SmartThings Week: Samsung’s home automation app has evolved

If you haven’t used SmartThings in a while, you might be surprised by how much the app has evolved. And if you haven’t used the app at all, chances are you have at least heard of it if you’ve ever watched a live Galaxy Unpacked event or visited a physical Galaxy Store. What is Samsung […]

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Philips Hue Lights to Get New Brightness Balancer Feature and Additional Automation Controls

Lighting company Signify has announced a new feature coming to the Philips Hue app that aims to give users better control over brightness in their home, as well as a Hue bridge automation update that brings more nuance to motion sensor triggers. Philips Hue lights will soon include a brightness balancer that lets users customize […]

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Samsung’s new tool offers automation for networks using vRAN

Samsung Networks, Samsung Electronics’ communication and networking equipment manufacturing arm, has announced that it has come up with Samsung Cloud Orchestrator for the lifecycle management of vRAN (Virtualized Radio Access Network). Samsung Cloud Orchestrator is a solution that will be deployed to automate the lifecycle management of large-scale vRAN used in mobile networks. Samsung will […]

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5G and Industrial Automation: Practical Use Cases

As everything from our day-to-day activities to manufacturing to consumption has entered the digital age, intelligently automated yet interconnected industrial production—also known as Industry 4.0 and smart factory—is gaining ground. However, given the gravity of this evolution, innovation is key to successfully bringing automation across sectors.  In automation and interconnectivity, high-speed wireless communication plays a […]

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UiPath vs Automation Anywhere: RPA Tool Comparison

Robotic process automation (RPA) is a technology that allows enterprises to automate some or all of their business processes. You can think of it as digital workers, which mimic manual tasks, so they are done with greater speed and efficiency. RPA tools are used across all industries. In 2016, the global RPA spend was 300 […]

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Top Automation Testing Tools for Software Performance

Today’s software market demands quality at speed. This is why organizations are implementing automation testing tools to complement manual testing. Read on to discover the best automation testing tools for your organization.  Table of Contents What are Test Automation Tools? Test automation tools test various components of software during the development process with little to […]

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Edge Computing Predictions for 2022

The explosive growth of smart devices has put a strain on internet infrastructure, forcing cloud-based companies to adapt and find new ways to serve their customers. Edge computing—the practice of storing and processing data as close to the end user as feasible—is a rapidly growing industry that is barely keeping pace with demand. Just a […]

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HelpSystems Launches the Automate Bot Store

IT software company HelpSystems recently opened its Automated Bot Store, which provides pre-built bots to help customers to evolve automation projects using the company’s Automate robotic process automation (RPA) solution. The store’s bots interpret and run tasks, allowing organizations to accelerate their automation projects.  The Automate Bot Store features more than 150 free, downloadable bots […]

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IoV: The Pioneering Union of IoT and the Automotive Industry

No traffic. The lights are always green and accidents are a rarity. Does that sound utopian? It certainly does, but if the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) market takes off, that scenario may soon become a reality. According to Allied Market Research, The worldwide IoV market was worth $66,075 million in 2017 and is anticipated to […]

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Dell Makes Strong Push Towards Autonomous Operations

When I worked at IBM, we learned the hard way that there are risks associated with pushing a product or a feature that eliminates jobs. We brought out a product that reduced staffing in related areas by 90% and wasn’t selling well. It turned out that the managers of these jobs reported having a vote […]

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Top RPA Tools 2021: Robotic Process Automation Software

Automation is the way of the future with 68 percent of global employees believing that automation will help them be more productive at work. But figuring out how to add automation to workflows can be a challenge for many organizations. Robotic process automation (RPA) software uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to learn […]

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Cisco Takes Aim at Cost of Network Operations

Cisco has updated its DNA Center software to enable IT organizations to now automate tasks across twice as many endpoints. Version 2.2.2 of Cisco DNA Center also expands the usage of machine learning algorithms to enable network operations to more easily evaluate the comparative performance differences of network devices and clients.  In addition, the update […]

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