AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) – An Aiken County business owner is working to give back to two local non-profits by selling a special t-shirt. The funds benefit Aiken Equine Rescue and Mental Health America. The owner of White Rose Eclectics chose the charities after seeing the impact the pandemic had on mental health, and the love she has for horses. She’s hopeful the fundraiser helps get the word out about these two charities. Martha Wise, owner of White Rose Eclectics, says, “It’s just such a giving town and there’s so many wonderful non-profits here its hard not to give back. It really kind of goes hand in hand people helping horses and horses helping people.” 100 percent of those profits made from the shirts are split evenly between the two charities. Copyright 2023 WRDW/WAGT. All rights reserved.

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MSTR Earnings Outlook SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images MicroStrategy MSTR +9% , the bitcoin investment vehicle attached to a business-software company, is likely to report its first quarterly profit in two years in results expected this afternoon as its business improves and the value of its crypto hoard rises. Steady progress in its business-analytics division, which is seeking to transition customers to recurring, internet-based subscriptions–known as the software-as-a-service model–from on-premise licensed programs, should give a lift to results, according to Joe Vafi, a managing director at Canaccord Genuity. Although the business is relatively mature, it is “very sticky with good margins,” he adds. Even though Q4 revenue is expected to fall about 3% to $130 million, according to consensus data compiled by FactSet, the company is on track to report net income of $10.7 million after losing $90 million a year earlier. The last time it eked out a profit was the final quarter of 2020, when it earned $2.7 million. On the adjusted basis used by Wall Street analysts, MicroStrategy is expected to earn 98.3 cents a share, Bloomberg data show. As far as investors are concerned, the software business plays second fiddle to the company’s bitcoin strategy, […]

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WALLDORF & MUNICH — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that BMW Group will expand its strategic partnership with SAP to accelerate its digital transformation. On January 25, 2023, this was sealed by both companies. Using the RISE with SAP solution, BMW Group will move its entire SAP software landscape. The company will merge its cloud strategy with its existing SAP S/4HANA systems, allowing for joint innovation for critical business areas, including finance, parts supply, warehousing, supply chain and production. This will help BMW Group to digitalize faster, more comprehensively and more efficiently in the future. Expanding a Long-Standing Strategic Partnership BMW Group and SAP look back on a long-standing strategic partnership. As part of RISE with SAP, BMW Group will have access to a cloud platform for end-to-end business processes. Alexander Buresch, CIO and Senior Vice President, BMW Group IT, said: “This strategic decision will help us to drive our digitalization leadership even faster forward. We are increasing the flexibility of our infrastructure and creating maximum global scalability. And most importantly, it allows us to bring business innovations to our customers and users much faster than before. That’s why I’m very much looking forward to the next steps […]

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In thinking about the future of publishing, AI provides many opportunities beyond ChatGPT. Here are some of the best strategies and tactics that are driving growth in audiences, revenue and innovation at media businesses around the world. The attention economy, competition and AI This is a report from a Future of Publishing conference that I’m taking part in. Our panel focused on the future challenges for publishers in terms of technology and revenue. Here is a sampling of the questions and my answers. The opening icebreaker question covered a range of challenges including intense competition in digital publishing both for attention and digital ad revenue, and on top of that of course, we were asked about the digital spectre du jour is ChatGPT and what it might mean for publishers. In terms of competition, the business of digital media has always been governed by paradoxes. The barriers to entry are much lower than print or broadcast media, which has led to intense competition. Some refer to this as the attention economy. The idea that content in the broadest sense is no longer scarce with easy access to an endless supply of music, movies, TV, news updates, long-form journalism, video […]

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Businesspeople having conversation, while on the way to a meeting, in modern office space With more businesses in West Africa adopting cloud technologies than ever before, the region is set to enhance its competitiveness significantly. Following years of disruption, and hampered by a lack of legacy investment into technology, West African businesses now have an opportunity to leapfrog tech adoption and leverage the cloud for rapid growth and success. Titilayo Adewumi, Managing Director at SAP West Africa, says: “Companies across the region are adopting cloud to achieve greater scalability, improve their data and analytics capabilities, drive innovation and build greater resilience. A huge part of our success in supporting the region’s digital transformation efforts is our close collaboration with expert partners that continuously find new ways to innovate.” Digitalization a huge opportunity The World Bank recently noted that digitalization is one of the most transformational opportunities of our time , highlighting its role in alleviating poverty and boosting shared prosperity in West Africa. In light of this, cloud technologies offer tremendous benefits to organizations in the region. These include lowering the total cost of ownership of technology capabilities, achieving faster deployment cycles, automating manual processes to boost efficiency, enabling […]

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Cyprus’s goal for this year’s DESI index is to be in the 15-16 range, according to Deputy Minister of Innovation Kyriakos Kokkinos. Over the next five years, a little more than half a billion euros (€512 million) will be set aside for digital transformation. Deputy Minister Kyriakos Kokkinos explained at the State Ministry of Innovation project presentation that 23% of the Recovery and Resilience Plan is dedicated to digital transformation projects, i.e. around €282 million plus another €150 million which comes from national resources, plus €80 million for business innovation, primarily digital, means that the total amount of money available over the next five years exceeds $500 million. The Ministry’s budget is approximately 120 million for 2023, rising to 157 million in 2024 and 135 million in 2025. For the period 2021-2027, the National Programme Plan allocates €34 million to innovation, €35 million to internationalization, €30 million to research, €17 million to strengthening structures and capacities, and €34 million to collaboration and knowledge transfer. According to Mr. Kokkinos, the Foundation’s funding programs have provided €30 million to start-ups and scale-ups over the last three years, resulting in €15 million in private capital leverage, the creation of more than 240 […]

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January 31 – The digital focus within football marketing started as being all about web sites and building social media numbers on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. But there has been a strategic shift and while the social media platforms are still important it is the new fan engagement platforms that are making the marketing difference. “It is all related to fan engagement which is at the core of the matter. How do you communicate to a vast majority of supporters of clubs, especially in the world’s top 20 clubs, who are not in the city or the country?” says Juli Ferre Nadal, formerly with Barcelona, AS Monaco, and FIBA before joining Tally Technology to run its European expansion. “This space has been given away to social media platforms and everyone jumped into that. We are now trying to reverse that,” said Ferre. “Clubs have fans all over the world who they know nothing about.” Ferre has been at the heart of the digital transformation taking place across football for 15 years. Now he has joined Tally which was originally founded as a free-to-play prediction game for brands, sports teams, leagues and media companies, but has evolved into a fan […]

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Dear AM-online users, it’s time to tell you of an important and exciting development at AM. We are planning to transform digitally towards a more sustainable future where we put the focus on our website and newsletters, as well as our highly successful events, webinars and podcast. We will also produce new digital ‘Industry Special’ reports, offering insight into all the key elements of motor retailing as our industry evolves rapidly digitally, supports consumers in their transition to zero emission vehicles and trials new retail business models. Please see further down this page to find out what we have in store for 2023. If you’d like to opt-in and ensure you see our new content please register . AM magazine In March 2023, we plan to publish our final issue of AM magazine. AM needs to be more flexible, agile, accessible, and distinctive and we are confident that this development will achieve our goals. This will ensure we continue to enable senior management in franchised dealers, independent dealers and aftersales to make informed decisions, navigate change, save costs and deliver profitable and sustainable business growth. Should you have any queries, please feel free to contact us . Yours sincerely, […]

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Economic and regulatory pressures are bringing more colleges and universities to the IT marketplace for digital transformation. The IT partners they choose will be the ones that best understand higher ed’s top modernization priorities, say Kelly Otter, Dean at Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies and Richard Sheehe, principal and founder of Sheehe Consulting Group, as they examine and elaborate on those transformation necessities. Colleges and universities are typically major enterprises, yet they remain seriously behind in digital transformation (DX) compared to other sectors. In just one recent sign of this, a January 2023 report showed fewer than half of colleges and universities use CRM software, a ubiquitous technology that a majority of companies with even just ten employees or more are using. The timing couldn’t be worse to play DX catch-up as institutions face declining enrollment, revenue and government funding while also bracing for tougher compliance, including a recent GAO directive for the U.S. Dept. of Education to enhance regulatory oversight. Let’s take a closer look at how these combined pressures are increasingly bringing colleges and universities to the DX marketplace. We’ll see how this creates a huge opportunity for IT partners to engage on solutions – provided […]

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The Ethiopia-based bank aims to transform its retail and SME loan processes DUBAI, UAE, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Newgen Software, a global provider of low code-based digital transformation platform, NewgenONE , today announced that Bank of Abyssinia, one of the fastest growing banks in Ethiopia has onboarded Newgen for end-to-end automation of retail and small and micro enterprise (SME) loan types. With the loan origination solution , built on NewgenONE, the bank will streamline the origination, processing, tracking, and disbursement of loans. The solution will be used in 750+ branches spread across Ethiopia. The Bank will leverage Newgen’s platform with capabilities such as business rule engine , workflow management , and document management and ensure 360-degree process visibility in the business activity monitoring and reporting. The robust system will equip the bank to meet the growing business demands and allow them to transform digitally and scale operations to handle high-volume transactions. "Newgen’s loan origination solution will enable us to respond faster to customer queries and requests. It is vital for us to offer a premium user experience to our valuable customers. Newgen’s solution will help us achieve operational excellence and business innovation, enabling us to stay ahead of […]

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