Information Technology

OpenLogic by Perforce and the Open Source Initiative Announce Results of Open Source Survey

MINNEAPOLIS, February 15, 2022 – Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the development lifecycle; and the Open Source Initiative, a non-profit that raises awareness and adoption of open source software (OSS), today unveiled the results of their annual open source survey – the 2022 State of Open Source Report.

The report, which is based on a survey of 2660 open source users, chronicles the adoption and propagation of open source software – and reveals key insights into the growing maturity of open source strategies across organizations of all sizes, industries, and locales.

Kofax ControlSuite Wins PrintIT Award for Best App for the Second Year in a Row

ControlSuite Recognized for Digitally Transforming Document Capture, Print Management and Workflows

London, U.K. – February 15, 2022 – Kofax®, a leading supplier of intelligent automation software for digital workflow transformation, today announces Kofax ControlSuite™ was named Best Workflow App at the 2021 PrintIT Awards, the second annual event led by PrintIT Reseller magazine. This is the second year in a row Kofax has been honoured at the PrintIT Awards, with ControlSuite winning for Best MFP Business App last year.

Aria Systems Strikes Gold with TM Forum’s Open API Conformance Certification

San Francisco, CA – February 2, 2022 – Aria Systems, the leader in helping enterprises grow subscription and usage-based revenue, today announced it has achieved Gold status in the TM Forum Open API Conformance Certification program. Aria is also embarking on a staff certification program to advance the Open API standards even further, based on its broad multi-industry experience.

CIOs spending more time on innovation than ever before

London 26th January, 2022: CIOs are spending more time on innovation, with three quarters stating they have increased innovation efforts, according to the 2021 Global CIO Survey from Logicalis, a global provider of IT solutions. The study, which questions 1,000 CIOs from around the world, finds that despite a strong focus on innovation, just 27% of CIOs describe innovation as part of their company culture.

UltimateSuite Recognized as a Task Mining Market Leader by Research Firm Deep Analysis

Prague, The Czech Republic – January 20th 2022 – UltimateSuite, the tasking mining company, today announced that it has gained further endorsement for its products and approach as advisory firm Deep Analysis identified the company as a market leader in the Task Mining space, commenting favorably on its highly granular data analysis and visualization capabilities. The company was also regarded as a valuable SaaS offering for continuous business improvement and initiating new automation projects. While Task Mining is a known concept, UltimateSuite’s ability to collect task data and automate the manual analysis processes have been identified as valuable additions that not many other solutions provide.

Endpoint Malware and Ransomware Volume Exceeded 2020 Totals by End of Q3 2021

19 January 2022 – Endpoint malware and ransomware detections surpassed the total volume seen in 2020 by the end of Q3 2021, according to researchers at the WatchGuard Threat Lab. In its latest Internet Security Report, WatchGuard also highlights that a significant percentage of malware continues to arrive over encrypted connections. While zero-day malware increased by just 3% to 67.2% in Q3 2021, the percentage of malware that arrived via Transport Layer Security (TLS) jumped from 31.6% to 47%. WatchGuard’s data shows that many organizations are not decrypting these connections and therefore have poor visibility into the amount of malware hitting their networks.

Real-time inventory visibility to be the top priority for 43% of retailers

Dallas, Texas - 17th January 2022: SML, an end-to-end RFID specialist for brands around the globe, has announced today that it has released part two of its State of Retail Insight Report: Better Serving Customers Through Technology, finding that 43% of retailers believe enhanced stock level visibility would help them better serve customers and increase the overall customer experience.

TurinTech’s evoML reduces AI’s carbon emissions by 50% with multi-objective optimization

London, UK; 12th January 2022: TurinTech, the UK company which empowers businesses to build efficient and scalable AI by automating the whole data science lifecycle, has announced its greener AI platform- evoML- which reduces AI’s carbon emissions by 50%.

With the average carbon footprint of AI equivalent to five times the lifetime emissions of an average car, TurinTech is the first company to optimise model code efficiency for quicker inference speed, which lowers memory and energy consumption and reduces carbon emissions. It also uses multi-objective optimisation to help businesses speed up the end-to-end data science process from months to weeks, while also increasing the flexibility of model deployment.

socPub: Relaunching CMS Report and having fun at the After Work Pub

It make take awhile but when I make a mistake I will eventually admit and correct the error of my ways. Half a decade ago, I turned my back on supporting niche websites and focused all my effort in creating a new multi-topic website which you now know as socPub. As counter-intuitive that it sounds, the more diverse and interesting topics we published under this website, our number of loyal visitors to the website decreased in numbers. I found this analysis to be alarming and discouraging.

The Rise of a New Analytics Hero in 2022

Every year industry pundits predict data and analytics becoming more valuable the following year. But this doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict. There’s actually something much more interesting happening that’s going to change everything in the analytics world: the rise of a new hero, the software developer.

If the past is any indication of the future, then what we are seeing is a major transformation unfolding across every industry: a changing of the guard, so to speak, of the ones who are creating value from data.