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Learn more: https://insights.hpe.com
Although digital has changed everything, the mindset for succeeding has not. So what’s the first shift in your digital transformation?
You can lead fundamental shifts in processes, people and technology. Here are the four action items on which enterprises should focus.
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Haha. What a joke for a title.
Let’s just say: back to basics, how to build upon the things you’re already doing.
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By Fjord, design and innovation from Accenture Interactive, and Accenture The Dock.
Top 10 Companies Leading the Cloud Revolution 2021 features a handful of companies leading their respective industries to the adoption of cloud computing
4 fundamental shifts you need to succeed in digitalMarcel Santilli
Learn more: https://insights.hpe.com
Although digital has changed everything, the mindset for succeeding has not. So what’s the first shift in your digital transformation?
You can lead fundamental shifts in processes, people and technology. Here are the four action items on which enterprises should focus.
GE: How an Industrial Leviathan became a Digital GiantCapgemini
An Interview with Beth Comstock – Vice Chairman of General Electric exploring the companies key milestones in their Digital Transformation Journey. Areas explored include their trajectory towards a digital industrial company, GE’s Predix Platform, a cornerstone in GE’s digital strategy, how they operationalized their digital strategy through investment, greenfield and acquisitions, how they adapted a digital culture in a century old company and the rationale behind GE Digital, a shift to centralise their digital capabilities.
“How social technologies are changing business” for AccenturePolle de Maagt
“How social technologies are changing business”
Haha. What a joke for a title.
Let’s just say: back to basics, how to build upon the things you’re already doing.
Vital Trends in Digital Experience and Transformation in 2016 | Dreamforce 20...Dion Hinchcliffe
Here's the deck I presented at the Emerging Tech Trends track at the Hilton Union Square at Dreamforce 2016 last week. Updates on trends from last year and new trends both are included. A thorough list of what your organization should be considering from both a technology standpoint and as a business.
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Our research with the MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that only 16% of organizations are leveraging digital technologies to develop new business models. Most organizations follow traditional approaches to innovation that focus on new products and services, rather than on business models. However, research suggests that the returns from traditional approaches have been diminishing with time. As Serguei Netessine, Professor at INSEAD Singapore says, “Pharmaceutical companies spend as much as 30% of their revenues on R&D, trying to develop new products or technologies. But the return from this enormous expenditure has been very elusive and it is a common problem across industries.” Business model reinvention can be as good a route as technology, product or service innovations. This research highlight five different approaches that organizations can adopt to reinvent their business model with digital technologies.
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Top 10 Companies Leading the Cloud Revolution 2021 features a handful of companies leading their respective industries to the adoption of cloud computing
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Title: 50 Niche Apps in 50 Minutes
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Jon Woodward - MSFT
Dave Coplin - MSFT
Mike Bugembe - JustGiving
Gary Richardson - KPMG
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Insight into AstraZeneca's Technology Services.Nick Brown
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Beyond Mobile - Creative Tech Innovation at AstraZenecaNick Brown
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Insight into AstraZeneca's Technology Services.Nick Brown
Presentation given at the Big Data in Pharma Europe conference, London February 19th 2014 (http://bigdatapharma-europe.com/). Updated for Enterprise Search Europe Summit April 29th (http://www.enterprisesearcheurope.com/2014/Tuesday.aspx).
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Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Modelling and Chatbots: Applications in P...Nick Brown
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Accelerate Pharmaceutical R&D with Big Data and MongoDBMongoDB
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• Build communities of interest around prototypes and plan for success for your company’s advantage
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Welcome to ObjectSol Technologies Pvt. Ltd. your gateway to unparalleled IT solutions As the cream of the crop among IT companies, we're here to elevate your business to new heights. Discover a world of possibilities with our bespoke software solutions, tailor-made to suit your unique needs. From custom Android and iOS app development to cutting-edge big data analytics, AI/ML solutions, and eye-catching web design - we've got it all covered. Seamless user experiences, interactive dashboards that speak volumes, and top-notch OTT & IPTV development – all designed to catapult your business into the digital forefront. We're not just an IT company we're your partners in progress, committed to delivering creative and cost-effective solutions. It's not just our expertise but our commitment to measurable outcomes and exceptional customer service. Our team of highly skilled professionals is not just passionate; they're downright obsessed with innovation. We're not here just to meet expectations; we're here to exceed them.
Join us on this journey where humanity meets technology. Our mission is clear help you achieve your objectives with solutions that resonate. Experience the pinnacle of IT expertise and innovation with the best it company.
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Join us on this journey where humanity meets technology. Our mission is clear help you achieve your objectives with solutions that resonate. Experience the pinnacle of IT expertise and innovation with the best it company.
Visit Us- https://objectsol.in/
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Modernize 2018: The Need for Speed - ContentfulOptimizely
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Companies are facing increasing demands -- and finding increasing opportunities -- to engage customers in new channels and new markets. It's forcing all companies to become digital product companies, as they race to build websites, apps, and devices that support emerging touchpoints along the customer journey. Winning companies are staying ahead by empowering cross-functional teams to ship digital products faster. Learn how content infrastructure plays a critical role in removing common roadblocks faced by the modern, agile team.
ABOUT MODERNIZE 2018:
Be a part of the future. Shape the customer experience with Accenture, Forrester, Qantas, REA, Intrepid and more -- and learn how leading organisations are harnessing their people, processes, and technologies to exceed customer’s expectations.
Visit: https://www.optimizely.com/anz/modernize2018
Modernize Conference 2018 - The Need for Speed - Contentful and nib health fundsPaul Biggs
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Learn how the traditional CMS market is being disrupted by new market dynamics, as all companies are being forced to become digital product companies -- they must adapt and become software-centric in order to keep up with their customers.
Companies are creating cross-functional digital teams to support this new mandate, who are building modern, reusable architectures so they can get to market faster.
Artificial intelligence (Ai) is back, and the tech industry’s interest is stronger than ever. Ai will have an important impact on the design and creation of software. Application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals need to understand the potential benefits Ai will bring, not only to how they build software but also to the nature of the applications themselves. in parallel, AD&D pros should not ignore the challenges and risks that come with Ai. this report is the first of a series that will examine the impact of Ai on software development and separate myth from reality
A Reference Architecture for Digitalization in the Pharmaceutical IndustryCapgemini
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Micro Focus at a glance - #MFSummit2017Micro Focus
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How Big Data can drive innovative technologies and new approaches in large organisations
1. How big data can drive innovative technologies
and new approaches in large organisations.
Nick Brown
Big Data In Paris, 2016 08 March 2016
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AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca is a biopharmaceutical company with R&D at its core. Our business is
providing innovative, effective medicines that make a real difference to patients.
We have grown from agrochemicals and paints, to pharmaceuticals and biologics.
But as we virtualise our activities, working increasingly with external researchers, how
we access information, integrate data and leverage knowledge is key to our success.
3. CTO Office
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Our team was established to create new value by catalysing innovative,
emerging technologies across AstraZeneca
Technology
Incubation Labs
Competency
Centers
Enterprise
Architecture
Multi-disciplinary teams that test
new technologies and accelerate
platforms to build internal
expertise and hands-on experience
of potential game-changing
technologies whilst focusing on
immediate business problems
Established User Experience and
Mobility competency centers as
key strategic areas for future
success. They will develop and be
embedded into enterprise
capabilities with world-class
technology leadership
Providing enterprise leadership to
understand the pain points of the
business and ensure that proposed
technology changes are unified and
governed to maximise business
value as AZIT develop corporate
platforms, workflows and choices
4. Global Reach
Today we have 3 tech labs.
Presence in these key technology
clusters gives an early view of
emerging technologies,
companies and start-ups.
San Francisco is today’s Innovation Capital of
the World and our tech lab will facilitate links
with innovative research start-ups, venture
capitalists and global technology leaders. This
office provides new opportunities at the
forefront of healthcare digital innovation and
major breakthroughs in enterprise technology.
Cambridge is the most dynamic scientific
business cluster in the world. We are
surrounded by 19 science parks with over
1,500 high-tech companies, world class
academic institutions at the bleeding
edge of scientific research and key
research hospitals like Addenbrookes.
Shanghai is emerging as the top city for
tech innovation internationally and is
predicted to become the global technology
centre within 4 years. Our tech lab is able
to tap into novel scientific research &
development, advanced engineering,
health nanotechnology and robotics.
5. UK Tech Lab
By having a highly technically skilled and business-savvy team of hands-on experts in our
Labs, we quickly assess new technologies and platforms in real-world settings, prioritising
on relevant business problems with strategic potential
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It’s key for us to nurture the next
generation of IT leaders so we
work closely with new graduates
and local apprentice schemes.
Eddie Wu Izzy Derrig Charlotte Lorains Stefano Elia Sandra Giuliani Josh Mesout
IT Graduate IT Apprentice IT Apprentice IT Graduate IT Graduate IT Graduate
6. Technology Incubation
We’re designed to research customer problems, understand key insight, scout relevant
technology and then validate quickly with rapid prototypes and proof-of-concepts
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We try to embrace Design Thinking and testing concepts early through Lean Start-up principles and
then iteratively exploring them further using Agile Development cycles and bi-weekly sprints.
7. Big Data in Pharma
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AstraZeneca has been tackling big data challenges for over a decade.
Volume
SCALE OF DATA
Variety
DIFFERENT FORMS OF
DATA
Velocity
ANALYSIS OF STREAMING
DATA
Veracity
UNCERTAINTY
OF DATA
Next Generation Sequencing
Whole body imaging
Tissue Microarrays
Sales force optimisation
Clinical trial statistical analytics
High Throughput Screening
Toxicogenomics
Open Innovation Approaches
PowerPoint/Excel content
Structured databases
Predictive Chemistry Modelling
HR employee retention
Real-time news sentiment
experimental data capture
Wearable sensor information
Log analytics in Operations
“Big Data” is never solved by a single technology. It’s not a giant data mart or data model to solve it all
The best way to tackle big data challenges is to try lots of small proof-of-concepts to work out
which actually make a real difference to your business.
8. Unstructured Data
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We have silos of unstructured content, both inside the company and in the cloud.
We initially focused on developing a big-data engine for unstructured R&D content for scientists.
Admin
Access
Data Sources
Data
Mappings
Configure
Permissions
Tag
Content
Sinequa
Index
Applications
Web Service
9. R&D Search
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In 100 days we implemented Sinequa real-time search engine within R&D for
10k users. Covering all scientific information and core internal repositories.
Today, we have over
180 million documents,
searchable sub-second
with key scientific
vocabularies (SciBite)
automatically tagged
and findable.
Users can create alerts
to their favourite topics
but also find every
document relating to a
drug (and every
synonym automatically)
10. R&D Intelligence
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We built R&D Intelligence to find things you don’t know about ! This computes sentence
level co-currence between any two entities to instantly spot new connections
Using this approach,
you can gain insight
and trends across the
entire data corpus, yet
provide visibility and
access to only the
material that you are
entitled to.
11. Enterprise Search
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With 12 months experience of Sinequa, we developed a new global Enterprise
Search in 8 weeks and launched as part of the new portal, Nucleus. This now
has >60k users with multi-language support.
Search enables us to socialise key
findings from news & documents,
but also chatter, applications,
people and scientific tags –
helping to connect people
together.
Already in pre-production,
indexation of all of our cloud
repositories (Box, Sharepoint,
Veeva etc)
12. Big Data Engine
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We had developed a big data engine that powers multiple
business applications, not just enterprise search. This
swiss-army knife for search let’s us tackle many problems
R&D News AlertsR&D ChemSearch
Find Partners
Mobile Apps Competitive Intel
Medical Affairs
13. Mobility: Find People
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We leverage Sinequa as an MBAAS layer for multiple mobile apps
Find people based on all their information such as name, location, job title, biography and skills.
Call or email the person you’ve found at the click of the mouse or a touch of the screen.
See where a person fits in AstraZeneca’s organisation, who their manager is and if they have any direct reports.
14. Mobility: Approvals App
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Imagine 1 mobile app that shows all of your employee requests and lets you
approve them easily, compliantly and anywhere in the world.
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simple mobile app for approving
travel, expense, invoice and
procurement requests on the move
senior executives currently testing
beta version
systems across 2 core platforms
integrated today Designed to
handle any approvals, any system
Others now in planning for 2016
Users provided feedback that led to
rapid redevelopments to the
interface. Simplified the information
shown, however still compliant
Currently scaling up for potential roll-out for key users
1
50
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15. Usability
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Even with great feedback, wanted to continually improve usability. In 2015 we
helped establish a new UX competency center in AZIT.
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Enterprise Search
“it finally feels that
you are being
listened to”
“Impressive! An AZ
search engine that
brings back documents
that are useful.”
“Wow ,
news on my
mobile!”
“I see how this
can help make us
a $50B company“
"In all my years, I have
never been able to find the
data until now"
“Can we use
this info in
our app?”
“This is a game changer”
“Can we use this
search for our system”
16. Watching Real Users
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Helped us implement 40 quick fixes within 5 days but major overhaul to the UI.
Led to improvements in search and usability with 3 bespoke search apps.
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Developed a schedule of UX lab tests for >10 major AZIT platforms to assess
usability and determine potential user-centered improvements for future releases.
Before After
17. Elastic Cloud Performance
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Sinequa now handles ~2500 queries per min. Designed from the start to
leverage cloud elastic scaling capabilities for responsive performance for 10
users or 70,000 users.
17
Happy UsersDockerElastic Beanstalk
By leveraging container technology, we can spin up new services quickly. It’s very
cost-effective and enables new approaches to be easily included in your workflows
Automated video transcription
high precision text analytics
18. In-Video Search !
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The Azure Media Services cloud platform is able to ingest audio and video files
and automatically generates a >90% accurate transcription (English only)
18
By combining Amazon, Docker and Microsoft Azure, we were able to go from first
prototype to global implementation in 7 weeks in our enterprise search platform.
19. Mobile + Video + Usability
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Developed Proact – mobile app to capture the usability
and tolerability of our drugs in clinical trials through
patient video diaries.
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• Built using UCD principles with multiple points of
view (patient, doctor, analysts, directors)
• From original prototype to pilot in 90 days
• Enterprise grade, HIPAA compliant, Secure.
• Available on the Google App Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.astrazenaca.proact
20. Data & Log Analytics
2020
Even unstructured data engines generate structured data – but big data
opportunities live monitoring of logs from Sharepoint, Ping and Box.
21. Predictive Modelling
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With larger, complex datasets, machine-learning techniques can accelerate and
increase accuracy of decision making, improving our productivity
Optimised models created using cloud elastic approaches offer another big data engine
opportunity across the enterprise:- salesforce optimisation, employee retention, resource
allocation, patient responder prediction, manufacturing/supply chain improvements.
22. The Next Big Data Engine ?
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We are really
excited to hear
about new,
emerging
technologies
that could be
the next big
data platform
with enterprise
applicability
across
AstraZeneca.
In true lean-start-up fashion, we are testing something new. If you are a start-up with an
emerging technology that seems relevant, please pitch IT at http://pitchIT.astrazeneca.com