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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

CIO Business Intelligence

Kevin Grayling, CIO, Florida Crystals Florida Crystals It’s ASR that had the more modern SAP installation, S/4HANA 1709, running in a virtual private cloud hosted by Virtustream, while its parent languished on SAP Business Suite. It was easier to do with a strong financial benefit, for sure.” It was costing us a lot of money.”

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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO Business Intelligence

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs. All the logic is still in Java hosted on Amazon’s infrastructure.”

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How software can digitally transform child adoption

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Research for a book and movie by Juntunen found that the average adoption time for children in these regions is 33 months, leading to costs of around $28,000. “We All data collected by the platform is hosted on the AWS cloud, but Schwartz says convincing end-user organizations to trust the cloud had its challenges.

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Strengthening cybersecurity in life sciences with IBM and AWS

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In 2017, 94% of hospitals used electronic clinical data from their EHR. Leading life sciences companies are discovering the power of cloud in enabling analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) , shrinking innovation cycles, and standardizing processes across global operations, among other benefits.

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A Perfect Match: Blockchain and Gaming

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Today, online gaming accounts for a major chunk of the industry, which was estimated to have generated $116bn in 2017 alone. To cross levels, add enhancements to game characters, boost benefits, etc., How the Gaming Industry can benefit from Blockchain. Blockchain – The next big thing in the Gaming Industry.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways. As OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider it will see additional revenue for its Azure services, as one of OpenAI’s biggest costs is providing the computing capacity to train and run its AI models.

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10 Big Data Examples Showing The Great Value of Smart Analytics In Real Life At Restaurants, Bars, and Casinos

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Big data can serve to deliver benefits in some surprising areas. In 2017 the company wanted to take its shopping experience one step further by creating an augmented reality app that allowed users to test a product without having to leave their homes. And when you consider that by the year 2020, 1.7 Well, you can at Hilton hotels.

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