Telecom Giants Vodafone Idea partners with Cisco to improve 4G and 5G user experience

Telecom industry giant Vodafone Idea (Vi) in a recent announcement has stated that it will collaborate with Cisco to improve its already existing 4G network and, in the future, 5G use cases to offer better quality experience for its customers. The company further added that it would work with Cisco to design and build a cost-efficient network architecture that drives greater speed to market in 4G, 5G, Cloud, and IoT.

Vi has said that it would be adding Cisco’s new ultra-packet core to its network architecture to deploy new software applications and services such as voice-over Wi-Fi. With this, Vi is committed to providing seamless connectivity to its customers and to enhance user experiences that is empowered by an intelligent and automated network offered by Cisco.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has allocated 5G trial spectrum in various bands to various telecommunication networks such as Airtel, Jio, and Vi to develop robust 5G use cases. Airtel and Jio have already commenced their 5G trials to test peak speed, latency, and data loads. Vi, however, is yet to begin its 5G trials soon.

 

Ezbob launches all-new modular and robust SaaS platform

Ezbob, in a recent press meet, has announced that it has launched a new modular SaaS platform Ezbob Express. This new platform primarily focuses on three important needs -  offering financial service providers the flexibility that fills the gap in their digital transformation strategies, allowing them to make more precise complex credit and risk decisions in real-time that facilitate the growth of embedded finance.

Ezbob has stated that the new Express customer acquisition platform will have a modular approach that enables financial institutions with gaps in their digital channel to add the functionality needed to achieve a customized digital experience. The new modules will include UX & Process Design, Compliance & Authentication, Credit & Risk Decisioning, and Product Recommender.

Organizations that use Ezbob Express's robust API strategy can now embed a financial service into their purchase process, like customer accounts opening, credit card applications, consumer and business loans, overdraft facilities, asset finance, and invoice financing. It allows financial service providers to transform their customer onboarding into a highlighted, streamlined, automated digital journey by reducing customer input by 75 percent and increasing completed applications by 400 percent, which is a quick and seamless process.

 

 

Microsoft Corporation has breached the $2 trillion mark at NYSE

Popular tech giant Microsoft Corporation has now joined the exclusive $2 trillion club. The company's dominance in the cloud computing segment and enterprise software will continue to expand further even after the end of the Covid pandemic. Microsoft's shares sharply rose by 1.6 percent in NYSE, which propelled the company enough to join Apple Inc. to become the second company in history to have a market value of $2 trillion. Saudi Aramco also managed to breach the $2 trillion mark at the end of December 2019, but now the company is valued at $1.9 trillion.

Since the beginning of the Satya Nadella era at Microsoft, the focus was shifted towards cloud computing solutions. Microsoft is one of the companies which successfully evaded the recent antitrust regulators' wave, giving it the freedom to expand its product portfolio and acquisitions. Microsoft has clearly outperformed Apple and Amazon by gaining 19 percent so far. The immense growth is mainly due to the fact that investors are now rushing towards Microsoft due to long-term growth in investment and revenue. The area of focus also draws investors. Microsoft is engaged in various segments giving it an upper hand, and also, the company is well poised in the tech market.

 

 

Salesforce Raises Its Game by Reinventing New Modules for Hybrid Work

Many companies in recent times plan to continue remote or hybrid work into the future, but this raises new challenges for employee learning and development. Today, employees report fewer opportunities to develop their skills in remote work. Recent research conducted by Salesforce in cites shows that 59 percent of employees say they’ve had less access to workplace learning since the pandemic.

To overcome this and to improve employees’ skills Salesforce has traditionally offered its free training programs to mixed groups of their own employees as well as their customers’ employees. As a result, people looking for work in the Salesforce “ecosystem” could make useful contacts with its customers’ workforces. Salesforce recently has established a separate “Trailhead” unit to help employee’s training progression.

The product will also allow company’s employees to see their own Salesforce training record in a software platform called myTrailhead, and will allow the companies to add their own proprietary training to that platform. Salesforce’s new platform will make potential job candidates more widely visible, and there emerges a win-win situation among Salesforce, its developers, its technology partners, and also its customers.

 

Summer Olympics in Tokyo to allow spectators

In a recent announcement, the International Olympics Committee has stated that the Summer Olympics in Tokyo will include up to 10,000 Japanese spectators at each event, and the organizers will follow the required pandemic protocols for athletes from hard-hit countries. Officials said that foreign spectators wouldn't be permitted to travel to Japan to attend the Olympics.

The new guidelines released by the International Olympic Committee and Tokyo organizers said venues could be filled up to 50 percent capacity, with a maximum of 10,000 spectators at each event. "If the situation becomes very dire, we would have to hold the Games without spectators," Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto said.

Officials hope that the restrictions will build confidence among Japan's skeptical public that the Games can be held safely even though the pandemic is not brought under control. Officials did not clarify whether that sanction meant athletes could be barred from future Olympics and the sanctions would apply for which violations and said they could not detail the size of potential fines. There will be a disciplinary committee that will be charged with weighing any violations and possible punishments.