Henry Amm from adenin introduces Now Assistant by demonstrating three key innovations organizations can use to make their Intranets smarter. (i) New ways to search, (ii) Card-based UIs, (iii) Bots.
This presentation was given at Intranet Reloaded Boston on April 21, 2016.
Making Intranets smart - How AI and Bots allowed us to create a smart assista...Henry D Amm
Henry Amm from adenin (www.adenin.com) talks about how the company created Digital Assistant using AI and Bots to make existing Intranets and their data smarter. Presented at Gilbane conference in Boston in 2016.
Learn more at: www.adenin.com/digital-assistant
Case study - Google's Polymer web components let us develop tomorrow's digita...Henry D Amm
Martin Amm of adenin delivers a talk at the Gilbane conference 2015, detailing how, through the use of re-usable and innovative HTML5 Web Components, adenin was capable of developing a mobile-first Digital Workplace app for B2B customers.
Smart phones can increase productivity for small business owners and employees according to a survey. They allow mobile access to work files and emails from almost anywhere through integration with office servers. This allows users to process information and work remotely faster. While social media and games can be distracting, serious users view smartphones as secure gateways to company networks that keep information organized and accessible on the go. When combined with server software, smartphones provide reliable mobile access to shared files and collaboration tools to maximize productivity away from the office.
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The document discusses several startups and technologies including:
1. ZunRoof, an app and website platform for solar panel installation that uses image processing, IoT, and data analytics.
2. Oxfordcaps, Asia's first student housing company using technologies like virtual tours, machine learning roommate matching, and integrated communication systems.
3. Rezo.AI, an AI assistant that can automate customer service conversations using natural language processing and predictive analytics trained on historical data.
4. Paytm, a mobile payments platform founded in 2012 allowing instant payments between individuals using only mobile numbers.
IoT possesses immense potential to change the custom web development process in a lot of ways. Check here on how the IoT is bringing about such changes.
5 mistakes to avoid when creating a mobile appRobert Sutor
The document discusses 5 common mistakes to avoid when creating a mobile app. These include: 1) Not knowing your target user or having too broad of an audience; 2) Not focusing on 1-2 key functions or pain points to solve; 3) Not designing the app to take advantage of mobile-specific features and requiring mobile use; 4) Treating mobile as an afterthought rather than designing for it from the start; and 5) Failing to create an "awesome" app that users genuinely want to use frequently. The author recommends focusing on a specific user, solving a key problem well, rethinking processes for mobile, prioritizing mobile design, and ensuring the app is highly engaging and useful for users.
Making Intranets smart - How AI and Bots allowed us to create a smart assista...Henry D Amm
Henry Amm from adenin (www.adenin.com) talks about how the company created Digital Assistant using AI and Bots to make existing Intranets and their data smarter. Presented at Gilbane conference in Boston in 2016.
Learn more at: www.adenin.com/digital-assistant
Case study - Google's Polymer web components let us develop tomorrow's digita...Henry D Amm
Martin Amm of adenin delivers a talk at the Gilbane conference 2015, detailing how, through the use of re-usable and innovative HTML5 Web Components, adenin was capable of developing a mobile-first Digital Workplace app for B2B customers.
Smart phones can increase productivity for small business owners and employees according to a survey. They allow mobile access to work files and emails from almost anywhere through integration with office servers. This allows users to process information and work remotely faster. While social media and games can be distracting, serious users view smartphones as secure gateways to company networks that keep information organized and accessible on the go. When combined with server software, smartphones provide reliable mobile access to shared files and collaboration tools to maximize productivity away from the office.
Predicted! Top Software Development Trends for 2021Pixel Crayons
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The document discusses several startups and technologies including:
1. ZunRoof, an app and website platform for solar panel installation that uses image processing, IoT, and data analytics.
2. Oxfordcaps, Asia's first student housing company using technologies like virtual tours, machine learning roommate matching, and integrated communication systems.
3. Rezo.AI, an AI assistant that can automate customer service conversations using natural language processing and predictive analytics trained on historical data.
4. Paytm, a mobile payments platform founded in 2012 allowing instant payments between individuals using only mobile numbers.
IoT possesses immense potential to change the custom web development process in a lot of ways. Check here on how the IoT is bringing about such changes.
5 mistakes to avoid when creating a mobile appRobert Sutor
The document discusses 5 common mistakes to avoid when creating a mobile app. These include: 1) Not knowing your target user or having too broad of an audience; 2) Not focusing on 1-2 key functions or pain points to solve; 3) Not designing the app to take advantage of mobile-specific features and requiring mobile use; 4) Treating mobile as an afterthought rather than designing for it from the start; and 5) Failing to create an "awesome" app that users genuinely want to use frequently. The author recommends focusing on a specific user, solving a key problem well, rethinking processes for mobile, prioritizing mobile design, and ensuring the app is highly engaging and useful for users.
This document discusses how some companies have reduced internal email usage by adopting enterprise social networks (ESNs). Atos saw earnings per share increase by over 50% and administrative costs drop after moving communications to an ESN. Intellect Design Arena saw project development time reduced by 12% and freed up 1.3 million hours per year towards productive work after implementing its ESN called Unmail. Microsoft also uses internal collaboration tools and cites examples like Bajaj Finance improving its marketing strategy based on employee interactions on the platform. While internal email can't be completely replaced, ESNs allow for improved information sharing, collaboration and productivity when used alongside existing email systems.
The document discusses the growth of mobile apps and enterprise mobility. It notes that smartphone adoption has reached a tipping point, with Android and the iPad growing significantly. It describes how software as a service providers like Netflix, Amazon, and Salesforce have disrupted traditional industries. The document outlines how enterprises are increasingly developing their own mobile apps for functions like order processing, data capture, and self-service. It recommends that enterprises develop integrated mobile strategies that view mobile as a new critical channel. The future is predicted to involve augmented reality, multiple platforms, internet-connected devices, and mobile becoming integrated into all business functions and models.
Mobile Application Development For Entrepreneurs– It Was About TimeSPEC INDIA
This document discusses mobile app development for entrepreneurs. It outlines several types of apps that are useful for entrepreneurs, including productivity apps like CloudOn, Skype, Google Drive, and Dropbox for file storage and collaboration. It also discusses knowledge gathering apps like Pocket, Prismatic and InstaPaper for bookmarking and reading articles. Accounting apps mentioned include Mint and Freewave for tracking expenses and creating financial reports. Money transfer apps like Venmo allow sending payments between individuals. The document recommends efficiency apps such as Pocket Analytics, Wunderlist, and Things for task management. It concludes by providing a link to request a free trial of the company's mobile app development services.
Machine learning is changing the way we do everything: decide who is credit worthy, who should be freed from prison, which children are at risk of abuse and who should see which news. But machine learning comes with trade-offs. In this keynote, examine how machine learning will reshape business strategy, examine the ethics and politics of using machine learning to make important decisions and use case studies to explore how regulation may change the nature of business strategy.
Top 5 Software Development Jobs In TrendingMyjobspace
Software development is a huge market with many lucrative opportunities that can be explored. New technologies, development methods and customer preferences can be key indicators regarding where you should focus your development skills.
What's ahead: the future of intelligent knowledge management - Dan Turchin - ...PeopleReign, Inc.
AI and the future of Knowledge Management - from a presentation to the SDI (Service Desk Institute) knowledge management seminar June 11, 2020. Topics covered: 1) How will AI improve knowledge management? 2) Where is it working today? 3) Where should we start?
100's of vacancies in IT Software industry. Find Jobs in Information Technology openings on JobAnts.com. Current opening in Java, Sr Dot Net developer, Administrator and more
Lotusphere 2012 - Harnessing the Power of Enterprise Mobility Robert Sutor
It's hard not to talk to an enterprise customer these days without getting into a discussion about Mobile. By 2012, the shipment of smartphones and tablets is expected to exceed that of traditional personal computers, including laptops. Enterprise CIOs want to use these personal mobile devices to give better access to their internal data and processes for employees, as well as enabling better purchasing and support services for their customers. Complicating this is the variety of devices used, employees who wish to use their own devices at work, application level and device management, cost controls, and security concerns. In this session, Bob Sutor will discuss his views on the foundational needs of enterprises for a mobile application platform, mobile device management, and security.
This document discusses the career of a software developer, including what they do, reasons to pursue the career path, compensation, and potential downsides. Software developers design and build computer applications and systems. The career offers strong job growth above 20% over the next decade, opportunities to explore creativity with a variety of employers, and a median pay of $100k per year. However, remaining current with evolving technologies, working under pressure, and potential long hours present challenges.
Building a Successful Career as a Software Developernolanzak
This document provides career advice for software developers, discussing choosing the right career path in software development, important skills like communication and networking, and options for getting a job or pursuing freelance work, academia, or starting a business. It recommends not trying too hard to replace skills with effort, getting a life outside of work, and making others successful. The document offers many career options within software development and resources for pursuing different paths.
How to increase your speed of learning - Mick LiubinskasMick Liubinskas
This document discusses how businesses can grow by increasing their speed of learning. It recommends focusing experiments on a single customer segment, location, problem, product, business model, distribution channel, and experiment at a time. This focused approach allows companies to learn quickly through experimentation and make adjustments to find product-market fit faster ("flearning"). The key is conducting many small, focused experiments to learn rapidly and stay ahead of competitors in an environment where the pace of change is accelerating.
Affecto Forum 2015 - Mikko Eerola (Affecto)Affecto
89% of business leaders believe customer experience will be the primary basis of competition by 2016. Building a great omnichannel customer experience involves 4 easy steps: 1) Get to know your customers 360 degrees, 2) Take advantage of mobile as the ultimate cookie in the pocket, 3) Be personal and provide value in every interaction, 4) Feel empathy. Affecto helps companies achieve magic through applied big data, cloud computing, predictive analytics, machine learning, application development, and experience design.
Presentation: Engage.ug March 2015 by Peter Presnell
Many organizations are now investing in the development of web interfaces for their existing (and new) Notes/Domino applications. Now is the perfect time to start paying down on the technical debt we have accumulated to ensure that we don’t pass on an unsustainable software development deficit to those that will follow. With this presentation we will challenge the notion that trickle down development based on XPages is the next logical step in that evolution. While XPages still has a place in the world of modern Domino development we will explore new approaches and alternative technologies that have the potential to deliver a brighter prosperous.
David is an IT manager at a small tech company who is involved in decisions around data center software. He uses LinkedIn to connect with experts, engage with relevant content, and research potential vendors during different stages of the buying process. Content on topics like cloud computing, databases, security, and scalability are of most interest to him. By finding useful information on LinkedIn, David creates shortlists of vendors for considerations based especially on their features, costs, and ease of doing business. Many software companies and others in related industries are actively targeting profiles like David's on LinkedIn.
Solve for X with AI: a VC view of the Machine Learning & AI landscapeEd Fernandez
What you'll get from this deck
1. The M&A race for AI: by the numbers
2. Watch out! hype ahead: definitions & disclaimers
3. Machine Learning drivers: why is Machine Learning a ‘thing’ now (vs before)
4. Venture Capital: forming an industry, the AI/ML landscape
5. The One Hundred (+13) AI startups to watch in the Enterprise
6. The great Enterprise pivot: applying Machine Learning at scale
7. - where to go next -
From Intranets to the Digital Workplace - how far have we really come so far?Stephan Schillerwein
Short presentation at the Worldwide Intranet Challenge Event in Zurich (30.09.2013) talking about some of the reasons why the progress in regard to the Digital Workplace is still very small in most organisation
Alpha Anywhere presentation at the the Always on Summit -- Building Offline M...Richard Rabins
89% of businesses say they need their mobile apps to be able to work when there is no signal (VDC research data.)
Building offline capable mobile apps is very hard and time consuming. Wired Magazine says, it can easily triple the cost.
Alpha previewed Alpha Anywhere Offline at the Summit showing that offline mobile apps can be built with NO incremental time and cost (vs always connected apps.)
As Notes turns 25 we look at the future for this Rapid Application Development Platform. Notes has been pronounced dead by many over the years and yet it still lives on. In this session we look at other technologies that have lived on or suddenly died out to find clues on what the future may hold for Notes.
Social Collaboration: Opportunities, Best Practices and the FutureStefanie Heyduck
A presentation on IBM's point of view in social collaboration, social business, transformation of the workplace and how business should leverage the power of social to create new opportunities. I show some best in class examples and close with some impulses on where digital transformation be five years from now.
This document discusses how some companies have reduced internal email usage by adopting enterprise social networks (ESNs). Atos saw earnings per share increase by over 50% and administrative costs drop after moving communications to an ESN. Intellect Design Arena saw project development time reduced by 12% and freed up 1.3 million hours per year towards productive work after implementing its ESN called Unmail. Microsoft also uses internal collaboration tools and cites examples like Bajaj Finance improving its marketing strategy based on employee interactions on the platform. While internal email can't be completely replaced, ESNs allow for improved information sharing, collaboration and productivity when used alongside existing email systems.
The document discusses the growth of mobile apps and enterprise mobility. It notes that smartphone adoption has reached a tipping point, with Android and the iPad growing significantly. It describes how software as a service providers like Netflix, Amazon, and Salesforce have disrupted traditional industries. The document outlines how enterprises are increasingly developing their own mobile apps for functions like order processing, data capture, and self-service. It recommends that enterprises develop integrated mobile strategies that view mobile as a new critical channel. The future is predicted to involve augmented reality, multiple platforms, internet-connected devices, and mobile becoming integrated into all business functions and models.
Mobile Application Development For Entrepreneurs– It Was About TimeSPEC INDIA
This document discusses mobile app development for entrepreneurs. It outlines several types of apps that are useful for entrepreneurs, including productivity apps like CloudOn, Skype, Google Drive, and Dropbox for file storage and collaboration. It also discusses knowledge gathering apps like Pocket, Prismatic and InstaPaper for bookmarking and reading articles. Accounting apps mentioned include Mint and Freewave for tracking expenses and creating financial reports. Money transfer apps like Venmo allow sending payments between individuals. The document recommends efficiency apps such as Pocket Analytics, Wunderlist, and Things for task management. It concludes by providing a link to request a free trial of the company's mobile app development services.
Machine learning is changing the way we do everything: decide who is credit worthy, who should be freed from prison, which children are at risk of abuse and who should see which news. But machine learning comes with trade-offs. In this keynote, examine how machine learning will reshape business strategy, examine the ethics and politics of using machine learning to make important decisions and use case studies to explore how regulation may change the nature of business strategy.
Top 5 Software Development Jobs In TrendingMyjobspace
Software development is a huge market with many lucrative opportunities that can be explored. New technologies, development methods and customer preferences can be key indicators regarding where you should focus your development skills.
What's ahead: the future of intelligent knowledge management - Dan Turchin - ...PeopleReign, Inc.
AI and the future of Knowledge Management - from a presentation to the SDI (Service Desk Institute) knowledge management seminar June 11, 2020. Topics covered: 1) How will AI improve knowledge management? 2) Where is it working today? 3) Where should we start?
100's of vacancies in IT Software industry. Find Jobs in Information Technology openings on JobAnts.com. Current opening in Java, Sr Dot Net developer, Administrator and more
Lotusphere 2012 - Harnessing the Power of Enterprise Mobility Robert Sutor
It's hard not to talk to an enterprise customer these days without getting into a discussion about Mobile. By 2012, the shipment of smartphones and tablets is expected to exceed that of traditional personal computers, including laptops. Enterprise CIOs want to use these personal mobile devices to give better access to their internal data and processes for employees, as well as enabling better purchasing and support services for their customers. Complicating this is the variety of devices used, employees who wish to use their own devices at work, application level and device management, cost controls, and security concerns. In this session, Bob Sutor will discuss his views on the foundational needs of enterprises for a mobile application platform, mobile device management, and security.
This document discusses the career of a software developer, including what they do, reasons to pursue the career path, compensation, and potential downsides. Software developers design and build computer applications and systems. The career offers strong job growth above 20% over the next decade, opportunities to explore creativity with a variety of employers, and a median pay of $100k per year. However, remaining current with evolving technologies, working under pressure, and potential long hours present challenges.
Building a Successful Career as a Software Developernolanzak
This document provides career advice for software developers, discussing choosing the right career path in software development, important skills like communication and networking, and options for getting a job or pursuing freelance work, academia, or starting a business. It recommends not trying too hard to replace skills with effort, getting a life outside of work, and making others successful. The document offers many career options within software development and resources for pursuing different paths.
How to increase your speed of learning - Mick LiubinskasMick Liubinskas
This document discusses how businesses can grow by increasing their speed of learning. It recommends focusing experiments on a single customer segment, location, problem, product, business model, distribution channel, and experiment at a time. This focused approach allows companies to learn quickly through experimentation and make adjustments to find product-market fit faster ("flearning"). The key is conducting many small, focused experiments to learn rapidly and stay ahead of competitors in an environment where the pace of change is accelerating.
Affecto Forum 2015 - Mikko Eerola (Affecto)Affecto
89% of business leaders believe customer experience will be the primary basis of competition by 2016. Building a great omnichannel customer experience involves 4 easy steps: 1) Get to know your customers 360 degrees, 2) Take advantage of mobile as the ultimate cookie in the pocket, 3) Be personal and provide value in every interaction, 4) Feel empathy. Affecto helps companies achieve magic through applied big data, cloud computing, predictive analytics, machine learning, application development, and experience design.
Presentation: Engage.ug March 2015 by Peter Presnell
Many organizations are now investing in the development of web interfaces for their existing (and new) Notes/Domino applications. Now is the perfect time to start paying down on the technical debt we have accumulated to ensure that we don’t pass on an unsustainable software development deficit to those that will follow. With this presentation we will challenge the notion that trickle down development based on XPages is the next logical step in that evolution. While XPages still has a place in the world of modern Domino development we will explore new approaches and alternative technologies that have the potential to deliver a brighter prosperous.
David is an IT manager at a small tech company who is involved in decisions around data center software. He uses LinkedIn to connect with experts, engage with relevant content, and research potential vendors during different stages of the buying process. Content on topics like cloud computing, databases, security, and scalability are of most interest to him. By finding useful information on LinkedIn, David creates shortlists of vendors for considerations based especially on their features, costs, and ease of doing business. Many software companies and others in related industries are actively targeting profiles like David's on LinkedIn.
Solve for X with AI: a VC view of the Machine Learning & AI landscapeEd Fernandez
What you'll get from this deck
1. The M&A race for AI: by the numbers
2. Watch out! hype ahead: definitions & disclaimers
3. Machine Learning drivers: why is Machine Learning a ‘thing’ now (vs before)
4. Venture Capital: forming an industry, the AI/ML landscape
5. The One Hundred (+13) AI startups to watch in the Enterprise
6. The great Enterprise pivot: applying Machine Learning at scale
7. - where to go next -
From Intranets to the Digital Workplace - how far have we really come so far?Stephan Schillerwein
Short presentation at the Worldwide Intranet Challenge Event in Zurich (30.09.2013) talking about some of the reasons why the progress in regard to the Digital Workplace is still very small in most organisation
Alpha Anywhere presentation at the the Always on Summit -- Building Offline M...Richard Rabins
89% of businesses say they need their mobile apps to be able to work when there is no signal (VDC research data.)
Building offline capable mobile apps is very hard and time consuming. Wired Magazine says, it can easily triple the cost.
Alpha previewed Alpha Anywhere Offline at the Summit showing that offline mobile apps can be built with NO incremental time and cost (vs always connected apps.)
As Notes turns 25 we look at the future for this Rapid Application Development Platform. Notes has been pronounced dead by many over the years and yet it still lives on. In this session we look at other technologies that have lived on or suddenly died out to find clues on what the future may hold for Notes.
Social Collaboration: Opportunities, Best Practices and the FutureStefanie Heyduck
A presentation on IBM's point of view in social collaboration, social business, transformation of the workplace and how business should leverage the power of social to create new opportunities. I show some best in class examples and close with some impulses on where digital transformation be five years from now.
This document provides an overview of seamless chatbot integration and deploying chatbots in organizations. It discusses Cocolevio, a technology solutions firm, and their focus areas including consulting, enterprise architecture, and software development. It then covers chatbot basics, market insights on chatbot growth, examples of chatbots in use, and the evolution of chatbots. Finally, it discusses deploying chatbots in organizations including using machine learning, natural language processing, and integrating chatbots across platforms in a platform agnostic way. The key points are that chatbots are growing exponentially, examples show benefits and challenges, and deploying effective chatbots requires machine learning, natural language processing, and platform agnostic integration.
1) The document discusses reasons to invest in AI now, how companies can adopt AI, and the future of AI.
2) Key reasons to invest now include increased computing power, large datasets, and major companies investing billions in AI. AI could contribute $15 trillion to global GDP by 2030.
3) Companies should start with small automation projects to reduce costs and errors, then expand use of AI. They should also create cross-functional product teams to identify opportunities.
4) The future of AI includes more advanced voice recognition, predictive platforms, expanded use in industries like manufacturing and education, and applications in healthcare like disease diagnosis and drug development. AI is already used widely in applications like digital assistants,
To overcome IT Challenge , which is:
Product Cycle Shorten ,
Unpredictability,
Need to replan faster,
Predication Future,
Respond to Market,
Focus from PROCESS to People,
Data Doubles every 18 Months
Hyper Connected People in Real Time interacting in an unstructured way,
We use the capability of Analytic and big data with Predictive Analytic
This document provides an overview and agenda for a FinTech training hosted by the National University of Singapore on July 5th, 2022. It contains disclaimers noting that the information presented was prepared by the author and no representation is made regarding its accuracy. It also states the training is for the exclusive use of recipients and cannot be copied or distributed without permission. The agenda outlines sessions on FinTech concepts, chatbots, robotic process automation, blockchain, digital assets, and the use of artificial intelligence.
Digital Disruption Asia - Pleasing the Unpleasable with Digital Performance DataDynatrace
This document discusses the complex digital landscape and high expectations from users. It notes that 52% of Fortune 500 companies from 2000 are gone, and digital disruption is a major concern for business leaders. Mobile usage is rising dramatically, with most traffic now coming from mobile devices. The summary also notes the need to gain insights from data, not just collect more data, and the rise of digital experience centers to improve customer experience across channels.
Managing Unrealistic User Expectations (i.e Digital for Spoilt Brats)Dynatrace
This document discusses the complex digital landscape and high expectations from users. It notes that 52% of Fortune 500 companies from 2000 are gone, and digital disruption is impacting many industries. Mobile usage is rising significantly. The third paragraph introduces the concept of a "digital experience centre" to gain insights into user experience across channels and applications to improve performance, releases, and business outcomes.
Digital Experiences Using a Conversational InterfaceBala Iyer
The document discusses conversational interfaces and chatbots. It notes that chatbots allow users to interact with businesses through messaging apps using natural language. Chatbots are powered by artificial intelligence to understand users and perform tasks. Examples are given of different types of chatbots and popular platforms. Conversational commerce is emerging as users prefer quick interactions through their preferred messaging channels. Companies are advised to choose a business process to automate, develop on an open platform, collect user and product data, and explore opportunities to improve digital experiences and business models through chatbots.
Algorithm Marketplace and the new "Algorithm Economy"Diego Oppenheimer
Diego Oppenheimer discusses the rise of algorithm marketplaces and the new "algorithm economy". Key points include:
- Advances in machine learning, computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing are enabling algorithms to interpret unstructured data at scale.
- Algorithm marketplaces allow algorithms to be hosted, discovered, monetized and composed modularly to address a wide range of use cases across many industries.
- The algorithm economy will lower barriers to applying machine intelligence and foster innovation as algorithms become reusable assets that creators and users can both benefit from.
Die News sind voll mit Chatbots. Als ausgefeilte Mensch-Maschine-Beziehung gilt der Chatbot als nächster Meilenstein im digitalen Zeitalter. Auf einer Technologie mit Künstlicher Intelligenz, die Unterhaltungen mit menschlichen Nutzern simulieren soll, schauen wir gemeinsam hinter die Kulissen und erstellen einen eigenen Q+A Bot on the Fly. Nebst Einsatzgebieten und Anwendungsfällen aus der Praxis werden noch die Trends der Zukunft aufgezeigt.
Future of work, Role of Technology and Impact on the HR profession (al) 2020MP Sriram
The one hour session focusses on 3 sub themes
The significant trends that are emerging around work and organising
The impact on the HR profession and HR professionals including their roles and skills
Emerging trends in HR technology and Digitalisation in HR
What are users expecting from mobile assets, today and tomorrow?inFullMobile
Mobile users expect engaging and convenient experiences from both apps and websites on their devices. While mobile engagement and time spent on devices is increasing, making purchases via mobile often faces hurdles like complicated checkout processes. Leading retailers are adopting approaches like one-click checkout, alternative payment options, and personalization to improve the mobile commerce experience. Chatbots, visual interfaces, computer vision capabilities, and voice assistants also show promise in enhancing how people interact with brands and make purchases from their mobile devices.
The document discusses how computing is impacting all areas of society and the future. It makes three key points:
1) Computing is integrated into nearly all industries and fields of study. All subjects can benefit from including computing in their curriculum and all industries need IT workers.
2) Careers in computing are in high demand and pay well. Starting salaries for many computing jobs like data security analysts and mobile developers are comparable or higher than careers like engineering and law.
3) Computing will continue transforming society and industries in the future. Many technologies are emerging like virtual reality, drones, 3D printing and self-driving cars that will impact jobs, education and more. The future will be shaped by computing innovations and
This document discusses the increasing complexity of digital experiences and expectations in today's world. It notes that 52% of Fortune 500 companies since 2000 are gone, and that digital disruption will impact 93% of CXOs' businesses in the next 12 years. It also mentions that 52% of users are frustrated by mobile app performance issues. The document advocates for changing how companies work to be more collaborative, gaining insights over just data, and creating digital experience centers to improve customer experience across channels while ensuring high application performance and continuous delivery.
Allison Mnookin, Intuit presents at MassTLC Cloud Summit 2013MassTLC
This document discusses drivers of cloud adoption from the business user perspective. It summarizes research finding that 50% of information workers take actions like building their own applications on their own due to speed advantages over IT departments. Custom applications can be built by users in less than a week on average, much faster than the months it takes IT. The document promotes the QuickBase cloud-based platform that allows non-technical users to easily create custom applications and workflows to meet their own needs. It discusses trends of highly empowered users and citizen developers taking more matters into their own hands. The document also presents examples and statistics of how QuickBase has been adopted by thousands of teams to create over 7,000 custom applications at one company. In conclusion
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Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Salesforce Integration for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions A...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 integration of Salesforce with Bonterra Impact Management.
Interested in deploying an integration with Salesforce for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-and-domino-license-cost-reduction-in-the-world-of-dlau/
The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
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2. • Founded 1999
• Incorporated in Boston
• 3 offices
• Main product: IntelliEnterprise
About
Henry Amm
• Digital Strategy / Consultant
• Born German, Adopted Brit
• Management background
3. Just 5 years ago
• Little smartphone demand at
the workplace
• Business apps: Mostly mail
and calendar
• Virtually no 3rd party apps for
work 0%
18%
35%
53%
70%
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Source: Pew Research Center
Smartphone ownership US
4. Today
• Some smartphone support
• Aiming towards the Digital Workplace
• new, more effective ways of working
• exploits consumer-oriented styles and technologies
• raises employee engagement
Source: Gartner
5. Digital Transformation
78% College graduates
Sources: Gartner, Pew Research Center, Google, KPCB
40% BYOD Employees (2014)
More mobile searches than desktop
150x
6. Problems
52% Lack of understanding
25% Completion
Companies has a policy for digital transformation1 in 3
Sources: McKinsey, MIT Sloan Management, Santoko Partners,
77% Missing skills
63% Need to pick up the pace
7. Disturbing
Sources: Altimeter Group, Boston Technology
Rarely use enterprise apps for poor experience2 in 3
Large enterprises no plan to develop their own apps2 in 3
Companies claim their have a “clear understanding” of digital25%
Companies report their engaging in digital transformation90%
9. Intranets
• Experience on mobile
• “Silo” for company content
• Little Digital Workplace
mantra
“Most intranets were built before mobile
devices … making it difficult to provide
secure access to employees…”
15. Search
• Intranets overdue an update
• New ways to understand users
AI:
• Search needs to provide answers
“…seldom executed well and is
regarded as expensive and complex”
“…12 different systems to get accurate
and up-to-date information…”
NLP
30. In 5 years
• Full consumerization of workplace apps
• Data is seamlessly available to us, not silo-ed
• Intelligent assistants that do tedious work for us
35. • Notifies you
proactively about
updates
• Now Cards to show
key information
• Personal, just-in-time
• Bots to over 50+
sources
• Use it for commands
and search
• Works where you
work
37. Now App
• HTML5 Web App
• Access through your browser
• Safe — no data gets stored
locally
• Wrap into a native Android or
iOS app
• Responsive design
44. Natural Language Processing
Voice Recognition
with Chrome
Now Cards UI
Slack Integration
Hipchat Integration
SharePoint Embed
HTML5 Web App
Telegram Integration
File Explorer and Search
Mobile Forms and
Workflows
Intranet Embed
Artificial Intelligence
Engine
Intent Recognition
Customizable commands
Rule-based notifications
Google Polymer
Web Components
Command bot
Reliable notifications
45. The world’s first AI Assistant for the workplace.
www.nowassistant.com
Henry Amm
@HenryAmm
Editor's Notes
Hello everyone, I’m happy to be here. Thanks for joining us this morning to our presentation “What if Intranets were smart?” How AI Assistants can turn an Intranet into a Digital Workplace.
Before we get busy, just a little bit about adenin. We were founded in 1999, are incorporated here in Boston got 2 more offices in the UK and Germany. Our best seller is an Intranet solution called IntelliEnterprise.
And my name is Henry Amm, I’m a consultant for Digital Strategies here at adenin. I live in the UK, in Newcastle near the Scottish border but originally I’m German. So don’t make any jokes, cause I might not get them. I have a degree in Business from Newcastle University, so nothing too fancy but I thought it’s worth mentioning.
Now. Before we begin lets look back 5 years, into the year 2011.
* Back then there was little smartphone support at the workplace. iPhones were deemed not safe for most Windows-based networks,
and so beyond the stock mail and calendar app support was very very limited.
There was hence not much of a market for 3rd party apps for the workplace.
* Just consider how smartphone ownership has changed. In 2011 just 1 in 3 had a smartphone but since then this number has doubled with close to 70% owning a smartphone in 2015.
So today there is some moderate smartphone support in the workplace, a handful of business app. But there is still a long way to go before we reach the “Digital Workplace”.
The Digital Workplace: I’m not going into great detail about what is or isn’t a Digital Workplace, that’s another presentation. But just to recap quickly what Gartner defines as the Digital Workplace:
It’s a new and more effective way to work
By exploiting consumer trends, technologies and apps. Sometimes this is also called consumerization of the workplace.
And the goal is to raise employee engagement.
So how do our Intranets fare in the light of the Digital Workplace?
Not that well actually. In fact your Intranet may actually suck.
The don’t really work across your devices, most of them are still strictly desktop-only.
They also don’t incorporate much outside data like your dropbox or email attachments, they are literally just the silo for your policies, corporate news, legal things, you know, boring stuff. Basically Intranets are like a city library: Nice to have, but in the age of Google searches they’re becoming less and less central to your day-to-day work.
So overall there is very little “Digital Workplace” mantra going on.
The transition towards the Digital Workplace is called “Digital Transformation” and it is the hot topic currently everybody is talking about. Mobile devices and how we can work with them is at the heart of the digital transformation. In the US over 40% of employees bring their smartphone to work, meanwhile over 75% of college graduates own a smartphone. So we can expect this number to go up in the future.
Google reported already last year that for the first time they had more searches coming from mobile devices than desktops, not just in the US but in 11 more countries as well. And with the average individual checking there phone up to 150 times a day — we really have moved our center of attention towards mobile devices — as consumer anyways.
So it’s quite surprising to learn that a study by the MIT found that only a measly third of all companies have a policy or program for digital transformation. So if you don’t have one, you’re in good company.
* From those companies that actually have digital programs there executives estimate that their companies, at best, are a quarter of the way towards realising the end-state vision of their digital workplace.
* Almost 2/3 of executives the pace of their digital transformation isn’t happening quickly enough
77% of companies consider missing digital skills a key hurdle to their digital transformation
52% of senior executives cite that they're just not familiar enough with the technology to be a barrier to digital transformation
In a 2014 study it was found that only some 25% of companies have a clear understanding of their digital touch points, meanwhile nearly 90% reported they are already undergoing digital transformation. So while most businesses claimed they are undergoing it, they have no idea how or why.
For those businesses that have thrown themselves into the deep end unfortunately the story doesn’t brighten considerably. 2 in 3 employees claim they rarely use their enterprise apps because of the poor experience. Actually this isn’t surprising considering that 2/3 of enterprises have no active plans to develop their own apps. If you don't invest in this kind of technology you can reasonably expect the results to be all that overwhelming.
So how do our Intranets fare in the light of the Digital Workplace?
Not that well actually. In fact your Intranet may actually suck. Yes.
Most companies haven’t upgraded their Intranets in the past five years, so if you’re still on SharePoint 2010 you are in good company.
Since most intranets were built before iPhones were a thing the experience on mobile leaves something to be desired. In fact, most Intranets are strictly desktop-only, VPN-only. I know this first-hand since adenin is selling it’s own Intranet and we see this everyday with our customers.
Intranets also don’t incorporate much outside data like your dropbox or email attachments, they are literally just the silo for your policies, corporate news, legal things, you know, boring stuff. Depending on your perspective this could be a problem: They’re like a beautiful city library in the age of Google. Sure their information is vetted and correct, but if people just stop seeing them as central to their learning, then something needs to be done to address that.
So overall there is very little “Digital Workplace” mantra going on.
Now I wouldn’t tell you so much bad news without talking about the silver lining. There are ways that can help you bring your Intranet into the future, today. How do you make an Intranet smart?
How to make an Intranet smart. We identified 3 key aspects where organizations can tangibly innovate towards the goal of their own Digital Workplace, their own smarter Intranet. First are new ways to search, followed by Card based User interfaces and Bots for conversations between human and data.
First up, Search.
Current Intranet search is not so smart if we think about it. Let me explain:
When you ask SharePoint a really, really simple question.
How many days of annual leave do i have left?
Then the answer you get is: Zero results. Uh, that’s frustrating.
You tell me but it seems that in this day and age we as users should no longer accept this. Because today we search like this:
Search, while obviously making an appearance in almost every software you use, is attested to be seldom executed well, and even if it it’s still too expensive and complex. CMS Wire cites an example where the marketing department was expected to search through a whopping 12 different systems before they could get their critical up-to-date information. No one would use (I) Google, (II) Yahoo and (III) Bing — let alone 9 more searches when they just want to look up a simple fact.
So I think it’s fair to say that Intranets are overdue for an update. And as it turns we can use these same new principles Google uses to make its Search smart to make business search smart. Now we’re in the area of Artificial Intelligence
Like Voice Recognition for example which is still an up and coming field. We all remember when Siri first came out and it’s accuracy was kinda hit and miss, but nowadays Google and Apple have stepped up their game and Amazon and Google both offer companies to tap into their Voice Recognition prowess.
Or NLP, natural language processing. In recent years not just Google but Mac OS X and Windows 10 all have added support for “natural” search commands. For example I could search for “…” and the Search figures out which parts of the sentence refer to the sender, the recipient, time, and so on. That intent recognition, is artificial intelligence.
Tremendously interesting when Search attempts to provide instant answers to users. Which brings us to the format in which answers are delivered to the user:
Let’s imagine for a second that the Intranet of the future is literally nothing but a search box. I can type, or I can speak. And the answers are only given to me in Cards. What if instead of looking into 6 people’s calendars and then reserve a meeting room I could just say “Set up a meeting with everyone in the #development Slack group.”
Cards
Let’s imagine I ask my now smart Intranet the same question again: “How may days of leave do I have left?” Only this time I get…a Card. Mh, that’s a cool concept. We have
an instant, definitive answer to the users question
We also have rich media like a teaser image, visualised data, bar charts, line charts, you name it
And of course relevant related info: If I have a question, if i have a problem who can I speak to that will help me solve it. What are relevant policies I need to read etc.
And lastly of course meaningful actions so I can request leave straight away from the Card. Neat.
Cards are a pretty interesting idea we thought.
What’s great about them is that they’re self-contained. That means you can place two entirely different Cards directly underneath each other without risking confusing your users.
This also makes them perfect for mobile as you can show Cards as a list on smartphones or tile them side by side on larger displays.
All of these factors have contributed to Cards making their way into the UIs of many mainstream platforms: Twitter, Google, Facebook or Pinterest are just a few examples of companies developing into the direction of more Card-based user interfaces. This means by the time employees encounter their first Card in the workplace they will already have encountered them countless times in consumerized services.
Arguably one of the major drawbacks of most current user interfaces is that users always see the same information. You have all of these buckets here: Updates, Announcements, Shortcuts. They’re always there whether or not they’re actually needed.
And these buckets always show the same documents too.
* I’ve already seen this update
* and I’ve read this news like 20 times. But current Intranets have no way of knowing whether this is still relevant to me. Especially in Intranets where there isn’t daily changing content, homepages often feel very stale, almost static to users.
But Cards help with that, too.
Because Cards can be personally tailored. We have all of this information about our users, their roles, departments, workgroups, documents they have worked on, so lets use this to our advantage.
* By using Cards and laying them out dynamically into this grid we can show the user the information he or she hasn’t actually seen before, tailored specifically to their needs. And if the user has seen the content,
* let them decide to swipe it away and dismiss it while all the remaining cards reorganise.
Lastly let’s look at Bots.
You may have already heard about them, they’re quite the buzzword since of very recently. But what actually are they?
Essentially we’re talking about a new type of user interface. Instead of wanting slightly different buttons and menus for every application, bots all have the same user interface: That being a simple message.
Now some of you might say, oh bots are like command lines from the 80s or like Linux, and while that’s true there’s also a key difference that when you send a bot a message it can read it and reply in a way that’s similar to how a human would interact with you.
There are different kinds of bots – for messaging bots, e-commerce, banking, flight reservations, etc. – but that doesn’t mean they all have their own app.
They all are integrated into one and the same messaging app — effectively making messaging apps the new platform for bots.
Techcrunch already last year predicated bots will replace apps, thus bot stores will be the new app store.
Even the founder of Evernote has said that bots are “the most exciting thing in tech since the iPhone
While this might all have been fortune-telling…
When Microsoft and Facebook recently announced their plans to launch bots it became clear that bots are here to stay.
Microsoft for example released a bot framework that lets companies develop their own order taking bots, for example for pizza.
* Following a similar goal Messenger allows you to order Flowers from 1-800-FLOWERS. So instead of pressing one for tulips, two for roses etc you can now swipe and click your way through the process.
* But they also aim to replace emails, for things like confirmations, promotions or even boarding passes as Dutch airline KLM already offers in a pilot project.
When Microsoft jumped on the bandwagon just last month it became quite clear that bots are here to stay. On their developer conference they introduced a cleverer Cortana that incorporates a number of bots and a Bot Framework with which developers can develop bots of their own. Microsofts CEO claimed that human language capabilities will be applied across many different interfaces, suggesting that bots might find their way into all three, Windows, their cloud platform Azure and their business applications division, in the not too distant future.
Using Microsofts bot framework for example they demonstrated a pizza delivery bot that people just chat with. The user says “please send me a large pepperoni pizza” and the bot recognises what the customer has ordered (Pepperoni for toppings, and large for size) and compares is with what is till missing on its end to complete the order and then asks only these questions the user hasn’t yet answered. This chat integration is just one iteration of the bot and Microsoft plans to also offer such chats via Skype or even text messages.
At last Facebook has announced plans to make Bots centre-stage for Facebook Messenger. They want businesses to make Facebook Messenger the new central way to communicate with customers. If you thought “Wait, I thought we use Twitter for that.” there is a key difference: Facebook will allow you as the customer to purchase a businesses products through Messenger. To make you suggestions and handle your order businesses will create their own Bots that are tasked to handle all of your queries. So that when you want to order flowers from 1-800 flowers you no longer call them but Facebook message them. So instead of pressing 1 for roses, 2 for daffodils, etc. you now chat with a robot-human-hybrid that will do the same thing. Main advantage, so Facebook claims is that while a phone call always occupies your attention 100%, a chat with a bot you can quickly nip in and out of without getting overly distracted. But Messenger also aims at replacing good ol email notifications, for dispatch confirmations, promotions or even boarding passes as Dutch airline KLM already offers in a pilot project.
But how could Bots function in a business environment? Well, similar to apps bots will have a narrow skill set, so they can do more or less one thing but that relatively straight-forward. So you will have many different bots in the company. If we return to the Leave request question, a bot could allow the user to request additional Leave in a chat interface.
The bot would then have 3 things he needs to know from the user: Their remaining leave, how long they want off and what for.
The first, the amount of available Leave, the bot could for example look up straight from a payroll software.
Then it simply captures the to and from date through chatting with the user
and ask them why they request their time off, whether its Jury duty, parental leave, etc. and that’s about it really the bot has filled out the form. Short and sweet, that’s the idea behind them.
So where does this lead us? How will we work in 5 years’ time?
Well, like in Star Treks, right? Speaking into my Communicator: Hello computer, clear my paper jam. Or anything else intelligent, that prompts a magic assistant to do my work for me. By the way, we will raffle off one of these. If you want to enter, just leave your business card with me or at our stand and we will email the winner tomorrow evening.
Or like in the much-praised movie Her, where the protagonist tragically falls in love with his hyper intelligent human operating system that not only manages his entire life, but is also small enough to fit into *this* little and display-less smartphone. Also if you’ve seen the motion picture you may have noticed that there are no keyboards anywhere in the entire film. Is that fiction or a glimpse into the future?
Seriously though, in the bottom line we think that in 5 years:
* Intranets will now be naturally available on all our devices. Not just phones and watches, but also in your car or even if your fridge if you like.
Our data will also have learnt to move across it’s current barriers: Using a personal Dropbox or other consumerized services will be second nature to our applications, and certainly to our users.
And we’ll also observe a transition from dumb repositories to some smart systems that notify us of an array of relevant updates and offer to take over some of the more repetitive parts of our work.
So if we look at this kind of Business 101 chart we can see where all our current enterprise applications lie. Here in the bottom right, they’re made for the workplace and generally not so smart. Than we have these assistants in the shape of Siri, Amazon Alexa and Cortana which are really smart but mostly centred around the consumer market. But assistants for the workplace will be combining the best of both worlds, thus becoming super smart additions to the lesser business applications.
Actually, I probably should’ve disclosed this at the beginning - but all of what you’ve seen here today isn’t going to take 5 years to hit the market. We’ve got this technology available today.
* We’ve spent the last 4 year or so developing, mostly in stealth, an Assistant that brings any Intranet 5 years into the future.
And we’re calling it NOW Assistant.
The world’s first AI Assistant for the workplace.
This is how it looks.
It always shows you just the right information at the right time
by sending you these post-it note sized Cards that you can see in a stream
It’s personal and just-in-time. That means the information you see is based on your role within the company and the status you see is always the most recent one.
And we have over 50 pre-built bots that manage all kinds of data transactions in the background.
* Like many of the most widely used on-premise applications, for example SharePoint, or Exchange for emails and calendars.
* And pretty much all cloud services popular with businesses and consumers, like Dropbox, Google Doc, Office365 and SharePoint.
* Lastly of course databases for SQL, Postgres and more relational databases.
You can use these to search in many, many sources simultaneously or execute commands like for example requesting Leave.
And probably the coolest aspect of the Now Assistant is: It works where you work. It’s an Omni-present Assistant, that you can use right inside whatever software you already using to get stuff done today.
But you can also react to things and execute commands. Speak to it like you would to a colleague. For that it uses Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence to recognise your intent.
So you can say what you want like “Find me the last 6 invoices sent to customer 17856.” like you would to a colleague and the AI will figure it out — it works like magic. It will also deliver you instant answers: Either in the form of a definitive list of results or by taking a guess at which answer is most likely the one to answer your question.
Oh and all of that works with your voice too, not just your keyboard. You can type of course, but it also offers voice recognition on Chrome for Android or PC and Mac. It’s really close to using Google Now or Apple Siri — but for searching your company instead the Internet.
And of course you can give commands to start workflows or apps. Say “I want to request Leave” and the Assistant takes you to the Leave Request app; simple as that.
It’s an Omni-present Assistant, that you can use right inside whatever software you already using to get stuff done today.
So for example the Bot is available as a user in Slack and you can just ask it a question like you would a real colleague and get a reply straight way. It also is available in a host of other chat applications.
But it also comes with its own HTML5 Web App, called the Now App. Users access this through their browsers, which means it’s secure as no data is actually stored locally on the device.
* But of course it is also possible to wrap such a web app into a native app for submission to the iOS and Android App Stores.
* What’s really neat about is that it’s designed as a responsive app from the ground up.
So you would be using the same app on both your smartphone and desktop and the Cards scale and arrange themselves automatically.
But the Now Assistant also works inside your existing Intranets.
Such as SharePoint. Where you now can get this little Now Button that just slides open your personal Assistant. It shows you all of your latest Cards, you can search, start a voice prompt. It works really well, and it feels like an entirely smarter way to use an Intranet. It also has a little badge here to show me I have some new Cards, so I won’t miss anything.
And similarly in our own Intranet software IntelliEnterprise, again a button that just slides open the Assistant view.
And we also developed a Chrome extension that shows the Assistant as a drop-down on top of any other website you currently have open. So if you work predominantly in Salesforce for example, no problem the Assistant is available anywhere and it even shows you the number of new cards as a badge so you never miss an update.
Now Assistant is therefore completely vendor-neutral which in the long run will help you become more independent from software vendors. If you wanna change your email provider to Google, your chat app to Hipchat or swap Yammer for Chatter — it’s all not going to affect the way the Assistant works for you.
Secondly this will help you extend the life of legacy software. Like your older SharePoint with that expensive customisation, or the old payroll software that is just too expensive in the cloud… Just connect to them with the Assistant and 1-2-3 you have them ready for your mobile users.
Lastly this vendor neutrality also makes the investment into Now Assistant safe for you. We’re not tied to the success or demise of any other product so we don’t care if Oracle, SAP or Microsoft are replaced by Silicon Valley firms — we’ve been around since 1999 and the Assistant will do just fine without them.
And now its time for a short demo.
When we started working on the Assistant we quickly realised this couldn’t be yet another proprietary, closed system that but instead should work with any and all data you use. We want to help you bust all of your data silos.
To do that we have come up with wicked easy and Bots. They are pre-built by us, Plug-and-Play if you will. All you as the customer will enter is the API address and select a few options. They’re really easy to set up.
And we actually have over 50 of such sources supported right from the start.
Now Assistant is available today, prices start at $2 per device. And it can be installed either on your own server behind your own firewall. Or it runs on Azure or on Amazon Web Services.
If you’re interested in trying out Now Assistant yourself, feel free to visit us at our booth outside we have a little demo set up for you and would be happy to show you around. Thank you so much everyone for your attention, and I hope you have a pleasant conference. Does anyone of you have any questions?