Scale or fail: How incumbents can industrialize new-business building

Across industries, digital attackers and an accelerating pace of change have increased the pressure on incumbents to innovate quickly and create new avenues for growth. Repeatable, scalable innovation—in the form of new-business launches— has become an imperative , and its importance has increased more than 70 percent since COVID-19.

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IFS launches cloud-native, containerized ERP

After publishing major upgrades of its IFS Applications suite every three years since 2012, enterprise software vendor IFS is switching to a six-month refresh cycle that will ensure that customers always have access to its latest features. “It is really the last big launch we will ever do,” said CEO Darren Roos, a former SAP cloud executive who has led IFS since 2018. “From now on it’s IFS Cloud.” Launched March 10, IFS Cloud is a suite of ERP applications with significant extensions for field service management (FSM) and enterprise asset management (EAM), all based on the same data model.

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HSBC deploys Dialogflow, easing call burden on policy experts

Banks are among the most highly regulated businesses on the planet, subject to regulations based on geography as well as their own internal policies and procedures. HSBC, a global giant in commercial and personal banking, has experts all over the world who support thousands of their risk management colleagues each time they need an internal policy question answered.

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How to reap the benefits of going cloud-native without compromising cybersecurity

Cloud-native applications are part of tech’s ‘new normal’ – designed specifically for the cloud, to drive the speed, efficiency and scalability which is transforming the way we work. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated cloud adoption, giving global businesses the flexibility to respond to changing priorities and a distributed workforce.

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Deploying web app on GKE Autopilot

GCP introduces GKE Autopilot which is a new mode of operation in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that is designed to reduce the operational cost of managing clusters, optimize your clusters for production, and yield higher workload availability. The mode of operation refers to the level of flexibility, responsibility, and control that you have over your cluster. It still offers the standard version as well.

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