Sunday, May 31, 2015

Software “managed” over 68 million during the years of the troika – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

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Software “managed” 68 more million during the years of the troika

The sector of “software” management recorded an annual average growth of 11% between 2010 and 2014, closing last year with a turnover of around 200 million euros, 68 million more than four years earlier, according to a study by Informa D & B.

There are businesses that entered a growth spiral in recent years, especially during the period of the troika in Portugal. This is the case of “software” management market, which recorded an average growth …

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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Google presents Brazilian software Disabled – Administrators

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Student Jonathan and the creator of Livox, Carlos Pereira

The world conference Google I / O, held on the 28th, featured the presentation of a Brazilian software used by students with disabilities in speech.

The Livox is a feature that allows these people to communicate via mobile devices where it is installed. The software is based on intelligent algorithms that identify and adjust to different degrees of physical disabilities, cognitive and visual, being able to correct the inaccurate touch in the person’s tablet screen to select an image or application of the word.

The software contains a catalog of 20,000 images that can be used in conjunction with texts and also allows access to cultural activities such as movies, cartoons and music.

A project of the municipal education Recife (PE) will allow students with speech impairment to communicate in the classroom through Livox. By 2016, the project aims to benefit other five thousand students with access to Livox to education and social life.

The innovative character of the project aroused the interest of Google executives, leading a team from the company to Recife to produce a documentary on the Livox.

During the event, a documentary with the story of Jonathan Lins, Pernambuco student of 17 years and the pilot action of the character was displayed.

The story behind the creation of the software is also quite interesting. In 2011, the systems analyst Carlos Pereira decided to create a resource that would overcome the difficulties of communication with his daughter Clara.

The Livox was named best social inclusion of world application of the United Nations (UN) and technological innovation with the greatest impact in 2014 by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Currently, the app communicates in 25 languages ​​and serves 10,000 users worldwide, between families and care institutions, such as the Association of Parents and Friends of Exceptional (APAE). The tool is also the object of scientific study in the area of ​​head and neck and ICU of the Hospital das Clinicas in Sao Paulo, the largest in Latin America.


 

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LightSail lose touch thanks to software failure – Climatology Geographic

Just two days after the release of LightSail towards his epic journey, published by the great scientist and science writer Bill Nye, the spacecraft came to a disappointing halt. According to the latest update of the mission, the small spacecraft was ‘silenced’ due to a software failure.

The LightSail was released by the Planetary Society in order to boost a small CubeSat using energy from the sun as fuel. A prototype spacecraft was launched to test the sequence of the implementation of its sail, thus opening the possibilities for launching the mission scheduled for 2016. The LightSail was operating normally until last Friday, but there was a problem within the spacecraft’s software . Jason Davis of The Planetary Society, said in a statement: “The LightSail is likely to be disabled, not unlike a computer that stops working”

The LightSail is designed to transmit a “signal” to. the Earth, and save a copy of the information to a file called beacon.csv. The board’s primary system continued doing this until the file came to 32 megabytes, which ended up breaking the system. The LightSail was no communication and stopped sending data to the system on Earth.

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Although this flaw in the software was later corrected by the manufacturers, software LightSail does not include this important update. Operators have tried to restart, but the spacecraft can not answer. Researchers need to manually restart the system, but as the CEO of Planetary Society Bill Nye already points out: “There is no one in space to hit the reset button”

The mission has now been put on hold until. researchers find a way to restart the system. Davis suggests that the ship could restart if a charged particle in deep space reached its electric component in the “right” way.

“This is not an uncommon occurrence for CubeSats, or something bigger like a spaceship. The experience of Cal Poly with CubeSats suggest try a reboot in the first three weeks, “added Davis

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Apple buys German company augmented reality software … – Reuters Brazil

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Apple bought Metaio, a German producer of augmented reality software for an undisclosed amount, according to documents released to the German market on Friday

Augmented reality technology combines video screens images real world with computer-generated graphics. The Metaio software is used in applications in retail, industry and vehicles. The company’s products are present in showrooms and retailers such as Ikea manuals. The company also creates visual guides for maintenance of complex industrial and automotive equipment.

Representatives of Apple and Metaio declined to comment. “The Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time and generally do not comment on the goals,” the US company said in a statement.

Juniper Research analysts expect reality technology used in larger companies will grow 10 times, moving $ 2.4 billion compared to 247 million last year . Other companies vying for this market include France’s Total Immersion and British Blippar.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

Data center defined by software is better – Computerworld Portugal

In the business move to cloud, data center defined by software is a triumph, says VMware

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The data center defined by software should be the basis of a business trip to the cloud, according to cloud company and VMware virtualization software.

For the director of marketing product Muneyb Minhazuddin was speaking at the Virtual Cloud Day event in 2015, “there are other data center solutions defined by hardware on the market, but they are integrated and its value is in the hardware. So it does not help because climb quickly’re stuck with innovation in hardware, “he said.

Minhazuddin claims that a data center defined by software does not limit the scalability of the business. It also allows scalability in multiple data centers and a hybrid cloud environment, which are more dynamic in nature.

“This is the kind of infrastructure that a company needs to move forward. This is a key way to succeed in business “

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Google presents Brazilian software for disabled – EXAME.com


 São Paulo – The global conference Google I / O , which takes place today (28), includes the presentation of a Brazilian software used by students with disabilities in speech.

The Livox is a feature that allows these people to communicate via mobile devices where it is installed.


 


 The software is based on intelligent algorithms that identify and adjust to different degrees of physical disabilities, cognitive and visual, being able to correct the inaccurate touch in the person’s tablet screen to select an image or word application.

The software contains a catalog of 20,000 images that can be used in conjunction with texts and also allows access to cultural activities such as movies, cartoons and music.

A project of the municipal education Recife (PE) will allow students with speech impairment to communicate in the classroom through Livox.


 


 By 2016, the project aims to benefit other five thousand students with access to Livox to education and social life.

The innovative character of the project aroused the interest of Google executives, leading a team from the company to Recife to produce a documentary on the Livox.

During the event, a documentary with the story of Jonathan Lins, Pernambuco student of 17 years and the pilot action of the character appears.

The story behind the creation of the software is also quite interesting. In 2011, the systems analyst Carlos Pereira decided to create a resource that would overcome the difficulties of communication with his daughter Clara.

The Livox was named best social inclusion of world application of the United Nations (UN) and technological innovation with the greatest impact in 2014 by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Currently, the app communicates in 25 languages ​​and serves 10,000 users worldwide, between families and care institutions, such as the Association of Parents and Friends of Exceptional (APAE).


 


 The tool is also the object of scientific study in the area of ​​head and neck and ICU of the Hospital das Clinicas in Sao Paulo, the largest in Latin America.


       

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CA buying Rally Software for $ 480 million and advances in … – Computerworld

The CA Technologies is expanding its operations in desenvolvilmento agile software field with the purchase announced today the development tools and services company Rally Software. The transaction amount is $ 480 million and the CA expects to complete the purchase until September.

The Rally technologies will be integrated into the portfolio of tools and services for managing projects CA. The Rally has software and cloud services that enable software development teams manage complex projects with collaboration tools, management, analysis and diagnosis and integration platforms.

The difference is that the Rally has shaped its products to work in agile development environments in which teams of developers work collaborative way to build applications with more speed. This is an expanding market. According to a recent Forrester survey with 560 IT decision makers, two-thirds of companies surveyed said they will invest or already invest in the use of agile programming methodologies.

Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado (USA) and founded in 2001, the Rally has more than 11,500 employees in 45 countries. In its last fiscal year had revenue of 87.5 million dollars. Among its clients are companies such as defense contractor Raytheon, Comcast cable company, and EMC.

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20 year old creates software and desburocratiza consultation … – Globo.com

At age 20, the student Vitor Ricardo de Paula developed a computer program that is capable of accelerating the scheduling of patient visits and facilitate transportation for medical treatment of members of the public health system in Tietê (SP ). Through the software, which is still used in the experimental stage, the Health Department employees can manage information about the registration of ambulances, the request for travel as well as researching the history of patients. Vitor is in the 4th semester of the management Fatec of information technology Tatuí (SP). He is an intern Folder.

According to the boy, it was necessary to reduce bureaucracy the process of care for residents. Vitor has not received any amount by the idea. “It emerged that need, since it was all manual and now needs to be scanned. I want to use this software in my Work Course Conclusion (TCC), “he said.

Also according to him, helping others brings a good feeling. “It is gratifying, but did not know that this would take effect and become something important like this,” said the young man.

For Professor Marcio Jose Mathias, the invention will be of much use to the local population . “The use of the program will facilitate the work of people who deal with it every day and end up wasting a lot of time to run the service manually,” says the professor of Software Engineering and Integrated Management Systems.

The charge logistics Antonio Carmo Alves Lisbon, which takes care of 14 ambulances, values ​​the tool created by the student. “Today one can go to the nearest health facility in the neighborhood where you live to schedule, avoiding having to come to the Secretariat,” he adds.

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Opinion – Why the Brazilian government does not give preference to … – Administrators

The electronic shopping has consolidated as an excellent instrument of governance, transparency and economy in public administration in Brazil. Present in the country since the late 90s, this instrument has generated the development of large reference projects and put Brazil in 2002 as a leader in Latin America and 18th position of the UN world ranking in e-government.


 

It was in this period when the internet started to become an indispensable channel of communication, services and trade, the population began to have access to services that were impossible before, such as electronic voting, access to electronic forms to Statement of Income Tax and integration of the Single System database Health (SUS). This movement also brought the possibility of growth of Brazilian software companies and IT services and also alçarem international projects of e-gov.


 

Of all innovations that period, the electronic government procurement, initiated with the launch of BEC- Electronics São Paulo Stock Exchange in 2000, followed by numerous other public shopping portals that followed, brought significant gains, especially by use of regulated electronic trading in 2002.

 

Despite the great advances in this segment, there are still important adjustments to be made in legislation and operating models.


 

Distortions such as portal performance of the Bank of Brazil, the Bids and which limits access providers to public procurement processes only to those who are their account holders – still demanding payment of service charges, damaging in particular, the MPE (micro and small enterprises) – is a blatant disregard to law, already denounced by the main organizations representing the IT sector during public event sponsored by TCU in 2012

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The investment in e-government in the early years of the new millennium did not have the same intensity over that decade or the next, when the country has given priority to free software and took out the focus of innovation and software strengthening national. This disastrous strategic action prevented the country to follow the evolution of technology for e-gov, leading Brazil to decadent 59th position in the latest world ranking of e-gov UN, published in 2014 with data from 2012. This situation is also corroborating for the country plummet in world competitiveness indicators.

 

The misguided policies that keep the country in a jarring scene with the digital economic evolution, remove or too slow the possibility to be more competitive and to expand the development of the Brazilian Software Industry and Services (IBSS). Much of the deterioration of this scenario can be explained by two main policies or models that derive value from the potential for innovation and productivity gains that can bring the IT industry for the country: the government gives priority to free software, failing to support decisively the national software and assumes the role of biggest competitor and sector employer, with big teams in state enterprises, which have also occurs in state governments. According to the website of ABEP (Brazilian Association of State Entities ICT), the 27 federal entities of the country have large IT companies.

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Encouraging the use of free software with open source, to the detriment of the national software development, is setting aside thousands of good Brazilian e-gov solutions that could generate success stories in Brazil and exports. Even with all since 2002 government support, free software segment is only somewhere around 6% in compliance with the Brazilian software market.


 

Another activity that generates negative impacts on the development of national technology market of e-gov is the government’s preference for buying services instead of software as a solution. This choice creates costly implementations, long-lived and high risk of failure, often with poor quality and without a development plan. Even encourages or promotes a model that “commoditizes” a high-tech sector. This model can be good for India, but for Brazil, which lack more than 100,000 qualified IT professionals and world class standard software platforms, has generated growing trade deficits that now exceed USD 7 billion a year.

 

Although we have seen the government supporting targeted and discriminatory programs such as the Public Software Portal, which accepts only free software record. This action is aggravated by the fact that the government act as a broker that provides an electronic catalog with offers for e-gov, creating a sales channel for few privileged companies, further damaging the domestic software companies of e-gov with intellectual property protected. Who interest this limitation of competition?


 

All this movement considered harmful to Brazilian Software Industry and Services, associated with the wrong focus and promote the export of services as commodities, traded by the best man cost / hour, strengthening the process of “technological colonization of Brazil”, put the country far below the developed and emerging in the global indicators of e-government and ICT with only countries supporting role.

 

To change this scenario, the government would need to assess their preference for buying services and free software to prioritize fostering the qualified domestic software, undertaking the role of generating innovations in e-government and IT, respecting the intellectual property companies. These changes would bring a new period of development services and relationships with citizens and organizations – model with which Brazil won global visibility in the early years of the new century, when there was an atmosphere of enthusiasm and momentum to the forefront of e-gov increasingly distant.

 

Gerson Schmitt Chairman of ABES and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Paradigm Business Solutions

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

D-ViewCam Plus DCS-250, new software solution from D-Link – PCGuia

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The D-Link plans to launch the D-ViewCam Plus DCS-250, a VMS (Video Management Software) for video surveillance management is more flexible, scalable and affordable all types of environments. The D-ViewCam Plus allows you to manage both chambers of D-Link and third, which increases its flexibility as VMS for all types of environments.

It also allows configuration of servers and video recorders network (NVR) of D-Link for storage of recordings. Together with monitoring and real-time recording of all video surveillance network, the D-ViewCam Plus system provides the possibility of users expand their surveillance area via a control of PTZ cameras with motorized lens or zoom.

To optimize the storage space needed for recordings, D-ViewCam Plus has features such as simultaneous recording two streams while maintaining a recording of low resolution / frame rate and automatically activating the high-resolution recording and the maximum frame rate when activating an event or alarm.

To improve efficiency, companies can purchase licenses Intelligent Video Surveillance (IVS) to activate additional analytical smart with presence awareness and people counting , cars or objects.
According to D-Link, all IP cameras and NVR include free VMS D-ViewCam DCS-100 software, a version of the D-ViewCam Plus DCS-250.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

IBM software is able to understand the emotions of users – Info Online

The research lab IBM in Israel began testing a customer service software able to understand feelings. Still not be named, the system can recognize basic emotions – like anger -. A user that comes into contact with the company through an automated chat or even by Twitter

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the platform “learns” to interpret emotions from data obtained from e-mails and postings on the microblogging network. In lot of information, it is able to identify words, grammatical structures of the sentences and contexts. Until some more specific features such as the use of exclamations, caps, emojis and abbreviations (LOL, WTF and OMG, for example) and accelerated typing are understood by the software – and everything is then classified according to the emotions they represent.

It is from this that the software can understand what you are feeling and “adapt their approach and even their language,” according to WSJ. If a client is losing it or beginning to take explanations, the system can ask apologize and detail the actions it will take to resolve the issue. And if the consumer is already without some patience – and writing in Caps Lock or sending profanity – the platform may end up redirecting it faster to a flesh attendant

The goal, therefore, no. It involves replacing human attendants, who are still considered essential by one of IBM scientists heard by the report. But only for now. “Our goal is to show that we have reached at least the same level of satisfaction with the consumer you would with a good clerk,” said the newspaper Dr. David Konopnicki, responsible for the project. For him, the full exchange of people by machines is only a matter of time and adaptation of the same customers.

The first prototypes of the software should be released next month for some IBM client companies. They should add this “sentimental layer” to its today insensitive automated chat systems, which appear in the corner when the consumer accesses the company’s website. The software should only gain support voice calls later, but you may soon have the opportunity to talk into text with a robot that is almost a person.

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Salvador receives Intel Software Day in June – Invision Power

On 12 and 13 June will be held in Salvador Intel Software Day, an event aimed to technology, innovation and software development. This year’s theme is “Go beyond; do better. ” During the two days, about a thousand people are expected.

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In the event, will be held technical trails and workshops on Android, the Internet things, HPC, RealSense and Windows, beyond the area of ​​demos and a possible Porting Lab for local software companies.

The Intel Software Day is aimed at independent developers, software companies and people in academia . It happens in Senai-Cimatec of Salvador, on 12 and 13 June.

Not to miss the registration period, keep an eye on http://www.intelsoftwareday.com.br/ site.

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Eduardo ARIENTE: STF gives security for prioritization of free software – Counsel

The international standards on intellectual property (IP) are increasingly standardized. If long ago, the agreements watched some room for adjustment of countries according to their levels of industrialization, today the choices in underdeveloped countries are narrower. So much so that we are obliged to grant patents on certain markets, such as food, medicines and GM.

In the copyright field, for similar reasons, no country can give less than 50 years of protection after death the creator. The consequences of non-compliance of the charges are the removal of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and trade suffer retaliation from affected countries

The center-periphery duality studied by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) emphasizes the concentration of the technique in the central countries. The supply of raw materials, on the other hand, would be in charge of the peripherals. Disruption of this logic, according to the Argentine economist Raul Prebisch, demand, among other factors, the productive techniques by countries in industrialization process.

Among the forms of expertise increasingly present in our daily day are computer programs . As you know, the software represents a set of instructions for operating a machine for certain purposes. The field of programming techniques, therefore, is key to the technological development of any country.

Free Software , as defined by the programmer Richard Stallman, is the one who gives the following freedoms users: use, study, copy, access to the source code, development and redistribution of modified versions, free of charge or by charging some value. If you lose any of these freedoms, the program would no longer be considered free. “Owners “, on the other hand, are programs that usually do not allow free distribution of copies, or access to the source code. In short, the difference between free and proprietary is the amount of rights of citizens.

So the software free is a concept that provides sharing ways to open programs, friendly or not restrictive . One of the most popular free software license is the General Public License (GPL).

Thus, it seems fundamental to developing countries encourage s free oftwares . Here is a market that international regramento the PI allows us to explore and is largely within our reach. Unlike other high-tech sectors, the computer programs are not essential massive investments. At s free oftware , the technical improvement can be developed in academic banks, collaborative networks and capillary way.

Although timidly in Brazil, there was a nod to the free software in the last decade. Are the most iconic examples of Brazilian programs open the voting machine by the TSE (2008), digital TV GINGA (2009) and the digitization of processes STJ (2010). However, migration to open formats found several strengths in the different spheres of government.

In 2012, the federal police engaged the company’s Oracle database for almost £ 300,000. Even in the latter case, it has not done the bidding process for waiver of. The BNDES, created in 1952 to boost national development, in 2012 spent almost R $ 2 million to acquire perpetual licenses of MS Office . The Federal Savings Bank, even after entering Free Software , and turned back in mid-2012, has spent more than £ 112,000 in allowances to Microsoft .

On the other hand, the global trend, as we will argue, is to honor the Free Software . In research we did on the adoption of policies SL around the world, we find that, in most cases, the changes in the guidelines are motivated by saving features. Although not an argument least, the issue is not restricted to financial issues. Since 2010, we located migration policies for the Free Software in France, Germany, Spain and the UK, Israel, India and South Africa.

Even in the United States, the birthplace of highest monopolies of computer software market, the local government uses the free software. We can also mention, as an example of economy, the network of the Spanish Senate, who left to spend 450,000 euros on licenses to replace the proprietary programs by others in non-restrictive licenses. It is worth noting that there are no problems regarding the safety of this change, since the pages of White House and the Governments of France and the United Kingdom work in these same guidelines

The reasons for prioritizing the Free Software , inside and outside the public sector, they are many. We can mention a few: 1) the larger number of users of rights due to non-restrictive licenses; 2) creation of enabling environment for technological autonomy of the country; 3) reducing dependence on foreign technology companies; 4) saving features with licenses; 5) greater security, privacy and users’ mastery of operations developed by their engines; 6) discouraging monopolies in the computer software market; 7) business models based on open knowledge; 8) encouraging new startup ; 9) increase the useful life of equipment in the Free Software is used. 10) capillarity of innovation within the internal market; 11) Free Software does not have the virus.

In addition to those of an economic and practical arguments, the legal nature abound. We will mention just a few. The Law of National Informatics Policy (Law 7,232 / 84) already foresaw the importance of our industry protection and Brazilian technological capacity. The Federal Constitution of 1988, especially in Articles 218 and 219 has a similar manner. It should also record the very recent amendment to the Constitution 85/2015, according to which the State “ stimulate the formation and strengthening of innovative companies, the creation and maintenance of technological poles and the creation, absorption and technology transfer . “

The Law 12,349 / 10, regulated by Decree 7.746 / 2012, introduced a number of changes to public procurement. These rules treated, among other factors, the principle of sustainable national development. The said decree defines the guidelines of sustainability, which in addition to environmental factors, including “ preference for material, raw material, local technology and job creation in national labor “

The open programs are subject to various forms of prejudice, simply because they fled the standards set by conventional programs that are already sold so married on any computer on sale at retail in Brazil. The more widespread use of Free Software , in our view, demand from users simply lifestyle changes, private institutions and public administration.

In the aspects of functionality or security, free programs They leave nothing to be desired before the “owners” programs. So much so that major global technology companies such as Google and IBM, for years, using open programs. The governments of the US and the UK, as quoted, trod the same path.

So we can conclude that the prioritization of use and the spread of Free Software constitute important ways State intervention in the economy. In addition, it is worth noting that ensure greater data security of users, public or private, as well as promote national development.

However, in 2004, the prioritization of Free Software in public procurement was questioned before the Supreme Court. A lawsuit filed by PFL Party (current Democrats ) refuted the constitutionality of Law 11,871 / 2002, the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Among other things, the college party plaintiff in the lawsuit argued the lack of competence of federated states to legislate on bids indicated initiative to addiction bill forwarded by the Legislative Assembly as well as violations of the principles of impartiality, efficiency and economy. Associations whose business models closed software, including the world’s largest monopoly, entered as “amicus curiae” to reinforce this view

Fortunately, on April 9, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled , unanimously, the constitutionality of the prioritization of Free Software in gaucho bids. Due to the effects of that hit result, all federal units started to have necessary legal certainty to prioritize the Free Software on their purchases.

It is fundamental signaling to the market of Brazilian computer programs, users and the public administration. As judgment excerpt delivered at ADI 3,059, “ The preference for” software “free, far from confronting the constitutional principles of impartiality, efficiency and economy, promotes and honors these postulates, as well as providing technological autonomy of the country

Given this important achievement public officials should not overlook this opportunity, which in addition to the reasons already mentioned, enhance the effects of pubic procurement, expand citizens’ rights, boosts local economy collaborate to the development of the country.

* Eduardo Altomare ARIENTE is Master and Doctor in Law from USP, a professor at Mackenzie University and the Department of IME-USP Computer Science

Eduardo Altomare ARIENTE is Master and Doctor in Law from USP, a professor at Mackenzie University and the Department of IME-USP Computer Science.

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Monday, May 25, 2015

EDP ​​wants to evolve the software to innovate – Computerworld Portugal

Data analysis and investment in facilities of “self-service” are innovative ways for the company. The attraction of human resources is a challenge, as for Sonae Retail

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The digital economy leads to EDP to change their relationship with customers, confirmed the company’s administrator, José Ferrari Careto in discussions during the technology users conference WeDo last week. There many challenges but also opportunities related to the introduction of smart metering, data analytics and digitization of invoices.

The issue of documents in electronic format instead of paper seeks to align the digital experience provided to the customer with that with which they are accustomed, supported by other vendors (such as telecom operators), says the charge.

Ferrari Careto also argues that EDP paid “very CTT” to send the documents in paper, a universe of six million customers. So scanning allows the company to reduce the cost of service.

In the session focused on opportunities and challenges of disruption, the CIO of Sonae Retail, David Alves stressed that this company is seeking to bring ever more digital elements of the shopping experience in their shopping centers. . This is done to the extent that the digital process allows and is recognized as a differentiation factor

The official assumes as “key question” Scan most important of which relates to the organization of the workforce ” It brings tremendous opportunities to change the ways of working, as fewer processes, more autonomy, less command and control and more delegation “of responsibility.

Nevertheless, the digital transformation may not be the priority of the CIO team , the firm. “We have to focus on the customer’s needs, and it is not what he seeks, because what he wants now, a year from now no longer seeks” he said.



EDP wants to be in the business area of ​​”home management” or management of domestic infrastructure, but recognizes that competition will be strong.

The customer relationship is also at the top EDP’s agenda as investment in analytical data, according Careto. The company seeks to invest in smart metering and reading (“smart metering”), with analytical data (Big Data) but focused on the customer, rather than an approach focused on the reading device, he said.

same time, the company intends to reduce the reliance on contact centers and invest in facilities of “self-service”. The administrator of EDP admits that the organization has “a lot to learn” with telecom operators and financial services companies, particularly in CRM and how to maintain good experience with the company “in the minds of customers.”

It is not an easy challenge, he says, because the company sells electricity and this is not particularly “sexy”. Become a more focused company by software rather than by hardware, it will be another “major challenge” of EDP, according to the administrator.

The theme is important in the evolution of business area “home management” or management of the home infrastructure. EDP ​​wants to be in this market but will face competition from telecom operators and ICT companies, among others.

It is important to know how far you can succeed without resorting to hardware. “Without this be necessary, the competition will become fierce,” he predicts.

Smart meters will be important to combat fraud. But the company has software, not only for this but also to be able to “extract value” of the data to the client.

Attract “millennials” to innovate

Having the correct structure of human resources will also be one of the most important challenges for EDP, says Ferrari Careto. The difficulty goes, according to the official, by achieving an optimal balance between more ‘traditional’ and more young professionals.

David Alves also be considered key to Sonae Retail attract professionals “millennials” to the company innovate . This innovation will also pass by the software and the identification and analysis of the routes of customers in shopping centers.

Holding the view that eCommerce has not yet become disruptive to the traditional retail, the CIO said the need for the customer touching items such as factor or way to innovate.

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Saturday, May 23, 2015

PUC-RS: software agency for students – Baguette (press release)

Starting next semester, the students of Degree in Software Engineering from PUC-RS will to act in Experimental Software Engineering Agency.

Students of Software Engineering will to act in the experimental branch. Photo:. Gilson Oliveira / ASCOM-PUCRS

For four disciplines along the graduation, students pass through the environment, acting in different roles in software development projects

<. p> The first class of the course was formed in the first half of 2015 and has 60 students. The start of the Agency shall consist of these students, who will be in the 2nd half, and will act will act as developers.

Over time, other functions will be done by students. Students of the 4th semester will be analysts, while the 6 shall be responsible for the architecture. The students of the 7th semester will manage the teams.

In addition to the students and teachers, the School of Professional Computer hire to work together with students at all stages of the projects. For now, the most advanced features will be done for them, since the course has only one class.

According to Marcelo Yamaguti, course coordinator, the practical learning environment is intended to provide students exercise real project situations, enable the interdisciplinary integration of content and allow contact with organizations and businesses.

“At first we will conduct internal projects for the university units, but then companies with partnerships will be made,” says .

For agreements, the Faculty of Informatics has a close relationship with Tecnopuc. The technology park is home to multinational companies such as Dell and HP; Brazilian companies like Stefanini and Globo.com; and local companies, as DBServer.

One of the projects developed in partnership was the Kaizen software, made between Microsoft Innovation Center at PUC-RS, the Faculty of Informatics and ThoughtWorks and DBServer companies in 2013 .

Funded with resources of US $ 120,000 from CNPq, the Kaizen is used in a laboratory within the Tecnopuc in which teams develop projects based on agile concepts.

“When we started structure the software engineering course, we rely on opinions of executives of IT companies, and the idea of ​​providing moments that simulate the daily market was worked from the beginning, “Yamaguti says.

Winter vestibular PUC-RS will be approved the second batch of students of the course.

According Yamaguti, professional formed by graduate will primarily focus on the differential of applied software development process and be able to use processes, methods and IT tools to produce software in a systematic and effective way.

In addition to the bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, the School of PUC-RS for Informatics offers three courses in the area: Computer Science (note 4 in the evaluation of MEC), Information Systems (Note 5) and Computer Engineering (note 4).

There is another course in the IT field, the bacheralado in Business Administration with a background in IT management, linked to the Faculty of Administration, Accounting and Economics. In all, the PUC-RS has about 30,000 students and offers 51 undergraduate courses.

In Brazil, according to the site e-MEC, 22 universities already have training in Software Engineering.

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Thursday, May 21, 2015

“We can make a serious case of a software company in … – TeK.sapo

WeDo Technologies brings together these days in Lisbon more than 400 experts from telecommunications and other industries, from 50 countries, for the 10th meeting of users that the Portuguese technological organizes annually.
 

This year the big news is the extension of the Enterprise Business Assurance solutions to other industries where WeDo Technologies has no history. With regard to the way the company is setting up the strategy, Rui Paiva spoke to TeK a short interview but where there was time to realize the way that the CEO of technology wants to do in the coming years and evaluate what failed strategy of Portuguese companies to achieve scale and reach a status similar to that of WeDo.
 

TeK: WeDo forward with expansion into other vertical areas in October. How’s it going, and to attract new partners
 
Rui Paiva:
With regard to our initial plan we are behind one year, for internal reasons and also to prepare the technology. Only started the process of truly expand the areas from October last year and what we are doing, and we will finish in June, it is the procedural part of all: see what are the methodologies, certificates, processes and formations to prepare everything for that in sectors outside telecommunications, we can use an indirect channel. Not only is the software that has to be adapted to new areas and to be a third party to implement, as we have to make sure the partner.
 So let’s start to be effective from June and would say by the end of the year like we had key partners have all prepared so that effectively the great results start to happen during the year. We have several references, some of which are presented today, but this was mainly to prove to ourselves that technology allows everything. Now it is necessary to accomplish what we are good at:. Are good at making software and to realize the telecommunications market, no sense doing the other things we do not do well, so we developed the software and the best part

Rui Paiva

TeK: And what is your idea in terms of number of partners? Said the big five. Your idea is not to have thousands of partners to have a Microsoft or SAP?
 
Rui Paiva:

 Not because our type of business is not directed to SMEs. The typical business WeDo has an initial investment of half a million euros. So we are addressing in the big world five, considering after in local markets there are also companies of this profile, as happens in Portugal with Novabase, for example, that is relevant. And there are “Novabases” other countries that eventually makes sense to partner. Novabase is not our partner in this process but may eventually become.
 
Our idea is to make agreements with global partners carrying the know how and then possibly with one or two of the larger sites.
 

TeK: Do not run the risk of losing identity? The history of WeDo is very sustained in the know how of Telecom and this extension to other areas, where it has no history, can lose this asset.
 
Rui Paiva:
Not because we keep our core area. Everything else is sustained in the same product. The technological base is exactly the same. The difference is that in telecommunications we already have pre-made presets and the other will not. I would say more ahead we will converge on all areas have pre-made settings because the partners that we will bring to accelerate the business, and which incorporated the technology is already being pre-made. But then eventually the dimension longer be so great that the technology will be also already integrated by third parties.
 

TeK: What expectations are in terms of goals in the near future to the growth of these new areas outside of Telecom?
 
Rui Paiva:
We think that by 2020 or 2021 because we are behind one year, at least 40% of the business will have to come give.
 

TeK: And these areas of utilities, healthcare and financial sector will be the main? Or other areas may arise in the near future?
 
Rui Paiva:
I think it will be the partners that we will take to new areas, we can not do all things. Right now we are focused on preparing these areas and then think of course the market will look because the technology is agnostic.
 
These solutions apply to companies that have many systems back and has many customers. The complexity is what makes all these flaws. We use internally, but a company like ours, which has few customers, it is B2B, it does not have much logic.
 
We have a Russian client who has 100 million customers. We here could set it up in the Directorate General of Taxation which has 10 million and it took an afternoon.
 
 

TeK: Despite the commitment to new areas the event these days is mostly people of telecommunications and yet little representation of other industries.
 
Rui Paiva:
Yes because it continues to make sense to put it all together, so confluímos at times, and this is a community that has experience to tell and which already has a significant size.
 
 

TeK: In terms of the evolution of the business, the prospect of growth for this year is referred as 10%?
 
Rui Paiva:

 10% for Portugal is great but not globally. I think we have to grow at least 20%. We have it on budget and we are fighting for it. We must see that we are at the beginning of the year and typically do most of the revenue at the end of the year, so we’re on track.
 

TeK: What expectations are in relation to your international presence? They will expand the number of countries where they have offices, and pay taxes, and the number of employees? The new business areas have influence?
 
Rui Paiva:

 We will continue in the same countries where we [are 12] but let’s get more people out. We have almost half of the employees outside and we have been recruiting more international level, or to the plant which is in Braga.
 

TeK: Lately WeDo has grown more organically, without significant acquisitions. They are considering new purchases?
 
Rui Paiva:

 We always consider but for now I think we can continue to grow organically. It makes sense is we hire very good people to help us do channel, we get some very good people at Microsoft, what is the best way to internationalize knowledge.
 
 

TeK: Fleeing now WeDo and passing Sonae SSI, the recent acquisition of S21sec is already bearing fruit? They finished the integration within the business?
 
Rui Paiva:

 We are still in the process of integration because it is a complementary area. Basically what we do is we buy areas we feel we are the market trend and have growth, and with so many data nowadays there are two areas of interest that are security and analytics. Of the business plan view was a company that had a series of problems and therefore managed to get and are “clean” all this. This year will be a year of consolidation of cleaning and the next is one year, we hope, of growth.
 

TeK: With the new data breach legislation this area also tends to grow …
 
Rui Paiva:

 The world is changing a lot in this area, data privacy and control that’s right, because the problems are all electronic, no longer do only physical tampering. It’s a way for us is very important to be there, but you have to learn how. But we want the same logic: that builds on a product and that product is global. They have a basic service but also product and we are now developing the technology for it.
 

TeK: Looking for Portuguese companies do not see the same capacity as WeDo has to fill a room like this, with such an important representation of an industry such as Telecom and so many countries. What differentiates and how it can “replicate” the model?
 
Rui Paiva:

 Yes, it is true as so many people and so many countries there is none. There is one thing that is important to say, much of the technology companies worldwide are made to be sold, not to be large. Another business that there is very similar is biotechnology. In this aspect Portuguese companies are no different because the big event is the sale.
 
Then there is something else: most of Portuguese companies are services, and these can not climb, no logic, especially in a country that does not have critical mass. They have to be product companies and a few of these.
 
If I make a list exist us, Outsystem, Altitude Software, Spring and PHC and these as well. But there are few. And these companies when the plan is to grow, it has to invest a lot and squander the results in return on investment. Usually people want to cash-in and it can not do investment. We invest in marketing and promotion about one million euros per year. This event is here cost 250 000 euros.
 
 It must also convince the shareholders and not easy because the growth cycles cost. But this story to get product that is multi-market, set up with partners to space, it is a single trend. I think if we can do well so we can make a serious case of a software company in the world. I do not know, but I think we’ll do a story.
 
 When we designed the company when we started, we define the company procedurally. We did all the drawing. We had the advantage that we had all worked at multinational and had brought these methods. There are many cases of people who have been laid off from multinational to do this, because even we we earned more money in multinational than here.
 To me what motivated me, and to many others, was that we saw that the decision was always taken out. Why work in a multinational here in Portugal is not challenging. Make money but there is the challenge for the “brain”. We wanted to do the opposite: if Microsoft has a headquarters in Redmond why we can not have a seat here?
 

Fatima Hunter
  

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Scientist creates artificial intelligence capable of creating rap lyrics – Look Digital

Talk rhyming is an ancient art that remains on the rise in recent years with background music. To this practice gives the name of “rap”. In general, the creation of these rhymes involves high creativity that could only leave the head of a human, right? Rethink. In an experiment with artificial intelligence, researchers were able to make a computer to create a rap lyrics in English.

By having highly structured letters regarding the beat and rhythm, rap is an especially simple musical style to be analyzed by a machine. But Eric Malmi, the Aalto University, Finland, shows that if a computer can analyze a letter, it is also able to create a new one.

The research involves deep learning and machine creativity. In practice, they trained a computer with an algorithm that recognize characteristics of some rap verses and choose other verses that rhyme and also deal with the same subject. Regarding the complexity of rhyme, the researchers say that the computer is able to equate to humans.

To train the machine, it was necessary to start with the inclusion of 10 000 songs from 100 different artists. As a result, the computer was able to assimilate what is common among most of the letters, among which is the assonant rhyme, with the repetition of sounds like vowels as the words “crazy” and “baby” in English.

After “mine” the database, it was time to use this knowledge. The next step was to use an algorithm called DeepBeat for a specific task: to give a series of verses of rap lyrics and make the computer choose which is the next phrase in a list that contained other lines from other songs. The machine has 82% accuracy.

Now remained the “creation”. A verse any of a letter was presented, and was the computer office search the database the next in its database. The machine sought by the best rhymes in the same subject. After choosing a verse, the process is repeated until you reach the end of the new letter.

The result is just below, a sort of “Frankenstein’s monster” made like a quilt patchwork letters dealing with theme “love.” Check out:

For a chance at romance I would love to Enhance
But everything I love has turned to the tedious task
One day we gonna have to leave our love in the past
I love my fans but no one ever puts a grasp
I love you momma I love my momma – I love you momma
And I would love to have a thing like you on my team you take care
I love it When it’s sunny Sonny girl You could be my Cher
I’m in a love affair I can not share it is not fair
Haha I’m just playin ‘ladies you know I love you.
I know my love is true and I know you love me too
Girl I’m down for whatever cause my love is true
This one goes to my man old dirty one love we be swigging brew
My brother I love you Be Encouraged man And just know
When you done let me know cause my love make you be like WHOA
If I can it do not for the love of it Then I will not
All I know is I love you too much to walk away though

Via MIT Technology Review

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Problem in software would have caused Airbus plane crash in … – Info Online

The Airbus announced on Tuesday (19) an alert asking the software all the A400M aircraft to be updated after a failure in the plane of the system have caused a fatal accident earlier this month.

The warning from the French manufacturer comes just days after the fall of a newly manufactured A400M, a flight test in Seville. In the accident, which four military of the Spanish Air Force were killed and two others were injured.

The aircraft should have been delivered to the Turkish government. The British Armed Forces and Germany, which also bought the plane, dropped out of flying with the aircraft until further clarification on the case are provided. France, however, continues to use the A400M.

According to a report in German magazine Der Spiegel , a problem in the software caused a plane crash in three control units four engines the plane, causing them to stop working immediately after takeoff.

The Spanish Defense Ministry says it is investigating the accident, but did not disclose details about the case. The data from the black box of the aircraft have also been classified as confidential by the Spanish government.

After an internal investigation into the safety of the A400M, Airbus asked the aircraft owners do specific tests of control units before each flight, and to update the aircraft’s software. “It is a precaution that is part of our activities,” says the note.

The Airbus A400M is the largest defense project currently developed in Europe, costing 20 billion euros (67 billion dollars). It was developed by NATO to replace the old military cargo from the mainland.

Since its inception, the project had a number of problems. Technical issues with the refueling, loading of cargo and other operations caused the delay in delivery of the aircraft. Airbus sold 174 A400M, but only 12 are operational

. Source: Guardian / Der Spiegel

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

TOTVS and HCor create management software in partnership – Bitmag

Focusing on functionality needed to meet especially the characteristics of Health segment processes, TOTVS and HCor have partnered to develop the software HIS (Hospital Information System), which meets clinical performance requirements, result operational and compliance.

HCor

TOTVS sought in Hospital Heart practical knowledge to develop and evolve your specialist management software in Health, the HIS. Thus, the processes served by the system have been validated against quality standards.

According to the company, the achieved pillars consolidate important principles for the medical field, as it ensures patient safety through structured and traceable clinical processes, and operational agility, culminating in full compliance with the governmental, regulatory agencies and accrediting bodies.

Among their advantages, highlight the business intelligence and processes that guide the functionality covered by the HIS. The Patient Management, for example, consolidates a cockpit with integrated record of all stages of care, from admission, dispensing drugs, surveys and financial information, to discharge the patient. Through management indicators, technology provides the visualization of the patients individually, however, covers all its contact with the hospital, enabling effective control of the process.

For the financial area, the HIS It provides great flexibility to the hospital to parameterize their routines and customize workflows for operation and management. The advantage is that all processes are linked to services provided to the patient and capture billable activities, generating control and optimization of their operation from different perspectives, either by the central authorizations, transfers management, contract management or glosses management, by example.

The HIS also includes the Dispensation Manager for pharmacies. Once a doctor orders a medication for a patient, the request is routed to the hospital pharmacy. Automatically, the system passes the guidelines of prescription drug with the dosage and the time of use, for the separation of the material, with appropriate labeling to be taken by the nurse. Everything is sealed and occurs before a precise control in order to ensure total security in the administration of the drug. Furthermore, the solution is natively integrated with dispensing equipment managers (as PIXYS, for example), resulting in higher productivity and speed control throughout the dispensing process.

represent one of higher hospital costs, handling and transport of costly medications requires careful monitoring to achieve greater financial control of expenses. Security also reaches the patient, who has peace as the administration of medications, certain of which is held in the correct manner, respecting all your doctor’s instructions with the support of Electronic Health Record 5 Sure, that performs validations on the drug right, to the right patient, the dosage, time and correct way.

The call center in turn, won in productivity with the software, allowing the attendant ask several different tests on a single screen, which facilitates the process which usually occurs separately. With technological intelligence, the system indicates the best sequence for scheduling and depending on the composition of different tests, informs, even if there are conflicts in the preparatory impeding the realization of them on the same day. The result is the optimization and agility of care given, once again perceived by the patient, who wastes no time during this routine.

The HIS was developed by a team of 50 professionals, involving technicians, programmers , doctors and nurses, totaling approximately 500,000 hours of work. The project in HCor is nearing completion and is scheduled to go into operation in August this year. Other companies in the healthcare sector have already purchased the software, which is being implemented.

“The HIS consolidates all quality premises in the area of ​​Health. There is no other solution on the market that manages simultaneously and comprehensively, clinical performance, operating results and tax compliance. With the Hospital Information System deliver a value proposition with guaranteed results for our customers, “said Marcelo Souccar, director of the Health segment of TOTVS.

According to the executive manager of IT HCor, José Lobato , the project developed four hands for HIS is a major breakthrough for Health in Brazil. “By strategically support TOTVS with our deep insight into the real needs of medical processes and, combining the latest technology, we can build a differentiated system for assertive management of Health,” concludes Lobato.

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Software created in AM turns sign language into sounds – Globo.com

Sensors installed on the forearms that allow transforming gestures on voice and transmit them by a cell. The invention, called the project “Giullia – the hand that says,” was launched on Monday (18) by the Amazonas State University (UEA). According to the creator of the project, a worldwide manufacturer of mobile phones has already shown interest in the project. The program aims to facilitate communication of people with disabilities

For the researcher and creator of “Giullia,” Manuel Cardoso, the disabled will be able to improve their competitiveness in the market. Cardoso says the research is done for over a year by the Robotics Center team and Automotive UEA.

“These sensors pick up the signals from the arm muscles of the hand and fingers and transmit via bluetooth to the mobile. On mobile, we embarked on a technology based on artificial intelligence, called artificial neural networks, which are mathematical models that assimilate the functionality, for example, of biological neurons, so that we can teach the program recognize patterns of signals coming from. If a hearing impaired is looked at you and understands what you say, it will gesturing response and the cell will translate what he said in sign language. The hand starts to generate a voice that is not issued by the vocal cords, hence the name: the hand that speaks, “said Cardoso

According to the researcher, on Tuesday (19) a commission that participated in the survey will leave for the United States to. a meeting with US expert in order to raise funds for the development of new research.

The creator of the project said that patent license the “Giullia” is negotiated with a world cell phone maker . “There are people with this disability worldwide and we expect [to the negotiations] is to support the continuity of research from financial gain,” he said.

‘Giullia
According to Cardoso, the project name is a tribute to a young man who had their brain activity harmed because of an acquired bacteria still in the maternity ward. She was one of the beneficiaries of the project “Mouse Eye”, which allows people with motor disabilities to navigate the Internet and write text on the computer using sensors connected to eye movement

Giullia -. Who also had hearing impairment – He entered the project “Mouse Eye” to seven years. She died last year, aged 15. “Giullia was an inspiration. I often say that she left, but will stay with us forever,” assures Cardoso.

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Monday, May 18, 2015

Software integrates business management the legal department – Counsel

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Software integrates business management the legal department

The work of outsourced law firms directly influences budgets. The need for the legal departments of companies closely monitor the productivity of external lawyers took Totvs to establish a specific management system (Fluig), launched in March this year. The software, the legal department may follow the provision of processes and establish what will be recorded in the event of convictions payments. With this, it grows further software group that are already ready for specific legal departments, as Themis, the ProJuris and e-Xyon.

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Magazine Counsel May 18, 2015, 14h47



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