AI is having a positive impact on business decision making
Artificial intelligence is enabling businesses to make more effective decisions and minimize the burden on the workforce, a new report from Foundtech Solutions asserts. Based on a survey of 750 UK decision-makers, the report explains that 59% believe deploying AI has made their workplace a better, more interesting place. A further 65% found their roles became more fulfilling with the …
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Microsoft says it’s making progress on green pledge
A year after announcing a pledge to become carbon negative by 2030, Microsoft has revealed it has cut its emissions by circa 730,000 metric tons, or six percent. If this rate of reduction is maintained, Microsoft will reach its target ahead of the proposed deadline, says the firm. Since publishing a Request for Proposals (RFP) in July, Microsoft has also …
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Making space: the role of data in office management
From corporate cubicles to open plan, hotdesking, and co-working spaces, we’ve seen the office space become increasingly flexible and fluid over the last 10 years. Above simple functionality, leaders have recognized the office’s role in driving creativity, collaboration, and laying the foundations for corporate culture. However, as with so many industries, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a new set of …
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The case against making IT the sole owner of your intranet
Before the recent advent of “off the shelf” intranet products, companies built their own systems. They would start with a platform technology (such as SharePoint), and the IT team would spend a year or more building a custom intranet on top of it. Given the undoubtedly technical nature of the work, it only made sense to put the IT department …
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Google is making big changes to your online storage
Google has announced a series of important changes to the free cloud storage service available to Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) users. Announcing the changes in a blog post, the firm explained that high-resolution images, as well as Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms and Jamboard content, will start to contribute towards each user’s cloud storage capacity as of June …
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AI making inroads in financial services sector, but not without difficulty
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making inroads in the financial services sector, but not without difficulty, and there’s still a lot of work to be done before it reaches its potential. This is according to a new report called Smart Money: How to drive AI at scale to transform the financial service customer experience, recently published by the Capgemini Research Institute. …
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IBM is making it easier to run AI workloads in hybrid clouds
Artificial intelligence hardware accelerators are an extremely potent tool for scientific discovery, but they are also highly inefficient from an energy perspective. However, IBM Research, the company’s R&D arm, claims to have identified new ways of tackling this problem. During the IEEE CAS/EDS AI Compute Symposium, held earlier today, IBM Research introduced new technology and partnerships that will allow businesses …
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