Financial Express

India’s growth story is hard to ignore. Looking back at the year gone by, we see that India has not just leapfrogged but pole-vaulted in the technology space—and this can be put down to India’s success in navigating the road from digital transformation to digital innovation.

Financial Express

Rapid tech transformation in the business landscape was the highlight of 2018. Business processes across industries were overhauled almost overnight on the back of artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, robotics and data analytics. This transformation changed the nature of jobs, making them more tech-centric than ever before. As companies begin hiring technologically-adept individuals, here is a look at the jobs that will be most popular in 2019.

Financial Express

These new technologies should not be harnessed in isolation. Importantly, they should be aligned to both business strategy and, ideally, tied in to existing business systems.

ET CIO

With cyber criminals constantly on the lookout for weak entry points, the focus needs to shift from protection & detection to intelligent & automated responses that isolate a cyber attack.

ET CIO

AI will be key, but only if companies decode how to apply it effectively and accurately within the confines of the business. With Ovum’s ICT Enterprise Insights Survey anticipating that 60 percent of organizations will have an enterprise-wide strategy for AI in 2019, we expect a lot more companies to look for practical ways to bring AI into the business; and a key path will be through having AI embedded into their applications

BW People

Artificial Intelligence might improve efficiency in HR processes and reshape the way companies think of managing employees, however, it can never replace capabilities or characteristics such as human judgement, human interaction, feelings and emotions.

 CXO Today

In anticipating the major cyber security and privacy trends for the coming year, you can find plenty of clues in the events of the past 12 months. Among the now familiar forms of attack, cyber hacks of major corporate systems and websites continued in 2018 and will inevitably be part of the 2019 cyber security scene.

The Hindu Business Line

As the year, which saw several AI, ML and IoT innovations hit the headlines, coming to an end in the next few days, Tata Communications sees mainstreaming of Artificial Intelligence and evolution of Internet of Things and block chain in 2019.

The Hindu Business Line

In a hyper-connected India, Internet of Things has the potential to reach an estimated 2 billion connections, unlocking revenues of $ 11.1 billion by 2022, according to a new report.

The Economic Times

Disruptive new-generation technologies are seen to have dramatically changed the way businesses run. Enterprises are considering realigning their strategies to retain their market position, and gain advantages through cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and IoT.

Times Now

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created new threats to the privacy of health data, a study has found. The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, suggests current laws and regulations are nowhere near sufficient to keep an individual’s health status private in the face of AI development.

Deccan Chronicle

Today’s modern technology has surely made a great impact on the whole globe. So has artificial intelligence (AI) created an astonishing impact on human interaction with machines and devices.

The Economic Times

It faces threats from rising protectionism, data flow curbs and fast-changing technological shifts, but the Indian IT industry is keeping its hopes high for the new year with plans afoot for big investments in automation and artificial intelligence.

BW CIO

The age of automation is well and truly here, and RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is transforming the way organizations operate. A recent global research report by University of London has indicated that workplaces augmented with automation perform tasks 33 percent more effectively.

Financial Express

While 57% organisations hiring for AI look for candidates with five-years-plus experience, the average AI experience of Indian professionals is a mere three years.

New Indian Express

While the buzz around Artificial Intelligence (AI) gained ground in 2018, tech giants decided to utilise the Machine Leaning (ML)-based algorithms not just to help enterprises drive growth but also improve healthcare globally and India became an early adaptor.

BW CIO World

The well-known adage, “The only thing constant in life is the change”, holds particularly true for the tech industry. The pace of change in it is also much faster than any other industry, with one piece of technology replacing another, or even going obsolete, in the blink of an eye.

Quartz

As IT companies in India begin to see large deals coming their way after a few subdued years, the sector is geared up to add around 250,000 new jobs in 2019, according to a report by HR and staffing solutions provider TeamLease Services.

DNA India

India is embracing the use of artificial intelligence in a confident but steady manner. Government agencies, start-ups and large corporations are applying it to various functions and processes.

ELE Times

Robotics is a disruptive technology in a nutshell. Scientists and engineers have worked a lot on Robotics, but there is a lot more to witness about the Robotics Technology. India, taking into consideration, has started innovating robots using different applications.

Analytics India

Botnet attacks and poisoning of machine learning systems have become vogue in this year. With multiple companies losing out on their precious database, customers and information; there’s a new category in the cyber attack. Artificial intelligence has found a new application, it is being used as malware and botnet to attack data and devices more efficiently.

ET CIO

Researchers at global cybersecurity firm McAfee saw an average of 480 new threats per minute and an increase of 73 per cent in malware targeting IoT (Internet of Things) devices.

CIOL

The confluence of Artificial Intelligence with the Internet of Things (IoT) has brought enormous possibilities into the light. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has progressed by leaps and bounds in the last decade, especially with advents in AI. Today, with nearly 2.5 billion smartphone users, the global internet penetration rate has reached 55.1%.

Business Standard

According to a new survey by Gartner, Inc, a majority, that is, 66 per cent of organisations have plans to use 5G by 2020. These expect 5G networks to be mainly used for Internet of Things (IoT) communications and video.

The Hindu Business line

Over 30 billion ‘smart’ devices will be connected by 2020. That’s equivalent to every single person on this planet with not one, but four connected devices. These devices that communicate with each other in real time are known as the Internet of Things or IoT.

The Financial Express

We are almost at the end of 2018 and 2019 is just around the corner. With each New Year, we are introduced to a fair amount of inventions and technologies. The 21st century till now has been the age of massive technological changes, where some tech innovations have been user-friendly, others are complicated which makes it hard to say whether or not it will make a difference for the people in the future. These technological changes have impacted our lives in a big way and they continue to do the same as time is passing.

BioSpectrum India

No one can deny that the Internet of Things (IoT) is the future of healthcare. Artificial intelligence and data analytics are bringing greater opportunities for the sector, offering faster, more effective treatment options that have wider affordability and acceptability.

ELE Times

Recent evolution has focused to be a large extent on the Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity where sensors gather and communicate signals and data. End product examples are varied, ranging from smartphones, health and fitness wearable, and home automation, to smart meters and industrial control. All have design constraints that include ultra-low power consumption, low cost, and small physical size.

News Patrolling

The world of business today, is abuzz with a plethora of hot topics – Big Data, Cloud, AI, IoT, Block Chain, Social media, Digital – to name a few. As the world is slowly turning towards digitising processes, one of the key things which has grabbed a lot of attention, is business automation.

BW Education

Leading research based education institutions in the country are in the forefront of building expertise in this disruptive technology. Other Educational institutions, specifically Engineering Institutions are preparing to adopt to academic programs for their students in this technology. However, AI is expected to have impact across all areas and hence, there is a need to have Medical Students, Finance Professionals and Management students to have necessary exposure as well.

The Financial Express

The company licenses its software onc a per user licensing basis and for IoT, on a per equipment basis. “The platform allows their clients to work with system integrators to customise their solution. We also do it on ourpart if wanted. We give them self service dashboards as well. (IOT, AI)

Analytics Insight

In-car retail IoT is setting new benchmarks in self-driving cars The upcoming AutoMobility LA is all set to explore the retail possibilities into autonomous vehicles. The concept involves a vehicle-commerce platform where consumers can shop directly from their vehicles through a safe and convenient connected car experience without any driver distraction. Payments are through a digital wallet compartment such that customers

CXO Today

Enterprise adoption of process automation technologies will continue with the same vigor as the technologies are expected to make the enterprises nimble, data-centric and quick to make decisions across geographies. More importantly, process automation will also help enterprises to go beyond the simple operational and efficiency gains made with basic automation to tap new revenue opportunities.

ELE Times

IoT is not left unfamiliar anymore. IoT has been contributing to a great number of fields, either it is the medical aspect or the industrial one, IoT has played a big role in all major industries. IoT has achieved a lot in itself in these few years. But, when it comes to the IoT security, organizations face a lot of challenges.

Business Standard

The Internet of Things is a popular vision of objects with internet connections sending information back and forth to make our lives easier and more comfortable. And across entire cities, interconnected devices are doing everything from increasing the efficiency of transport to flood detection.

The Economic Times

China and the USA lead the way in creating AI-related jobs with both nations currently in a two-way competition for who can develop AI the fastest. India ranks 5th in the world competing with the UK and Germany, but still is a long way behind China, USA and Japan, data from robotics process automation firm UiPath shows.

Analytics Insight

Data science covers a vast network of topics under its umbrella including Deep learning, IoT, AI and various others. It is a comprehensive amalgamation of data inference, analysis, algorithm computation and technology to solve multifaceted business problems.

India Retailer

In today’s digital world where humans and technology-powered systems interact in more connected and intelligent ways, enterprises that strive to achieve future growth realize that it is critical to lead with digital innovation to keep up with the expectations of an increasingly discerning end user. Those who don’t move fast enough will be forced out of the market.

ET Telecom

The study ‘The Cycle of Progress’ by Tata Communications found that41% of board members and 33% of C-level executives believe that they are leading their industry in adopting new technologies, as compared to 18% of directors and 14% of department heads.

Business World

Industrial revolutions have all been disruptive as they have turned the tables of the prevailing industries during the periods before them. Currently, we are transitioning to a revolution that is more technological than industrial as it is the culmination of the Third Industrial Revolution. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), nanotechnology, biotechnology, virtual reality (VR), 3D printing, autonomous cars and quantum computing.

Geospatial World

Merely capturing and representing physical conditions, including IoT inputs, can never be sufficient to understand, analyze, or model intended improvements. It is necessary to comprehend the “digital DNA” captured in the project or asset’s engineering specifications. This is what Bentley Systems is largely enabling.

The Hans India

With the increasing dependency on technology, hanging on to old methods of yesterday’s internet, even as an idea, seems obsolete. The current world of business welcomes you with wide open arms as long as your business is driven by good technology.

Analytics Insight

While a few organizations may very well consider automating their IT tasks, RPA likewise means to help them rehashing the manner in which they work together, uplifting their consumer loyalty and fortifying employees’ work values. RPA utilizes programming and methods that are equipped for exploiting the most recent technologies like artificial learning, machine learning, voice recognition, and natural language processing to take automation to a bigger dimension.

Mint

Most of us in the business world are stuck in the rut of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly deadlines and planning cycles. For the privileged few who are freed of these short cycles and are responsible for an organization’s strategy, it is the future that beckons. However, that almost everything we seek to do in the digital world has been done before, all we need to know is where to look.

The Economic Times

“Is digital out and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in?” Our answer is AI doesn’t replace digital technology but allows organisations to derive higher value from their digital and non-digital assets. AI helps organisations move towards a datadriven, customer-centric and operationally efficient culture.

Analytics Insight 

AI has shown immense potential to make our lives much easier, a fact which does not stop in our homes, as businesses constantly come up with new ways to use AI to engage with customers, make processes easier and pull revenues to new highs. The effectiveness and popularity of AI-powered chatbots in recent years has catapulted an increased interest in how artificial intelligence is deployed to improve the results of ad campaigns.

Fortune India

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has kicked in and the verticalised industrial world, where each industry stuck to its core expertise and competed with peers in the same vertical, has suddenly changed. Organisations have started expanding beyond their boundaries by leveraging their expertise, to take up a totally different industry segment

Financial Express

To help news industry use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in more innovative ways, Google has announced a partnership with Polis, the international journalism think-tank at London School of Economics and Political Science, to create “Journalism AI”.

Tech Observer

Industrial IoT Trends 2019: 2018 has been all about lot of talk of 5G: when would networks be deployed, which operators were testing what, and which region would lead the 5G race? As the costs and complexities of rolling out the next generation standard have crystallised, however, the industry’s attitude has sobered.

CXO Today

Big Data refers to extremely large data sets, from several sources that are often available real-time and that cannot be managed by traditional data processing systems. Advanced statistical programs, machine and deep learning algorithms can process this data and generate patterns, trends and implementable business insights. This has enabled companies to not only make instant decisions to increase efficiency but also to automatically adjust their robotic processes via a continuous feedback and improvement loop powered by big data analytics.

Mint

India has great potential. First of all because it has got so many people and many are educated. India can lead the world in healthcare initiatives. Indians are not afraid to innovate and have some of the world-class healthcare facilities.

Josic

Using big data in worldwide development refers to a concept of identification of sources of big data relevant to the policies and planning for development programs.It contrasts from both “conventional” development data and what the mainstream media call “big data.” A central issue in global development today is considered the absence of high-quality and accessible data in poor and developing countries.

Zee Biz

The study revealed that allied technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud were effective in delivering business outcomes when combined with data analytics. Titled “Endless possibilities with data: Navigate from now to your next”, the study found that functions across an organisation were benefiting from data.

Ad Age India

We live and breathe in the era of IOT (internet of things). Our lives are connected through the devices we use. The next generation of internet connectivity is due and the Gods of technology have blessed us with 5G. The fifth generation of the internet is way more complicated than it sounds as there are certain specifications and requirements that need to be met before the rollout happens.

CIOL

According to Gartner, the worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.3 per cent in 2019 to total $206.2 billion. The connectivity between people and data is creating billions of new relationships that are all powered by the cloud.

CIOL

In the recent past, factory automation has been witnessing several changes, thanks to technological advancement that has led to a seminal improvement in the operations. There has been more efficiency in the factory processes along with higher reliability and a conspicuous improvement in the quality of the output as well. With the coming in of intelligent sensors and universal connectivity, the necessity for operator intervention in manual settings or in open control loops is becoming increasingly lesser while closed-loop controls too is changing.

CXO Today

In today’s digital world where humans and technology-powered systems interact in more connected and intelligent ways, enterprises that strive to achieve future growth realize that it is critical to lead with digital innovation to keep up with the expectations of an increasingly discerning end user.

Qrius

The fulfilment process in a warehouse can constitute up to 25% of supply chain costs. To keep costs down, some retailers have adopted advanced technologies such as AI and robotics to ensure they build a supply chain to manage current requirements, as well as to cope with future growth.

Deccan Chronicle

Digital technology is shaping businesses and reducing conventional ways of structuring and conducting them. In a nutshell, digital transformations are happening in leaps and bounds and as far as the packaging industry is concerned, it has run on set business models until recently. With digitisation has come efficiency in conducting businesses.

The Economic Times

Mechanisation in manufacturing is directly proportional to job complexity. That apart, hazardous tasks — exposing humans to chemicals or physical dangers — are more likely to be done by robots than humans.

Analytics Insight

Simply, it can be assumed that most jobs will ultimately get replaced by technology. And no one is safe. Artificial Intelligence will very soon capture the role of many white-collar jobs too, just like machines have taken away many blue-collar jobs and the tractors reduced many farming jobs.

Fortune India

The advent of the industrial age in the West saw machines take center stage in human society. And human beings used the higher productivity of these machines to transform human lives for the better. Standards of living, life expectancy and quality of life improved exponentially.

Mint

In India, where most energy is still derived from non-renewable sources such as coal, better building facilities management significantly impacts the economy

The Pioneer

Experts in the field of farm and related technologies expressed their agreement over use of the Internet of Things (IOT) which can bring a win-win situation both for entrepreneurs and farmers.