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When we think of RPA, we get inclined towards the strategy where robots are replacing humans for doing certain tasks. But since post pandemic the employment gap around the world has increased and companies are short of funds, adopting a technology and making inroads to digital transformation seems like a far fetched dream now.

That being said, on the contrary, Gartner predicts that 90% of large organizations globally will have adopted RPA in some form by 2022 as they look to digitally empower critical business processes through resilience and scalability, while recalibrating human labor and manual effort.

Gardner also anticipated that RPA demand to grow and service providers to more consistently push RPA solutions to their clients because of the impact of COVID-19,” said Cathy Tornbohm, distinguished research vice president at Gartner. “The decreased dependency on a human workforce for routine, digital processes will be more attractive to end users not only for cost reduction benefits, but also for insuring their business against future impacts like this pandemic.”

But given the current state, the question companies are seeking to answer is whether to freeze any financial commitments or reallocate the resources towards automation. Let’s evaluate.

Staying comfortable with Status Quo is no more a choice

RPA helps businesses be more operationally efficient during times of crisis as it frees the employees from low value, time consuming tasks so that they can pursue more strategic roles necessary for innovation and sustainability.

Automation also facilitates business continuity by focusing on two major pillars of any organisation – People and Processes. It helps in providing great employee experience by liberating employees from mundane, unproductive and repetitive tasks by automating these processes thus saving time and cost.

Let’s look at how the Industries are leveraging Automation and turning crisis into opportunities.

How Diagnostic Labs are using Automation

According to government regulations, it was mandatory for all labs conducting Covid-19 tests to report the results on the ICMR portal; even before releasing reports to their customers. Automating the process has enabled Diagnostic labs to process nearly 60000+ entries in a month and make huge savings, employees are now able to engage in more critical activities, resulting in higher productivity.

How Hospitals are Using Automation

RPA Bots are used in hospitals to fix patient appointments. The bots track the doctor’s schedule and notify patients in case of unavailability for the patient’s appointment. It also sends automated reminders about the discharge guidelines such as follow-ups scheduled or due medical tests to the patients. This is helping hospitals to address the patient’s needs better with an instant, automated response and provide them better healthcare services.

Apart from the healthcare industry, here’s how business functions benefited from the use of Automation.

Implementation of Automation In Finance Department

Organizations with large reach, Bank reconciliation was a very time consuming yet important task that the employees had been doing at regular intervals. Usually the finance department manually matches the transaction details in their systems to the Bank statements received on email. Further they used to share mismatched details with the accounts team, and upload the matching data in ERP. However, the task took a lot of time, had high chances of error and reduced employee efficiency. After automation, the RPA Bots download statements from the bank portal/emails, reconcile them and enter data in ERP automatically.

Implementation of Automation In HR Department

Post pandemic, the HR personnel are under tremendous strain dealing with new work-from-home challenges and helping their companies maintain business continuity amid disruption.  At the same time, organizations still need to hire and retain top talent, which means ensuring that new employees become engaged and productive as soon as possible. Automation of HR hiring, labour compliances and onboarding processes results in a better new hire experience and frees up HR staff for higher value activities.

Implementation of Automation in IT Department

If one thing, the pandemic has taught the companies is to be IT savvy and automation gives wings to remote working and IT compliances. There are multiple IT department challenges which automation can solve with ease. Operations and maintenance, end user support, asset tracking and management, data migration and tracking, cybersecurity, compliance and reporting etc. The list is endless, we can possibly automate any repetitive tasks in front or back office without any human intervention.

While the above are just a few examples of how automation can steer companies towards growth and sustainability, the possibilities are endless and in any department possible. If you wish to evaluate Automation for your organisation, you can reach out to us at sanam.mishra@teamcomputers.com.

One of the biggest confusion today’s corporations are facing is whether to call or not to call their workforce to the office. The major proportion of the workforce is adapted to the hybrid work culture without any compromise on their productivity but still, most of the employees want to come back to the Office for better collaboration between teams, enhanced productivity, and better coordination among peers. Most of the organization  Leaders are not okay with the concept of Work From Home and are ready to move towards regular office culture steadily. Almost 90% of organizations have evolved their way of doing work since COVID 19 first wave, lots of collaboration devices are introduced in the system to connect the workforce virtually. Big Corporates are ready to welcome their workforce back to the office Hybrid workforce with some innovative collaboration Gadgets. For your help, we have a brief comparison to choose the best collaboration whiteboard for your workforce:

Microsoft Surface Hub 2S

Microsoft Surface Hub 2S bridges the gap between your Hybrid Workforce. This device comes in two sizes 50 inches and 85 inches, according to the organization’s requirements. Its mic array and 4K camera serve as a perfect tool to manage and collaborate with your team in real-life-sized video meetings. Surface Hub 2S allows you to use multiple apps, presentations, Microsoft tools, and all the third-party apps on a single screen. Take your Team’s Brainstorming sessions to another level with fast and fluid visuals, Microsoft Pen’s precise inking experience can assist you with noting and explaining the projects. Surface Hub 2S can move wherever teamwork happens, in the Conference room or the office balcony with its Steelcase Roam.  Regardless of whether your business group is planning a cutting-edge gadget or fostering an online project, Surface Hub 2S is the most secure and reliable collaboration tool.

 

Google JamBoard

Google Jamboard is a whiteboard with the Power of Google. Enhance your team’s productivity with the feature of Google Jamboard Co-authoring which allows your team in the same huddle room or your remote team around the world to use multiple Jamboard at the same time. This feature can help your hybrid workforce to add or drop pictures, notes, or other resources directly in real-time from your web browser while collaborating with your large team. JamBoard allows you to use all the applications available in the play store, starting from Google Drive to Sheets, Docs, Slides, and all the third-party applications. Brainstorming became easier as Google JamBoard is exclusively accurate and responsive, it acts just like our traditional blackboard and chalk. JamBoard is a single cable setup and does not require a high-end setup configuration. It comes in a 55 inches Whiteboard with 4K resolution and can walk around your office with a slight push. JamBoard is a perfect collaboration device for corporates with a Hybrid Workforce model with up to 16 touchpoints at a single period.

 

Cisco Spark Board

Cisco Spark Board 55 is truly taking collaboration to the next level. Cisco has achieved the modern ultrasound wireless pairing technology which can help laptops, macs, mobiles, or other end-user devices to connect with Cisco Spark Board wirelessly without wifi or Bluetooth connection. Save your cost of installing microphones all around the conference rooms, as the Cisco Spark board comes with an array of 12 microphones all around the spark screen. This device allows you to save your work instantly to the cloud simply and securely. Calling, messaging, scheduling meetings can help your team to collaborate and connect before and after the discussion sessions simply through the Cisco spark application. Spark Board is a single setup whiteboard, your team can start their brainstorming sessions in just one touch. This device comes in a 55inch screen and 4K wide-angle camera resolution, making Cisco Spark Board 55 a perfect collaboration whiteboard for your Hybrid workforce.

 

Samsung Flip

Samsung’s award-winning most innovative whiteboard comes with multi-writing technology, which allows up to 20 users to edit on  Samsung Flip at a single point in time remotely and 4 people can draw or edit on the device which is the ideal scenario for any brainstorming session. Maximize your team’s productivity with Samsung Flip which enables your workforce to collaborate with all the windows, play store, and third-party applications through multiple screen capturing. The most distinct feature of the Samsung Flip is its ability to move in portrait and landscape mode according to the usage. Samsung Flip’s InGlass technology allows your workforce to experience the smoothest way of brainstorming, making notes, editing documents, or drawing your team’s work chart. Share all your work with your peers effortlessly post-meeting through mobile or digital channels. Flip is undoubtedly a perfect and most innovative whiteboard for modern workplace collaboration.

Almost 85% of the workforce wants to return to office around the world. Employees are feeling less productive at home due to the unsuitable ergonomics, distraction at home, and lack of the right devices at home. Around 30% of them miss the collaboration, communication, and coordination with their peers and team. Welcome your workforce with the innovative collaboration device according to your workforce requirement.

Team Computers is India’s leading IT System Integrators, providing & supporting high-quality, affordable IT Solutions in Hardware, Software, Services, Mobility, Analytics, and Cloud. Team Computers always come up with innovative collaborative devices to enhance the productivity of the workforce returning back to the Office.

To book a demo or to know more about the whiteboards contact us at sales.india@teamcomputers.com

Companies now more than ever are leveraging digital to build long lasting and deeper relationships with their customers, vendors or distributors. Traditional B2B commerce solutions lack the rich content and experience management required to deliver incredible digital commerce sites. However, digital commerce has transformed the way businesses address the most complex challenges by giving a single, flexible platform to craft the perfect customer journey with following features –

• Secure user account request & access
• Customer requirement uploads & get real-time status
• Secure data sharing & document access
• Payment option with multi currency & payment reminders
• Social media integration to share the latest company updates
• SAP integration to automate the order processing cycle

Accelerate your digital transformation with Team Computers’ B2B Commerce Solution. It offers endless benefits from increasing B2B revenue to improving customer loyalty. Whether you need to replace manual commerce processes or leverage modern digital commerce capabilities, we are the right partner for you to help you meet your digital expectations.

How B2B Digital Catalogue help companies

• It Showcases your product offerings with beautiful experiences tailored for your buyers using digital catalogue.
  
• It Enhances product content with modern user interface and rich media in your catalog.
  
• Effortless purchasing feature manages and updates orders with views for assignments, transaction history and shipments.
  
• Payment and tax integrations along with multi currency support enable you to grow into global markets.
  
• Reflect B2B pricing models, discounts, and customer-specific catalogs.
  
• Reps see exactly what each customer sees on your site, from real-time order history to their personalized content and recommendations.
  

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How Team Computers helped a B2B Pharma manufacturing company achieve great customer experience and boost sales with Digital commerce

The company was looking for an application from which their customer could reach out to the Sales rep for any of their queries and get the status of their request on-time.

Challenges

Without the digital platform in place the employees and the customers were communicating over the phone and email. This created the possibilities of amiss during the order processing.

The process was long , manual and prone to errors. Orders were placed via email or phone and then the team raised requests in the CRM manually which goes to the internal team. The sample & regulatory status as well as the required documents has been  updated by the customer manually.

The Contact Manufacturing team gets a Request for Proposal / Request for Quote from a customer and it has been managed manually, through email. Customer Forecast was planned manually through excel which lacked efficiency. Customers are placing and confirming orders through email and further order process happen in the company’s SAP system. Even the Payment reminder process is manual and is done through phone or email.

Solution

An Amazon kind of app in the B2B sector, where customers could register, order, track,  contact, access documents, pay & get notified on status.

An e-commerce portal automated all the manual processes, which made it easy for the employees as well as for the customers to place, track and edit the order and access the required information and documents. The automated alert notifications are sent to both the customers and the users for easy coordination.

Not just this, the B2B portal also has a report and & dashboards feature to see the status of the metrics like, Portal usage by customer, Order Status, Sample  Status, Regulatory Status, Payment Status etc. The customer forecasts were also created on the portal which gave employees an estimate on the future sales.

The portal has an inbuilt chat and customer query mechanism, customers can raise complaints and track their queries the company rep will get an alert via email whenever a query has been raised.

The portal also facilitates the integration of company’s social media handles and internal news portals like LinkedIn, Twitter account to keep customers updated on the latest news in the Home page screen of the Customer portal. The integration with the SAP system automates the entire order processing cycle.

From management perspective, the portal also gives a 360 degree view of a single customer in terms of order, sales, request from the customer to different business in the company as a consolidated view.

Tangible & Intangible Benefits

The e-commerce portal increased the visibility of customer data throughout the organisation. The centralized data gathering reduced the manual interaction between internal departments (Finance, SCM, Regulatory etc…)  when a customer raises a request.

The automation of order placing processes along with the quick TAT increased customer conversions to multifold along with providing great customer experience.

The inbuilt reports and dashboard along with the intelligent sales analytics boosted employees productivity and increased visibility across the organisation.

Covid 19 made India see the biggest business transformational journeys and so has been the increase in the security breaches. Digitisation that would have been in company’s IT road maps probably in next 3-4 years has been preponed due to COVID- 19, the increase in Work from home, Job losses, etc has led to an increase in security breaches by almost 2,000 per cent during the pandemic in India, said experts at Pursuit 2021 — an event on cybersecurity organised by Internet and Mobile Association of India.

And the most common mode of the attacks has been phishing. Phishing has been the oldest traditional way of fooling people. Criminals believe deception and create a way of urgency to realize success with their phishing campaigns. Crises equivalent to the coronavirus pandemic (current scenario) provide those criminals an enormous chance to lure victims into taking their phishing bait.

Of the 50,000-plus fake login pages the company monitored, the top brands attackers used were those of leading e-com sites and payment gateways.

So here’s all that you need to know about Phishing!

“Phish” is pronounced similar to its spelling, that is to mention just like the word “fish” — the analogy is of an angler throwing a baited hook out there (the phishing email) and hoping you bite.

Phishing is a  sort of social engineering where an offender sends a deceitful (“spoofed”) message designed to trick a personality’s victim into revealing sensitive data to the attacker or to deploy malicious code on the victim’s infrastructure like ransomware.

It starts with fraudulent mails, messages, and links that are designed to lure a victim.The message is created to appear like it comes from a trustworthy sender.

It depends on the intention of the attacker, generally they’re happy with credit card and other financial details to urge monetary benefits, the other is a lot of people who plan/target specific companies then they aim at unknown staff and then the login credentials and other important details satisfies them. Cybercrime attacks such as advanced persistent threats (APTs) and ransomware often start with phishing.

Kinds of phishing attacks

• Deceptive Phishing
• Spear Phishing
• Whaling
• Pharming

There may be N number of security options but the only way to safeguard yourself is:

Educate: Educating the employees regularly about such techniques in case of organizations and for the general public spreading awareness through numerous social mediums.

Security Technology: No single cybersecurity technology will forestall phishing attacks. Instead, organizations should take a bedded approach to scale back the quantity of attacks and reduce their impact after they do occur. Network security technologies that ought to be enforced embrace email and net security, malware protection, user behavior monitoring, and access control.

Remaining Cautious is the only way apart from all the layered security levels against the attacks.

“Humans Err, that’s why Hackers always win.”

With Several startups and unicorns blooming in the modern-day industry, every aspiring startup needs to use the best technology and devices to upscale their work and increase their productivity. Here we take a look at how Apple can transform and drive business operations to a level of success not possible without digitization.

Collaboration

For startups, connecting, working upon, and sharing data are extremely important. When it comes to collaboration, Apple devices are highly effective, with data easily transferred from iPad to Mac to iPhone. New devices can also be seamlessly integrated into an already working ecosystem with different environments. Apple devices are designed to work with every all possible business roles such as marketing, HR functions to different Industries verticals like Banking, Healthcare, all capable of working smoothly in one ecosystem.

 

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Coding and Development

For small businesses with large coding needs, you’ll find Apple to be the right choice for your developers and engineers. Compatibility again comes into the fray here as software developers can easily test and create software for Windows and Linux on an Apple device while it is quite cumbersome to test for MacOS X from a Windows or Linux PC. Also, most Mac devices are made to be compatible with Unix, hence making it easier for Developers who use Mac to test their software in a compatible environment, thus saving time and effort.

 

Image Credit: Dev & Gear

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Performance

Apple’s revolutionary M1 chip has taken the industry by storm, improving your workforce productivity with 3.5x faster processor speed as compared to previous generations. The M1 helps Apple Macbooks easily run CPU-intensive applications such as Adobe Premiere and Photoshop with zero lag while maintaining an excellent battery life of over 18 hours. Apple’s iPad Pro brings convenience to a whole new level, fitting your favorite everyday business tools such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, on an ultra-thin light device, allowing you to easily give stunning presentations on the go.

 

Image Credit: Apple

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Easy Management and Zero Touch deployment

Apple allows for an easy management with zero-touch deployment as Apple Devices can be easily set up right out of the box at any scale. Apple Business Manager & JamF solutions help set up, distribute, and manage your Apple devices according to your company compliances.MDM solutions like Jamf Soti, also provide you with the best device management platform customized to your business needs.

 

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Security

With Data Security being a crucial concern for startups, Apple offers you several solutions such as Touch ID, hardware-based encryption, Face ID, and many more key features that can all be enabled without extensive manual configuration. Apple devices also have encryption features that safeguard your company’s data and in case of data damage or theft allows you to completely wipe your data from your system remotely.

 

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For more information on how Apple devices can take your startup to the next level contact sales.india@teamcomputers.com

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is an annual event that unleashes Apple’s latest software and Technologies. The event has been virtual since last year due to Covid 19 precautions. On 9th June 2021, The Action-Packed WWDC 2021 kickstarted with a small keynote from Tim Cook on the importance of privacy and how new Apple devices are coming up with a doubled privacy shield. Apple announced software updates of iOS, macOS, iPad OS, and watchOS. All these updates will be released to Apple users by the end of this year.

Here are a few exciting announcements of Apple’s biggest event of the year WWDC21

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Maintain Work-Life Balance with iOS15

Source – Apple.com

Apple Announced FOCUS, a tool to prioritize time and energy in the present events and tasks. FOCUS helps you track activities that are currently of high priority i.e whether one wants to focus on Fitness, reading, or office work. Facetime allows you to schedule meetings, screen share, or use portrait mode in video meetings. Customize your notifications according to your preferred time to take action on them or according to the schedule you set for them to pop up on your screen. Live text can help you collect text information directly from an image or a live photograph that can be mailed, or even directly call the number from the image, and lastly, live text translation can be accessed by simply a tap on the image.

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Get Work done easily with iPadOS 15

Source – Apple.com

The all new iPadOS15 enables you to get work done easily through its organizing capabilities, hence making you much more productive. iPadOS15 comes up with a striking feature called Multitasking to enable you to use more than one app in a single window, allowing you to use full screen or split view or slide over or the center view as required by the user. One can enjoy the Widgets and App Library on the home screen with a new user interface.

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Stay Connected with MacOS Monterrey

Source – Apple.com

The MacOS Monterrey introduced Shareplay, a powerful tool through which you can watch, listen together, as well as share your screen during facetime. Also improving Facetime was Spatial audio where individual voices sound like they’re coming from where that speaker was positioned on the screen, a new Mic mode to keep only your voice loud and clear and a Portrait mode to minimize background and keep the focus on you.

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One WatchOS8 for all your needs

Source – Apple.com

The watch OS8 comes with several exciting features. First off is the new app Mindfulness which helps keep you focused and centered with calming visualizations as well as keeps a track of how many mindfulness minutes you’ve had on the day. You can also track your Heartbeat, Sleeping respiratory rate, and several other health metrics to keep better track of your health over time. With Apple Wallet, you can store Home keys, Credit cards, ID cards all at the same time in one convenient location. You can even start your car, open your front door and turn on your entry lights, all with the click of a button.

To know more about how using Apple’s latest products and technology can help grow your business, contact us at sales.india@teamcomputers.com

The new normal has constrained numerous organizations, associations, and individuals to work from home. With organizations working indoor, there is a growing danger of security breaches and threats which can prompt the loss of data, breaches of privacy or holding systems to ransom, and more. As quickly as India digitized its working business situation on the web, organizations presently need to take up ‘online security’ as the most significant self-obligation.

Platforms once united under a single firewall are now into scattered endpoints, and threat defenses have to shield more ground than ever. One thing that is becoming evident is that your data or your PC or the email in this connected world is not safe anymore. Be it SMEs, or large enterprises, all of them remain vulnerable to the current situation.

Accelerating modern technologies such as IoT is increasing the number of connected devices to the extent that there might be around 200 billion connected devices by the end of 2020. Cyberwarriors are striving towards growing their knowledge while hackers can now trigger automated cyberattacks with artificial intelligence and machine learning that can easily set foot in secure systems without any human intervention. These automated cyberattacks pose a global scare that can be done on a mass volume.

There is no denying the fact that pandemic will continue to amplify cyber threats. But every crisis and attending threat translates into a learning opportunity for us. These opportunities are lessons on the need to adopt new strategies and supporting technologies to evolve our digital economy and technology infrastructure to be better prepared for future challenges.

With cybersecurity threats continuously surging, new laws can also be introduced to protect the consumer from potential attacks. Hence, increased regulations and legislation may soon become a reality. More stringent penalties need to be placed on cyber attackers. We all need to be more aware of laws passed and make sure that our businesses comply with them.

Walking along with the pace of technology is not a trend but a means to survive this tech-driven world today! But the success of this new vision of industries is only possible if the users are satisfied, both customers and employees. Creating a personalized experience for users is more than a nice-to-have in today’s digitally empowered industries.

Ideas now are the new capital! And following this path, Saint Gobain launched its new Intranet Portal with Liferay for both employees and customers.

Saint Gobain, one of the largest industry groups in the world with over 200,000 employees across 64 countries work to co-create and bring innovation to businesses in varied fields.

But a quarter of Saint Gobain’s products didn’t exist five years back, they had to sustain their key source of growth, that was Innovation. They required a quality information system and this need was closely fulfilled with Liferay’s Intranet Portal. The Portal immediately solved all the challenges that the company was facing.

• Outdated System – The existing information portal accessed by 12,000 users every day, had become outdated and lacked flexibility
• Slow response time – Employees used to log in anonymously or by their user details but the response time was extremely slow. Hence, they wanted their user journey to be improvised.
• Poor content management -The content management was very poor, they wanted their users to manage content and create web pages themselves as per their roles.
• Servers – they wanted to reduce the number of their servers.

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Why Liferay?

Liferay ‘s Intranet Portal was the best solution to Saint Gobain since Liferay is known for its user-friendliness and easy adaptability. Secondly, it reflected the mindset of the users, It was very easy for the employees to use the new digital tool in the company and get used to its features and many benefits. They picked up the tech-tool instantly. And lastly, Liferay allows easy integration with the existing third-party applications.

How the intranet portal enhances user journey across their website?

 

 

• Easy access to Data – The company wanted to equip its departments better. All the important information regarding business processes, employees and target customers were under one Intranet connected database that allowed better understanding and quick access to information at the time of need.
• Unified user experience – The portal integrated all the enterprise systems into one interface for end-users. But the employee could choose from the entire page as per needs. This allowed the employees to have a dynamic and very responsive web experience by loading only that part of the page which they need rather than loading the entire page.
• Localization and multi-linguism – Saint Gobain is working in 64 countries across the globe, but it had to have a unique experience for its users from region to region maintaining the authenticity of the website. The Intranet portal made it localized as per region, by creating different websites in different languages, maintaining the same look and feel of the Saint Gobain theme.
• Content management as per roles – The users could now manage their website according to their personal choice, in the way they see fit. They could create their own pages and content and keep a check on their members. The portal allowed multiple users to access a single URL and see a unique page view or content based on their role.
• Mobile ready – The portal made the website responsive to multiple devices from mobile to tablet to desktop maintaining the Saint Gobain theme, and the same look and feel of the website with faster load time.

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How did the Liferay’s Intranet portal improve productivity and increased efficiency of the business?

 

 

Audience targeting for customized campaigns – This allowed the employees from different franchises’ locations to log into their intranet, and know about promotions, new products and other significant information of their location. This provided them with the information that was relevant to them and not get them confused, increasing the individual productivity of that user.

Individual Customized Dashboards – Each user had a custom dashboard based on the applications used daily. Using the drag-and-drop design, the employees could optimize their dashboards as per their needs.

Robust, scalable and flexible – In less than an hour the Digital Solutions Team had the website created with the Saint Gobain theme and had trained users. There was no particular model used but due consistency was maintained in navigation. The portal allows quick and easy access, changes can be made in no time as per the present and past requirements of the user. Using the portal was very flexible.

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The Liferay Intranet Portal helped employees to come back on track, where co-creation and creativity was the lifeblood for the business

 

 

#challenge1
I cannot find what I want!
The employees were not able to get the right content in time for their specific requirements as per their roles and campaigns which led their innovation base to reduce relatively. The company was able to come up with no new products. Where in Intranet combined out-of-the-box knowledge bases, forums and tagging with a powerful search engine. Knowledge bases and forums help to find relevant information and tagging helps to organize that data found. Thus, Intranet provided a full proof solution to employee’s search challenges

#challenge2
Our search technology does not work!
Effective information retrieval and knowledge management can never be achieved with outdated technology. The company was lacking effectively governed processes and trained employees to carry out those processes. This was resolved with Intranet. The portal comes with in-built governance and content management tools ensuring that the employees are able to adapt it easily and ensure a higher success rate.

#challenge3
I need to fix top-down communication!
Saint Gobain was struggling to keep the right teams informed about important information such as new products launch, company announcements, policies, etc.
Therefore, the intranet portal unified all the interfaces as a unique page, so that all the employees get to know the relevant information as per requirements from time to time and communication amongst the employees and the business is not hampered.

Thus, Liferay’s Intranet Portal fully met all the expectations of Saint Gobain. It just transformed the entire working pattern at the company. The user journey improvised, servers reduced and portal traffic doubled. Getting back at its strength of innovation and creativity Saint Gobain with Liferay’s Intranet Portal is a huge success!

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CUSTOMER – THE HEART OF BUSINESS

For any business to be successful today the ability to reach audiences touchpoints is imperative. All the hype for improving user experience isn’t for nothing. Once the businesses get it right, the payoff is phenomenal.

Saint Gobain is just one out of several others who have reached this milestone of an extraordinary digital experience for its customers with Liferay, but there are many more who are sailing in the same boat and have made a mark for themselves.

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Read more about other success stories with Liferay DXP:

https://www.teamcomputers.com/team-blog/liferay-airbus/

https://www.teamcomputers.com/team-blog/liferay-west-bend

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Disclaimer: The information within this case study is based on facts, research, and recent achievements of Airbus and Liferay solely. This is in no relation to any work done by Team Computers Pvt. Ltd.

VOLVO CARS

A secured and luxury Drive

The Volvo Car group was established as a separate entity in 1999 and since then has been renowned for its high-quality standards, safety and luxury. Today the main aim of the company is to accomplish absolute human safety with a strategy of technology and services designed around the driver and passengers. Now, keeping in mind the goals to achieve and the ease that they wish to provide to their drivers; Volvo leaves no loop in technology trends that can be taken up. And there enters IoT!

Like all other competitors of the automotive industry, Volvo is working to secure high-quality connected- vehicle services. It wants to leverage data from its cars to make driving safer and improve customer experience. Lex Kerssemakers, Senior Vice President Product Strategy and Vehicle Line Management at Volvo Cars says, “We clearly see that cars in the near future will integrate the same level of digital services that consumers today are used to having in their homes or at work. This is a strategically important part of Volvo‘s investments for the future where we intend to take a leading position.”
Keeping the Mission in mind, Volvo decided to bring connected car services to the market. Volvo will be able to provide its car owners and drivers with its latest developments in connected car digital services such as automation, telematics, and navigation.

Drivers and passengers will be able to access applications for information and navigation on a screen in the car. Simultaneously Volvo Cars will be able to transmit this information to the other players in the ecosystem of the automotive industry. Volvo Cars are on its way to achieving the aim of having zero serious injuries and deaths in new Volvo cars by 2020. Volvo considers bespoke services for its customers, and IoT is assisting it to create the next generation safety features like Road Friction Indication. For example, the vehicle can detect if a road is slippery via its wheel sensors. It will send an alert to the driver and then send the alert to the cloud. And then further to every vehicle entering that area and to transportation authorities.

The technology used in a human-centric way has always been important to Volvo Cars and the prime concern to roll out new services for its customers. Its collective ambition is to develop industry-leading solutions in line with a networked society, where driving is not a need but a secured luxury!

KINSA

Making Healthcare ‘Smart’
IoT is the master key to the simplification and advancement of each and every industry and has the potential to reach every human being on the Planet once in a lifetime. Initiating from the manufacturing industries and reaching to tech-driven hospitals and medical facilities in such a short span of time, it is already on its way to make a mark in the development of Healthcare IT. It will continue to grow since the technology will continue to get more advanced with each passing day. One great example of this collateral of Healthcare and IT is KINSA.

KINSA’smission is to detect illness in real-time, helping individuals, communities and the disease centers to respond before it spreads. Kinsa has developed a communication network that is at the service of people the moment they are ill. Its greatest innovation of all times is the ‘Smart’ thermometer Kinsa brings thermometer that is connected to the Kinsa Health App to track temperature, symptoms and other issues regarding the illness of people individually and as an aggregate so that people can make informed decisions in real time. The granular illness signal provides highly accurate estimates and forecasts, enabling better state-level public health surveillance. Further, this data about public level illness, its symptoms, the number of days it lasts and its frequency is transmitted to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention as per age groups and regions. The Kinsa app not only tracks the important symptoms, but it also follows up with important and specific information. Next, the app uses this data to update a live health map that tracks the progression of illness throughout the country. This provides a county-by-county perspective on community health. Kinsa uses Artificial Intelligence to track illness based on severity, duration, and contagiousness. It assists the ill to get the right medical guidance in real time that will help them get better.

Contagious illness such as flu is highly unpredictable in every region and needs a way out. Kinsa, with the help of connectedness and artificial intelligence, has taken the healthcare industry and its aid to great heights. And gradually there are several other Healthcare IT sectors that are starting to show readiness in IoT and taking a step ahead in means of technology and medical care together.

HITACHI

Think Beyond Things
Hitachi is delivering value-based outcomes with IoT solutions by bringing devices, people, infrastructure, and the entire cycle of processes together as a Unique Unit. The Japanese company stands out from other industrial companies in terms of its integration and experience across IT. It follows one simple strategy of ‘Think Beyond Things’, and is rigorously working in the direction of bringing social innovation in the physical and digital world.

Hitachi is an independent company, rather than partnering with other firms it keeps bringing in new innovations according to the demand and trends of the world. It offers an IoT platform by the name of ‘LUMADA’, it is a combination of data management and advanced analytics that enables customers to easily develop and deploy IoT solutions. Lamuda collects real-time data from highly heterogeneous shop floor environments and thus reduces the unplanned downtime through artificial intelligence, traceability, and real-time fault detection. Next, it detects quality issues and the machine’s health issues early in the process. The Maintenance Team is informed well in advance about a machine’s abnormal behavior, thus avoiding breakdowns. Hitachi makes a factory responsive by streamlining operations. It has also developed an IoT-enhanced production model that has slashed production lead times by half within its Omika Works division, that creates infrastructure for steel manufacturing, electricity, and other industries. Data-driven analytics let users analyze and visualize data that in turn boosts the effectiveness and efficiency of the factory.

The success story of Hitachi not only includes building and implementation of the sensors but the entire infrastructure; the turbines, trains, robotics and the entire Urban environmentin which sensors are applicable and devices are connected to collect and transmit data. Hitachi adds value to businesses and enables smart citiesto meet their sustainability goals with its capabilities and expertise in IoT solutions. It exhibits the power of intelligent innovation!

*IIoT (industrial internet of things) has opened plenty of opportunities in optimization, automation, asset management, intelligent manufacturing, industry control and what not.
The estimates today state that the Internet of Things will include 26 Billion units installed by 2020, and will generate a revenue of over $300 Billion. IoT is the next level of automation of every object in our life and Industries have already started their run to the Industrial Revolution. We see an absolutely different Era coming up, which is Smart and connected and ready to bring in industrialization like never before! *

SAP — at the core of your enterprise — faces several potential threats that can paralyze your business. Only a good contingency plan can save the day.

Do your business-critical applications, say ERP or CRM, run on SAP? That’s a good choice right there. And to maintain continuous SAP availability in an increasingly complex interconnected application environment is no joke. We applaud you for keeping that up as efficiently as you have. So, you’d already know that there are potential risks all around — shared technology risks, cyber-attack, natural calamities and so on. Since an ERP is integrated across critical business processes, impacting every area of the enterprise, any disruption could bring your business to a halt. At times, data loss and downtime are so long and severe that it can cause irretrievable loss to the company’s reputation. To safeguard against these risks and more, you need a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy. Do you have one? A full-proof disaster recovery (DR) strategy takes care of many potential threats to the SAP environment and acts as a survival mechanism for businesses at scale.

DR, like insurance, is an investment towards business continuity.

The purpose of disaster recovery is not to directly save cost, but to save opportunity cost in times of disaster — protecting the business from potential losses and irrecoverable damage.

Disaster Recovery is at a site level. It is appropriate for cases when the whole of the primary site is down, either due to natural or man-made calamity and would require days if not weeks to recover. It brings out two key aspects. One, it will be idealistic to assume that all applications and features will be available on the same scale and detail during DR. Two, it will be equally idealistic to zero impact on the business.

 

Let’s check out the benefits

1. Cloud DR requires no onsite hardware building costs, it merely needs data-sync sized instances for normal time, is scalable on par with the growth of your business with practically no physical capacity issues, more flexible with pay-per-use models, easy connectivity from anywhere, anytime, using any device, smooth and quick backup with minimal configurations in a matter of minutes.

2. All in all, lower cost of operations and faster recovery times, assuring your business keeps functioning during and after any type of disaster by virtualizing each location where your data resides.

3. Cloud takes into account your existing business facilities, the level of security required and budget and accommodates future growth. It provides thorough coverage, better control and flexibility, tested and proven to meet and deliver upon accepted RTO and RPO for SAP.

Today, managed disaster recovery has become an increasingly cost-effective solution for businesses, given favorable cost, risk and service attributes of the cloud.
So what are you waiting for?

Switch to the cloud now!