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Cristina de Luca is a journalist with a masters' degree in Marketing. The last 30 years of her career, Cristina dedicated to multi platform content within the IT and communication areas. De Luca was a reporter, editor and content director for News organisations such as the braziilain media Group Globo, IDG (IDC in Brazil), JB Media Group, O Dia and the internet news portal Terra. Cristina has been awarded six times the Comunique-se award in the categories IT and Specialists.
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.
New research from Inmarsat reveals that investment in the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to outpace investment in cloud and other digital transformation technologies over the next three years.
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.
