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Dell and Microsoft expand partnership through VMware

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Microsoft and Dell Technologies have explained their collaboration by providing a VMWare cloud infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure platform . Dell which also owns a majority stake in the software visualization firm VMWare. Azure is a Microsoft cloud computing platform. “At Microsoft, we’re focused on empowering customers in their digital transformation journey, through partnerships that enable them to take advantage of the Microsoft cloud, using the technologies they already have,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Nadella also revealed that the VMWare and Dell collaboration would also give mutual customers an integrated cloud experience with the digital workplace solution that would also help them to meet some of the evolving needs. Dell and Microsoft VMWare had also stuck with some of the similar partnership with the Amazon Web Services users were given access to the VMWare software. The Active directory of the Azure is a Microsoft cloud-based identity and access management s...

Mumbai Witnesses its first people Analytics conference By Aegis

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Aegis School of Data Science , India’s first institute for post Graduate Program (PGP) in Data Science, Business Analytics and Big Data concluded their  people analytics conference successfully in attendance of professionals from various Human Resource organizations in India. The Aegis People Analytics Conference at Four Points by Sheraton, Vashi, Navi Mumbai witnessed an overwhelming HR community of around 130 professionals. The objective of the conference was to create a new era of learning and understanding that in turn will pave the way to a deeper understanding and better development to advance people analytics practice in the HR domain. The conference themed “People First, Always”, received a positive response. The conference began with an opening address by Dr. Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Dean, Aegis School of Data Science followed by an addressal from the key note speaker Courtney McMahon, Head Global People Analytics, AIG. On being the keynote speaker at the event Courtney ...

Facebook: Launching its own cryptocurrency to vanguard in M-commerce

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Over the last few years, the much-debated issue of online-platform is “The importance of cryptocurrency and its impacts on the M-commerce”. Cryptocurrency – an innovative, rebellious and futuristic way of transacting has ultimately turned into a noteworthy payment method. Nowadays, most of the smartphone shoppers keen to use cryptocurrencies, as a result, it became essential to explore and integrate the cryptocurrency payment methods into their business model for both online as well as offline commerce firms. And the rumors are true! Facebook – the social media giant launching its own cryptocurrency in the first half of 2019. The move will surely make Facebook as the vanguard in the M-commerce industry and place it in the competitive position against Visa, PayPal, and MasterCard. Facebook’s Terrible 2018 Though it might sound crazy, especially in the context of 2018, arguably the most terrible year for Facebook as it staggered from one scandal to another. The Cambridge Analyt...

nTalents.ai takes away The Bias In Hiring Process

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nTalents.ai, a Bengaluru-based startup initiated to form automated interviews for corporate sales team recruitment a reality, with their ease-providing facility to work with online interview platform. Incubated at IIM-Bangalore, the startup uses AI and other deep learning capabilities to implement hiring easy for their numerous corporate clients. Founded by Deepika Anu, Mayank Sharma and Varun Narula who were earlier heading on as data scientists and were also hooked in the hiring process, the three achieved first-hand knowledge about the hardships that corporates face while hiring. “Three of us have spent more than 10 years in the industry, all of us back then were involved in interviewing new recruits for our teams. The process became very repetitive and inaccurate in the long run. We brainstormed on how we can build something that can be much more accurate and comprehensive,” claims Deepika Anu, Marketing Head of nTalents.ai. During their attempt to crack standardized exams li...

How to Humanize Your Facebook Messenger Chatbot Using Content

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Once you have a super intelligent chatbot that converses with your customers, it’s easy to lose sight of the most important aspect of Messenger Marketing . It’s so much more than just sending messages to your leads. It’s about building connections.  The human connection is an important element to that drives towards conversions. Remember the original reason why you built a bot in the first place: to create a long term bond with your target market. Customers nowadays want brands that they can learn to trust. This is the reason why it’s important to add a human touch to every campaign or chat blast you send. If you’re on the other end of the line. You wouldn’t want to talk to a bot. You want to understood, heard, and answered by someone you can count on. As a marketer or even business owner, it’s so easy to focus on one thing: answering questions in real time. However, you should note that in all things there must be a certain balance. And likewise, you should balance great conte...

Industrial IoT Startup Altizon Raises $7 Mn From TVS Motors

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Altizon Inc, which is a US and Pune based startup , that also operates a platform for developing a solution based on the Industrial Internet of Things , has now secured Rs 49 crore in the funding round of Series A from the clutch of investors. The company revealed in a statement that the round was led by the TVS Motor Company Pvt Ltd, that is also a subsidiary of the TVS Motor Company Limited. Some of the existing investors like the Wipro Ventures, Lumis partners and The Hive also participated in the round. Altizon will be going to use the funds to make its presence in the international markets and even continue to grow its investment in the development of the intellectual property. “We have a strong roster of global industrial majors as our customers and they can now gain further benefit from our global footprints and enhanced technology offerings,” said Vinay Nathan, co-founder, and CEO of Altizon. Altizon The company was launched in the year 2013 by the Ranjit Nair, Yogesh Kul...

Business Setup allows Entrepreneurs to Setup Business

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Beginning a journey with startup in a country like India involves more than 10 registrations and seven tax and labour laws to comply with every proceeding month. Therefore, the process seems tedious and expensive. Further, it is also very complex for an entrepreneur to concentrate on innovation and creativity, while ensuring 100 percent conformity. While it becomes mandatory to have a CFO(Chief Financial Office), not every startup has the resources to bear such positions. Pune-based Business Setup is aiming to quiet ease the process for early stage startups of involving such issues rather than focusing on innovation. With an in-house team of experienced professionals, Business Setup has collaborated with IIM-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad’s T-Hub, and Startup India as their legal advisors and partners. Back in March 2015, Rohit along with his friends, Khushboo Bhattad, Parinit Thated, and Ritesh Jain, developed an online platform for CA, CS, and legal services. Business Setup looks after f...

Unity Technologies rolls out simulator for virtual road testing

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Gaming as well augmented reality firm, Unity Technologies, has now revealed the launch of the real-time simulation platform that can create visual environments for the developers to test the autonomous vehicles . The America based company revealed that is also working on developing a platform for developing a broad range of applications in the field of the real-time 3D scenario and VR, AR for the automobile industry. Unity Technologies said that the company was also enabling the eight of the 10 largest original equipment manufacturers across the globe by helping them improve the way they design, build, and service and even sell the automobiles and even cut down the costs in terms of the design and sales. The company which is founded in the year 2004 in Copenhagen, is known for its product called the Unity, a licensed real-time 2D, 3D, VR and AR development engine, which has also been extensively used by the developers in the VR, AR domains, mainly for the gaming industry. Its platf...

Software firm Atos opens new global delivery centre in Tirunelveli

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Atos Syntel has now opened a new global delivery center, that is also capable of employing around 2300 people in its first phase of the process of development, to cater largely to both the retail and banking clients. The center at the Tirunelveli in the state of Tamil Naidu has been also set up at an initial cost of around $15 Million. The company is also looking to invest around $5-$10 Million over a couple of coming five years on the 100-acre campus. “The center will initially service customers in the BFSI and retail and logistics verticals , which are two key verticals for the firm,” said Sean Narayanan, head of the business and platform solutions division, Atos. He also revealed in a report that the project has been started by the Syntel and was around 80% completed when the Atos acquired the former last year. The company is also looking to plan to hire around 800 people in India in the coming 12 months. As of now, this is a third major delivery center for the company as of no...

Motilal Oswal redesigns IT infra with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS

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Nutanix which is an enterprise cloud computing software has now deployed its cloud solution at the Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd on the redesign the latter information technology infrastructure. Nutanix said that it will also installed a new hyper-converged virtualized software solution for the multi-cloud ecosystem that will also enable a centralized management solution while utilizing the process of machine learning predictive analysis and automated data movement to strengthen the company service delivery. The America based Nutanix, which has founders of the Indian origin, has also developed an Operating System cloud software that helps the organizations across the multiple cloud vendors and platforms like the private, public or hybrid. Motilal Oswal Financial Services revealed that the several of the business-critical applications ran on the Nutanix platform which includes it is in house trading on the FR2 and RF3, the customer relationship management, application Saath...

Tech Mahindra and UiPath Launch AI Driven Solutions for Enterprises

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Tech Mahindra Ltd., a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services and solutions, and UiPath announced their first joint solution offering – an end-to-end cognitive operations automation solution, in the area of Service Desk Operations . This ready-to-use cognitive operations solutions will help to accelerate the automation journey of an enterprise. Due to ongoing  digital transformation efforts, service desks have become more accessible to customers, and need to support a wider and complex range of offerings. The cost of manual service desk support increases by 3X with every escalation. Further, the high volume of customer requests and limited service desk capacity leads to a high average wait and response time, which then translates into an average customer experience. Keeping these industry pain points in mind, Tech Mahindra and UiPath have developed a solution to enhance operational efficiency...

Why You Should Undergo Python Training in 2019?

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Do you know what Python is? This is a purpose programming language that was created decades ago. This has improved steadily over the past years and it is now known as one of the most well-known programming languages. This language is one of the easiest ones that people can learn too. This explains why this is now the type of language that is being taught in a lot of universities. This can be used with different operating systems as well. Learning Python is Easy This is known to have a syntax that is simple enough to understand. The learning curve is known to be easier to understand as compared to other programming languages. The standard library is known to be very easy to understand and it also has other external libraries that you can base on when you need more details. You can develop a small project with the use of this programming language so that you can keep on learning. Should you undergo Python training ? A lot of people say that a lot of things that become popular will re...

PURE EV launches long-range high-performance Electric Two-Wheelers

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An Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad-incubated Startup has developed long-range, high-performance electric two-wheelers specifically designed for Indian Conditions and is commercially launching them across the country next month. PURE EV  is the electric vehicle vertical of PuREnergy, a startup incubated by IIT Hyderabad which manufactures high performance Lithium batteries. PUR EV is launching four models – ‘EGNITE,’ ‘ETRANCE,’ ‘EPLUTO,’ and ‘ETRON’. It aims to deploy over 10,000 electric vehicles on road in the new financial year (2019-20). It has established an 18,000-sqft state-of-the-art facility, co-located with IIT Hyderabad, for cutting-edge Research and Developing and for large scale production of electric vehicles and electric batteries.   The startup will continue to collaborate with R&D laboratories of IIT Hyderabad, which will provide strong technological support.  The company was founded in 2016 by Dr. Nishanth Dongari, Assistant Pro...

FedEx Calls To Mandate Blockchain For International Shipping

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According to the report which has been revealed by the CIO of Federal Express, Rob Carter, the International Cargo Shipping and delivery is now just waiting for mandated blockchain standards, which even highlights that this will even lead to a far greater spread of adoption within the reach of the country for the latest blockchain technology . The widespread adoption of this latest technology would also allow the authorities to easily and securely track the goods on an international level at the time of helping the address prevalence of international trafficking of illegal goods. At the time of attending and speaking within a forums and discussions at the time of blockchain Global Revolution Conference, Carter spoke about the different kind of logistics that are also involved in the shipping, tracking and documentation that even goes behind the delivery of a package, which he went on to explain, with some of these documents proving to be just as the essential. On the other hand, t...

About 200 US companies seeking to move manufacturing base from China

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Around more than 200 American companies are nowadays seeking to move up their manufacturing base from China to India after having the general elections, a top US-based news revealed, observing there is a fantastic opportunity with the firms looking at alternatives to the communist giant. The President of the US India Strategic and Partnership Forums, Mukesh Aghi revealed that the companies are talking to them about how to directly set up an alternative to China by investing in India unit. Mukesh revealed that the recommendations from the US to the new government would also be to accelerate the reforms and bring transparency in the process of decision making . “I think that’s critical. We would advise to bring more transparency in the process and to make it more consultative because in the last 12 to 18 months, we are seeing US companies look at some of the decisions being made, either e-commerce or data localization, as more domestic-oriented than global,” he told PTI in an intervi...

Machine learning applications in genomics and genetics

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Machine learning enables computers to assist humans in analyzing data from giant, advanced information sets. one amongst the advanced information is biology and genomic information that has to analyze a varied set of functions mechanically by the computers. These machine learning strategies will offer additional help for creating this information for any usage like cistron prediction, organic phenomenon, cistron metaphysics, cistron finding, cistron has written material and etc. the aim of this study is to explore some machine learning applications and algorithms to genetic and genomic information. In genetic science, machine learning will be used to learn however to extract the location and structure of varied genes,  to establish restrictive parts,  to characteristic non-coding polymer genes,  to predicting cistron operate, to predicting polymer secondary structure. To annotate a large type of ordination sequencing parts we will use machine learning strategies. Gen...

Collaborations & Novel Solutions to Bring Transformation in Mobile Payment Market

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Collaborating with domestic players to expand services and launching innovative solutions such as offline mobile payment to offer ease and convenience to users are prime strategies adopted by market players active in the industry. Mobile payments have become widespread across the world with millions taking advantage of ease and convenience provided. With market players opting new strategies to make their mark and gain international presence, the mobile payment market is undergoing a transformation. Collaborating with domestic players to expand services is one of the prime strategies adopted by them. This strategy helps market players in venturing into different markets and gain more market share. In addition, market players are keeping the local merchants and consumers on the mind and developing innovative solutions for them. Offline payment solution is one of those solutions brought forward to offer ease. According to the research firm Allied Market Research, the global mobile paym...

Cognitive computing industry progresses as demand increases

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Every sector has identified the importance of utilizing cognitive computing for enhancing the overall efficiency of processes and improve the experience of users. From the medical sector to consumer goods, the utilization of artificial intelligence has become of paramount importance with generations of a huge amount of data. The collaboration with tech giants, acquisition of AI-specialized firms, and innovation have become significant to improve the capabilities of the process and offer a better experience. The industry for cognitive computing is booming. According to the research firm Allied Market Research, the global cognitive computing market is expected to reach $13.8 billion by 2020. With demand for processing the large chunks of data and extract useful insights, organizations have been taking important steps. Organizations that utilize natural language processing chatbots must look forward to multitasking for making processes better. Bots can become assets like employees, r...

Industrial Robotics Market Benefits from Automation

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The need for increasing manufacturing quality and speed and reduce production costs has resulted in the development of a new range of machines called industrial robots. Such robots can carry out a host of tasks with accuracy, speed, greater flexibility, and consistent quality. Consequently, they find a wide number of applications in SMEs as well as large organizations in industries such as automotive, electrical and electronics, chemical, plastic, food and beverages, metals, and others. Industrial robots are used for various purposes including handling, palletizing, cutting, finishing, spraying, welding, sealing and gluing, part loading and unloading, electronic assembly, and others. While there are many types of industrial robots existing, some of the common types include articulated (3R) robot, SCARA (selective compliance assembly robot arm) robot, cartesian (3P) robot, cylindrical (2 PR) robot, and polar or spherical robot (2RP). The industrial robotics market is witnessing robus...

Logistics-technology startup CarterX Raises funds

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CarterX, which is a Bangalore based technology logistics platforms for the travelers, has now raised an undisclosed amount of funding from the Mumbai based Angels Networks. The startup will now be going to use the amount to expand to the new locations, scale operations, develop more partnerships with the airlines, and to promote the brand as well. The startup which is founded by the Ramya Reddy and Harshvardhan in the year 2017, it provides with the luggage transfer and airport assistance to and from the airport. Passengers can even check in bags from the home and travel to and from the airport without having baggage with them. “We aim to improve the customer experience by taking the logistical strain away from the airlines and airports and ease the hassle of luggage transport, bag drop and check-in for travelers,” Harshavardhan said. The company which is run by the CarterPorter Pvt Ltd, it caters both to the B2C and B2B segments with the three services: baggage check-in, mishan...