WhatsApp Web dark mode is here

Months after the popular instant messaging application WhatsApp released the much-awaited dark mode feature for its Android and iOS smartphones, the same feature is now available for its desktop version.

Although there have been a couple of workarounds of getting a dark mode on the web version of the app earlier, The Facebook-owned app recently rolled out the easiest way to switch from light to dark mode without any additional steps or chrome extension downloads.

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Google to restrict ads for tracking technology, spyware

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its policies next month to restrict advertising for spyware and other unauthorized tracking technology.

The change “will prohibit the promotion of products or services that are marketed or targeted with the express purpose of tracking or monitoring another person or their activities without their authorization," according to the company.

While ads for these products already violate Google’s Enabling Dishonest Behavior policy, the change will make the ban on tracking technology explicit and lead to increased enforcement, a company spokeswoman said.

The policy will prohibit advertisements of spyware and malware “that can be used to monitor texts, phone calls, or browsing history," according to Google. It will also ban ads for “GPS trackers specifically marketed to spy or track someone without their consent" and of cameras or recorders “marketed with the express purpose of spying."

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India’s forthcoming DIY-Marketing Platform ‘InstaaPR’ announces Knowledge Sessions to decode Opportunities in the New Era

Business Leaders collaborate to boost the Start-ups, MSMEs and Entrepreneurs community.

InstaaPR, India’s forthcoming, no-touch, DIY-cost-effective marketing platform is organising an informative webinar on “How to redefine your sales strategies for the new era”. The webinar is intended to support small and medium enterprises to cope with the pandemic struck economy and keep the business cycles going. 

COVID-19 has altered the way companies operate, employees work & interact with customers and the external world. Moreover, the sales and marketing functions have also come to a standstill. The webinar will focus on these two areas as enterprises were impelled to explore effective ways of continuing their operations.

Taking the lead on this webinar, Sanjay Kher, President & Chief Business Officer, Oceanic Consulting will augment the sales and marketing processes to boost sales in these trying times. 

Moderating the session will be Rachana Chowdhary, CEO, InstaaPR, who will help deep dive the discussions through and help demystify information for immediate business use. “InstaaPR Webinars aims to deliberate upon the very basics of business and life, ground realities. We aim to make our participants feel enlightened and empowered after every session. We have observed that information overload and complex business processes as a way of the busy corporate infrastructure, is often restricting people’s thinking skills and creativity. We aim to deliberate upon the very basics with our participants, to thrive in the new normal.”

Sanjay Kher, President & Chief Business Officer, Oceanic Consulting says, “Times are tough, and businesses are struggling with finding the new normal in sales and marketing departments. With companies losing business, it's the right time to adopt an aggressive sales and marketing strategy and rebuild confidence in business.”

“In this webinar, we will not only discuss expert strategies to boost sales but also decode, some of them immediately available opportunities for the MSMEs, Start-ups, SMEs to benefit.”

Finding alternative sales strategies is of paramount importance in these trying times. Enterprises should think lateral and reinvest their resources in curating new sales and marketing tactics. This also is a great time to engage with existing clients and be truly invested in their success.

The webinar session is scheduled for May 21st, 2020 Thursday from 12 PM to 1 PM. 

Click here to Register now

To learn more about the partnerships, alliances with InstaaPR – DIY Marketing Platform, please write to support@instaapr.live

About Oceanic Consulting Group

Oceanic Consulting Group is a boutique consulting firm offering offer sales, marketing & growth advisory to SMEs & startup’s.  It offers advisory from a Single-Attribute Improvement to a 360-Degree Analysis of firm’s Sales & Business Performance". www.oceanic-group.net

About InstaaPR

InstaaPR is a premium automated digital & social news publishing platform, where we revolutionize the way PR functions. We provide you with an effective and efficient online reach to increase your online presence. www.instaapr.live

eBaoCloud InsureMO is Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to eBaoCloud InsureMO to take advantage of the scalability, reliability and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.

eBaoTech Corporation today announced the availability of eBaoCloud®InsureMO® in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. eBaoTech's customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.

eBaoTech is a global leading digital insurance solution provider with insurance industry clients from over 30 countries. eBaoTech's Insurance Middle Office platform — eBaoCloud InsureMO (InsureMO) is a containerized industry middleware based on microservices architecture. The platform contains common APIs needed to manage the whole life cycle of General, Life and Health insurance policies, such as quotation, illustration, underwriting, payment, and claims. This platform can seamlessly integrate with external applications and services such as OCR, voice recognition, payment and location by API calls. InsureMO also supports third parties to develop APIs and register on InsureMO. Currently, over 3,000 products from over 120 insurance companies across more than 10 countries have been configured on eBaoCloud InsureMO.

Rajat Sharma, Corporate Vice President and Head of Sales and Strategy commented, "eBaoTech is a leading global Insurance technology provider with a mission to make Insurance easy. InsureMO is eBaoTech's Insurance middle office platform, delivering a robust 3V proposition (Massive Volume, Velocity and Variation) to the Insurance ecosystem (Carriers, Brokers, Affinity channels, Fintech, e-Commerce, etc.). With an increase in Digital Transformation projects in the Insurance sector globally and to address the growing market demand, we are making InsureMO available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace as one of our global customer reach strategy."

Sajan Parihar, Senior Director, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp said, "We're pleased to welcome eBaoTech's InsureMO to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, which gives our partners great exposure to cloud customers around the globe. Azure Marketplace offers world-class quality experiences from global trusted partners with solutions tested to work seamlessly with Azure."

The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling cloud solutions certified to run on Azure. The Azure Marketplace helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.

About eBaoTech
eBaoTech is a digital solution provider to the global insurance industry and our mission is to "make insurance easy". We do business in more than 30 countries globally, serving over 200 carriers and numerous agents, brokers, InsurTech's and others in the insurance ecosystem. Digital insurance is the coming wave and the insurance industry is moving into the API economy. eBaoTech provides solutions and services that enable digital insurance.

eBaoTech has been dedicated to insurtech innovation since its founding in 2000. In 2001, eBaoTech developed world's first browser/server based insurance core system suite, leading the advent and adoption of Java-based 3G insurance IT. In 2015 eBaoTech launched the world's first distributed, cloud-native and microservices based 4G insurance platform that provides a complete set of insurance APIs across an insurance policy's full lifecycle. eBaoTech offers a cloud based solution that enables digital insurance and enterprise level core system insurance software. We make insurance easy.

eBaoTech Digital Solutions
eBao Cloud is a family of products based on open API Insurance platform that provides real time connectivity and transactional capabilities to insurers, traditional channel partners, affinity partners, and InsurTech startups. eBao Software includes core system suites for Life, P&C, and Health Insurers as well Re-Insurers. More information, please visit www.ebaotech.com.


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Automation Anywhere's Industry-leading Cloud-native RPA Platform Available on Amazon Web Services in India

Automation Anywhere, a global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), today announced general availability of its industry's first and only cloud-native, web-based digital workforce platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) across India.

Enterprise A2019 on AWS combines RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics to empower customers and governments across the region to improve end-to-end business efficiencies.

Automation Anywhere helped pioneer the concept of an intelligent digital workforce, which leverages software bots that work side-by-side with employees to automate repetitive tasks and processes. With Enterprise A2019, organizations can deploy RPA in either public, private or hybrid cloud environments with enterprise-class security, governance, and data privacy.

The collaboration between Automation Anywhere, AWS, and leading AWS Premier and Advanced Consulting Partners across Asia enables organizations to deploy a digital workforce and scale automation on AWS with confidence and ease. 

"With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses began scaling up their digital transformation efforts, we felt a sudden uptick in demand and interest from our customers for a rapidly scalable infrastructure on cloud," said Milan Sheth, EVP - IMEA, Automation Anywhere. "Automation Anywhere's Intelligent Automation platform powered by AWS offers seamless experience of improving front and back-end processes thus allowing customers to revolutionize operations and authorize business to sync-up with the 'new-normal'. Improving IT resilience being considered as one of the top priorities for CXOs across the board to ensure continuity allowing business capability to scale and shrink as per the external requirement."

The regional expansion of A2019 on AWS builds upon industry recognition as the 2020 winner in the 'Best Cloud Automation Solution' category in the International Cloud Computing Awards. Enterprise A2019 on AWS delivers industry-leading ease of use for all users, enabling them to easily leverage built-in and third-party AI and machine learning capabilities all on a cloud-native platform that helps achieve unprecedented scale and low cost of ownership. Unlike other platforms that use legacy client/server monolithic architectures, Enterprise 2019 -  available in 10 languages - was designed from the ground up as a cloud-native and web-based platform with an efficient java-based microservices architecture, which translates into lower total cost of ownership (TCO), increased performance, and scalability.

Since the launch of Enterprise A2019 late last year, it is now in wide adoption by organizations across the globe, with more than 200,000 users on the platform, and with the number increasing exponentially due to COVID-19. Solutions that were developed using the platform include major airlines reducing cancellation processing times for refunds from 20 minutes to three minutes, expedited SBA loan processing for a large community bank from three weeks to three days, and directing citizens in Macao to vital information with a public service dashboard. More examples of organizations using intelligent automation to impact COVID-19 can be found here.

For a Free 30-Day A2019 on AWS Trial visit AWS Marketplace: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace

AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting, Technology and Training Partners can apply to join the Automation

Anywhere Partner Program: https://www.automationanywhere.com/in/partner-registration

Interact with Automation Anywhere:

•   Visit our website: https://www.automationanywhere.com/
•   Check out AAI monthly webinars: https://www.automationanywhere.com/rpa-webinars
•   Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AutomationAnywhereSoftware/
•   Follow us on Twitter: @AutomationAnyIN
•   Explore with us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/automation_anywhere/
•   Connect with us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/automation-anywhere
•   Experience RPA for free: https://www.automationanywhere.com/products/community-edition


About Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere is a global leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), empowering customers to automate end-to-end business processes with software bots - digital workers that perform repetitive and manual tasks, resulting in dramatic productivity gains, optimized customer experience and more engaged employees. The company offers the world's only web-based and cloud-native intelligent automation platform combining RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics right out of the box, to help organizations rapidly start and scale their process automation journey. Its Bot Store is the world's first and largest marketplace with more than 850 pre-built, intelligent automation solutions. With offices in more than 40 countries and a global network of 1,500 partners, Automation Anywhere has deployed over 1.8 million bots to support some of the world's largest enterprises across all industries. For additional information, visit www.automationanywhere.com.


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Infosys Selected as the Digital Transformation Partner for GLOBALFOUNDRIES' Digital Leadership Program

Infosys (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, has been selected by GLOBALFOUNDRIES® (GF®), the world's leading specialty foundry, as its partner for the company's Digital Transformation program. Through this partnership, Infosys will provide expertise and analytical solutions to optimize the overall efficiency and agility of GF's manufacturing and business operations.

The partnership will enable GF to seamlessly transform its legacy solutions and adopt advanced cloud capabilities to rationalize existing workloads, thereby realizing GF's digital strategy through process automation while achieving lower cost of ownership and ensuring compliance requirements. It will also help GF derive value and insights from the data generated across its globally dispersed operations. GF will leverage Infosys' domain expertise and industry experience to transform and optimize GF's IT assets to scale its digital capabilities. Infosys will also enable GF's internal teams with next-gen digital skills to help co-deliver great user experiences across the enterprise.

Anand Swaminathan, EVP and Global Industry Leader - Communications, Media and Technology, Infosys, said, "Together with GlobalFoundries we are embarking on an industry leading digital transformation program. By harnessing the power of private and public cloud, we will assist GlobalFoundries in transforming their manufacturing and corporate operations to deliver more value to their clients while lowering cost of ownership. We are excited to partner with them on this digital leadership program which we believe will set a new benchmark for the industry."

Thomas Weber, SVP Global Supply Chain and Integrated Manufacturing Information Technology, GlobalFoundries, said, "As the leading specialty foundry, with a global footprint, we are committed to accelerating our digital transformation to differentiate and create more value for our clients. Partnering with Infosys will equip our teams with next-gen skills and accelerate our transformation journey through automation and innovation." 

About Infosys

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in 46 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With nearly four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

Visit www.infosys.com to see how Infosys (NYSE: INFY) can help your enterprise navigate your next.

Safe Harbor

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects, financial expectations and plans for navigating the COVID-19 impact on our employees, clients and stakeholders are forward-looking statements intended to qualify for the 'safe harbor' under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding COVID-19 and the effects of government and other measures seeking to contain its spread, risks related to an economic downturn or recession in India, the United States and other countries around the world, changes in political, business, and economic conditions, fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry and the outcome of pending litigation and government investigation. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019. These filings are available at www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company unless it is required by law.

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AutoBCM exemplifies Business Continuity and Crisis Management amidst the pandemic

As businesses worldwide grapple through dwindling revenues and uncertainties, Ascent Technology Consulting, a global leader in enterprise business continuity management has registered a rise in enterprises exploring for the right BCM and crisis management measures.

Business continuity is a proactive plan to avoid and mitigate risks associated with disruption of operations. It details steps to be taken before, during and after an event to maintain the financial viability of an organization.

While Business Continuity Management(BCM) is the need of the hour for organisations, a sizable section of them still lurk in confusion regarding the right investment decisions. AutoBCM(Business Resiliency Software) enterprise wide full-scale BCM automation solution has accelerated its efforts to meet with the growing demand of the large enterprises, mid-sizedfirms and SME businesses across industries.

Ascent BCM allows companies to take a holistic approach to identifying potential threats and their impact on its business and put preventative measures in place.  Ascent’s BCM software allows instant access to quickly identify the process for dealing with any given situation. The platform which is available in two versionson premise and over the cloudallows instant access to quickly identify the process for dealing with any given situation. The solution cuts across the key BCM parameters including end to end regulatory compliance, uninterrupted customer service and unparalleled business agility to ensure business survival in a crisis scenario.

Furthermore, the proprietary offering AutoBCM meets ISO 22301 & respective industry regulations. With multi sector and multi industry domain exposure, Ascent is experienced in many sectors in assisting companies to implement stringent BCM solutions.

“The surging outbreak of the Coronavirus and its impact on enterprises calls for a cutting-edge, easy to deploy business continuity platform. AutoBCM by Ascent comes as a scalable, robust and highly integrated platform catering to multiple BCM requirements. The solution has been specifically tailored to offer comprehensive business continuity planning, initiation of recovery action, risk assessment and disaster tracking,’’ said Mr Kundan S Shekhawat, Founder and CEO, Ascent Technology Consulting.

Ascent Technology Consulting has worked with some of the biggest names across global industries with more than half of its clientele comprising Fortune 500 firms.

‘’In the prevailing scenario of rapidly spreading Coronavirus and lockdown extensions, it is imperative for businesses to focus on recovery objectives and chalk-out backup plans in case the situation worsens to minimize the impact,’’ added Shekhawat.

Some other key features and benefits of Ascent’s AutoBCM solution include-:

●        Complete automation of business continuity operations

●        Artificial Intelligence-powered workflow management

●        Dynamic real-time KPIs via dashboards and reports

●        A centralised platform, integrated with multiple processes

●        Initiates and manages disaster recovery activities with the click of a button

●        Completely configurable solution

●        Data maintenance efforts are subsequently reduced

●        Simplifies and reduces time to complete all activities relating to BCM planning requirements

●        Eliminates the need to manage disparate sources of BCM data - spreadsheets, pseudo databases, tables, documents, etc.

●        Sports a dedicated pandemic module to enable enterprises in tailoring the most effective BCM strategies

●        The platform can be accessed remotely via a mobile app from anywhere, anytime.