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The DACH cloud computing industry in 2021 and beyond

As per a report by Forrester Research, “the global public cloud infrastructure market will grow 35 per cent to $120 billion in 2021.” This rise has much to do with the global pandemic that forced each of us to stay home and generate unprecedented market dynamics. Cloud computing is one of the fundamental technologies on which almost every aspect of technology depends. Today, we will look at how the DACH region’s cloud industry looks like in 2021: the advantages of cloud computing, emerging technologies, and the DACH industry’s professional requirements. Let’s get started!

Advantages of cloud computing

Cost-effective and consistent availability

Cloud computing eliminates the vast expenditures on hardware. It lets businesses leverage ‘a pay as they operate model’ as per their subscription plan. Hence, they pay only for the critical services and components, thereby reducing overheads substantially. Along with that, cloud computing claims an uptime of 99.9%, which means that services are always available. This reliability factor gives the cloud a sharp edge in the current day and age.

Enhanced flexibility

The shapeshifting operational models also alter bandwidth requirements for businesses. Cloud computing makes it a breeze. It meets the wavering bandwidth demands with ease. Companies can quickly deploy remote servers to meet escalating demands. Conversely, they can also free up some servers if the bandwidth demands take a dip.

Automatic software updates

The off-premise infrastructure of cloud computing gives it a significant advantage. The systems are managed and governed by third-party stakeholders. Hence, the servers can release updates by themselves, which frees the hassle to check updates regularly.

High-security standards

Cloud computing is like the apocalyptic safe house for businesses. If the in-house data centres are compromised, the backup on cloud servers will save the day for you. Since the data is on the cloud, every business stakeholder can easily access the data.

Emerging technologies in cloud technology

Cloud computing has been rapidly evolving to support and sustain the latest technological advancements. Here are the most prominent technologies that would take cloud computing to the next level in 2021:

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is the primary driving force behind futuristic technology. Hence, AI also plays a decisive role in the world of cloud computing. AI is responsible for making the existing cloud infrastructure more advanced and adaptable. Once AI is deployed at large, it will make clouds a lot smarter. Aspects such as language processing tools, image recognition tools, and recommendation engines would be better integrated and implemented. This trend would lead to higher effectiveness and overall efficiency of the cloud infrastructure.

Multi-cloud infrastructure

The evolving customer demands and market dynamics have made the multi-cloud model imperative for the modern-day cloud industry. The existing cloud platforms are being slowly transformed to offer exhaustive cloud services as per the specific client’s requirements.

Hybrid and on-premise cloud solutions

The choice between a public, private, or hybrid cloud infrastructure has always been a difficult one. The one-size-fits-all approach seems to underplay with the advancement in technology. Service providers need to switch to a more customized model that lets users pick individual cloud services as per their needs.

Following Amazon and Google’s footsteps, major cloud service providers such as Microsoft and IBM are tending to offer a combination of public and private or on-premise solutions.

Automated cloud computing

As was the case in 2020, cloud platforms will continue migrating towards automation. This is the result of the increased inclination towards cloud infrastructure at the enterprise level. As more and more services and applications move to cloud servers, managing interconnected services will become more complex. Hence, cloud automation will be the key to better-optimized and executed cloud computing and cloud transformation operations.

The emerging job profiles in the world the DACH cloud computing world

The changing industry dynamics have opened new talent avenues. Following are the most sought after technical profiles in the DACH cloud computing industry:

AWS Developer

Xamarin Mobile Developer

Data Engineer

Embedded Software Engineer

Data Analyst

How can Gateway Digital help?

Gateway Digital GmbH has a long legacy of providing industry-leading cloud transformation services to sustain and scale businesses. From Cloud Consulting to Cloud Security, we cater to every business requirement pertaining to Cloud Transformation and beyond.

Gateway Digital GmbH should be your next cloud services partner as we offer cutting-edge cloud transformation services. Here’s what makes us different:

150+ cloud certified professionals

200+ man-years of experience

Up to 40% reduction in operational cost

600+ reusable components

500+ cases of migration, solution development with AWS, Google, IBM, Azure and Alibaba

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The State of Legal Tech: What Every Legal Business Must Know

Digital platforms and emerging technologies such as AI, cloud, mobility, etc. are revolutionizing businesses across all industries, including legal. Due to the growing adoption of digital technologies across industries, robots and AI-driven machines replacing jobs have become a threat to the lawyers and legal players.

Does it mean we will see robot lawyers and judges in the future? Certainly not.

Although, most legal firms have begun adopting modern technologies to streamline their business processes and improve the efficiency of operations, analysis and evidence shows that the legal sector is the least likely to get replaced by machines. Studies show that, when it comes to implementing new legal technologies, the UK legal market is ahead of the curve. Legal firms and corporate legal departments are rapidly testing the use of AI-infused applications to automate process-heavy and time-consuming work.

If you are a legal player new to the digital era, this blog will help you with implementing a digital strategy for your law business. Here are a few pointers that businesses must know before beginning their legal IT transformation journey.

Drive Cultural Change

Digital transformation is an evolving and slow process. Legal businesses are willing to transform need to understand that simply adopting new technologies and tools is not enough for a successful digital transformation. It involves changing the employees’ mindset, upgrading technologies, modernizing business processes, and transforming the organization’s culture as a whole. Deploy Strong Security Systems

Law firms are a lucrative target for cyberattacks. Legal businesses deal with a huge amount of customer data, and breaches and data loss are the most prevalent challenges in the industry. Companies need to ensure they have strong encryption and data management systems, their security measures are constantly upgraded, and cybersecurity policies are in place.

Focus on Customer Experiences

In this fast-paced digital world, customers look for personalized and user-centric services. It is, therefore, necessary to design solutions keeping the users and customers at the core. Implement solutions that deliver the best user experience possible, improve the productivity and efficiency of users, and offer distinctive, secure experiences.

Involve in Strategic Technology Partnerships

In order to implement the right tools and business models for the ultimate success of your law firm, you need to invest in apt technologies. Consulting with a technology partner having relevant experience and expertise can help you choose the right technologies and shape up your digital transformation strategy. Hire a technology expert and engage in strategic partnership with them to build innovative legal tech products, software, and applications for your business.

Impact of Emerging Tech on Legal

Legal companies have started implementing technologies such as cloud solutions and AI in their everyday legal activities. The adoption of emerging tech will improve performance and efficiencies of processes, and save legal advisors, lawyers, and corporate legal departments a lot of time and costs. AI and ML-driven processes will help in creating innovative product concepts in line with improving customer services. It plays a major role in automating mundane, time-consuming tasks and reducing paperwork.

With AI, machines can be trained to operate and think like human lawyers and identify valuable information from the documents, to help solve a case. These systems can also analyse communication, manage documents, and content, and retrieve valuable information from a pool of data.

Conclusion

With the right approach and technology solutions, legal tech can allow firms to work faster, smarter, and more efficiently. Are you a legal firm looking for digital solutions to streamline your business processes? Gateway Digital offers innovative legal technology solutions that help lawyers and legal players in solving complex cases with utmost effectiveness. Our scalable solutions are designed by taking security, compliance, and confidentiality of the legal business into consideration. To know more about our legal tech solutions, visit www.thegatewaydigital.com or write to us at connect@thegatewaydigital.com.

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Legal Technology in 2020 and Beyond

Emerging technologies are changing the face of the legal industry across the world. When it comes to the adoption of digital technologies to accelerate legal processes, small and medium businesses in the UK legal market are ahead of the curve. Check out this infographic to learn about the legal tech trends in 2020 and beyond.

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How Gateway Digital is Assisting Healthcare Professionals in Fighting the COVID-19

As the COVID 19 pandemic remains a health and humanitarian crisis, our foremost priority has been to help create calm and minimize disruptions. With our flexible business model and expert global teams working from remote locations, we are doing our bit in making the lives of healthcare professionals easy during these tough times. Here’s how Gateway Corporation is helping one of our healthcare clients.

Client Overview: The client is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies working towards making healthcare better. They offer innovative products and services in orthopaedics, medical and surgical, neurotechnology and spine that help in improving patient and hospital outcomes.

Business Problem: Due to the current outbreak that has wreaked havoc across the world, the client and their staff faced challenges in managing the beds, patients, and equipment. With an aim to better manage their healthcare services during this time, the client was looking for a solution that would make it easy for their staff to carry out daily tasks in a better and easier way.

Our Analysis and Approach: With our decade long experience in providing digital healthcare solutions and strength and ability to find practical approach within the current mix of healthcare technologies and best practices, we analysed the key concern areas of our client. We studied the current situation and the clients’ long-term goals and came up with a custom healthcare application development service that would support our clients’ success and help them gain full value out of the investment.

Solution Highlights: We are developing a mobile app and a responsive web app for the patient care assistants and caregivers to keep a record of the occupancy of the beds in their hospitals. The app will detect each bed and help in getting the data of the current condition of the patient. The medical staff will enter the information about the patient, bed, and equipment in the app, which will get submitted to the admin. The web app is thought a centralized dashboard showing the information entered via the mobile app, specific to each bed, patient, and equipment, with the integration of BI will also generate various reports and display the information graphically to understand the live status of each patient occupying the bed. From the backend, it will also be possible to check the historic data and based on that generate various reports to understand the overall trend and direction.

Key Benefits:

The mobile app will be able to assist caregivers and healthcare staffs to manage the infrastructure, occupancy, and patient details on their fingertips.

A single-tap feature to fill the details will save a lot of time for the healthcare professionals.

Caregivers will get the details of the patient and the status of their health by looking at the details entered in the app.

The backend data will be used to easily locate a bed, patient, or equipment.

The app will also give the overall statistical data of the number of normal, critical, and recovered patients.

Gateway Digital is helping professional caregivers and healthcare businesses to navigate these turbulent times by making processes simpler and faster with our technology and digital healthcare solution. We are here with our range of new-age technologies, decade-long industry expertise, expert remote teams, and flexible business model to develop an apt solution for you and accelerate digital transformation in healthcare industry. 

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Resolving Challenges of Auto ISVs with Fruitful Technology Partnerships

In the past several years, cars have transformed from being a hardware-oriented vehicle to a software-oriented one. Each stage of the entire lifecycle of any product or software, right from its conceptualization, development, deployment, and post-delivery support is crucial to gain customer confidence and long-term relationships. Customers look for speed and agility and it is no cakewalk for independent software vendors to pull it off.

Automotive software providers need to develop specialist solutions with the latest technologies. They face many challenges in terms of their capabilities and limited resources while creating these solutions for their clients.

According to the Coding Sans State of Software Development 2019 report, 21.29% of software development companies agreed that dealing with a backlog with limited capacity while delivering software is the most significant challenge they face. Here are some more common challenges automotive ISVs face:

Data Management Challenges: Automotive software providers help companies by building products and software that integrate their standard legacy system with technology innovations. They face challenges in data modelling, data configuration and dealing with large and poor-quality data.

The One Size Fits All Approach: Most ISVs make a typical list of issues faced by automotive industry professionals and formulate a standard solution to resolve those issues. Although it works for some automotive software providers, this approach will not work for all. The reason is, every company has different manufacturing, inventory management, and billing process. The idea is to create customized software that takes care of the exact requirements of clients.

Lack of Infrastructure Knowledge: The customers working with the automotive software vendors expect them to offer quick, versatile, and scalable solutions that can seamlessly extract information and insights from legacy data sources. It is crucial to find common grounds with developers working on the solutions and create a Center of Excellence team to streamline processes from development to deployment.

Schedule and Cost Overruns: One of the biggest challenges for automotive software providers is to deploy customized solutions for their clients within the given timeline. Sometimes, they lose many precious clients due to lack of resources and technical expertise followed by the issue of cost overruns. As several automotive manufacturers start encountering problems with SaaS-based system even before it goes live, resolving those issues sometimes need investments in creating a robust support infrastructure system.

Quality of Service Delivery: The quality of service is a critical factor for automotive ISVs. To establish a strong customer base and enhance the reputation of their organization, they need to implement advanced product engineering processes. Not just that, they also need to evolve with emerging technology innovations.

How Can Automotive ISVs Overcome These Challenges?

It gets complicated to stay relevant with digital transformation in the automotive sector when there is a dire need to stay ahead in the competitive market. ISVs need to constantly innovate and evolve using advanced technologies, strike the right partnerships with automotive leaders, and interact with global key industry players. Moreover, once you develop the automotive solution, you need to make continuous improvement by embracing a dynamic product architecture and the emerging requirements of the markets.

This might not be practically possible for ISVs due to lack of the right resources and technical expertise. This is where a fruitful technology partnership can be of help.

Gateway Digital: Helping ISVs to scale up their software offerings

At Gateway Digital, we understand the significance of efforts that the independent software vendors put in while formulating the solutions or offerings to their customers for better experiences. We work as a co-creation and co-innovation partner with automotive software providers to help them with software and product engineering expertise and redefining customer experiences in this digital era. We provide the right technology insights and solutions to ISVs and businesses and support them in their growth journey.

If you are a software provider looking for support to co-innovate and co-create digital strategies and solutions for your automotive clients, get in touch with us.

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How will Microsoft Dynamics 365 Accelerate your Digital Transformation Journey?

The explosion of digital technologies such as Blockchain, AI and Internet of Things has brought new opportunities for business. Digital transformation enables organizations to generate customer-oriented solutions, improve productivity and automate processes. Customers across all industries expect more, cheaper, faster, and better services. But in order to achieve this, organizations need to analyse and manage massive amounts of data and streamline complex processes.

This becomes a lot easier with a cloud-based system like Microsoft Dynamics 365. Microsoft technologies help in developing business-driven applications and enterprise solutions that enable a secure and robust environment for organizations. Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a web and cloud-based solution that brings CRM, ERP, and business intelligence all in a single package, and effectively manages all business operations.

Microsoft Dynamics 365: Features that Boost Digital Transformation

Here are a few reasons why you should adopt Microsoft Dynamics 365 to accelerate your organization’s digital transformation.

Easy Access to Business Processes

What better than having a transparent platform to access all your business processes in one place? Microsoft Dynamics 365 is an affordable and easy-to-use solution that can be accessed through a simple web browser on any device or platform, from anywhere in the world, if you have an active internet connection. This mainly benefits the logistics and supply chain industry, which involves complex networks and interactions. Supply chain operations such as product performance, sales, order fulfilment, customer service, etc. can be controlled using this cloud-based solution. Other industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and financial services that deal with huge amounts of data can also effectively use MS Dynamics 365 to simplify operations.

Less IT, More On-Cloud

Cloud computing resolves the issues of maintaining software and systems manually. When everything is on the cloud, there is no need for special IT staff to look after the physical servers and on-premise IT systems. Microsoft will monitor, update, and maintain the application and platform by itself. Organizations that still opt for an on-premise server-based system need more computing power and server capacity to operate. If you are a small or mid-sized company, then shifting to the cloud can save a lot of money and resources.

Better and Faster Business Decisions

Microsoft Dynamics 365 gives you detailed insights about all your business operations. This includes customer’s details, real-time transaction data, and customer data collected from customer support, which will help your organization in making better decisions. It uses a real-time Business Intelligence (BI) solution that keeps you up-to-date with how your business is performing. Better business insights will allow you to optimize and streamline business areas and processes. Faster decision making will accelerate time to market for your product and help you in staying ahead of your competitors.

Improved Customer Experience

Data is integrated and stored in a centralized system in MS Dynamics 365. This enables the customer support team to find the right information at the right time and respond to customer queries more effectively. You can also track your customers’ purchase activity and predict behaviour to engage them across the entire product lifecycle. This improves the overall customer experience.

Be ready for the future…

Cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics 365 solution allows you to stay up-to-date with technology trends and fuels your organization’s digital transformation. Microsoft’s cost-effective platform updates and application updates eliminate the need for costly manual version upgrades every time. It creates new business opportunities, improves decision making and enhances customer experience.

At Gateway Digital, we leverage Microsoft technologies to accelerate our customers’ journey towards digital transformation, and enable them to be future-ready. Recognized as a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, we partner with businesses across diverse domains and offer them Microsoft consulting services, technology implementation and support services. If you are looking to implement Microsoft technologies to your business, get in touch with us.

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Why you Must Consider Blockchain for your Transport & Logistics Business

New emerging technologies are changing how industries and organizations function, change and evolve. In this digital age, it is difficult to find an area of business where there is no potential for technology to improve what we do. Right from your car system that gives you the weather updates every morning, to the text message you receive from your bank regarding your recent financial transactions, everything is aided by innovative digital technologies.

Just like all industries are catching pace with digital transformation, the transport and logistics industry is getting advanced too. From a single owner operator to large freight and trucking companies, adopting digital technology solutions has become inevitable for growth and survival in the disrupted market. Blockchain is one such modern technology that has been doing wonders ever since its implementation.

In this blog, we will take you through the various ways in which blockchain is changing the transport and logistics industry. But before that, for those of you who are new to blockchain, here is a quick definition:

Blockchain is a form of distributed ledger technology, where transaction data is shared by the nodes (computers) on a network, to which transactions are recorded and validated.

Used predominantly in FinTech and banking, blockchain technology solutions have significant applications in logistics, supply chain, healthcare, property and trading, energy, and many more sectors. Here are a few use cases of blockchain in real life:

Porsche and Toyota use blockchain and distributed ledger technology to develop new mobility ecosystem that accelerates the development of autonomous driving technology.

A leading healthcare company combines blockchain with big data to help doctors and patients securely transfer sensitive data.

IBM launched its Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution in 2017 for businesses across several industries.

Shipping giant DHL uses blockchain-backed logistics to maintain the integrity of transactions and a digital ledger of shipments.

Blockchain for Transport and Logistics- Enabling Efficient and Cost-saving Business Operations

The transport and logistics industry undergos challenges such as inefficient data and document management, money laundering and fraud, complex regulatory compliance, limited traceability, complex reverse logistics processes, non-transparency in booking and pricing, and more. Blockchain can help address these challenges. The primary usage of blockchain in digital logistics and transport is in the areas of automation, security and providing visibility across the supply chain.

Typically, a shipment must pass through several organizations and communication channels before reaching its end destination. Any gap during its transition can cause the container to be held up or lost. Blockchain helps in solving this issue by securely recording each move and enabling real-time tracking of shipments.

Here are a few more potential uses of blockchain to improve the functions of your transport and logistics industry:

Visibility across the entire value chain

Detailed insights and instantaneous end-to-end tracking of your shipments

Notifications about any handouts or the condition of your goods at any time

Quality control of goods by monitoring and maintaining them at the right temperature whenever required

Smart contracts and automated payment transactions to speed up payments for your shipments

Easy and seamless capacity monitoring and planning

Traceability in reverse logistics

Quick, faultless, and efficient invoice and payment management

Easy coordination of documents on a digital ledger, eliminating paperwork and manual processes

Flawless delivery with effective order tracking and authentication

What’s the future?

The adoption of blockchain in supply chain and logistics has been slower than expected, and its implementation is no small task. But it is going to be an absolute game-changer very soon! Adopting blockchain will help you to accommodate the ever-evolving expectations and needs of your customers and streamline your business operations.

To start with, educate your employees about blockchain, develop ideas and specific use cases, set an adoption strategy, conduct proof-of-concept tests, build capabilities and implement blockchain solutions.

Need help with implementing blockchain for your business? With an expert team of technology consultants and Blockchain developers, we at Gateway Digital can help you resolve your business challenges and achieve secured business processes.

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How to Remove Complexities in Applying Digital Transformation

When every other sector such as hospitality or tourism is undergoing a digital transformation a major sector like healthcare can’t lag behind. This article will showcase few reasons as to why digital transformation in healthcare is the need of the hour and how to keep it secure.

Availability of Information

In the era of smart living, smart health is the key to the successful healthcare business. And these days, as information is available at the tip of the fingers, it has become important for the hospitals and other health care providers to update websites and maintain their apps so that the patients can access details such as dates when their surgery is scheduled, the day they have an appointment, or the list of doctors and their complete details etc.

Maintenance of Medical Records and Data

Almost all business sectors have switched to computers to maintain employee records, stock records etc. The switch happened because of the ease of accessing the data whenever required and same goes for the healthcare digitization.

Digitalization has definitely made the maintenance of the healthcare records easier. But with the digitalization there comes the concerns for security threats. So why are hospitals records targeted by the cyber thieves?

Preventing the Data Theft

Apparently, the value of the stolen medical records is ten times more valuable when compared with the stolen credit or debit card data. This data is valuable because of the sensitive data involved such as names, residential addresses, social security numbers if applicable, birth dates, billing information etc which can be used by the thieves to target people. Also, the drug cartels or the drug dealers can utilise this sensitive data to create fake ids to buy the drug or carry out any other illegal transaction.

Also, the cybersecurity of the hospitals is low because of low investment is done by the stakeholders and it is as low as 10%. Therefore, the hospitals need to step up their game when it comes to securing their data because of the sensitive nature of the information stored in their systems and also it is the breach of the trust placed by the patient.

Adoption of BYOD

Another problem faced by the healthcare sector is the adoption of BYOD, which allows the doctors and other health practitioners associated with the hospital to access the official data from their personal systems which endangers the data because it is easy to hack into the data when compared with hacking into official servers. Also, the hospitals do not monitor the personal systems of their employees so the data can be leaked very easily.

The technology is bringing more and more benefits to both the major parties of healthcare industry. Future is smart and going to change the life of entire healthcare bodies at a larger positive note.

Therefore, this new wave of digital transformation in healthcare, empowering the pharma practices needs to ensure various security layers for the sensitive data recorded in their systems. Several steps can be taken such as multiple scanning, improved mail security etc to protect the precious data stored the servers from the vicious cyber thieves or the hackers.

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Healthcare providers need to continuously enhance patient experiences by building a digitally connected patient-provider relationship. Watch the video to find out how our digital solutions transform healthcare.

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As the damage related to cyber-crime is projected to hit $6 trillion annually by 2021 according to steve morgan, here is closer look on tracking the modern threats. Click here to know more.https://gatewaydigital.eu/services/cybersecurity/

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While startups are being called to slow down, stop spending and be prepared for tougher times, we are here to help your business to keep running during this pandemic. Talk to us to find out how we can help you sail through this.

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We are all going through unprecedented disruption, and Gateway Digital is doing the best to help businesses cope with uncertainties. With innovative digital solutions, latest technology stack and expert remote teams, we are here to ensure your business continuity. Watch the video to know how we can help you sail through this.

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The COVID19 effects have highly impacted the economy of Eurozone countries. As the turbulent times continue, Gateway digital is striving hard to create calm and minimise disruptions with our flexible business models and remote operating teams. Check out the video to know more

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In order to successful in the current retail business environment, retailers must focus on improving customer experiences. Gateway Digital’s retail brand- LEAP helps retailers to transform from business-centric to customer- centric.

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Over 80% enterprises already rely on a multi-cloud strategy for their business. We help businesses adopt the right cloud strategy with cloud consulting and transformation services.