weather patterns leading to more intense weather
events, changing demographics, regulatory pressure and complex
challenge, given the economic situation and the competitive
How Organizations are Pursuing
Agility
landscape. Successful players are repositioning and reinventing
Carriers are pursuing agility to enable them to react quickly to the
their products, strategies and services. They are also taking
changes in the business environment described above. One of the
significant steps to position themselves for growth and profitability
biggest challenges carriers face is their dependence on archaic
in this competitive, lower-margin market.
and inflexible legacy systems. Adding new products or making
macroeconomic conditions. Organic growth continues to be a
changes to existing products can be a challenge when operating
on these rigid legacy systems. Meeting consumer expectations by
The Case for Agility
providing more self service capabilities online can be a challenge
Organizations are struggling to keep up with the various changes in
as well. Many carriers are in the process of transforming and
regulations while trying to innovate to keep up with a highly
modernizing their architecture in an effort to be more agile. Well
competitive market place using scant resources and shrinking
architected modern distributed systems provide the platform for
budgets. Carriers are attempting to leverage technology to create a
carriers to keep up with the changing business landscape.
platform that makes it easy to adapt to changes whether triggered by
regulations or a changing market landscape. A flexible modern
Policy Administration Systems (PAS): Many carriers have several
architecture will allow carriers to release new products and make
disparate PAS systems – both built in house and vendor based
changes to existing products quickly. Shifting demographics and
legacy solutions. Carriers are looking at consolidating these different
increased usage of mobile devices are transforming long standing
PAS systems on one distributed platform. In the interest of time to
distribution models. The buying behaviours, attitudes and preferences
market, most carriers are looking at distributed vendor solutions over
of customers are evolving. Carriers need to adapt to these changes
building their own solutions in-house. This means carriers need to be
and find ways to attract and retain these customers.
open to changing their business processes to adhere to the out of
box process flows. It is vital carriers do not over customize vendor
In an uncertain economic environment, there is increased pressure to
solutions as this will hamper agility. It will make future upgrades and
improve underwriting ratios. It is becoming even more crucial to
changes more complex. These PAS solutions allow underwriters to
assess risk accurately and provide the optimal price. Carriers realize
automate manual and paper based processes through the use of
they will have to leverage data to create predictive models that
sophisticated work flows. They also allow for real time quotes and
accurately assess risk and provide the best price. Carriers need to
instant conversion of quotes to policies.
identify new avenues for value creation while continuing to meet
opportunity for carriers to implement straight through processing
emerging regulatory changes such as Solvency II and IFRS.
with minimal underwriting referrals for simple lines of business – for
It is also an excellent
example personal automobile LOB. It also provides tools for better
Carriers are under pressure to reduce underwriting costs while
communication and tracking with the use of activities/diaries.
continuing to grow their customer base and keep up with changes
Carriers are also looking to implement predictive models that
in regulations without increasing head count. Customers and
provide a much more accurate assessment of risk than traditional
producers expect the ability to process quotes faster, competitive
rating algorithms.
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4. These predictive models are created by sophisticated data
robin process of randomly allocating claims to claim adjusters within
analytical techniques that scrutinize the carrier’s book of business.
an area. This resulted in certain claims adjusters driving past certain
These predictive models are than implemented using modern rules
claimant addresses on their way to working on claims that were
engines and come up with a tier that represents the risk posed by
assigned to them. Usage of GIS information allowed this carrier to
the customer. This determines the pricing structure in conjunction
intelligently allocate claims taking into account the claim adjusters
with modernized rating algorithms. Carriers are now offering
current location. Usage of mobile claims apps that allowed claims
innovate usage based insurance product offerings. Technologies
adjusters to capture all the information including photographs using
like GIS, analytics, big data and telematics are used to provide a
one single device (for example a tablet), can bring about operational
different set of products that follow rating models that leverage real
efficiencies and eliminate the need for them to take physical notes
time driver behaviour and usage patterns and differ from traditional
that need to be than manually typed into the computer once they
rating processes – for example those that heavily weigh claims
are back at the office. Carriers are looking to use these flexible
history, violation history, etc.
claims system to enable their claim adjusters to focus on higher
value claim management activities with the automation of low-level
Claims Administration Systems (CAS): Most carriers are looking at
tasks and achieve quantifiable loss cost improvements through
their claims processes very closely for two reasons - ensuring the
consistent application of best practices reinforced via performance
best possible customer service is offered by providing a fair and
improvement support capabilities.
transparent claim handling experience and creation of efficient claims
processes that reduce the time and expense to service a claim. For
Billing Systems – Carriers are looking to modernize their billing solution
most carriers claims tend to be an area that is very manual and
with the intention of providing customers more options, letting them
paper based. Most carriers are focussed on implementing Claims
choose their payment schedule as well as how they receive and pay
Administration Systems that are based on modern distributed
their bills. These new billing solutions provide various forms of billing
architecture. These systems have built in work flow processes that
and payment options. These systems automate sophisticated billing
allow carriers to eliminate manual paper based processes.
processes with flexible workflow and business-rule driven control.
Digitalization with the usage of modern document management
These modern billing solutions help identify uncollected earned
systems allows carriers to archive these claims files and provide a
premium to reduce billing leakage, combine invoices to reduce costs,
much better mechanism for disaster recovery than the traditional
and leverage equity-based billing to avoid unpaid coverage. They also
paper based approach. It also provides claim adjusters with the
provide the customers with the “green” option of paperless delivery
mechanism to view prior claim documents and images easily during
which results in huge cost savings for the carrier.
the claim handling process. In one instance, a claims adjuster for a
particular carrier noticed that the roof damage photos submitted for
For most carriers this transformation will be a multi-phase initiative,
the claim were the same as the ones the insured had submitted the
with each phase taking between 9 to 18 months. While the carries
previous year. Technology can be used to prevent fraudulent claims
go through the complex transformations illustrated above, it is vital
like these while at the same time offering better service to customers
they leverage Enterprise Architecture best practices and create a
by processing genuine claims quickly and transparently. Customers
future state IT roadmap that aligns with their business goals and
can also view the current status of their claims online through the
priorities. Defining the architecture that depicts how the integration
carrier’s portal or mobile claims app. The system can also be
between different systems will be accomplished and also
designed to send notifications to customers alerting them about
addresses security and physical infrastructure upfront will reduce
changes during the claims process. The entire FNOL process and
the risk of delivery and also ensure the systems built will be flexible
claims allocation process can be streamlined with the application of
and agile to meet the ever changing needs of the business.
technology. For example, a particular carrier was following a round
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5. About the Author
Roopesh Poojary is the Practice lead in the Insurance vertical at NIIT Technologies. He has over
17 years of leadership experience in IT Delivery, Enterprise Architecture, Program Management,
Process Improvement and Services Management. With 12 years of experience in the insurance
domain, he has successfully led several large core system transformation/replacement
programs. Rupesh has done his Master’s in Business Administration and Finance from Indiana
University in addition to a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering.”
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