10 Ways to Integrate Big Data, AI, and Other Top Tech Trends into Your Business
Technology has the power to dramatically change your business operations. From big data to API security, it’s important to understand how these concepts can improve your company. Here’s a rundown of today’s top tech tools and trends from members of the online small business community.
Digital transformation: 3 roadblocks and how to overcome them
The future of any organization lies in its ability to adapt to a digital-first future, especially as the pandemic continues to boost demand for digital business service operations. With 65 percent of the world’s GDP expected to be digitized by the end of this year and the digital transformation market expected to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars by 2025, organizations simply cannot afford to forgo digital transformation if they want to stay relevant.
5 Digital Transformation Tips For Startups
As a startup, you may want to run your business as lean and efficient as possible. You would like to ensure you’re squeezing all the profit you can and prevent unwanted expenses and losses. After all, your funds are limited, and the risk of going down in a few months is still high.
The current buzzword in the industry nowadays is digital transformation. It’s lauded as the best way to improve a company’s efficiency and profitability. For a startup, it seems like the holy grail of success. However, it’s a costly and risky solution.
An overview of the blockchain development lifecycle
Blockchain development differs from traditional application development in several important ways. In fact, a considerable amount of planning goes into blockchain development first due to additional considerations like choosing the most suitable incentivization scheme, the degree of transparency desired, specific group permissions and so on.
Why AI is a small business’s best friend
Artificial intelligence is rapidly making its way into the small-and-medium business (SMB) layer of the economy, with the same promises and pitfalls that it has brought to large organizations.
Both on the cloud and in the traditional data center, new services and software releases are bringing advanced AI tools to the less-than-mighty in low-cost, easy-to-use formats that don’t require rare and expensive skillsets to operate.
5 Examples of Successful Implementation of IoT in Healthcare
Adopting any new technology in the healthcare world is often a slow process. The reason – strict governance around data protection, compliance, and the long-drawn processes around testing new healthcare options. This is, of course, to ensure that there is no compromise to patient safety in any manner.
While IoT adoption was slow initially, today, the benefits far outweigh the concerns. Remote patient monitoring using IoT in healthcare and faster diagnosis due to real-time data capture through monitoring are critical factors enabling smart healthcare.
Fintech Roundup: What investors really, really want
This past week, I published on TC+ my first fintech investor survey. This is something I plan to do on a quarterly basis. I asked 10 investors who actively and frequently back fintech startups a few questions such as what criteria they use when evaluating potential investments and what is the best way to pitch them.
Global Blockchain Technology Market to Reach $19.9 Billion by 2026
The technology at the heart of bitcoin, blockchain technology is today gaining significant importance. Blockchain is a permanent database that keeps record of every transaction that is executed. The technology has become an integral part of business-to-business and business-to-consumer commerce, products and legal processes.
CISA publishes guide with free cybersecurity tools, resources for incident response
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is responsible for monitoring, managing, and reducing risk to the country’s critical infrastructure. The federal agency is also known for issuing alerts relating to high-profile data breaches and vulnerability disclosures.
How AI is changing data Infrastructure
The impact artificial intelligence (AI) is having on enterprise data processes and workloads is well-documented, as is its capability to monitor and manage complex systems. But what is not widely recognized at this point is how AI will change data infrastructure, not just in design and architecture, but rather in how it’s consumed by new generations of smart applications and services.
6 Astounding Benefits of having IoT (Internet of Things)
IoT can give you the capacity to gather information from the organization and utilize progressed investigation to uncover business bits of knowledge and open doors, and diminish functional expense. For instance: Select a testing of information about your top clients and the key cycles that help those clients.
Ahead In The Cloud: The Force Behind The Digital Revolution
The next time you’re listening to your favorite Apple Music playlist, consider the technology that’s making it possible for you to listen to whatever you want, wherever you want. It’s thanks to cloud computing that we can access vast libraries of digitized music through a system that connects a global network of remote servers, which in turn host huge amounts of data.
9 fintech investors discuss what they’re looking for and how to pitch them in Q1 2022
The 2021 Matrix Fintech Index reported that public fintech companies outperformed the market by 3x, driven in large part by favorable IPO debuts, SPACs, and increased adoption of digital payments and e-commerce, BNPL in particular.
Even though those companies saw a draw-down of approximately 30% in the year’s closing months, investors are eagerly looking for new opportunities: in the final accounting, VCs funded private fintech startups to the tune of $134 billion, Crunchbase found.
Google Cloud will now tell customers how to reduce their cloud emissions
Understanding, reporting and reducing carbon emissions is about to get a whole lot easier for Google Cloud customers thanks to the release of a new portfolio of intelligent tools called Active Assist.
Last year the search giant analyzed aggregate data from all of its cloud customers to find over over 600,000 gross kgCO2e in idle projects that could be cleaned up or reclaimed. In fact, doing so would have a similar impact to planting almost 10,000 trees.
Manufacturing AI Is about Good Data, Not Big Data
Manufacturing is starting to adopt AI to boost efficiency but current AI approaches won’t always work. For sure, AI promises to be a game-changer in manufacturing via automating tasks, improving predictive maintenance, reducing downtime and improving quality and efficiency of production lines and supply chains.