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rohitpalan · 2 years ago

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Cloud Communication Platforms Revolutionizing Customer Service

Over the projection period of 2020–2030, the global market for cloud communication platforms will register a double-digit CAGR. The expansion of the industry has been greatly aided by the increase in investments made in IT infrastructure by cloud service providers (CSPs), internet service providers (ISPs), and hyperscalers. Additionally, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has forced a number of businesses to adopt the work from home (WFH) model, which has contributed to an increase in the use of cloud communication platform solutions.

Due to lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, digital collaboration tool providers like Zoom and Microsoft are observing a striking increase in usage across continents. Companies are using cloud-based solutions to maintain and monitor their storage and server installations in data centres due to the lack of on-site IT staff. Enterprises are leveraging full potential of cloud to establish resilient and disaster-immune models to satiate the remote workforce, as well as ensure data security and enterprise application integrity.

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“While the COVID-19 pandemic is having a detrimental impact on the global economic order, it is having a mildly positive impact on cloud communication platform market. Although the pandemic is troubling cloud service providers, in uncertain times, the public cloud infrastructure is delivering flexibility and safe house for organizations striving to maintain normal operations” says the FMI study.

Key Players and Market Share in Global Cloud Communication Platforms Market

The healthcare industry would remain key revenue generator, given rising trend of bring your own device (BYOD), and increasing need for mobility in the industry.

Benefits such as low costs, and greater functionality are bolstering the adoption of Unified communications as a service (UCaaS).

Large enterprises would remain the primary customer of cloud communication platform services.

Market in North America continues its positive trend, backed by increasing adoption of UCaaS and IVR solutions.

Cloud Communication Platform Market – Key Driving Factors

Rising preference for online backup and database solutions has boded well for market.

Increasing shift towards cloud-based unified communication services to push adoption rate.

Swelling demand for high-speed data transfer mediums in developing regions to offer growth potential to market players.

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Cloud Communication Platform Market – Key Constraints

Security and privacy risks associated with shared communication networks are restricting widespread adoption.

Redesigning the network for cloud requires high initial cost.

Anticipated Market Impact of Coronavirus Outbreak

In addition, customers are significantly banking on video streaming services as they strictly following self-isolating regulations. Such evolving trends are auguring well for the cloud communication platform market. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market expanded by nearly 1.4X in 2019 and will see a surge in demand amidst the COVID-19 crisis, as remote working becomes the new normal.

Competition Landscape

Key players in the cloud communication platform market are Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Avaya Inc., Ozonetel Systems Pvt. Ltd., and Dialogic Inc. Players are focusing on collaborations and new service launches in order to expand their presence further during the COVID-19 recession and extend their customer base.

The global cloud communication platform market is segmented in detail to cover every aspect of the market and present a complete market intelligence approach to readers.

By Solutions

Unified Communication & Collaboration

Web Real-Time Communication (WEBRTC)

Interactive Voice Response (IVR) With Integral EPABX

Audio Conferencing

Video Conferencing

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) with cloud PBX

By Services

Managed Services

Professional Services

By Enterprise Size

Large Enterprise

Medium Enterprise

Small Enterprise

Micro Enterprise

By verticals

BFSI

Healthcare

Telecomm-unication

Government

Retail

Travel & Hospitality

Manufacturing

Others

By Region

North America

Latin America

Europe

East Asia

South Asia & Pacific

MEA

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salesforcedatacloud · 6 months ago

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#salesforce #salesforce cloud #CRM #CRM platform #customer service #Features of Salesforce #manage customer interactions #Service Cloud #Marketing Cloud #Commerce Cloud #Einstein AI #Analytics Cloud #Community Cloud #Mobile App #Operational Efficiency #Scalability #Security

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techdriveplay · 1 year ago

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How Many Gamers Use macOS?

While macOS is traditionally associated with creative professionals and productivity enthusiasts, its appeal among gamers has grown over the years. Despite the dominance of Windows in the gaming world, macOS has carved out a niche. But just how many gamers are using macOS today? Recent statistics reveal that approximately 9.8% of gamers use macOS. This figure reflects a slight increase from…

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scentedanchorcollective · 4 months ago

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DeepSeek: Ignite a new engine for China's technological innovation

On the morning of February 27, the "Sanming Youth Talk" jointly organized by the Sanming Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Sanming Branch of Industrial Bank, the Sanming Branch of Industrial Securities, etc. was held at the Sanming Branch of Industrial Bank. The theme of this event was "Learning and exploring DeepSeek technology to empower youth technological innovation". It attracted more than 60 people from the Municipal Youth League Committee, young entrepreneurs, the Municipal Youth League Working Committee, and some league members and youth representatives to participate in the event.

At the beginning of the event, Zhou Luyun, a senior researcher of the overseas TMT industry at the Industrial Securities Economic and Financial Research Institute, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Revaluation of China's Technology Assets - DeepSeek's Reshaping of China's Cloud Service Ecosystem". He made an in-depth analysis of the current situation and future trends of China's cloud market, and vividly explained how DeepSeek technology can reshape China's cloud service ecosystem. He interpreted industry trends through detailed data and cases, and actively interacted with young people on site, patiently answering questions raised by everyone on talent training and how to make full use of deepseek to improve efficiency.

In the financial product introduction session of the event, Qin Hong, a financial commissioner of the Industrial Bank Sanming Branch, introduced a number of featured financial products in detail, including "Industrial Bank Inclusive Loan", "Small and Micro Online Financing Products", "Personal Business Loan" and "Personal Xingshan Loan". She combined specific cases and explained in depth the advantages of these products in supporting small and micro enterprises, optimizing personal business financing and improving the efficiency of financial services, providing more practical financial solutions and investment references for participants.

It is reported that "Sanming Youth Talk", as a youth learning and exchange brand activity created by the Sanming Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, has successfully held 14 sessions since its launch, covering multiple fields such as ideological guidance, practical innovation, red cultural inheritance, and youth growth and development planning, providing a high-quality platform for learning, communication and growth for the youth of Sanming.

In the future, the Industrial Bank Sanming Branch will continue to work with all sectors of society to actively promote exchanges and cooperation in the field of youth scientific and technological innovation, provide more opportunities for young people to learn and practice, and contribute to the construction of a strong country.

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technofeudalism · 5 months ago

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Taller Nepantla: "So where do art and artists stand within this new techno-feudal political landscape?"

1) Artists don’t own anything.

We don’t own the studios. We don’t own the galleries. We don’t own the production of materials. We don’t own the newspapers. We don’t own the art schools and universities. We don’t own the mechanisms of art distribution. We don’t own our work. We don’t even own our own art. Artists have no labor protections and are content to work individually to perpetuate their own myth or pray to the sacred algorithm to go viral. By being atomized we are exactly like a feudal peasant of the Middle Ages, who lives in extreme precariousness giving away part of his crops to his local king. The art world, its industry, its weight, its impact, its trend, everything belongs to other people. Did you know 80% of the art-market is own by a small group of Mega Collectors? Those who control the means of artistic production control the artists.

2) By not owning anything, artists and cultural workers only rent.

We no longer sell handmade works, but instead we sell our hands for work. More and more the creative and artistic sector sells services rather than art. Artists need multiple jobs in order to invest in their art practice. Even more, just as in the feudal stage of history, we work the land in a territory that does not belong to us, the land belongs to the landowner. In this land artists will always pay rent, a tax, to the feudal lord. We use GOOGLE to send emails We upload our art to INSTAGRAM We educate ourselves through YOUTUBE We communicate through TIKTOK We pay to use ADOBE SUIT We buy materials through AMAZON We move through UBER We send files through WETRANSFER Every time we use these platforms, we generate money for the feudal lords.

The art world depends on these platforms, which collect our information and our data, to sell.

When a service is free, our attention is the product. That is, it is impossible for an artist to establish himself as an artist without generating money for the landowners who own the technological platforms. That is, the art world depends on these products. It is impossible to be an artist without using these technologies. Techno-feudalism keeps artists in a situation of -permanent-precariousness dependence on technological platforms. Just like in medieval times, peasants live off the crumbs offered by the crown, living in a house, working on land, and eating food that does not belong to them. Technocapitalists don’t want artists to own the means of artistic reproduction. Technocapitalist instead build a world where everything is rented. Every stage of artistic production from how you imagine an artwork, how you study an artwork, how you draft and artwork, how you build an artwork, how you show an artwork, how you distribute an artwork, how you perceive an artwork, and how you think about an artwork, is all determined by apps and tools which you rented from a tech corporation.

3) Artists SUBSIDIZE the profits of technological platforms.

That is, we pay an inflated price for these services directly from our pockets. The art world depends on the underpaid work of our services. If there were fair wages in the art world, then the entire pyramid wuld be destroyed precisely because it depends on the fact that most artists do not earn a fair wage. All the art we produce and share is being used to train algorithms to better sell us products. When a platform is free, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, we are the product that is sold. Even more, artists subsidize the entire artworld. We work for free. We work for low wages. We work for exposure. We are the “volunteer army” Jerry Saltz brags about. The artworld benefits from not paying us what we deserve.

4) The entire art world depends on the platforms of the Clouds.

All museums, galleries, fairs, biennials, and auctions depend on the technological infrastructure dominated by feudal landowners. In other words, there is a dependence on these technologies in order to promise an interconnected, cosmopolitan, and immediate “art world.” The feudal landowners who own the technological platforms, having no competition, can impose whatever price they want, and the art world must obey. They can raise prices without losing customers. The price we pay to use TechnoCapitalist services is completely arbitrary. It does not correspond with the quality of the service but rather to the whims of the landlords. One day, black ink for printing is free, the next day it costs $5.99 a month as a part of a subscription package. We are looking at you Anish Kapoor.

5) The algorithm decides what counts as talent as long as it can generate profits.

Algorithms are increasingly deciding what counts as “value.” Major collectors will be able to systematize the works on the market in order to deduce, through algorithms, the value of a work and whether it is a good investment. The algorithm has more power than art critics and art historians. An artist will then adapt to the algorithmic trends of his time, in order to go viral. A work of art that goes viral can change the artist’s life. NFT’s are just one example of techno-feudal experiments in the arts. NFT’s promise decentralization and transparency, but end up replicating the worst aspects of capitalism, feudalism, and what new technologies can do.

In short, the art world is interconnected with techno-feudalism. We artists are technologically and socially dependent on a system that exploits us. It is important to increase media literacy so that artists can build alternative technological systems to cut dependence on monopolistic companies. A king’s mindset is always to grown and conquer. In the end, the artworld’s investment in techno-feudalism will actively bring the destruction of other smaller artworlds in the global south. Techno-feudalism will produce a homogenized, sanitized, apolitical universal art, that privileges creations that protect the artworlds overlords."

#technofeudalism #late stage capitalism #media #internet #art #anti capitalism

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mostlysignssomeportents · 2 years ago

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An interoperability rule for your money

This is the final weekend to back the Kickstarter campaign for the audiobook of my next novel, The Lost Cause. These kickstarters are how I pay my bills, which lets me publish my free essays nearly every day. If you enjoy my work, please consider backing!

"If you don't like it, why don't you take your business elsewhere?" It's the motto of the corporate apologist, someone so Hayek-pilled that they see every purchase as a ballot cast in the only election that matters – the one where you vote with your wallet.

Voting with your wallet is a pretty undignified way to go through life. For one thing, the people with the thickest wallets get the most votes, and for another, no matter who you vote for in that election, the Monopoly Party always wins, because that's the part of the thick-wallet set.

Contrary to the just-so fantasies of Milton-Friedman-poisoned bootlickers, there are plenty of reasons that one might stick with a business that one dislikes – even one that actively harms you.

The biggest reason for staying with a bad company is if they've figured out a way to punish you for leaving. Businesses are keenly attuned to ways to impose switching costs on disloyal customers. "Switching costs" are all the things you have to give up when you take your business elsewhere.

Businesses love high switching costs – think of your gym forcing you to pay to cancel your subscription or Apple turning off your groupchat checkmark when you switch to Android. The more it costs you to move to a rival vendor, the worse your existing vendor can treat you without worrying about losing your business.

Capitalists genuinely hate capitalism. As the FBI informant Peter Thiel says, "competition is for losers." The ideal 21st century "market" is something like Amazon, a platform that gets 45-51 cents out of every dollar earned by its sellers. Sure, those sellers all compete with one another, but no matter who wins, Amazon gets a cut:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/28/cloudalists/#cloud-capital

Think of how Facebook keeps users glued to its platform by making the price of leaving cutting of contact with your friends, family, communities and customers. Facebook tells its customers – advertisers – that people who hate the platform stick around because Facebook is so good at manipulating its users (this is a good sales pitch for a company that sells ads!). But there's a far simpler explanation for peoples' continued willingness to let Mark Zuckerberg spy on them: they hate Zuck, but they love their friends, so they stay:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs

One of the most important ways that regulators can help the public is by reducing switching costs. The easier it is for you to leave a company, the more likely it is they'll treat you well, and if they don't, you can walk away from them. That's just what the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau wants to do with its new Personal Financial Data Rights rule:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-proposes-rule-to-jumpstart-competition-and-accelerate-shift-to-open-banking/

The new rule is aimed at banks, some of the rottenest businesses around. Remember when Wells Fargo ripped off millions of its customers by ordering its tellers to open fake accounts in their name, firing and blacklisting tellers who refused to break the law?

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/07/497084491/episode-728-the-wells-fargo-hustle

While there are alternatives to banks – local credit unions are great – a lot of us end up with a bank by default and then struggle to switch, even though the banks give us progressively worse service, collectively rip us off for billions in junk fees, and even defraud us. But because the banks keep our data locked up, it can be hard to shop for better alternatives. And if we do go elsewhere, we're stuck with hours of tedious clerical work to replicate all our account data, payees, digital wallets, etc.

That's where the new CFPB order comes in: the Bureau will force banks to "share data at the person’s direction with other companies offering better products." So if you tell your bank to give your data to a competitor – or a comparison shopping site – it will have to do so…or else.

Banks often claim that they block account migration and comparison shopping sites because they want to protect their customers from ripoff artists. There are certainly plenty of ripoff artists (notwithstanding that some of them run banks). But banks have an irreconcilable conflict of interest here: they might want to stop (other) con-artists from robbing you, but they also want to make leaving as painful as possible.

Instead of letting shareholder-accountable bank execs in back rooms decide what the people you share your financial data are allowed to do with it, the CFPB is shouldering that responsibility, shifting those deliberations to the public activities of a democratically accountable agency. Under the new rule, the businesses you connect to your account data will be "prohibited from misusing or wrongfully monetizing the sensitive personal financial data."

This is an approach that my EFF colleague Bennett Cyphers and I first laid our in our 2021 paper, "Privacy Without Monopoly," where we describe how and why we should shift determinations about who is and isn't allowed to get your data from giant, monopolistic tech companies to democratic institutions, based on privacy law, not corporate whim:

https://www.eff.org/wp/interoperability-and-privacy

The new CFPB rule is aimed squarely at reducing switching costs. As CFPB Director Rohit Chopra says, "Today, we are proposing a rule to give consumers the power to walk away from bad service and choose the financial institutions that offer the best products and prices."

The rule bans banks from charging their customers junk fees to access their data, and bans businesses you give that data to from "collecting, using, or retaining data to advance their own commercial interests through actions like targeted or behavioral advertising." It also guarantees you the unrestricted right to revoke access to your data.

The rule is intended to replace the current state-of-the-art for data sharing, which is giving your banking password to third parties who go and scrape that data on your behalf. This is a tactic that comparison sites and financial dashboards have used since 2006, when Mint pioneered it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/mint-late-stage-adversarial-interoperability-demonstrates-what-we-had-and-what-we

A lot's happened since 2006. It's past time for American bank customers to have the right to access and share their data, so they can leave rotten banks and go to better ones.

The new rule is made possible by Section 1033 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act, which was passed in 2010. Chopra is one of the many Biden administrative appointees who have acquainted themselves with all the powers they already have, and then used those powers to help the American people:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff

It's pretty wild that the first digital interoperability mandate is going to come from the CFPB, but it's also really cool. As Tim Wu demonstrated in 2021 when he wrote Biden's Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy, the administrative agencies have sweeping, grossly underutilized powers that can make a huge difference to everyday Americans' lives:

https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2021/08/party-its-1979-og-antitrust-back-baby

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/let-my-dollars-go/#personal-financial-data-rights

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

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joshsilverseyebrow · 4 months ago

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type o negative for Metal Edge magazine (1999),

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By Paul Gargano

Photos by Annamaria DiSanto

There's a lot to be said for a band that names the first song on their album "Skip It," treating the listener to the sounds of a CD skipping for 10 seconds. They obviously don't lack in the sense of humor department, clearly don't take themselves too seriously, and are none too afraid of letting a good joke cloud the dementia of their art. "We are a tragic comedy," comments Type O Negative keyboardist Josh Silver when asked about his band's subtle sense of humor. "The best songs Type O have ever recorded are tragic comedies...”

"Like, 'I Know You're F.cking Someone Else,'' chimes frontman Peter Steele-the band's vocalist, bass player, pre-dominant songwriter and principal de-composer of songs-citing the bluntly titled track that opens 1992's The Origin of the Feces.

Truth be told, there's not a lot that Type O Negative do that doesn't reflect their collective wit and dry take on the world around them. In 1991, their Slow, Deep and Hard debut opened with "unsuccessfully coping with the natural beauty of infidelity" and closed with the double billing of "the misinterpretation of silence and its disastrous consequences" and “gravitational constant: G=6.67•10^-8cm^-3gm^-1sec^-2.” Not bad for a bunch of Brooklyn boys in a heavy metal band.

A year later, Feces featured a Type O take on the Jimi Hendrix cover "Hey Joe — dubbed "Hey Pete" — and depicted the 6'6" Steele holding a standup bass in the album art. It was the same bass he would later play in the "Black No. 1" video, from 1993's Bloody Kisses. With the unexpected commercial success of Kisses, Type O got their first lesson in the hazards of allowing the American intellect to interpret their art.

"After the 'Black' video, people were coming up to me after shows and asking, 'Where's the big bass?'" laughs Steele, with Silver making sure his implications were clear: "Everyone misses the humor, it goes right over their heads."

But in the band's eyes, their Bloody breakthrough led to something far worse than a few missed gags-their success got blown out of proportion by their record label.

"We got a few records sold under our belts, and instead of letting the band be a band, the label saw it as a platform to do even more commercially successful things," recalls drummer Johnny Kelly. Once again, Silver details: "Instead of just letting us do what we do best, they're trying to make us something monsterous and commercial. That's the one thing that this industry can't understand about us, and now they just keep making the same mistakes over and over again."

"They're trying to homogenize and pasteurize us," chimes guitarist Kenny Hickey, "And that's the most terrifying thing about it," says Kelly. “I think in the end, that is ultimately going to hurt us.”

Not if Silver has anything to do with it: “It won’t, because we won't let it happen."

Says Steele, summing up the dogma that is Type O Negative, "We're an answer, looking for a question."

Sitting in an artsy Manhattan hotel room with the members of Type O Negative is hardly the place to find that elusive question, especially given the extreme mid-summer heat and inhumane lack of air conditioning. But the more we talked, the more the same issue was raised: How do you market a band that defies any of the neat subgenres that cloak the hard rock and heavy metal communities?

"It doesn't pay to be trendy," advises Steele, "because by the time you rip off Limp Bizkit and the album comes out next year, there are going to be new trends."

So rather than ride the trends, Roadrunner Records urged Type O to create their own with their follow-up to Bloody Kisses, 1996's October Rust. The album was arguably their most defining artistic statement, but somewhere between the recording and the album's release, it lost the raw, primal power of their previous outings. It was art, but on a canvas, and Type O fans were accustomed to sketchings on the insides of cavernous walls.

"October Rust is a heavy album, but when you try and put too many layers on it, in order to fit everything in sonically, you have to cut some of the heaviness out of it," explains Steele. "I just don't think the album was congruent with what was going on at the time. It wasn't trendy at all. I don't think anything we've ever done has been trendy — For us to be trendy would be like trying to hit a nail in the f.cking dark. It's a matter of luck."

"We're the square pegs," adds Hickey, with Steele cutting back in: "I do admit that the last album was a little formulated, and I/we should not have listened to the record label when they said, 'Write some stuff for radio, they'll make you f.ckin' rich.' The funny thing is, as much as October Rust is still my favorite album that we've done, it's not radio friendly-Even though we tried to make it that way. So now, we've just stopped trying."

"You're being too hard on the album now," adds Hickey. "I think there were some very complex songs on that album, melodically and stuff, and that threw radio. There was just too much shit to listen to at once."

At this point in the conversation, voices start to raise over the intentions of Rust, Steele trying to tread a diplomatic line, and Kelly getting frustrated with his bandmates' defensiveness towards the album. "There were a lot of awesome songs on that album, and I'm tired of people f.cking beating it up. So much so that we're doing it now, we're even beating it up. It's very frustrating!”

Silver agrees. "That was not a shitty record. It is what it is — You take a musical risk and you go out on a limb. That's life. If it's too much for the average person to digest, and people don't get it, f.ck 'em."

"The planets really just didn't align for us on that album," Kelly continues. "It was really tough, we were on tour for a month after the album came out and people were still coming up to us and asking when the record was going to be released. Some of the radio stations didn't even know we had singles." In addition to general dissaray at their label, the band were also between managers, interviewing candidates pre-show while on tour, and without anyone to go to bat for them with the Roadrunner powers that be.

Which leads to the September 21 release of World Coming Down, the latest canon in the Negative collection. The band has signed with Andy Gould Management whose artist roster also includes Rob Zombie, Monster Magnet and Drain S.T.H., and new personnel at their label indicate that their might be reason to be optimistic about the future.

"Optimism?" repeats Steele when the word is uttered, Silver deadpanning in response, "That's nonexistent."

Hickey: "Personally, I'm just closing my eyes and jumping into the fire."

"You know how some people look at a glass as half empty, others half full?" Steele ques-tions, "We don't even have a glass."

But they do have one hell of a record. World Coming Down is Type O Negative sporting their most comfortable dark and dirgey tones, numbing the senses with the diabolic sounds of music as somber as its creators.

Clocking in at over eight minutes, "White Slavery" is haunting and surreal, a penetrating voyage to the inner banks of the mind's most remote corner. Still left with a glimmer of hope? "Everyone I Love Is Dead" follows, harder hitting than its predecessor, with the buzz of guitars lifting Steele's vocals to majestic heights and providing the song with glorious depth. The title track carries the album to complete sonic overload, a troubling and disturbing nosedive of extended sound and distorted equilibrium. It's more than music, it's a mood, and it's what Type O convey more brilliantly than any band that could be considered their peers.

"We really just wanted to do something heavy again," says Silver, hitting the proverbial nail on the head. "It was back to the basics, ripping off Black Sabbath again."

"Actually, we tried for something simpler on this record," adds Kelly. "The production is half of what we used on the last record."

Says Steele: "The object was really to sound more like four people than 40. We made a concious effort not to do three different guitar tracks or put three different keyboards on—The other reason we've gone back to this style is that it's really hard to reproduce some of the stuff from October Rust live. It's very lush, and we're only four guys... We didn't expect to get two singles off of Bloody Kisses, it just happened ["Black No.1" and "Christian Woman"], so this time we just concentrated on making the songs, then we can always edit them down."

"We've done it the hard way our entire life, and we're going to do it the hard way this time — Radio is something that's not about this band, and trying to make us that takes away our soul and is a waste of everybody's time. Especially the listeners," continues Silver. "I think a band that's done the most right is Ministry. They've kept their integrity, sold well, never sold out to the main-stream, and they've done it over and over again. Instead of being greedy and trying to go where we don't belong, I know where Type O Negative does belong, and it's not modern rock radio. When you support Type O Negative you need to support art."

"Art?" chimes Steele, obviously uncomfortable with the serious turn the conversation has taken. "Was someone thinking of art?"

"I was thinking of Art Carney," drops Kelly.

"Art deco?" questions Hickey, but Steele has already found the answer he is looking for:

"No, Art Carney... That's the other thing that's happening now, a lot of our comedy is coming from TV from the late '50s to late '70s, and kids today—they could be our kids—they don't get it. We're quoting The Flintstones, The Munsters and Abbott and Costello, and we think it's f.ckin' funny, but the kids are looking at us like, "You guys aren't funny!"

So is it discouraging that a lot of the band's subtleties go over the heads of the audi-ence, and Type O are often tagged as little more than a proverbial "goth" band?

"It is, but this vampire goth thing isn't something that we've made up," begins Steele in response, "it's something that we've been tagged with."

"Tagged with? But you have FANGS!" snaps Hickey, as the room bursts into hysterics all around.

"It doesn't matter! Just let me finish! Once we found our niche, we just kind of exploited it a little bit..." but Steele can't hold his laughter back — “What was the question? Did I mention that our next video is going to be a cartoon? Johnny in his car, running over the Road Runner."

As Steele segues into a humming medley of television theme songs, attention diverts to Hickey, who at the time of the interview had been sober for five months.

"It has changed my approach a lot, in that I've sobered up and now I can play better," confesses the guitarist. "I was a wreck last tour, but I was sober for the entire recording, and it's the best I've ever played."

Steele reemerges in the conversation. "I wish I could say that. I remember about three minutes of recording the demos-trying to tune drunk, that's about it. There's nothing good to say about drugs and alcohol, other than that some fun can come out of them. There's nothing good about them, just stupid adolescent humor."

For Hickey, being sober has meant a new focus towards his music. "Now, I look at it as I have to make money to support my family and to give my daughter a good future. I never looked at it as cash dollars, ever. I just wanted to get in a bus and tear an asshole into the world. Now it's a lot different. I'm preparing for the future and I have a college fund started for my daughter. I didn't give a damn about anything before, not even myself. Not that it effects the way I think about the music now, I would never want to sell out to make money, or anything like that, but now I look at it like a career rather than a f.ckin' circus or a giant comedy i asically, he's doing the same thing ho always has, but now he's scared," smiles Silver. "Do you think you can start me a college fund, too? I can use college...”

Did Hickey's sobriety contribute to the delays in recording the album?

"Actually, the first factor was that we had been on tour for four-and-a-half years, so when we came home we wanted virtually nothing to do with each other for a long time," explains Steele. "After like six months, we decided it was time to get back to work, but we had gotten older and life had gotten more complicated-Kenny and Johnny got married, Kenny had a daughter, and there were setbacks, personal problems came up. We'd take two steps forward and one step back."

"When you leave your life for five years, then suddenly you come back, you have a lot of catching up to do. You start remembering that you're human again," details Hickey.

"The other thing," continues Steele, "was just trying to write quality songs. We had three or four left over that just weren't up to par, then you open your equipment for the first rehearsal in six months, and you don't even recognize it. It's difficult to just start right up again. We could have been sitting here eight months ago, but we would have had a subpar album with the first 10 songs we wrote. We needed to get back into the swing of things."

"It's like squeezing out a large turd," notes Hickey, demonstrating that fatherhood hasn't stripped him of his penchant for colorful detail, "sometimes it takes awhile."

There's little doubt that the album benefited from the extra time, as "Creepy Green Light" punches through with a flair that borders on mid-'80s Euro-pop — undeniably Type O while shining as the album's most effervescent cut, a diversion from the down-trodden spirit of "Everything Dies." "Pyretta Blaze" flirts with a mid-song keyboard run that is reminiscent of early U2, while "Hallow's Eve" drops the sound right back into the familiar TON underworld, paving a path for a spellbinding cover of the Beatles'"'Daytripper," which—like "Summer Breeze" and "Cinnaman Girl" from previous releases-sets the standard for maintaining the integrity of a classic song while giving it the full-on Type O treatment.

Full on Type O treatment? We asked each of the members what the most important element of Type O Negative is to them.

Hickey: "Our look."

Kelly: "Our hair."

Steele: "Our smell."

Silver: "Truth and Emotion go a long way."

"That's all right, image does count," says Steele seriously, "but the only way to be really successful is to follow your heart, hope that your work is put out there and marketed properly, and hope that people jump on it."

It's back to that marketing question... If all goes well, we'll be seeing Type O Negative in arenas like their hometown Madison Square Garden, but they don't need that type of success to be happy.

"I’d be happy to play my back garden," pans Steele, "the one behind my house."

#josh silver #johnny kelly #kenny hickey #peter steele #type o negative #i love josh silver #i love type o negative #bloody kisses #world coming down #october rust #gothic metal #goth

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Forecasting Exponential Growth: The Global Cloud Communication Platforms Market 2020-2030

The global cloud communication platform market will experience a double-digit CAGR over the forecast period, 2020-2030. Upsurge in investments in IT infrastructure for cloud service providers (CSPs), internet service providers (ISPs), and hyperscalers have been critical in driving market growth. Further, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has compelled several organizations to turn to work from home (WFH) model, thereby, resulting in increasing deployment of cloud communication platform solutions.

Digital collaboration tool providers, including Zoom, and Microsoft, are witnessing a remarkable upswing in usage across continents due to lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. Given the shortage of on-site IT personnel, companies are utilizing cloud-based solutions to maintain and monitor their storage, and server installations in data centers. Enterprises are leveraging full potential of cloud to establish resilient and disaster-immune models to satiate the remote workforce, as well as ensure data security and enterprise application integrity.

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Cloud Communication Platform Market – Key Takeaways

The healthcare industry would remain key revenue generator, given rising trend of bring your own device (BYOD), and increasing need for mobility in the industry.

Benefits such as low costs, and greater functionality are bolstering the adoption of Unified communications as a service (UCaaS).

Large enterprises would remain the primary customer of cloud communication platform services.

Market in North America continues its positive trend, backed by increasing adoption of UCaaS and IVR solutions.

Cloud Communication Platform Market – Key Driving Factors

Rising preference for online backup and database solutions has boded well for market.

Increasing shift towards cloud-based unified communication services to push adoption rate.

Swelling demand for high-speed data transfer mediums in developing regions to offer growth potential to market players.

Cloud Communication Platform Market – Key Constraints

Security and privacy risks associated with shared communication networks are restricting widespread adoption.

Redesigning the network for cloud requires high initial cost.

Anticipated Market Impact of Coronavirus Outbreak

The COVID-19 pandemic has hampered the revenue growth of almost every industry, including the cloud communication platform market. Alerted by the situation, several private, and government organizations have transitioned to remote working, thus, translating into swelling adoption of cloud communication platform solutions. In addition, customers are significantly banking on video streaming services as they strictly following self-isolating regulations. Such evolving trends are auguring well for the cloud communication platform market. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market expanded by nearly 1.4X in 2019 and will see a surge in demand amidst the COVID-19 crisis, as remote working becomes the new normal.

Competition Landscape

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What is an open source platform used for?

Open Source Development

An open source platform is a type of software whose source code or the base code is freely available to the public and open in segments. This means anyone can view, use, modify, and share the code. Open source platforms are widely used across industries because they offer flexibility, cost savings, and community-driven innovation. Open source development has become an initial go-to approach and one of the ideal options for building scalable and secure digital solutions.

Common Uses of Open Source Platforms -

1. Web and App Development

Open source platforms like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla are widely used for building websites. The coders working in open source development department can customize and personalize these platforms to meet specific and unique business needs. Similarly, common frameworks such as React, Angular, and Laravel facilitate the development of dynamic and feature-rich web applications with their implementation and usage.

2. Operating Systems and Servers

Linux is one of the most well-known open-source operating systems. Many companies use Linux-based servers for hosting websites and applications because they are secure, fast, and cost-effective. These platforms are maintained by communities that constantly improve performance and patch vulnerabilities.

3. Cloud Computing

While the additional tools like OpenStack and Kubernetes are open source platforms and mediums that support the cloud infrastructure. They help businesses to manage their storage, networking, and computing resources efficiently while keeping operating costs low through open-source development.

4. Software Testing and DevOps

Open source tool and the common resources such as Selenium (for test automation) and Jenkins (for continuous integration) are essential and most considered in DevOps environments and stiff settings. These tools support the automated testing process, faster deployments, and seamless collaboration.

5. Data Management and Analytics

Platforms like Hadoop, Apache Spark, and PostgreSQL facilitate the processing and management of large datasets. These open-source solutions are widely used and leveraged in industrial sectors such as healthcare, finance with e-commerce for better understanding.

Why Do Businesses Prefer Open Source?

Open source platforms are cost-effective, highly customizable, and backed by active communities. They reduce and lower down the dependency on single vendors and parties and offer a general transparency in security and performance with its adaptation into the system or the infrastructure. Trusted providers and professional experts like Suma Soft, IBM, and Cyntexa specialize in delivering tailored and custom solutions through open source development, helping businesses to stay flexible, secure, and future-ready in this digital age and competitive market.

#it services #technology #saas #software #saas development company #saas technology #digital transformation

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Why You Need The Top Innovative Solution Today

Relying on antiquated methods can make the difference between thriving and just surviving in a world that is changing quickly due to changes in technology and client expectations. Innovative solutions are now essential, regardless of whether you're a startup founder, a company executive, or an individual looking to simplify daily chores. This essay examines the importance of adopting cutting-edge solutions now and how they can significantly improve your life and career.

Understanding Innovative Solutions: More Than Just Buzzwords

Before diving in, let’s define what an innovative solution really means. Innovation isn't about flashy technology or being trendy for its own sake. It’s about solving real problems in smarter, more efficient, and sustainable ways. An innovative solution might be a new software tool that automates mundane tasks, a creative business model that disrupts a traditional market, or even a unique approach to customer engagement that drives loyalty and growth.

These solutions are rooted in three key values:

Efficiency: Doing more with less, faster.

Adaptability: Responding to change with agility.

Value Creation: Offering better outcomes for users, customers, and teams.

Let’s explore why these matter — now more than ever.

1. Stay Ahead of Rapid Market Changes

Markets today are dynamic. Consumer preferences shift overnight, technology updates roll out every few months, and global events can disrupt entire industries in days. Traditional business models often can’t keep up with this speed.

Top innovative solutions help you stay one step ahead. For instance:

AI-powered analytics give businesses real-time insights into customer behavior.

Cloud-based platforms enable remote teams to collaborate instantly, no matter where they are.

Low-code and no-code tools allow non-developers to build solutions fast — without a technical background.

By implementing these innovations, businesses can pivot quickly, test new ideas, and stay aligned with current trends.

2. Solve Pain Points More Intelligently

Innovative solutions' unwavering focus on problem-solving is one of their main advantages. These techniques and tactics, which may include removing manual data entry, improving communication, or customizing consumer experiences, frequently result from practical annoyances.

Consider the increasing automation of customer service. AI chatbots can now manage thousands of requests at once, providing human-like responses and round-the-clock availability in place of endless phone calls and lengthy wait times. Enhancing the user experience and freeing up human personnel for high-impact jobs are more important than merely reducing costs.

If a solution doesn’t feel like it’s directly improving your workflow or life, it probably isn’t the right kind of innovation.

3. Drive Competitive Advantage

Let’s face it: innovation is the new battleground for success. Companies that leverage innovative solutions — whether it’s personalized marketing using data-driven insights or adopting sustainable production practices — often leapfrog competitors still stuck in traditional ways.

Here’s how:

Speed to market: Innovative tools help you launch products faster.

Customer engagement: Creative platforms let you deliver immersive brand experiences.

Sustainability: Eco-friendly solutions can reduce costs and appeal to conscious consumers.

In today’s hyperconnected economy, being “good” isn’t enough. You need to be better, smarter, and faster — and that requires innovation.

4. Make Your Team Smarter and More Capable

People want to work more efficiently, not just harder. Teams can accomplish this with the help of innovative tools. Today's solutions streamline daily work and encourage creativity, from AI-powered writing helpers to project management dashboards that monitor real-time productivity.

When teams are equipped with the right tools:

Productivity increases.

Collaboration improves.

Morale gets a boost.

The result? A high-performance culture where innovation is not a one-time initiative but a daily habit.

5. Future-Proof Your Business (and Yourself)

Being outdated is one of the largest hazards facing businesses today. Ask Kodak, Blackberry, or Blockbuster. You won't fall behind when the industry changes thanks to creative solutions.

Whether you're a freelancer, a retail business, or an enterprise company, adopting cutting-edge tools like:

Predictive analytics

Blockchain for secure transactions

AR/VR for product experiences

IoT for smarter logistics

…can set you up for long-term success.

Even on a personal level, people who embrace innovation are setting themselves up for greater resilience and better possibilities in an uncertain environment by learning new platforms, adjusting to remote work, or upgrading their skills using digital tools.

6. Improve Customer Trust and Satisfaction

Customers of today are astute, knowledgeable, and demanding. They desire seamless digital experiences, quick reaction times, and individualized service. Businesses may meet these demands head-on by using innovative solutions.

For example:

AI-driven recommendation engines increase sales and satisfaction.

Omnichannel platforms ensure consistent messaging across touchpoints.

Digital wallets and one-click checkouts reduce cart abandonment.

When you prioritize user-centric innovation, you don’t just meet customer needs — you exceed them. And that builds loyalty.

Final Thoughts: Innovation Is a Mindset, Not Just a Tool

Innovation can easily be viewed as something exterior, such as a smart device, a slick dashboard, or a flashy new app. However, innovation is really a way of thinking. It involves being inquisitive, adaptable, and prepared to question the existing quo.

The top innovative solution you need today isn’t just about technology — it’s about transformation. They enable you to service clients more successfully, solve challenges more imaginatively, and confidently plan for the future.

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Complete Guide: Asana to Salesforce Integration

Asana is one of the most widely adopted work management platforms, trusted by over 85% of Fortune 100 companies to manage team workflows. Meanwhile, Salesforce stands as a global leader in customer relationship management (CRM), empowering more than 150,000 businesses worldwide.

Although both platforms shine in their individual domains—Salesforce for CRM and Asana for task and project management—many organizations fail to recognize the true benefits of Salesforce and Asana integration. Using them in silos can limit productivity and lead to communication gaps.

If your teams rely on both platforms but haven’t integrated them yet, you could be missing out on a major opportunity to streamline processes, foster better collaboration, and accelerate your business goals. This blog explores the power of Asana to Salesforce integration, highlighting key features, benefits, and how to make the most of both platforms.

Overview of Asana and Salesforce

Asana is a flexible, intuitive project management solution designed to help teams track progress, delegate tasks, and stay aligned. It creates a centralized workspace where communication, task tracking, and project timelines are managed efficiently.

From team communication to task tracking and reporting, Asana empowers project managers to drive accountability while reducing inefficiencies and delays.

Salesforce, on the other hand, is a leading cloud-based CRM platform built for businesses of all sizes. It unites marketing, sales, and customer service efforts under one roof. Its powerful tools streamline lead management, automate workflows, and provide a 360-degree view of the customer journey.

Key Features of Asana

1. Communication Tools Asana fosters effective communication across teams. With built-in comment threads, task discussions, and image feedback features, teams can communicate clearly and act on tasks directly. Managers can post updates using rich-text fields, improving clarity.

Asana supports global teams with multi-language support including English, Spanish, German, Italian, and more. Meanwhile, Salesforce also enhances communication by offering a unified platform for customer and internal interactions.

2. Work Management Capabilities From subtasks to timelines, dependencies to custom fields—Asana covers it all. Its task structuring features ensure that nothing falls through the cracks. Pre-built templates and task approvals also help teams launch and manage projects with ease.

3. Reporting Tools Asana offers robust dashboards and real-time project tracking. Teams can align daily tasks with company-wide goals, while stakeholders stay informed with live status updates and exportable reports.

4. Team Collaboration and Control Asana enables seamless team collaboration through shared calendars, access permissions, and real-time updates. Whether you want to keep a project private or accessible to your full team, Asana’s controls give you the flexibility you need. Its real-time dashboards offer at-a-glance insights into project health—making it easier to catch delays before they become problems.

5. Easy Integration with Existing Apps Asana connects with over 300 popular apps, including Google Drive, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and more. This makes it a flexible solution that complements your existing tech stack without disrupting workflow.

Benefits of Asana to Salesforce Integration

Integrating Asana with Salesforce enhances workflow visibility and aligns customer-facing and project execution teams. Here's how your business can benefit:

1. Smoother Post-Sales Processes Once a deal is closed in Salesforce, teams can automatically trigger onboarding workflows in Asana. Attachments, notes, and tasks can be shared instantly between customer success and service teams, reducing handoff friction. Templates in Asana help create consistent onboarding experiences, and Salesforce Service Cloud connects teams from pre-sale to delivery.

2. Workflow Automation via Flow Builder Salesforce Flow Builder allows you to automate routine tasks in Asana, reducing manual errors and ensuring important steps aren’t missed. Automation between the platforms keeps both systems synchronized and ensures real-time updates. This not only improves efficiency but also enhances data accuracy between teams.

3. Visibility Into Business Goals With the integration, your Salesforce data can be tied to Asana goals—enabling better decision-making and transparency. As deals move through the pipeline, teams get visibility into how individual tasks impact larger objectives.

4. Better Cross-Team Alignment The integration breaks down silos between departments. Marketing, sales, and service teams can view the status of tasks, upcoming deadlines, and customer-specific projects in real time—reducing miscommunication and delays.

Final Thoughts

The Asana to Salesforce integration enables your teams to do more with less effort—automating routine work, reducing data errors, and bridging gaps between departments. If you're looking to boost productivity and collaboration, now is the time to act. 👉 Choose MultiSync Made Easy — the best tool to integrate Asana with Salesforce seamlessly.

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