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In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) development has increased rapidly. Technology has steadily been integrated into the economic and industrial worlds and everyday life in South Africa and worldwide to make our daily activities more convenient and straightforward. Chatbots are becoming increasingly popular for agents to provide better customer care. At the same time, AI in marketing may help determine the optimal moment to engage with a customer via email or social media.

Efforts to accelerate digital transformation are being held back by challenges finding the right talent. At a virtual roundtable sponsored by Red Hat and Intel, senior leaders said a more ‘open’ culture is required. In 2020, digital transformation leapfrogged seven years of progress in a matter of months. This was the finding of a McKinsey research report released in the autumn of 2020 that went viral enough for most business execs to be able to recite its top finding.

Our ongoing love affair with the cloud doesn’t show any signs of slowing. In 2021, end-user spending on public cloud services alone is predicted to reach $332 billion — or, to put it another way, more than the GDP of Chile, Finland or Vietnam. This affection is understandable. The cloud lets organizations build or adopt new services, expand to new regions and scale their offerings faster, more simply and — if used correctly — at lower cost than ever before.

Let’s face it: The big data game is kicking the pants off of everything that we’ve ever valued as a social commodity within anyone’s digital reach. In fact, data is so hot right now that even the value of oil has been told to go sit in the corner of the room, be quiet and color. Yep, you too King Cash. This also explains why your data by itself, as a standalone asset, is not considered as ‘valuable’ as you would think.

Hearing loss is a rapidly growing area of scientific research as the number of baby boomers dealing with hearing loss continues to increase as they age. To understand how hearing loss impacts people, researchers study people’s ability to recognize speech. It is more difficult for people to recognize human speech if there is reverberation, some hearing impairment, or significant background noise, such as traffic noise or multiple speakers.

DevOps plays a critical role in today’s business landscape, enabling organizations to automate and innovate swiftly at a time when digital transformation projects put a premium on those capabilities. The benefits of DevOps, though, can only be relied on when related security risk mitigation is considered and embedded into DevOps processes.

Change is critical to growth. Especially if you’re running a business in today’s volatile market. The silver lining is that we are at the peak of innovation, moving forward from a decade filled with disruptions, catalysing transformations. Over the years, enterprise IT has evolved to play a more significant role in business. Innovation, macro-economic factors, unexpected disruptions, and other internal and external factors have caused the change.

Digital Transformation is, nowadays, a buzzing world in industry, which everybody wants to utilize and apply in their business. Nevertheless, it is also starting to be a major cause of confusion, empty promises and big words with no real impact on business performance. Why is there such an extreme dichotomy in the most important enabler for our Future Digital Energy Systems? According to McKinsey, Deloitte and many more consulting companies, over 70% of digital transformation initiatives have failed.

More than 2.14 billion global consumers are expected to buy goods and services online in 2021, according to Statista. That is up 29% from 1.66 billion digital customers just six years ago. This rapid change in shopping habits is driving retailers’ digital transformations and ever more advanced technologies. Many retailers have begun automating back office functions like claims processing, accounting and inventory management.