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Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 lifecycle extended to ten years

LONDON, UK – Canonical announces the lifecycle extension of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ‘Trusty Tahr’ and 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ to a total of ten years. This lifecycle extension enables organizations to balance their infrastructure upgrade costs, by giving them additional time to implement their upgrade plan.

Industry 4.0 Defined and Explained

With Industry 4.0 fundamentally transforming manufacturing systems and processes through IIoT technologies, manufacturers large and small are seeking the most efficient ways to reap its benefits. Potential gains include optimizing operations, generating data-driven insight, creating new revenue streams, and accelerating innovation. To paint the big picture, let’s start with a definition of Industry 4.0, followed by an explanation of what adopting it involves.

Ways to Secure Your Chatbot Against Attacks

Chatbots and Virtual Assistants (VAs) are becoming increasingly popular as businesses accommodate the diverse needs of the digital industry. These tools give companies, no matter how small, the ability to answer their audiences, provide assistance, and solve problems, driving traffic during off-hours and with minimal staff. As a result, chatbots are one of the most effective features you can add to your website. And yet, chatbots present a risk.

The Rome release starts at home-a customer zero story

ServiceNow’s 6,900 customers have pretty big expectations of what ServiceNow needs to deliver to help them achieve their business goals—from more engaging employee experiences to boosted customer loyalty and increased agility, productivity, and efficiency. We aim to meet those expectations by practicing what we preach.

What's Next | Omnichannel-Aware Forecasting, Allocation & Replenishment

Omnichannel shopping is straining retailers, challenging old methodologies, hampering fulfillment, and depleting margins. What can be done? Omnichannel-aware is about positioning inventory intelligently, within your DC and store network, to be closest to the customer to enable fulfilling demand in-store, curbside or delivered to home in the most profitable way while meeting and exceeding service level expectations.
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Customer Service Management (Picking The Right Software)

Customer service management can make or break the growth of your organization. If you're failing to deliver incredible customer experiences that prioritize clear communication, your organization is vulnerable to low customer retention rates. According to Gartner, more than two-thirds of businesses are now competing primarily on the basis of customer experience. This is up from only 36% in 2010. Customer experience is critical to your organization's future success. If you're delivering exceptional customer experiences that result in high levels of customer satisfaction, this will naturally drive up your customer retention rate. You can only deliver incredible experiences with the right customer service management tools in place.

Three Network Challenges Keeping CIOs Awake At Night

Networks aren’t just getting bigger, they’re also becoming more congested and more complex. There are a lot of new considerations for CIOs as they attempt to build fast, secure and reliable networks that can meet all the demands of their business. In this blog, we look at some of the common challenges facing enterprises and explore how a more agile networking model can help.

Ensure First Come First Server using Azure Service Bus

One of the patterns easily supported by the Azure Service Bus is the first-in-first-out (FIFO) pattern, which isn’t supported in the other queue service – Azure Storage Queues. To realise FIFO with the Azure Service Bus is to use sessions. Any service can create a session when sending a message to a queue or topic by setting the SessionId property. Subsequently, the session comes into existence when the queue or topic is session aware, which means you have specified ‘Enable session’ when creating the queue or topic.