Bridging The Gap For Remote Workers Through Digital Assistants
AI-based chatbots or digital assistants stand to change the way we interact with business applications, not just consumer ones. The main benefit is the ability to get immediate responses to queries via natural local language, without having to download apps or get training. While we have the freedom to engage in user-friendly experiences in our …
Apple And Google Partner On COVID-19 Contact Tracing Technology
Across the world, governments and health authorities are working together to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, to protect people and get society back up and running. Software developers are contributing by crafting technical tools to help combat the virus and save lives. In this spirit of collaboration, Google and Apple are announcing a joint …
BlackRock And Microsoft Form Strategic Partnership To Host Aladdin On Azure As BlackRock Readies Aladdin For Next Chapter Of Innovation
BlackRock and Microsoft Corp. have formed a strategic partnership to host BlackRock’s Aladdin infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, bringing enhanced capabilities to BlackRock and its Aladdin clients, which include many of the world’s most sophisticated institutional investors and wealth managers. By adopting Microsoft Azure, BlackRock will both accelerate innovation on Aladdin through greater …
Dynatrace Expands Public Sector Presence Through FedRAMP
Software intelligence company Dynatrace, today announced it is ‘In Process’ to attain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authorization at a moderate impact level. Achieving FedRAMP Authorization from the General Services Administration (GSA) FedRAMP Program Management Office (PMO) will allow federal agencies to benefit from the AI-powered, end-to-end observability capabilities of the Dynatrace® Software …
HUAWEI CLOUD: Fighting COVID-19 With Technology
Recently, HUAWEI CLOUD announced that they launched a global action plan to help customers around the world to fight COVID-19 with cloud and AI services. As part of this international action plan against the coronavirus, HUAWEI CLOUD will be providing free AI and cloud services and will be recruiting partners around the world to help …
Intel Commits $50 Million with Pandemic Response Technology Initiative To Combat Coronavirus
Intel is pledging an additional $50 million in a pandemic response technology initiative to combat the coronavirus through accelerating access to technology at the point of patient care, speeding scientific research and ensuring access to online learning for students. Included in Intel’s effort is an additional innovation fund for requests where access to Intel expertise …
How Google Cloud Is Helping U.S Public Sector Agencies During The COVID-19 Pandemic And Beyond
In light of the current situation with COVID-19, public sector agencies are turning to the cloud more than ever, particularly as people increasingly need access to information and government services. Today, we’re happy to share more on our efforts to help governments with their COVID-19 needs and also highlight a few recent agreements with state …
IBM Offers “Watson Assistant for Citizens” To Provide Responses To COVID-19 Questions
With COVID-19 affecting 206 countries, areas and territories, IBM is helping government agencies, healthcare organizations and academic institutions throughout the world use AI to put critical data and information into the hands of their citizens. With a flood of information requests from citizens, wait times in many areas to receive answers can exceed two hours. Available for …
Oracle Therapeutic Learning System Records Effectiveness Of COVID-19 Drugs
For the last several weeks, Oracle has been actively engaged in the ongoing fight against COVID-19. Our primary goal has been to develop and deploy a series of cloud applications that will gather the data necessary to enable health professionals to answer one critical question: What drugs are effective in treating or preventing the COVID-19 …
Your Computer Can Help Scientists Seeking Potential COVID-19 Treatments
IBM announced that anyone in the world with a PC, laptop or Mac and an Internet connection could help scientists seek chemical compounds that might be effective against COVID-19. To do so, volunteers’ devices will perform small, virtual experiments to identify chemical compounds, including those in existing medicines, that could potentially be used as treatments candidates …