With automation technology, organizations can accelerate processes whilst freeing up resources to invest in real innovation, elevating work to focus on remaining competitive and fostering prosperity.
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Increasingly, I am finding that if CITOs spend just a bit of time thinking like marketers, taking time to understand the process of marketing, delving into marketing automation technology, and attempting to find sources of data that can be of assistance to marketers, the impact can be tremendous.
Brocade is building automation technology that is VM aware within their switches so that when a VM is migrated, the network and storage components needed for it to continue to function are also automatically reconfigured, thereby minimizing the manual labor that an administrator needs and decreasing your OpEx costs by increased automation.
The whole idea of implementing a marketing automation technology like Eloqua or Marketo is to be able to track the customer as they interact through any channel, to create a central brain that indicates at which stage of the buying process a customer may be at, and then to use that understanding to send just the right message.
President Obama has repeatedly, and in prepared remarks, warned us about how automation and technology such as ATMs and the Internet destroy jobs, so we will keep automation to a minimum.
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Believe it or not, he blames high joblessness on automation, technology and efficiency.
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Many of these jobs are health-care and engineering support positions, driven by the aging baby boomer population and the increasing automation of technology and manufacturing machinery.
Factory automation and technology improvement mask this important megatrend.
In the Fall quarter of 2008, Sollar enrolled in Sinclair Community College in Dayton and pursued an associate degree in applied science in automation and control technology with robotics.
To compete in a globally connected world, companies must leverage technology and automation in order to gain production efficiency and repeatable quality.
Every generation since has seen many industries supplanted by automation, and as technology continues to improve, so does the enterprise skill set of machines.
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Union officials argue that they support modernisation and the introduction of new technology and automation, but not in the manner that the Royal Mail has outlined.
Among the job protections won was contract language that "strongly protects" union workers who have been displaced due to new technology and automation, and terms that restrict outsourcing or subcontracting of Longshoremen's Association jobs to non-union employers.
To attain such high aspirations, Google set an aggressive research and development agenda that employed more expensive technology and aimed for full automation, rather than using off-the-shelf technology that enable narrow applications.
Mr Matthews, who was born just a few minutes from the lighthouse, said he understood why the automation decision was made as technology moved on, but said he regretted the loss of human involvement.
The forum's founding members are all involved in advanced technology and solutions associated with the Internet of Things, including commercial infrastructure monitoring, energy-saving street lighting, home automation, energy monitoring and low power radio technology for sensors.
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However, the technology and innovation we are developing for manufacturing automation, processes and materials is unmatched.
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Austin-based uControl delivers an open, technology-agnostic Home Security, Monitoring and Automation (SMA) software platform making the Connected Home a reality. uControl focuses on the full spectrum of SMA solutions, leading with next generation home security.
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According to ABI, a technology research firm, 1.8 million home-automation systems had been shipped world-wide as of last year.
The business world by contrast, thanks to a century of automation and increasing productivity, probably has an order of magnitude more technology per employee than the typical household has, per resident.
Microsoft's commitment to PC technology has kept it investing in operating system and office automation software for the last decade while losing more than two-thirds of its market share in smartphone operating systems and delaying its entry into the fast-growing tablet business--places where Apple has had astoundingly profitable revenue growth.
Rather they are upgraded to ever higher levels of production technology, not least, in many cases these days, automation.
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Making the switch from human labor to automation only makes sense when the cost (and benefits) of the technology is equal to or more than the cost of a worker.
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In the current issue of the McKinsey Quarterly, W. Brian Arthur, an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, warns that technology is quickly taking over service jobs, following the waves of automation of farm and factory work.
David Autor, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), points out that the main effect of automation in the computer era is not that it destroys blue-collar jobs but that it destroys any job that can be reduced to a routine.
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Sophisticated home automation solutions have been available for decades, but recent advances in networking and mobile technology enable RedEye Pro to bring these features to a broader market.
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When asked what type of investments companies were likely to make in technology, cloud computing, at 40%, had emerged close to automation of business processes (46%), and data analytics (41%), as an investment priority.
Regardless of the user's age or experience with technology, managing the service is effortless, from simple device control to robust home automation.
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