Robots are becoming more commonplace in our daily lives, from manufacturing the vehicles we drive, to vacuuming our floors, and delivering our room service.  And, pretty soon, they may be stealing your job.  A new report from McKinsey estimates that up to 800 million jobs will be replaced by robots by 2030.  And, with figures from the UN estimating the world population at 8.5 billion by that time, approximately 10% of jobs previously held by humans will be held by machines.

OpenText, a global leader in Enterprise Information Management and PaperFree partner, has announced its recent definitive agreement to become a reseller partner within Dell EMC's Select Partner program.  Initially, the agreement covers OpenText InfoArchive to round out Dell EMC's IT transformation product suite.  InfoArchive is a unique product that enables companies to transition their old data from legacy systems to industry-current ones with ease.  With this addtion, InfoArchive will be available immediately through Dell EMC's servic

According to new research by Google and Berkeley, there are "hundreds of millions" of pieces of stolen login information traded on hacker forums and the dark web - and some of it still works.  This research used Googles own internal data for analysis, and researchers estimated that up to 25% of these credentials are still current and their associated accounts exposed.  According to the report: "Through a combination of password re-use across thousands of online services and targeted collection, we estimated 7–25% of stolen passwords in our dataset would enable an attacker to log in to a vic

As information becomes digital more and more large companies are facing an increasing need to manage their Big Data needs with adaptable storage.  What's taking up all their storage?  Written records, customer service calls, IoT information, and other industry-specific information.  For example, insurance giant IAG managed 80TB last year but now it's managing 2PB and that data store is growing by 14TB a month.  All of this data falls under what the industry calls "volume, variety, and velocity" of data.

Ever get frustrated with your phone's personal assitant not being able to understand you?  Or have you received a transcribed voicemail that made no sense?  Those days are numbered thanks to innovations at Microsoft - their AI's voice recognititon engine error rate has now reached an all time low of 5.1%; comparable to the error rate of humans' comprehension of speech.  Microsoft credits "neural-net based acoustic and language models" for this improvement, as well as giving its AI the ability to analyze context when deciphering speech.

OpenText, a gloabal leader in Enterprise Information Management and PaperFree partner, recently announced a successful project for Center for Life Management (CLM), a nonprofit behavioral health care provider based in New Hampshire.  The solution addressed the need for faster records input and access, as well as decommissioned a decade old legacy EIM system that could not be scaled as the organization grew.  OpenText chose ApplicationXtender and ECM Toolbox Workflow to meet CLM's needs, as well as provide room to grow in the future.

As the conversation about autonomous cars heats up, BMW is looking at a different way to make use of cloud technology to power how their vehicles operate.  Their focus?  Owning the customer experience and making it fit the rest of the driving experience.  Instead of outsourcing infotainment to another company, BMW has decided to keep it in-house while accommodating Apple CarPlay integration.

Recognizing an opportunity to teach scouts real-world skills, the Girl Scouts of the USA has recently partnered with Palo Alto Networks to develop a program consisting of 18 earnable badges to teach scouts cybersecurity skills.  Girl Scout badges are insignia awarded to scouts once they have completed requirements to develop mastery of a given topic - and the number of possible badges available across all levels of scouts numbers in the hundreds.

PaperFree Corporation strengthens its offerings for information management solutions with the announcement that the company has added M-Files to its current suite of offerings. This addition further enhances the company’s ability to provide advanced content management and workflow solutions to a variety of new and existing customers. “We are always on the lookout for new or visionary technologies that we can bring to our customers. In addition, M-Files also provides us with additional consumption options with their cloud and subscription based licensing models.

John Deere, the ubiquitous name in farming equipment, isn't just your granpa's tractor anymore.  Though the company has enjoyed popularity throughout its 180-year history, it still has had to innovate to stay at the lead of the pack.  A recent story in Network World explores the technological advancements they've added to their products - essentially adding brains to the brawn.