Author: Connected World
In the quest for developing smarter cities across the country, local municipalities are doing whatever it takes to gain intelligence. However, it’s not only the biggest cities that can embrace smart technologies. In fact, the town of Cary, N.C., is one of the smartest towns in the United States with just over 175,000 local residents. Town of Cary officials are committed to improving the lives of its local citizens and has been for more than a decade. In 2007, the town enlisted the help of a local analytics systems and solutions provider, SAS, to improve public safety an development services…
Gartner says worldwide IT spending will grow 5.1% in 2022.
The global market for cosmetic procedures is set to reach $66 billion by 2026. But with such demand on the rise, how can healthcare clinics keep pace, while delivering first-class patient outcomes and impeccable safety standards? The solution lies in going digital and private clinics must turn to CRM (customer-relationship management) and supply-chain technology to replace archaic legacy technology that is relied upon today. No matter the industry, consumers expect great CX (customer experience), but for private healthcare clinics burdened with outdated legacy systems, such CX offerings lag behind the rest. To build and maintain a competitive advantage, clinical outcomes,…
Juniper Research says ecommerce payment transactions will exceed $7.5 trillion globally by 2026.
The National Association of Home Builders says sales of newly built, single-family homes in November rose 12.4%.
In November 2021 alone, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports an astounding 4.5 million people quit their jobs. While the November statistic is still pending finalization, this falls in line with a trend throughout the second part of last year, with more than 4 million people quitting their jobs each month between July and November. This so-called Great Resignation is becoming an important chapter in the pandemic chaos wrought by COVID-19 for the past two years. Technologies like AR (augmented reality) and VR (virtual reality), as well as AI (artificial intelligence) can help industries fill in the skills gaps…
ABI Research says 2022 will see a $4.6 billion global spend on industrial digital twins.
Enterprises must work together to address complex sustainability issues no one can solve alone. Business leaders across the globe know that reducing energy consumption, leveraging the IoT (Internet of Things) to pursue digital transformation, and tackling sustainability goals on an individual level and through collaboration is a mandatory business objective. In an AVEVA survey of more than 850 global industrial leaders, 85% say they plan to increase their investment in digital transformation in the next three years. Why? One key reason, according to the survey, is to tackle climate change, in part by embracing automation and leveraging advanced technologies to unlock…
Berg Insight says professionally monitored alarm systems in Europe and North America reached more than 49 million at the end of 2020.
A growing trend, IT (information technology) and OT (operational technology) are more often coming together to improve business efficiencies, employee safety, business agility, and support a hybrid work environment. At its core, IT expertise is needed in order to scale and secure the network, as OT systems are brought onto the corporate network. We are seeing this line beginning to blur in a number of different ways. For one, Gartner suggests roughly 82% of CIOs have responsibility for OT systems, which has increased in the last three years. What’s more, 89% say it will increase in the next three years.…