ArtificiaI Intelligence (AI)

Kinaxis, a specialist in confident decision-making in an unpredictable world, has agreed to acquire Toronto-based Rubikloud for US$60 million (€53 million). Rubikloud is an emerging provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that automate supply chain prescriptive analytics and decision-making in the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries. 

Verizon has joined forces with Digital Catapult, the UK-based advanced digital technology innovation centre, to launch an immersive accelerator programme to develop innovative 5G solutions for enterprises.

Olea Edge Analytics, an intelligent edge computing platform for the water utility industry, has released EdgeWorks Platform 2.0. This combines blockchain technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in a solution for water billing, delivery and conservation.

Crowdsourced security company, Bugcrowd has released its 2020 Inside the Mind of a Hacker report, studying the global hacking community. One of its key findings is that human ingenuity supported by actionable intelligence of the Bugcrowd platform were found to be critical ingredients in maintaining a resilient infrastructure.

Intellectual property (IP) represents one of the enterprise’s most valuable assets – an asset that is becoming increasingly vulnerable to compromise, thanks to the rapid escalation of digitalisation, says Jan van Vliet, VP EMEA at Digital Guardian.

We’ve been in the process of transitioning to Industry 4.0 (aka the fourth industrial revolution) ever since the German government coined the term in 2011. It’s proven to be a long and complex journey, and by 2025, the World Economic Forum has estimated that the worldwide impact of Industry 4.0 will reach UK£2.7 trillion(€2.9 trillion) in value. Report by Nigel Moulton, global CTO, Dell Technologies.

5G is considered as one of the market opportunities in the coming years, with large scale roll-out of infrastructures and rapid adoption of 5G devices and services. So says a new report by Cambridge, UK-based IDTechEx.

Intel has introduced its 3^rd generation Xeon Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio. These are designed to enable customers to accelerate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics workloads running in data centre, network and intelligent-edge environments. 

As use of AI becomes even more pervasive, data scientists and organisations just ‘doing their best’ won’t be sufficient. Scott Zoldi, AI expert at FICO explains that with the rise of AI advocates, responsible AI will be the expectation and standard.

The Oxford Foundry has chosen four new innovative solutions it will support on the OXFO COVID-19 Rapid Solutions Builder. The four solutions were chosen by a team of international judges from more than 100 entries after a rigorous selection process – based on their ability to have a real, tangible societal impact, their viability and ability to implement and their potential for rapid growth.

Enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software company, UiPath today added conversational AI (artificial intelligence) capabilities to what it claims is the industry’s end-to-end hyperautomation platform.

The race for 5G has dominated its fair share of telecoms headlines in recent times. Communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide have invested a vast amount on new network infrastructure. The race is now on, says Angela Logothetis, CTO of Amdocs Open Network, to identify the consumer use cases that CSPs can monetise to recoup the expenditure.

Remote workers have been targeted by up to 65,000 Google-brand impersonation attacks. So says the most recent ‘Threat Spotlight’ report from UK-based Barracuda Networks. This type of spear phishing scam uses branded sites to trick victims into sharing login credentials.

With ‘Continuous Improvement’ as one of its seven core values, Romark Logistics (Romark) has become a innovator in the supply chain and logistics sector since 1954. As a top third-party logistics and cold-chain provider in North America, Romark services food, beverage, pharmaceutical, commodities, and retail customers around the world.

The software testing and quality assurance company, Qualitest has launched its new Qualisense suite of innovative Machine Learning-powered tools and services. The newly launched Qualisense toolkit is the next iteration of the previous Qualisense Test Predictor service.

With quarantine orders now slowly being lifted in many countries, we’ve come to realise that society is indeed very vulnerable to what we believed were the plagues of the past. There’s no guarantee another pandemic won’t materialise, says Ofir Zemer, CEO of Cellwize, and many experts believe that there may yet be another round of coronavirus to contend with. If we’ve been given a respite, we need to take advantage of it to prepare for future untoward events.

For years, the sandsiv+ customer experience management (CXM) platform has aimed to help companies understand their customers. Now it brings that understanding to the heart of business operations with VOC CI, the Customer Intelligence (CI) application available as an add-on for sandsiv+.

Finnish-Russian digital solutions provider for heavy industries, Zyfra has developed a comprehensive product to significantly reduce the risk of spread of COVID-19 at the industrial and other facilities.

Interxion, an European provider of carrier and cloud neutral colocation data centre services and a Digital Realty company, announced a new partnership with RStor, a provider of cloud services across any multicloud environment.

A new study from Juniper Research has found that total global spend on Digital Twins will reach $12.7 billion (€11.3 billion) by 2021; an increase of 17% from $10.8 billion (€9.6 billion) in 2019. Digital Twins are a digital representation of physical assets that utilise IoT data; enabling use cases such as predictive maintenance when combined with AI.

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has unveiled a suite of innovative workplace solutions and a new vision for three return to work scenarios – returning to the office and venues, working from home, and ultimately, the office reimagined.

Organisations of all sizes that typically work in office environments have been thrown into the deep end due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Social distancing measures and restricting unnecessary travel has meant that a majority of companies had to unexpectedly revert to remote working. Many of these businesses quickly realised that they weren’t ready for this digital transformation, with recent research suggesting that UK firms are among the world’s least prepared for home-working, say Steve Law, CTO at Giacom and Sebastien Gest of VadeSecure.

Software as a service (SaaS) in 2020 is booming as more companies stretch to develop programs and apps that are cloud based and integrated. The big fish in many cases continue to gobble up little fish that support their vision and can integrate into their portfolio. 2020 has become the year of 2 things Coronavirus and the rise of SaaS. Perhaps this will be the next box office hit, “ 2020, Rise of SaaS”, says Joseph Zulick, a writer and manager at MRO Electric and Supply.  

ONE Tech, a global provider of edge AI technology, has announced its strategy to help organisations reduce operational inefficiencies, improve industrial production, and enhance security and privacy to IoT applications through an advanced portfolio of edge AI software solutions.

With the new ultra compact ITG-100AI, ICP Deutschland offers an inference system that is prepared for use with dedicated neural network topologies (DNN).

The coronavirus epidemic has turned into a pandemic. The lack of hindsight and visibility in the face of increasing numbers of victims and the overloading of emergency services has led to the lockdown of half the planet. This containment impacts and will impact all economies, but even more so the economies of developing countries.

Our data footprint grows every day. And when we’re working – whether in the office or at home – this information can help to optimise how we work, the processes we live by, and in turn, how the overall company is impacted. From boosting employee engagement to revolutionising the customer experience, data is the backbone.