This document discusses 10 technology trends for 2019. The trends include: 1) Chatbots becoming better customer service tools, 2) Intelligent automation getting enhanced with strategic platform alliances, 3) AI augmentation setting records in application development, 4) Connected cloud showcasing tremendous agility, 5) Intelligent databases and machine learning bringing disruption, 6) Analytics hitting the accelerator as a closure catalyst, 7) Blockchain carrying on with gradual adoption, 8) Speech and image recognition making solid in-roads in data capture, 9) AR, VR and MR powering immersive experiences in retail, and 10) GDPR becoming a business opportunity through trusted customer relationships.
Technology Trends for 2019: What it Means for Your BusinessPrecisely
Ninety percent of the world’s data was generated in the past two years, and 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day. Organizations across industries have an unprecedented opportunity to harness data to move their business forward – but they will need a solid strategy and the right tools to do so.
View this 30-minute webcast on-demand to learn about the technology trends you need to know to use data to your strategic advantage. Syncsort’s CTO, Tendu Yogurtcu, shares insights from our work with data-driven organizations around the world, on the top technology trends for 2019 – and how data governance is key.
The webcast covers opportunities, challenges and best practices for:
• Hybrid Cloud
• IoT
• AI and Machine Learning
• Blockchain
How do you plan your product strategies? How do you know what skill sets you want to build or how to leverage several of the emerging technology trends? This presentation covers some trends and a few tools to track trends. It is based on a talk I gave at TiE Chennai recently.
The Connected world evolves and more elements of our analogue world and being connected to our digital world. WE all need to understand this mega-trend and the drivers for IoT in 2017 and beyond
Purpose: The slides provide an overview on the Cognitive Computing trend for IBM clients and external stakeholders
Content: Summary information about the Cognitive Computing trend is provided along with many links to additional resources.
How To Use This Report: This report is best read/studied and used as a learning document. You may want to view the slides in slideshow mode so you can easily follow the links
Available on Slideshare: This presentation (and other HorizonWatch Trend Reports for 2015) will be available publically on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/horizonwatching
Please Note: This report is based on internal IBM analysis and is not meant to be a statement of direction by IBM nor is IBM committing to any particular technology or solution.
Report 3 the fourth industrial revolution - things to tighten the link betwe...Rick Bouter
This report was all about the fourth stage of the Industrial Revolution made possible by the far-reaching integration of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT). The IT/OT convergence and the end-to-end ecosystems that are under development – from design and production to client interaction and advanced Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) – enable a future in which appliances, devices, things and machines for professionals and private people will communicate with central systems, with one another, and with users for the purpose of providing the best possible facilities to makers, service providers, legislators and customers.
Source, Sogeti ViNT: http://vint.sogeti.com/internet-things-4-reports/
In partnership with IDG, our 2022 Insight Intelligent Technology™ Report examines how companies are making progress on long-term IT strategies to meet the changing, post-pandemic expectations of their businesses, their employees, and the market more broadly.
Technology Trends for 2019: What it Means for Your BusinessPrecisely
Ninety percent of the world’s data was generated in the past two years, and 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day. Organizations across industries have an unprecedented opportunity to harness data to move their business forward – but they will need a solid strategy and the right tools to do so.
View this 30-minute webcast on-demand to learn about the technology trends you need to know to use data to your strategic advantage. Syncsort’s CTO, Tendu Yogurtcu, shares insights from our work with data-driven organizations around the world, on the top technology trends for 2019 – and how data governance is key.
The webcast covers opportunities, challenges and best practices for:
• Hybrid Cloud
• IoT
• AI and Machine Learning
• Blockchain
How do you plan your product strategies? How do you know what skill sets you want to build or how to leverage several of the emerging technology trends? This presentation covers some trends and a few tools to track trends. It is based on a talk I gave at TiE Chennai recently.
The Connected world evolves and more elements of our analogue world and being connected to our digital world. WE all need to understand this mega-trend and the drivers for IoT in 2017 and beyond
Purpose: The slides provide an overview on the Cognitive Computing trend for IBM clients and external stakeholders
Content: Summary information about the Cognitive Computing trend is provided along with many links to additional resources.
How To Use This Report: This report is best read/studied and used as a learning document. You may want to view the slides in slideshow mode so you can easily follow the links
Available on Slideshare: This presentation (and other HorizonWatch Trend Reports for 2015) will be available publically on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/horizonwatching
Please Note: This report is based on internal IBM analysis and is not meant to be a statement of direction by IBM nor is IBM committing to any particular technology or solution.
Report 3 the fourth industrial revolution - things to tighten the link betwe...Rick Bouter
This report was all about the fourth stage of the Industrial Revolution made possible by the far-reaching integration of Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT). The IT/OT convergence and the end-to-end ecosystems that are under development – from design and production to client interaction and advanced Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) – enable a future in which appliances, devices, things and machines for professionals and private people will communicate with central systems, with one another, and with users for the purpose of providing the best possible facilities to makers, service providers, legislators and customers.
Source, Sogeti ViNT: http://vint.sogeti.com/internet-things-4-reports/
In partnership with IDG, our 2022 Insight Intelligent Technology™ Report examines how companies are making progress on long-term IT strategies to meet the changing, post-pandemic expectations of their businesses, their employees, and the market more broadly.
Who is driving innovation in your business? Probrand Group
Probrand Group magazine provides credible articles written by leading tech journalists around driving innovation and transformation, mobility, supply chain and procurement, security, cloud and infrastructure.
Whitepaper - IoT adoption in digital transformation journeys (v2.0)Pablo Junco
The Internet of Things or IoT is disrupting organizations across industries such as Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail. Microsoft is undertaking Digital Transformation projects with over 1,000 customers, and with many of them, we had observed that IoT is the enabler of the business change.
However, Digital transformation isn’t necessarily about solving new business problems. It’s about how to solve existing problems more quickly, economically, efficiently, securely and with an extensible design that allows customers to iterate and evolve more rapidly.
The trends driving Digital Transformation include business, people, technology, and generational factors. Organizations are quickly experimenting with new technologies as the time between hype and adoption has shortened. The maturity of technologies such as IoT plus the acceptability of consumers is helping organizations to unlock the value of connecting things. In response, organizations are digitally transforming their business models to shift how they deliver value and drive efficiency.
This paper introduces a new engagement model based on Microsoft’ experience helping organizations succeed while adopting IoT as part of their Digital Transformation Journey.
Surviving and thriving in the 4th Industrial Revolution means a change in culture, adoption of new technologies and an ecosystem wide collaboration. We take a look at the market and the success and improvements surrounding the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform from Dassault Systemes.
From the changing landscape of ICT infrastructure to tackling tricky supply chain issues, we explore every corner of the IT industry in issue 002 of the Probrand Group magazine: http://www.probrand.co.uk/imag/issue02/index.html
Whitepaper - IoT Maturity Model (IoTMM)Pablo Junco
This maturity model is a response to an underlying issue encountered in Microsoft Services’ experiences working with large and global organizations on their IoT deployments.
Internet of Things: From Strategy to Action: Driving IoT to Industrial ScaleCognizant
Full IoT value cannot be realized by connecting a few devices. Organizations need to get beyond instrumentation, and focus on the impact these technologies can have on their business strategies, which will require leadership, vision and partnership.
Rinascimento Digitale - A Digital RenaissanceJohn Newton
Presented in Rome on 17 Nov 2015, the Digital Renaissance that comes a digital technologies impact business in profound ways points to the reawakening of businesses and their potential to engage customers and employees. Productivity has been stagnant in Italy and the rest of Europe for a long time now. Digital technologies provide the best way to compete in a highly competitive world.
Wikibon's annual Predictions webinar discussed 13 predictions across digital business, IoT, AI, big data, AppDev, cloud, and future systems architecture.
Data driven economy: l’impatto sulle infrastrutture IT e la data governance a...IDC Italy
Abstract della presentazione di Giancarlo Vercellino, Research & Consulting Manager di IDC Italia, tenuta nel corso dell'evento Building the Scalable Data Foundation for Digital Transformation svoltosi a Milano il 16 novembre 2016
- Learn to understand what knowledge graphs are for
- Understand the structure of knowledge graphs (and how it relates to taxonomies and ontologies)
- Understand how knowledge graphs can be created using manual, semi-automatic, and fully automatic methods.
- Understand knowledge graphs as a basis for data integration in companies
- Understand knowledge graphs as tools for data governance and data quality management
- Implement and further develop knowledge graphs in companies
- Query and visualize knowledge graphs (including SPARQL and SHACL crash course)
- Use knowledge graphs and machine learning to enable information retrieval, text mining and document classification with the highest precision
- Develop digital assistants and question and answer systems based on semantic knowledge graphs
- Understand how knowledge graphs can be combined with text mining and machine learning techniques
- Apply knowledge graphs in practice: Case studies and demo applications
Stepping into the Digital Future with IoTCognizant
How 14 companies across industries are demonstrating the reality of IoT-at-scale and generating actionable intelligence to fuel higher levels of efficiency, innovation and new business models.
Cognizant Community 2016: Mastering Digital: How to Navigate the Shift to the...Cognizant
For more than a decade, this unique event has provided busy executives with an opportunity to exchange ideas and insights both with each other and with acclaimed subject matter experts on the panoply of topics critical to advancing their business objectives today — and tomorrow.
Cognizant Community Europe 2017: Mastering Digital: Navigating the Shift to t...Cognizant
Executives gathered at Cognizant’s flagship European thought leadership conference heard how digital technologies in general and AI in particular are poised to generate significant economic growth.
IDC Keynote: The Seven Transformations IT Solution Providers Must ConfrontIngram Micro Cloud
The Third Platform of Computing (Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social) is making life both interesting and uncomfortable for IT solution providers. Cloud especially is forcing VARs, SIs, MSPs, and ISVs to re-think the way they do business. Join IDC to hear the seven key transformations that tech companies must go through to succeed in the Third Platform
10 SALES ENABLEMENT TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2019Denave
Evolution is a continuous process and thence, the scope of
emerging market inclinations or industry leanings is vast, however, it is better to keep a lookout for some of the expected trends and brush up the readiness before we knock into 2019.
Here are top 10 sales enablement trends for 2019.
Who is driving innovation in your business? Probrand Group
Probrand Group magazine provides credible articles written by leading tech journalists around driving innovation and transformation, mobility, supply chain and procurement, security, cloud and infrastructure.
Whitepaper - IoT adoption in digital transformation journeys (v2.0)Pablo Junco
The Internet of Things or IoT is disrupting organizations across industries such as Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail. Microsoft is undertaking Digital Transformation projects with over 1,000 customers, and with many of them, we had observed that IoT is the enabler of the business change.
However, Digital transformation isn’t necessarily about solving new business problems. It’s about how to solve existing problems more quickly, economically, efficiently, securely and with an extensible design that allows customers to iterate and evolve more rapidly.
The trends driving Digital Transformation include business, people, technology, and generational factors. Organizations are quickly experimenting with new technologies as the time between hype and adoption has shortened. The maturity of technologies such as IoT plus the acceptability of consumers is helping organizations to unlock the value of connecting things. In response, organizations are digitally transforming their business models to shift how they deliver value and drive efficiency.
This paper introduces a new engagement model based on Microsoft’ experience helping organizations succeed while adopting IoT as part of their Digital Transformation Journey.
Surviving and thriving in the 4th Industrial Revolution means a change in culture, adoption of new technologies and an ecosystem wide collaboration. We take a look at the market and the success and improvements surrounding the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform from Dassault Systemes.
From the changing landscape of ICT infrastructure to tackling tricky supply chain issues, we explore every corner of the IT industry in issue 002 of the Probrand Group magazine: http://www.probrand.co.uk/imag/issue02/index.html
Whitepaper - IoT Maturity Model (IoTMM)Pablo Junco
This maturity model is a response to an underlying issue encountered in Microsoft Services’ experiences working with large and global organizations on their IoT deployments.
Internet of Things: From Strategy to Action: Driving IoT to Industrial ScaleCognizant
Full IoT value cannot be realized by connecting a few devices. Organizations need to get beyond instrumentation, and focus on the impact these technologies can have on their business strategies, which will require leadership, vision and partnership.
Rinascimento Digitale - A Digital RenaissanceJohn Newton
Presented in Rome on 17 Nov 2015, the Digital Renaissance that comes a digital technologies impact business in profound ways points to the reawakening of businesses and their potential to engage customers and employees. Productivity has been stagnant in Italy and the rest of Europe for a long time now. Digital technologies provide the best way to compete in a highly competitive world.
Wikibon's annual Predictions webinar discussed 13 predictions across digital business, IoT, AI, big data, AppDev, cloud, and future systems architecture.
Data driven economy: l’impatto sulle infrastrutture IT e la data governance a...IDC Italy
Abstract della presentazione di Giancarlo Vercellino, Research & Consulting Manager di IDC Italia, tenuta nel corso dell'evento Building the Scalable Data Foundation for Digital Transformation svoltosi a Milano il 16 novembre 2016
- Learn to understand what knowledge graphs are for
- Understand the structure of knowledge graphs (and how it relates to taxonomies and ontologies)
- Understand how knowledge graphs can be created using manual, semi-automatic, and fully automatic methods.
- Understand knowledge graphs as a basis for data integration in companies
- Understand knowledge graphs as tools for data governance and data quality management
- Implement and further develop knowledge graphs in companies
- Query and visualize knowledge graphs (including SPARQL and SHACL crash course)
- Use knowledge graphs and machine learning to enable information retrieval, text mining and document classification with the highest precision
- Develop digital assistants and question and answer systems based on semantic knowledge graphs
- Understand how knowledge graphs can be combined with text mining and machine learning techniques
- Apply knowledge graphs in practice: Case studies and demo applications
Stepping into the Digital Future with IoTCognizant
How 14 companies across industries are demonstrating the reality of IoT-at-scale and generating actionable intelligence to fuel higher levels of efficiency, innovation and new business models.
Cognizant Community 2016: Mastering Digital: How to Navigate the Shift to the...Cognizant
For more than a decade, this unique event has provided busy executives with an opportunity to exchange ideas and insights both with each other and with acclaimed subject matter experts on the panoply of topics critical to advancing their business objectives today — and tomorrow.
Cognizant Community Europe 2017: Mastering Digital: Navigating the Shift to t...Cognizant
Executives gathered at Cognizant’s flagship European thought leadership conference heard how digital technologies in general and AI in particular are poised to generate significant economic growth.
IDC Keynote: The Seven Transformations IT Solution Providers Must ConfrontIngram Micro Cloud
The Third Platform of Computing (Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social) is making life both interesting and uncomfortable for IT solution providers. Cloud especially is forcing VARs, SIs, MSPs, and ISVs to re-think the way they do business. Join IDC to hear the seven key transformations that tech companies must go through to succeed in the Third Platform
10 SALES ENABLEMENT TRENDS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2019Denave
Evolution is a continuous process and thence, the scope of
emerging market inclinations or industry leanings is vast, however, it is better to keep a lookout for some of the expected trends and brush up the readiness before we knock into 2019.
Here are top 10 sales enablement trends for 2019.
With enterprises putting digital at the core of their transformation, our annual Data Science & AI Trends Report explores the key strategic shifts enterprises will make to stay intelligent and agile going into 2019. The year was marked by a series of technological advances, including advances in AI, deep learning, machine learning, hybrid cloud architecture, edge computing (with data moving away to edge data centres), robotic process automation, a spurt of virtual assistants, advancements in autonomous tech and IoT.
As technology grows and evolves at an ever-increasing pace, sometimes just keeping up with what’s happening right now is a challenge. To make sure you’re ahead of the curve, Experts Exchange has done the research and examined the trends of users in order to provide a forecast of what to expect in 2015.
Based on findings from our annual survey of nearly 2,000 global technology professionals, the slideshare reveals data about increased usage in cloud computing, wearable tech, and localized apps. These findings will shed light on how this behavior is poised to transform business, culture and daily life in the coming months.
For more information and up-to-date stats, visit our blog at http://blog.experts-exchange.com
A prelude for FutureScapes 2018 which kicks off in Asia/Pacific on November 3rd, revisit last year's set of Predictions and see how IT and business have changed since then. How many did we get right? #IDCFutureScapes
Data science ai_trends_india_2020_analytics_india_magazineSrishti Deoras
The year 2019 was great in terms of analytics adoption as the domestic analytics industry witnessed a significant growth this year. Here we bring top 10 data science and AI trends in India to watch out for in 2020
“A glimpse into the future” represents much more than a trend report. It is intended to be a clear vision of our guidelines for 2019. More than strategy, it is aligned with what we believe to be the main focuses of 2019 in the technological area that will let us anticipate problems, redefine ideas, predict events and identify opportunities.
In 2022, we expect AI innovations will bring promising developments and impressive breakthroughs that will be hailed as future technologies. Here are the top AI trends and predictions to watch out for.
Are you sure that you are aware enough of CRM trends upcoming in 2019? Get known about CRM Predictions`19 and be sure that you run the business in the right direction.
Nine Business & Technology Trends impacting 2018 and beyond.Dileep Srinivasan
This presentation discusses the global business and technology trends that will shape the coming decade. With AI, Robotics and Blockchain penetrating every industry, there will be far reaching implications to countries worldwide.
We could also see new leaders worldwide in the next decade, shifting the balance of power from developed countries to others.
Top data science and AI trends to watch out for in 2021 | AIM & AnalytixLabsSrishti Deoras
The annual data science and AI trends report by Analytics India Magazine aims to highlight the top trends that will define the industry each year. This report, which has been developed in association with AnalytixLabs, covers the trends that will shape the year 2021.
Digitalization causes major changes in each industry, affecting our personal and professional lives. As this is a phenomenon of global magnitude with a major impact on companies and consumers alike, herewith are explained the trends of digitalization in 2017.
Tech. 2017 predictions presentation for meetupsSumant Parimal
This presentation is based on various secondary data available on emerging Tech. markets and specially customized for start up and SMB Tech. firms to have guidance for their GTM in year 2017 and onwards.
The State of Global AI Adoption in 2023InData Labs
In our inaugural report, 2023 State of AI, we examine trends in AI adoption across industries, the current state of the market, and technologies that shape the field.
The goal of this report is to help company leaders and executives get a better handle on the AI landscape and the opportunities it brings for the business.
2023 State of AI report will help you to answer questions such as:
-How are organizations applying artificial intelligence in the real world in 2023?
-What industries are leading in terms of AI maturity?
-How has generative AI impacted businesses?
-How can organizations prepare for AI transformation?
Download your free copy now and adopt the key technologies to improve your business.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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/
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdf
Technology Trends in 2019
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2. FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT
Turning out to be norm, this becomes one of the most anticipated read of the year – the trend report!
For some, it can be more like reading your horoscope even if you don’t believe in one, at the end of the year and imagining how the next year would be for you – but
with technology or industrial trends, the case is slightly different. While some of the trends can be perceived as overwhelming (giving you that ‘is it even possible’ streak
of thought), it would still be critical to pay attention to them and other emerging ones as they have all the potential to impact your business in the coming year.
And then, nobody could undermine the immense importance of preparedness till date – always better than taking that blind poker shot after all.
3. Chatbots or incorporation of digital assistants in some or the other form is seeing a rapid
adoption across businesses lately. And it is no more a hype as organisations have already passed
the stage of ‘Do I get it because everyone is also getting it?’ and realised its impact in their
functioning.
With major strides being taken in the realm of natural language processing, sentiment analysis,
the road seems brightly lit and free of any breakers. Even financial institutions, which have long
been termed as the high-risk industries owing to the stringent and high-security needs, are
adopting AI-enabled chatbots to manage a majority of their customer transactions, thus, limiting
the number of queries being routed to the human or live chat agents.
CHATBOTS – BECOMING BETTER
THAN EVER
As per a global survey, 65% professionals say they will use chatbots to
deliver customer support and technical documentation content to
those who need it, by 2019. 1
TREND #1
4. Customer services industry, especially, are in for a major over-haul as this trend picks up more
speed. That being said, one thing which is making it a successful trend is the thought that it is not
a human-replacement but a powerful assistant, helping the human to perform even better.
Empathy and instinctive-thoughts still are the biggest arsenal which humans possess and that’s
why, even for training the bots with specialised content, immense human skill and patience would
be the keys.
40% of large businesses will implement intelligent assistants or
chatbots by 2019. 2
5. The era of collaboration has come of age and we will be witnessing the prime tipping point in
the coming year with more and more organisations experimenting with the cocktail of
platforms for getting a 360-degree view of the customer landscape.
We will be seeing the integration of platforms, such as intelligent CRM, BI tools, sales force
automation platform etc. changing the dynamics for sales. Similarly, integrating IoT in
manufacturing processes and giving it an intelligent twist can be another example. Such
platform coalitions will reach greater heights with the interoperation becoming more seamless
than ever. The result – an absolute growth catalyst for organisations world over.
The scope to engage with the current and potential customer has become as endless as an
abyss and with increasing comfort with digitization in all business functions, companies are
going to leave no stone unturned to explore what lies on the other end.
AUTOMATION – GETTING AN
INTELLIGENT FACELIFT
TREND #2
Hence, the scope for such intelligent automation getting a truckload of additional arsenal with
strategic platform alliances taking a concrete shape, is what will be a major trend in the
coming year. In a nutshell, we’ll soon be stepping into a new era of redefined innovation
altogether.
6. With unprecedented developments in the artificial intelligence space, not just machines are
becoming smarter but even humans are crossing new bounds in all other domains. In 2019, we
should get ready to witness AI becoming an overriding force to ‘automation’.
If we see closely, AI has already penetrated quite much in-depth into our lives. From cameras to
smartphones to refrigerators, to even CRMs or automated sales funnels or more recent example
being the self-driving cars - we can see products with inbuilt AI sensors. Real-time intelligence is
now even prompting you what you may be interested in watching over Netflix next once your
sitcom gets over – and the list is endless.
AI AUGMENTATION TO SET RECORDS
By 2022, 40% of all new application development will involve AI co-
developers. 3
TREND #3
7. AI is all set to disrupt the analytics, autonomous vehicles or other application development
space in a major way. Immense amount of personalisation, precise profile mapping, accurate
trend analysis and future prediction, more than ever exact results from unalterably large and
unstructured database – all these are going to become the new normal in the business
landscape, going by the current trajectory of development and deployment.
In sales domain, C-suite expects their AI adoption to grow by 155% by
2020. 4
8. Catering to the changing business needs, connected cloud will be another trend expected to see
augmented adoption in the coming year.
With quite a lot of exploration of both the public and private end of cloud services, the hybrid or
connected cloud is all set to rehash the dynamics for businesses – combining the good and best
of both the worlds while sieving the complex intricacies of each.
With cloud storage and anytime-anywhere accessibility becoming common commodities for
businesses, these advanced-level developments will act as the differentiator benchmarks for cloud
service providers. And even for businesses, the right leverage of cloud platform will be a critical
element for enhancing their competitive score.
CONNECTED CLOUD TO SHOWCASE
TREMENDOUS AGILITY
Cloud platform services are seeing a steady growth rate of 20% this year. 5
TREND #4
9. Going by these predictions which are all signalling in the direction of immense growth, be it
IaaS market reaching $72.4 bn worldwide or SaaS market growing at 20% by 2020 or even
PaaS going to grow 56% in 2019 – the domain is all set for kicking-in a revolution. 6
The concept of multi-cloud is also expected to pick up pace in 2019 which means whether the
action would be happening on public, private or hybrid cloud – end users will always have a
seamless and integrated interface for their workload without ever facing a boundary glitch.
Global cloud services market is expected to reach $555 bn by 2020. 7
10. Finding the next new customer is the biggest ask which runs common across businesses of all
shapes and sizes. And with technology expanding the horizon for the same with discoveries in
the whitespace exploration space, intelligent database has majorly revamped the business
models.
Even 2018 saw big strides being covered in the realm of intelligent database with newer, faster
and more accurate methods coming up for reducing the noise and giving more precise and
high-scoring database. With subsequent development in the tech-integration space, 2019 will
see machine learning giving the rocket fuel to the course and thus, revolutionising the whole
process of intelligent automated web scraping and its cleansing. As it is, the ML market is
expected to grow to $8.81bn by 2022 – one can estimate the impact of the trend already. 8
INTELLIGENT DB AND MACHINE
LEARNING – A COCKTAIL OF
DISRUPTION
As per a research, 60% of organizations are at varying stages of
machine learning adoption, with nearly half (45%) saying the
technology has led to more extensive data analysis & insights. 8
TREND #5
11. With such power-packed integration and amalgamated intelligence, time taken to acquire the
‘next new customer’ will be majorly lessened by using extraction business rules and seamless
database management. We can expect intelligent bots to cull out contactable database with
multiple validations and checkpoints – a win-win for any business.
With bots such as contact finder bot – deciphering the contactability, email finder bot – to
complete the DB with correct addresses or other specialised ones which can be employed to
map out the verticals and sub-verticals to an organisation based on the names and locations
etc., database management will become increasingly accurate and apt.
As per a survey, 61% of organizations most frequently picked machine
learning / artificial intelligence as their company’s most significant data
initiative for next year. 8
12. Even the ones who never paid heed to a scientific methodology of planning, those businesses
are also turning into data-driven enterprises now – leave alone the rest who had long realised
the criticality of apt analytics application on the data.
With analytics becoming a core part of every business strategy lately, 2019 will not be any
surprise year in this domain but will see further refinement and integration of this technology
into processes and practices.
ANALYTICS TO HIT THE
ACCELERATOR AS A MIGHTY
CLOSURE CATALYST
Revenues for big data and business analytics solutions are forecasted to
reach $260 bn in 2022. 9
TREND #6
13. The optimistic statistic itself indicates the trajectory that we are on and how things will shape up
in the coming year as well. With predictive and prescriptive analytics being further strengthened
by developmental strides in cognitive analytics, leveraging semantics, artificial intelligence, deep
learning and machine learning, we may witness some gigantic success milestones in the realm of
precise insight extraction from data.
We can expect domain and language agnostic analytics to pave the way for insights-as-a-service
model. End-to-end cloud analytics can also prepare for another breakthrough if the expansion of
input nodes for analytics engine is successfully established beyond five human senses.
2019 will also see a lot more emphasis on building visually appealing information centers (thus,
better narratives) in sales-tech platforms to enable better customer conversion.
By 2020, 50% of IT organizations will apply advanced analytics in
application development to improve application quality and speed of
delivery. 10
14. The technology has long passed the journey of being termed as ‘too much of a hype’ and
entered into the ‘it will change everything’ zone. The broad-spectrum journey saw the
adoption leaping up, however the pace has been gradual with it becoming a groundswell of
enterprise interest. After all, every new technology has its own lifecycle to cover before
becoming a non-negotiable.
Last two years have been quite successful for blockchain for becoming a normal
nomenclature across organisations. However, it is still yet to shed the extra layerings of being
seen as a marketing ploy and get into the avatar of a bona fide technology offering.
BLOCKCHAIN TO CARRY ON WITH
THE BOOM – BUT GRADUALLY
Blockchain to be a $3.1 trillion business by 2030. 11
TREND #7
15. With “platform-itization” of emerging technologies becoming another major trend, it will be
fair to be prepared for blockchain-as-a-service as well – but again, at a steady pace without
expecting 2019 to be a year of turned-around-tables.
Because of the promising nature of the uptake of this technology, we can expect a large
workforce of developers to continue working on realizing the true potential of blockchain, in
the coming year. It may still take 2-3 more years before we actually start to see the nascency
cocoon being dissolved as had been promised earlier but that won’t stop the wheel and the
progression which 2019 will be laced up with.
By 2019, 20% more enterprises outside traditional banking will adopt
blockchain in emerging markets. 11
16. The criticality of capturing even the last mile data input, that too with negligible tolerance for any
miss, is getting bigger and bigger for organisations across the globe. Everybody wants to know
everything because who knows which data can become a potential insight generator which can set
one apart from the rest.
Thus, 2019 is all set to see a major boom in the realm of speech and image recognition becoming
mainstay components of all reporting strategies. Digital transformation and AI proliferation will
leverage the progress made in speech recognition to improve the deployment of business tools by
replacing input mechanism through speech.
Speech to text progression is being practiced by many but is still lacking the expected adoption
pace owing to its lacking on the vernacular side (English speech conversion still being most
common). We can expect this to change in 2019 with multiple companies working in this direction
already.
SPEECH AND IMAGE RECOGNITION
TO MAKE SOLID IN-ROADS
TREND #8
17. Similarly, image recognition will also get augmented inclusion in the realm of advanced
analytics, for example – it will be extensively leveraged in the space of merchandising
analytics for compliance management, making the process more transparent and real-
time.
With the focus on analytics and market insights, speech to text/ image recognition
evolution will become the primary driver of relevant and exact data capture in the
coming year. The trend will certainly reduce the ongoing struggle between strategy
deployment, feedback capture and effective eventual implementation.
Global image recognition market is expected to reach $43.57 bn by
2022 and $77.69 bn by 2025 while speech and voice recognition
market is expected to reach $18.30 bn by 2023, at a CAGR of 19.8%
between 2017 and 2023. 13,14 & 15
18. It’s been sometime that we have been hearing the alphabet soup of these acronyms and have
been relating them majorly to the event side of businesses, however, lately the inclusion has
become much more intrinsic with these immersive technologies broadening their outreach to
mainstream processes as well.
The overall bucket being a splendid customer experience (and now even remote-employee
outreach from internal usage pov), these technologies are going to create a tremendous stir in
the coming year.
Virtual Reality (VR) is going to see an increase in its adoption in the realm of remote training of
employees and the same is expected with the levels of development/ research being done in
the space.
AR, VR, MR AND XR – POWERFUL
ACRONYMS STORMING THE RETAIL
WORLD
Worldwide revenues for augmented and virtual reality will reach $162
bn in 2020. 16
TREND #9
19. Mixed Reality (MR) will also take on the transformative role with both VR and AR stepping up
their game. After all, with other digital tech taking care of rest of the things like delivery or
payment, the in-store experience weaved with these technologies, is going to be the key selling
point for retailers.
Bridging the physical gap between people, information and experiences, the entire cluster of
extended models of all these technologies – coupled under one umbrella of Extended Reality
(XR) is what will be a major trend in 2019. With businesses realising the criticality of setting up
differentiators as fast as possible, the leverage of these technologies will see a boom a beyond
the expected real-estate domain.
Mixed reality global market size which was roughly $47 mn in 2017, is
expected to scale up to about $3.7 bn by 2025. 17
20. As unlikely as it may sound, GDPR has gradually risen above the tag of ‘impediment’ which it
was given initially when the mandatory compliance came into effect this mid-year. Its time to
emerge as an enabler for rewriting business success is here and 2019 will see major action in
this direction (or to say, realisation).
It is a human tendency to be more inclined towards a trustworthy source and with GDPR (while
still being a mandate only for few), businesses have the opportunity to leverage this
psychology for increasing their revenues. That’s precisely the reason that the companies who
don’t even come under the geographic purview of mandatory compliance of GDPR, are
increasingly seeing customer requests for GDPR compliance in relation to their data.
GDPR – BECOMING A BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITY
TREND #10
21. The cost of GDPR compliance is expected to increase the existing budget
for information security, CRM and customer experience (CX) in the next
three years. 18
Apart from accurate metrics, secure transactions, transparent communications and reduction in
false data provision (consumers’ own safeguard practice) the wholesome GDPR compliance
package promises better customer experience and in turn, increased rate of conversions.
The privacy safeguard, in the long and drudgery era of intrusive marketing testing the patience of
consumers, is like a fresh breeze and the companies who will leverage this opportunity disguised
as a mandate, will surely be the one who’d be taking the customers home.
22. While there are more technology trends which we can expect to disrupt the industry further in the coming year – such as advancements in 3D printing revamping
the manufacturing space with all the technology integration or increasing penetration of wearables giving healthcare industry a new perspective etc., important is
to keep the radar in place, always.
Let’s gear up for another year where technology integration and new research results may seem overwhelming at first but will soon take up the role of biggest
supporters and drivers for leading us into the future which we have always imagined.
TIME TO JET SET GO!