Drunk Mode, the protective application of drunks – Canaltech

For Writing in | 27/11/2014 15:00

Imagine you went out with your friends to celebrate something as a possible promotion, for example. At first comes to beer, vodka and then suddenly you find a great idea to start drinking tequila. When all that alcohol takes effect, bad ideas start to get good and you call your ex-girlfriend, just not knowing where your friends are and do some crazy things. The other day, the awakening happen very hungover and with no memory. Dangerous, is not it?

To prevent this kind of situation happens, an application called Drunk Mode was created. As the name implies, it is designed to protect the drunk people from the effects of alcohol, but all the smartphone. The product was created by Joshua Anton, a college student of 23 who is already achieving very positive results with your idea.

Ok, but what about what this does?

According to information published by the Telegraph site, the application in question is able to protect the user in different ways. First, the Drunk Mode must be enabled before you get to the bar or ballad. After this happens, the software blocks the address book (so you do not think the ex-girlfriend), blocks social applications and still sends warning messages to you.

To further improve, using GPS your smartphone, the Drunk Mode shows where your friends so you do not miss. Meanwhile, a feature called Breadcrumbers shows the locations where you were during the evening. With that, upon waking, you can redo the whole script mentally to try to find the lost memories because of the drink.

The condom for smartphones …

The idea Drunk Mode may seem a little strange for more conservative minds, but Anton and his partner in developing the app, Justin Washington, have managed to attract 150,000 fans between iOS platforms and Android – their product, for now, is available only for these two operating systems.

When asked about the inspiration to create a tool like this, they said the goal is to allow people to have fun without any danger or drama – but without the need of being drunk 24 hours a day and seven days a week as well as themselves warn before downloading the app. “It’s like a condom for your mobile phone. This keeps you safe, “adds Anton.

Of course, the software can not prevent stupid actions are made, but its creators are trying. So much so that there is the promise of an update for 2015, bringing new features to the Drunk Mode. One would be the recovery and deleting images sent through Snapchat – preventing embarrassing photographs to be published. In case you’re wondering, to disable the app, all you need to do is solve some mathematical problems.

To learn more about the tool, click here to access the official website of Drunk Mode.

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Labic, who accused PSDB to use robots, will provide software to … – Matheus Piglet News

11/28/2014 08h57m. Updated 28/11/2014 16.30

There is cause for concern in the government’s initiative to curb messages Hate on the Internet. It would be normal if it were actually made to avoid violence. For those who did not know, here is a preliminary information: the federal government recently announced that commissioned the production of an Internet monitoring software to map crimes against human rights on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Flickr, Tumblr, blogs, websites and other social networks.

The order was made to the Laboratory of Studies on Image and Cyberculture of the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Labic).

The justification given was to inhibit anonymous violence, crossing public data to reach the author of the message and it can hold you accountable.

The point is that the same Labic, now employed by the federal government, said Aécio Neves campaign made use robots during the debate of presidential candidates on TV Record on 28 September. According to Labic, Aetius the campaign would have promoted artificially positive references to the candidate.

The campaign of Dilma Rousseff used the Labic research to represent him before the Electoral Prosecutor’s Office against the coalition of the PSDB. This coincidence is strange. The political use of a tool like this worries.

Matheus Piglet

Matheus Piglet is a journalist for 14 years. In his career, the newsrooms of Correio, Epoca magazine, portal iG and Folha de S. Paulo. Matheus received the Esso Award twice, the Embratel Award – and honorable mention in the Vladimir Herzog. Between 2011 and 2012, was at the University of Berkeley, California, as a Visiting Scholar.

Software that teaches mathematics will be available to schools … – Globo.com

A software created in Amapá and used for learning math fractions are in the registration process and can be used in public and private schools. The “Fractron” developed at the time of doctoral Professor Rafael Bridge, the Federal University of Amapá (Unifap), was tested experimentally in November 2013, with 246 students of the school Antonio de Lima Neto in Macapa. The approval ratings of the students reinforced the effectiveness of the formula.

Bridges explains that the project is in registration with the Ministry of Science and Technology, and, according to him, is a program that transfers the learning of mathematics for digital means. After registration, the tool can be acquired free of charge by schools.

“The idea is to provide the school with a frequency of interactive activities with the student, where he is encouraged to build their own rules teaching fractions, and also the logical reasoning and the interpretation of texts, what we call meaningful learning “, explained the professor, who suggests, with the digital medium, greater and better use of computer labs in schools.

At the time of the experiment in public school, one of the participating teachers, Antonio Costa, said the increase in student interest in mathematics. “I realized the students more willing to learn in class because they have more autonomy to be on computers,” said the teacher of a class of 6th grade of elementary school.

Bosch adopts deidentificação software and coding Altronix – MODERN LOGISTICS

November 25, 2014

The multinational engineering and electronics Bosch adopted a Portuguese software that allows you to read in the same device, two of the most important identification and coding technologies such as the code bars and the RFID code.

root Developed by Altronix, the application MOBILIX RFIDWedge is already installed at Bosch Car Multimedia Portugal, SA in Braga, and will now be implemented in the company’s subsidiaries in Malaysia.

With this tool it was possible to increase the productivity of the stock process management activities and assets of the Bosch Braga, since users can read both identification technologies – bar code and RFID, without to switch between device or software.

“The MOBILIX RFIDWedge is a unique solution in the world, optimized for Motorola terminals with integrated RFID reader.” According to Fonseca, executive director of Altronix, “the synergy created combines the advantages of both technologies in a simple but unique application. This solution allows the reading of RFID tags simultaneously with DataWedge, it is possible to read barcodes and RFID codes at the same time. “

Recently, Altronix implemented a project in the Clover facilities in Germany. “This project came to a complete refurbishment of the logistics department, incoming and outgoing goods as well as management of warehouse / stock, automated and directly integrated with the server through a mobile application on hardware provided by Altronix” Fonseca told to Modern Logistics. The choice of hardware went through the installation of the Motorola MC92 and MC45 with long range. In Portugal, the Clover already have the hardware, however, this solution will only be implemented in February 2015. Check out more details of this project in the near Modern Logistics number.

Amnesty International develops software against espionage – Tudocelular.com

Not long ago it was revealed that the US government spying on its citizens, and even other countries are subject to espionage, including Brazil . The National Agency of the United States Security ( NSA ) is responsible for invading the privacy of individuals in order to seek advance for criminal acts.

Despite he seemed to be for a good cause, any person has the right to protect themselves against this type of attack. Precisely why Amnesty International esgtá developing the Detekt a software that search spyware and other programs considered harmful , protecting all its members.

According to CNET, the German Claudio Guarnieri was responsible for developing the software; various civil rights organizations have the partner with the researcher in security, to create the software and reduce espionage cases by the NSA and other particles from the government.

The Detekt is already available for all computers that run Windows ; of course that anyone can use it, but it is focused primarily on activists and journalists who may possibly be being spied .

The software helps detect spyware and malicious programs, but it does not solve the eavesdropping problem. Amnesty International indicates that users find “virus spies” to disconnect the PC from the internet and take you to someone who specializes in security

Codiub ensures that the health software required for … – Journal of Uberaba

 The president of Codiub, Maurides Dutra, explains why it is important the city hire company to offer health software, even with the implementation of Social Organization

* Luciana Rodrigues

The president of Uberaba Computer Development Company (Codiub), Maurides Dutra explained details of the competition notice No. 001/2014, technical type and price, which aims to buy software to meet Department of Health, to be used in all UBS’s, UMS’s and PSUs. On what was said by Councilman Marcelo Machado Borges – Borjão (DEM), which, as the PSUs will be outsourced and managed by the Social Organization (OS), the acquired system is not compatible because there will be no interconnection between the entities, Maurides said this is not true. “The OS does not bring the system, unless the internal management of it. Management of health, what interests the city, the prevailing municipal system, “he said.

With regard to the fact derail the referral of patients from UBS’s for PSUs or Regional Hospital, Dutra also said that it is not a reality, because the system is integrated. In relation to the fact that the new system to be used by the OS should be funded by the Organization, it is more a misunderstanding. “The cost of any internal management system of the OS is it. Administration of Health, the system to be acquired, is the municipality. Recalling that the fact the UPA have the system will not impact the final cost, ie, the system is available without license limit, allowing even the Codiub, with the transfer of technology, providing the same work for other municipalities. Is to prevail the PMU system. The OS does not interfere with the Health Department control model, “he said.

On the lack of information mentioned in the announcement, in which Borjão informs that the language of programming will be adopted Java, however, for such language , it is necessary to acquire a development and maintenance software that is not specified in the published document, or as may be funded, Dutra said that, regardless of the software, as already reported, the Codiub are migrating your language to Java, for being the most modern and appropriate language and is used in most Brazilian services. “The normal language of Codiub will be Java, ie there will be no additional cost, since there is an ongoing migration,” said

Additional explanation -. About the transfer of technology will be as it is not mentioned whether there will be courses and how many hours, teaching materials, among other topics, Maurides Dutra ensures that the writing says Codiub will have ongoing training for 30 months and the presence of the supplier’s technical throughout the term of the contract, promoting the transfer of technology. “We believe we are long enough to acquire the ‘know-how necessary,” he said Dutra, noting that the Commission had Codiub Health Department of observers throughout the process and this matter was fully discussed, to the point of correct insertion the company in the process and the change in electronic trading mode for competition price and technical, demanding sport. “All this was necessary so that the material was appropriate with a view to significant improvement in the health issue to reflect directly in the population ” he concluded. (LR)

Google software makes captions for pictures – Corporate Info

A new software developed by Google engineers are able to offer a suggestion caption for your photo. The program is called Neural Image Caption (neural imagery subtitling, in free translation) and its technical basis of visual computing and natural language processing, which enable machines, in a way, see and understand words.

The project carried out by Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Toshev, Samy Bengio and Dumitru Erhan was published on the website of the Cornell University Library and published in the Google blog. The generated subtitles are descriptive, as the example above. “People can summarize a complex scene in a few words without thinking twice. But it is much harder for computers,” according to the company’s blog.

One of the origins of this technology is advancing latest in machine translation (machine translation) language. A recurrent neural network can convert an application written in a language in a vector representation and then translate it into another language sentence. The project uses a recurrent neural network as described above together with a convolutional neural network was trained to analyze images, thus creating a phrase that sums up a particular scene.

The researchers’ goal is now make the most natural subtitles, less mechanical.

PHC Software and Partner Tech Iberia sign strategic agreement – Tech & Net

 
 
 
 

A PHC Software, maker of business management software, has signed a strategic alliance with the Partner Tech Iberia , a manufacturer of POS systems, peripherals and customer specific solutions. With this agreement, the companies become technological partners in order to take advantage of synergies, collaborate and combine commercial efforts in the Iberian market. Thus, PHC has certified the compatibility of its solutions for retail and catering, PHC and PHC POS CS CS Restoration, with several POS lines of Partner Tech Iberia, from Entry Level SP-600 range to the SP-820 range.

With this agreement, the partners of the Partner Tech Iberia will have access to the range of business solutions PHC CS and particularly their point of sale solutions for restaurant and retail, with all the guarantees of compatibility and user experience that PHC Software offers.

The retail solution of PHC is the solution that lets you control the entire management of a store or chain of stores, with various functions such as issuing receipts and invoices, inventory management, returns, promotions, control and sales statistics, with the flexibility and power of integration of PHC Software.

The Partner Tech Iberia has a wide range of solutions for POS and AIDC adapted to any retail area, from POS Entry Level, POS all-in-one POS to next-generation Ivy Bridge with all kinds of accessories and peripherals, allowing complete flexibility for any type of business.

For more information about the PHC POS solutions CS, visit www.phc.pt/retalho and www.phc.pt/restauracao .

For more information about Partner Tech Iberia solutions, visit: www.partner-tech.es

Software uses big data to predict when you will resign – Info Online

Do not be alarmed if in the future your boss know that you plan to resign even before you do this. With the help of big data, it can even know whether it is better to give you a promotion or salary increase.

That’s because the Workday, a company that offers solutions for HR and finance companies, is already developing a system that can revolutionize the way companies manage their employees. It can detect the most notable candidates for a vacancy, predict which departments will exceed the budget and to make a guess about the next employee will resign.

According to the company, the software-based business Cloud also scours profiles on social networks and other databases to organize people by type of occupation, helping recruiters seeking professionals on a broader base.

The technology can also be used for companies may try to retain their best talent before they resign, knowing even if they prefer a salary increase or promotion charge.

But none of this is as easy as suggesting a new movie on Netflix or content in feeds on Facebook. This is a much more complex job.

The Workday claims to have researched more than 1 billion profiles and job ads to list the people who could be recruited for more than one type of job. A nurse’s work, for example, can be described in over 600 different ways. The company has classified some 20 occupations that way, and claims to have identified more than 70 positions, helping recruiters to have more options for potential candidates.

The co-founder and CEO of Workday, Aneel Bhusri also said in an interview for the New York Times that the company will focus on how their customers are using the product to then improve it as needed.

Apparently, there is a strong adherence of companies to create tools accordingly to improve its performance internally, and not only to provide services to their customers.

Other software companies have also are developing solutions based on the analysis of internal and external data like Salesforce, which announced a new tool for analyzing big data management system for your sales. The tidemark, other cloud services company, also already have your own product to design performance into the future.

Workday Created software discovers that a worker wants to … – the Minute News

A software is being created to identify workers who are thinking of saying goodbye. Workday aims to assist companies in recruiting and encourage any employee who is close to resign, Exame Informática account.

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The Workday is preparing a program to identify when an employee is thought to fire, plus it looks the best candidates for a job or who should be promoted.

This is a company that intends to analyze the professional information of each used for crossing with social networks and other sources of information to draw a profile.

The Hardware Test says that the software can even detect how best to retain the talent within companies is increased by a salary or a promotion.

CEO Globaltec lecture Minister on management software in 58 … – National Insurance Portal

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Source / Author .: Tatiana Santos

On Thursday, Marcelo Xavier, CEO of Globaltec , a company specializing in business management systems for builders, developers and real estate, gave a lecture on the theme: “Sharing experiences in the management software” , facing associates ABMI- Brazilian Association of Real Estate Market, 58th Meeting of the ABMI , in Goiania.

The lecture addressed the concept of how it is increasingly essential to have effective management in the administration of regardless of size or performance, organizations to improve performance and reduce costs. “The idea was to demonstrate how a good ERP system for real estate may impact costs and improve processes and business performance in the Civil Construction and Real Estate sector” says Marcelo.

About Globaltec

Founded in 1997, Globaltec is a specialized the company management software for builders, developers and real estate. Today, the company currently serves more than 700 companies nationwide through its headquarters in Goiânia and through offices in the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Palmas, Brasilia and Cuiaba .

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Mexican investigator develops software that “predicts” occurrences … – Science Today

In Ireland, there are six million and eight thousand of them are Mexican. The investigator Antonio Aguilar is one of them. Came to this European country to visit family and learn English, and decided to stay to finish the course in electronics engineering and continue with postgraduate studies. Four weeks ago he founded his own company medical software for hospitals

The company’s history began with his doctoral research:. A method to diagnose patients with high risk of sudden cardiac death. “I decided to focus on sudden cardiac death because it kills many people and it is very difficult to predict.”

The “trick” the algorithm

Hospital Galway in the center of the story

With a scholarship from a research institute in Galway, electronic engineers began developing the algorithm, that testing a patient, is to make it a record electrocardiogram and heart rate 15 minutes. The algorithm processes this information and analyzes with a statistical model if the patient is at risk of arrhythmia, which is the sign of sudden cardiac death.

“When there is less variability in the heart rate of a patient it indicates a problem . We studied the electrocardiogram of many patients who have diabetes and other cardiovascular diseases and heart rate variability is very different in diseased and healthy patients. Before suffering an arrhythmia a patient has certain patterns are detected and the heart rate variability is less . With this algorithm may “be provided” if the patient is going to have arrhythmia hours before it happened “.

Heart rate is very different in diseased and healthy

Investigator Mexican that part Network Talent chapter Ireland , used a base data of 400 patients to “prove” algorithm and diagnose patients with risk arrhythmia.

Although born in Irapuato , Guanajuato, Mexico, Antonio Aguilar lived in Acapulco , Guerrero, and Nuevo Laredo , Tamaulipas, where he studied the first year Engineering at the Institute Technology of Nuevo Laredo.

From tiny twists the computer

 “From nine years knew it would go to Science or computing . I studied Engineering , because I had to drop number , matemática.S Empre liked the computers, especially electronic and robots ” .

In Ireland happened to you “good time of the country’s economy “; and when I was in third year of study entered for working life n A Company development Software for Intel Motorola and other international companies .

With the algorithm can “introduced” an arrhythmia hours before succeeding

“Liked the way as worked and I was offered A position of Software Engineer , even Amtes end acarreira. The Company allowed me still study part-time. In 2003 finished career , the company closed the branch in Galway and a friend Swedish “hps” told me of a scholarship to do a Masters in Stockholm. I Accept at the Institute Real Technology , Sweden “.

He did his master’s in two years microelectronics focused on developing microprocessors. V oltou the Galway and called to the area of ​​developing health wireless networks in Hospital Galway and made an application to examine the records patient electronically.

One more bag

It all started here in Irapuato

There she worked as an engineer and developed software doctor. offered him a job as a researcher at DERI institute University National Ireland , Galway, where he labored three years and half with projects computer medical Supervisor told me that he had a scholarship to a PhD. I accepted the project to develop algorithm and diagnose patients sudden cardiac death “.

says Aguilar that Ireland long support Student and entrepreneurs – , and it is an example -. because from that date was at’à student had opportunities after opportunities

Maia takes to housing management software – Computerworld Portugal

With GIHABITA, the municipal company expects to access the updated information sheet and financial management

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The company Municipal Area Maia implanted in their information systems GIHABITA the software, management of housing parks. With technology Quidgest, the organization intends to neutralize the sharing of information gaps that hinder effective decision-making and undermine the social, financial and asset management of the housing stock of the city

The Municipal Area. – Urban Renewal and Heritage Management was created for the management of the property housing the municipality. Manages the allocation of housing, promotes the actions of renovation, rehabilitation and urban redevelopment, and improving the quality of life of the population.

“The GIHABITA was specifically developed to meet the management needs of residential parks in the area of ​​registration and inventory of buildings and spaces, financial management and debt collection, dematerialisation and rapid consultation processes and contracts of tenants, “recalled a statement from Quidgest.

Developed using the Genio generation platform, the manufacturer says that the software is an evolutionary system prepared for “anytime”, incorporating new features, technologies and legislative realities. According to the press release, proposed by Quidgest system has already been adopted by EMGHA – Enterprise Management of Social Housing Cascais (Cascais current surroundings), having contributed to a reduction of about 20% of the operating costs of the organization

Today, Cascais Surround manages over 3,000 homes covering the entire geographical area of ​​the Municipality of Cascais, with the support of the software says Quidgest. This experience supports the manufacturer, was instrumental in the procurement system by the Municipal Area Maia process.

Software will be used to assist in combating dengue in … – Globo.com

Despite having recorded a reduction of 1.7% in outbreaks of dengue mosquito, Governador Valadares, in eastern Minas Gerais, is the only city with a risk of epidemic disease in the Southeast. The information was released by the Ministry of Health. By the 11th of October were 1,059 records. Around the year 2013, there were more than 4000 cases

Of the assessed municipalities in the southeast, with 335 are considered satisfactory index of infestation:. Means that less than 1% of the properties had outbreaks of the mosquito. Other 91 counties are on alert, in them, the index reached 3.9% of outbreaks. In Governador Valadares, the rate was 5.3%.

The city of Governador Valadares, said it has invested about US $ 200 000 to simplify and streamline the work carried out by agents of endemic city. With funds from the Ministry of Health, each of the 90 agents will receive a cell phone camera to replace spreadsheets for scanned paper forms.

They will have available a software called ‘Dengue Report’, designed for devices furniture, which will assist in combating dengue in the city. The system aims to ensure safety and accuracy of the information collected by the agents.

The system utilizes stickers with “QR Code”, where they are stored detailed information regarding the house visited as address, property taxes or the date the last visit. The information is validated only by core by reading these labels, which ensures that the survey was actually conducted. The information obtained is instantly routed to the central charge, optimizing the process of controlling dengue.

“The data entered by the agents go directly to the Program of the Ministry of Health, the central point of support may submit a message to one or more agents, and will be notified when the message is opened, and can thus warn officials of a meeting or question them because they are not conducting a survey, for example, “explained technical reference dengue in the Municipality, José Batista Júnior of Angels.

The program was developed and patented by professors from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), and is already used in other cities of Brazil. Before going into the street with the equipment, the agents will be able to in then the transition of the system to be made both in the urban as in the districts of Valadares.

Software development in small steps is better … – Computerworld

Developing a good system takes into account not only the immediate bottlenecks identified that the client

Claudio de Abreu Sá *

November 11, 2014 – 8:15 a.m.

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Some people think that hiring the development of a software or system is how to download an app on your smartphone. Simply identify the problem that needs to be solved in the company, choose the latest technology that fits the needs and pointed out, in a few clicks, the technology will begin to function simply and quickly.

Far from it, the reality is that many executives and managers end up choosing to buy incomplete, inadequate and expensive tools that lead to a lot of headaches over time, just not knowing how to manage the process -. from the selection of the supplier until the necessary adjustments to adapt the software to the reality of the organization

Developing a good system takes into account not only the immediate bottlenecks identified the customer, but also all problems and gains he may have with automation of processes, something impossible to see completely before implementing the technology. Many companies fail to realize the potential that exists behind the technologies they purchase.

In general, organizations think of developing a tool only when they realize that there is some difficulty that prevents the growth of an operation or when it consumes more human resources than the Company has or is willing to use. But the bottleneck accustom to be just the tip of the iceberg and the simplistic thinking that ‘it is necessary to buy a program that does something for us’, can be quite harmful to business.

Almost all businesses need several programs integrated into a system to ensure operational efficiency. But in practice, what happens is even more the sale of softwares in the traditional format, which does not take into account the need for flexibility in designs, especially in a time when organizations need to adapt quickly to changes. This former process can be compared with the construction of a house. Ie, the person who wants to build their new home, tells his need for an architect and this makes drawings of how he imagines an ideal home for every family. When the customer finds that the proposal is good, authorizing its construction.

In IT, the traditional development is very similar. The user presents a problem for an analyst or programmer and that imagines a way to solve it. Once approved solution, begins the development of software that is delivered complete and closed form.

This method seems to be the simplest, but it is not ideal because it can derail adjustments and the quality of project. Just like building a house, after the foundations are made and the walls are already built, there is not much turning back. He warns that the internal processes of the company can change and this is directly reflected in any software involved.

Another important factor is that players who had not been involved before can simply raise new demands, causing profound changes at all that was being done. So technology companies with more market experience looking to work with contracts with flexible or negotiable scope. This new form of business allows an initial survey, which indicate the main points of the iceberg of companies is done. This prevents the process get plastered and companies pay for expensive software that, when delivered, just do not meet more demand, or worse, hinder more than help.

Currently, the hiring of developing software in small steps, also known as sprints, has been a trend among companies, by offering the option to negotiate with the supplier a kind of test-drive the product, identify its utility in targeting specific problems for a period of 7-14 days. Thus, it is possible that the customer test the functioning of the technology and thus can suggest changes to the project scope. Each organization chooses the period that makes sense for your needs.

After the first sprint finish, it can assess what has been done and choose, along with the developer, what next needs to be tested further. Thus, every sprint, the customer has the option to request new features or removing processes that were in the initial scope, but for some reason, no longer needed. This methodology called Scrum, makes the development much more flexible and, most importantly, produces a much more appropriate to the real needs of the end client software.

Finally, I advise managers to treat software development as a process of consulting with constant monitoring, something different from what is practiced widely in the market, where companies are used to hiring IT suppliers punctually by system software or who want to develop. To hire an old-fashioned software, the customer usually pays a lot of money throughout its development, which can take months, or even years, just seeing the results in the end. If this result is bad, or if you simply do not meet the demand at the time of delivery, he has a huge financial and operating loss.

When hiring a company flexibly, every sprint he will have contact with what is being done and in a short time, is beginning to have parts ready for testing and use software. That causes it may interfere with the development of each small period of time and the end result is much more appropriate and inexpensive compared to their real needs. Additionally, each new piece of software that becomes available for use opens a range of possibilities for changes and improvements to processes that were being used. You can even do things once thought impossible or unthinkable. With this, the end result may end up being much better than planned.

* Claudio Abreu Sá is a security expert at the company Vialink information.

WeDo takes process monitoring software for Microsoft … – Computerworld

Alliance sighting opportunities along with the retail, financial, energy, insurance, healthcare and public sector industries

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The WeDo Technologies has entered into a global partnership with Microsoft to offer their software RAID monitoring process in the Azure public cloud platform. The aim alliance opportunities aimed primarily to large organizations in retail, financial, energy, insurance, healthcare and public sector industries.

Under the agreement, customers will be able to monitor performance, automate audits, business process control and fight social fraud without the need to manage hardware and other components.

It is expected that cloud solution running on the Windows maker allows users to continuously evaluate the performance of business processes, measure and detect deviations from the designed levels and thus allowing rapid response transformational.

“Through the survey process, data and execution of rules for performance auditing systems, the strategy of Enterprise Business Assurance will enable a better alignment, better executed strategies and an improvement in overall performance and in return financial short and long term, “says the provider

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Information and software, the drivers of innovation – CIO

I recently read a report from the “Strategy & amp;” The 2014 Global Innovation 1000: Proven Paths to Innovation Sucess “Reading allows you to generate some interesting insights The first is that there is a direct relationship between.. R & amp;. D and business performance, such as revenue growth or profitability Spending too much money on R & amp;. D without a well-defined strategy will produce few results

I remembered an anthology phrase from Steve Jobs even in 1998, in an interview with Fortune:. “ Innovation has nothing to to with how many R & D dollars you have When Apple cam up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & amp; D. It’s not about money. I’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it . “

Another thing that attracts attention is the strong growth P & amp;. D in computer industries like software and Internet Even in other industries with strong investment in research, such as the automotive industry, most research focuses on the development of software innovations

. A third and very important aspect is that the most innovative companies have in common, such as aligning innovation with the needs and desires of customers, maintaining adequate talent, strong alignment between research and business strategy, and good understanding of technology trends and market. Also, do not try to be good at everything. Focus on being innovative in a few sectors. Seems obvious, but no engagement between business and R & amp;. D is generated few tangible results,

In addition, in recent years with the Internet spreading and emponderando customers, ran out of time where companies defining what products and services would be offered and the market simply accepted them. Now, customers no longer want a figurative role, but they often influence and even create their products in sharing platforms like Kickstarter. In brief, with most spread 3D printers, this process will accelerate

The report from Strategy & amp.; defines three types of innovative companies. The “ Need Seekers “, like Apple, has as its highlight the perception of what your customers need or need, and generate innovations to meet latent demand, or even create demand. What is possible only by having a higher than average of current and future understanding of your customers desires. Another classification are the “ Market Readers ” like Samsung, which focus on incremental product innovations already proven in the market. The third is the “ Technology Drivers ” like Google, based on its strong technological and entrepreneurial culture to develop new products and services.

These three models are distinct, but allow to be extremely innovative. All three examples above are the Top 10 (“The 10 Most Innovative Companies) list included in the report. It’s worth reading it.

It is clear that technology, like software, is essential as innovative strength. Therefore the areas of IT firms have an important role to play. The question is whether we will take advantage of opportunities or will remain, like many on the sidelines of innovation, focusing their efforts solely on operational efficiency in day to day business.

What should they do then? Encourage your organization’s favorite question of children is “why?”. This question is a curiosity to know the “reason for being” of each new object, behavior or situation, discover the essence of things, what really matters. Unfortunately, in recent decades, and in most companies, IT was focused on making the best and quickest things yes, but the same things. The “why” was exchanged for “like”. A “how to” faster and cheaper, which trm operational efficiency as the epicenter of the rationale of IT.

The evolution of computing technology is fantastic. The growth of computing capacity is logarithmic (Moore’s law), but despite this growth prices do not follow this curve, however. Thus, as the computational power increases, prices decrease and its spread widens.

It is estimated that in 2008 the world added about 5 exaflops (10 to 18 floating point instructions per second ) computational capacity at a cost of 800 billion dollars. Were added in 2012 exaflops 20 at a cost of less than $ 1 trillion this year and 2014, over 40 exaflops approximately the same value of 2012. 20 years ago only 3% of the population had mobile phones and 1% accessed the Internet. Today, about 70% of people in the world have cell phones (about 2 billion are smartphones) and approximately half accesses the Internet.

What does this mean? That technology is increasingly pervasive, doing business and being part of the core of innovation. Implies that executives (C-level) have today have a clear understanding of the potential of technology and its impact on the future of their organizations. Technology and innovation can not be relegated to research centers and computing is no longer the monopoly of the IT industry.

The innovative use of IT can create new business models. For example, the autonomous cars will change the automotive industry. The model of having or owning a vehicle will probably be sharing the vehicle. And current industry model will become the manufacturer of the personal mobility services) companies vehicles. Will also affect the insurance industry for automobiles. Will be required to sell insurance for a vehicle that will not bump and if it is stolen and indicate where if autobloqueará?

Another example is the hotel industry. The model proposed by Airbnb puts in check legislation that created decades of distinguished individuals companies (the laws for businesses are different laws for people) and only these were considered official and legal.

The model of sharing the so-called “ sharing economy “, can enable anyone to become a small entrepreneur. And the official validation will not be the traditional way, by regulation by government agencies but by social reputation. To read a little about “ sharing economy ‘to access this article from Fast Company:. Http://www.fastcompany.com/1747551/sharing-economy

Well, if we compare Airbnb with a large hotel chain, Accor as we see that, despite having 3.6 thousand hotels and more than 470 thousand rooms has a market value of $ 10.3 billion. Airbnb has a single room anyway, never bought a bag of cement and is a software company. But it has 800 000 accommodation options and has market value estimated at $ 13 billion. What she’s different? Information and software. The information is worth as much as much money as a package delivered by a logistics company and in the case of the hotel industry, both as a quarter or more …

Faced with this scenario have to reinvent IT. Also make your own “whys”. Does the traditional model to develop and deliver systems, batch, suits the speed of the new times

This article in Forbes, “ The Future Workplace is now: how Etsy makes 30 innovations per day “, shows that it is possible to rethink the mental model which we have become accustomed in IT. Enjoy and read “ Why software is eating the world “. And do your “why?”. Otherwise someone might think that there is more to why the current IT …

(*) Cezar Taurion is CEO Litteris and participated in the first week of November the panel “Technology in Service Research and Development “, the 4th edition of the Brazilian Innovation Cycle Seminar, sponsored by the Brazilian Magazine

Cesar team will represent Brazil in the Copa Software … – NE10

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Pernambucanos participate in the Software World Cup in Germany, of the most important competitions of its kind in the world. The staff of the Centre for Advanced Studies and Systems of Recife (Cesar) was ranked first in South America.

The team ranked first in South America in Software Testing World Cup. The team formed by José Carrera, Rodrigo Cursino, Melissa Bridges and Alessandra Cursino, will participate in the final stage of the competition, which takes place during the Agile Testing Days, 10-13 November in the city of Potsdam, Germany.

The first stage of the competition, held online, with the participation of 36 teams from South America. In the contest, with a total duration of three hours, jurors distributed software for each team should test it, report the defects found and produce a report of tests. Additionally, staff should explain the strategy used to test the application.

The teams only met the application at the time of competition. “The greatest difficulty in testing software is to find what is most relevant to the customer so that we can deliver a product that meets and add value,” explains Melissa Bridges, Cesar’s team, by e-mail.

Each continent qualified a team for the final at the Agile Testing Days. The tickets and accommodations are provided by the organization.

Samu 192 Sergipe gets new software to better organization … – Here It turns

Nubia Santana

system is more able to arrange telephone calls made by 192

 Professionals working in the Mobile Service (SAMU 192 Sergipe), is the Central Regulatory or administrative area, received on Thursday (30) training for use of e-SUS SAMU. The system provided by the Ministry of Health is more apt to organize the receipt of telephone calls made by 192.

The training, which occur at the base of Samu located at Siqueira Campos district, are being conducted by professionals Datasus that implement the new software. Among the trained categories are medical technicians and assistants Medical Regulation (TARMS / RO), the latter being the first to meet the requesters Samu.

According to the systems analyst Jorge Fernando Guimarães, the SAMU-SUS and provides more control for local, state and federal managers, since the professionals involved can better monitor each step of the service offered to citizens.

“The new version of the regulatory system replaces the SR SAMU. When we deploy, we will have the same functionality, but with a new look and greater ease of composition records of occurrences, with spaces to be automatically and shortcuts that will favor the most accurate service, with shorter response time to the patient filled, “explained the coach Datasus , member of the teams from the states of Bahia, Sergipe and Alagoas, responsible for implementing the software in Sergipe Samu 192.

The e-SUS SAMU will also provide maps and statistical reports, as well as identify the best ambulance that is being displaced for a given instance. The Central Regulatory Samu already using other management information systems can keep them or ask for their adaptability to e-SUS SAMU. The system is being installed in 76 stations across the country that use the old system, the example of Manaus, Cuiaba, Natal and Fortaleza.

Acceptance

“The e-SUS SAMU already shows signs of being better than the old system. While we have more spaces to fill the form of occurrence, will have faster execution, since some data automatically arise, “considered TARM / RO Fabiana Santana.

For the technician Samu information technology, Lenilton Moraes, data entry for use of the new software is already being provided. “We started the registration of professionals, which includes members of care teams Samu in the capital and in the countryside, so that soon we can make the e-SUS SAMU system of local regulation,” he said Lenilton.

by Sergipe Agency