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How to Avoid Being a Captive Customer to Your Property … – Hospitality Net
I recently came across an interesting article outlining a recent study by Jie Yu Kerguignas, Olivier Furrer, and Ikle Landry exploring the phenomena of 'Customer Captivity' in the hospitality industry. According to the authors, customer captivity occurs when customers become dissatisfied with a service relationship but feel like they don't have the ability to alter or leave the relationship, due to a perceived need for the service and a lack of alternatives." A sense of captivity can intensify negative emotions such as frustration or a sense of unfairness with the feeling that the customer's needs are going unheard and that they are ultimately powerless to change their situation. The result can be devastating to a brand's reputation, as captive customers often turn to negative word-of-mouth behavior to vent their frustrations and regain a sense of control. Kerguignas, Furrer, and Landry argue that companies can ease captivity feelings by empowering customers through increased transparency and additional service options, and by creating controlled channels for customers to vent their emotions.
While these solutions are viable, they aren't comprehensive enough to fully address customer captivity in the hospitality tech industry. This article will present a guide for hoteliers on how to avoid becoming a captive customer and actually identify a true technology partner, including what to look for and what questions to ask before entering a vendor agreement.
Investing in a technology platform especially a system as complex and essential as a property management system is a major undertaking, potentially affecting your hotel's operations, service, and revenue. It's critical to start by clearly defining your needs and objectives: What exactly are you looking to achieve with the platform? What pain points are you looking to alleviate? How does the platform fit in with your hotel or groups unique business goals and service philosophy?
Having a clear understanding of these requirements will help enormously as you search for a PMS vendor that can meet your hotel or groups specific needs. Make sure your vendor research extends well beyond the vendor's website and marketing materials to include independent sources such as customer reviews, case studies, and references. Asking for recommendations or testimonials from peers in your industry is also an excellent way to get the 'inside story' on how the platform actually performs. You should also make sure that the vendor makes their Service-Level Agreements (SLAs) readily available and make a point to ask how they resolve support issues, ensuring that they support their answers with clear use cases and clear data on resolution and response times.
Legacy PMS platforms operated out of independent servers that had to be maintained on-site at the hotel. This required hotels to pay high installation costs upfront, and then pay additional recurring costs for server maintenance and product updates. On the other hand, hotels receive a lot more flexibility in SaaS-based ('Software-as-a-Service) commercial models. SaaS models offer shorter contracts where the customer can pay month-to-month, affording them more flexibility and control over the vendor relationship. And because most SaaS-based platforms do not require on-site servers, there is no need to charge hotels for server installation, maintenance, or manual product updates.
Of course, not all SaaS companies are the same. Pay close attention to a vendor's licensing and pricing models. Are they transparent, and can you predict your costs over time? Be wary of vendors with complex or hidden pricing structures, or vendors that keep their customers captive by locking them into a contract with a support structure that does not meet their needs.
Many platforms do not leverage open APIs, which places hotels into confined 'walled gardens,' forcing them to pay exorbitant fees for 'proprietary' integrations while restricting their ability to customize their tech stack. Instead, look for modern cloud PMS platforms that boast a comprehensive and growing library of integrations that are provided at no additional cost to the end user. The PMS platform should also be based on an open-API architecture ideally enhanced by simplified webhooks which can facilitate seamless data transfers between platforms while making it easy to develop custom integrations to new third-party systems.
Make sure your PMS vendor is also specific about what type of 'cloud' service they are delivering. Although many legacy providers are now offering 'cloud-based' versions of their on-site platforms, these systems often run on independent servers which suffer from issues with reliability, performance, and 'buck-passing' between multiple separate customer service teams. Instead, make sure your cloud-based platform is hosted on a native-cloud server such as Amazon AWS. Native-cloud servers deliver exceptional speed, performance, and reliability, as well as almost perfect uptime and automated scalability based on use.
Becoming a strategic partner involves more than just providing a service; it means actively supporting your clients throughout the customer lifecycle as they navigate challenges, achieve business goals, and realize their ideal service philosophy. It's critical that your technology vendor is committed to seamless change management, including having a clear understanding of your business needs and objectives and providing dedicated support and expertise throughout the customer lifecycle.
Any strategic partnership begins with a well-crafted implementation policy that reduces service and operational disruptions to an absolute minimum. Look for vendors that provide dedicated implementation teams and comprehensive training programs that can deploy their platform and onboard your staff in as little time as possible. The implementation team should remain actively engaged throughout the onboarding process, proactively addressing potential issues before they arise, while providing access to online tools and tutorials. Responsiveness is critical during this stage, with resources being shared promptly, ideally within the same hour and no later than within 24 hours. This level of proactive assistance must be continued throughout the customer lifecycle, with the provider offering continuous, 'follow the sun' support, providing assistance from product and industry experts at any time of day or night.
Once you choose a PMS provider, it's critical to monitor their performance regularly to ensure that they are meeting your expectations and that their platform helps you achieve your business goals. If they are not meeting your expectations, it goes without saying that you should consider switching to a more suitable vendor.
Set Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to ensure that the vendor is always keeping up on their end of the bargain and identifying areas of improvement with the technology and the partnership. Your vendor should also provide access to a dedicated client success manager (CSM). The CSM acts as your advocate within the vendor's organization, ensuring the platform meets your business needs and facilitating a feedback loop that informs the product development and roadmap. This proactive approach forms the foundation of a robust and enduring strategic partnership, from implementation to the future of the platform itself.
Stayntouch delivers a cloud-native and guest-centric hotel property management system (PMS) with a comprehensive library of over 1,100 integrations. Stayntouch's cloud-native PMS empowers independent hotels, hotel groups, and management companies to drive revenue, reduce costs, enhance service, and captivate their guests. In 2022, Stayntouch launched Stayntouch 2.0, a fully integrated technology suite featuring its core cloud-native PMS and guest kiosk solution, a comprehensive chain management module, a seamless booking engine (Stayntouch Booking), a robust payment processing platform (Stayntouch Pay), and a powerful channel manager. Stayntouch 2.0 enables hotels to streamline their operations, maximize and diversify their revenue streams, and deliver an even more enhanced guest experience with the innovation and support of one trusted technology partner. Stayntouch is supported by a team of professionals with deep roots in the hospitality industry and is a trusted partner to industry-leading management companies including Sage Hospitality, HEI Hotels & Resorts, and EOS Hospitality, innovative independent brands such as Village Hotels, Pod Hotels, and First Hotels, and iconic flagship properties such as the TWA Hotel, Showboat Hotel Atlantic City, and Zoku Amsterdam. For more information, visit http://www.stayntouch.com.
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Getting IIoT Networks Ready for the Future – Automation.com
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Three tips can enhance network preparedness and help secure IIoT networks.This feature originally appeared in the AUTOMATION 2023: Cybersecurity & Connectivity ebook published in September.
When an Industrial IoT network is finally up and running, it may be tempting to rest on your laurels. Nonetheless, change remains the only real constant in the world of industrial networking. An IIoT network may be sufficient for your current needs. It may even be ready for foreseeable application requirements over the next several years. But what about the next decade? Change is always in the air, and you need to be prepared.
Since the early days of industrial automation, manufacturers have adopted a variety of purpose-built protocols and systems for highly specialized control applications instead of using standard Ethernet technologies. However, as IIoT continues to expand, industrial networks in the future will be required to transmit much larger volumes of databetween interconnected devices and to collect information from remote devices for both OT and IT engineers to access (Figure 1). With these growing demands on the horizon, network preparedness may determine an enterprises success.
Consider these three tips to help prepare the IIoT network for the future:
Over the years, various devices using different protocols have been deployed on industrial networks to provide diverse services. Under these circumstances, network integration usually costs more than expected or becomes more difficult to achieve. Manufacturers can either choose the status quo, that is, maintain their pre-existing isolated automation networks with numerous purpose-built protocols of the past, or seek solutions to deterministic services that can integrate these islands of automation into one unified network.
If the goal is to be ready for future demands, the choice is obviously the latter. The rule of thumb is to take potential industrial protocols into consideration and ensure you can redesign networks in case any new demands arise in the market. One approach is time-sensitive networking (TSN), a set of new standards introduced by the IEEE 802.1 TSN Task Group as an advanced toolbox. With TSN, users can build open, unified networks with standard Ethernet technologies that reserve flexibility for the future.
Figure 1: Industrial networks in the future will be required to transmit much larger volumes of data between interconnected devices and to collect information from remote devices for both OT and IT engineers to access.
Cloud-based remote access offers many benefits to IIoT users such as reducing the travel time and expenses of sending maintenance engineers to multiple remote sites (Figure 2). Furthermore, cloud-based secure remote access can offer flexible and scalable connections to meet dynamic, fast-changing requirements. However, operational technology (OT) engineers may find it cumbersome to set up and maintain their own cloud servers for new services and applications. There is considerable effort associated with setting up new infrastructure, even in the cloud. Fortunately, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and machine builders can now deliver secure cloud-based services and remote access to their customers, therefore eliminating the need to maintain in-house cloud servers.
A key issue that demands scrutiny is the cloud server license scheme. Often, upfront costs may seem low for limited server hosts. Yet these apparent cost savings on server hosts may actually make a project uneconomical due to the limited scale of connections. Second, you may also need to consider central management capabilities to flexibly expand remote connections as your needs change. With this said, carefully weigh the costs and benefits of incorporating secure remote access to industrial networks. Always select solutions that minimize hassles and will help deliver more value to customers.
Figure 2: Cloud-based secure remote access can provide flexible and scalable connections to meet the dynamic, changing requirements of the future.
When complexity increases due to greater connectivity on industrial networks, it can become difficult to identify the root cause of problems and maintain sufficient network visibility. Control engineers often have to revert to trial and error to get the system back to normal, which is timeconsuming and troublesome.
To facilitate and manage growing industrial networks, network operators need integrated network management software to make informed decisions throughout network deployment, maintenanceand diagnostics. In addition, as systems continue to grow, it is important to pay attention to a number of network integration concerns. First, only managing industrial networks in local control centers may not be feasible three or five years from now, especially when existing systems need to be integrated with new ones. It is therefore important to use network management software with integration interfaces such as OPC DA tags for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system integration or RESTful APIs for external web services. Furthermore, an interface to facilitate third-party software integration is also a key criterion for ensuring future flexibility.
For many industries, the IIoT presents as many challenges as opportunities. Nonetheless, this new frontier where traditional OT and IT silos converge is clearly the way of the future. Successfully deploying an IIoT application requires careful planning and attention to detail from the moment you decide to begin the journey. As a pioneering expert in industrial networking, Moxa provides a number of innovative technologies and solutions to help speed up network readiness for future IIoT applications.
This feature originally appeared in the AUTOMATION 2023: Cybersecurity & Connectivity ebook published in September.
Roger Chen is manager of Cybersecurity Market Development at Moxa, Inc. Moxas connectivity technology helps to make ideas real. We develop reliable network solutions that enable devices to connect, communicateand collaborate with systems, processesand people.
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Why On Semiconductor Plunged Today – The Motley Fool
Shares of auto chip specialist On Semiconductor (ON 3.51%) plunged on Monday, falling 19.5% as of 12:44 p.m. ET.
The company reported earnings today, and while third-quarter figures came in ahead of analyst expectations, management guided for a soft fourth quarter that was well below estimates.
On has ridden the wave in power chips for electric vehicles (EVs) over the past two years, but it looks like that red-hot market is now cooling significantly.
On had thrived this year up until now, as both auto and industrial chip demand had remained resilient. Auto and industrial chips had been among those that were in the most short supply during the supply chain challenges of 2021, and demand had remained strong even through 2022. This is in contrast to other chip markets in PCs, phones, and cloud servers, which experienced a big hangover starting last year.
This summer, several reports emerged in the financial media noting electric vehicle sales were slowing down in a big way. There is likely a combination of factors behind that. The most prominent are likely higher interest rates, making cars more expensive, as well as possible market saturation among early EV adopters, with range anxiety and costs limiting mass adoption. Of note, electric vehicles tend to use many more semiconductors than internal combustion engines, so a slowing in EVs would disproportionally affect auto chipmakers. In fact, On CEO Hassane El-Khoury made the point that EVs have 14 times the chip content of an internal combustion engine car, just on the drivetrain alone.
On generates over half its revenue from auto-related chips, and unfortunately appears to have confirmed this EV slowdown today. While third-quarter revenue of $2.18 billion beat expectations of $2.15 billion, and adjusted (non-GAAP) earnings per share (EPS) of $1.39 beat expectations of $1.34, On's Q4 guidance underwhelmed.
In the fourth quarter, management now expects revenue between $1.95 billion and $2.05 billion, and adjusted EPS between $1.13 and $1.27 per share. Those figures are well below estimates of $2.18 billion in revenue and $1.36 in EPS heading into the quarter.
On the call, management noted the slowdown came from some large auto customers in Europe, as well as broad-based slowness in the industrial sector.
Whenever a market slows down, investors are left debating whether that means the market is peaking, or may not be as large as thought, or if the slowdown is just a near-term cyclical phenomenon.
Obviously, with the Federal Reserve having hiked interest rates at the fastest pace in history over the past couple of years, that could mean the slowdown may be more cyclical. Certainly, there are a lot of government incentives now to push people into electric vehicles in the years ahead, especially as technology improves and EV ranges expand.
On is a leader in silicon carbide chips, which are thought to be crucial to the future efficiency and range expansion of EVs. So if you think this is a speed bump for EVs and not a peaking market, the stock could certainly be a buy here, now at just 15 times trailing earnings.
Billy Duberstein has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. His clients may own shares of the companies mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends ON Semiconductor. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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Strong demand for products to last, Gigabyte says –
By Chen Cheng-hui / Staff reporter
Gigabyte Technology Co () yesterday said that strong sales of its consumer electronics-related products, such as motherboards and graphics cards, would continue this quarter, and that demand remains strong for its server products artificial intelligence (AI) servers in particular.
Overall, the company is confident that revenue growth would remain steady this quarter. It expects this years revenue to exceed NT$100 billion (US$3.08 billion) earlier than expected, thanks to continued end-market demand and effective optimization of its product mix, it said in a presentation document released after the companys online investors conference.
Gigabytes revenue last quarter was NT$36.9 billion, up 52.53 percent year-on-year and 41.2 percent quarter-on-quarter.
It was the highest quarterly figure in the companys history, the company said.
Sales from graphics cards accounted for 36 percent of Gigabytes total sales in the third quarter, followed by servers at 27 percent, motherboards at 22 percent, and laptops and other computer peripherals at 15 percent, it said.
The companys graphics card business has come out of the trough experienced in the first half of the year, with demand recovering and shipments booming in the second half as clients stepped up efforts to reduce channel inventories, Gigabyte told investors.
Its motherboard business is expected to return to positive sales growth next year following clear signs of improvement in the bottom half of this year, while server shipments are likely to register a high double-digit percentage increase this year, as demand for AI services continues to rise, it said.
To meet demand from clients, the company plans to optimize the production capacity of two server assembly plants in Taiwan, Gigabyte said, adding that its main customers are in Europe and the US, but it aims to gain orders from the Asia-Pacific region.
The US AI chip ban would not affect Gigabyte as it is not shipping to China, it said.
Gigabyte is striving to maintain its leadership by providing a wider choice of product lines compared with its local peers, it said.
While it remains a strong supply partner of US graphics chip designer Nvidia Corp, it aims to launch new server products for other chipmakers and cloud service providers next year, Gigabyte said.
The company did not reveal its bottom-line figures for the third quarter, but analysts forecast that its gross margin would improve to 13.3 percent from 11.83 percent in the second quarter, while its earnings per share would grow to NT$2.72 from NT$1.4, given better economies of scale and higher-than-expected sales in the third quarter.
Gigabytes cumulative sales in the first nine months of the year totaled NT$91.37 billion, an increase of 15.13 percent from the same period of last year and a record high for the period, the company said.
By region, American markets contributed 41 percent to the companys sales, followed by the Asia-Pacific region with 34 percent and Europe and the Middle East with 25 percent, it said.
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Chinese Phytium’s New CPU Claimed To Rival Arm’s Neoverse N2 – Tom’s Hardware
Phytiumhas unveiled its latest high-performance processor core, FTC870, at the 2023 Malanshan Integrated Circuit Application Innovation Forum.The company claims that its FTC870 can rival Arm's Neoverse N2 cores in CINT2017 and CFP2017 benchmarks, according toICSmart.This isa significant achievement forPhytium, which cannot access technologies developed in the USA due to U.S. government sanctions.
Phytium's FTC870 clocked at 3.0 GHz scores 5.73672 points in CINT2017 (a benchmark that tests the integer performance of CPUs) and 8.42688 points in CFP2017 (a benchmark that tests floating point performance of CPUs). By contrast, Arm's Neoverse N2 at 3.0 GHz hits 5.8608 points in CINT2017 and 7.11 points in CFP2017, whereas Intel's Xeon Scalable 8380 scores 5.73 points in CINT2017 as well as 8.65 points in CFP2017. Keep in mind that we are dealing with performance numbers from the company itself, so take them with a grain of salt.
FTC870 is Phytium's top-of-the-range offering for high-performance CPUs aimed at servers and desktops. By contrast, Arm's Neoverse N2 is the company's core aimed at edge and cloud servers. For high-performance computing (HPC), Arm has Neoverse V-series cores, whichcannot be licensed to Chinese companiesdue to restrictions imposed by the U.S. government concerning performance. Meanwhile, it would be logical for Phytium to compare performance of its FTC870 to that of Neoverse V-series, though Phytium is also prepping more capable FTC871 core.
Phytium wasadded to the U.S. Department of Commerce's Entity List in 2021and since then it cannot access advanced American technologies, including Arm's CPU cores that are designed (and manufactured) using technologies that originate from the U.S.Despite facing developmental hurdlesbecause of the U.S. restrictions, the new core demonstrates remarkable advancement showcasing performance levels that rival and even surpassArm'sNeoverse N2 core.
Yet, it has taken Phytium over two years to develop its FTC870, so it remains to be seen whether the company can release new CPUs fast enough to stay competitive against its rivals.
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Tokenisation: The blockchain revolution for funds – Lexology
There is a growing buzz around 'tokenisation' of securities. In this article, Tom Carey and Matt Brehaut describe what tokenisation is (and - just as importantly - isn't), how it works, how they think it is likely to change the funds industry, and how Guernsey is well placed to be at the forefront of this revolution.
Although this is a developing area, many billions of assets under management have already been tokenised. High profile managers such as Franklin Templeton, Abrdn, KKR, Mitsui and Hamilton Lane have already launched tokenised products. Tokenised assets nonetheless still represent a tiny percentage of the funds industry. We expect this area to grow exponentially in the coming years.
What is tokenisation?
Tokenisation is the digital representation of 'traditional' financial assets (e.g. bonds, equities, real estate, PE/VC) on a blockchain infrastructure. Transactions in - and thereby ownership of those assets are recorded on a decentralised ledger (a blockchain).
It also helps to understand what tokenisation is not:
We think that the key to understanding tokenisation is to consider it as a shift in the infrastructure on which ownership data and transaction records are stored.
Storage of ownership data and transaction records has evolved from a manually inscribed share register or bearer share certificates held in a vault. The digital age meant computerisation of records, likely stored initially on individual computers within a bank branch, or on a server held at a bank's central data storage facility, before eventually moving to cloud based solutions.
The common element up to now was that a specific financial institution ultimately 'held' the data - whether in its own vault, its own computers or cloud servers it had procured. Moving to another service provider invariably meant a transfer of data.
Tokenisation makes the leap to decentralisation of data, where no-one 'holds' the data like before. The blockchain becomes a single store of information - a 'single source of truth'. The service providers now access and manipulate the data, rather than holding it.
Permissioned tokens
The development of permissioned tokens and digital identities is a fundamentally important development. Permissioned tokens can only be sent or received based on the verified credentials of investors. This key feature facilitates the compliance necessary for mainstream financial assets to exist on the blockchain.
Essential attributes can be 'hard coded' into a token, for example that it can only be held by a non-US investor who has satisfied the AML requirements of a Guernsey fund. Assuming the programming is correct' that token cannot be transferred to a digital 'wallet' unless the person to whom that wallet belongs has been appropriately permissioned (in the example, that wallet must be linked to a non-US investor). In practice, an appointed agent - i.e. the local administrator - will determine whether the relevant prospective investor has satisfied those criteria, designate their wallet accordingly and thereby permit a transfer of the token to that investor's wallet.
It is "smart contracts" which impose specific restrictions on the tokens (mirroring "real world" requirements) which we think marks a paradigm shift in this area.
Tokens can now be subject to the same compliance oversight as is currently the case, whilst benefitting from the advantages that the blockchain offers.
What does the future hold?
Trying to predict the future with any certainty is impossible, but we think that tokenisation is likely to become mainstream, and fairly soon.
We believe the principal benefits of tokenisation will be:
Guernsey's funds industry currently has a significant percentage (70% by number) of closed-ended funds, typically structured as limited partnerships with large minimum investment sizes and very little liquidity in the partnership interests. Tokenisation could facilitate smaller minimum investments, whether into the main fund itself or via "access products": feeder vehicles specifically set up for such investors, whether established by the manager itself or by private wealth institutions for their clients. The technology platforms offer the promise of increased liquidity by facilitating an electronic order book where selling and buying interest could be posted and transacted.
In the same way that nobody could have foreseen the myriad ways the internet would change our lives when first introduced in the mid-1990s, we simply can't predict all of the benefits which tokenisation might bring.
How is Guernsey placed?
Given its large closed-ended funds industry and its legal and regulatory environment, Guernsey is ideally placed to benefit from tokenisation.
Our Lending, Credit and Finance Law makes clear that tokens are not "virtual assets" and fall outside of that law, regulated instead as ordinary securities.
Our Electronic Transactions (Guernsey) Law and Electronic Transactions Ordinance facilitate electronic business, the use of electronic documents and processes, the storage of information in electronic form and the enforceability of a contract carried out by means of an "electronic agent", all of which facilitate the shift to tokenisation.
Carey Olsen and Tokenisation
At Carey Olsen, we've been keeping a close eye on tokenisation developments. We recently invited Daniel Coheur (co-founder & CCO of Tokeny, an industry leading provider of tokenisation solutions), to Guernsey to talk to representatives of the Guernsey funds industry on the technology and opportunities of tokenisation.
Visit careyolsen.com/tokenisation to watch the presentation.
If you would like to find out more, please feel free to contact us.
Glossary
"blockchain", "distributed ledger technology"
A blockchain is a decentralised digital ledger, which records transactions across a peer-to-peer network of computers ("nodes"). It consists of a "chain" of "blocks" which contain a list of transactions. The transactions are secured using cryptographic algorithms, intended to ensure their integrity and their immutability. Each block contains a unique identifier (a "hash") and references the previous block, thereby forming a continuous chain hence the portmanteau "blockchain".
The distributed nature of the blockchain (hence "distributed ledger technology" and it being "decentralised") means all participants can have access to the same information, thereby ensuring transparency. Nobody holds the data; rather, they are granted permissioned to view and amend it.
"smart contracts"
"Smart contacts" are lines of code that permit the automatic execution of a specific action when specific conditions are satisfied a simple example being a delivery-versus-payment transaction: the asset will automatically be transferred when and only when payment is made. Smart contracts can specify rules, like a regular contract, and automatically enforce them via the code.
An original version of this article first appeared in Business Brief, October 2023.
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Global Cloud TV Market Size to Reach USD 6.93 Billion in 2032 … – GlobeNewswire
Vancouver, Nov. 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global cloud TV market size reached USD 2.03 Billion in 2020 and is expected to register a CAGR of 10.8% during the forecast period, according to latest analysis by Emergen Research. Global cloud TV market revenue is expected to expand significantly during the forecast period due to rising adoption of smart devices. Increasing demand for TV business analytics is expected to further boost global cloud TV market revenue growth over the forecast period. Advancements in wireless communication technologies are also expected to act as a catalyst to growth of the global cloud TV market in the near future.However, concerns regarding piracy of digital content are expected to hinder global cloud TV market growth during the forecast period.
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What Is Platform Engineering and How Can It Benefit Healthcare? – HealthTech Magazine
Platform Engineering vs. DevOps
When a healthcare organization is collaborating with a third-party platform provider such as Artisight, it would communicate most often with the DevOps team. While platform engineers build the infrastructure that the software operates on, DevOps deploys the platform and ensures it runs smoothly.
DevOps manages our software orchestration infrastructure to ensure smooth deployments, Campion says. DevOps handles the server setup and ensures the hospitals servers have all of the updates required for the platform to function correctly.
Ringham adds that the DevOps team is responsible for monitoring the system and alerting the platform engineers when fixes are needed. If a data center overheats and three of our servers go offline, platform engineers can jump on it and shepherd disaster recovery events along.
DISCOVER: Heres what healthcare organizations should know about platform engineering.
Cloud-based technologies have helped healthcare providers improve care and expand access to high-quality services. Platform engineers not only ensure these systems operate seamlessly but also build protective measures into the underlying framework.
The objective of platform engineering is to aid agility and improve delivery outcomes while baking in security, observability and compliance, Flores says. The ability to bake in governance such as HIPAA reporting and controls means that developers dont have to be experts or worry about such topics.
Another benefit is the ability to more easily use and scale new technologies since engineers can build on an existing platform. Think of electronic medical record systems like Epic and Cerner. Hospitals dont have separate EMR systems for the emergency department versus a surgical center; its just easier to have one shared database, Campion explains. The platform is the same concept, where you have that whole, single infrastructure in place that can be built upon.
Lets say a health system wants to incorporate AI technologies like natural language processing, ambient event detection, vitals monitoring, things like that, Ringham says. A platform like Artisights can onboard all of those solutions in a unified way.
He notes that partnering with an established platform can also help reduce costs: You can go build one of these systems yourself, but can you deploy it successfully across the entirety of your hospital system effectively? Maybe, but youre going to invest a lot of time and effort in doing that.
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Bosch Rexroth adds Nokia to automation ecosystem – ComputerWeekly.com
Noting that ecosystems and co-creation are becoming the new culture in the automation sector, global engineering firm Bosch Rexroth has announced a collaboration with Nokia to integrate the ctrlX OS virtualised operating system into the Nokia MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) on-premise operational technology (OT) edge system.
MXIE is described as a future-ready, high-capacity and highly resilient as-a-service OT on-premise edge system that accelerates the digital transformation of OT. It is powered with 4.9/LTE and 5G connectivity provided by the Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (DAC).
Nokia said that as enterprises implement a growing number of Industry 4.0 use cases such as autonomous robots in a factory or warehouse leveraging real-time situational awareness for safety, or zero-fault manufacturing using advanced real-time video analytics for efficiency demand is growing for high-capacity, on-premise edge processing. It sees MXIE as being able to accelerate digital transformationbeyond connectivity and support operational technology data applications and workloads.
In 2022, Bosch Rexroth invested 388m in research and development around 5.5% of turnover and the highest figure in the company history. Key areas included digitisation, the electrification of mobile machines with the eLION platform, the ACTIVE Shuttle autonomous mobile robot, the H4U (Hydraulics for You) software platform for industrial hydraulics, and factory automation with the ctrlX Automationplatform.
The company said working with Nokia alongside other technology partnerships had opened up ctrlX OS for the entire market. Various applications run on the Nokia OT edge system and it has private wireless 5G campus network technology. Through this integration, Nokia MXIE customers can install ctrlX OS as an application and operate business-critical use cases with reduced latency.
With ctrlX OS, Bosch Rexroth claimed it had developed an operating system with digital services and that it was a core part of the ecosystem initiated by ctrlX Automation. The aim of Bosch Rexroth and the partner companies is to create an open industry standard for the market.
Bosch Rexroth said the OS was of interest not only for industrial control systems and edge industry PCs, but as a virtualised solution, the operating system also runs on edge servers in close proximity to machines and production lines, in datacentres and in the cloud.
Automation needs to move away from proprietary systems towards open, modular and scalable microservices architectures that will enable a profound transformation of industry in terms of digitisation, connectivity and sustainability. ctrlX OS is the enabler for this, said Steffen Winkler, vice-president for sales business unit automation and electrification solutions at Bosch Rexroth.
Weve managed to win over new partner companies such as Dell Technologies and Nokia. As a result, were now getting involved in areas outside factory automation. Weve now got partner companies on all levels of the automation pyramid and can thus offer a whole range of benefits on a technological level.
Bosch Rexroths first system and technology partnership was with electrical company WAGO.
We offer ctrlX OS on our own devices and develop specific applications on the basis of the operating system, said WAGO vice-president business unit automation Johannes Pfeffer. WAGO is about to launch the Edge Controller 400 and the Edge Computer with ctrlX OS to coincide with the SPS trade fair. Together, wed like to strengthen ctrlX OS and develop it further.
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Software Consulting Market Size is Expected to Reach USD 902.07 … – GlobeNewswire
Ottawa, Oct. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global software consulting market is driven by the rising demand for custom software solutions and rising focus on improving productivity. As businesses continue to focus on the advancement and improvements for the operations, the market for software consulting is likely to grow.
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Software consulting is a procedure that gives investors a chance to make wise and economic investment selections that may later result in much greater IT (Informational Technology) investments and, consequently, expenses. It is a great way for companies to consider investing in a specific solution to learn how easily the market can support it. A company proposal should always be discussed with a professional with extensive industry knowledge and awareness of any existing alternatives. One of the causes for this might be that an outside software consulting specialist may offer guidance on the best technology to utilize in a certain project.
Regional Snapshot:
North America now dominates the market for software consulting. Companies in North America are digitizing their internal processes, which has increased their spending on enterprise software. These companies use software consulting services to select and implement corporate software correctly need for software consulting is driven by the growing use of cloud-based services and solutions for storing clients' sensitive data, as well as the rise in cyberattacks.
Due to the emergence of software companies and the expansion of innovative software technologies, the Asia-Pacific market is anticipated to develop at the quickest CAGR over the projected period. Another reason for boosting the growth in the Asia Pacific area is the employment of software consulting services to improve and discover superior solutions to the current system. The need for software consulting is driven by the increased use of cloud-based services and solutions for storing clients' sensitive data and the rise in cyberattacks.
Europe is another attractive marketplace for software consulting. The European software market revolves around a wide range of firms, multinational businesses and private consultants. The constant requirements for software development in multiple industries, well-developed infrastructure and presence of major key players in the region promote the growth of the market in Europe.
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Driver:
Cost effectivity offered by software consulting services
Reducing total expenses is one of the key advantages of software development consultancy. Software consulting businesses provide the best and most inexpensive services for all IT needs. A reasonable price is paid to have the work completed by professionals. Identifying places where additional time and resources may be used more effectively and efficiently helps businesses save spare resources over time. The danger of a project failing is also reduced by consulting since skilled consultants may identify possible difficulties early on and offer solutions to avoid them.
Restraint
Lack of coordination between consultancy and business
When a company selects software consulting services, its biggest challenge may be the potential for poor coordination between the firm and the software consultant. Both sides must clearly understand the project's objectives and have a robust communication plan to achieve the desired outcome. A company can have trouble defining the collaboration's exact terms. The consultant's experience and the project's technical requirements could not be in line, which could lead to inefficient resource utilization and ensuing delays.
Opportunity:
Rising demand from e-commerce businesses:
With new businesses and a growing consumer base, the global e-commerce industry is rapidly expanding. Such e-commerce companies demand knowledgeable and neutral platform solutions. E-commerce companies also want a better platform and evaluation for the client experience. Software consultants help firms thrive by expanding their customer base, boosting sales, and improving operations. Additionally, they provide specialized tools to encourage repeat business. The need for software consulting is anticipated to increase as e-commerce enterprises want more inventory management platforms and continuous data flow. As a result, it is leading the market.
Challenge:
Market unpredictability:
For IT consultants, fluctuations in the market are a constant challenge. The market is becoming uncertain due to a quick investment frenzy, shifting consumer behavior, and internet activities. As a result, consultants may find it difficult to adapt to market changes, eventually resulting in business losses. The business must suffer if consultants do not adjust to the dynamic market developments. Managing this volatility might also result in a variety of additional difficulties.
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