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Coffee Break: Catherine Wendt, president of Syscon, Inc. – Daily Herald
Q: Describe your company.
A: We are dedicated to implementing and supporting technology solutions, hardware, software and workflow efficiencies for the specialty subcontractor industry including IT services, accounting and project management software, Cloud hosting services, and custom software integrations for streamlined workflow.
Q: Do you plan to hire any additional staff or make any significant capital investments in your company in the next year?
A: Yes, we are actively hiring in each of our departments. We will also continue our investment in developing our Azure cloud hosting services, our automation tools for a consistent and streamlined delivery to our clients, and rolling out appropriate Microsoft 365 tools. We will also continue our focus of client education as these products and services continue to develop.
Q: What will your company's main challenges be in the next year?
A: This year's challenges will be fully decommissioning our 10-year-old Classic hosting infrastructure, moving our clients to our Azure hosting platform. Given Microsoft's considerable R&D and the acceleration of remote needs, along with the seamless integrations with the Microsoft 365 suite, this solution is ready at the right time for the business community. Although it's a change for our clients, it's where they need to be to meet the growing demand for remote workforce needs while keeping things safe, secure, and backed up.
We are also rolling out our automation platform to streamline and bulletproof our service deliveries for day-to-day client requests. This has been a phased multiyear R&D project that has become an outgrowth of our successful cloud app and our selected cloud stack (the tools we use to deliver cloud-specific software). Automating standard tasks allows us to have consistent results while freeing up our technicians and programmers for more project-related work on behalf of our clients.
Q: What's the hottest trend in your industry?
A: Decommissioning on premise and data-center servers, moving critical server-specific software to the Azure environment, moving Shared server folders to SharePoint and OneDrive, and local Active Directory to Azure. Sounds like a mouthful, but basically, the roles and activities that are handled by a local server are moving to cloud-based hosting and platforms rather than replacing aged hardware.
Another trend is the move from regular anti-virus software to Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), the next generation of protection. Along with this security change, the additional of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). They're baseline security protections and now the insurance industry is requiring them in order to renew cyber security policies. Our clients will see more and more of these requirements written into contracts, as well.
Q: If you had one tip to give to a rookie executive, what would it be?
A: Develop a habit of continuous learning. Find the best authors on leadership and read their books such as Jim Collins, John Maxwell, Nido Qubein, Chris Voss and others; attend industry conferences; sign up for Darren Hardy's daily tips to 'Be the Exception'; get out of the office and spend focused time with other executives to talk through their journeys such as through a C12 or Vistage group; be sure you're involved in dialogue with your competitors through Affinity groups and other industry-specific opportunities to gather together. Lastly, choose your closest leadership team members carefully -- those who share your vision and goals, but who bring different perspectives; you don't know everything.
Q: Do you have a business mantra?
A: Model the way; inspire a shared vision; encourage the heart; enable others to act; challenge the process. I didn't invent this, BTW. These originate with James Kouzes and Barry Posner as part of their research findings to discover what behaviors were common to leaders who make extraordinary things happen.
Q: From a business outlook, whom do you look up to?
A: I've never found any one company or one leader to emulate. By participating in a C12 Business Forum, the routine of reading and reviewing a business book each month, and joining in IT-specific conferences and accountability groups, I've been encouraged when seeing that our struggles are not unique to us, helping other companies work through difficulties, and having a platform to articulate my goals and logic to those who care but will tell me when I'm off course.
Q: What is one interesting fact about you or your company that most people may not know?
A: We started out as a music company. Back in the mid-'80s, there was a trend to use electronic music in a variety of venues including relaxation and even light classical. As instrumentalists ourselves, we felt pretty convicted to write and produce what became our Quiet Times Series featuring acoustical instruments with background environmental sounds. These had a growing audience, so we took on some computer-related projects to help fund the next releases. By the early '90s, the majority of our time was going toward the growing use of computers in specialty subcontractor offices starting with my father-in-law, a mason contractor, and his peers in the industry he loved. We were a trusted adviser that knew their language and could educate and roll out these changes. It didn't take long for the music to become the hobby. We loved our clients' industry and we truly enjoyed the new technology available to these businesses.
Q: Was there a moment in your career that didn't go as you had planned? What lesson did you learn from it?
A: When I moved from handling all our company's bookkeeping to a purely consulting role for several years, there were several lessons. First of all, hiring bookkeeping help does not mean you step away from overseeing the books. This is your company, your income, your future, your family and your employees at stake here. No one will take care of the company with the same level of ownership. Hire the right people, delegate the tasks, but maintain oversight.
The second lesson was how scared I was to embark on this new type of client engagement. What if I made a mistake? What if I didn't know the answer? We drove to client sites (remote access was not anything like it is now) and we had limited access to our company resources when we were at a client's office. I learned that my experience was more broad than I thought, and by continuing to dive in, I could have close relationships with our clients and build on each and every encounter, making me even more prepared for the next adventure.
Q: What do you like to do in your free time?
A: Music. Whether it's directing a choir, directing a choir and orchestra, singing with an ensemble, or singing with an orchestra, I can't think of any better way to spend free time. Since my husband also has a musician background, there are many opportunities for us to do this together, or to support each other's performances.
Q: What book is on your nightstand?
A: Beyond Entrepreneurial 2.0 by Jim Collins. I was able to attend a remote seminar he gave through WOBI and he mentioned this updated release. I've enjoyed and shared several of his books over the years with our clients through our newsletters and brought them into our quarterly Traction meetings with our leadership team.
Q: What keeps you up at night?
A: I have the opportunity to be involved with many projects at the same time, often covering different disciplines. We may be implementing a construction-specific accounting and project management program, moving a client's server and data to our cloud offerings, and closing a month or quarter for a client in a controller capacity. Each of these carries significant responsibility and our clients are counting on us to navigate them through the journey. Add to that the bad actors who focus on threatening our clients' computer-related systems, and some nights are pretty difficult.
Q: If you were not doing this job, what do you think you would be doing?
A: I'd probably be teaching in some capacity. Many years ago, I somehow got the notion that succeeding in the leadership roles I found myself in meant I shouldn't be teaching. I can't help myself -- I'm constantly in situations where I'm compelled or called on to share what I know, make it relevant, present concepts and information in various formats so others can step into new solutions and opportunities. I've learned to embrace teaching in my music hobby and as I continue to be a student of our industry and other leaders.
Q: What was your first paying job?
A: Babysitting. As I'm the oldest of 11, I had a lot of experience with children and I was very responsible, so it was natural that I was invited to babysit. Handling the meal time, bath time and bed time was pretty routine for me given my home life. The hardest part was the late nights in a quiet house and staying awake until the parents got home.
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iKO Media Group is proud to announce its newly-established partnership with STN USA – English – USA – English – PR Newswire
PFAFFIKON, Switzerland, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iKOMG and STN anounce their strategic partnership. This partnership will surely provide added value to the customers of both companies, allowing the use of both companies' services and abilities to bring together the optimal solution for the channel or content owners.
STN is a well-established, forward-thinking global teleport facility, firmly placed at the cutting edge of satellite, broadcast, connectivity, and co-location services. Based in Slovenia, the heart of Europe, provides a strategic location that presents a wide visible arc of 120 degrees, allowing easy access to all major satellites orbital positions.
STN provides global telecommunication services in C-, Ku-, DVB-s and Ka-band for all prime satellites to all continents around the world.
High level security and a well-connected facility allows STN to provide a comprehensive range of equipment hosting services for servers, TT&C, antenna with available ground space for larger scale projects.
With one of the world's most highly developed internet infrastructures, the company has virtually unlimited capacities with complete double or triple redundancy/diversity options.
iKO Media Group AG is a Swiss entity with a state-of-the-art teleport in Rome, Italy, connected globally and providing tailor-made solutions focused on customer needs through dedicated service, expert knowledge, and high professionalism.
Recent company growth led to the broadcasting of almost 400 TV channels using 450 Mbps on satellites and 700 Mbps of IP for contribution delivery. iKOMG provides a full spectrum of services to broadcasters and content owners, such as automated, high-capacity playout management services, cloud services, EPG creation, disaster recovery solutions, monitoring feed, OTT platforms, and IP delivery. iKOMG differs from other service providers thanks to a holistic approach and a keen ability to offer the best-suited technology-based solutions for their customers.
To support growing demand, iKOMG and STN have established a strategic partnership focused on teleport and ground services, sports and event services, and OTT platforms. As one of the biggest and most experienced providers in Europe, STN is an excellent partner to help iKOMG provide faster, more reliable, and higher-quality services to its customers.
"We've been talking with STN for a few months but finalized the dynamic partnership a few weeks ago. Our agreement has no defined timeline as we see the relationship delivering tremendous benefits for iKOMG, STN, and the combined customer base for years and years to come. We are excited to start building and developing alongside the great team at STN" said iKO Media Group's Chairman, David Treadway.
"As our collaboration discussions progressed over the recent months it became quickly and mutually apparent to both companies of the great advantages to client services this robust combination could provide. This new partnership will give way to expansion and progress in every area of business. The expertise, industry experience and professionalism of both STN and iKOMG will bring a broader spectrum of enhanced service solutions to all clients." Commented Mitja Lovsin, General Manager, STN.
About iKOMGiKO Media Group is a boutique end-to-end media service partner for broadcasters and content owners. iKOMG provides tailor-made solutions to a wide range of global and local networks. A full spectrum of services is available, including satellite broadcasting, automated, high-capacity playout management, Cloud services, EPG creation, disaster recovery solutions, channel monitoring feed, OTT platforms, fiber and IP delivery, and more.
iKOMG believes in being forward-thinking, agile and holistic. This approach allows iKOMG to deliver effective solutions customized to specific budgets and requirements without compromising on the quality of service. iKOMG is committed to operating its business to create value for all stakeholders. The company's sustainability strategy focuses on social, environmental, and economic responsibility.
About STNSTN is a leading innovative, forward-thinking global teleport facility. With Satellite, fiber, and IP connections offering clients end-to-end, managed service communication solutions worldwide, all supported by a 24/7 Network Operations Center.
With an extensive reach and service flexibility the company assists clients to drive new revenue streams and ensure quality, secure and reliable communications. STN provides vast array of solutions, including Satellite, Data, Channel distribution, Playout, Co-Location and more.
Whether the need is to go global or reach the individual regions of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, STN will provide cost effective services fine-tuned to specific requirements. The company seamlessly accommodates increasing service demands and turnaround for time-dependent projects.
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NeoSystems and Deltek Join Forces to Deliver Services in the Cloud – PR Newswire
NeoSystems to host Deltek's Project Portfolio Management Suite, Costpoint Shop Floor Time, IBM Cognos Full Use and Third-party Customer Applications
RESTON, Va., July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NeoSystems, a full-service strategic outsourcer, IT systems integrator and managed services provider to the government contracting market, is once again joining forces with Deltek, the leading global provider of software and solutions for project-based businesses. NeoSystems will host Deltek's Project Portfolio Management Suite and Costpoint Shop Floor Time applications, IBM's Cognos Full Use and third-party customer applications in NeoSystems.Cloud, a Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 7012 and 7021 compliant cloud service offering.
The NeoSystems.Cloud offers Deltek government contracting customers a new option for hosting Deltek on-premises products that integrate with Deltek's Costpoint cloud solutions to help address the necessary controls to meet NIST 800-171, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Moderate equivalent baseline requirements.
"We are thrilled to be named the preferred Deltek Marketplace partner for providing third-party cloud hosting services for businesses that are looking to move their on-premises applications to the cloud," said Michael Tinsley, CEO of NeoSystems. "Given our long and successful history of working together, this new arrangement brings significant incremental value to our mutual customers."
NeoSystems.Cloud Delivers a Purpose-Built Infrastructure
NeoSystems.Cloud provides a purpose-built infrastructure and systems for predictable performance and redundancy for disaster recovery and business continuity and can be used for data warehousing solutions and alternative private communication gateways for wide area networking terminations.
As a managed service, NeoSystems manages cloud deployments from build to application management, including software upgrades and patching, all backed by service level agreements for availability and response time, along with 24x7 proactive monitoring and technical support. NeoSystems also can help clients with Costpoint cloud integrations.
In addition, the NeoSystems.Cloud provides the foundation for the NeoSystems Secure Enclave which includes the security program to manage the sequestration of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and Covered Defense Information (CDI) where authorized users can receive, store, process, edit, and share CUI/CDI while aligning with DFARS, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and CMMC requirements.
"NeoSystems has proven to be a strong partner to Deltek," said Todd Walker, Vice President of Product Management at Deltek. "They deliver incredible value to our mutual customers and can provide additional services that enable them to host and integrate on-premises products with Deltek's Costpoint cloud solutions. This allows customers to focus on their core business, without the need to manage or monitor their own cloud deployments."
NeoSystems currently hosts Deltek's Cobra, winsight Analytics, Open Plan, PM Compass, Costpoint Shop Floor Time and other third-party government contracting applications.
About NeoSystems
NeoSystems, based in Reston, Virginia, is a full service strategic outsourcer, IT systems integrator and managed service provider for the government contracting market. NeoSystems provides core solutions to more than 600 client companies and their 100,000+ client employees with its outsourced services by implementing hundreds of fully integrated financial, business and cyber management systems through best-of-breed technology and in-depth domain expertise inAccounting& Finance, IT, HR,Security and Hosting(SSAE18 SOC1 & SOC2, ITAR). NeoSystems has been named one of America's fastest growing private companies by Inc. Magazine. For more information, visit https://www.neosystemscorp.com. Follow us onTwitterandLinkedIn.
About Deltek
Better software means better projects. Deltek is the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for project-based businesses. More than 30,000 organizations and millions of users in over 80 countries around the world rely on Deltek for superior levels of project intelligence, management, and collaboration. Our industry-focused expertise powers project success by helping firms achieve performance that maximizes productivity and revenue. http://www.deltek.com
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This Could Be the Most Defensive Cloud Stock – The Motley Fool
Oracle (ORCL -0.83%) may not be the biggest cloud player, but its business model may be one of the most defensive. Unlike many cloud stocks, most of the company's earnings are derived from recurring software and cloud infrastructure revenue. Other cloud players have non-cloud segments that could be negatively affected by a slowing global economy. Here's how it works.
For decades, Oracle's legacy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software has given its enterprise customers everything they need to run their multinational companies. ERP software handles everything from accounting, to project management, to compliance and supply chain operations. Oracle and its leading competitor, SAP, continue to dominate the space. The duopoly has treated the companies well over the years as the two companies collect recurring revenue from a growing list of contracted customers regardless of economic conditions.
Times have changed for software companies, and Oracle has embraced it. The company has built out its cloud infrastructure to allow its customers to migrate their software to the cloud and hire Oracle as their cloud service provider. Bundling the two services gives customers a cost and time advantage compared to hiring separate vendors for both.
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In its recently reported full-year financial results, Oracle noted that recurring revenue in its two cloud software offerings, Fusion ERP and NetSuite ERP, were up 20% and 27%, respectively. Its contracted cloud hosting service revenue was up 36% for the year.
With its recently closed acquisition of healthcare infrastructure company Cerner, Oracle will have an incredible opportunity to expand its defensive business. The combined business will allow Oracle to cross-sell its ERP software and cloud infrastructure services to Cerner's 27,000 customers.
Oracle may not be the first name that comes to mind when investors think of cloud stocks. Alphabet's Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services are the biggest players, but they come packaged with other business segments.
For instance, Google Cloud represented less than 10% of Alphabet's total revenue in the first quarter of 2022. Advertising represented 80% and fell nearly 11% from its previous quarter. Advertising revenue tends to dip during economic slowdowns, making the stock less defensive.
AWS made up 16% of Amazon's total revenue in the first quarter of 2022. Online and physical retail made up 70%, and advertising 7%. These businesses are also less defensive and will likely slow if the U.S. economy continues to stagger.
On the other hand, Oracle's cloud and licensing revenue made up 85% of its total revenue for the year ending in May. The company's software and cloud hosting revenue are recurring, meaning customers are locked into these services for multiple years in many cases. Oracle's business model is resilient and may make it one of the most defensive cloud stocks in the sector.
Beyond being a defensive business, growth prospects in Oracle's cloud hosting infrastructure business look attractive. In Oracle's full-year earnings press release, CEO Safra Catz remarked: "This Q4, we also experienced a major increase in demand in our infrastructure cloud business -- which grew 39% in constant currency. We believe that this revenue growth spike indicates that our infrastructure business has now entered a hyper-growth phase."
Unlike most defensive stocks, Oracle shares are down 18% year to date. However, the decline may offer investors a great valuation. The shares trade at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 13.3 , cheaper than Alphabet at 19 and Amazon at a head-turning 70.
Oracle's shares may be a rare combination of defense and growth. If the market continues to tank in the coming months, Oracle stock may be one of the best-performing cloud stocks.
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Bank of Queensland to go ‘all-in’ on public cloud – iTnews
Bank of Queensland intends to go "all-in" on public cloud and "exit its traditional data centres" under a plan taken to the bank's board for approval.
The bank revealed its intentions in a digital bank update slide deck [pdf] that was published to the ASX earlier this month.
Chief information officer Craig Ryman told iTnews that "strategically, we are all-in on the public cloud."
"Our intent will be to migrate everything to the public cloud as a starting point," Ryman said.
"There'll be some applications that won't have a return-on-investment [to migrate]; we'll ultimately want to retire them, and so we might have a few exceptions.
"But largely, we're all-in on public cloud and the vision I've got for BoQ is that we will be out of all data centres ... for public cloud."
The bank is currently in the midst of a core banking transformation withTemenos, which forms a central part of a $440 million multi-year transformation strategy unveiled in 2020.
It is buildingtwo related core platforms: one for its retail bank operations and one for its more complex business operations.
All retail brands - Virgin Money, BoQ and ME Bank - are moving to a Temenos T24 banking-as-a-service core.
Business customers will be served by a separate Temenos T24 core that is hosted on-premises in BoQ's private cloud environment, owing to the complexity of serving business users.
iTnews understands thebusiness instance is ultimately scheduled to shift from private cloud to public cloud hosting sometime in 2023, enabling BoQ to fulfil its public cloud ambitions.
Core strategy
Previously, Ryman said, BoQ operated as a "portfolio of businesses", each with its own systems.
"If you think about what it takes to build an end-to-end bank for where we're at at the moment, it's about 40-odd platforms," he said.
The group considered that "the fastest way of getting to the highest quality result was to build a new stack and take the complexity of migrating our customers to that stack in full, as opposed to trying to renovate all of the complexity that we had piece by piece."
The core consolidation will see all of the bank's operations moved to one end-to-end technology stack.
"Simple retail customers - VMA, BoQ and ME - will have this end-to-end cloud platform. Our complex customers will sit on a different origination and a different core banking platform," Ryman said.
"But largely there'll be lots of integration [points], like an enterprise cloud-based data and analytics stack that'll be leveraged across the group, a common CRM and a common customer experience layer which will have data analytics leveraged to create personalised customer experiences, and that'll sit across business and retail."
Progress scorecard
On the retail side, VMA - Virgin Money Australia - and BoQ Retail are both now in the cloud-based core, as ofApril.
"Virgin's been about 15 months and BoQ [retail] less than six months since we've gone live," Ryman said.
He said the group was buoyed by the strong response from customers. About 4 million transactions have already been processed through the core, and the bank has indicated that it is attracting a younger customer demographic.
Ryman said with very little marketing the Virgin Money and BOQ brands are just about to approach $1 billion dollars in deposits, proving customers are voting with their feet" to migrate their accounts across to the new core.
"I'm super proud about what the team's achieved," he said.
Still, there is more work to do.
ME Bank, acquired by BoQ in February 2021 for $1.3 billion, is next in line to be migrated to the Temenos cloud-based platform.
"What I'm looking forward to is, in the next 12 months, getting all three retail brands on this stack, getting lending on this stack, commencing our business bank transformation, and plugging in our data and analytics capability," Ryman said.
"I think we're going to see material benefits start to flow from that, showing up even more so in our business performance.
"This is a transformation that takes courage because as you could see by building it this way, we're taking all the costs of building all this new tech - the additional run costs of having yet another whole new end-to-end bank that we're running.
"We don't really get the significant benefits until we get lending on the stack and until we get material customer migrations on there that really enable us to show more of the tech transformation in our business performance results."
Ryman said hes also excited to bring improved technology to BoQ employees as theyve "not had the most contemporary tech to work with before.
An ultimately end-to-end cloud and digital stack would make a difference to their day-to-day jobs," he said.
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NTU Singapore and Alibaba continue investing in local students to create solutions for the world’s most pressing challenges – EurekAlert
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To nurture R&D talents in Artificial Intelligence and other related areas, Alibaba Group and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) announce that the Alibaba Talent Programme (ATP) will continue for a fourth year to support outstanding undergraduate and masters graduates to pursue their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees.
The ATP in NTU sponsors Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents to pursue their postgraduate degrees in computer science disciplines at NTU Singapore, while completing an industrial R&D project at Alibaba.
This provides a unique opportunity for students to have hands-on experience at one or more of Alibabas research facilities, including the Alibaba-NTU Singapore Joint Research Institute (JRI), Alibabas first facility of its kind outside of its China headquarters. Each PhD candidate is mentored by at least one supervisor from NTU, and one co-supervisor from Alibaba.
New applicants can join the program in its Semester 1intakein August 2022 or Semester2 intakein January 2023.
ATP is supported by the Singapore Economic Development Boards Industrial Postgraduate Programme (IPP), which aims to provide postgraduate students with industry-relevant training in partnership with various industry partners and institutes of higher learning.
To date, the Alibaba-NTU JRI has attracted over 2500 applicants for the IPP PhD Programme, of 65 Singaporeans and SPRs were selected.
Professor Lam Khin Yong, Senior Vice President (Research), NTU, said: In February 2018, the JRI was established to focus on the human-centered research and development in emerging computing technologies that supports Singapores ambitious Smart Nation initiative and its industrial transformation. By hosting the ATP students at JRI, we hope to develop budding talents that will be future captains of the digital economy.
Dr Derek Wang, General Manager, Singapore, of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said: Almost everyone is in some way or form already living in the digital reality today. As a digital leader, it is part of our mission to make technology more inclusive and accessible for all in Singapore or anywhere in the world. The potential for digital technologies to create new value for business and society is bigger than we can imagine, and we hope to support Singapores role in realizing that potential.
Helping local students go further, faster
In addition to working with real business intelligence and tools from Alibaba Groups 12 different business units, students are also closely guided and supported by mentors from Alibaba Group, each a leading researcher in their field such as visual AI, Natural Language Processing(NLP), edge computing and autonomous driving.
Under their mentors supervision, previous and current students in the ATP programme have been given opportunities to bring their ideas to life. For instance, students have used medical imaging analysis and machine learning to predict the likelihood of dementia and Parkinsons disease in seniors, created digital twins of data centers that can replicate wind flow and temperature changes to facilitate research in effective cooling methods, and advanced autonomous driving-related projects.
Professor Chunyan Miao, Director, Alibaba-NTU Singapore Joint Research Institute, NTU, said: Tapping into our world-renowned faculty and existing partnerships with Alibaba Cloud, the ATP strived to equip the selected students with critical knowledge and skills in cloud computing, big data and AI technologies that are fueling our increasingly digitalised world and key drivers to fulfill Singapores Smart Nation ambitions.
Mr Bryan Lim Wei Yang, PhD Candidate at the Alibaba-NTU Joint Research Institute, who is also the recipient of the inaugural Alibaba-NTU JRI Most Promising IPP Student Award 2022, said: What I appreciate most from being part of this programme is being able to work on actual anonymized data sets. This allows us to develop more accurate solutions to problems we are facing. Being able to analyse data effectively is also another problem we face today and Im glad to learn from the best in Alibaba on how to do so effectively via big data and machine learning methodology, among others.
Mr Jiang Hongchao, PhD Candidate at the Alibaba-NTU Joint Research Institute, said: I want to make a difference by creating solutions that can actually be applied to real-world use cases rather than just engage in theoretical research. Working with the mentors in Alibaba who are all hard at work translating theory into practice has been immensely inspirational, and vastly shortened the learning curve for us to bring our own ideas to life.
Currently, more than 70 translational research projects projects translating research findings into practical applications have been initiated, with over 140 research papers published by the IPP students and staff from JRI.
Going forward, the JRI will expand its research undertakings that promote the advancement of sustainable development. By employing AI and cloud technologies, the JRI endeavours to play a key role in enabling new innovations and solutions to achieve Sustainable Development Goals as identified by the United Nations.
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Global Dedicated Server Hosting Market is Expected to Reach USD 24 Billion With CAGR of 18.90% By Forecast 2029 Says Maximize Market Research (MMR) -…
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NICE Named a Leader in Journey Orchestration by Top Analyst Firm – Marketscreener.com
NICE CXone recognized as a Leader, rated across 27 criteria, and noted for strengths in workflow automation through integrated agent workflows and supervisor alerts
NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced that it has been recognized as a Leader by Forrester Research in "The Forrester Wave: Journey Orchestration Platforms, Q2 2022 report. NICE CXone received among the highest scores in the journey testing and optimization criterion and received the highest possible scores within the strategy category in both the user research and partner ecosystem criteria.
The Forrester report noted "NICEs Customer Experience Interactions platform, CXone, combines structured data (IVR, CRM, customer profile data, and voice of the customer [VoC]) and unstructured data (agent notes, text, and voice) at the journey, topic, and business process levels to guide end-to-end journey improvement. It continues to invest in data connection and journey behavior analysis, and this translates into a roadmap that includes deeper integrations with CRM and collaboration tools and improvements to the chatbot and agent experience. Over the past two years, NICE has acquired and integrated a number of digital engagement capabilities.
Paul Jarman, CEO, NICE CXone, said, "To meet the rapidly evolving needs of digital consumers, organizations must have full transparency across the complete journey. We believe this report reflects the changing view of our customers by highlighting the importance of AI in todays experience center, further cementing our strategy around and commitment to CXi, which provides a direct connection between our AI-powered Customer Engagement Analytics solutions and improved customer journeys, experiences and loyalty.
NICE Customer Engagement Analytics enables organizations to capture and analyze all customer interactions, transactions and lifecycle events to get a complete view of the customer journey, connecting and transforming disparate customer interactions into a single, consolidated journey. With a holistic view of the end-to-end customer journey, marketers and CX leaders can uncover cross-channel inefficiencies and optimize business processes from the customers perspective. Powered by state-of-the-art AI, it identifies individual customers and sequences their interactions across time and touchpoints to understand the context of every contact, uncover patterns, predict needs and personalize interactions in real-time.
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. Jarman 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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AWS now lets you access your very own M1 Mac Mini in the cloud – TechRadar
Amazon Web Sevices's (AWS) latest addition to its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (opens in new tab) (EC2) service will now let users rent and run an M1 Mac Mini in the cloud.
First rolled out in 2006, EC2 allows users to run virtual machines in AWSs cloud, and this new instance, dubbed Mac2, looks to help developers create apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari.
Mac2 will cost around $0.65 an hour, and will give users a Mac mini computer attached via the Thunderbolt interface to the AWS Nitro System, with an Apple Silicon M1 chip with 8 CPU cores, 8 GPU cores, 16 GiB of memory, and the 16-core Apple Neural Engine.
The virtual machine connects to your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), boots from Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes, uses EBS snapshots, Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), security groups, and can work with other AWS services such as Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Systems Manager.
This isnt the first time that Amazon has offered virtual Macs via its EC2 service, it already offers x86-based EC2 Mac instances, however, it claims the newer instances deliver up to 60% better price performance over these.
You can find out how to launch an EC2 M1 Mac instance from the AWS Management Console or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) by heading here (opens in new tab) to view Amazons blog post on the subject.
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Cloud4C Recognized as Winner of 2022 Microsoft UAE Partner of the Year – PR Newswire
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered outstanding Microsoft-based applications, services and devices during the past year. Awards were classified in various categories, with honorees chosen from a set of more than 3,900 submitted nominations from more than 100 countries worldwide.
Cloud4C has been recognized for streamlining the delivery of highly complex, mission-critical Azure migration, modernization, and managed services to key industrial sectors in the UAE region. Cloud4C's fully managed hybrid and multi-cloud hosting services expertise allows their Azure transition and modernization journeys to be readily available at near zero downtimes, fully secure, and duly compliant with data residency and sovereignty regulations.
"I am honored to announce the winners and finalists of the 2022 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards," said Nick Parker, corporate vice president of Global Partner Solutions at Microsoft. "These partners were outstanding among the exceptional pool of nominees and I'm continuously impressed by their innovative use of Microsoft Cloud technologies and the impact for their customers."
This prestigious win comes on the back of Cloud4C's deeply customer-centric, end-to-end approaches promising a single, highest uptime SLA from root infra till application login layer with zero disruptions and data losses. Such a high-performance methodology has significantly assisted customers, especially with large-scale, complex ecosystems and mission-critical workloads, to seamlessly move and modernize on Azure cloud.
On receiving the award, Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and Chairman of Cloud4C, said, "We are overjoyed to get this recognition from Microsoft. Our team is ever-committed to innovate ways around critical challenges and render outcomes that serve our clients across any industry not only for the present, but also the future. We believe in delivering mission-critical evolutions powered by cloud."
Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards are announced annually prior to the company's global partner conference, Microsoft Inspire, which will take place on July 19-20 this year. Additional details on the 2022 awards are available on the Microsoft Partner Network blog: The complete list of categories, winners and finalists can be found here.
About Cloud4C
Cloud4C is the world's largest automation-driven, application-focused managed cloud services provider, addressing enterprise transformation journeys end-to-end. Cloud4C offers multi-cloud migration, modernization, and AIOps-driven managed services at zero data loss guarantee, supporting cloud environments with multi-availability zones, four-way DR architecture and advanced cybersecurity, under a single SLA. Today, Cloud4C serves over 4000 enterprises across 26 nations, driven by 2000+ cloud experts and 25 Centers of Excellence. The firm commands an enriched array of partnerships with leading hyperscalers like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud along with the world's most renowned ISVs. Cloud4C also has rich expertise in managed SAP solutions and S/4HANA offerings, AIOps, Hyperautomation, Analytics, Cybersecurity, DR, compliances, and more.
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