CNN — Air France has just launched a plush new long-haul business cabin on one of its Boeing 777-300ER planes complete with sliding doors and redesigned seats. The airline debuted the impressive 48-seat business class cabin, first announced last year, on a flight from Paris to New York on January 20. The new seats can be converted into a flat bed measuring almost two meters, and also come with a sliding door to create “a totally private space.” Air France has introduced its new 48-seat business class cabin. Entertainment amenities come in the form of a 17.3-inch 4K high-definition entertainment screen, as well as noise-reducing headsets, and a Bluetooth connection allowing passengers to use their own headphones.. While all of the seats have direct access to the aisle, those in the center are fitted with a central panel that can be lowered when passengers are flying together. The new cabin will be available to business class travelers heading to New York, Rio de Janeiro and Dakar, Senegal this winter. It’ll be rolled out to other destinations throughout the course of the year as more of the planes are refurbished. The redesigned seats can be converted into a flat bed […]

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Bringing workloads to the cloud means IT solution providers bridging the gap between expectations and reality, says Manu Mehra, Managing Director – ANZ, Lenovo ISG. Every tech-first business requires a cloud strategy to enhance flexibility and efficiency at a reduced cost. As the IT landscape continues to evolve rapidly, CIOs are looking to lay the foundation and enable emerging technologies through cloud technology’s agility in processing data. A study from MIT Technology Review ranked Australia and New Zealand second and third in APAC respectively as leaders in the adoption of cloud infrastructure, tools and applications to accelerate and transform economic productivity. After over a decade of cloud transformation, IT decision makers are facing a new challenge – establishing a robust and scalable cloud infrastructure strategy. The cloud powering intelligent transformation Manu Mehra, Managing Director – ANZ, Lenovo ISG The benefits of the cloud are clear in Digital Transformation. During the emergence of cloud, many organizations adopted it to benefit from virtualization and reduced CAPEX. Today, accelerated Digital Transformation has increased workloads and the big missing piece is cloud agility. Organizational workloads have become more complex due to the increase in data and CIOs are evaluating going back to native […]

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Press releases are provided by companies as is and have not been edited or checked for accuracy. Any queries should be directed to the company issuing the release. Upload your press release EZ Web Enterprises, a leading cloud-based asset management software provider, announced today that it has launched a strategic consolidation of its product offerings and renamed the company EZO. The name change reflects the organization’s mission to provide operations teams with streamlined, easy-to-use, and powerful solutions for tracking and managing assets in almost any imaginable workflow. EZO will provide customers with a SaaS solution, used to control and maintain operational assets and equipment in order to optimize the quality and utilization of assets throughout their lifecycle, increase productive uptime, and reduce operational costs. From physical business assets to IT hardware and software, since 2011 EZO has been at the forefront of helping companies streamline operations with its comprehensive solutions. In addition to the company’s new name, EZO also launched today its innovative equipment maintenance solution, EZO CMMS (computerized maintenance management system), an asset-first operations solution that seeks to go beyond simple work order management by providing intuitive workflows which support the end-to-end management of all team activity involved […]

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Accelerating Digital Transformation in the Oil and Gas Industry Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions and OLI Systems to Jointly Accelerate Digital Transformation for the Oil and Gas Industry with Water Chemistry Insights Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions announced a collaboration with OLI Systems, a leader in water chemistry-based process simulation and electrolyte thermodynamics, to optimize operating performance in the refining and petrochemical industries through the use of OLI’s innovative cloud platform that delivers actionable insights to operations teams. OLI’s deep understanding of electrolyte-intensive applications in refining, like crude distillation units, FCC, Hydroprocessing, Sour Water Stripping, and HF Alkylation, is informed by a comprehensive chemistry property database, rigorous thermodynamic models, and an expert team of water chemistry professionals, including scientists and engineers. With the new collaboration, OLI will work with Veolia to bring these leading capabilities to Veolia field engineers and experts in refining and petrochemicals to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of chemical treatment programs by successfully addressing process diagnostics and asset integrity concerns. "Veolia has a broad portfolio of solutions for the refining industry, and this collaboration with OLI will allow us to provide our customers with a consultative offering to provide enhanced diagnostics, system optimization, and alternative […]

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• Usage of online services leaves digital footprints, and their storage, transfer or access by other parties can have huge implications, many times unintended by the user. • This calls for a reflection on data privacy and the universal right to data privacy. Kenya’s digital transformation If you are reading this article on your smartphone, you could be one of those who can instantly use the internet to take part in information sharing and discussions. In just 25 years, the Internet has transformed our lives. However, we seldom think about what the internet actually does to us, yet every time we use it, we leave digital footprints. Every second, massive quantities of data about us are being collected, used and transferred within Kenya and far beyond its borders. A growing part of the Kenyan population is active online. This opens vast opportunities for entering into a modern and globalised economy, and for people to take part in business, governance, democracy and social services. Usage of online services also leaves digital footprints, and their storage, transfer or access by other parties can have huge implications, many times unintended by the unaware user. This calls for a reflection on data privacy […]

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Al-Futtaim Group, a leading family-owned business operating across the regional automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and health markets, has committed to a complete digital transformation , powered by its long-term partner SAP , and supported by Microsoft Azure as an intelligent cloud platform, to maintain its competitive edge and realise multiple benefits for its customers, partners and employees. This month’s signing ceremony attended by the Vice Chairman and CEO of Al-Futtaim Group, Omar Al Futtaim , and SAP global CEO Christian Klein, Al-Futtaim Group officially adopted RISE with SAP, a customised solution to ensure a quick and seamless transition of mission-critical systems to the cloud. Once implemented, all of Al-Futtaim Group’s business systems will be fully integrated into the cloud, with upgrades enabling the company to leverage the benefits of new technologies and the efficiencies arising from automated and streamlined business processes. Himanshu Shrivastava, Chief Technology Officer at Al-Futtaim Group, said at the signing ceremony, “This partnership is a testament to Al-Futtaim Group’s commitment to driving innovation and staying at the forefront of our industry . In line with our continued pursuit of excellence, the comprehensive SAP solution we are implementing incorporates sustainability metrics, industry best practices, extensibility, […]

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Doha: The Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA) and Microsoft signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining joint cooperation between the two parties in a bid to support the digital transformation process. The MoU was signed by Mohammed Abdulaziz Al Naimi, PSA Assistant President, and Lana Khalaf, General Manager of Microsoft Doha, last Thursday at the PSA premises. This took place during a meeting attended by Dr. Khalid Al-Quradaghi, Director of Information Systems Department and Advisor to the President’s Office, Amr Samir, Director of the Public Sector at Microsoft, and a number of officials from both sides. During the meeting, both sides discussed the strategic relations between the State of Qatar and Microsoft, new projects in Qatar and an array of topics of common interest. Both sides also reviewed ways to strengthen the partnership between PSA and Microsoft and support PSA efforts in the process of digital transformation in its current and future projects through partnership with some advanced technology companies to provide their services and expertise with the best possible quality. This MoU outlines the scope of the expected cooperation between the two parties, i.e. cloud services, best practices in the areas of application modernization, artificial intelligence, cloud security, […]

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Global delivery footprint now spans India, North America & Ethiopia; combined entity to have 1500+ global employees with innovation centers in India across Bangalore, Delhi NCR & Ahmedabad; and Ethiopia.; Vasu Sarangapani, 30-year technology industry veteran to be the President & CEO of Relevance Lab January 30, 2023, Bangalore/Delhi/Ahmedabad: CIGNEX, and Excellerent today announced its merger with Relevance Lab, to become a global powerhouse in offering digital transformation and cloud services. With this merger, Relevance Lab, headquartered in Singapore, will have delivery presence across North America, India and Ethiopia and a global headcount of 1500+ employees. While Relevance Lab excels in DevOps/Automation on Infrastructure, Applications and Data, CIGNEX is a leader in Open-Source Technologies and Cloud that are used to engineer/deploy digital transformations & robotic process automation applications; and Excellerent, besides its Agile Engineering prowess, provides a unique differentiator with its development center in Ethiopia. The merger provides the platform to have economies of scale to have an integrated approach to address all the dimensions of digital transformation from its global development centers. The shareholders of CIGNEX and Excellerent rolled up their shares into Relevance Lab on a share swap basis. The incumbent management of the respective companies will […]

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Vikram Thaploo The performance of almost all industries is significantly impacted by digital transformation, and healthcare is no exception. Today, it is crucial for the healthcare sector to offer better patient care digitally, irrespective of where the patient is located. Generally speaking, the adoption of cutting-edge technologies targeted at enhancing work efficiency in hospitals and elevating patient care to a whole new level is what digital transformation in the healthcare business is all about. In fact, there are a growing number of opportunities that appear today in the branch of digital transformation in the healthcare industry and in diagnostics. The increased digitization of healthcare in India is being stimulated by government initiatives, cost savings and innovations in technology. It is also being propelled by the need to enhance clinical outcomes and efficiency and improve communications among healthcare providers, patients and payers. Cloud-enabled data management platforms, Telemedicine, artificial intelligence (AI) assisted medical devices and Blockchain for electronic health records are some examples of digital transformation in healthcare. Healthcare Providers Accelerating Digital Investments to Meet Improve Operational Efficiencies and Patient Experience According to a recent analysis by Frost & Sullivan, the healthcare sector’s enhanced focus on meeting the ‘Quadruple Aim’ of […]

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BMO’s wealth management division has chosen FactSet, a global financial digital platform, as its primary market data provider. FactSet is deploying its modern, flexible Advisor Workstation to BMO Wealth Management professionals across Canada to support its digital transformation objectives. The implementation equips advisors with FactSet’s industry-leading content and analytics within a comprehensive and intuitive web-based interface that enhances BMO Wealth Management’s broader technology ecosystem to drive advisor productivity and client engagement efforts. The expanded relationship with the firm represents another significant win in the wealth management sector, and confirms FactSet’s strategy to deliver flexible, robust, and differentiated solutions that power our clients’ digital transformation journeys across their enterprise. FactSet EVP and head of research and advisory solutions Goran Skoko said, “Our collaboration demonstrates how FactSet’s solutions enable enterprise-wide digital transformation and reinforces our commitment to the Canadian market. “We are thrilled to work with BMO, who are committed to implementing new technologies that will enhance communication, efficiency, and the advisor experience, and drive improved customer outcomes.” BMO Private Wealth COO Bruce Ferman remarked, “We are pleased to work with FactSet to help drive progress in BMO Wealth Management’s digital transformation journey. Together, BMO Wealth Management’s professionals will be equipped […]

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