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The term “business process” has a relatively high significance in this context, because it can be used to make meaningful distinctions in the monitoring effort. A business process comprises various activities that support a company in achieving a specific goal. These activities are again very individual, depending of course on how a company is structured and also in which business area it operates. Business Process Monitoring then makes it possible to evaluate these business processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce costs and avoid or at least reduce any errors. Incidentally, the Gartner definition, which can be found here, is somewhat broader. According to it, Gartner describes business processes as the coordination of the behavior of people, systems and things in order to achieve specific business results.
At 15:51 UTC yesterday, the digital media began to boil over: Facebook and its affiliated services WhatsApp and Instagram were all down. Their DNS names stopped resolving and their infrastructure IPs were inaccessible. It was as if someone had “pulled the wires” of their data centers all at once and disconnected them from the Internet. At the end of the day, Facebook revealed some details of what happened internally. Today, it went further in the explanations. Someone, during routine maintenance, issued a command intended to assess the availability of global backbone capacity, which unintentionally took down all backbone connections, effectively disconnecting Facebook’s data centers around the world.
The global digital health market is experiencing a boom: with spectacular growth, it could reach $660 billion by 2025. Investors have poured an unprecedented amount of money into the sector in 2020, a year of record funding for startups in the area. Among the 399 healthcare executives heard in a recent Accenture study, 81% said the pace of their organizations' digital transformation is accelerating. One segment that has been growing strongly is digital therapeutics (DTx), defined Digital Therapeutics Alliance as a "new category of medicine," characterized by delivering medical interventions directly to patients using wearable devices, sensors, and evidence-based software to treat, manage and prevent a broad spectrum of diseases and disorders.
Smart buildings span a variety of industries, including office buildings, factories, shopping malls, hospitals, academic campuses, stadiums, airports, military bases, and residential buildings. The common factor in all these use cases is one: using digitalization to provide the best environment for humans. For this, the building receives sensors and IoT devices that start to control functions such as access to parking spaces, temperature, light, and humidity of different spaces, security of both physical and digital access, blocking or releasing turnstiles. For the building manager, the main goal is to optimize processes and reduce costs.
To ensure infrastructure is protected against cyberattacks, organizations are increasingly adopting IT infrastructure monitoring tools. This market is projected to grow in revenue from $16.1 billion in 2020 to more than $64.5 billion in 2031. And one segment that is becoming increasingly popular is Monitoring as a Service (MaaS), particularly following the growth in remote working and telemedicine caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. MaaS offerings consist of various tools and applications designed to monitor a particular aspect of an application, server, system, or any other IT component. an approach that aims to ensure maximum availability, security, and performance of IT assets through 24×7, real-time monitoring contracted under a usage-based billing model.
This week the Federal Government of Brazil published a decree establishing measures for the reduction of electricity consumption at the level of the national system. The document provides for a 10% to 20% reduction in consumption between September 2021 and April 2022, compared to the average for the same months in the years 2018 and 2019, and directly impacts data centres and data processing centres in the country. Among the recommendations is the reduction in the use of energy for cooling environments, keeping “the rooms of the data processing centres cooled only to the limit of what is technically necessary”
