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Report Scope: This report aims to provide a comprehensive study of the global market for laboratory automation systems and processes, both in terms of quantitative and qualitative data, to help develop business/growth strategies, assess the market landscape, analyze position in the current marketplace and make informed business decisions regarding laboratory automation systems and processes.

New York, Aug. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Laboratory Automation Systems and Processes: Global Markets and Technologies" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06317355/?utm_source=GNW

An in-depth analysis of the global laboratory automation system and process market includes historical data and market projections on sales by product type, application, end user and region.The analysis describes the different types of laboratory automation products (equipment and consumables) and current and historical market revenues.

This report examines end users of laboratory automation (clinical laboratories, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, research and academic institutes, food and agriculture industry, environmental testing laboratories and other laboratories) and applications of laboratory automation systems and processes (pre-analytics/sample preparation, analytics/ high-throughput screening, post-analytics/sample management and laboratory information management systems).

For a more in-depth understanding of the market, the report provides profiles of the competitive landscape, key competitors and recent strategic activities. The report also discusses technological trends and new product developments.

Report Includes:- 34 data tables and 39 additional tables- An updated review and analysis of the global markets for laboratory automation systems and processes- Analyses of the global market trends, with historic market revenue for 2019-2021, estimates for 2022, and projections of compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) through 2027- Estimation of the actual market size for laboratory automation systems and processes, and corresponding market share analysis by product type, application, end-user, and geographic region- Highlights of the current state of the market for laboratory automation systems and processes, recent technologies and platforms, ongoing research activities and clinical trials- Discussion of the COVID-19 impact on demand and supply of supporting technologies and end-users of laboratory automation systems and processes- Information about patents and patent applications for laboratory automation systems and processes across each major category- Insight into the recent industry structure, government regulations and policies, development issues, and the vendor landscape- Updated information on the key merger and acquisition deals, partnerships, collaborations and joint ventures as well as other strategic alliances within the industry- Descriptive company profiles of the leading pharma corporations, including Hamliton Co., HighRes Biosolutions, OPENTRONS and QIAGEN N.V.

Summary:Laboratories are facing a unique set of challenges: space constraints, labor shortage and growing pressure to do more with less.Smart technology, artificial intelligence and automation streamline processes and workflows.

Laboratory automation involves the automation of laboratory systems and processes operating with minimal human supervision, upgrading speed, accuracy, efficiency and output, allowing processes to be scaled up considerably. Other advantages of laboratory automation include increased data quality and reproducibility, improved process reliability and consistency, shortened research timelines and iteration cycles, reduced error rates, space optimization, improved productivityand efficiency.

The numerous benefits of lab automation coupled with the decreasing cost of adoption is driving labs of all sizes to take advantage of automated systems.Lab automation companies offer flexible and scalable automation and software solutions to fit budgets and workflow, regardless of lab size.

An increasing number of all types of laboratories (academic, commercial, standardized testing labs) are integrating automated systems to increase productivity and advance research.With new advancements constantly being developed for automated systems, lab automation will soon be a regular fixture in all labs, worldwide.

Many advanced products and solutions are revolutionizing laboratory automation by enhancing productivity, reliability and flexibility. These advanced automation products and processes are helping pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, clinical laboratories, research organizations and other end-users to create fully-automated laboratories.

The global market for laboratory automation systems and processes was valued at $REDACTED in 2021.The market is projected to reach $REDACTED in 2027, growing at a CAGR of REDACTED% through the forecast period.

Improving turn-around time, reducing errors, improving quality and meeting future growth needs are motivators that drive the lab automation market.Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p06317355/?utm_source=GNW

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Enterprise networks are vast, intricate systems with multiple methods for storing configuration and state information. The configurations of those networks are also constantly changing as new applications, services or other updates are added. When you consider the complexity and dynamic nature of an enterprise network, it may be alarming to learn how much dataincluding most network configurationsis still updated manually, often in the middle of the night. To make that process even less efficient, the people doing the updating are required to manually log those updates on spreadsheets or into a custom-built database.

Relying on manual processes to maintain and manage the state of an enterprise network not only leaves the door open for errors but can also lead to the network spreadsheets or databases being out of sync with the actual current state of the network. Is the network correct? Or is the spreadsheet correct? Should we make the network look like the spreadsheet? Or should we update the spreadsheet to reflect the network? What is the actual source of truth?

The good news is that the reality of modern networking has changed the paradigm. As programmable networks are deployed more broadly, manual CLI interfaces are no longer necessary. Reading and writing network configuration and reading network state can be accomplished quickly and easily with machines and automation.

More enterprises are embracing network automation because they recognize the efficiencies it can deliver when managing complex networks and the benefits those efficiencies can add to the bottom line. But if youre going to automate your infrastructure, your automation solution will need to gather authoritative information about it from somewhere. This source of truth holds the knowledge needed to enable automation to make changes to the network.

Many enterprise networking teams feel they need to rely on a single source of truth to know the true state of the network. They believe that building a single system/server/database that can synchronize with the configuration and state information of all devices across the whole network is a viable solution. But such a solution doesnt currently exist. Given the multifarious nature of todays networks, relying on a single source is both impractical and potentially expensive.

Rather than asking What is the single source of truth? perhaps the better question is What will provide better data: Creating a single source of truth that tries to synchronize to the entire network? Or accessing distributed sources of truth needed to accomplish the automation in real-time?

Instead of relying on a single source of truth, enterprises should focus on accessing multiple sources of truth to conduct proper and meaningful automation.

If youre running a service provider network, for instance, your business is your network. If youve spent millions, or even a billion dollars on your network assets, its worth your time to have a system in place that accurately manages and maintains those assets. A single source of truth wont provide that.

Also, as the network scales in size and complexity, the time it takes to synchronize a source of truth to the network also grows, limiting how often you can synchronize and leading to a greater time delta between synchronization states.

Finally, the process of trying to create a single source also doesnt address the real issue, which is that enterprises are still relying on manual processes that will almost always result in the source of truth databases and the actual network status being out of sync at some point. And that can have serious negative effects on a business as well.

The case for accessing multiple sources of truth is a relatively simple one: it allows for greater flexibility and enables enterprises to more easily leverage data to benefit their business.

With the advent of programmable networksmachines talking to machinesthe most current automation solutions can access multiple distributed sources of truthdifferent APIs and databases that are responsible for being the source of truth for different parts of the network and federate and sync data from these systems in real-time, providing a truer window into the status of the network and more accurate, actionable data that delivers business value back to the enterprise.

So why are some enterprises still hesitant to commit to a full network automation project? There are various reasons for this, but clearly, theres concern that not having a single source of truth for network data or data that may not be 100% accurate will compromise the automation process. Its a classic fear, uncertainty and doubt thought process: What if the data is only 70% accurate? If we try to automate with bad data, were going to break the network 30% of the time.

Some network teams may believe they cant automate anything until they can combine their five or six sources of truth into one huge database. At the same time, leadership may be pushing those network teams to move forward with automation to get more value from the network. By choosing to wait until they finally have a pristine database, they could lose months or even years of time, to the benefit of no one.

The solution is to take an incremental approach. Look at all the various network assetsprogrammable, cloud, legacy, etc.and start the automation process in the areas where good data exists and where a source of truth doesnt need to be built. In parallel, you can be cleaning up the other data and add automation when that data is ready.

Being able to utilize multiple sources of truth is better than worrying about having a perfect source of truth and holding back on an automation initiative. In the long run, it will be beneficial to both the network team and the business.

Just as important as committing to an automation solution that can integrate with multiple sources of truth to make decisions, is deploying the right automation solution. The most effective automation solution will embrace:

API-firstThe only way to integrate multiple sources of truth into a unified one is through an API-first approach, allowing systems to talk to each other. Data federation and transformationHaving unified sources of truth is only impactful when teams can fully integrate the data together while ensuring it speaks the same language. Unified viewAn abstracted and federated view of the data, processes and logic from integrated systems enables a single pane of glass across an entire network, as well as management tools for simplifying automation across the organization.

With todays modern, programmable networksand the absolute necessity for enterprises to have access to accurate, real-time network datarelying on a single source of truth is based on a flawed assumption that we can always have a synchronized database, and therefore is not a viable strategy.

By adopting network automation, organizations can adopt a distributed source of truth solution by enabling the multiple systems of record, and their collective data, to act as the source of truth, mitigating data quality issues and manual errors.

As an enterprise implements its automation strategy, having multiple sources of truth within the network will result in more accurate, timely and actionable data for automation to succeed, which will increase efficiency and drive the business forward.

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The Power of Automation and Distributed Sources of Truth - DevOps.com

Artificial intelligence and automation are seeping into our daily working lives and female office workers are among those whose jobs are being taken over by machines.

That's according to new research provided toABC News by an Australian teaching organisation that's urging people to upskill so they don't find themselves out of work.

Pearson's research looks at roles that are likely to be automated as technology advances.

Historically, much of the conversationwhen it comes to automation has been about robots taking over factory jobs, or even replacing retail assistants in the form of self-service check-outs at supermarkets.

Pearson's data also shows the less obvious pictures of automation encroaching into office environments, including for medical receptionists, accountants and personal assistants.

"Some of the key (jobs) that are most impacted by technology are things like receptionists, waiters, bank workers, retail sales assistants," according to Sandya Baratha Raj, director of data science at Pearson.

"And the interesting thing is a lot of these roles are more likely to be female dominated.

"Females are more likely to be negatively impacted by technology than males."

Take the job of a translator. A decade ago, many of those at national service Polaron were doing work manually for clients by listening or reading to languages and translating this out into text and voice.

Now there's a plethora of software including voice recognition that does the basics of their job. Manypeople haveused a form of this in Google Translate.

"I think a lot of translators will become proofreaders," Polaron's projector coordinator Tristan Priolo told ABC News.

"It'll be checkers, as opposed to translators."

Seventy per cent of Polaron's translators are women. Some are older women who are less tech-savvy and able to keep up with the industry's fast-moving technological advances.

"Unfortunately, a lot of our (translators) they are falling behind because they're not able to keep up or they haven't chosen to keep up," Ms Priolo said.

"The industry is competitive. And they can't necessarily earn as much money from proofreading as they could have with translation.

"But that being said they could get a lot more done."

Pearson's analysis found that by 2032 more than 10 per cent of the work currently done by translators will be automated, and many will be in female-dominated industries.

Ms Priolo herself speaks Spanish and Italian. She trained at university in translation but is worried about specialising.

"I would love to be able to do that (job). But I worry that there is no stability," she said.

This all comes as the Federal Government is holding a jobs summit into the future of Australia's workforce.

Data already reported by ABC News has found artificial intelligence (AI) technology is forecast to replace as much as half of the work that is done today by 2030.

That's as roles once thought too creative to be consumed by AI such as illustration through to songwriting are also under threat from rapid technological advances.

New survey results also shared with ABC News by industry body CPA Australia,a local professional association for accountants,found that one in two workers don't believe they're being trained up for digital advances.

Pearson's data found that 13 per cent of an accountant's current work will have been automated by 2027.

Bookkeeping work will be even higher, at 20 per cent automated within those five years.

That's as artificial intelligence and software is deployed to do everything from statutory declarations through to complex receiverships.

Even the people who are making the software that's being deployed are noticing it's changing their work.

CPA Australia believes automation isn't actually a threat to job numbers. Its take is that the trend is freeing up accountants to do more complex work.

"Technology has automated manual and repetitive accounting tasks," CPA Australia spokesperson Dr Jane Rennie said.

"This has freed up professionals to do more strategic and creative work."

Vaibhav Namburi is the founder and CEO of emerging tech agency Five2One. His Sydney-based startup works on AI that is being used by financial technology companies to help them approve home and car loans.

"This was the job that was previously done by an analyst, or an underwriter or someone internally within the business that has now become completely automated," he said.

His company is alsodesigning software that can scour the internet for people's publicly available personal information, and then create personalised marketing messages.

"We basically scour the internet to find data points about someone and create a personalised message that looks like you've actually spent hours researching about them." Mr Namburi said.

"And it actually takes maybe a second or two. It's done by a machine."

Again, that's work that could have previously been done by copywriters.

MrNamburi himself has cut down roles in his company in this space, as artificial intelligence learns to do their roles.

"We've used to have six blog writers. That (has)now come down to three," he said.

"And those three just basically manage the work of six, because their jobs moved from manually writing stuff to just basically using AI to create content."

"I don't want you to be worried about your job. But it's definitely something you need to optimise for."

Pearson's data scientistSandya Baratha Raj also urges people in industries that are being automated to upskill.

"It's about being able to be proactive and understanding how we can use (our data) to make sure that people have the right skills for the future," she said.

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Self-checkout at the grocery store, electronic record keeping, even tax preparation. Increasingly, technology is automating tasks previously performed by people. While automation technology has changed some jobs, it has eliminated others entirely.

Todays WatchBlog post looks at our new report about which kinds of workers are most at risk of losing their jobs to automation, and what skills they need to get in-demand jobs.

You can also listen to our podcast with GAOs Dawn Locke, an expert on workforce training and education, to learn more.

Who is at risk of losing their job to automation?

Workers with lower levels of education and who perform routine tasksthink cashiers or file clerksface the greatest risks of their jobs being automated. However, automation is likely to have widespread effects. Researchers estimate that anywhere from 9% to 47% of jobs could be automated in the future.

To better understand the scope of automations effects, federal agencies are working to gather more data on how automation will affect the workforce. For example, the Department of Labor is planning to gather information from industries such as retail trade, healthcare, and transportation and warehousing to learn more about how automation is affecting jobs.

What are the in-demand skills for in-demand jobs?

Workers impacted by automation may need new skills to adapt to changing job requirements or get a new job.

The Department of Labors data indicate that the skills needed for in-demand jobs (meaning those jobs projected to grow fastest in the next 10 years) will include a mix of:

The Department of Labors data also show that in-demand jobs with a greater number of important skills tend to require more education. Important skills include active listening, social perceptiveness, and critical thinking.

Skills Deemed Important in the Top 20 In-Demand Occupations, by Education Level

What challenges do workers face in getting those skills?

While research indicates that some in-demand jobs with skills like judgement and management might be more resistant to automation, workers trying to grow their skills face challenges.

For example, workforce stakeholders we interviewed for our new report told us that training programs sometimes focus on helping people get a job quickly, which could lead to a short-term or low-wage job. Others told us that workers face challenges accessing programsfor example, finding childcare or being in a training program without having a way to still pay bills.

How can organizations help workers overcome those challenges?

Workforce stakeholders we interviewed had a number of suggestions to address these challenges. For example, some stakeholders said that training programs should focus on in-demand skills needed for high-growth jobs that are less likely to be automated.

Research also noted that training should build on workers existing skills to help them build skills toward high quality jobs. Other stakeholders said training programs should help workers obtain industry-recognized credentials. Stakeholders also suggested that providing wraparound services, like childcare, and offering financial support can help workers access training, though they acknowledged the cost of that help.

Learn more about our work on automation and workforce development by checking out our new report and podcast, and our Key Issue page on Employment in a Changing Economy.

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Which Workers Are the Most Affected by Automation and What Could Help Them Get New Jobs? - Government Accountability Office

A new webinar for executives, administrators, directors and other care leaders at senior care and LTC facilities.

Misty ReidChief Nursing OfficerEmpRes Healthcare

Misty joined EmpRes Healthcare in 2016. She comes with over 13 years of healthcare experience in the LTC industry. She has worked for UCHealth and Life Care Centers of America prior to joining EmpRes. She began her career as a CNA before becoming an RN. Her career journey has taken her through many different positions throughout long term care, including Director of Nursing, Regional Director of Clinical Operations, Divisional Director of Clinical Operations, and Director of Clinical Integration.

Misty holds a Bachelor degree in Nursing from the University of Wyoming, and in 2020 received her Masters Degree in Acute Care Gerontology, earning the title of Acute Care Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner (APRN) through the University of Northern Colorado.

Wednesday | September 21, 2022 | 2 p.m. Eastern

Managing workflows, processes, and applications required to provide quality and positive healthcare experiences has become unmanageable for most providers.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,EmpRes Healthcare, like other senior care facilities, found itself juggling new and stricter regulations, keeping staff and residents safe, and continuing to providing quality care.

The result was that the organization struggled to prevent staff burnout.

Sound familiar?

EmpRes turned to automation and technology to combat the problem, eliminating the need for FTEs to manage health screenings. The initiative meant these clinicians could resume working on the floor and providing care where they were sorely needed.

Join us for this practical, fast-paced session on September 21, and discover the challenges EmpRes faced, the technology solutions they implemented, and what they learned along the way. You'll walk away armed with information to give time back to staff, create quality healthcare experiences via efficiency, and make technology work for you.

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TK King joined the post-acute healthcare industry in 2006 to help promote quality care, improve the clinician experience, and educate the lawmakers that shape regulations and policies at both the State and Federal levels. His experience includes direct patient care, clinical support, software and project management, training and development, analytics, regulatory compliance and education, and operational strategy. Whether its eliminating unnecessary tasks in day-to-day operations or automating processes and systems, TK believes quality outcomes and customer satisfaction can be driven by creating a positive experience in the workplace.

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GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GL Communications Inc., a global leader in telecom test and measurement solutions, addressed the press regarding their enhanced VQuad and Voice Quality Test (VQT) solutions to support Python Application Programming Interfaces (API) for test automation and remote access.

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The VQuad and VQT Python libraries provide a range of Python functions which can be used to remotely or locally control these two applications. The VQuad library provides the functionality of the existing VQuad Command Line Interface (CLI) as well as the ability to run prewritten scripts sequentially. The VQT library can be used to run automatic and manual VQT tests with custom settings.

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Python for VQuad works by connecting to the existing VQuad CLI and using a portion of the CLI commands to make simple functions. This connection to the CLI makes the library fast and responsive. Python scripts can perform a variety of Call Control and Audio operations on any device associated with the VQuad system. Additionally, access to the original CLI functions is possible through use of the VQuad library and the Python ctypes library, said Robert Bichefsky, Director of Engineering at GL Communications Inc.

He further added, Python for VQT works by connecting to the existing VQT CLI and using a portion of the CLI commands to run manual and automated VQT tests. Class variables are linked to the settings for each test and can be changed easily.

GLs VQuad in conjunction with Dual UTA HD hardware device can interface to various telecommunication endpoint devices such as cell phones, analog phones, mobile radios, VoIP phones and more. The VQuad software controls the Dual UTA HD and can place and answer calls, send audio, digits and tones, make measurements of voice quality, delay, voiceband statistics and more. The VQuad software has an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface. It also possesses a CLI for scripting and automation. GL provides its own simple scripting language along with Python APIs.

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About GL Communications Inc.,GL Communications is a global provider of telecom test and measurement solutions. GLs solutions are used to verify the quality and reliability of Wireless (5G, 4G, 3G, 2G), SONET/SDH, Ethernet/IP, TDM, and PSTN networks.

Warm Regards,Vikram Kulkarni, PhDPhone: 301-670-4784 x114Email: info@gl.com

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Python Scripting for Automation and Remote Access of Voice Quality Testing - GlobeNewswire

In the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosis visit to Taiwan, Chinese warships and aircraft conducted a series of drills surrounding the island. Beijings goal was clear: demonstrate the Chinese Communist Partys (CCP) ability and willingness to isolate and coerce Taiwan into submission through a fait accompli blockade. Meanwhile, the U.S. Army is facing a severe recruitment crisis. This problem is not an anomaly confined to one branch of the U.S. military but the result of cultural and economic shifts within American society. There are no quick fixes for addressing the services staffing shortages and the impact of this issue will likely increase over the rest of the decade without a systemic change in talent management. Still, today Congress can play a central role in helping the Department of Defense mitigate this risk in the mid-term by making strategic investments to accelerate the development of automated and autonomous systems.

Thought leaders like former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michle Flournoy have argued that technological superiority will determine the winner of the strategic competition between the United States and China. While Congress and the Department of Defense have made admirable progress in addressing many cultural and policy obstacles to innovation, progress is still too slow. According to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligences final report, China is poised to overtake the United States in artificial intelligence (AI) dominance. This will erode the United States ability to deter aggression against Taiwan and other partners.

Autonomous systems give commanders many potential advantages over a less-technologically advanced adversary. Through collaborative operations in all domains, human-machine teams can conduct critical missions together, including reconnaissance, targeting, and logistics. As such, these teams represent an economy of force that allows commanders to prioritize the use of their service members for other tasks. Autonomous systems also enable the operationalization of the Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) concept. Data collected through distributed and networked platforms enhances situational awareness and allows commanders to make decisions faster than their adversaries.

While the Department of Defense and its industry partners are already developing autonomous systems, they are not doing so at the speed and scale needed to achieve a comparative advantage over adversaries operating in Eastern Europe and the Indo-Pacific. Although each service is developing its next-generation autonomous family of systems, history shows that independent development efforts will likely be disjointed and slow. This increases the risk to the Joint Force that its autonomous platforms will not work together seamlessly. It will also drive up the cost of live testing autonomous systems from different services, especially when they are not complemented by virtual testing and evaluation.

The good news is that Congress can help accelerate the maturation of these technical and operational concepts by expanding investments in technologies that accelerate the development of autonomous programs across all the services. For example, Congress can direct the establishment of an enterprise data management program that supports all the services. As we have seen firsthand in the commercial sector, a robust data management program is the foundation of successful autonomous system development and deployment programs. Our British allies understand this well. The United Kingdoms Ministry of Defence (MOD) is incorporating data management skills as part of its Human Machine Teaming (HMT) program.

Congress can also expand investments in centers of higher learning, including in historically black colleges and universities, to conduct research in autonomous vehicle technology. These institutions give the Department of Defense and dual-use technology companies another focal point for focused collaboration on key national security autonomy problems. They also serve as incubators for workforce development in strategic industries by developing solutions to challenging problems across critical sectors such as defense, agriculture, and transportation.

Technological advances alone are insufficient to solve the United States national security challenges, such as recruitment shortfalls. This will require robust bipartisan leadership in Congress to implement sustainable long-term policies that will attract strong, smart, and tech-savvy citizens to serve. However, accelerating the fielding of autonomous technologies will allow the United States to optimize its existing force structure while stepping up the development of future operational concepts. A failure to meet the moment will mean that the Peoples Liberation Army will become a technological near-peer competitor to the United States military.

Nicholas Kazvini-Gore serves as Director of Federal Affairs at Applied Intuition. Previously, he served as national security advisor to Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a senior Member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.

John Mark Wilson serves as Director of Strategy and Communications at Applied Intuition. He served as an officer in the United States Army for 24 years and in the National Security Council as a director of strategic communications.

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August 2022

WP 22-25 The fraction of national income that accrues to labor is shrinking in many countries. This paper explores how automation affects the labor share in the long run and why IT-powered automation may be shifting the balance toward capital.

We study how advancements in automation technology affect the division of aggregate income between capital and labor in the context of long-run growth. Our analysis focuses on the fundamental trade-off between the labor-displacing effect of automation and its positive productivity effect in an elementary task-based framework featuring a schedule of automation prices across tasks linked to the state of technology. We obtain general conditions for the automation technology and technical change driving automation to be labor-share displacing. We identify a unique task technology that reconciles the Kaldor facts with the presence of automation along the balanced growth path. We show that this technology aggregates to the CobbDouglas production function thus providing novel task-based microfoundations for this workhorse functional form. We employ our theory to study the connection between the recent declines in the labor share and the unique nature of the current, IT-powered wave of automation.

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March 2021

WP 21-11 We study the effect of modern automation on firm-level labor shares using a 2018 survey of 1,618 manufacturing firms in China.

This report analyzes the risks of automation and job opportunities for different demographic groups in the U.S. and 11 metropolitan areas in the Third Federal Reserve District. The study, by Lei Ding, Elaine Leigh, and Patrick Harker, attempts to clarify some misunderstanding on how automation impacts jobs.

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Understanding Growth Through Automation: The Neoclassical Perspective - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

In the wake of COVID-19, and as the spectre of recession once again looms, its a timely reminder to review your technology and make sure youre getting ongoing value from your investment. With a bit of thought and knowledge, there are nearly always opportunities to improve on the outcomes you are currently getting from your applications and environment, and save time and money to boot.

In this article, the first of three, we suggest five specific ways you can achieve more bang for your precious buck by embracing or bettering your business processes through automation.

1. Reduce the cost of employee attraction and retention

Its commonly accepted that automation enables your employees to be more productive and accurate, and get things done more quickly, which is always great for your bottom line.

But theres also a bigger picture pay-off, and its to do with the well-documented shortage of skills and the Great Resignation.

If youve been struggling to recruit skilled resources, consider freeing up existing staff from repetitive tasks that limit their personal growth and instead, invest in upskilling them - so they can undertake more valuable (and interesting) roles. As a result, your employee retention improves, and recruitment and training costs go down. And of course, you can scale up operations without increasing your headcount, or making those impossible demands on employee time that drive people away.

Automation ideas: Streamline accounts payables, financial reporting, and data entry roles.

2. Slash the costs (and ill feeling) incurred by bad data

When it comes to data, small human mistakes can cost you dearly.

For those dedicated to data entry, it only takes a second to misplace a decimal point, record an incorrect phone number or address, or enter the wrong quantity or items in a customers order. At best, the mistake can result in an apology, at worst, some significant scrabbling to recover a damaged business relationship or even a legal battle. And of course, theres the time it takes to fix the mistake and pour oil on troubled waters.

In short, the more opportunities for human data entry that you can eliminate from your business processes by using automation to collect, process, store and share data, the less the risk and expense to your business.

Automation ideas: Remove manual data entry (and re-entry) from order taking, and financial reporting.

3. The old do more with less concept

While automation is often scarily sold as a way to replace people, we prefer to think of it as an opportunity to free them up to tackle more high-value (and interesting) tasks, or to grow the business capability without having to recruit extra employees.

Processes which involve paperwork are the perfect low hanging fruit for fast improvement. There are so many options to accurately ingest and sort incoming data without lifting a finger that its not funny. But it is exciting to realise that the time wasted asking a human to do a job that technology can do better can be eliminated. While exceptions always exist, handling them by hand may take a mere 5% of the initial task timeframe.

When talking about their successful adoption of automation to improve their accounts payable process Whakarongorau Aotearoa (formerly Homecare Medical) said: Without AP automation, we wouldve added at least another person to the accounts payable team by now. Weve taken the right strategic path. It could have been very different for us if we hadnt made this investment.

Automation ideas: Eliminate playing pass-the-paperwork, invoice approval chasing, claim or application reviewing/approval workflows, notifications for order despatches, appointments, payments, collating data from multiple systems, and more.

4. Speed up workflows that normally slow your business down

Complex workflows are inherently slow. They usually involve multiple touchpoints and approvals and reviews, and are prone to sit in unaudited to-do piles. As a result, theres always someone waiting impatiently for an outcome, whether its good news for an insurance claim, payment for an invoice, or a place at a further education facility.

Automation ideas: Accelerate multi-touch application, registration, enrolment, approval, and claim processes, as well as your entire supply chain or project services.

5. Become self-reliant

When times are tough, you have to tighten your business expenses belt where you can. So, youll want to maximise the wealth of internal capabilities of your existing administrators and developers to visualise, create, embed, manage, and refine your workflows.

The big 'however though, is that to do this, youll need an application that provides you with DIY process automation features. With a modern cloud solution, your users should have access to easy-to-understand inbuilt visual tools to create single- or multi-step workflows like estimate or quote approvals. They should also be able to apply data integrity logic to fields, including custom formulae, to ensure that data is accurate (circling back to point 2). When you can turn to your own team to streamline and automate repeatable tasks, youre already slashing your technology budget - and being master of your own efficiency efforts.

Automation ideas: Design and build your own customised make-life-easier automated processes for customers and staff using no-code, low-code, or click-not-code tools.

In summary, the judicious use of automation can help you consciously control employee costs, improve productivity, remove costly errors from the equation, speed up your rate of business and empower your people to eliminate redundant tasks. All this at a time when your bottom-line is yet again under attack.

Fusion5 focuses on helping customers do better business, so they can go from good to great. So, our next two articles will focus on practical ways to get more value out of your cloud investments, and how you can generate the sort of intelligent insights which will make a dollar-driven difference to your decision-making process.

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Is software testing getting easier or harder? Are testers making use of modern tools to accelerate product release cycles, or are they bogged down by manual processes?

To better understand the answers to these questions, Kobiton asked 150 testers in companies with at least 50 employees across a range of industries.

It turns out, software testers are relying more on automation than ever before, driven by a desire to lower testing costs and improve software quality and user experience.

For context, there are two kinds of software testing: manual and automated. Manual is still common but its not ideal for repetitive tests, leading many testers to choose automation, which can expedite development and app performance. To wit, 40% of testers responding to Kobitons study said their primary motivation for using automation is improving user experience.

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In a study we conducted two years ago, half the testers we asked said their automation programs were relatively new, and 76% said they were automating fewer than 50% of all tests, said Kevin Lee, CEO of Kobiton. Nearly 100% of testers participating in this years study are using automation, which speaks to how far the industry has come.

Testing managers are prioritizing new hires with automation experience, too. Kobitons study found that automation experience is one of the three skills managers are most interested in.

And how is automation being used? A plurality (34%) of respondents to Kobitons survey said they are using automation for an equal mix of regression and new feature testing.

And its made them more efficient. Almost half (47%) of survey respondents said it takes 3-5 days for manual testing before a release, whereas automated tests can have it done in 3-6 hours.

A desire to increase automation testing was the top priority listed by testers responding to our 2022 study. Automation clearly is the wave of the future, said Lee.

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It might be surprising for some, but humans actually evolved to be long-distance runners. We arent very fast comparatively, but no other animal can run for as long or as far as a human can. Sitting at a desk, on the other hand, is definitely not something that were adapted to do, so its important to take some measures to avoid many of the problems that arise for those that sit at a desk or computer most of the day. This build takes it to the extreme, not only implementing a standing desk but also a ton of automation for that desk as well.

This project is an improvement on a prior build by [TJ Horner] called the WiFi Standing Desk Controller. This new version has a catchier name, and uses an ESP32 to run the show. The enclosure is 3D printed and the control board includes USB-C and a hardware UART to interface with the controller. The real perks of this device are the automation, though. The desk can automatically lift if the user has been sitting too long, and could also automatically lift if it detects no one is home (to help keep a cat off of the desk, for example). It also includes presets for different users, and can export data to other software to help analyze sitting and standing patterns.

The controller design is open source and could be adapted to work on a wide-array of powered desks. As weve seen in the past, with the addition of a motor, even hand-crank standing desks can be upgraded. If you havent gotten into the standing desk trend yet, we hope that you are at least occasionally going for a run.

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Those that digitized during the pandemic are seeing their earlier investments in automation pay off, according to Amexs latest Global Business Spend Indicator.

B2B spending is up for U.S. businesses with inflation rates still hovering around a record high, but two-thirds (67%) of these businesses also expect to spend more to drive productivity and efficiency through digitization, including a focus on technology, according to the latest edition of the American Express Global Business Spend Indicator.

Sixty-one percent of U.S. businesses cited inflation as the factor having the biggest negative impact on their businesses. To help offset the impact of inflation, the GBSI indicates an overwhelming majority (79%) of respondents are prioritizing access to working capital and managing cash flow.

With nearly half (48%) citing a desire to improve productivity as the main driver, 60% of U.S. businesses expect to spend more on technology, the GBSI found.

Forty-five percent of respondents said they hope to improve the quality of their products or services, while 37% said their business wants to improve the speed and effectiveness of making and receiving payments.

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Nearly half (45%) of businesses that recently began using automated payments reported they have already seen an improvement in cash flow management and receiving faster payments, helping to offset the impact of inflation.

Additionally, a majority of businesses are planning to further automatespecifically, 56% want to automate payments to suppliers and 63% when looking at payments received, according to the GBSI.

Further, the GBSI found that 48% of respondents reported that the digitization of payments has already helped reduce costs, while half associate automation with more efficient payment processes.

Technology is a key area of investment for U.S. businesses focused on improving productivity which is especially important in todays macroeconomic environment, where businesses are looking for any opportunity to maximize output and remain competitive. This survey data also signals that U.S. businesses are feeling optimistic about the future of their business, and their investment in technology supports that, said Trina Dutta, vice president of B2B payments automation, global commercial services at American Express.

Even though U.S. businesses are being challenged by inflation and supply chain disruptions, the majority are keen to invest in technology, with a desire to improve business productivity being one of the main drivers of the rise in technology spending, echoed Josie Dent, managing economist at Centre for Economics and Business Research, which conducted the survey.

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U.S. businesses are also reevaluating their supply chain with 40% reporting they are still being impacted by supply chain issues in 2022. When asked what actions theyve taken in the last six months because of supply chain challenges:

Dutta said Amex was inspired to see that despite supply chain and inflation challenges, businesses across the country remain resilient, with 71% of U.S. businesses reporting they are optimistic about the success of their business over the next 12 months.

In terms of what will be next in financial automation, Dutta said U.S. businesses are taking steps to secure their future amid macroeconomic challenges.

For example, the GBSI found that U.S. businesses that digitized during the pandemic are seeing their investments in automation pay off: 45% of businesses that recently began using automated payments are already seeing an improvement in cash flow management, receiving faster payments, and helping offset the impact of inflation, said Dutta.

When looking at payments received from business customers, the share of suppliers wishing to expand their current degree of financial automation increases to 63%, Dutta said. As businesses continue to see the benefits of financial automation, we expect to see increased use, and in turn, more innovation in the space.

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Packaging Automation Market 2022 - 2030 - Vendor Assessment (Company Profiles, Market Positioning, Strategies, Recent Developments, Capabilities & Product Offerings / Mapping), Technology Assessment (Developments & Economic Impact), Partner & Customer Ecosystem (Product Services, Proposition & Key Features) Competitive Index & Regional FootPrint by MDC Research

Pune, Aug. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Packaging Automation Market by Vendor Assessment, Technology Assessment, Partner & Customer Ecosystem, type/solution, service, organization size, end-use verticals, and Region Global Packaging Automation Market Forecast to 2030, published by Market Data Centre, The Packaging Automation Market is projected to grow at a solid pace during the forecast period. The presence of key players in the ecosystem has led to a compsetitive and diverse market. The advancement of digital transformation initiatives across multiple industries is expected to drive the worldwide Packaging Automation Market during the study period.

This COVID-19 analysis of the report includes COVID-19 IMPACT on the production and, demand, supply chain. This report provides a detailed historical analysis of the global Packaging Automation Market from 2017-to 2021 and provides extensive market forecasts from 2022 to 2030 by region/country and subsectors. The report covers the revenue, sales volume, price, historical growth, and future perspectives in the Packaging Automation Market.

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On the basis of Geography, the Global Packaging Automation Market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Rest of the World (RoW). North America is expected to hold a considerable share in the global Packaging Automation Market. Due to increasing investment for research and development process and adoption of solutions in the region whereas Asia-Pacific is expected to grow at a faster pace during the forecasted period.

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The growing number of Packaging Automation Market players across regions is expected to drive market growth further. Moreover, increasing investments by prominent vendors in product capabilities and business expansion is expected to fuel the market during the study period. Many market players are finding lucrative opportunities in emerging economies like China and India, where the large populations are coupled with new innovations in numerous industries.

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The U.S. economy will likely tip into recession during the first quarter of 2023 and shrink 0.4% for the full year as the combination of high inflation and tightening monetary policy bedevils consumers and businesses, Experts forecast for growth this year to 0.1% from 1.2%. However the Europe Market reacts to a dip by up to 6%, predominantly Hungary, Slovakia, Italy and Czech Republic. Shut down on Russian gas supply would negate the GDP by 6% for EU Countries to lead them to recession.

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1. INTRODUCTION1.1. Market Definition1.2. Market Segmentation1.3. Geographic Scope1.4. Years Considered: Historical Years 2017 & 2020; Base Year 2021; Forecast Years 2022 to 20301.5. Currency Used2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY2.1. Research Framework2.2. Data Collection Technique2.3. Data Sources2.3.1. Secondary Sources2.3.2. Primary Sources2.4. Market Estimation Methodology2.4.1. Bottom-Up Approach2.4.2. Top-Down Approach2.5. Data Validation and Triangulation2.5.1. Market Forecast Model2.5.2. Limitations/Assumptions of the Study3. ABSTRACT OF THE STUDY4. MARKET DYNAMICS ASSESSMENT4.1. Overview4.2. Drivers4.3. Barriers/Challenges4.4. Opportunities5. VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS6. PRICING ANALYSIS7. SUPPLY CHAIN ANALYSIS8. MARKET SIZING AND FORECASTING8.1. Global - Packaging Automation Market Analysis & Forecast, By Region8.2. Global - Packaging Automation Market Analysis & Forecast, By Segment8.2.1. North America Packaging Automation Market, By Segment8.2.2. North America Packaging Automation Market, By Country8.2.2.1. US8.2.2.2. Canada8.2.3. Europe Packaging Automation Market, By Segment8.2.4. Europe Packaging Automation Market, By Country8.2.4.1. Germany8.2.4.2. UK8.2.4.3. France8.2.4.4. Rest of Europe (ROE)8.2.5. Asia Pacific Packaging Automation Market, By Segment8.2.6. Asia Pacific Packaging Automation Market, By Country8.2.6.1. China8.2.6.2. Japan8.2.6.3. India8.2.6.4. Rest of Asia Pacific (RoAPAC)8.2.7. Rest of the World (ROW) Packaging Automation Market, By Segment8.2.8. Rest of the World (ROW) Packaging Automation Market, By Country8.2.8.1. Latin America8.2.8.2. Middle East & Africa

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Vendor Assessment

Vendor assessment includes a deep analysis of how vendors are addressing the demand in the Packaging Automation Market. The MDC CompetetiveScape model was used to assess qualitative and quantitative insights in this assessment. MDC's CompetitiveScape is a structured method for identifying key players and outlining their strengths, relevant characteristics, and outreach strategy. MDC's CompetitiveScape allows organizations to analyze the environmental factors that influence their business, set goals, and identify new marketing strategies. MDC Research analysts conduct a thorough investigation of vendors' solutions, services, programs, marketing, organization size, geographic focus, type of organization and strategies.

Technology Assessment

Technology dramatically impacts business productivity, growth and efficiency.Technologies can help companies develop competitive advantages, but choosing them can be one of the most demanding decisions for businesses. Technology assessment helps organizations to understand their current situation with respect to technology and offer a roadmap where they might want to go and scale their business. A well-defined process to assess and select technology solutions can help organizations reduce risk, achieve objectives, identify the problem, and solve it in the right way. Technology assessment can help businesses identify which technologies to invest in, meet industry standards, compete against competitors.

Business Ecosystem Analysis

Advancements in technology and digitalization have changed the way companies do business; the concept of a business ecosystem helps businesses understand how to thrive in this changing environment. Business ecosystems provide organizations with opportunities to integrate technology in their daily business operations and improve research and business competency. The business ecosystem includes a network of interlinked companies that compete and cooperate to increase sales, improve profitability, and succeed in their markets. An ecosystem analysis is a business network analysis that includes the relationships amongst suppliers, distributors, and end-users in delivering a product or service.

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North America (US, Canada), Europe (Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (Japan, China, Australia, India, Rest of Asia-Pacific), and Rest of the World (RoW).

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DUBLIN, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The "Logistics Automation Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2022-2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global logistics automation market size reached US$ 58.65 Billion in 2021. Looking forward, the publisher expects the market to reach a value of US$121.27 Billion, exhibiting a CAGR of 12.87% during 2021-2027. Keeping in mind the uncertainties of COVID-19, we are continuously tracking and evaluating the direct as well as the indirect influence of the pandemic. These insights are included in the report as a major market contributor.

Logistics automation relies on the utilization of computer software or automated machinery to improve the efficiency of logistics operations. It assists in minimizing manual data entry errors and improving customer services by using features like auto pick-up, real-time freight tracking, proper insurance, and automatic notifications. It also aids in reducing the workforce required for processing tasks like sorting, weighting, barcoding, counting, picking, and packing. Moreover, as it is scalable, speedy, and accurate, its demand is rising across the globe.

Logistics Automation Market Trends

Presently, e-commerce platforms worldwide are gaining immense popularity on account of the increasing sales of smartphones and the rising penetration of high-speed internet connections. This represents one of the key factors driving the market. Apart from this, there is a significant rise in the number of warehouses and a consequent increase in investments for warehouse automation. This can be accredited to the surging need for efficient warehousing and inventory management and reducing the cost of labor, which is contributing to market growth.

Furthermore, leading market players are introducing warehouse robots to eliminate the need for manual involvement in a variety of activities, such as warehousing and material handling, by automating laborious and dangerous tasks and ensuring the safety of the workforce. They are also automating logistics with advanced technologies, such as global positioning systems (GPS), artificial intelligence (AI), biometrics, and real-time tracking for streamlining businesses.

Other major factors, including the development of autonomous heavy-duty freight vehicles and flying drones for performing numerous intralogistics processes within the warehouse and storage facilities and their expanding applications in retail, automotive, and food and beverage (F&B) industries, are anticipated to strengthen the market growth.

Key Market Segmentation:

The publisher provides an analysis of the key trends in each sub-segment of the global logistics automation market report, along with forecasts at the global, regional and country level from 2022-2027. Our report has categorized the market based on component, function, enterprise size and industry vertical.

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12 Value Chain Analysis

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* Led by Boba Milic, the Lunar Automations team manages private client Walmart stores

When it comes to online shopping, Amazon is often reckoned as the most popular. It records over 90 million monthly users. However, Amazon takes second place in revenue compared to Walmart. Walmart is the world's largest retailer present in 24 countries. In 2021, Walmart had a revenue of $559 billion, which was an increase from $524 billion in 2020 and $514 billion in 2019. Over the past decade, Walmart's revenue has grown by over $100 billion every year. Its net income reached $15.2 billion in 2020 and $13.7 billion in 2021.

There is no denying that Walmart is the next big Amazon. It has the revenue, customers and infrastructure to do it. They have tens of millions of loyal customers that will follow them to their online marketplace. At Lunar Automation, the target is to help people earn passive income by setting up automated Walmart stores and taking advantage of this new opportunity. Owning a Walmart store now is like starting an Amazon store 7 years ago - the opportunity is big!

Lunar Automation is a company founded by Boba Milic, which offers the automation and management of Walmart stores to people looking for ways to diversify their income. They also are the only company that offers Walmart dropshipping that is not against terms of service which keeps client accounts safe. Lunar Automation takes care of everything from A to Z so that you can kick back and enjoy other aspects of your life.

"Our approach to Walmart Automation is uniquely built around what we know works and what we know that doesn't work," explained Boba Milic. "For over 5 years, we have grown personal and private client stores in eCommerce. We help ambitious people like you generate a hands-free business that helps you diversify your income."

From product research to management consulting and order fulfillment, Lunar Autmation provides an all-in-one solution to having an automated eCommerce business. The company guarantees that your store will be doing 50k/mo in sales within 6 months or the team will work for free until they get you there.

About Lunar Automations

Lunar Automation is a performance-driven automation company by Boba Milic dedicated to growing eCommerce businesses for private clients. Over the years, the company has worked on personal and private accounts, helping thousands of clients from around the world grow a real business asset that will prove to be a great addition to their income portfolio.

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The pandemic has irrevocably changed business operations. In a recent report by UIpath, "The COVID-19 Crisis Will Accelerate Enterprise Automation Plans."

The need for automation increased manifold after the pandemic, and businesses started moving with RPA.

Among the fast-growing technologies, robotic process automation can be one leading us towards a better post-pandemic world.

How? Read this blog to know more!

The ability to adapt quickly is a matter of survival for small & mid-sized businesses. During tough economic times such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the recipe for resilience is financial discipline, but it comes at a cost.

Performance and organizational agility are the two most affected areas, calling out for adaptability- this is where Robotic Process Automation steps in.

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RPA uses software that helps businesses automate their manual and repetitive tasks. The RPA bots allow the organizations to automate simple & mundane tasks allowing the human workforce to focus on more productive tasks.

Where there are paper, manual tasks, and complex workflows, there lies an opportunity to inject RPA to automate tasks & improve business performance.

According to HfS, "If theres ever been a time we needed a digital workforce to augment humans, its now."

We understand that RPA, in a pandemic situation, cant be a nirvana solution for all our business problems. Still, it can help businesses tackle operations where processing speed has been adversely affected.

Robotic process automation can help in business continuity, resiliency, and improved customer experience.

RPA projects generate a great deal of cost savings. Businesses can enjoy immediate ROI offsetting the upfront investment of implementing just ten bots. With RPA implementation in a pandemic, enterprises can increase the quality and quantity of work products while allowing the human workforce to shift towards higher-value tasks.

The most significant advantage of RPA in pandemic and otherwise is the speed & time slash it can render by automating the mundane tasks. This was imperative during a pandemic when lost time can result in loss of life.

A drop in revenue has forced many organizations to lay off their employees during the pandemic, which rendered a big blow to productivity. By automating the daily activities of the workforce, enterprises can easily focus on activities that require human problem-solving.

When the entire world was forced into a lockdown, businesses had no choice but to shift toward a work-from-home model. Robotic process automation helped companies facilitate remote work by expediting the setup process of work from home offices.

Amid the pandemic, RPA implementation protected the staffs health by limiting exposure. For instance, bots were employed to evaluate employees current health, ad based on the survey; it helped determine if a person is at low risk or high risk.

RPA in pandemic can help businesses eliminate human error, set between 5% and 10%. Improved accuracy and quality of work are essential in high-stake tasks.

Diagnostic labs, drive-through test centers, and hospitals are burdened with diagnosing hundreds of patients each day during & after the pandemic.

As a result, there is a desperate need to speed up analyzing, looking up medical records, updating them, and sharing the documents with CDC. It has been noted that attended bots can save up to 8-9 minutes per patient by avoiding manual data management.

From Amazon to delivery services and hospitals, almost all the industries need to increase their workforce to meet the growing business demands. The solutions powered by the bot can help organizations to free up human resources to focus on more critical tasks.

Gartner predicts that by 2024, nearly half of new RPA customers will come from business buyers outside of IT organizations.

Automation is a valuable asset for ensuring agility, resiliency, and cost-effectiveness in a business environment. RPA implementation in the pandemic & post-pandemic world can help business leaders gain a foothold in a new market.After years of planning, workforce cutting & restructuring, now is the right time to invest in RPA solutions to help employees adapt to the post-pandemic world. RPA can help mitigate unexpected risks associated with manual tasks in this unpredictable market dynamic.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global NGS Library Preparation Growth Opportunities" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

NGS library preparation incorporates processing steps that convert genomic DNA or RNA into an appropriate format for the selected sequencing technology. The workflow starts with isolating nucleic acids, fragmented, end-repaired, and connected to adapters using methods like ligation or tagmentation.

Sequencing applications incorporate whole genome, exome, transcriptome, and targeted sequencing. Sequencing scenarios encompass sequencing centers, diagnostic laboratories, research, and point-of-care applications. Given the potential to automate library preparation workflow, notably for lower-throughput applications, the sequencing scenario is predicted at the point of care.

The barriers to flourishing in the NGS library preparation space are less in contrast to developing novel sequencing platforms.

Automation significantly augments the speed, consistency, accuracy, and convenience of laboratory workflows. The library preparation product development space for NGS workflows is highly attractive, ripe for opportunities, and holds the key to expanding NGS capabilities into new markets.

The emergence of a new paradigm powered by clinical transcriptomics and multi-omics promises to profoundly impact advancements in higher-throughput immunology research. Against this backdrop of rising research demand, it is an opportune moment for industry participants to nurture a culture driven by sustainability by exploring ways to use resources better and reduce the environmental burden.

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CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SugarCRM today announced its Sugar Market solution has been named to the Constellation ShortList for B2C Marketing Automation for Small and Midsize Business in Q3 2022 for the second year running.

This recognition comes on the heels of Sugar Market being shortlisted by Constellation for addressing the unique needs of the B2B SMB sector.

Constellation Research advises leaders on leveraging disruptive technologies to achieve business model transformation and streamline business processes. The Constellation ShortList for B2C Marketing Automation for Small and Midsize Business provides an overview of software that enables small and midsize companies to build and scale brand awareness and loyalty through personalized campaigns, social engagement, and commerce-focused interaction.

According to the ShortList report, authored by Constellation Research Vice President and Principal Analyst Liz Miller, B2C SMB organizations are looking for powerful marketing and engagement automation engines that balance the need to create repeatable and sustainable interactions with consumers while scaling for growth and utilization in periods of rapid growth and evolution. Small teams want easy-to-use, functional marketing automation solutions with features that can grow with the business and the customer, without the need for large IT, developer or large costly specialized teams to get systems and campaigns up and running.

Its an honor to earn back-to-back Sugar Market ShortList rankings for the second consecutive year by the esteemed analysts at Constellation Research, said Christian Wettre, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Sugar Platform, SugarCRM. Personalizing the customer experience sits at the heart of modern marketing. Were proud to offer a leading AI-driven marketing automation solution that lets the platform do the work to put forth meaningful, relevant customer communications at scale to help fuel business growth.

Sugar Market is designed to make the hard things easier for marketers with a curated toolset that includes intuitive campaign builders, advanced automations, and superior reporting. As such, Sugar Market is empowering companies to turn automation into sustainable business transformation that delivers efficiencies and profitable results:

The delivery of highly personalized customer experiences, critical to brand loyalty, remains a challenge for many organizations. According to Sugars survey of 1,600 global sales and marketing professionals worldwide, more than eight in ten sales and marketing leaders (81%) believe their customers leave because of a lack of communication and personalized, relevant messaging.

Sugar Market takes the guesswork out of creating personalized marketing campaigns and replaces it with science leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to quickly segment various audiences, identify ideal customer profile, and engage more effectively with those segments.

With SugarPredict, Sugar Market generates customer insights that help create new marketing strategies accordingly by identifying the most promising leads to increase conversions, making personalized recommendations and next-best-action throughout the customer journey, and spotting cross-sell, and up-sell opportunities based on predicted needs to drive revenue growth.

About SugarCRM

SugarCRM is how marketing, sales, and service teams finally get a clear picture of each customer to help businesses reach new levels of performance and predictability. Sugar is the CRM platform that makes the hard things easier.

Thousands of companies in over 120 countries rely on Sugar to achieve high-definition CX by letting the platform do the work. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Sugar is backed by Accel-KKR.

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The Colonial Pipeline attack exposed an ongoing problem facing the nations critical infrastructure: A gap in the cybersecurity workforce. Future wars will no longer be traditional, and the country needs to be prepared on both the defensive and offensive sides, which starts by addressing this shortage. Our problem statement, then, becomes a lack of cybersecurity resources.

Due to an increase in demand for cybersecurity services, several companies including government organizations and multinational companies that provide cybersecurity consulting and implementation services started hiring candidates, which resulted in a resource crunch and a need to increase budget for hiring. Companies that didnt get the right candidate started contracting services from these consulting companies.

There are many companies and organizations which are running their cybersecurity projects with the help of third-party consulting and service support. It has escalated the economic impact and data security impact on these companies.

Every critical infrastructure industry, whether it is oil & gas, power utility, grid, food processing, manufacturing, etc., have adequate manpower for automation or engineering. They have shift engineers for operation, maintenance engineers for maintenance, and project engineers for ongoing or future projects.

The key is to train and upgrade, but how? They are already working, and cybersecurity is not their domain. ISA/IEC 62443 has provided a solution, and in this standard, there are seven functional requirements:

These seven areas are easy to train. These are technical controls, and our industrial engineers are very good at learning technical skills. If they are good at operating a complex system and monitoring critical parameters minute-by-minute to keep them within safe limits, we should trust them to take care of cybersecurity as well. Often, organizations turn to informational technology (IT) teams for cybersecurity of operational technology (OT). However, there are many benefits to training industrial engineers for OT cybersecurity, including:

A trainer or online course is the first step to providing background knowledge hands-on, which, in my opinion, is the best way to learn anything. First, we need to figure out our environment and then depending on our security requirements, we can curate courses for engineers. We can start with basic technologies, such as:

As a very high-level explanation of solutions, basic controls training can be provided to all industrial engineers that require them, so in case of emergencies they know what is expected of them and what needs to be done. Specialized training can also be provided to engineers so that a resource pool of skilled cybersecurity engineers can be further developed. This process will take some time, but this is a long-term solution. Attrition might be there in the short-term, but these processes and an increased development of a cyber-aware culture will compensate for that.

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Clouds can really help your business. If, and it's a big if, you can get it to work for you. That's where companies such as Cloudify, with its open source business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform, come in. Now, to make it more powerful, you can use the Cloudify infrastructure automation platform withServiceNow IT Operations Management (ITOM), part of the digital workflow of its Now Platform.

Cloudify enables you to trade online with your customers while fully integrating orders, pricing, product, and stock data with a range of enterprise resource planning (ERP) such as SAP, NetSuite, and Microsoft Dynamics. It also works with warehouse and accounting back office systems. Using plugins, you can also use your existing toolchains such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes for even more advanced automation capabilities.

Put it all together, and you get what Cloudify calls'Environment As A Service' (EaaS). Nati Shalom, Cloudify's CTO and Founder sees EaaS as the next generation of DevOps. "It's all about how to drive innovation and make a lot of those distributed systems as simple as the local system," said Shalom.

Ultimately, the company claims, EaaS will let you run applications across multiple cloud or data center platforms at the click of a button for premium multicloud infrastructure orchestration and automation.

Today, the Cloudify platform has expanded its reach again. It's now available in theServiceNow Store. Using Cloudify with ITOM enables you to work with your development team to automatically remediate your cloud resource configuration.

This is done by validating resources through ServiceNow Cloud Configuration Governance (CCG).From there, you trigger remediation actions. These are then automatically executed through Cloudify. Finally, they're deployed through ServiceNow or Continous Integration/Continous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

The company claims, "Developers can enjoy a self-service experience needed to rapidly spin up and tear down dev/test environments with minimal effort, as well as simplifying change management of production environments."

The pair gives you the tools you need for an Agile-first approach to creating, sharing, and managing cloud and multi-cloud work environments for your cloud developers. On a day-to-day basis, the Now Platform acts as the workflow automation engine. At the same time, Cloudify takes care of environment creation and Day 2 management.

From a broader viewpoint, with Cloudify and ITOM, companies can speed up their provisioning and management of multi-cloud infrastructure deployments with their DevOps and IT teams working together efficiently.

Specifically, Cloudify states with the ServiceNow pairing it becomes easier to:

The result? "Developers are always being asked to move faster and push new features to production quickly," said Brian Emerson, ServiceNow's ITOM VP and GM in a press release. And this will enable them to keep up with the demand. Ariel Dan, Cloudify's CEO, added, "Now DevOps can manage heterogeneous cloud environments at scale while being in compliance with IT processes. Ultimately, this means "an organization can manage end-customer environments and internal Dev/QA/Production environments more efficiently."

And, isn't managing and getting your business cloud and its resources to work more effectively your end goal? Why, yes, yes, I think it is.

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