Europe-based HSBC bank offered some revealing insights into the future of your interaction with banking.  As many know, more and more banking can be done remotely or even through branch ATMs, reducing the demand for in-person branch tellers for all but the most complicated banking transactions.  Artificial intelligence and mobile technologies are fueling the progression.  Because of this, HSBC is investigating new technology roles within the company to carry tech-fueled banking forward.

Police have long been relied on to stop crime - either by their presence discouraging would-be criminals, or by putting their efforts into solving crimes and handing the responsible parties over to the courts.  With an endless to do list of police work, it'd seem that departments around the world would embrace as much technology as they could to help fight and solve crime.  However, that doesn't seem to be the case, especially in the UK.  Why?  Policing is a "human business" that relies heavily on face to face work, and technology hasn't been so easy to utilize out on the beat.

Alexa, the popular smart home speaker, is moving into new verticals - like your hotel stay.  The recently introduced Alexa for Hospitality program is partnering with leading hotel chains to place customized Alexa devices in hotel rooms to aid guests with front desk needs, local restaurant and attraction suggestions, and even ordering deodorant because you left yours on the bathroom counter at home.  The devices can even control room lighting and other functions, keeping you from fumbling for a light switch as you enter your room.  Alexa for Hospitality's launch partner is Marriott Internati

PaperFree partner OpenText today announced details about their upcoming Enfuse conference, to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada May 21-24.  This year's theme of the annual security, digital investigation, and e-Discovery conference is "Bringing security to the edges of the network and beyond".  Keynote speakers include OpenText Vice Chair, CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea and James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (2013-2017).  In the opening keynote, Mr.

"IT Transformation can result in bottom-line benefits that drive business differentiation, innovation, and growth" according to research recently conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and announced by Dell EMC.  This study aimed to evaluate how today's enterprises are using technology, how they are using it, and the effects they are seeing.  The report developed these conclusions:

Many enterprises are finding it necessary to evaluate their storage and processing needs, even so far as considering upgrading mission-critical systems to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI).  However, Dell EMC says "Not so fast".  While they encourage transition of workloads to HCI, the technologies aren't quite ready for critical systems.  However, the end of 2018 will bring updates to the tech that means that HCI and more traditional architectures should align.

Gartner predicts that 2018 will bring more corproate dollars to enterprise software, by way of new AI automation and digital technology.  Growth in the sector has been apparent for some time now, and worldwide software spending is anticipated to increase by 9.5% in 2018 and 8.4% in 2019, for a total of $421 billion.  This comes as a result of enterprises shifting their budgets towards software as a service (SaaS) solutions, which is no surprise given new products, such as financial, HR, and analytic management appliations.  These services rely heavily on computers to do the work, and often