ITC Infotech, a global-scale, full-service provider of technology solutions and a fully-owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd, has strengthened its long-standing collaboration with PTC, a leading global software company, to offer the industry's most advanced and widely adopted Augmented Reality solutions using PTC’ world-class AR platform Vuforia. PTC helps companies design, manufacture, operate, and service things in a smart, connected world.
As PTC’s first Vuforia managed services provider and a member of PTC Vuforia’s Preferred Developer Program (PDP), ITC Infotech will drive adoption of PTC’s world-class Augmented Reality (AR) Vuforia technology platform by delivering high-fidelity Vuforia solutions to unlock value across global enterprises.
Augmented Reality is emerging as one of the most sought after technologies among enterprises today. Michael E. Porter, Harvard University, and James E. Heppelmann, PTC’s CEO envisaged the growing significance of AR in an article in The Harvard Business Review, November-December 2017 edition entitled “AR will become the new interface between humans and machines.” According to authors of the article, “Pioneering organizations are already implementing it in product development, manufacturing, logistics, marketing, service, and training—and are seeing major gains in quality and productivity”.
AR bridges the digital and physical worlds to create value across an enterprise. The value AR applications deliver rises exponentially when coupled with IoT data and analytics, rendering truly transformative experiences and driving enterprises to completely re-imagine how they design, produce, sell, operate and service their products.
Barry F. Cohen, Ph.D., Chief Strategy Officer and Executive VP, PTC, adds, “The potential for AR technology is significant across all industries, with market growth rates in high double-digits. As our trusted partner for over 17 years, we are pleased to see ITC become our first Vuforia services partner and join the Vuforia Preferred Developer Program. We are confident that ITC will deliver AR solutions that enable customers to unlock value across their businesses, leveraging their industry expertise and proficiency in the PTC product suite.”
According to International Data Corporation’ (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Augmented and Virtual Reality Spending Guide, worldwide spending on augmented reality and virtual reality (AR/VR) is expected to reach $17.8 billion in 2018, with an estimated five year annually compounded growth rate (CAGR) of 98.8% during 2017-2021. PTC is well-positioned to lead this growth with its world-class Vuforia technology that enables enterprises to develop and adopt AR solutions to drive superior customer experiences and transform business performance.
Commenting on the collaboration, Sushma Rajagopalan, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, ITC Infotech, said, “AR will revolutionize the way we connect and interact with products and systems. We have the first mover advantage in bringing PTC’s world class AR Vuforia technology to market. As an extension of our on-going investments in developing AR solutions, ITC Infotech is delighted to partner with PTC in leading the way for faster adoption of Augmented Reality solutions in the industry. We are accelerating AR solutions development focus to create value at scale.”
As a PTC Preferred Development Partner for Vuforia, ITC Infotech will work closely with PTC’s global developer community to create AR solutions across such industries such as manufacturing, automotive, industrial, retail, consumer goods, healthcare and hospitality. ITC Infotech and PTC plan to develop joint go-to-market strategies to accelerate enterprise adoption of AR technologies leveraging PTC’s ThingWorx Co-Innovation labs and digital solutions Innoruption Labs.
This summer make the most of your holidays and head to Sydney to be a part of the biggest celebration of lights, music and ideas at Vivid Sydney. The 23 day long multi-award-winning winter festival will see Sydney illuminate with creativity and innovation with works by some of the world’s most famous artists. This edition of Vivid Sydney has an interesting line-up of iconic performances by Australian and international superstars like Solange, Iron & Wine, Ice Cube and many more.
The 10th edition of the festival promises to get bigger and better. For the first time, Vivid's stunning Light Walk will extend to Luna Park, where the iconic Ferris wheel will be lit up.
The Sydney Opera House will be embellished with so many colours and patterns that it will take your breath away while the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge will be adorned with a synchronized lighting display, as vessels adorned with brilliant LED lighting pass through parts of the grid, colours on the Bridge will change simultaneously.
Tap your feet and groove to a set of varied tunes ranging from jazz, rock, indie to music by contemporary artists. The one-of-its kind cultural festivals will witness some of the biggest game changers and creative thinkers including Oscar winning director, James Cameron, world famous skater and environment activist Peggy Oki explore and discuss various future shaping scenarios in the most creative manner. So come and partake in the celebration of lights, music, art, ideas and of course life!
To book your tickets and embark on the journey of a lifetime, log on to: VIVID SYDNEY
With more than 365,000 customers in 180 countries, SAP is often referred to as the “heart and lungs” of business operations, managing everything from Processes and logistics to HR and Finance.
The SAP cloud migration market is heating up, driven by enterprises moving to SAP HANA and S/4HANA, the latest version of the company’s in-memory database and application suite. Faced with a significant capital expense to refresh and upgrade on-premise hardware to support the new database and applications, the time to move SAP to the cloud is now.
SAP Hana delivering Return on Investment- Initially businesses struggled to achieve measurable ROI with SAP Hana. However now, this is no longer the case. Studies reveals that 68% of Hana projects are now achieving ROI for the business. Interestingly, organisations are mostly achieving ROI through Cloud-based IT services, with the majority of Hana deployments being hosted in the Public Cloud. In fact, 88% of production Hana instances are in the Public Cloud versus 79% of non-production data.
The cost-effective smart feature phone does not compromise in terms of feature or specifications, and has long-lasting battery life, rear camera, Bluetooth, wireless FM, and smartphone-like app store!
On a mission to eliminate the prevailing digital disparity between rural and urban India, iVVO, a pioneering communications brand and the latest entrant in the Indian mobile phone market, has launched its dual-SIM smart feature phone Beatz IV1805 for Rs. 600. iVVO is a subsidiary of BRITZO, a brand that recently claimed its fame by spearheading multiple state-of-the-art innovations across ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) that are primarily aimed at the rural Indian audience.
The latest offering from iVVO has been launched under the product category ‘Beatz’, which features a wide range of smart offerings developed for music-friendly rural customers. The cost effective smart feature phone boasts of App Store ‘iVVO Smart Store’ enabling the consumer to download & enjoy a wide range of apps, games, music and videos.
The cost-effective smart feature phone even does not compromise in terms of other features and comes loaded with 1.8” display, 1,000 mAh battery, MP3 and MP4 players, wireless FM, rear camera, GPRS and Bluetooth connectivity, one-touch music access, and a memory expandable up to 32 GB. Moreover, the smart mobile phone has integrated regional language support to further catalyze digital adoption amongst Indian rural geographies – all at a maximum retail price of Rs. 600!
Pradipto Ganguly, CEO & Co founder, BRITZO, said, “We are very delighted to announce the launch of Beatz IV1805, as it drives us one step closer to fulfilling the vision of facilitating digital enablement for India’s rural heartland. We are confident that Beatz IV1805, with its innovative features and superior cost-effectiveness, will do justice to our overarching goal of digitizing the Indian rural geographies and to our brand motto ‘to bring a peace of mind within our customers’ lives. We are also backing the product with after-sales service and are assertive that our approach will yield the desired results.”
iVVO is extending a product warranty of 455 days on the newly-launched Beatz IV1805. iVVO has a strong nationwide after-sales service presence with its broad pan-India network of about 900 service centres. Besides IV1805, the Beatz portfolio already hosts IV2401, another Smart feature phone with non conventional features. The broader objective of iVVO and its parent organization BRITZO is to bring a complete reversal of the present market order. In other words, the company is developing disruptive technologies for rural consumers across India and will make it trickle down to the urban market, rather than doing it the other way round. With its recently-launched cost-effective offering, it appears that this reversal of order is precisely where the brand is headed towards.
Intel and Wind River previously announced our intent to open source components from the Wind River Titanium Cloud portfolio. Today we are pleased to deliver on that commitment with code being up streamed in a new open source project called StarlingX, hosted by the OpenStack Foundation.
Wind River Titanium Cloud was built on open source components, which are then extended and targeted to be hardened to address critical infrastructure requirements: high availability, fault management, and performance management needed for continuous 24/7 operation. Wind River Titanium Cloud also includes the low latency, high performance, scalability, and security needed for edge and IoT workloads.
Through the StarlingX project, we are opening many of these enhancements with the hope others find this a good reference platform upon which to innovate. Intel and Wind River invite the community to contribute code and looks forward to working together to define the infrastructure stack for edge computing and accelerating integration across many existing open source projects including cloud native technologies. By upstreaming these enhancements directly under the OpenStack Foundation, we can work closely with the OpenStack community to minimize technical debt and help speed downstream implementation.
The code available via the StarlingX project will:
Provide service management, REST APIs and process monitoring
Deliver standalone fault management service including extensions to OpenStack Horizon
Provide software repository management, patching, upgrade, backup, and restore services
Include bare metal management, a next-generation Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) along with VIM helper components, the OpenStack Nova API proxy, and guest API infrastructure
Additional code contributions not up streamed to existing projects will deliver capabilities through sub-projects under the StarlingX to provide critical functionality: service management, fault management, software and lifecycle management, bare metal installation and management, and configuration management.
The StarlingX project will work closely with cross-industry edge usages. Beyond networking and enterprise, a prime opportunity is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Historically an area with highly-specialized solutions tailored to specific functions, customers and partners are embracing the value of virtualized edge compute. By addressing common requirements through an open community, StarlingX can enable the innovation to power robust, commercially-supported solutions, and we look forward to working with solution providers and integrators to meet these demands.
We plan to work closely with the Akraino Edge Stack to drive standards and integrate multiple upstream components using a common framework for edge computing. We expect Akraino will play an important midstream integration role for many of these types of upstream and open source components, by building blueprints for a range of industry uses.
We expect businesses will benefit from the capabilities in the StarlingX project through streamlined installation, commissioning, and maintenance of edge compute solutions. The operational complexity of current solutions, combined with the specialized IT knowledge required to deploy them, has been a barrier for Communications Service Providers looking to fully capitalize on the business opportunities of edge applications. Wind River Titanium Cloud technology contributed to the StarlingX project streamlines installation, commissioning, and maintenance of edge compute solutions and simplifies these processes through automation, helping businesses minimize cost, lower risk, and reduce staffing needed for edge deployments.
We invite you to join this exciting, ground-breaking work. Download the StarlingX source code, try it out, and join the discussion at starlingx.io. For those of you at OpenStack Summit in Vancouver BC this week, be sure to stop by the Intel booth to learn more.
T-Hub and Facebook have announced the first batch of winning start-ups, selected for their joint program “India Innovation Hub.” The program which was launched in November last year, aims to help start-ups focused on using emerging technologies by providing support and mentorship to accelerate their businesses in new and innovative ways. A cohort of nine start-ups focused on VR have been selected and each startup will get access to training, mentors, workshops, research, and Facebook’s VR Innovation lab located at T-Hub as a part of the three-month accelerator program.
Speaking on the occasion, Jay Krishnan, CEO, T-Hub said, “We have witnessed the recent growth of AR and VR and it has the potential to disrupt many areas. Our program with Facebook has discovered startups leveraging AR and VR technologies in such areas like healthcare, HR and enterprises training, enriching customer experience and enterprise analytics. We are excited to help these startups scale up to global markets through our bespoke accelerator program with Facebook.”
“As the startup ecosystem of emerging technologies is taking an optimistic shape in India, we are dedicated towards setting them up for success by providing the mentorship and access to the right tools & technology for scaling their businesses. We are excited to be part of this ecosystem and can’t wait to see how these nine startups scale their innovation.” added Satyajeet Singh, Head - Strategic Product Partnerships, India & South Asia, Facebook said.
Selected from 20 shortlisted applications that presented to a jury comprised of subject matter experts from Facebook, T-Hub, and external industry members, the participants were reviewed based on quality of technology solution, product/solution readiness, possible impact in the vertical etc. amongst others. The nine chosen startups include:
· Dimension NXG
· GMETRI Studios
· Highir Technologies
· Innov4Sight Health and Biomedical Systems
· Loop Reality
· Merxius Software
· Parallel XR
· Scapic Innovations
· VadR
The selected startups have the potential to boost innovation ecosystem and are working on projects in the domains varying from Healthtech to Industrial Manufacturing, Education to Corporate Learning & Development among many others. With an intent to support a new generation of Indian startups, this cohort of startups as part of India Innovation Hub program will get:
*An opportunity to work and scale up under the aegis of Facebook. The startups selected through this program will work with subject matter experts, mentors, and coaches from both Facebook and T-Hub, to collaborate and prioritize the solution. All interventions will happen at T-Hub.
* An invaluable opportunity to seek feedback on the prioritized solution and showcase it to key executives of Facebook and T-Hub during the ‘Demo Day’ at T-Hub.
*If mutual interest established, further collaboration options between cohort startups and Facebook would be discussed.
*Qualified startups will be directly accepted to the FbStart program.
* Access to T-Hub’s network of mentors, industry experts, investors, service providers, and community/ecosystem.
Newgen Software, a provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and Customer Communication Management (CCM) platforms, today announced the release of OmniScan 4.1.Organizations can now Scan, Digitize and Deliver critical business information to accelerate key business processes and enhance customer experience with this version. It’s effective bulk scanning and distributed capture capabilities help enterprises reduce costs, save time, and optimize resource utilization.
OmniScan 4.1 is an advanced, distributed document scanning solution for a scalable high-volume production environment. It accelerates business processes by capturing data and transforming it into actionable business information.
“This version will help organizations drive enterprise-wide digitization and access relevant information for business use.It provides flexibility to scale operations from hundreds to millions of documents in a day,” said Diwakar Nigam, Chairman and Managing Director, Newgen Software.
Key features include:
· Auto Face Detection: Enables automatic detection of photos from scanned images and associates them with the document
· Auto Capture Index Values: Auto captures system field values, such as job number, location and date, reducing manual data entry. Further, allows tracking employee productivity by user name and department
· Template Management: Maintains consistency and saves time by allowing users to reuse templates defined in OmniProcess
· MSI Installer: Facilitates remote installation of the software through group policy
OmniScan 4.1can be integrated with SAP and Microsoft SharePoint.It has use cases across verticals such as Banking, BPO, Insurance, Telecom, Healthcare, Legal, and Public sector.
