Analyst: Enterprise Low-Code Dev Platforms ‘Here To Stay’
The low-code movement has arrived in a big way to meet the insatiable demand for enterprise apps — espcially for mobile — in the face of an industry-wide skills shortage. Large research firms such as Gartner Inc. and Forrester Research Inc. are paying increasing attention to the space. Within the past couple of years, such firms for the first time have targeted low-code tools with analytic reports of their own.
VMware And Forbes Insight Report On Digital Workspace
VMware, Inc. in association with Forbes Insights has unveiled results of its annual survey that examines the state of Digital Workspace technologies and their impact on business and digital transformation. The executive summary, titled “The Impact of the Digital Workforce: A New Equilibrium of the Digitally Transformed Enterprise” revealed that companies that empower employees with the applications they want and need, and make them readily accessible — anytime, anywhere, on any device — can benefit from measurable gains at the individual and organizational level.
Google Releases Android 8.1 Developer Preview With Neural Networks API
Google has released the Android Oreo 8.1 developer preview, ahead of the mobile software’s release to the public in December. The developer preview is only compatible with the Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel C, Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, and Pixel 2 XL. It can also be downloaded and flashed to your device or loaded through the Android emulator.
Blockchain Expected To Become Top Digital Business Trend And Disrupter In 2018
Blockchain technology is set to become the top digital business trend and disrupter in 2018, IT solutions and services firm Dimension Data has said in its latest report. Together with artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality, the technology behind Bitcoin has immense potential to disrupt and transform the world of money, business, and society.
Businesses Prepare For The Coming IoT Battleground
The enterprise and industrial markets are poised to become the biggest Internet of Things (IoT) battlegrounds, with $300 billion in anticipated revenues by 2020 — nearly twice that of the consumer market, according to a recent report from management consulting firm Bain & Company. Getting in on the IoT action won’t come without challenges, however. Companies such as manufacturers need to mobilize today to focus their resources on identifying the right IoT platform, based on their starting point and capabilities, the study said.
Data Analytics, Machine Learning Drive Google’s Cloud Growth
More enterprises have begun signing up for Google’s cloud services because of the company’s commitment to open source technologies along with its implementations of data analytics and machine learning, CEO Sundar Pichai said at parent Alphabet’s third-quarter earnings call. Alphabet Oct. 26 announced better than expected net income of $6.7 billion on revenues of $27.8 billion for the quarter ended Sept. 30. That represented a 33 percent increase in income and 24 percent jump in revenue over the same quarter in 2016.
GE Launches Digital Industrial Evolution Index
At its Minds + Machines conference, GE unveiled new research highlighting an emerging gap between executive outlook for digital transformation and initiatives companies have put in place. The survey of Information Technology (IT) and Operations decision makers found that while companies see the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) as presenting significant opportunities for future growth and competitiveness, the vast majority are not taking the actions required to benefit from those opportunities.
Digital Transformation: It’s All About The Outcomes
Digital transformation isn’t about finding the needle in the haystack of big data – it’s about the relentless focus on deriving new business value from digitizing and optimizing your operations. And leading companies are already proving just how impactful such data-driven business improvements can be.
Microsoft Learning Tools Soon Headed To Word App For iPad
Microsoft’s Learning Tools, a collection of free, artificial intelligence-enabled software helpers in Office that assist users in improving their reading and writing skills, will soon be available in the iOS version of the Word app for Apple iPads.
How HPE Is Attempting To Make Artificial Intelligence Easier To Use
Hewlett Packard Enterprise wants to make it easier for enterprises to adopt artificial intelligence into their IT systems and software products. Why? For starters, it’s a good revenue stream for the company; secondly, it’s because this is what more and more IT managers have been requesting during the last 12 or so months. To answer this call, Palo Alto, Calif.-based HPE on Oct. 25 introduced several new purpose-built platforms and services capabilities to help companies do this, with an initial focus on deep learning.
AI And Internet Of Things Will Drive Digital Transformation Through 2020
Businesses are investing heavily in the Internet of Things while remaining cautious about investments in artificial intelligence, reveals the Constellation Research 2017 Digital Transformation Study. However, Constellation expects AI to emerge in 2018 as the predominant area of technological experimentation due to the increasing availability of AI development kits and frameworks.
Pay With Google Service Designed To Speed Up Mobile Purchase Process
Consumers making online purchases with their Android devices now have a new way to pay for them through a special payments account. Pay with Google, a service that Google announced at its I/O event in May, has officially gone live. Starting Oct. 23, people will be able to pay for purchases made on the mobile Web or from within mobile applications using verified credit or debit cards saved to their Google Account.
Apple TV And tvOS Deliver Managed Digital Signage And AirPlay For The Enterprise
Apple’s expansion in Mac enterprise sales to large corporate customers has greatly accelerated with the arrival of mobile iOS devices. But there’s also new interest emerging for Apple TV’s tvOS platform among enterprise buyers.
U.S. Retail Banking Digital Transformation Driven By Evolving Customer Expectations
GFT, the global IT consultancy for the financial services industry, has announced the results of a global survey into retail banking attitudes towards digital transformation. The survey found the main drivers for undergoing digital transformation include meeting customer expectations and reduction in operational costs. 285 retail banking professionals with at least 500 employees globally were surveyed in collaboration with market research firm Frost & Sullivan, between May and September 2017.
Microsoft Just Opened A Hologram Studio For VR And AR Content
Microsoft has opened a new studio to enable customers to create holograms that can be used for mixed reality experiences, from 2D screens to fully immersive VR. There are now three Microsoft ‘mixed reality’ video creation studios to help kickstart holographic content for its augmented reality HoloLens headset and its Windows 10 partner’s virtual reality headsets.
Organizations Need Talent For Digital Transformation
Organizations yearning for digital transformation should take heed, competitors and consultants may steal your digital-savvy employees. That’s one finding from the “Constellation Research 2017 Digital Transformation Study” published Oct. 19.
Why It’s A Mistake To Rely On Cloud Providers For All Data Protection
Turns out that when most companies trust the care of their business data to cloud services, they are mistakenly trusting it all to their service provider’s data management services when they should also be monitoring it themselves. Storage and data management software maker Veritas Technologies on Oct. 25 came out with results of a global survey spanning 13 countries and revealing that 69 percent of organizations wrongfully believe that data protection, data privacy and compliance are the responsibility of the cloud service provider.
Gmail Add-Ons Lets Developers Integrate Apps With Gmail Inbox
Google on Tuesday announced it’s introducing Add-ons to Gmail, a framework that will let developers integrate their enterprise apps directly into Gmail. By giving customers a way to work with business apps directly from their inbox, Google is bringing Gmail up to speed with other G Suite tools — including Slides, Forms, Docs, and Sheets — which already have Add-on frameworks available.
Study Examines Open Source Risks In Enterprise Software
Amid increasing reports of cyberattacks and data breaches, open source security company Flexera has published the results of a study examining the risk of using vulnerable open source code in enterprise applications and systems. The new report, “Open Source Risk – Fact or Fiction?” doesn’t paint a pretty picture of enterprise awareness of open source security vulnerabilities — or even of the awareness of the usage of open source software (OSS) in general.
AWS Says Its New Monster GPU Array Is ‘Most Powerful’ In The Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new P3 instances on its EC2 cloud computing service, which are powered by Nvidia’s Tesla Volta architecture V100 GPUs and promise to dramatically speed up the training of machine learning models. The P3 instances are designed to handle compute-intensive machine learning, deep learning, computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, molecular modelling, and genomics workloads. Amazon said the new services could reduce the training time for sophisticated deep learning models from days to hours.
Nokia Reports 9 Percent Decline In Sales In Q3, Headwinds Continue Into 2018
Nokia shares were down 19 percent at one point after the equipment vendor reported a 9 percent year-on-year net sales decrease in the third quarter, and conditions will continue to be difficult into 2018. President and CEO Rajeev Suri blamed challenges related to market conditions—like the transition from 4G to 5G—and certain projects particularly in North America and greater China.
