Friday 30 November 2018
Smart ERP Solutions Launches Employee Onboarding App on Oracle Cloud
Smart ERP Solutions
Smart ERP Solutions- Smart ERP Solutions, Inc. (SmartERP), a leading provider of Enterprise Business Applications solutions and services, has migrated their Smart Onboarding solution to Oracle Cloud. On Oracle Cloud, SmartERP’s Smart Onboarding solution is easier to use, 100% mobile device ready, provides for faster provisioning, compliance, automatic on-demand scalability, utilizes world-class global security and more easily integrates with ADP WorkforceNow and ADP Vantage as well as all other Oracle Cloud offerings.
Smart Onboarding has now been brought to today’s leading enterprise Cloud ecosystem by SmartERP. Oracle Cloud runs more enterprise business applications used by Fortune 1000 global corporations than any other full featured cloud platform.
“We enhanced our onboarding solution and moved from AWS onto Oracle Cloud to provide a better customer experience not just in usability but also in areas where enterprise cloud excels and provides on-demand scalability, world-class security, continuous enhancements and support without the underlying disadvantages associated with owning your own internet connected infrastructure,” stated Kirk Chan, Vice President of Business Development, SmartERP. “Our cloud solutions, such as Smart Onboarding and Smart Talent Procurement take full advantage of all the Oracle Cloud potential, abilities, and business partner ecosystem. Being “Powered by Oracle Cloud” is a powerful competitive advantage for our solutions, clients and partners.”
SmartERP will host a complimentary Smart Onboarding webinar: “Streamline Your ADP New Hire Onboarding Process Through Automation and Integration,” demoing their Oracle cloud-based application. This one-hour event will take place on Thursday, November 29 at 11:00 AM (PST)/2:00PM (EST). Registration for this complimentary webinar can be accessed here.
About Smart ERP Solutions, Inc.
Founded by Oracle/PeopleSoft veterans, Smart ERP Solutions®, Inc. is a unique organization in the Enterprise Business Applications space providing innovative, cost-effective, and configurable on premise and cloud solutions and services that efficiently extend the capabilities of ERP systems to meet specific business process needs. The organization’s Smart Onboarding and Smart I-9/ E-Verify solutions integrate with popular HR systems to automate new hire onboarding and the employment eligibility verification process. Smart ERP Solutions enables clients to seamlessly integrate their people, processes, applications, and data, across an enterprise, enabling the organization to streamline its operations and support business growth.
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Bitcoins have best day since July as prices rebound
Bitcoin prices rose 6% today, heading for their biggest daily gain since July.
Bitcoin rebound
Bitcoin rebound- Bitcoin prices rebounded more than 6% today, jumping above $4,000 and heading for its biggest daily jump since July as it clawed back ground after recent heavy selling. In a broad sell-off in cryptocurrencies over the last two weeks, bitcoins, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency, have lost more than 70% of its value this year. Bitcoin prices had hit nearly $20,000 in December last year. Mainstream investors have stayed clear of bitcoin, with concerns over scant regulatory oversight and undeveloped market infrastructure compounded by frequent swings in price. Analysts said the US Securities and Exchange Commission was partly to blame for the recent sell-off, with the delay in its approval of new bitcoin instruments, as well as for its investigations of initial coin offerings and crypto exchanges.
The SEC has ordered civil penalties against Airfox and Paragon Coin that sold digital tokens deemed as securities in initial coin offerings. Those companies have agreed to return funds to harmed investors, register the tokens as securities, file periodic reports with the Commission, and pay penalties.
Bloomberg had earlier reported that the US Department of Justice had initiated an investigation of cryptocurrency Tether over possible manipulation of bitcoin prices at the end of last year.
Cryptocurrency advocates say bitcoin is still young and price volatility is to be expected. Many predict the need for virtual currencies that operate beyond mainstream banking will outlast any short-term price falls.
Ten years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto, bitcoin’s still-unidentified founder, released a white paper detailing the need for an online currency that could be used for payments without the involvement of a third party, such as a bank.
Cryptocurrencies are here to stay despite a prolonged slump this year, and will gain wider acceptance after the recent entry of more institutional investors in the space, Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz, said on Tuesday.
At a CoinDesk conference called “Consensus: Invest in New York,” El-Erian said the participation of institutional investors in various crypto projects, even as retail investors have shied away because of price declines, was a positive sign.
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What The Cloud Will Look Like In Ten Years
Cloud In Ten Years
Cloud In Ten Years- Ten years ago the world economy was mired in a financial crisis. But for Dan Saks, he was optimistic and launched his own startup, called AppDirect. His focus was on helping businesses leverage cloud applications.
Now the early days were not easy. Keep in mind that he spent much of his time in Europe selling his vision to telecom operators!
But of course, the effort paid off in a big way. AppDirect has gone on to raise $246 million and has amassed a large customer base, which includes biggies like Comcast, ADP, and Deutsche Telekom
Yet success can be fleeting – so this is why Dan takes a long-term view of things. Let’s face it, the cloud industry will look much different in the next ten years. There will probably be some well-known companies that will crater along the way.
“I believe there will be a recession in the next several years and in this downturn, the victims will likely be the traditional workers that don’t have skills in the knowledge economy,” said Dan. “Many will be quick to blame technology and automation. In the next 10 years, there’ll be a transition from this predicted recession to an emergence of new trends in the cloud. There’ll be a less of a focus on cloud as a hot, new technology as this technology will become commonplace. Terms like cloud and digital won’t matter because they’ll be so pervasive.”
There are already signs of this. “New applications and services are emerging based on specific verticals and geography, creating proliferation of apps everywhere,” said Dan. “What’s interesting is the intersection of technologies that’ll continue to emerge as service-enabled.”
OK, so what are some of the other trends he is counting on? How might things develop during the next ten years?
Well, here’s a look:
Vertical SaaS That’s Powered By AI
“There’ll be an emergence of smarter computers among AI companies. The way we have viewed software over the last 40 years will no longer be relevant. Meaning, the days when we used to type a query into an IBM system and get output back are far behind us. By leveraging large datasets, vertical SaaS, and workflows, software will be able to work for you. You will no longer need to click in and enter information to get information out. Instead the computer will just push information to you.”
Form Factors
“There’ll be a proliferation of devices and enhanced technologies that interact with computers (e.g. keyboard, mouse, voice controls), making the technology more sophisticated. As it becomes more advanced, you may not even have to open an application, but rather it can tell you what you need proactively.”
Extension Of IoT (Internet-of-Things)
“Connected devices will proliferate everywhere data is aggregated in mass amounts (e.g. sensors). These connected devices need a SIM card for connectivity and an identity in order to drive commerce. There will be digital channels to buy, sell and manage services in your home and work life. Proliferation of devices reinforces the use of AI and creates many more digital channels than before.”
Cybersecurity
“The tech industry needs to ensure that businesses and consumers can keep, delete and manage the data they want. We need policymakers to become focused on how data privacy will be regulated as more data is produced.
“In the future, the entire digital economy will be driven by SaaS, and how we regulate data privacy will be important. We also need to be able to make decisions taking into consideration the chances of being hacked.”
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The top 5 AI trends for 2019
Top AI trends
Top AI trends- The next year will see some AI technologies reach mass market adoption, predicts Ecosystm, a technology research firm
In a new report on 2019 tech trends, the disruptive technology research and advisory firm says 2019 will also be the year AI starts to impact employee and customer experiences, from the board to the living room.
“Businesses that make smart investments in AI will be ready to create more personal, more effective, and easier customer experiences in order to drive top and bottom line growth,” writes Tim Sheedy, principal adviser at Ecosystm, and author of the report.
Sheedy shares with CIO New Zealand his top five AI trends for the coming year and how CIOs, their teams and C-suite colleagues can prepare for the changes ahead:
1. Machine learning and IoT sensor analytics will drive AI growth
AI is not a single market – it is made up of many components – often thought of as the building blocks of intelligent applications, explains Sheedy.
The Global Ecosystm AI Study, from which the five trends were taken, shows that growth in AI over the next 12 months will come from machine learning (ML), he states. This is because this capability is applied to a range of problems and challenges across the organisation.
IoT Sensor Analytics will also see strong growth, he says, due to the rise in IoT implementations and subsequent exponential growth of data coming off these sensors, plus the desire for organizations to do something intelligent or different with this data. Robotic process automation (RPA) will continue to grow, as will chatbots and virtual assistants.
He thus advises organizations to build AI competency centres with machine learning at their core. A key skill is the ability to help business leaders understand how ML can help them such as where to apply it, and where not to.
The competency center staff should be trained not just on technology but on design thinking, customer journey mapping and other customer experience (CX) disciplines to ensure they put improving the customer and/or employee experience (EX) at the core of their ML projects, says Sheedy.
2. Growth in IoT will also fuel growth in AI
Sheedy notes that many organizations are already deploying or have deployed an IoT solution, and with these, sensors that generate large amounts of data.
“While these sensors today are, for the most part, one-way (‘collect and analyze data’), we are getting closer to the point where many of these sensors will be bi-directional (‘sense and respond’), he states.
Thus, businesses will look to AI tools – particularly IoT sensor analytics and ML – to help them learn from that data and respond accordingly.
Examine your own AI and data architectures – will they be able to serve smart endpoints?
Tim Sheedy, Ecosystm
Many deployments will not have time for the data to be sent back to a central database or central ML tool. Some will need the learning system to be closer to the sensor for it to act differently, in constantly or regularly changing environments.
The systems and architectures we have built today will not always work in the constantly-connected, constantly-learning environments of tomorrow, says Sheedy. “Examine your own AI and data architectures – will they be able to serve smart endpoints?”
3. Short-term, AI will create more jobs than it removes
Sheedy cites three major reasons why this will be the case over the next few years.
First, AI is doing a lot of jobs that are not even done by humans. These include analyzing images for trends that humans did not see or looking for correlations in data sets that we didn’t know existed.
Second, even where automation and AI are driving productivity, the majority of organizations are reskilling the affected people – or perhaps to offer a more human service.
Automation and technology-led productivity gains have been happening for over 20 years now, but employment levels have not dropped, he points out.
He sees AI-driven profit being plowed back into businesses and creating more employment opportunities.
Third, organizations have started to hire for skills they will need to make their business smarter with AI. Many of these jobs today are in addition to, not replacing existing resources.
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Thursday 29 November 2018
Japan Is A Different IBM i Market, But The Loyalty Is The Same
IBM Japan
IBM Japan- Back in early November, we did an overview of the IBM i market in Japan, which accounts for about 10 percent of the IBM i installed base and is third to North America and Europe, which have always dominated the AS/400 and follow-on IBM midrange markets.
In this follow-up story, we wanted to dig a little deeper and talked to two downstream resellers, Bell Data (which is a publishing partner of The Four Hundred in Japan) and Star Computer, which is a downstream partner from iGuazu, the largest distributor of Power Systems with IBM i machinery in the country. (To learn more about the higher-level master resellers and what Big Blue told us about the Japanese market for IBM i systems, refer to that original story.) We also owe thanks to Simon O’Sullivan, senior vice president at high availability and system monitoring software maker Maxava, who has been spearheading the company’s move into the Japanese market and who provided us with the connections to resellers and his own insight about what is going on in the Land of the Rising Sun with regards to our favorite platform.
The culture in Japan is quite a bit different from what we are used to in North America and Europe, but interestingly, the AS/400 and its progeny very easily found a place in the business culture there.
“Japan is completely different, it is not like doing business in the United States, or Europe, or Southeast Asia. It is a completely different kettle of fish,” explains O’Sullivan. “We have sold into the market for a while. If you want to do business in Japan, you have two choices. You can operate there as a branch office, where you work totally through business partners and that means you can’t do any of the services work yourself and it has to be done by those partners. And that’s the way we have been operating in Japan until 18 months ago. At that time, we decided we needed to push into Japan, given that one out of every ten IBM i customers are located there and it is relatively close to New Zealand. It is a market we understand because we have been there for a long time operating as a branch.”
Maxava opened up an office in Tokyo and employed an office manager; the company already had a technical person in Japan and then hired another support person that can speak English as well as Japanese. The company also tapped Akinori Meguro, a very well-known IBM i expert in Japan, who is acting like an ambassador for the company, helping it make connections to the local IBM i community, and then added another a tech support specialist who speaks Japanese but works in New Zealand. So there are quite a few Japanese people on the Maxava staff to help drive this business.
Maxava is also getting some help from the reseller channel. Star Computer is a Maxava reseller, and iGuazu, the biggest master reseller and the upstream partner to Star Computer, has also inked a separate agreement to resell Maxava products in Japan, according to reports in the Japanese press.
O’Sullivan says that Maxava has 70 customers in Japan at this time, and is doing five times the number deals this year as it did last year – in part due to the uptake of Power9-based machines but also because it has opened up a direct office in Tokyo. The sales pipeline is a factor of 10X larger now than it was a year ago, and there is plenty of room for it to grow. Maxava has closed seven deals in the past six months, and three of them were done by Star Computer.
“We are seeing momentum across the board, and a lot more leads and opportunities coming in,” says O’Sullivan. “We are pretty confident that Japan is going to be big for us. The only other competition really is Syncsort with the Vision Solutions HA products. The opportunity for HA software in the country is quite large. HA penetration is not really been what you would expect in Japan. In other geographies, the penetration of HA products where some sort of replication is being done might be 10 percent of the base, in Japan it is around 5 percent of the base, which is surprising in a country that gets regular typhoons and earthquakes and sometimes tsunamis.”
If there are 15,000 IBM i customers in Japan, and the installed base of HA shops is about 5 percent, then that means there are about 750 IBM i customers who are doing HA, with Maxava getting about 10 percent and Syncsort/Vision Solutions having most of the remaining 90 percent. But assuming that HA software should eventually be used by maybe 10 percent to 15 percent of the base, there is another 750 to 1,500 potential customers to chase. Hence that big pipeline that O’Sullivan was mentioning above.
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Want A Bigger Bang From AI? Embed It Into Your Apps
AI Embed
AI Embed- How might your everyday working life change if you have artificial intelligence and machine learning? Here’s one very simple example.
Consider an employee who normally fills out his weekly time card on Thursday afternoon, because he doesn’t work most Fridays. Machine learning that’s built into a payroll application could help the app learn the individual working habits of each employee. Having learned this specific pattern, the app could ask him if he meant to fill out the time card when he goes to log out of the system Thursday. There’s no policy there: It’s a behavior pattern that machine learning can pick up on.
In fact, modern-day AI might be able to fill in the time card automatically, and present it to the employee for review and approval, saving even more time, and potentially eliminating errors. This capability, known as “auto defaulting,” could have applications for nearly every form-based application, from accounting to inventory to sales reporting, says Clive Swan, Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps senior vice president of product development,
Executives wrestle with how to take advantage of artificial intelligence capabilities, now that cloud computing resources have made the technology accessible to companies of all sizes. One of the fastest roads to AI payoff comes from using AI capabilities embedded in applications that your employees use every day—like that time card app. Below is a framework to think about your AI strategy, plus examples of how AI embedded in your apps can help your teams in supply chain, customer service, HR, and more.
Three AI Capability Buckets
Smart classification, smart recognition, and smart predictions—those are three big buckets that encompass many cutting-edge AI and machine learning capabilities, explains Swan.
Smart classification involves studying both structured and unstructured data to take action based on what it means, such as to automatically identity unreliable suppliers, properly interpret complex invoices, and categorize consumers based on their current activities and past history.
Smart recognition looks to find anomalies in the data to find innocent errors—not-so-innocent errors. Smart recognition can help stop fraud, enforce corporate and compliance policies, and even speed financial reconciliations.
Smart predictions go farther, such as offering proactive advice to sales reps, making recommendations in e-commerce, or providing suggestions for service reps on how to direct a customer. Pattern-matching can come into play here, such as predicting which add-on product recommendation a customer’s most likely to buy.
A key element of application-centric AI: Context. Say a sales executive wants to call on important customers in several cities. AI can review the accounts and predict which customers might increase business after a sales call, based on past history, and suggest an itinerary that would maximize ROI from the trip.
One common factor in all those buckets is that integrating AI and machine learning into applications lets the app take some type of action automatically. Automation allows many tasks to be performed without human intervention—and without human error, says Swan.
AI systems can execute relatively straightforward actions, such as booking a rental car for that sales trip. They can also tackle harder tasks that normally require not only time, but also some level of expertise, such as optimizing business workflows, reviewing financials for anomalies, or finding expense report violations. Often there’s still a human review, but that review can often be done faster, and more accurately, with the AI’s assistance in laying all the groundwork, presenting recommendations, and providing the background, documentation, and reasoning behind those recommendations.
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A.I. that can replicate a human brain is still very far from reality, Alibaba exec says
A.I. human brain
A.I. human brain- A.I. is still far from human.
Even as technological processes get smarter and cloud computing delves into data collection and analytics, Artificial Intelligence still has a long way to go before it can replicate a human brain, said an executive who oversees Alibaba Cloud’s A.I. projects.
“As of today, nobody in the A.I. programming world is capable of doing that, even to an entry-level approach,” Min Wanli, chief machine intelligence scientist at Alibaba Cloud, told CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal. “We have to learn how to coordinate multiple dimensional capability to get there.”
Min, who oversees artificial intelligence projects at Alibaba Cloud, was speaking at CNBC’s three-day East Tech West conference in Nansha district of Guangzhou, China. He enrolled in college at the young age of 14 and has a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Chicago.
A bigger fear with automation is perhaps the loss of human jobs at factories and industries equipped with power technology such as sensors and devices to collect and analyze data. Min said their goal was to make workers as smart as power machines.
“I wouldn’t call it a job loss, it’s a job transformation,” Min said.
A champion of pattern predictions and data intelligence, Min has used a data machine in the past to predict the winner of a Chinese reality TV show called “I Am Singer.” He also helped Hangzhou city planners to optimize traffic lights to reduce congestion.
“We are the first ones to really deliver a system which can cut down travel time of an ambulance by more than half,” Min said.
Alibaba Cloud gets an upgrade
Min is part of Alibaba Cloud, which the company refers to as its most promising business unit. Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang, who will succeed Jack Ma as the group’s chairman in September 2019, announced the upgrade of its cloud business on Monday, weeks after he told CNBC that Alibaba Cloud would be the group’s main business in the future.
In an internal letter to employees after the company earned a record-breaking $30.8 billion in Singles Day sales in 24 hours earlier this month, Zhang said the upgraded cloud business will be called Alibaba Cloud Intelligence business group, and will be headed by Zhang Jianfeng, the group’s current chief technology officer.
After the upgrade, Zhang said Alibaba’s cloud business will work on building an intelligent technology infrastructure based on cloud computing that will be available to the public, underlying the company’s focus on cloud and e-commerce .
Hangzhou-based Alibaba’s cloud business reported a 90 percent jump in second-quarter revenue to $825 million, boosted by high-value services and increased number of paid customers. Alibaba Cloud contributed 7 percent to the company’s overall revenue in the second quarter.
With the upgrade, Alibaba Cloud aims to gain a stronger footing on the e-commerce map compared to global rival Amazon.
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Wednesday 28 November 2018
Why Refurbished iPhones Are Better Than New Ones
It’s no secret that iPhones are expensive and only a person with enough resources can buy this luxury gadget. But do you know that second-hand or refurbished phones are a great option if you do not have enough money to buy a new smartphone?
Both, refurbished iPhones and Android phones have a great market. As far as iPhones are concerned, you can buy second hand or refurbished iPhone easily. From the last decade, iPhones have become a status symbol for smartphone users. People consider iPhone as a tool to measure social status. And this luxury gadget doesn’t come cheap.
It’s a fact that new iPhones come in a factory fresh condition thus providing peace of mind and better warranty. But it’s also a tested case study that refurbished iPhone if bought from a reputable and trusted seller, also guarantees a very good smartphone experience with comparatively lower costs. So if you are looking to get an iPhone and want to save a good amount of money, then buying a refurbished iPhone is a better option for you.
What Is A Refurbished iPhone?
Refurbished iPhones are those iPhones which are returned back to the manufacturer due to any kind of manufacturing or functioning defect. These defected iPhones are then repaired again under full quality check and sold again. It is to keep in mind that, all the refurbished phones and in this case, refurbished iPhones are thoroughly checked and tested before being put on sale. The tests are carried out to check whether these repaired iPhones are working 10/10 or not.
And as far as buying a refurbished iPhone is concerned, you can always buy one for yourself from any reputable retailer or seller. In the UK, there are a lot of companies, who offer refurbished iPhones at affordable rates. These companies sell new phones as well as refurbished phones. Alpha SmartPhones, is one such example of a reputable and trusted refurbished mobile phones sellers.
Is Refurbished iPhone Better Than The New One?
Well, brand new iPhone is always better than second-hand iPhone but there is a number of reasons and situations in which we can consider to buy refurbished iPhone over a brand new one.
Here are some reasons showing why refurbished iPhones are better than new ones.
Cost Saving
The most obvious reason that appeals the customers is cost saving factor of refurbished phones. Refurbished iPhones considerably have less cost compared to their new counterparts of the same brand. If brand new mobile phone costs like 999 pounds, at the same time the same iPhone in a refurbished condition can save up to 50% or more off original pricing.
So the most obvious reason while buying a refurbished phone is PRICE. And you don’t need to worry while getting a refurbished iPhone because these cheap refurbished iPhones barely compromise on quality and performance issues. These phones are usually considered as a fit unit after being checked and tested by expert technicians. And buying a refurbished iPhone is also a good way to stick to your favourite model a bit longer.
Environment-Friendly
If you want to play your part in protecting the planet earth, then try to buy a refurbished phone. There are millions of mobile phones that end up in landfills each year. These mobile phones are damaging our beautiful earth. If you buy your favourite iPhone in a refurbished condition, you are helping the environment stay cleaner and you are engaging yourself in a form of recycling. Most people use one iPhone for a short period of time and then sell it to buy a new one. Those sold iPhones are still useable, they can work perfectly and serve other buyers for years to come.
Your iPhone, Your Friend
Sometimes we get so attached to our phones that we do not want to buy new ones. We want to stick to these phones for many years as possible. Let’s say that you still love iPhone 7 in 2018 and people are using iPhone X but you find yourself smitten with the features and design of iPhone 7 then you can buy cheap second hand iPhone 7 in a refurbished form. Buying a refurbished iPhone allows you to turn back the time and find your old friend anew.
Refurbished iPhone – Certified To Be Working
A refurbished iPhone is certified to be working because it has gone through the previous updates from Apple. So it is another reason to have are furbished iPhone in your hands. In case of new iPhone, there may be some kind of uncertainty whether this new iPhone model will work fine with the latest and newest updates from Apple or not. So buying a refurbished iPhone guarantees you a phone that is completely tested and been through the process of error, trial and improvement.
Almost Like New Phones
In a lot of cases, people sell their iPhones who have had just minor dents. These iPhones are then repaired and come in the market after the thorough inspection. These iPhones are just like new but at a cheaper price. So buying this kind of iPhone is a great option for you to use an almost new iPhone but at a much lower price.
Best Place to Buy Refurbished iPhone
Ok, now that you have learned the advantages of refurbished iPhones over new ones, it’s time to search the right platform from where you can get one. There is no doubt that many places are available out there from where you can buy a refurbished iPhone but when it comes to trust, customer satisfaction, price, quality and guarantee AlphaSmartPhones stands above the rest.
At AlphaSmartPhones you will find refurbished as well as new phones of every major brand. All the refurbished iPhones available at AlphaSmartPhones are of high quality and completely tested. You will get the 12-month warranty as well. With over 10 years of experience, AlphaSmartPhones is committed to selling only top-quality products that meet customers’ expectations.
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The Need to Have Good Visuals During Your Presentation
Whether you are talking to your employees during a meeting or you are pitching great ideas to potential investors, you need to prepare well. Your speech needs to be convincing to help you achieve the goals you have in mind. You also need to be confident of yourself and what you are talking about to make people believe that you are an authority on the subject.
However, apart from your speech, you also need to pay attention to the visual presentation. It is crucial to have quality visuals to help explain your point. Invest in a projector mount so that you can hang the projector from the ceiling. Whenever you need a projector, you can immediately use it.
Aid in your presentation
You might not easily get your message across to everyone who is in the meeting room. Therefore, you need to have visuals to make them understand what you are saying. People have different learning styles. Some learn through words while others need pictures. If you can provide quality images and videos for them in your presentation, it will be useful for you.
Stop dullness
When you speak for too long, the people in the room might find it too dull. Their minds will start wandering, and they will no longer be interested in listening to what you say. However, if you have a visual presentation, they can stretch their attention span.
Guide the listeners
Not everyone can catch what you say as you say the words. Others might take time to grasp the information. If they can’t, they don’t need to worry since they can check the information on the screen. There might also be some points they want to go back to, and they can’t ask you to keep repeating the same information for them to catch up.
Create a relaxing environment
You don’t want a tense and stiff atmosphere during your presentation. You want everyone to feel relaxed and at home. After the presentation, there will be serious discussions. You don’t want to start on that note as it could negatively affect everyone’s mood.
Give you a break
If you are going to present for quite some time, you might get tired after several minutes. You need to pause without necessarily calling for a break. While you are not talking, everyone will still have something to read since you have the information up on the screen.
You need to come up with ideas on what you are going to talk about. Some people feel comfortable when they write everything down while others want an outline of the main points. Once you finish dealing with your speech, you can focus on your visuals. Look for appropriate images and choose the best ones to complement what you will say.
Ask someone to check your visual presentation and evaluate if it is appropriate for your speech. Afterwards, reflect on how well you did during the presentation and try to improve in the future.
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Katana launches Smart Workshop Software
Katana, the smart workshop software company, has launched what it describes as the first-ever Smart Workshop Software, providing small manufacturers with affordable and easy to use inventory and production management.
Currently small manufacturers must struggle everyday with cluttered spreadsheets which are prone to error with over 88% containing at least one. Others have turned to enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology that is too large and cumbersome to suit their needs. Katana’s software is set to change the way small manufacturers, makers and crafters manage their production and inventory in the modern day.
Katana’s Smart Workshop Software is the first of its class to focus on visual interactions and user experience. It understands what artisans and crafters need isn’t complicated ERP technology but a visual, easy-to-use and affordable platform that will increase the efficiency of their sales, manufacturing, and purchasing processes. With the highly competitive environment of online sales, workshops need every advantage that they can get to stay profitable in an ever-changing market. It will also ensure that the passionate creators and makers of the world can spend more time making and selling, and less time bookkeeping.
Already successful with a small pilot group, Katana has impressed angel investors and recently raised $2.3 million to help with product development and expansion plans. Katana’s current team includes Microsoft, Skype, and Pipedrive ex-employees who are all leading experts in their retrospective fields. The company is planning to make further impressive hires in the months to come as it looks to double its team which will help speed up development of new features and solutions.
“Replacing spreadsheets with Katana has been our best decision recently. On-time order fulfilment rate has risen over 30% and the daily stress level has equally declined. Compared to regular inventory management software we really value the focus on what’s important for modern workshops – production scheduling and raw materials management integrated with our Shopify web store.” Carved
“Small manufacturers are a vital part of our economy and Katana is extremely passionate about providing solutions that are affordable and support the growth of this market. As manufacturers ourselves, we realised there were only two ways to keep track of production and inventory: use expensive enterprise solutions or cumbersome spreadsheets. There had to be something better and that’s how Katana was born — a tool built for the small manufacturers, for their needs and budget. We already have thousands of signups in the US and UK, which proves the need for such a software and encourages us to move forward,” says Kristjan Vilosius, Founder and CEO at Katana.
Katana Smart Workshop Software features:
- A visual, easy-to-use and affordable platform that enables artisans and crafters to increase the efficiency of their sales, manufacturing, and purchasing processes.
- Allows for automatically tracking raw materials, products stock, materials en-route from suppliers, and products booked for shipping to customers.
- Grants users a visual overview of their every-day processes.
- Offers seamless integration with various e-Commerce platforms (eg. Shopify) and accounting platforms allowing automated sales order sync.
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Which CRM Applications Matter Most In 2018
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CRM Applications- According to recent research by Gartner,
- Marketing analytics continues to be hot for marketing leaders, who now see it as a key business requirement and a source of competitive differentiation
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive technologies are of high interest across all four CRM functional areas, and mobile remains in the top 10 in marketing, sales and customer service.
- It’s in customer service where AI is receiving the highest investments in real use cases rather than proofs of concept (POCs) and experimentation.
- Sales and customer service are the functional areas where machine learning and deep neural network (DNN) technology is advancing rapidly.
These and many other fascinating insights are from Gartner’s What’s Hot in CRM Applications in 2018 by Ed Thompson, Adam Sarner, Tad Travis, Guneet Bharaj, Sandy Shen and Olive Huang, published on August 14, 2018. Gartner clients can access the study here (10 pp., PDF, client access reqd.).
Gartner continually tracks and analyzes the areas their clients have the most interest in and relies on that data to complete their yearly analysis of CRM’s hottest areas. Inquiry topics initiated by clients are an excellent leading indicator of relative interest and potential demand for specific technology solutions. Gartner organizes CRM technologies into the four category areas of Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, and Digital Commerce.
The following graphic from the report illustrates the top CRM applications priorities in Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, and Digital Commerce.
SOURCE: GARTNER BY ED THOMPSON, ADAM SARNER, TAD TRAVIS, GUNEET BHARAJ, SANDY SHEN AND OLIVE HUANG, PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 14, 2018.
Key insights from the study include the following:
- Marketing analytics continues to be hot for marketing leaders, who now see it as a key business requirement and a source of competitive differentiation. In my opinion and based on discussions with CMOs, interest in marketing analytics is soaring as they are all looking to quantify their team’s contribution to lead generation, pipeline growth, and revenue. I see analytics- and data-driven clarity as the new normal. I believe that knowing how to quantify marketing contributions and performance requires CMOs and their teams to stay on top of the latest marketing, mobile marketing, and predictive customer analytics apps and technologies constantly. The metrics marketers choose today define who they will be tomorrow and in the future.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive technologies are of high interest across all four CRM functional areas, and mobile remains in the top 10 in marketing, sales and customer service. It’s been my experience that AI and machine learning are revolutionizing selling by guiding sales cycles, optimizing pricing and enabling CPQ to define and deliver smart, connected products. I’m also seeing CMOs and their teams gain value from Salesforce Einstein and comparable intelligent agents that exemplify the future of AI-enabled selling. CMOs are saying that Einstein can scale across every phase of customer relationships. Based on my previous consulting in CPQ and pricing, it’s good to see decades-old core technologies underlying Price Optimization and Management are getting a much-needed refresh with state-of-the-art AI and machine learning algorithms, which is one of the factors driving their popularity today. Using Salesforce Einstein and comparable AI-powered apps I see sales teams get real-time guidance on the most profitable products to sell, the optimal price to charge, and which deal terms have the highest probability of closing deals. And across manufacturers on a global scale sales teams are now taking a strategic view of Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) as encompassing integration to ERP, CRM, PLM, CAD and price optimization systems. I’ve seen global manufacturers take a strategic view of integration and grow far faster than competitors. In my opinion, CPQ is one of the core technologies forward-thinking manufacturers are relying on to launch their next generation of smart, connected products.
- It’s in customer service where AI is receiving the highest investments in real use cases rather than proofs of concept (POCs) and experimentation. It’s fascinating to visit with CMOs and see the pilots and full production implementations of AI being used to streamline customer service. One CMO remarked how effective AI is at providing greater contextual intelligence and suggested recommendations to customers based on their previous buying and services histories. It’s interesting to watch how CMOs are attempting to integrate AI and its associated technologies including ChatBots to their contribution to Net Promoter Scores (NPS). Every senior management team running a marketing organization today has strong opinions on NPS. They all agree that greater insights gained from predictive analytics and AI will help to clarify the true value of NPS as it relates to Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) and other key metrics of customer profitability.
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Bitcoin and Blockchain for Beginners: The Guide Everyone Is Looking For
These days, it is impossible to cross a path or two without talking about Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, or blockchain. Since their inception, Bitcoin and blockchain have grown so massive, that they are now considered the powerhouse of the financial industry, especially the blockchain tech.
Bitcoin has been around for the last nine years. It is the oldest and most valuable digital currency at the moment. It has caught the public eye and has also changed the way we think about digital currencies.
Whether you are a trader, investor, merchant, or just an ordinary user, you should know that businesses are steadily adopting Bitcoin and the underlying blockchain technology.
What Is Bitcoin?
For beginners, it the world’s first digital currency that is not controlled or issued by any centralized authority such as central bank or government. It is maintained and generated by miners through the process known as Bitcoin mining.
Bitcoin transactions are carried out over a peer-to-peer network and registered on a public ledger powered by the blockchain technology. Simply said, blockchain network is a set of blocks of data that are linked together using cryptography.
What Can Bitcoin Be Used For?
Bitcoin is the most widely used cryptocurrency in the crypto market. Whether it is an online merchant or a brick and mortar store, there are many service providers who accept it along with the fiat currency.
For example, you can use Bitcoin at Microsoft, Dell, Newegg, Expedia, and at a lot more stores.
Want to know more about this ever-rising cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology? The infographic that follows will help you by providing you with all the information that you need to know to spend, investing in it, or use it to fund your business.
It discusses the following topics:
- Bitcoin’s history;
- Why should you choose Bitcoin;
- How to get some;
- Nations that have banned it;
- What can you buy for it;
- Lightning network;
- ICOs, DAO, and Segwit;
- Bitcoin’s market cap;
- Gambling websites that accept Bitcoin.
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Why Enterprises Need To Focus On Decentralized AI
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Decentralized AI- 2020: Year of Worldwide Data Crisis?
In 2009 when we (me and Pavan Vara, a brilliant scientist and researcher from IIT, Madras) wrote our paper on cloud computing we worried deeply about the state of the cloud computing industry from a global energy perspective. So we proposed an extensible architecture in which we propose to connect the APIs (Power/MDM APIs, Data Center APIs and Consumption-based Open Standards API, etc.) through and through the whole value chain.
Out of our concern for the energy crisis which we foresaw back then, I wrote:
With more and more Data Centers being built, and soon after we are done bashing the economy and again ready to make hay as the economy starts turning around, we can alter the shape of our destiny dramatically!
As other industries will sag, think of hotels, airlines, etc., which will certainly contribute to a certain reduction of carbon emissions, there is strong reason to believe that the spin-offs from the remote-everything will go into overdrive.
Today we are carefully talking about online conferences and soon there will be lots of online activities that will be firing up all over the place.
This will lead to huge data crunch operations as more and more information will need more processing power as it will come in audio, video and other formats.
This will be extremely demanding for data centers, no matter how centralized they are. The data center owners will have to realize that their continuous dependence on energy suppliers and other crises shouldn’t lead to a financial market-like collapse.
There is again strong reason to believe that the inter-dependence will also foster co-creation and co-conservation but it could also lead to frictions when it’s time for “someone to pay.”
We had focused our paper on exactly addressing the same problem. We tried to combine the “industrialized metering solutions”; something the electrical grids have come to do in a reasonable and sustainable fashion, while still making enough profit.
Hmmm, we proposed regulated cloud computing and I am not really sure if that happened but one thing did happen for sure!
A lot of data was created and data-hungry companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter were growing like weeds!
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Three Things IBM Must Do To Keep Red Hat Acquisition From Sinking The Company
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IBM Red Hat- IBM’s announcement that it wants to pay $34 billion for open source leaderRed Hat RHT +1.18% raised the eyebrows of everyone who follows enterprise tech.
The largest software acquisition in history, and for what? Revenues that represent little more than a rounding error for the Armonk behemoth? Open source software that IBM IBM -1.16% could get for free? Bragging rights, perhaps?
None of these explanations can hardly explain the serious green Big Blue is paying for Big Red. Here’s my take.
What IBM is Actually Buying
Red Hat offers unquestionably enterprise-class software, including its Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform, the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, and perhaps its crown jewel, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Just one problem: Red Hat’s products are unapologetically open source, which means first, the code itself is free for the taking, and second, that Red Hat’s business model centers on support, training, and professional services, rather that software licenses or subscriptions.
If not the software itself, then, what is IBM getting? The most common answer: Red Hat’s people.
By all accounts, Red Hat has an amazing team, to be sure – but there is one big hole in this theory: people can walk. And according to one source, they are already planning on doing so, in droves. Once any golden handcuffs expire, expect to see more defections.
Other sources within Red Hat aren’t so positive, but most of them do report widespread apprehension with the acquisition. Whether mass defections will occur, however, will depend upon how IBM handles the acquisition, which is still several months off.
IBM, of course, realizes it will lose many of Red Hat’s best people – if not for the difference in culture, then simply for the fact that IBM requires its personnel to live near its offices, a policy that has long been anathema to the Red Hat culture.
What about Red Hat’s customers? It lists many blue chips on its customer list to be sure, but most of them are IBM customers as well in one way or another. After all, we’re talking enterprise IT here, and it doesn’t take long until you run into some IBM product or service at any big company.
The real evidence that the acquisition isn’t about customers is to compare the revenues of the two companies: Red Hat’s $2.9 billion to IBM’s $79 billion (2017 numbers). Yes, IBM makes more than 27 times what Red Hat brings in, and is nevertheless paying nearly half its annual revenue number (not profit, mind you) for the smaller company.
Where does that leave us? In my opinion, this acquisition is all about OpenShift, which I believe IBM sees as the key to hybrid IT. Hybrid IT – a workload-centric abstraction across multiple public clouds, private clouds, virtualized infrastructure, and legacy assets – is shaping up to be the modern enterprise IT paradigm for the next decade.
And at the heart of enterprise IT? Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration platform at the heart of OpenShift.
Fair enough, IBM is skating to where the puck will be, and that means enterprise Kubernetes at scale, and the best way to get there is via OpenShift. But such a strategy doesn’t adequately explain the acquisition, for the reasons I covered above.
My conclusion: this acquisition is a desperation play, a Hail Mary of Hail Marys. Remember, IBM’s 2013 SoftLayer acquisition was itself a Hail Mary attempt at competing in the public cloud market. Established vendorMicrosoft MSFT -0.11% succeeded with Azure, so why not IBM?
Only SoftLayer underdelivered. Cloud Foundry-based BlueMix didn’t help IBM turn the corner, either. And Big Blue’s other strategic moves, namely Watson and blockchain, aren’t going to turn the company around any time soon.
It’s time to put all the chips on double-zero and let that little steel ball spin.
IBM is gambling its survival on the Red Hat acquisition.MARK HILLARY
What IBM Should Do to Survive
It’s Innovator’s Dilemma time for IBM – and they know it. The only way for an incumbent vendor to survive the disruptive innovations of smaller, nimbler competitors is to reinvent the company – and that means losing the baggage of the past.
The first move: deprecate all WebSphere products. From its application server to its message broker to its business process management platform, all WebSphere technology predates the cloud and thus represents the legacy, on-premises way of running IT.
However, hybrid IT is not about preserving legacy, it’s about giving enterprises a path for replacing it. True, WebSphere represents a cash cow for IBM, as middleware is difficult to replace. But in order for IBM’s customers to survive, they must cut ties with the past and move to a cloud-first hybrid IT strategy, and so IBM must do so as well.
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Tuesday 27 November 2018
Expert Tips for Small Businesses to Market Online Within a Tight Budget
When it comes to the market and especially the online market, then there are so many things that you must know. There are so many things that can be the helpful and online market is a vast network where you can get things done in a really easy manner and a better way. Many people have chosen online business when they are on a tight budget, and there are so many businesses that are now on the top of this world. All you need to get started is some basic tips which will help you out in the best way.
This guide is all about the tips, and some of them are basic which need to be implied on almost every business idea. You can choose any of them, and there will not be a thing that will make your business reach the top for sure. This is all that you need to know if you are getting started with the market. You just need to have a better look over the scenario of the current market and let us get to the tips that will help you out for sure.
1) Blog about your Products
Blogging is a surreal power that can help your website to get on the top. If you are blogging once in 2 weeks, then this thing can help your website to be on the top of the search engine. For this, you will never get to use SEO or any other tools if you are going organic all the time.
This is all that you need to know for now, and it will surely help you out to get things done in the easiest way possible. You can choose up any of the writers for your blogs, or you can even write blogs yourselves. Try to add some guest blogs on some of the websites to let people reach to your website with the references of the links.
2) Social Media is Free
There is no doubt in the fact that you can get in touch with millions of people when you are posting things on social media. Some so many people will get to see your posts, and it can help your website to get the easy traffic in a simple way.
You can even get a promotion from some of the reputed pages, and it will surely help your page and your website to get things done in the easiest way. You can get easy money with this thing, and the social media thing is one of the best things where you can brag about your products, and there will be a lot of customers and chains that will get to your website.
3) Google AdWords and Facebook Advertisements
Google AdWords is one of the most abundant things that you choose in the less amount and better flexibility. You can choose any of the plans as per your sales, and if you have fewer sales then you can choose the plan that can give you high traffic, but at the same time you need some better things done for your website.
Another thing that can help you out in the ads market is the Facebook advertisement. Though you need to pay for the ads in here too the thing about Facebook is that you will get o to connect with more and more people easily. Social media is the key, and Facebook is the heart of social media. You can easily make up a page for your product, and you can simply post your product with some attractive captions or anything that you want to get as many customers as you can.
4) Know the Market
Knowing your market need some really hard work, and you will have to make some really better efforts to get started with it. There are so many things that a market can tell about the product and what are the things that are trending among customers. This thing can help you out in the best way, and you can do a lot of things with it. Here are some things that you need to be doing to know the market and these are –
- You need to learn from your competitors, and there is nothing like an ego that will help you to establish your business. Always look out for things that the people are looking for, and if anything is missing, then you need to provide that to your customers.
- Do your research on the products that you are going to add in the market with your name. If there is anything that doesn’t feel good to you, then you just look out for the trending thing among people. This is all that you need to know before you get started with the market.
These things can help you to know all about your market, and once you are done with it, then your website needs some good work on it to get recognized easily on the search engines. You will get to learn about that in the next section.
5) Make Your Website Easy to Access
The website that you are making for your products is not at all for the computers or people with a high internet connection. There is no need to add such graphics to your website that it becomes too hard to access and to get more of your customers, you need to get your website to have a mobile responsive design for your customers.
The majority of the websites that are on the internet today works this way, and a simple website with the interesting material is what attracts a customer. You will never get traffic when it takes 10 minutes to load your website. These things are better when you keep all that in your mind while designing your website and these things can turn out to be much more effective for your website without any extra money.
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Can cloud speed up scientific discovery?
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Cloud discovery-The National Science Foundation is taking a look at how researchers can tap cloud computing to supercharge research. NSF is partnering with the nonprofit computer networking group Internet2 on a new project called Exploring Clouds for Acceleration of Science (E-CAS).
The idea is to examine how researchers can leverage big data and cloud computing resources for the computational research that once required the power of supercomputers.
NSF is contributing $3 million to the effort, and Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform are joining as cloud providers.
“I think people are very excited about it,” said Manish Parashar, the director of NSF’s Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. “Like with any new, disruptive trend there is some amount of learning, and adaptation is required for change, but people are excited.”
The first phase of the E-CAS effort involves allocating cloud resources to six research proposals. Then two of those projects will be selected to see if cloud can be used to accelerate scientific discovery.
One benefit of cloud, Parashar said, is that resources are available when you need them — shrinking or growing with a researcher’s need. “You can add more resources as needed and in doing a lot of big data, data-driven computation, that becomes important,” he said.
The cloud also provides a way to access technologies like graphics processing units or tensor processing units, he said.
The project is part of a broader push within NSF to bring cloud capabilities to researchers. In a solicitation released in October, NSF sought an organization to serve at the primary point of contact between the agency, cloud providers and the education community. The Cloud Access program would create partnerships with cloud providers and determine how cloud resources are allocated to research projects. The role is open to higher education institutions and nonprofits, according to the solicitation, which has a primary proposal due date of Dec. 20.
Both Cloud Access and E-CAS are attempts to determine how the research community can best use the benefits of cloud, Parashar said.
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Now, cloud companies want to run the rest of your business
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Cloud business- Technology giant Siemens AG hires 35,000 people each year, sorting through some 2 million applicants for positions in 120 countries in 20 languages. Search is essential to such a massive recruiting process, but language, cultural and industry differences have long been a problem in matching candidates to available positions.
“I might be looking for a software developer and I’m getting applications for a business developer,” said Stephanie Morton, Siemens’ Singapore-based global talent acquisition manager. As a result, the company’s 400 recruiters had to do much of the weeding-out and matching process manually.
Early this year, Siemens’s cloud recruiting partner, Jibe Inc., suggested that a new cloud service being tested by Google LLC’s Cloud Platform called Cloud Talent Solution could help. Leveraging Google’s expertise in translation, search and machine learning, the software improves the quality of candidate matches over time to cut down on waste and free up recruiters from drudge work. Siemens went live with it in April.
“It was like turning on a light switch,” Morton said. The number of web visitors who submitted applications jumped 30 percent almost immediately. For difficult-to-fill positions such as sales, the uplift was 50 percent, and people were now applying for the right positions. “This flipped our relationship from being about how we can perform better on their pages to how they can help us perform better and improve the candidate experience,” Morton said.
Siemens’ use of Cloud Talent Solution highlights a sweeping move by cloud infrastructure-as-a-service providers to seize new ground in information technology. Having spent the past decade convincing customers that their existing data center workloads can run more reliably and securely in the cloud, these companies are now bidding for a bigger piece of the enterprise pie.
As the business of provisioning raw server capacity has become a commodity, cloud providers are moving up the value chain into line-of-business services that in some cases look a lot like those typically delivered by software-as-a-service providers. They’re rolling out new services such as “internet of things” development platforms, analytics, talent management suites, business planning frameworks and even robotic call center applications to customers that increasingly would rather buy than build.
The upshot: As thousands of Amazon Web Services Inc. customers flock to Las Vegas this week for the cloud giant’s annual re:Invent conference, the decade-old cloud infrastructure industry stands on the threshold of a major transition from rented infrastructure to strategic enterprise resource. Within five years, many experts believe, enterprises will build and run only a fraction of their own applications. Many of those tasks will be taken on by cloud providers that have the benefit of resources, experience and data that few of even the largest companies can match.
In turn, that’s starting to transform the companies shrugging off decades of in-house information technology in favor of the cloud. Indeed, the trend points to a potential change in the very meaning of a corporation. Twenty-five years after venture capitalist William Davidow wrote about the emerging “virtual corporation” offloading more and more of its noncore operations, the coming of age of cloud computing hints that it may finally become a reality.
And as businesses start to dispense with expensive gear and software that’s hard to maintain and operate, they can double down on their core business and even extend into new markets more quickly. Among companies that are moving to the cloud, AWS Chief Executive Andy Jassy said in an interview this week with SiliconANGLE, “the level of new ideas they get from all areas and all levels of the organization is astronomically different from what had been the case before.”
Beyond the vending machine
In the first stages of cloud adoption, “private and public clouds were basically VM vending machines,” said David Bartoletti, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc., referring to the rented virtual machines, or computers emulated in software, called server instances. “Developers now want a whole collection of services they can use to assemble applications.”
The result could be an acceleration of the already torrid growth pace of the public cloud and software-as-a-service industries. More important, as cloud computing reaches what Forrester calls its “young adult years,” enterprises will begin to make a fundamental change in how they build software. In the future, new applications will be assembled from an increasingly rich palette of services offered by cloud providers.
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