Global outsourcer Sykes Enterprises has announced the appointment of Ian Barkin — co-founder of global intelligent automation (IA) and robotic process automation (RPA) leader Symphony Ventures, Inc. to be its chief strategy and marketing officer. In November of 2018, Sykes acquired Symphony Ventures a company co-founded by Barkin, making it one of the first front-office business...
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 26, 2019 – Kryon®, a developer of Robotics Process Automation (RPA) software, has announced the completion of its Series C financing round of $40 million led by OAK HC/FT. Both Aquiline Technology Growth and Vertex Ventures – the firms that had led Kryon’s Series B round – have also exercised their...
The São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP) and IBM have joined efforts to support the creation of a Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI), within the FAPESP Engineering Research Center Program. The new Center will pursue a disruptive research program, with the potential to promote paradigm shifts in AI. Its mission is twofold: to generate deeper...
Disruption and displacement from RPA and AI are coming faster than most companies realize. Now is the time to begin preparing for the inevitable changes ahead.
Loren Moss chats with Eric Crabtree of Unisys about micro-segmentation's impact on both security and improving the customer experience.
The World Economic Forum, the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, today opened the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan alongside inaugural partners Hitachi, Horiba, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, Salesforce, Sompo Holdings and Suntory Holdings. The Tokyo-based Center will bring together leading businesses, start-ups, civil society, academia and international organizations to shape the trajectory of emerging...
“Of all the industries in the world right now, mining might actually be the ripest for disruptive change."
"AI is no longer the future — AI is the present. And in this world of technology, the biggest challenge for most enterprises is not tech. It’s the talent."
After spurring Intel’s growth in the CPU market and making the technology company a household name, IBM may be issuing a direct challenge to the chip maker by releasing its new Power9 CPU to the open market. In what may turn out to be a soap opera without the sex or bad lighting, Google seems...
Before launching Cognitive Business News and Unido Digital, I worked as an editor covering customer experience and disruptive technologies in the BPO sector. We are currently researching ways to apply many of these deep learning and artificial intelligence technologies like Lex, SageMaker, DeepLens, and Polly to business use cases. One of the things we are...