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Brooks Running Senior Business Systems Analyst – Product … – Fitt.co
Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe a run can change a day, a life, the world. Everyone who works here is a key part of our obsession to make the best running gear on the planet.We want our business which also happens to be our passion to be a place where everyone feels welcome and comfortable being themselves. Our company culture defines us, bonds us together, and drives our success. We live this culture daily through our brand values: Runner First, Word is Bond, Champion Heart, There is no I in Run, and Keep Moving. This means we always solve for the runner, do what we say we will, give it our all, are generous with our humanity, and find a way to keep moving every day, because joy is kinetic.
Are you ready to help create something extraordinary?
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As a Senior Business Systems Analyst for product systems, you will collaborate with creators and consumers of Brooks product data to manage and support their IT-enabled systems. Your top priority will be oversight of our FlexPLM enterprise product lifecycle management (PLM) system followed by learning about and providing backup support for our Contentserv PIM system. We have several critical integrations between FlexPLM and downstream consumers of Flex Product data including Infor M3 ERP, Contentserv PIM and Brooks Enterprise Data Warehouse (BAM). You will be responsible for understanding the data flows to each of these systems.
You will work with PTC and our 3rd party FlexPLM support partner, as well as other internal systems teams to ensure the Flex technology and integrations are stable and maintained to meet our business needs. While much of your effort will focus on helping product teams fully exploit the features and functions of the FlexPLM system, a key component of this role is to understand the technical capabilities and limitations of our systems and how to best leverage them in the Brooks environment. You will work with business partners to develop business requirements, review functional requirements, troubleshoot integrations with other systems, coordinate deployment of customizations and own the Brooks Change Management process for FlexPLM.
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ING on Building a Cloud Native Bank – The New Stack
This post is one of a series of posts previewing KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, April 18-21, Amsterdam. Join us there, to learn more about the transformative nature of cloud native applications and open source software.
In todays world, customers expect a superior experience. This means technology, now even more than before, has become an essential link to provide those always on seamless digital services which enable our customers to stay safe and secure.
Since ING, a global bank with over 37 million customers, has a history of adapting to change, were always aiming to be a step ahead. To stay ahead in a banking tech environment, you need to be very opinionated on how IT is applied.
But this is not always the case in the broader tech ecosystem we depend on, which has so many other stakeholders to satisfy and, therefore, too often security (let alone compliance) is an afterthought.
So, we expect our employees to challenge this tech ecosystem by showing it is possible to have better security and easier compliance. We didnt become who we are by being a follower.
Our customers (and by extension the politicians they elect and the regulators they have instituted) rely on ING to deliver on the promises we make; trust is our license to operate.
And we try hard to avoid any outages which could erode this trust. Of course, any outage could be a dent in our professional pride.
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Its safe to conclude that as INGs tech employees, we have plenty of incentives to build a better tech ecosystem for ING.
Let me share in a bit more detail what being a bank means from a tech perspective.
For all the buzz around INGs tech over the past years, sometimes our image is greater than our actual delivery. Yes, we dared to take some big leaps in the early days of DevOps and Agile, and we harvested the consequences of that, both positive and negative.
The inverse is also most certainly true: working in a bank has a certain image, and while there are certainly valid reasons for that, people dont always realize that banking tech systems are still today some of the most complex tech systems in this world. And you would be right to challenge banks if this is a flaw or a virtue.
For good or bad, the fact is by operating those systems for decades, banks have collected a significant amount of institutional knowledge on how to securely operate complex systems at scale, which not even todays hyperscalers have caught up with (as the larger banks in this world have at least a 25-year head start).
This means most banks have something to offer to individuals, open source communities and other partners. Hence, ING decided to become more active in the tech community:
But please dont misinterpret us opening up for advocating complexity. On the contrary, we definitively have the desire to simplify our tech ecosystem.
We learned our lessons the hard way and know for sure we want to reduce complexity, get away from tightly coupled systems, unmanageable vendor lock-ins, obsolete (sometimes even self-maintained) components and so on and rather today than tomorrow. But reality always kicks in, and IT transformations do take their time.
Nevertheless, like any other tech department in any other company in this world, in the end, were still learning and improving day by day.
Part of those improvements is rebuilding our legacy systems into cloud native systems. That has been a journey for ING we started around 2015 by thinking through the concepts of our then next-generation infrastructure offerings within the enterprise architecture department. How could we enable faster and easier adaption of new technologies in ING?
One thing was obvious: we would need to tear down the walls of our vaults, open up our systems and build digital platforms.
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To be quite honest, we were looking into concepts like separating Runtime Hosting from Data Services. (Based on the 12 Factor paradigm, as well as the work of Kolb & Wirtz: Towards Application Portability in Platform as a Service, University of Bamberg. It quickly became known internally as The Bamberg Model.) And we contemplated an API-PaaS delivery (something like Cloud Foundry) for our developers.
Then we experienced the Agile revolution within INGs infrastructure departments, and our ideas of protecting Developers against themselves by limiting degrees of freedom and prescribing infrastructure patterns went down the drain. The result of these revised insights was a serverless Kubernetes-Namespace-as-a-Service (NaaS) delivery model in which Developers are fully responsible for everything they do within their namespaces. This NaaS is a globally useable building block providing a modular and scalable foundation to host INGs immutable workloads. And it was born out of a collaboration between INGs Polish, German and Dutch engineers.
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As a result, some DevOps teams building and managing INGs applications flourished, while others struggled with the cognitive load of these freedoms and responsibilities. Sadly, this learning experience did cause us some outages which might have been avoidable, in hindsight.
Debates with teams who want cluster-level privileges to run their applications (and are de facto asking for dedicated Kubernetes clusters) and teams who find it too hard to consume and operate namespaces and would prefer to have an API-PaaS style delivery or a Functions as a Service are still common, even with this NaaS operating model.
The other reality we had and have to deal with is a scarcity of engineering resources. We couldnt realistically develop and maintain both an API-PaaS and a NaaS model simultaneously (let alone the other models mentioned), especially since we initially did not have a large volume to make a business case with.
In the end, everybody involved was a bit right and a bit wrong. The most important lesson here is that a one-size-fits-all operating model will only work if the organization around it is aligned with it and supports its developers to work in that operating model.
Fast forward to today:
ING is looking to assist its developers with a private cloud offering standardized services like the already mentioned Kubernetes NaaS. That NaaS is provided by the second generation of INGs Container Hosting Platform (ICHPv2). ING builds 36 ICHPv2 components to create that NaaS and make it fully automated.
We call the architecture behind ICHPv2 Zero-Privilege, and it will be presented publicly at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU (April 19-21 2023) in INGs corporate hometown of Amsterdam. During that same conference, ING will open source the first three NaaS components under the Neoria (Dockyard) brand at the ING booth:
These components have enabled ING to significantly reduce our CPU usage and hence our CO2 footprint. And since ING is putting sustainability at the heart of what we do, we make this code available to the rest of the world so even more CPU cycles can be saved and corresponding CO2 exhaust avoided.
But were only getting started.
Accompanying the Zero Privilege Architecture talk, there will be a second ING talk, Kubernetes: Resistance is Futile, from a presenter actually using this Private Cloud ecosystem.
During various pre-conferences, ING speakers will also share their expertise with the audiences:
At the ING booth, we have a multitude of interesting Booth Talks ranging from the workload configuration templating services which are offered on top of NaaS (Kings Road) and INGs proprietary Service Mesh (Touch Mesh) to INGs future hybrid cloud (Public Cloud Foundation/Paved Roads) and many more.
There will also be scheduled visits of all the ING speakers from KubeCon and its pre-conferences. In case you didnt get to ask questions after the talk or missed the talk entirely and regret that, heres your second chance!
Last but not least, the Chairman of INGs Open Source Board will be at the ING booth sharing how ING is evolving from a consumer to a contributor in the ecosystem.
We hope this article and our presentations at KubeCon will give some insights into what it means to be in a banking tech environment and how to transform into a Cloud Native bank.
Obviously, theres much more to share than we have space for in this article.
If you are in the opportunity to travel to Amsterdam, we hope to speak to you during KubeCon EU and hear your feedback. And even if you do not work for a bank, feel free to approach us and learn how to improve tech(-security) ecosystems in general, wherever youre employed.
The artwork in this presentation (Opening Up and visuals Cloud Native ecosystem Kube) is from my esteemed colleague, Theo Sommer.
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AWS is giving startups a big generative AI boost – TechRadar
AWS is offering a new program for 10 lucky startups in the generative AI space to help develop and implement their business.
The AWS Generative AI Accelerator will last for 10 weeks, giving startups the resources and mentoring to build their products before putting them in contact with investors and customers.
Applications are open now and will close on April 17. The chosen 10 will embark on the program from May 24 to July 27, 2023, which will mainly take place online. There will be two sessions in person, one at the start of the week and one in the final week in a Demo Day held at AWS Startup Lofts inSan Francisco, CA.
In terms of funding, the startups can receive up to $300,000 in AWS credits to build their products within AWS, using the cloud service's AI and Machine Learning (ML) tools to do so.
$200,000 of these credits will be given to the startups in the form of AWS Promotional credits, which are aimed at sustainable companies who make applications via cloud hosting.
In addition, an extra $100,000 in credits will be up for grabs as part of AWS Activate, which Amazon describes as the "solution to ascalable, reliable, and cost-optimized startup." The startups will have to separately qualify for the AWS Activate program to be entitled to these extra credits.
Each startup will also be provided with mentors who have expertise in their given field to help with both the technical and business sides of their enterprise. Other sessions will focus on improving machine learning performance, stack optimization, and go-to-market strategies.
They will also be given the chance to interact with one another as well as industry leaders in networking events, which will also see them meet investors and potential customers.
At the end of the program, the startups will pitch there products at the Demo Day to investors, customers and the press, with the purpose of raising awareness for their business.
AWS is ideally looking for startups who already have an MVP developed and are seeking seed funding within the next year and a half. It will also consider machine learning startups who are already using cloud technology or plan to.
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North America Dominates Global Data Centre Server Market Due to Increasing Demand for Colocation Services – openPR
North America Dominates Global Data Centre Server Market Due to Increasing Demand for Colocation Services
The global data center server market is expected to grow from USD xx billion in 2022 to USD xx billion by 2028, at a CAGR of x% during the forecast period. The growth of the market is attributed to the increasing adoption of cloud computing, big data analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, which require high-performance and scalable data center servers.
The global data center server market has been growing steadily over the past few years and is expected to continue to grow in the coming years. The market is driven by the increasing demand for data center services from various industries, including telecommunications, healthcare, banking, and e-commerce.
It profiles some of the key players operating in the market, including HP, Dell, IBM Corporation, Fujitsu, Cisco Systems, Lenovo Group, Oracle Corporation, Huawei Technologies., Inspur Group, Bull (Atos SE), Hitachi Systems, NEC Corporation, Super Micro Computer, Silicon Graphics International ( Rackable Systems)and others. The report also includes detailed information on their business strategies, product offerings, and financial performance.
The rack server segment is expected to dominate the data center server market, followed by the blade server and modular server segments. North America is expected to be the largest market for data center servers during the forecast period, due to the presence of major players in the region and the increasing demand for data center services from various industries.
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Data center servers typically consist of a processor, memory, storage devices (such as hard drives or solid-state drives), and networking equipment. They are designed to be highly reliable and scalable, with the ability to handle a large number of users and data-intensive applications.
In recent years, data center servers have become more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly, with the use of technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing. This has helped to reduce the overall energy consumption and carbon footprint of data centers, which are known to consume a significant amount of energy.
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Cloud Services Market: The global market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20% to reach $3.2 Trillion by 2033 – openPR
According to the report, the global Cloud Services market is expected to grow from $610 Billion in 2022, which is expected to reach $3.2 Trillion by 2033, growing at the CAGR of 20% from 2023 to 2033. The cloud services market refers to the industry that provides on-demand computing resources, such as storage, processing power, and applications, over the internet. Cloud services are delivered through a network of remote servers hosted on the internet, allowing users to access these resources from anywhere with an internet connection. The cloud services market is a rapidly growing industry, driven by the increasing adoption of cloud computing across various industries and the growing trend of digital transformation. Cloud services provide businesses with flexibility, scalability, and cost-efficiency, enabling them to optimize their operations and improve their productivity.
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Key Highlights:The global Cloud Services Market size was valued at USD 610 billion in 2022 growing at a CAGR of 20% from 2023 to 2033.North America dominated the market in 2022Asia Pacific is expected to fastest-growing at the highest CAGR from 2023 to 2033
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The New NormalThe COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the cloud services market, as remote work and digital transformation have become more important than ever. With the need for remote access to data and applications, the demand for cloud services has increased, particularly in industries such as healthcare, education, and finance. The pandemic has also led to changes in the way businesses use cloud services, with an increased focus on security, reliability, and resilience. As a result, there has been a growing demand for cloud services that can provide advanced security features, data protection, and disaster recovery capabilities.In terms of COVID 19 impact, the Cloud Services market report also includes the following data points:COVID19 Impact on Cloud Services market sizeEnd-User/Industry/Application Trend, and PreferencesGovernment Policies/Regulatory FrameworkKey Players Strategy to Tackle Negative Impact/Post-COVID StrategiesOpportunity in Cloud Services market
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Key PlayersSome of the major Cloud Services players holding high market share include Alibaba Group Holding Limited, DELL, Google, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development. These players use partnership and collaboration as a key strategy to gain significant market share to compete with market leaders.
The key players profiled in the report are:Alibaba Group Holding LimitedDELLGoogleHewlett Packard Enterprise DevelopmentInternational Business Machines CorporationMicrosoft CorporationOracle CorporationRackspace Hosting, IncCisco System, Inc.Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Segmental AnalysisMarket Segment By Cloud Type with focus on market share, consumption trend, and growth rate of Cloud Services Market:oPublic CloudoPrivate CloudoHybrid CloudoOthers Market Segment By Enterprise Size with focus on market share, consumption trend, and growth rate of Cloud Services Market:oLarge EnterprisesoSmall & Medium EnterprisesoOthers
Market Segment By Service Type with focus on market share, consumption trend, and growth rate of Cloud Services Market:oIaaSoPaaSoSaaSoBPaaSoManagement & Security ServicesoOthers
Market Segment By end-user with a focus on market share, consumption trend, and growth rate of Cloud Services Market:oBFSIoIT & TelecommunicationsoGovernmentoRetailoHealthcareoEnergy & UtilitiesoMedia & EntertainmentoManufacturingoOthers
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Global Cloud Services Geographic Coverage:North AmericaoUSoCanadaoMexico
EuropeoUKoGermanyoFranceoItalyoSpainoNordic CountriesoBeneluxoRest of Europe
Asia PacificoChinaoJapanoIndiaoSouth KoreaoIndonesiaoMalaysiaoAustraliaoRest of Asia Pacific
Middle East and AfricaoSaudi ArabiaoUAEoEgyptoSouth AfricaoRest of MEA
Latin AmericaoMexicooBraziloArgentinaoRest of Latin America
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NICE Delivers AI-Powered CX to Accelerate Smart Self-Service Adoption While Improving Employee Engagement and Efficiency with Launch of CXone Spring…
New CXone capabilities provide real-time interaction guidance and unique low-code smart self-service options
HOBOKEN, N.J., April 03, 2023--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced the Spring 2023 release of CXone, which adds new AI-powered capabilities that accelerate digital fluency to help brands master CXi (customer experience interactions). The new release unveils a comprehensive, well-rounded set of offerings to meet customers at their preferred digital doorstep and empower sales-driven agents to deliver seamless experiences to win new business. The new capabilities also include enhanced digital reporting capabilities, providing historical visibility into agent performance across multiple digital channels.
The CXone Spring 2023 Release produces plug-and-play simplicity to accelerate development efforts. An all-new bot skills library creates a community for bot builders to share capabilities to expedite development of smarter bots. No code templates enable customers to effortlessly create rich messaging across multiple digital channels including Google Business Messaging, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Apple Messages for Business. This opens huge opportunities for agents to provide richer interactions on customers preferred digital touchpoints.
Ten new sales-effectiveness Enlighten AI models bring real-time interaction guidance to the front line of revenue generation. The models, specifically designed for agents engaged in sales, coach the agent in real-time, pinpointing opportunities, and displaying sales metrics and behavior scores for performance improvement.
"We are proud to launch another milestone that will allow our customers to leap forward in their journey to create AI-driven digital fluency," said Barry Cooper, President, CX Division. "The ability to build and deploy smart bots along with new Enlighten sales models is a major competitive differentiator, delivering real-time guidance to sales agents to win new customers and drive massive revenue growth for brands."
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About NICEWith NICE (Nasdaq: NICE), its never been easier for organizations of all sizes around the globe to create extraordinary customer experiences while meeting key business metrics. Featuring the worlds #1 cloud native customer experience platform, CXone, NICE is a worldwide leader in AI-powered self-service and agent-assisted CX software for the contact center and beyond. Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, partner with NICE to transform - and elevate - every customer interaction. http://www.nice.com
Trademark Note: NICE and the NICE logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of NICE Ltd. All other marks are trademarks of their respective owners. For a full list of NICEs marks, please see: http://www.nice.com/nice-trademarks.
Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements, including the statements by Mr. Cooper are based on the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the management of NICE Ltd. (the "Company"). In some cases, such forward-looking statements can be identified by terms such as "believe," "expect," "seek," "may," "will," "intend," "should," "project," "anticipate," "plan," "estimate," or similar words. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results or performance of the Company to differ materially from those described herein, including but not limited to the impact of changes in economic and business conditions, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; competition; successful execution of the Companys growth strategy; success and growth of the Companys cloud Software-as-a-Service business; changes in technology and market requirements; decline in demand for the Company's products; inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications; difficulties or delays in absorbing and integrating acquired operations, products, technologies and personnel; loss of market share; an inability to maintain certain marketing and distribution arrangements; the Companys dependency on third-party cloud computing platform providers, hosting facilities and service partners;, cyber security attacks or other security breaches against the Company; the effect of newly enacted or modified laws, regulation or standards on the Company and our products and various other factors and uncertainties discussed in our filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). For a more detailed description of the risk factors and uncertainties affecting the company, refer to the Company's reports filed from time to time with the SEC, including the Companys Annual Report on Form 20-F. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise them, except as required by law.
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The Role of the CFO in Sustainability Reporting – Sustainable Brands
With increased expectations to assume the role of climate controller in business, how should CFOs go about measuring the success of their organizations environmental policies?
The changing role of the Chief Financial Officer has been widely discussed inrecent years. CFOs today must be prepared to respond to growing interest fromstakeholders in their companys sustainability practices and are increasinglybecoming some of the most important drivers of sustainability initiatives acrossevery industry. So, lets look at why.
In the face of climate change,transparencyis becoming non-negotiable in modern business. CFOs have always handled financial andbusiness reporting; so, we are a natural fit for to take on sustainabilityreporting. Its not a question of whether CFOs will assume this newresponsibility but rather, when. Robust, data-drivenreportingis key to building and maintaining trust with customers, partners, investors andemployees; and this is something we need to deliver on now.
This shift in public sentiment and expectation shouldnt come as a surprise. Aswe witness the climate changing around us, the average consumer expects thebrands they support to be proactive and communicative about their environmentalimpactand how they will reduce it. Infact, arecent PwCstudyfound that 83 percent of consumers think companies should be actively shapingESG practices. The benefits flow internally, too in a recent study from theEuropean InvestmentBank,three-quarters of young employees surveyed say the climate impact of prospectiveemployers is an important consideration when job hunting.
With increased expectations to assume the role of climate controller inbusiness, how exactly should a CFO go about measuring the success of theirorganizations environmental policies?
The SB Socio-Cultural Trends Research, conducted in partnership with Ipsos, tracks the changing drivers and behaviors of consumers around the intersection of brands and sustainable living. Our latest report explores how brands can maximize the impact of their sustainability efforts by approaching carbon-label strategies through the lens of consumer perceptions learn more in SBs Q4 Pulse highlights report.
As you can imagine, this is not a one-size-fits-all process. Every company andevery leadership team has a unique purpose and set of values; and no twoindustries are necessarily impacting the environment in the same way. As astarting point, your climate strategy must be closely linked to your companystrategy and purpose. Whether an agriculture company has pledged to eliminatepesticide usage or a financial institution is decarbonizing its lendingportfolio,their respective CFOs should ensure clear performance targets are establishedand a company-wide plan is in place so meaningful progress can be delivered andreported on.
Externally, it might be assumed that because tech businesses arent typicallyconsidered among the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, we dont face as muchpressure to reduce and report our emissions. However, every business has a roleto play in supporting the transition to a net-zero economy. The tech industry isstill accountable researchers from Lancaster Universityestimatethat tech companies could contribute 2.1-3.9 percent of global greenhouse gasemissions.
This is why in conjunction with a companys sustainabilityexpertsand leaders across the business tech CFOs should work to integrate theircompanys environmental practices with their everyday compliance and trackingsystems. From there, the idea of publishing their progress is much less dauntingcome reporting season. Whether they decide to mesh their financial andsustainability reporting into a single document such as an Annual Report orpublish them separately, their sustainability practices and performance shouldbe clear for all to see.
In an effort to introduce more transparency around our environmental impact atXero, weve shared ourplans to work towardsnet-zero emissions and set clear emissions-reduction targets which we willshare in our Annual Reports, in line with climate science. We are looking toreduce our carbon emissions right across the business from reducing variouscontributors such as energy used in office spaces to indirect emissions in ourvalue chain from cloud hosting, business travel, corporate catering and ITequipment.
Thankfully, many organizations and standards bodies exist to provide directionfor companies looking to improve their sustainability performance and reporting.For example, the Task Force on Climate-related FinancialDisclosures and the UN GlobalCompactCFOTaskforce areencouraging and supporting companies to integrate sustainable practices into allaspects of their business and report on performance. The InternationalFinancial ReportingStandards(IFRS) is also developing standards for climate accounting that are due tobe released in 2023.
The most important thing to remember in all of this is to approach climateaction genuinely and with commitment. Publicly reporting your sustainabilityperformance has become as critical as reporting financial performance. Not onlyis it the right thing to do; it also gives leaders a broader picture oforganizational performance and will support the long-term success andsustainability of every business.
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Kirsty Godfrey-Billy is Chief Financial Officer at Xero a New Zealandbased technology company that provides cloud-based accounting software for small and medium-sized businesses.
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St. Cloud Man Pleads Guilty to November Shooting – WJON News
ST. CLOUD (WJON News) --A St. Cloud man has pleaded guilty to a charge where he shot another man in the stomach last November.
Thirty-two-year-old Vincent McDougle has pleaded guilty to the felony discharging of a gun - endangering safety.
St. Cloud Police responded to a report of a shooting inside an apartment in the 1400 block of 9th Avenue South on November 12th.
Authorities say when they arrived, they found the victim, a 31-year-old Minneapolis man, with a gunshot wound to the stomach. He was taken to St. Cloud Hospital in serious but stable condition.
Police say McDougle was also at the scene and arrested without incident.
Authorities learned the victim was visiting McDougle and the men got into an argument that became physical. McDougle then pulled a gun on the victim and they struggled again. During that struggle, McDougle fired the gun and shot the man in the stomach.
McDougle will be sentenced on June 21st.
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Moving to the cloud – cerner.com
Kings College Hospital London Dubai and Oracle Cerner have partnered to accelerate innovation. As part of the agreement, Oracle Cerner will utilise Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services via the Oracle Cloud Dubai Region to operate and manage the upgraded and enhanced electronic medical records system on behalf of Kings College Hospital London Dubai.
Kings College Hospital London Dubai is a renowned teaching hospital in London with over 175 years experience, that is now present in the UAE. Its multi-specialty medical centres are based in Jumeirah and Marina in Dubai and its 100-bed multi-specialty tertiary hospital in the Dubai Hills estate.
This will be the first UAE-based cloud deployment by Oracle Cerner in the region. It has the potential to support more than 10,000 concurrent users and will create a new care delivery model that can provide real-time coordination and information exchange among multiple providers, patients, and locations in the country.
Digital transformation is inevitable for enterprises in all industries including healthcare. Says Jyoti Lalchandani, IDCs Group Vice President, and Regional Managing Director META at the recent Directions 2023, In order to navigate storms of disruption, organisations will need to invest in strengthening their digital resiliency, so they are better positioned to succeed in new market environments as conditions continue to change.
Implementation of further digitalisation in critical areas such as customer experience, operations, and financial management, together with a more rapid shift to a digital business approach, will be key to separating the thrivers from the survivors.
IDC expects to see digital transformation spending as a share of overall IT spending reaching 43% in 2026, up from 30% in 2021. And spending on public cloud services will grow at 25% to surpass $10 billion in 2023, and SaaS apps will account for 43% of public cloud software spending in 2023.
Remarks Himanshu Puri, Head of Information Technology at Kings College Hospital London Dubai, Healthcare today is dependent on technology and innovation. To provide advanced medical care, hospitals need to evolve to host a large amount of clinical data and build the capability to support preventive and population health objectives.
Kings College Hospital London Dubai clinicians are modern and tech-savvy with a wealth of international experience and are keen to adapt to newer innovations. This is an opportunity to further improve the Hospitals technology which will result in the reduction of patient delays and improved user experience.
For Kings College Hospital London Dubai, Oracle Cerners cloud offering provides a cost-efficient, secure, and scalable foundation on which to grow. A mature digital ecosystem with these capabilities can pass a multitude of benefits to patients, community, and the region.
The Oracle Cloud Dubai Region will assist Kings College Hospital London Dubai in driving new advancements and boosting efficiencies by helping reduce its operational and financial obligations. The advancements will cover computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, mobile services, and more. The transition to Oracle Cerners cloud solution is also expected to reduce the hospitals IT expenditure and regain valuable data centre space at its facilities.
The engagement with Oracle Cerner is to remote-host clinical applications.
What is remote hosting
With this managed service offering model, Cerner would remotely house, administer and manage the Cerner suite for electronic health records solutions. Remote hosting option provides the technology infrastructure, OS and required layered software, installation of software and resources to support remotely hosted solutions.
Clients access solutions and data by communicating with the hosting facility via a secure, highly available wide-area network using dedicated telecommunication circuits or a secured VPN leveraging the Internet. Cerner assumes responsibility for the performance, availability, and security of the system, all backed by service-level guarantees for system availability.
Remote hosting option provides performance, security, reliability, and scalability with a lower up-front financial commitment from the client. It allows healthcare organisations to leverage sophisticated IT solutions, while providing significant cost-savings and competitive advantages. Remote hosting option helps avoid depreciation and obsolescence of hardware and frees the clients IT department to focus on their core business of providing quality healthcare.
Oracles cloud regions
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is hosted in regions and availability domains. A region is a localised geographic area, and an availability domain is one or more data centres located within a region. A region is composed of one or more availability domains.
In October 2020, Oracle first announced availability of its second-generation cloud regions in UAE, termed as UAE East Dubai. And in November 2021, Oracle announced the opening of its second cloud region in UAE, termed as UAE Central, Abu Dhabi. The Oracle Cloud Abu Dhabi Region and the Oracle Cloud Dubai Region provide customers with business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities.
Emaar Properties, Emirates Post Group, DP World, DAMAC, Tahaluf Al Emarat, and Etisalat have been the early adopters and partners of the Oracle Cloud regions based out of UAE.
Most Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources are either region-specific, such as a virtual cloud network, or availability domain-specific, such as a compute instance. Traffic between availability domains and between regions is encrypted. Availability domains are isolated from each other, fault tolerant, and very unlikely to fail simultaneously.
Because availability domains do not share infrastructure such as power or cooling, or the internal availability domain network, a failure at one availability domain within a region is unlikely to impact the availability of the others within the same region.
The availability domains within the same region are connected to each other by a low latency, high bandwidth network, which makes it possible to provide high-availability connectivity to the Internet and on-premises, and to build replicated systems in multiple availability domains for both high-availability and disaster recovery.
Disaster recovery, business continuity
Both Oracle Cloud regions in the UAE are built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which enable customers to migrate existing workloads and data platforms or build new cloud native applications. Customers also have access to the full suite of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, as well as Oracle Autonomous Database, giving them the opportunity and choice to create the architecture that best suits their business needs.
Inside UAE, Oracle has a dual region strategy that enables customers to deploy resilient applications in multiple geographies for disaster recovery and compliance requirements, without having sensitive data leave the country. Customers that want to run critical systems of record in the cloud need fully independent cloud regions for disaster recovery purposes with multiple sites in the same country to meet data residency requirements. Today Oracle has 30+ cloud regions distributed globally.
UAE joins Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Japan, South Korea, UK, and the US, that have two or more cloud regions inside their geographical boundaries.
Milestones and roadmap
Kings College Hospital London Dubai is currently undergoing a big technological transformation, which includes a full technology refresh in network, servers, security, and process optimisation. The engagement with Oracle Cerner as part of this project is to remote-host only clinical applications.
In addition to hosting, Kings College Hospital London Dubai is also upgrading to the latest HIS version available in the market. This will better the customer experience, and provider experience as well as enhance security, and improve the integrated systems for care.
Implementation starts with the creation of a temporary domain on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for Kings College Hospital London Dubai. Then there will be migration and optimisation of data, followed by change management and finally the flip. The Hospital is targeting to accomplish these milestones before the end of this calendar year 2023.
Says Romel Khalife, General Manager, UAE and Kuwait at Oracle Cerner, The project we are embarking on with Kings College Hospital London Dubai is to move their on-premises, client-hosted technology stack onto the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in a PaaS model deployment. The same solutions along with the necessary software, management, and maintenance will come along with this as would be with remote hosting option.
This is the current and near-term offering worldwide until a full SaaS model completes its full development. For Kings College Hospital London Dubai and any remote hosting option clients, this will be a gradual transition over time occurring naturally as part of their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure remote hosting option service.
Additional return on investments includes improved system availability with increased service level protection, managed spending on hardware upgrades, storage, servers, and licenses as well as proactive monitoring and management of the system.
Oracle Cerner will own security and technology elements pertaining to the data centre, network, and patching the system. This will facilitate the hospitals expansion plans as more assets will join its integrated healthcare network.
List of primary Oracle applications deployed at Kings College Hospital London Dubai
This article was originally posted on Intelligent CIO (Middle East Issue 89). Click here to access the digital version of the magazine.
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