Monthly Archives: January 2020

Councilmember Discusses New Homeless InitiativeCouncilmember Mitch OFarrell discusses motion he filed to turn the St. Vincent Medical Center into a homeless shelter.

Kaiser Woodland Hills Temporarily ClosesA water main break has forced the hospital to discharge or transfer all their patients until water service resumes, possibly on Saturday. Tina Patel reports.

Danielle Gersh's Weather Forecast (Jan. 22)Clear conditions Wednesday with a warming coming to the Southland. A high of 64 for the beaches and 69 for the valleys.

NASA Asks for Votes to Name 2020 Mars RoverNASA will launch its next Mars rover later this year, but before it does so, the rover needs a name.

Orange County Promotes Careers in Tourismorange county visitors association local careers tourism students initiative

BREAKING: School Lockdown in Sylmarschool lockdown sylmar charter high school police campus

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City of Hope Grand Opening in Newport Beachfighting cancer city hope grand opening newport beach orange county

California Launches Wildlife Safety Advisory Boardcalifornia wildlife safety advisory board reduce risk fire efforts prevention

Fullerton City Council Approves Year-Round ShelterThe proposed shelter will be on Commonwealth Avenue near Fullerton Municipal Airport. Hermela Aregawi reports.

Earthquake Hits Granada Hills AreaThe jolt was felt throughout Southern California, but did not cause any damages or injuries. DeMarco Morgan reports.

'A Huge Weight Off His Shoulders': Sharon Osbourne Opens Up About Ozzy Osbourne's Parkinson's DiagnosisSharon Osbourne opened up on The Talk Tuesday about her husband and rock legend Ozzy Osbourne's recent Parkinson's disease diagnoses. Katie Johnston reports.

Dodgers' Enrique Hernndez's Twitter Temporarily Vanishes After Apparently Being HackedDodgers player Enrique Hernndez appeared to have had his Twitter page compromised Tuesday before the page was seemingly temporarily deleted.

'Frozen' Wardrobe Takes Technology, Math To Hit The Stage Every NightJohn Furrow says he hated math as a kid, but uses it every day now as the wardrobe manager for the "Frozen" stage show. Evelyn Taft reports.

Pasadena Police Appoints First Woman Deputy ChiefDeputy Chief Cheryl Moody was fired hired in Pasadena in 1992. DeMarco Morgan reports.

Charles Merritt Sentenced To Death In Murders Of McStay FamilyMembers of the McStay family spoke emotionally at the sentencing. DeMarco Morgan reports.

Kaiser Woodland Hills To Temporarily CloseWater service won't return to the campus until Saturday, so all current patients are being discharged or transferred. Tina Patel reports.

BTS Returning To L.A.The Korean pop stars will tour the U.S. again with dates at the Rose Bowl. Sandra Mitchell and DeMarco Morgan report.

Multi-Car Crash Shuts Down Westbound Lanes Of 91 Freeway In Long BeachA multi-car crash late Tuesday night has shut down all westbound lanes of the 91 Freeway in Long Beach.

Senate Debates Impeachment Trial Rules For Nearly 13 HoursThe first day of President Trump's impeachment trial in the Senate crept late into the night on Tuesday, featuring contentious exchanges between the White House legal team and House managers acting as the prosecution, with senators voting along party lines to reject Democratic efforts to subpoena new witnesses.

Police Investigating Fatal Downtown Shooting In Skid RowThe shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night near the intersection of Fifth and San Julian streets and left one person dead.

Community Mourns Loss Of 3 Teens In Crash Near CoronaTwo days after a crash claimed the lives of three 16-year-old boys and injured three others, the Corona community was still in shock.

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The world of insurance is changing as new ways of doing business are making their mark on the industry. One only has to look at Lloyds of Londons dramatic overhaul plan the goal of which is to become the most advanced marketplace in the world with the help of tech-enabled initiatives such as an electronic risk exchange to recognise the shifts that are currently taking place.

Accordingly, investment in the insurance technology space is continuing to grow, hovering at US$140 million in 2011 and by 2018, skyrocketing to US$4.9 billion. The Impact InsurTechreport from QBE North America and Village Capital pinpointed three themes dominating insurtech right now: insurance for all, society shaping insurance, and micro-transformations influencing macro risks. The report also noted that innovations like process automation, AI, and blockchain are making insurance processes more efficient, increasing both the affordability and accessibility of insurance.

Read more: QBE releases report on growing insurtech space

While theres a lot of solutions to unpack in this growing field, some experts see certain technologies rising to the top.

There are probably two big buckets where we see pretty universal application across insurance value chains. I think one is around analytics, AI, and machine learning, and where and how those apply in the value chain, said Jim Bramblet, Accentures insurance practice lead in North America.

Matt Lehman, Accentures North America P&C lead, added that a lot of insurance companies have expanded their datasets to include social media and satellite imagery data, whereas just a couple of years ago, most companies relied on comparatively limited data sources.

Now, theyve opened that up to five, 10, 15, 20 different data sources that theyre putting into the product, he said.

The second bucket of useful innovation that Bramblet mentioned is the potential of distributed ledger technology, which he sees gaining steam across the industry.

That technology and that platform is going to provide an opportunity for a lot more transparency around risk through all parts of the P&C sector, so personal lines, vehicles and homes, but also supply chains, goods in transit, and fundamental risks that become more transparent, he said. A lot of that can be pushed onto the platform, and insurance companies can subscribe to and do a lot more with that data than they have in the past. Now, its still very nascent, but certainly something were paying close attention to.

Notable advancements on the blockchain front in recent years include Marsh rolling out a proof of insurance blockchain program to commercial clients, London-based bank Standard Chartered and insurer American International Group (AIG) completing a blockchain pilot that aimed to simplify complicated insurance policies, and the adoption of Insurwave, a blockchain platform to support marine hull insurance, by the marine industry.

Nonetheless, there have been roadblocks in the widespread adoption of blockchain technology in insurance.

Our clients all compete, and we see this with distributed ledger technology we start to talk about the fact that the only way that works is if its a team sport and I think any one carrier trying to blaze that trail by themselves is going to have a little bit of challenge, said Bramblet. Their competitors will say, Well, whats the ulterior motive here? Why would I subscribe to your platform? Hows that being monetised? And all the concerns about data and risk come into play, so I think thats where well see consortia play a much larger role and were starting to see that emerge at scale.

Another issue in navigating the insurtech landscape more broadly is that the sheer volume of companies, their capabilities, as well as the unique value-adds that theyre toting can be overwhelming. That brings up problems for speed of adoption for traditional insurers.

How do you really understand the problems that youre trying to solve and how do you line up different sets of solutions to solve those problems without getting a bunch of complexity? Lehman outlined. There are pluses and minuses to it, but you could have a scenario where maybe today its a single technology or a platform that solves a problem, but in tomorrows world, it might be a couple, so how do you put that to use in an efficient and effective way?

Yet, the most common question that insurance clients have for the Accenture insurance team is how to understand the solutions that insurtech companies are bringing to the forefront and know how to differentiate between Company A versus Company B versus Company C to determine which one they want to make a major bet on, explained Lehman.

But part of it is just getting started, he said. Youre going to learn a lot more by experience than you are through analysis.

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Our man in Davos Tom Patterson, chief trust officer at Unisys explores the issue of sustainability at the World Economic Forum

What is technology's role in creating a sustainable world?

Countries make laws, but Davos makes norms. In this hyperconnected world of today, the cyber norms we establish will make us safer for all our tomorrows. This is one of the things that makes Davos special, with delegates from over 100 countries coming together with a positive spirit and more goals that unite us than divide us. Today there is a great focus on establishing, evolving, and celebrating global cyber norms at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and all along the Promenade. But first, a few notable moments of Davos 2020 from yesterday.

Davos plays host to the 50th annual edition of the World Economic Forum.

I spent last evening at the town of Bad Ragaz, a beautifully historic spa town, which for the day became the forward deployed base of the US Secret Service and other security personnel responsible for President Trumps visit. While the President and his team stayed along the Davos Promenade, the security team took over this tiny towns spa resort. While in Davos it is common this week to see the mix of ski wear and suits, Bad Ragaz juxtaposed spa robes and ear pieces. A mixing bowl indeed.

Local Swiss newspaper Tagesangeizer.ch ran a story of two plumbers that were arrested in a top Davos hotel (one of the security hotels favoured by heads of state visiting the WEF) late last year. According to the paper, they were arrested, presented Russian diplomatic passports, and promptly and silently left the country. No word if they finished what they set out to really do, but the story was all the delegate-buzz in lines, cafs, and especially hotels.

Our man in Davos Tom Patterson, chief trust officer at Unisys says security is still top in mind at the World Economic Forum. Read here

There was a great debate yesterday on the future of technology through the lens of surveillance societies. Noted historian Yuval Noah Harari debated with a tech tycoon and posited the question of relative evils state sponsored surveillance in China, or surveillance capitalism in the west. The question in his mind, and many others at his popular WEF debate, was not if were being surveilled, but by whom.

Which brings us to Wednesday, and the topic of global cyber norms. The Cybersecurity Tech Accords were on centre stage at the historic Piano Bar of the Hotel Europe on the Promenade, with a panel featuring Renaud Deraison of security firm Tenable, the COO of VMWare Sanjay Poonen, Cloudflares Alissa Starzak, Salesforces Amy Weaver, and myself, the chief trust officer of global tech company Unisys.

The goal of the Cybersecurity Tech Accord is to promote a safer online world by laying out foundational cybersecurity principles and fostering collaboration among global tech companies. And what a better forum to present early successes and welcome new signatories aboard than Davos 2020. The panel covered efforts to promote transparency in threats, increase focus on promoting security and privacy in their offerings, development and promulgation of cyber best practices, and agreement on strongly opposing efforts to misuse their technology to attack others.

The panelists covered common core principals of maintaining a strong defence, committing not to support misuse in offence, building diverse capacity of workforces, and participating in a collective response to future challenges.

Tom Patterson returns to Information Age, delivering his coverage of the World Economic Forum from Davos 2020. In this first dispatch, he looks at the themes, styles and manifestos of the event. Read here

In addition to the Tech Accord, other normative efforts of the day included open discussions on the US National Cyber Moonshots Whole of Nation effort to make critical infrastructure on the internet safe by 2028 into a Whole of Planet effort understanding the cross-border connectivity and common concerns in this area around the world. Updates on the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace that was originated by French President Marcon in 2018, which announce over 1000 signatories to date. Also, at the WEF today was discussion of the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) launch of Apps 4 Digital Peace effort to stimulate new thinking from innovative young minds (ages 16-32) from across the world. The UN was well represented in Davos again this year, as their CISO also contributed to the Cyber Futurists day and others held talks on the UN Working Group on Security, and their Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) on the security of Information and Computing Technology (ICTs).

Common to all of these global cyber norms are calls for restraint, greater collaboration in a multi-stakeholder community, and improved confidence building among all participants worldwide.

Davos 2020 is clearly living up to its rich 50-year history, and todays focus on cyber norms is a key part of that. Theres more in store however, and as I pen this dispatch not from the top of the mountain but from the centrally secure Hotel Belvdre (where the plumbing worked fine by the way), Ill be focusing on more of the social aspects from the week so far, including the parties! See you tomorrow!

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DUBLIN, Jan. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Antenna Technologies For IoT Applications" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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Recent advances in wireless communication and the rapid spread of IoT devices is fueling the adoption of smart antenna technologies and transforming deployment of intelligent systems across connected ecosystems. Innovative beamforming techniques, selection of frequency bands for antenna operations, and the underlining design requirements are forming the basis for choosing suitable antennas for various IoT use cases.

This report is a global study on the state of antenna technologies, seen from the perspective of the innovators and disruptors - companies that are redefining the IoT ecosystem.

The Startup Ecosystem

The report covers the challenges faced by traditional antenna technologies, drivers of innovative solutions, need for antenna advancements, and the impact of these innovations on IoT applications. The report further describes how the startups are improvising on antenna performance for finding suitable solutions for the current challenges.

The ambit of the report covers more than 35 companies globally - firms that are deeply involved in developing disrupting techniques and strategies for antennas. Over 10 prominent companies such as Kymeta, Pivotal, and Energous have been profiled in-detail based on their technologies, offerings, patenting activities, and outlook.

The author ranked these companies on a scale of three, based on a metric that included parameters such as company maturity, product commercialization stage, patent filings, investors, awards, and funding received. Apart from the core antenna technology categories, startups driving innovations and trends in the MEMS-based antenna space and those offering design and testing services for antennas have also been covered here.

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2.5 Startups Using AI Techniques in Antenna Technologies

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Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced it has been named the organizational winner of the 2020 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group for its PathWave Test 2020, released in October 2019.

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Organizations from across the globe submitted their recent innovations for consideration in the BIG Innovation Awards. Nominations were then judged by a select group of business leaders and executives who volunteer their time and expertise to score submissions.

"Keysight is delighted to be chosen as the recipient of the 2020 BIG Innovation award," stated Jeff Harris, vice president of global marketing at Keysight Technologies. "We, as an organization, strive to maintain a culture that consistently delivers innovative solutions for our strategic industries and customers around the world."

PathWave Test 2020 is a platform-based test suite that reduces time-to-market for electronics original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) building digital and wireless products for 5G, IoT, and automotive markets. The software streamlines test data processing, sharing and analysis to address the deficiencies of homegrown test tool integrations. For test development and engineering teams, PathWave Test 2020 supports rapid workflow solution development and deployment with interoperability for existing test software.

"The digital transformation happening today in engineering enterprises relies on accelerating time-to-market using best in class software and hardware," said Jay Alexander, chief technology officer at Keysight Technologies. "Keysight's PathWave Test 2020 software suite reflects our commitment to creating innovative software solutions that help our customers streamline their workflows."

The Business Intelligence Group was founded with the mission of recognizing true talent and superior performance in the business world. Unlike other industry award programs, these programs are judged by business executives having experience and knowledge. The organizations proprietary and unique scoring system selectively measures performance across multiple business domains and then rewards those companies whose achievements stand above those of their peers.

"Innovation has become a major theme for organizations across virtually all industries and this years winners are a testament to the creativity, passion and perseverance of individuals worldwide," said Maria Jimenez, chief operating officer of the Business Intelligence Group. "We are thrilled to be honoring Keysight as they are leading by example and making real progress on improving the daily lives of so many."

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at a lower cost with offerings from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of $4.3B in fiscal year 2019. More information is available at http://www.keysight.com.

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GKN Automotive and Delta Electronics are working together to advance the development of next generation integrated three-in-one e-drive systems. This will involve integrating Delta Electronics converters with GKN Automotives e-motor and gearbox systems. The work will focus on the development of two new integrated e-drive families for application across different torque classes for future hybrid and electric vehicles.

This partnership is expected to flourish as the two have similar goals, focusing on weight and packaging reduction, and simplifying OEM assembly processes for easier and better quality component installations.

Liam Butterworth, CEO of GKN Automotive, said, The e-drive market continues to accelerate as manufacturers are required to meet increasingly stringent emissions regulations demanding technological progression and speed. Our collaboration with Delta represents a significant milestone in the expansion of our portfolio of scalable, integrated three-in-one e-drive solutions and our capabilities in rapidly bringing new cost competitive technologies to market.

It is expected that the new three-in-one units will be ready for production for various vehicle types in three years. This will cover A-segment city cars to D-segment executive cars and SUVs, supporting a range of torque outputs from 2,000Nm to 3,800Nm, with nominal power outputs of between 80kW and 155kW.

Simon Chang, COO of Delta Electronics, added, Delta is dedicated to enabling low-carbon green transportation by providing EV powertrain solutions and power electronics products, including traction inverters, traction motors, onboard chargers, DC/DC converters, and EV charging solutions to the market. Were pleased to be working with leading company GKN Automotive in producing integrated e-drive units for the next generation of electric and hybrid vehicles.

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MAN Cryos parent company MAN Energy Solutions has also been selected to supply 2 9L28/32DF dual-fuel auxiliary engines to each vessel.

Wallenius SOL states that the vessels will run on LNG, making them among the most environmentally efficient vessels in that part of the world.

Upon construction, the vessels will be the largest to ever meet Finnish/Swedish ice class 1A Super standard, ensuring year-round service in the frozen Gulf of Bothnia.

The 242-metre newbuildings will have a sailing speed of 20 knots and a capacity of 5,800 lane metres.

Delivery of the vessels is scheduled for 2021 and the order includes an option for two further vessels.

Louise Andersson, Head of MAN Cryo, said, These RoRos will operate in a sensitive, sulphur-emission-control area in harsh winter conditions where a reliable LNG fuel-gas supply system is of the utmost importance.

We are very pleased that both shipyard and shipowner trust us to deliver the fuel-gas supply system for such unique vessels.

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Do you find it difficult to keep your hands and eyes off of your electronic devices? Google launched a set of digital wellbeing experiments designed to assist Android users when it comes to their use of electronic devices.

The three new experiments, Screen Stopwatch, Activity Bubbles, and Envelope, help users better understand their phone usage, the time they spend on their phone, and help transform the phone into a simpler device that has limited uses.

The first two applications can be installed on Android devices. Screen Stopwatch is a basic counter that counts the seconds, minutes, and hours that the phone has been in use. To hammer the fact home, it displays the count directly on the device so that it cannot be missed.

Activity Bubbles follows a similar path but displays usage in a different way. Instead of displaying usage time, it displays bubbles. One bubble for every unlock to be precise. The active bubble gets bigger the longer the phone is used without it being locked.

Envelope, finally, may sound like an early April 1st joke. The application, available only for Google Pixel 3a devices currently, provides print templates to create phone envelopes. The phone is placed inside and functionality is limited significantly because of that. Different envelopes are available, e.g. one for calling and checking the time, another for recording video or taking photos.

Nothing is preventing the owner of the device from opening the envelope and getting the phone out; a solution with a timed lock would probably better in this case but way more expensive.

Google has published a video that demonstrate the functionality.

The Digital Wellbeing Experiments website lists other experiments that Android users can subscribe to.There is Paper Phone, which creates a paper version of a phone to carry around, or Desert Island which limits use to a certain number of essential applications.

The use of electronic devices is on the rise and it is clear that it impacts the quality of life for some. Whether these applications may be helpful remains to be seen as they require that users show initiative and install these applications on their devices to get started.

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We live in an age of digital disruption. Not only is technology rapidly changing, the way businesses operate and interact with customers is also changing. But many companies are not prepared to deal with these changes. And without a digital transformation strategy and a strong foundational technology in place to support it, their odds of survival are low.

Given historical data and this rapid pace of change, its entirely possible that 72 per cent of existing public US corporations could fail within the next five years.

This raises all kinds of questions: What would be the impact upon stock markets? What would be the impact on our kids careers? And, where did this supposition come from in the first place?

Alan Murray, Fortunes president and CEO said in the late 1950s-early 1960s, a public companys average life span was 55 years. A few years ago, this number dropped to 20 years. And this past year, it dropped to just 12 years.

The driver for this change is what Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler call Future Shock and what Geoffrey Moore calls waves of digital disruption. Disruptive innovations, according to Moore, are incompatible with current practices and require new infrastructure and a new ecosystem to deliver their value.

While you dont have to be the disruptor, you do need to make sure you keep up with the changes to survive but thats easier said than done.

So, what holds back organisations from making the necessary transformation to have a continual right to win?

For some, it will be a Kodak Moment. Kodak didnt survive the digital revolution in the photography world, because it failed to keep up with the times. To stay competitive, innovation would be required a lesson the once great company, along with many others, learned too late.

Organisations may fail to thrive (or survive) because change requires different business capabilities than those they have in place. But Kodaks largest competitor proves that doesnt have to be the case: Fuji now makes the displays used by the iPad.

CIOs often suggest that people and process are the two biggest obstacles to transformation. They say that technology, while a big issue, is not what stops most organisations from transforming.

Stephanie Woerner, a research scientist at MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR), suggested during a recent #CIOChatLive that there is messiness to paths of transformation. Organisations need to choose when to leave their previous approaches behind.

Woerner, in company with many CIOs, stresses that at its core, digital transformation is business transformation.

Moore suggests that legacy businesses do not lose because they lack an understanding of the changes taking place in their markets rather, they put too many initiatives into the incubator. And at the critical moment, they do not select one to run through what he calls the Transformation Zone.

To succeed, the entire business including the CEO needs to fully back the planned transformation, or risk losing business. For example, IBM had built prototype personal computers years before the market took off, but did not have a manufacturable model ready. The company had to go to Sanmina-SCI Corporation to design and then build its first PC, then scramble to recoup.

As the speed of business has steadily increased, this type of strategy becomes only more untenable, resulting first in revenue loss and ultimately in death.

Once the will to change exists, the issue narrows to whether a business has the digital capabilities to respond in time to strategy change. Research has found that only 28 per cent of legacy businesses have succeeded at digitisation.

Of the remaining organisations, 51 per cent have siloed business processes and data across their internal organisations. This makes it impossible to cross-sell and upsell. More importantly, it prevents organisations from improving customer experience. Instead, their valuable data is locked away in siloed systems instead of being used to drive new business models or sources of revenue.

The remaining companies may have duct-taped integrations and/or data quality issues that actually harm attempts to improve customer experience, building digital business services, and business innovation. Without change, legacy businesses are in trouble. The clock is ticking and the time for business leaders and IT leadership to fix this is now.

It is time for new ways of building the digital foundation (what MIT CISRs Jeanne Ross calls a digital backbone). It is time to blow up legacy tech debt. However, spending years building a new foundation will not work. Using on-premise software to integrate your business or its data is a waste of time. It will just take too long. Survival requires new approaches that accelerate business outcomes.

One retail leader recently said the following to Dell Boomi: We are hearing from the market and our internal leaders that we have to become faster. We may do a good job of delivering, but can we figure out how to do it in half the time? Velocity is the word we use around here. This is the key focus for us as we think about new tools. How will they help us build velocity? How do you think about it differently than before? If something takes two years, how do you make it two months? Its a new frontier. And a lot of stress.

Business leaders understand in their gut that they need to move faster. CEOs at legacy organisations state that as much as 50 per cent of their business could be challenged by digital disruptors in the next few years.

Continuing to build layer upon layer of interconnectivity and APIs will slow and ultimately crush the organisation. Business leaders need new, faster ways to create connected business processes and harvest data.

Deploy a cloud-native architecture that can run anywhere at run time, but changes the build and deployment process of connecting applications, data and processes.

Create an architecture that simplifies how organisations connect to their businesses. Enable organisations to participate in a community that shares how integrations of systems and data occur when there is no longer a need to maintain what you have built across software releases.

Changing these two things, and the processes that go along with them paves the way for innovation. It also accelerates your ability to become a connected business, setting you up to win at digital transformation.

Digital disruption is now continuous. The next wave of change is already on its way, and if history holds true, many famous brands will not survive. Think about it: The companies delivering on-premise software have all been public for at least 20 years. With a current average life span of only 12 years, how much longer can on-premise software last?

Surviving and thriving in this age of constant disruption requires business will. But it also requires the right digital technology foundation.

The time is right for a unified platform that delivers application and data integration, data enrichment and data governance, API design and management, application development and workflow automation, and B2B management all designed to work together seamlessly. The time is right for Boomi.

Myles Suer is the enterprise marketing manager at Boomi, a Dell Technologies business. Boomi is a corporate member of the Which-50 Digital Intelligence Unit. Members provide their insights and expertise for the benefit of the Which-50 community. Membership fees apply.

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The magical and muggle worlds of Harry Potterarefamously divided. The Statute of Secrecy prevents wizards from disclosing the existence of the wizarding world, on a public level, to muggle society. The effects of such a statute are felt across the wizarding world too, as witches and wizards are centuries behind muggle in terms of technology.And it almost seemsthat witches and wizards are technophobes, with the greatest example of this being the fact that most technology does not work on the grounds of Hogwarts.

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But, if the world of Harry Potter regularly used muggle technology, how would the series have been different? These are10 modern pieces of technology that would have affected the Harry Potter story if it were set today.

Throughout theDeathly Hallowsbooks and movies, Harry Potter and the gang are on the run from the Dark Lord Voldemort. The group successfully evades the dark wizard and his Death Eaters for a surprisingly long time before they are captured by a group of snatchers.

However, would this story play out the same way in the modern-day? Modern surveillance is on a whole different level to what it was in the 1990s, meaning that Voldemort could use this muggle technology to track Harry, Ron, and Hermione pretty easily.

The main form of communication between witches and wizards in the world of Harry Potter is via owl. The nocturnal bird carries all communications and mailbetween wizards. However, while it is undoubtedly cool to send your letters and parcels via owl, it is also inefficient.

Aside from parcel delivery, which will undoubtedly be quicker than any muggle mail service, sending letters to your friends is so slow. If Harry, Ron, and Hermione had some access to an instant messaging service, they would be able to communicate far more efficiently during the summer months away from Hogwarts.

The internet has truly revolutionized modern society. It has introduced new industries to the world, brought people on distant continents closer together, and allowed for a fantastic new way of consuming media such as movies and TV. It's clear from the Harry Potter series that the wizarding world does adopt some muggle technology, so what would happen if a wizarding internet was developed?

A wizarding internet would help put an end to the mountains of parchments used in wizarding administration and study, and it would allow new forms of wizarding entertainment to develop (wizarding YouTube anyone?). Perhaps the biggest influence on the story of a wizard internet would be on the Daily Prophet's apparent monopoly over wizarding news. An internet with different news sources could allow people to accept Voldemort's return far quicker than in the original story.

The Statute of Secrecy is one of the most important elements of the Harry Potter andFantastic Beasts story. It is the reason why the wizarding world is separated from the muggle world and drives the plot of theFantastic Beastsmovie forward. However, would this Statute of Secrecy still work well today?

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It is very hard to cover-up events in modern society due to the intervention of the internet and the availability of smartphones. The widespread use of the internet today would allow mugglesto share their own theories about witches and wizards and attach images and so on as proof, allowing for conspiracy theories to take hold.

One of the more interesting examples of muggle technology that witches and wizards have adopted is the radio. Harry and the gang listen to the radio while they're on the run from Voldemort and, more importantly for this entry, the Order of the Phoenix uses radios to communicate with each other.

While it wouldn't necessarily make the Order more successful in their fight against the Death Eaters, switching radios for smartphones would certainly make the group more efficient (if they don't get distracted by wizard Facebook of course).

Diagon Alley is one of the most beautiful areas in the wizarding world. The Diagon Alley scene inSorcerer'sStoneis truly a magical picture that has transitioned into iconic status. However, the existence of a wizard internet could also lead to a magical version of Amazon.

The existence of online shopping also has had devastating impacts on high street shopping in the muggle world. Consequently, Diagon Alley may lose several customers as students opt to buytheir goods elsewhere.

The quill is a central part of life in Hogwarts. While the quill itself isn't necessarily magical, it certainly helps to build the wizarding world into something loveably eccentric.

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However, while the quill is positively charming it could also be irritating to use on a frequent basis, particularly for muggle-borns or half-blood students who are aware that ballpoint pens exist. A ballpoint pen is far easier to use than a quill and would also allow students to save money as they wouldn't have to spend so much money on ink wells.

The Hogwarts library seems to an amazing place. Not only does it possess a wealth of knowledge from centuries worth of books, but it also has a deeply intriguing restricted section.

One of the main drawbacks to the Hogwarts library, however, is their lack of a search system. In modern universities and schools, there is a system you can use to check the library for what books they currently possess, where the book is, and even order the book so you don't have to search for it yourself. If Hogwarts had this, it could have made Harry and the gang's life so much easier.

While the Triwizard Tournament was undoubtedly a spectacle, not many in the crowd could actually get a good look at what was going on. In the first task, Harry was chased around Hogwarts by a Hungarian Horntail Dragon; in the second task, all four competitors spent their time underwater; and in the final task, all four competitors were in a dark, foggy maze.

This means that the crowd didn't actually see much of the action during the Triwizard Tournament. However, if there was some kind of camera system, the crowd could have seen all the action on a big screen.

This one should go without saying. In the modern world, we would struggle to survive without the help of Google. The search engine allows us to find answers to some of the most complex questions that come to our mind.

Within the context of the wizarding world, or Harry Potter's story more specifically, it would be incredibly useful. A wizarding search engine would allow Harry and the gang to find out answers to mysteries such as the Slytherin's monster extremely quickly. In addition, a wizarding search engine could also help muggle-born students learn about the wizarding world before they visit Hogwarts for the first time.

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