10 Most Recommended Cloud Computing Companies in 2020

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Energy EfďŹ cient Technology Green Cloud Computing Saving Energy through Technology

Tech Trend

Embedded Systems are Gaining Popularity across all Domains

Editor’s Desk

R The Ability to Operate from Anywhere, Anytime

emote workers have been able to find their way through these dramatic changes in the last couple of months and cloud solutions have proved to be a blessing to facilitate this rather arduous process. Companies are now responding to the question many have asked before; would productivity fall off by working from home? And for many companies the answer is ‘no’. Thousands of professionals are taking advantage of working from home, and this change has created an additional question to consider–could remote work be the new normal?

In 2019, more than 1.5 million people in the UK had worked remotely, up to 50% from 2009, even before the lockdowns started. Roughly 79% of telecoms companies and 87% in the energy sector use cloud computing.

Twitter is an apt example of an enterprise that employs people to work from their home permanently, followed by many other organizations, including but not limited to Facebook and Google, which have extended their homebased work policy to 2021.

Not only technology giants are promoting remote work using cloud technology, smaller companies also use lowcost cloud solutions to develop domestic practices.

Thanks to the benefits offered by remote work platforms, employers can implement it seamlessly.

Despite the global pandemic, employees report higher productivity and job satisfaction. With the long-term view, remote work offers businesses several economic advantages. Overhead costs can be reduced in many ways from office rent to equipment, with fewer people working in the physical workplace.

When the time comes for workers to return to their offices, many will now have a choice of whether to work from their offices or not. However, to do so, organizations must first implement an appropriate solution, in which employees can access their applications easily wherever they are, without compromising on productivity.

There are a range of cloud-based solutions that enable companies to work productively and securely from home. The mix of software, platform and infrastructure, otherwise known as Everything-as-aService (XaaS), allows employees to access any local and cloud environments on the website.

And to make the selection process easier for organizations, Insights Success has come up with this edition titled, “10 Most Recommended Cloud Computing Companies in 2020”, highlighting the best cloud solution providers, exhibiting their innovative approaches and demonstrating their abilities as to why businesses must choose them as their preferred technology partner.

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The Best Defense Against DDoS Attacks

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Cloud Insights: Using AI to Automatically Optimize Cloud Costs

CXO Standpoint: Leverage Existing SAP Solutions with Cloud Procurement

BizMerlin Combining the Power of AI and Cloud Technology to Deliver Intelligent HR Management Solutions

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Energy EfďŹ cient Technology Green Cloud Computing Saving Energy through Technology

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Tech Trend

Embedded Systems are Gaining Popularity across all Domains

Burstorm An Intelligent Architect of Futuristic Cloud Solutions

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BizMerlin

Combining the Power of AI and Cloud Technology to Deliver Intelligent HR Management Solutions

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R management platforms are increasingly becoming an integral part of the corporate world, to be dubbed as the backbone of operational efficiency. Just like a spine of a body, Human Resourceplatforms are central to hiring, retaining employees, and doing so with optimal efficiency. However, there is a need for current HR platforms to take the next big step and combine the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with cloud technology to provide managements with real and actionable insights. This is not a distant dream.

BizMerlin is helping small, large and medium sized businesses achieve this exact goal via cloud technology to bring-in maximum efficiency in operations.

BizMerlin aims to evolve with times and grab the complex world of hiring today with its horns. The world of recruiting today is undergoing significant changes. People are nolonger working just to make a living; many highly value satisfaction, longterm association with a brand and the enriching experience of learning. Additionally, these individuals with a holistic understanding of life are at the forefront of innovation, excellence and taking the economy forward with their bright minds. Hence, BizMerlin is helping companies keep up with times by analyzing patterns and trends in recruiting using Big Data and complex algorithms.

An Intelligent Investment in Business Today’s business world demands different expectations than it did a decade ago. Currently, the work output is often driven by creativity and one of the important parameters is quality. Additionally, projects are often outsourced on yearly contracts and require various different skill sets to complete. In

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order to solve these challenges, BizMerlin prepares itself with the same tech-savvy inspiration that drives various companies to succeed and over the years, it has developed a concrete plan to give its competitors a run for their money. For example, apart from providing actionable insights, the BizMerlinHR platform automates tasks and HR processes. This has resulted in saving valuable time and provides a peace of mind to clients to focus on core products and services.

The uniqueness of the BizMerlin HR tool lies in its ability to process data intelligently and respond to with recommendation based on historical data driven by complex algorithms to support the decision making. -. For example, the flagship ATS feature has the power to analyze each application and provide smart recommendations about candidates. Moreover, the platform integrates simple and advanced features such as Company Wall of Fame, the strategic Resource Forecasting and Optimization solution, and the irreplaceable Expertise Evolution Pathways.

BizMerlin HR platform is not merely a software application, rather a unique bridge between technology and people that speaks the universal language of HR professionals.

A Seed of Aspiration and Inspiration Every leader brings a unique dimension to an organization and guides the spirit of their team with a rock solid belief. BizMerlin too is led by such an inspirational figure with a deep insight in areas of HR consulting, data analytics and artificial intelligence.

The company is led by Dr. Amrinder Arora, the Cofounder and CEO -highlighted that there were several inefficiencies in the current recruiting process and he envisioned a wholesome platform to fill this gap.

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We are focused on building the best HR system that today’s talent deserves.

Dr. Amrinder Arora Co-founder & CEO

His name in the industry requires no introduction as he has won numerous awards and has made a giant contribution to the industry. He was recognized as one of 30 Most Influential Young Entrepreneurs in 2016 and has published a book titled, ’Analysis and Design of Algorithms.’, which continues to fascinate experts on Artificial Intelligence. His first hand observations about the vast inefficiencies in recruiting have led BizMerlin to creating a top HR management solution and inspire a success story which is as personal as is professional.

A Challenging World of Business and a Rewarding Opportunity Earlier, HR portals were too often complex, required installation and were unreasonably expensive.

BizMerlin addressed these historical challenges with a unique direction and path to success. The company offers free trial of its platform to interested clients.

These clients can sign up a trial, import their data, onboard their employees, and roll out the system to their workforce, all in the space of a few hours. The company has also integrated its platform via cloud, which lowers the cost, outsources management of the portal and gives employees an unparalleled access.

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One of the primal strategic ploys embedded by the company to become successful is the meaningful interaction between the HR professionals and the platform. The company is confident in its rock solid product, and the free trial would enable the HR management to apply their instincts and easily manage processes with a highly flexible solution.

Over the years, BizMerlin has undergone an eventful journey to become a quality provider of intelligent HR management solutions. It has evolved like most by responding to client demands and sticking to its principle to become an intelligent value provider to its clients.

BizMerlin recently launched retention management solutions to help organizations identify the causes for the churn rate and thereby take necessary steps to mitigate the risks of losing people. BizMerlin leadership will also focus on creating a synergy between its partners and BizMerlin HCM. It also plans to build a bridge between already established state of the art applications like Monster, ZipRecruiter and Indeed in the near future.

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Green

Energy Efcient Technology

Cloud Computing Saving Energy through Technology

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he rapid expansion in data centers, due to the exponential growth of the cloud computing has caused the dramatic increase in energy consumption and its effect on the environment in terms of the carbon footprints. To reduce the power consumption, it is required to develop some energy efficient solutions. The Green Computing is the practice of executing policies and the procedures to improve efficiency of the computing resources in such a way as to reduce the energy consumption and environmental impact of their utilization. Green Cloud Architecture is rising from these trends leading, not only to energy efficiency, but also a carbon emission aware concept. In order to reduce energy consumption, a greener environment needs to be built.

Among all industries, the information communication technology (ICT) industry is arguably responsible for a larger portion of the worldwide growth in energy consumption. The goal of green cloud computing is to promote the recyclability or biodegradability of defunct products and factory waste by reducing the use of hazardous materials and maximizing the energy efficiency during the product's lifetime.

Energy to be saved The objective is to reduce power consumption of the data center. It offers the features like online monitoring, live virtual machine migration, and optimization of Virtual Machine Placement. Through this proposed Green Cloud Architecture, energy up to 27% can be saved. The need to manage multiple applications in a data center creates the challenge of on-demand resource provisioning and allocation in response to time-varying workloads. Data center resources are statically possessed to applications, based on the peak load characteristics, in order to provide performance guarantees and to maintain the isolation.

Energy-efficient resource management has been first introduced in the context of battery fed mobile devices, where energy consumption has to be reduced in order to improve the battery lifetime. Techniques which are developed for mobile devices also can be applied or adapted for servers and data centers; this kind of systems requires specific methods.

The primary method is to consolidate the Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling technique in an efficient way to maximize the resource utilization and to minimize energy consumption of the datacenters which will result in the reduced

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carbon footprints and thus will help more in achieving the Green Computing.

The Green Benefits Cloud computing is the way to save money and energy for the business. Users emphasize Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and can improve their manageability and facilitate the maintenance of the resources. It means that benefit of business enterprises implicates to avoid spending on software and infrastructure resources, and allow business clients to focus on earning money rather than being weighted down with infrastructure concerns. Therefore, operating this model allows reducing the consummation of the power energy without spending money on running the servers.

Moreover, with no servers to repair, the absence of hardware to upgrade and no software to install, labor costs are also reduced.

With SaaS software accesses usually through a browserbased client, i.e., it can run on virtually any authorized computer, making desktop and laptop resources easily replaceable. Thus, when the user also saves on the support, it doubles the impact and in fact increases green role in business. The employees can work remotely, traveling and moving from one place to another because they have fast access to the internet and the ability to use all the services at hand, on the other hand, it reduces the consumption of fossil fuels and the harmful pollution that results from vehicle emissions as well.

The reduction of energy and power consumption has become a first-order objective in the design of modern computing systems. The roots of energy-efficient computing, practices can be traced back to 1992, when the U.S. environmental protection agency had launched Energy Star, a voluntary labeling program which was designed to identify and promote the energy-efficient products in order to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. Computers and monitors were the first labeled products. This has led to the widespread adoption of the sleep mode in electronic devices. The term “green computing” was introduced to refer to the energy-efficient personal computers.

Interesting Research Findings While deploying data center, the sole concern is high-performance, and this demand has been fulfilled without paying much attention to the energy consumption. An average data center guzzles energy as much as 25,000 households. There is a necessity to move the focus to optimizing for energy efficiency while maintaining high service level performance than optimizing data center resource management for pure performance, as the energy cost is increasing while the availability dwindles. According to certain reports, the total estimated energy bill for data centers in the year 2010 was $11.5 billion and energy costs in a typical data center doubles every five years.

For the development of cloud computing and it to sustain green technologies is exceedingly essential. Of the numerous green methodologies enquired, the DVFS technology is a highly hardware oriented approach and hence it is less flexible.

Cloud computing is a highly scalable and cost-effective infrastructure for running an enterprise and the web applications. But the critical issue is the drastic surge in the energy consumption of data centers which is triggering by the growing demand for cloud infrastructure. Hence, the energy-efficient solutions are required which results in less number of carbon footprints and thus help in achieving greener computing.

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he Birth of Cloud Computing

Back in the early days of cloud computing, if we would tell you that every business and consumer would eventually be running their entire compute and storage infrastructure digitally, we would sound crazy. But just 17 years later, it seems inevitable that the old world of data centers and on-premise servers will go the way of the physical newspaper and radio.

Indeed, even Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS, didn’t envision this future back in 2000. At the time, Amazon was simply struggling to scale despite hiring a lot of new developers. Jassy, who was Amazon’s Chief of Staff at the time, dove into the problem to discover that the hardware and infrastructural needs simply were not being met fast enough. Jassy set out to speed up this process internally, allowing the internal R&D team to access a pool of common compute and storage resources, making it easier for each to launch their own projects without needing to deal with the underlying infrastructure. Eventually, at a team summit in 2003, they realized this was a need for every other company on the planet, and so AWS was born.

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The birth of Spotinst: Rising cloud costs Today, there is a similar revolution beginning in the world of cloud computing. One still in its early stages, but seemingly destined to grow just as quickly as AWS. “Spotinst aims to be the largest provider of cloud infrastructure without running any servers,” says Amiram Shachar, CEO & Founder of Spotinst. The statement is bold on its own, but when you dive a bit deeper, not much bolder a claim than had you asked Andy Jassy the same back in 2003.

Just as Jassy found an internal struggle today, Spotinst began with Shachar’s identification of a problem at his company, then Lycos Global Group. As Director of DevOps, Shachar was pressed with the task of migrating all Lycos’ servers to the cloud, but costs quickly jumped.

“Within a couple of months of moving to the cloud, our costs had actually risen dramatically, way beyond any calculator that we used to predict it” continued Shachar.

“To the point where we were actually planning to move everything back to on-premise.”

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Amiram Shachar CEO & Founder

Spotinst

About the CEO Amiram Shachar is CEO & Founder of Spotinst, which leverages excess cloud capacity to help customers save ~80% on cloud costs. Before Spotinst, he was Director of DevOps at Ybrant Media and led the Israeli Defense Forces migration to the cloud.

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Instances were spare server capacity at AWS, cleverly packaged to enable monetization of these servers. AWS offered these idle servers for massive 90% discounts with one major caveat - they’ll kick you off once a customer wants to pay full price for those servers.

Shachar smelled opportunity. “By building algorithms that could predict the spare capacity terminations in advance, we could then migrate to another spare server beforehand, saving us 80% on our cloud costs.” After a few months, Shachar and his team were running nearly 75% of their compute power on AWS spare capacity. Just like Jassy back in 2003, the lightbulb eventually went off - there was a far larger opportunity at hand here.

The virtual cloud: run code without dealing with cloud providers “All companies running on cloud struggle to keep costs down,” Shachar says. “But with a long list of priorities including security and maintaining site reliability, DevOps teams often don’t have the time to do all of the work required to optimize cost.” But while Spotinst’s first product was aimed at helping companies reliably leverage spare capacity to reduce costs, Shachar and his co-founders, Liran Polak and Aharon Twizer, had a bigger vision.

Today, managing cloud infrastructure has become just as complex as running on-premises. With a plethora of new AWS, Google, and Azure offerings launching every month, along with an increasingly vast list of companies that build off these offerings, figuring out the balance between cost and performance is a major challenge. But, Shachar envisions a world where you don’t have to.

most cost-effective servers, given your performance requirements. Instead of exploring the long list of alternatives within and across the different cloud providers, Spotinst will take care of it all under the hood.

Today, their platform recognizes any workload that could be run on a cheaper server. Just put those workloads under Spotinst’s control and their algorithms will take care of the rest - those workloads will forever run on the cheapest servers available. All without compromising performance or availability.

Using a new Serverless offering, where developers can simply write code without dealing with any of the underlying infrastructure, Spotinst aims to deliver on this promise in a major way. “All you should ever have to do is write code,” says Shachar. “Our algorithms will make sure it is always running on the most cost-effective infrastructure, across all cloud providers, for your performance and availability needs.” In other words, just write the code, and Spotinst will make sure it always runs at the lowest cost possible for your performance needs.

As Shachar says, “in 10 years, just as everyone is making the shift to cloud today, they will be making the shift to Serverless computing. Only with Spotinst, they’ll be able to also ensure they are paying the best possible price, all without doing anything.” The promise of companies all running a perfectly optimized cloud without ever dealing with the infrastructure seems bold.

But as we learned from Jassy and AWS, in another 10-15 years, it may just be an inevitability.

The promise of the virtual cloud The promise of Shachar’s vision is simple at heart - a virtual cloud. Spotinst will leverage machine learning to ensure that your applications are always running on the

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Burstorm

An Intelligent Architect of Futuristic Cloud Solutions

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ulfilling a large part of our daily virtual experience, cloud solutions are increasingly becoming an integral part of our lives. It stores, backs up, recovers data and helps create new applications. Additionally, it hosts websites, blogs, streams audio-visual content, and provides on-demand software. To top it all, cloud solutions include Big Data to make intelligent analysis and predictions, saving costs and improving productivity for enterprises in the process. It would be fair to say that the experience of living in a virtual world would be far less exciting without the availability of cloud services at our fingertips.

On the other hand, increasing demands for cloud solutions is creating a chain of problems of its own.

With a huge number of cloud solution providers emerging in the market,, enterprises are having a hard time telling them apart from each other without a fair overview, objective comparison and real insights.

Similarly, cloud solution providers have had a tough ask competing with tech giants owing to their limited expertise and resources. In order to win this prevalent cloud war, it is imperative for cloud providers position themselves at the forefront of innovation through transformation in ideas, design, real-time dynamic quotations and deployment.

Burstorm offers a fitting solution to this headache, which aims to bring enterprises, cloud solution providers and futuristic minded developers together to architect an ideal world of cloud solutions.

A Platform to Build Dream Cloud Solutions An ideal platform brings various stakeholders together and bridges their various differences in order to unite

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them in solidarity towards a common goal. Burstorm platform aims to meet these exact criteria to build the cloud solutions of tomorrow. The platform delivers five key functionalities to enterprises and cloud solution providers. These five key functionalities include providing a visual model to compute, storage, network, and datacenter infrastructure. Secondly, it provides a product catalogue consisting of over 40,000 options provided by thousands of vendors. Its third benefit hammers home the bottom line of corporates and helps companies reduce costs.

Burstorm provides a comparison of price, performance and value gained with an objective overview in realtime. Additionally, the platform delivers a summary to its clients about the existing state of its infrastructure. It also allows enterprises and cloud solution providers to build and sell applications based on location, performance, price and security.

Lastly, it allows colleagues to collaborate in real-time across the globe to envision and build the futuristic cloud solutions.

An Enriching Experience and a Perceptive Leadership Burstorm was incepted by Brandon Abbey, the current CEO of the company when he united with leaders from the cloud industry, former Oracle OnDemand President Dr. Timothy Chou and ex-Netflix Cloud architecture guru Edward Wustenhoff.

Prior to Burstorm Brandon worked in the Silicon Valley for some of the largest network and data center providers including AT&T, Qwest and Savvis (now Centurylink). After an enriching professional journey, he moved on to put his own ideas to work as a entrepreneur in the data center colocation space.

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Our platform helps organizations make decisions more quickly and accurately assess to select the optimal cloud solutions.

Brandon Abbey CEO & Founder

In late 2009 Brandon, Timothy and Edward formed Burstorm. The company began as an IT brokerage firm working with companies to avail an ideal cloud infrastructure. As the company helped various enterprises, the Founders felt the need to create a platform-based solution to meet the challenges of a booming, rapidly evolving and complex IT ecosystem and thus, Burstorm platform came into existence.

Adding a Touch of Transparency and Innovation to the Future Burstorm provides a touch of magical innovation to the cloud solution industry. This includes providing a digital sales and design platform for providers. The platform also automates the process of sending quotation and delivering insights to the clients based on intelligent analysis. The current tools have transformed the ideation, design and quotation process to make it more efficient and competitive.

Burstorm plans to add a touch of transparency and innovation on to its platform, in the upcoming future.

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people did not see designing of projects in real-time and hence, were unable to participate with their suggestions or inputs. With the newly introduced Salesforce Integration , sales people are always on board in the designing process and can communicate their feedback in real-time.

Burstorm continues to rise to new heights due to innovation and constant improvements. Its recent success include receiving the seal of approval from prestigious firms in the industry including the likes of Fidelity Investments, Telmex, managed service providers like Hostway, Systems Integrators like Engility and many more. The reason behind the continuous rise of the company can be attributed to the early challenges it encountered and strategic thinking that developed as a result. In its initial consulting phase, Burstorm was simply providing solutions based on human insights and experiences to enrich IT infrastructures. Over time, the management at Burstorm realized that these human relied solutions were insufficient to deliver the desired results to the clients. It was important to bring in machine learning, rich insight built into a platform to lead the industry; Burstorm has not looked back since.

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Tech-Trend

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n today’s emerging world, systems have bought an ease of work due to its inherent advancements and features. The embedded system is one of the most imperative subjects in the digital world. Thinking about technology, daily lifestyle essential devices like mobile phones, tablets and laptops come to our mind, but the internal features is not known to most of us.

The presence of these devices is almost inevitable in all facades of the human endeavor. In order to understand more about the operations, functions and features of embedded systems, it is defined here ahead.

Embedded Systems -It is an electronic system incorporating hardware integrated circuit with software programming techniques for delivering various projects solutions.

The main advantage of using an

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embedded system is it helps to reduce the complexity of the circuits which becomes expedient. It also offers a cost effective and an appropriate size which is suitable for the system. This electronic system can perform single or multiple tasks based on the application. An embedded system consist of hardware such as power supply kit, central processing unit, memory devices, timers, output circuits, serial communication ports and system application specific circuit components and circuits.

Types of Embedded Systems The Embedded systems are classified into categories such as · Based on its performance and functional requirements · Performance of the Microcontroller

The category- based on its performance and functional requirements are classified into four types that are Stand alone, Real time, Networked, and Mobile embedded systems. Further, the categoryperformance of the microcontroller is classified into three types that are small scale, medium scale and sophisticated embedded systems.

An Excellent Application Provider The embedded systems are highly applicable as it is a special-purpose system due to its unique characteristics. It is used in a diversified area of things as its components and functions of hardware and software are different for each system. It is applicable in areas like communication, space, transportation, robotic systems, and home appliances and many more.

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Real Time Applications of Embedded Systems As it has a vast variety of application domains it differs from high expense to low, consumer electronics to industrial equipment, academic equipment to entertainment devices and from weapons to medical instruments and aerospace control systems. Here goes some of the categories embedded systems are used: Ø Consumer electronics- Mobile phones, videogame consoles, digital camera Ø Household appliances- Washing machines, microwave ovens, refrigerators Ø Medical Equipment- CT Scanners,

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heartbeat monitors, electrocardiogram Automobiles- Antilock braking systems, air-conditioner controls, electronic fuel injection systems Industrial Applications- Assembly lines, multiple parameter monitoring systems, data collection systems Aerospace- Navigation systems, guidance systems, GPS Communications- Routers, network hubs, satellite phones

Progression of Embedded Systems over the Decade With changing times, inventions have become a routine in the world of technology; the embedded systems have also undergone some salient modifications. In the existing times,

the embedded technologies are responsible for the intellectual capabilities of utmost modern devices, for both consumers as well as industrial. To present this in a simpler manner, the embedded systems not just control the lifestyle devices like microwaves, smartphones, tablets, and other consumer electronics but also directs the telecommunication systems, submarines, ATMs, and many more.

The upper echelons in the field of embedded technologies have created some innovative technologies over the last decade which is highly admired.

Multi-core processors, virtualization, the expansion of devices with improved security requirements, 64-bit processors and new chip manufacturing processes are some of the innovative achievements.

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Embracing such innovative technologies addresses the scale of the market and the number of its players which include companies like semiconductor suppliers, system software development, and mechanical components suppliers, system software development companies, and mechanical components suppliers. The embedded systems market leaders include national and international renowned companies.

Advancing with Multifunctional Features With the advent of multi-functional engineering, the next age of wireless communication systems is encouraging a new level of technology integration. Incorporating effective measures like progressive data rates, great connectivity for systems such as the Internet of Things (IoT), less power consumption, and other striving goals can be achieved by joining advanced digital, RF, and antenna technologies.

An embedded system which performs multiple applications is known as a multi-mode embedded system as it dynamically recomposes the system functionality. Moreover, an embedded system which additionally assists multiple tasks to be executed in a mode is known as a multi-mode multi-task embedded system. The multi-material additive manufacturing processes offer the potential for multi-functional parts to be manufactured in a single procedure. To utilize the potential benefits of the developing technology, analysis, new designs, and optimization methods are needed. Such methods are facilitated in the optimization of a multifunctional part by pairing both the structural design aspects and system. An application development platform known as Multifunctional Embedded Application Platform (MEAP) is used to create customized applications.

Trends to Watch Developers should constantly keep an eye on the trends and make appropriate use of the latest advances in techniques and technologies. Some of the trends include Internet of Things (IoT), processor technology, storage, artificial intelligence and, virtual and augmented reality. Also, there are several trends like embedded security, realtime visualization; cloud connectivity and Bluetooth mesh networking, low power consumption and optimization that will help developers working with microcontroller-based solutions.

Elevating with Time Over the years, embedded systems have come a long way and contributed to every aspect of the industrial sector. All the devices or appliances used in our daily lives are designed in such a way that can be used without creating difficulties using the embedded systems. Taking this into account, in coming times every object around will consist of a either a small processor or sensor embedded within itself. Even though it is invisible to the naked eye it still connects with multiple other devices to make the lives more allied and accessible than ever before. Using embedded systems, wonders like driverless cars, fully automated factories, adaptive home appliances and many more devices have successfully been created.

In the upcoming times, the embedded systems are looking forward to evolve with technologies that will assist large data storage dimensions, faster communication and highly linked connections among the devices.

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ompanies that have already invested in SAP find that they can achieve even better results from their existing investment with cloud technology and eProcurement. After the initial investment, companies find certain roadblocks preventing mass user adoption and diminishing cost savings. Issues such as inability to stay connected, lack of insight into data, and complex and fragmented business rules stop businesses from using the full power of SAP. As cloud application technologies advance, companies gain the benefits of rapid deployment cycles, increased self-service tools, and faster performance.

Vroozi delivers on the promise and power of eProcurement in the Cloud with seamless integration into SAP. SAP users looking to the cloud generally face a few questions, including: · How can I benefit from using cloud procurement? · Will my transition to the cloud be cost-effective? · How will my business processes be affected by cloud technology?

To understand the benefits of cloud technology to existing SAP users, let’s evaluate three procurement strategies that highlight the power of cloud procurement.

Value Realization Return on Investment (ROI) is a central factor in any procurement strategy. Buyers and trading partners of cloud

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procurement solutions need to feel confident that solutions will lead to cost savings and higher productivity and efficiency. Users quickly see returns by focusing on user adoption, compliance, and spend management. Spend Management allows companies to visualize purchasing spending patterns and usage and drives employees to leverage preferred pricing with contract suppliers. To increase user adoption and compliance, the cloud empowers a mobile workforce with the right resources and experience so everyone stays connected and available so that business is not disrupted. As user adoption and compliance frameworks increase with cloud-based systems, organizations gain immediate cost savings in procurement by decreasing transaction costs and preventing spend leakage with your supply chain.

Efficiencies Process efficiency is key for a successful, healthy business.

Cloud technology enables better processes by keeping everyone connected through a mobile experience and automating transaction tasks through the use of machine learning and pattern matching. With a centralized, unified system, cloud automation can yield immediate benefits in requisition to invoice and payment business processes and reduced errors and issues leading to higher productivity and decreased processing costs. Further, by allowing employees to interact with cloud procurement via smart Phones and

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tablets, business can continue to move with efficiency and speed.

IT Cost Savings Perhaps no determinant is more important in realizing the benefits of cloud technologies versus traditional on premise software is in IT Cost Savings. Systems and applications which required large physical infrastructure and monetary investments can now provide inexpensive and scalable solutions through the Cloud and cloud infrastructure providers. A procurement solution that integrates with SAP is easier to access, less expensive, and takes a fraction of the implementation time companies once faced with traditional software solutions.

Cloud technology relieves the user of hidden costs such as hardware, consultants, infrastructure, maintenance, and costly upgrade cycles, providing lower risk and lower total cost of ownership.

Conclusion The cloud offers little upfront expense, automatic upgrades, and pre-integrated best practices which allow organizations to focus on business growth and improved operating margins. Vroozi’s eProcurement solution that takes SAP solutions to the cloud empower users with better returns, better processes and higher savings, so their overall SAP investment’s ROI is accelerated.

According to IDC, spending on Cloud computing is growing at 4.5 times the rate of IT spending since 2009 and is expected to continue growing at more than 6 times the rate of IT spending from 2015 through 2020. (via Forbes) This massive growth is easily understood when businesses understand the power and value of cloud solutions. With the Vroozi Platform, companies can take advantage of robust eProcurement technology delivered in the Cloud and integrated seamlessly with SAP.

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Brad Hill Director of Global Sales & Marketing Vroozi Brad Hill, Director of Global Sales & Marketing of Vroozi is a passionate leader and is responsible for expanding the Vroozi Product Suite, Brand Adoption, Partnership Network & ensuring our customers receive an unparalleled experience with Vroozi. Brad spent the last 20 years building Enterprise Sales and Product strategies with leading IT Services organizations. His entrepreneurial strategies have served a vast number of Fortune 500 industries and verticals. He is also an aspiring mechanic and frustrated golfer, two good reminders to keep his day job.

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