Tag: Office

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Siji Kallarakal. By Siji Kallarakal, AWS Solution Architect – CapgeminiBy Prabhu Padayachi, Data Scientist – CapgeminiBy Vivek Dashore, Data Architect – CapgeminiBy Sriram Kuravi, Sr. Partner Management Solutions Architect – AWS Capgemini As the world continues to respond to COVID-19, Capgemini is working to find ways to prepare our communities for such pandemics in the future. During this extraordinary time, digital solutions have played a crucial role in enabling employees to work remotely. When organizations begin stabilizing normal office operations, there will be a need to create a robust crisis response system. Key ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; HBO Max is a new streaming service that’s yet to establish itself worldwide. Even though the provider is working on extending its services to more countries in 2022, some countries will remain locked out. If you want to watch HBO Max outside U.S. borders, such as in the U.K., Germany, Italy or another blocklisted country, you have to learn how to watch HBO Max using a VPN. That said, unblocking HBO Max outside the U.S. isn’t as straightforward as creating a Netflix account. You have to jump through several hoops to create an HBO Max ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Risk management in banks is undergoing a rapid transformation, accelerated by COVID, but with causes and potential impacts that go deeper. The global pandemic has provided a dramatic illustration of how risk processes need to change. Not only is it unsustainable to base decisions on historical data, but new risks are increasingly non-financial, behaviour-related and external to the bank. The role of risk management needs to adapt to meet these new circumstances. Using real-time, granular data to define risk at a ‘segment of one’ can propel risk from a back-office function to become a strategic partner to ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . Among the biggest challenges IT leaders face right now is supporting shifting strategies around where the enterprise does its work. Prior to the pandemic, remote work was a facet of most organization’s workforce mixes — but hardly the universal business imperative it instantly became when COVID-19 hit. Now, workers are returning to offices, at least in some measure, with widespread remote work likely here to stay.The debates over in-person versus remote work are raging on within the C-suites of organizations of all stripes, with some believing in the power of face-to-face kismet and the others extolling ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . As the economy picks up, demand for many inputs is outstripping supply, driving up prices for things as diverse as construction materials, energy, food ingredients, and semiconductors. Soon, that list will include Office 365 subscriptions.You might not have heard about it from your sales rep yet, but Microsoft quietly announced that starting March 1, 2022, it will hike the price of many of its enterprise Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. (Consumer and education subscription prices aren’t changing — for now.)Even if you spotted the company’s Aug. 19 blog post, “New pricing for Microsoft 365,” you ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. The COVID-19 Pandemic has disrupted businesses worldwide with numerous organizations opting for a Work-From-Home policy for their employees. Teradata, one of the world's most ethical companies, also enforced WFH throughout its offices globally to ensure employee well-being. As employees continue to work from their homes, Teradata’s Pandemic Response Team (PRT) continuously monitors the situation and will decide when to reopen the offices worldwide. To support the decision-making, a team of data scientists at the company developed an analytical solution to quantify and predict the rate of disease spread in regions where Teradata offices are situated. In this ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon WorkSpaces now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2019, providing a Windows 10 desktop experience along with a 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus bundle option. The feature brings a refreshed Windows 10 desktop experience, and enables customers to run applications that require recent Windows versions. While Windows Server 2016 powered WorkSpaces bundles are still available, customers can now choose to run WorkSpaces powered by Windows Server 2019 and benefit from new features like Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 1), and OneDrive Files On-Demand. In addition, the Plus bundle for Windows Server 2019 powered WorkSpaces ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; In May of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, our Business Technology team in Singapore set out to tackle the lofty goal of bringing employees back into the office without compromising their health. This naturally came with a variety of challenges. Office capacity needed to be strictly managed; contact tracing protocols needed to be established; and employees needed to be educated on both their government’s regulations and the guidelines our team put into place. To help meet these challenges, the BT team developed and launched “Office Bot” for employees in the ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Carter Busse; The process of welcoming employees back in the workplace is no easy task.  As the CIO at Workato, I knew that this had to be handled diligently, yet in a way that could scale.  We ultimately needed a solution that could: Track employees and keep them safe Motivate employees to return to the officeKeep us compliant with federal and regional safety guidelines over time With these considerations in mind, we leaned on our favorite solution: automation. Using automations, we’ve streamlined processes around employees providing proof of vaccination, making office reservations, selecting specific workstations, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Erin Chapple. This post was co-authored by Gayle Sheppard, Corporate Vice President, Global Expansion and Transformation. The UK Meteorological Office (Met Office) is working with Microsoft to deliver advanced supercomputing capabilities for weather and climate research, ensuring the continuation of the Met Office’s international leadership in this area. Supercomputing is fundamental to the Met Office’s weather and climate science and services. Microsoft Azure’s supercomputing-as-a-service will enable the Met Office to leverage the best blend of dedicated and public cloud services to provide more accurate predictions to help citizens and businesses plan daily activities, better prepare ... Read More