Microsoft and ServiceNow announce strategic partnership
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) today announced a broader strategic partnership intended to significantly enhance the integration and optimization of the companies’ products, platform and cloud capabilities. Through this expanded partnership, the companies will enable enterprise customers in certain highly regulated industries, as well as government customers, to accelerate their digital transformation […]
How machine learning is unlocking the secrets of human movement – and reshaping pro sports
It’s another busy morning in the lab. Twelve of the best basketball players on the planet are each a blur of action and a bundle of hope. As hip-hop beats fill the lab, the group trains without touching a single basketball, individually bouncing side to side on an indoor track, soaring over a three-foot-tall box, […]
SAP Named a Leader in IDC MarketScape for Industrial IoT Platforms in Manufacturing
SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today said that it has been named a Leader in “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Industrial IoT Platforms in Manufacturing 2019 Vendor Assessment.” This report recognizes SAP’s strengths, including the commitment to continue embedding the Internet of Things (IoT) into solutions — such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP C/4HANA and SAP Digital Supply Chain […]
What is Microsoft’s Power Platform?
Power Platform has recently become one of the hottest buzz words in the business applications community. While each component of the platform is relatively new to the market, the ease of use, the rich set of capabilities, and the pace of Microsoft’s development has quickly made the product a must-have set of applications. Microsoft plans […]
How AI, drones and cameras are keeping our roads and bridges safe
Europe’s roads are the safest in the world. Current figures show that there are 50 fatalities per one million inhabitants, compared to the global figure of 174 deaths per million. Despite this, each loss remains a tragedy. In 2017, 25,300 people lost their lives on European roads. The cause of these accidents can vary from […]
New study: “Digital natives” value brick and mortar stores more than their parents or grandparents
Global Study Highlights the Varying Shopping Expectations of Different Generations and the Role of Technology in Personalizing Retail Despite clear differences in expectations among shoppers of different generations, almost half of retailers (44 percent) have made no progress in tailoring the in-store shopping experience according to a recent study conducted by Oracle NetSuite, Wakefield Research […]
Small- and Mid-sized Banks Fight Money Laundering with Oracle
Oracle announced the availability of Oracle Financial Services Anti Money Laundering (AML) Express Edition targeted at small- and mid-sized banks. It provides a single, unified platform to efficiently detect, investigate, and report suspected money laundering and terrorist financing activity to comply with evolving regulations and guidelines. Smaller banks need to address regulations and compliance the […]
A new way to give driving lessons for autonomous vehicles
Auto-labeling accelerates machine learning Some predict that as many as 33 million autonomous vehicles could be plying the world’s roads by 2040. But for that to come true, the driverless cars, trucks, and buses of the future will have to be safe. An innovative company in Taiwan is addressing this massive technological challenge. It […]
Oracle Data Cloud and Reddit Collaborate to Build Brand Safety Solution for Dynamic User-Generated Content
First-of-its-kind Integration Will Use Oracle’s Contextual Intelligence to Help Advertisers Avoid Unsafe User-Generated Content Oracle Data Cloud today announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Reddit to provide new brand safety controls for advertisers around a real-time feed of user-generated content (UGC). Leveraging Oracle’s Contextual Intelligence technology, the integration will provide real-time content review and classification across […]
Finastra recognized as winner for 2019 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award
Finastra today announced it has won the 2019 Microsoft Alliance Global ISV Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. “What an immense achievement to have received this recognition less than 18 […]