Posts tagged Digital Optimization
VVC Teams Work on End-to-End Film-Grain Management for Today's Diverse Digital Video Environment — MC-IF

The Versatile Video Coding (VVC) community is exploring new ways to optimize the efficacy of film grain to accomplish creative objectives and overcome technical limitations in digital video. Dolby and InterDigital are researching how VVC can improve the entertainment technology sector and deliver compelling visual experiences to audiences.

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Does SD-WAN Have a Future in a SASE World? GigaOm Reports

In the ever-evolving landscape of networking and security, two buzzwords have been making the rounds: SD-WAN and SASE. With the confusion surrounding them and SASE (the newer of the two), you may wonder: “Does SD-WAN have a future in a SASE world?” GigaOm explores the benefits of SD-WAN, the hype around SASE, how they fit together, and whether SASE is an automatic choice for all SD-WAN customers.

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50% of Consumers Will Significantly Limit Their Interactions with Social Media by 2025, Predicts Gartner

By 2025, Gartner predicts 50% of consumers will quit or reduce social media use due to declining quality. A Gartner survey found 53% of consumers thought social media quality has declined compared to the past due to misinformation, toxic users, and bots. Consumers fear GenAI integration will worsen user experience. Emily Weiss, Senior Principal Researcher at Gartner, advises CMOs to refocus acquisition and retention strategies as users increasingly limit their social media use.

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Time to Level up 5G and Core? New Insights from Frost & Sullivan

The telecom industry has witnessed rapid 5G deployments globally. Digitally-enabled services such as 5G cameras, AR-assisted maintenance, remote control, and robotic patrolling are now being widely used in verticals such as mining, healthcare, transport, and manufacturing. But despite the rapid deployment and adoption of 5G, there is still room for considerable improvement to unleash the true potential of this technology. With 6G technology likely to be commercially deployed only by 2030, the existing 5G technology might soon need to level up.

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High-Impact Spaces Are the Key to Elevated Collaboration Experiences: New Insights From Frost & Sullivan

As organizations solidify hybrid work programs, reliability, quality, and robustness of meeting spaces–ensuring technology works every time with minimal support – remains a top concern for IT and AV professionals. For business leaders, equitable experiences for remote and onsite meeting participants are now a high priority.

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Digital Incumbents Fight Back; New Findings From Boston Consulting Group

A new cadre of companies are successfully executing digital transformations and outperforming their digitally native peers. These digital incumbents make up about 30% of the S&P Global 1200 Index and outperformed the index by about 50% over the last three years. Meanwhile, legacy incumbents struggled to drive growth and improve productivity using predominantly traditional levers.

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Blockchain-enabled Digital Health Credentials Build the Future of Digital Ecosystems; Frost & Sullivan

As organizations prepare to welcome employees, customers and visitors back to travel, events, and workplaces they must strategize to not just reopen safely but return to capacity utilization that will provide an economic boost. Digital health credentials are expected to be pivotal in sustaining reopening and building trust.

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Five Digital Competencies Finance Teams Will Need to Reach Their Goals in 2021, Identifies Gartner

CFOs will fail to realize the full value of new technology investments unless their staff are equipped with five key digital competencies which are most crucial for delivering high business impact, according to Gartner, Inc.

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A Low-Effort, Digital Buying Experience is the Key to Revenue Growth for B2B Sales Organizations, Says Gartner

Mapping the new customer experience to understand how buyers are using digital and human channels, often simultaneously, will unlock growth for B2B sales organizations in the next three years. According to Gartner, the key to accelerating that growth is a low-effort, digital buying experience that boosts customer confidence.

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Public Cloud IT Infrastructure Revenue Growth Remained Strong in Third Quarter of 2020, According to IDC

Market growth rates show the response to major adjustments in business, educational, and societal activities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the role IT infrastructure plays in these adjustments. Across the world, there were massive shifts to online tools in all aspects of human life.

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80% of Customer Service Organizations Will Abandon Native Mobile Apps in Favor of Messaging Platforms by 2025, Predicts Gartner

Initially service organizations focused on websites for desktop users, shifting to mobile app experiences with the proliferation of smartphones and tablets. Despite significant investment and promotion, most have failed to gain strong customer adoption of their service apps and will increasingly retire mobile app experiences in favor of messaging.

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In-Vehicle Payments Will Total $1 Billion by 2023, Predicts Gartner

“Car drivers can currently make in-vehicle payments by using applications such as Alexa, Xevo Market or the Banma platform to purchase fuel, food, or pay for parking,” said Mike Ramsey, research vice president at Gartner. “The types of services available will continue to increase as automakers, merchant brands and services, and software suppliers’ partnerships proliferate.”

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Smart Cities to Create Business Opportunities Worth $2.46 Trillion by 2025, says Frost & Sullivan

The uncertain post-pandemic situation will compel smart cities to focus more on developing collaborative, data-driven infrastructure to provide appropriate healthcare facilities as well as public security services. They will create significant business opportunities with a market value of $2.46 trillion by 2025.

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Sales Reps Have the Worst Data Proficiency in the Organization, Says Gartner

Frontline and overlay sellers have the lowest data proficiency despite their focus on sales data and buyer activity. The Gartner report revealed that sales reps are considered to have one of the worst data proficiency (43%) in the organization – significantly lower than marketing teams (49%), customer service teams (49%) and finance teams (53%).

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COVID-19 Sparks Boom in Digital Hospitals with Smart Technologies, Improving Quality of Care

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Digital Hospitals: Creating Growth Opportunities in Patient Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, finds that digital hospitals that deploy smart technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), remote health monitoring, and robotics, deliver higher standards of patient care and hassle-free experiences for health professionals

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Asia-Pacific Retail Leads World with Three-Quarters of Global Growth, Offering a Glimpse of the Digital Future Finds New Study by Bain & Company

COVID-19 has accelerated retail’s transition to a digital future, but new research from Bain & Company reveals that Asia-Pacific will get there first. Representing about three-quarters of the world’s retail growth and boasting advanced digital maturity, online sales growth and ecommerce are rising dramatically in the region, offering other markets a glimpse at the future.

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Intelligent Pumps with Analytics Capabilities Are Expected to be the New Norm -- Frost & Sullivan

A recent analysis by Frost & Sullivan’s found that an average of 50% to 60% of pump original equipment manufacturers’ (OEMs’) revenue is expected to be generated from services-related activities, such as real-time monitoring and reliability services. This will result in the pump industry transitioning from a product-based to a service-based model in the wake of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in this digitalization era. Global pump revenue is estimated to reach $46.92 billion by 2025 from approximately $38.34 billion in 2019.

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Unisys’ Eric Hutto Describes the Strategic Gap Between Digital Transformation and Digital Optimization Affecting Most Organizations

While organizations across industries and around the world have engaged in a comprehensive discussion about digital transformation, the truth is that most executives are really only presiding over digital optimization initiatives that merely streamline existing operations.

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