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DevOps: Challenges while Adopting and How to Overcome Them
DevOps, by far, has emerged as common practice for many development companies around the world. The methodology has become famous quickly; thanks to the vast scope of innovation it provides and productivity as well as efficiency it ensures. Therefore, any company that has not yet adapted to this approach already feels the competitive pressure to do so. Whether you are a mobile app development company or a software development firm, the popularity must have already knocked at your door. What prevents many companies from embracing DevOps approach? Well, there are some challenges and perceived roadblocks that make some businesses avoid adopting this approach. Let us explain some of these challenges and identify their possible solutions. Addressing the development vs operations mindset DevOps,...
How to Join ONPASSIVE and Win the Game of Online Business Marketing
Online marketing business is one of the trending methods of marketing in this decade. With digital marketing, it is easy to get the right audience for your business. Every day, there are several advancements in the field of marketing, and this is bringing the world closer than it was yesterday. Many people are trying to implement unique ways of marketing to fight competition in the world. One of the best methods of marketing today is by using artificial intelligence. We see AI being implemented in almost all industries. This is because we are witnessing substantive applications of AI technology everywhere. With the help of AI, we can analyse massive data sets of information to aid the first-line customer service inquiries, and also in developing micro-market segments. Many ma...
The Many Splendid Varieties of Marketing Technologists in 2020: Martech Roles and Archetypes
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Scott Brinker, Editor, Chiefmartec.com and VP Platform Ecosystem, HubSpot At the intersection of marketing and technology, there’s a growing discipline of hybrid “martech” professionals known as “marketing technologists.” But there are many variations within this field. I recently mapped the different archetypes of marketing technologist roles with this 2×2 model. The model classifies marketing technologist activities along two axes: X Axis: Internal Orientation to External Orientation Y Axis: Process Orientation to Technology Orientation “Internal Orientation” is about serving stakeholders inside the organization, while “External Orientation” is about engagements with customers. “Process Orientation” i...
AI-enabled Vaccines for Diabetes, Heart disease and Cancer featured as top technology breakthrough by Carnegie Mellon University
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bhargav Sri Prakash, Founder & CEO, FriendsLearn It is an open secret that Doctors are being manipulated with incentive-based “sales quotas”, as they prescribe invasive medications/treatments that cause more harm from side effects. It is imperative that we restore the human condition to levels of natural equilibrium embodied in ancient traditions, when wealth did not conflict with health. Ayurveda is built upon a foundation of “Swasthasya swasthya rakshanam. Aturasya roga nivaranam” (To protect health. To prevent disease – Charaka Samhita 500 B.C). In sharp contrast, “Do no harm” (Hippocratic Oath) becomes irreconcilable with money at stake from over-diagnosing, over-treating, over-medicating to increase lifelong dependency. Th...
Shouldering The Legacy of Yesterday: Flashback to Healthcare in 2019
With the start of the new decade, it becomes imperative to analyze, what has the last decade given us in the field of healthcare. Understanding about aspects we dealt with, in 2010, and things we achieved in 2019, play an important role in defining the next 10 years. Speculations regarding technology and a step ahead in healthcare ended when the concepts like Hybrid Model surfaced in the healthcare sector in India. 2019 saw some exceptional changes that did not confine themselves to the boundaries of geographical constraint, but spread across the natural habitats. We must appreciate the efforts that went under, in establishing a sound system of better connectivity and approach to new horizons of healthcare in India. According to Forbes, the top 8 predictions that were made for 2019 regardi...
Designing the Best Company to Work For
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Manisha Natarajan, Head Marketing, Brand and Communications, Brookfield Properties What if you were to design the best company on earth to work for? What would it be like? Will you focus on new age technology to heighten the work experience of the millennials and now generation Z whose life is intrinsically woven into everything tech, or, will you focus on new age mantra of well being at the workplace. It’s a fine balance and one that every corporation hopes to strike. Here are 4 thoughts which can help your team visualize a future workspace. Bringing nature in: There’s enough evidence, the more natural light you bring into your work-spaces, the happier everyone is. Designers are now finding ways to counter the negative physiological and psychological impact of blue light ...
Demand and Growth of Offshore Software Development
Software development companies are vying to provide their services all over the world. It is now possible to best offshore software development from all across the globe and acquire customized IT services as per one’s requirements. This can lead to a number of opportunities, such as creating a software development team that can integrate one’s business systems with world-class software. The best offshore developers can be found in Ukraine, the UK, the USA, India, Germany, etc. The operational capacity of a software development company can increase if they enlist offshore development services. Outsourcing significantly reduces the cost of developing a software. With recent developments, big data analytics solutions now adopt a holistic approach towards software integration. Determine Your F...
The Rise of the Cognitive Enterprise in a Post Digital Transformation World
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Brian Solis, Digital Analyst, Author & Top 10 Futurist Dear C-Suite, I have to ask. How do you define digital transformation and what does it look like once you’ve digitally transformed? The truth is that everyone defines digital transformation differently and as such, the end states are difficult to define. But what if I told you that most digital transformation roadmaps were no longer enough to compete for the future? In reality, digital transformation has become foundational. It’s necessary that every organization embrace digital transformation to modernize infrastructure, operations and most importantly, performance. There is no end state, however. It’s an endless process. To compete for the future now, enterprises must start to plan for a post digital transformati...
Electric vehicle and scaling up in the face of a slowdown
Electric vehicles (EV) are not new. More than 100 years ago, two of the greatest innovators, Henry Ford and Thomas Alva Edison rolled out prototype EV’s on a Model-T cranking up a 20mph with a range of 50-100 miles on a single charge of nickel-iron batteries. It was the mass rollout of cheap, gasoline-powered Model-T in 1915 that shifted the focus onto Internal Combustion (IC), away from the EV. What is guiding us to EV/Hybrid vehicles? Some trivia on the Indian market: Growth of 10% pa in the number of registered vehicles against population growth of 3.8% pa. About 20 accident-related deaths-per-lakh against 200 deaths-per-lakh caused by air pollution (high CO, NO2, Pb-ppm levels). How does India move? 18% are on public transport, 12% on two-wheelers, 4% on cars, about 30% immobile (old a...
Imagining the AI future
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amandeep Singh Gill, Project Lead, International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative Less than a decade since the machine learning leap in Artificial Intelligence, AI-based systems have already upended many fields: online advertising, e-commerce, financial risk assessment, cyber-physical systems and travel to name a few, and created new winners and losers. There is an incipient AI race underway and some fear that the techno-economic competition will soon extend to weapon systems with deep consequences for the nature of warfare. Then there is the social impact. AI brings a qualitatively different dimension to the ongoing digitalization of social and economic systems. AI systems will increasingly act like human expert systems in key socio-economic areas such as le...
