Singapore has started reopening educational institutes, public transport, and businesses in a phased manner. The city hopes to reopen most of its economy by the end of this month. After months of public restrictions and lockdowns, several other countries are planning to lift the barriers and instill a sense of normalcy among [...]
It can be unanimously and globally agreed upon that this has not been a good year. While the world is focused on a virus that has caused a health crisis, a computer virus is sneaking around and wreaking havoc in our socially-distanced lives. Digital technologies have played a central role [...]
There are a number of things that have changed – things that demarcate this world into pre-COVID and post-COVID. Technology is one of them. The outbreak has changed how people perceive technology and how much penetration of technology they want in their lives. People who were scared of trying autonomous vehicles and driverless [...]
With a majority of banks shrinking their network of physical branches and establishing a stronger digital presence, with online stock trading and digital wealth management becoming the primary choice of the consumers over personal brokers, the Banking and Financial Services sector is all set to transform to the core. With user experience as [...]
A reimagined and reshaped lending ecosystem can improve the experience of borrowers, reduce the loan processing time, and facilitate operational efficiency & transparency. Traditionally, a mortgage process takes an average of roughly 46 days for completion, costing the lending institution about $2000 to $2500 per loan. Not only is the [...]
Herman Scheer once said, “Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.” Renewable energy is a clean, abundant, cost-effective, and environment-friendly source of energy. Yet, renewable sources only made up 26.2% of the global electricity generation until two [...]
If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got. But now doing what we always did will not get us what we always got. Times have changed, demands have changed, and there is a need for changing the ways in which we deal with the problems at hand and even, [...]
From the initial paper to digital transition to entering a new phase of advancements in digital technology, we have come a long way on the path to digital transformation. From everything being about mobile presence and smart phone apps to embracing of Internet of Things and AI-driven data analytics, we are moving toward the [...]
Software testing used to be a phase in the software development lifecycle – a phase which was often skipped or neglected, resulting in sub-optimal quality of the released product. Then came Agile, and DevOps, and along came shift-left, shift-right, & shift everywhere practices, continuous development, continuous integration, & continuous [...]
Set to revolutionize the way businesses leverage data for decision-making, SAP HANA offers a comprehensive platform with in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system. The platform accelerates data processing through in-memory storage for real-time analysis, insights, and action. By taking a column-wise storage approach, as against the previous row-oriented storage, SAP [...]
