10 Most Recommended Cloud Computing Companies in 2020

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4. Editor’s Desk emote workers have been able to find their way through these dramatic changes in the last R couple of months and cloud solutions have proved to be a blessing to facilitate this rather arduous process. Companies are now responding to the question The Ability to many have asked before; would productivity fall off by working from home? And for many companies the Operate from answer is ‘no’. Thousands of professionals are taking advantage of working from home, and this change has Anywhere, Anytime created an additional question to consider–could remote work be the new normal? In 2019, more than 1.5 million people in the UK had worked remotely, up to 50% from 2009, even before the lockdowns started. Roughly 79% of telecoms companies and 87% in the energy sector use cloud computing. Twitter is an apt example of an enterprise that employs people to work from their home permanently, followed by many other organizations, including but not limited to Facebook and Google, which have extended their home- based work policy to 2021. Not only technology giants are promoting remote work using cloud technology, smaller companies also use low- cost cloud solutions to develop domestic practices. Thanks to the benefits offered by remote work platforms, employers can implement it seamlessly. Despite the global pandemic, employees report higher productivity and job satisfaction. With the long-term view, remote work offers businesses several economic advantages. Overhead costs can be reduced in many ways from office rent to equipment, with fewer people working in the physical workplace.

5. When the time comes for workers to return to their offices, many will now have a choice of whether to work from their offices or not. However, to do so, organizations must first implement an appropriate solution, in which employees can access their applications easily wherever they are, without compromising on productivity. There are a range of cloud-based solutions that enable companies to work productively and securely from home. The mix of software, platform and infrastructure, otherwise known as Everything-as-a- Service (XaaS), allows employees to access any local and cloud environments on the website. And to make the selection process easier for organizations, Insights Success has come up with this edition titled, “10 Most Recommended Cloud Computing Companies in 2020”, highlighting the best cloud solution providers, exhibiting their innovative approaches and demonstrating their abilities as to why businesses must choose them as their preferred technology partner.

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7. BizMerlin Combining the Power of AI and Cloud Technology to Deliver Intelligent HR Management Solutions 16 Burstorm 20 An Intelligent Energy Efficient Architect of Futuristic Cloud Technology Solutions Green Cloud Computing Saving Energy through Technology 28 30 Tech Trend Embedded Systems are Gaining Popularity across all Domains

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18. BizMerlin Combining the Power of AI and Cloud Technology to Deliver Intelligent HR Management Solutions R management platforms are increasingly order to solve these challenges, BizMerlin prepares becoming an integral part of the corporate itself with the same tech-savvy inspiration that drives H world, to be dubbed as the backbone of various companies to succeed and over the years, it operational efficiency. Just like a spine of a body, has developed a concrete plan to give its competitors a Human Resourceplatforms are central to hiring, run for their money. For example, apart from retaining employees, and doing so with optimal providing actionable insights, the BizMerlinHR efficiency. However, there is a need for current HR platform automates tasks and HR processes. This has platforms to take the next big step and combine the resulted in saving valuable time and provides a peace power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with cloud of mind to clients to focus on core products and technology to provide managements with real and services. actionable insights. This is not a distant dream. BizMerlin is helping small, large and medium sized The uniqueness of the BizMerlin HR tool lies in its businesses achieve this exact goal via cloud ability to process data intelligently and respond to technology to bring-in maximum efficiency in with recommendation based on historical data driven operations. by complex algorithms to support the decision making. -. For example, the flagship ATS feature has BizMerlin aims to evolve with times and grab the the power to analyze each application and provide complex world of hiring today with its horns. The smart recommendations about candidates. Moreover, world of recruiting today is undergoing significant the platform integrates simple and advanced features changes. People are nolonger working just to make a such as Company Wall of Fame, the strategic living; many highly value satisfaction, longterm Resource Forecasting and Optimization solution, and association with a brand and the enriching experience the irreplaceable Expertise Evolution Pathways. of learning. Additionally, these individuals with a BizMerlin HR platform is not merely a software holistic understanding of life are at the forefront of application, rather a unique bridge between innovation, excellence and taking the economy technology and people that speaks the universal forward with their bright minds. Hence, BizMerlin is language of HR professionals. helping companies keep up with times by analyzing patterns and trends in recruiting using Big Data and A Seed of Aspiration and Inspiration complex algorithms. Every leader brings a unique dimension to an An Intelligent Investment in Business organization and guides the spirit of their team with a rock solid belief. BizMerlin too is led by such an Today’s business world demands different inspirational figure with a deep insight in areas of HR expectations than it did a decade ago. Currently, the consulting, data analytics and artificial intelligence. work output is often driven by creativity and one of The company is led by Dr. Amrinder Arora, the Co- the important parameters is quality. Additionally, founder and CEO -highlighted that there were several projects are often outsourced on yearly contracts and inefficiencies in the current recruiting process and he require various different skill sets to complete. In envisioned a wholesome platform to fill this gap. July 2020| 16

19. The Mzst Reczmmeoded CLOUD CLOUD CLOUD COMPUTING COMPUTING Czmpaoies io 2020 We are focused on building the best HR system that today’s talent deserves. Dr. Amrinder Arora Co-founder & CEO His name in the industry requires no introduction as One of the primal strategic ploys embedded by the he has won numerous awards and has made a giant company to become successful is the meaningful contribution to the industry. He was recognized as one interaction between the HR professionals and the of 30 Most Influential Young Entrepreneurs in 2016 platform. The company is confident in its rock solid and has published a book titled, ’Analysis and Design product, and the free trial would enable the HR of Algorithms.’, which continues to fascinate experts management to apply their instincts and easily manage on Artificial Intelligence. His first hand observations processes with a highly flexible solution. about the vast inefficiencies in recruiting have led BizMerlin to creating a top HR management solution Over the years, BizMerlin has undergone an eventful and inspire a success story which is as personal as is journey to become a quality provider of intelligent HR professional. management solutions. It has evolved like most by responding to client demands and sticking to its A Challenging World of Business and a Rewarding principle to become an intelligent value provider to its Opportunity clients. Earlier, HR portals were too often complex, required BizMerlin recently launched retention management installation and were unreasonably expensive. solutions to help organizations identify the causes for BizMerlin addressed these historical challenges with a the churn rate and thereby take necessary steps to unique direction and path to success. The company mitigate the risks of losing people. BizMerlin offers free trial of its platform to interested clients. leadership will also focus on creating a synergy These clients can sign up a trial, import their data, on- between its partners and BizMerlin HCM. It also plans board their employees, and roll out the system to their to build a bridge between already established state of workforce, all in the space of a few hours. The the art applications like Monster, ZipRecruiter and company has also integrated its platform via cloud, Indeed in the near future. which lowers the cost, outsources management of the portal and gives employees an unparalleled access. |July 2020 17

22. Energy Efcient Technology Green Cloud Computing Saving Energy through Technology he rapid expansion in data centers, due to the exponential growth of the cloud computing has caused the dramatic increase in energy consumption and its effect on the environment in terms of T the carbon footprints. To reduce the power consumption, it is required to develop some energy efficient solutions. The Green Computing is the practice of executing policies and the procedures to improve efficiency of the computing resources in such a way as to reduce the energy consumption and environmental impact of their utilization. Green Cloud Architecture is rising from these trends leading, not only to energy efficiency, but also a carbon emission aware concept. In order to reduce energy consumption, a greener environment needs to be built. Among all industries, the information communication technology (ICT) industry is arguably responsible for a larger portion of the worldwide growth in energy consumption. The goal of green cloud computing is to promote the recyclability or biodegradability of defunct products and factory waste by reducing the use of hazardous materials and maximizing the energy efficiency during the product's lifetime. Energy to be saved The objective is to reduce power consumption of the data center. It offers the features like online monitoring, live virtual machine migration, and optimization of Virtual Machine Placement. Through this proposed Green Cloud Architecture, energy up to 27% can be saved. The need to manage multiple applications in a data center creates the challenge of on-demand resource provisioning and allocation in response to time-varying workloads. Data center resources are statically possessed to applications, based on the peak load characteristics, in order to provide performance guarantees and to maintain the isolation. Energy-efficient resource management has been first introduced in the context of battery fed mobile devices, where energy consumption has to be reduced in order to improve the battery lifetime. Techniques which are developed for mobile devices also can be applied or adapted for servers and data centers; this kind of systems requires specific methods. The primary method is to consolidate the Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling technique in an efficient way to maximize the resource utilization and to minimize energy consumption of the datacenters which will result in the reduced July 2020| 20

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24. carbon footprints and thus will help more in achieving the Green Computing. The Green Benefits Cloud computing is the way to save money and energy for the business. Users emphasize Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and can improve their manageability and facilitate the maintenance of the resources. It means that benefit of business enterprises implicates to avoid spending on software and infrastructure resources, and allow business clients to focus on earning money rather than being weighted down with infrastructure concerns. Therefore, operating this model allows reducing the consummation of the power energy without spending money on running the servers. Moreover, with no servers to repair, the absence of hardware to upgrade and no software to install, labor costs are also reduced. With SaaS software accesses usually through a browser- based client, i.e., it can run on virtually any authorized computer, making desktop and laptop resources easily replaceable. Thus, when the user also saves on the support, it doubles the impact and in fact increases green role in business. The employees can work remotely, traveling and moving from one place to another because they have fast access to the internet and the ability to use all the services at hand, on the other hand, it reduces the consumption of fossil fuels and the harmful pollution that results from vehicle emissions as well. The reduction of energy and power consumption has become a first-order objective in the design of modern computing systems. The roots of energy-efficient computing, practices can be traced back to 1992, when the U.S. environmental protection agency had launched Energy Star, a voluntary labeling program which was designed to identify and promote the energy-efficient products in order to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions. Computers and monitors were the first labeled products. This has led to the widespread adoption of the sleep mode in electronic devices. The term “green computing” was introduced to refer to the energy-efficient personal computers. Interesting Research Findings While deploying data center, the sole concern is high-performance, and this demand has been fulfilled without paying much attention to the energy consumption. An average data center guzzles energy as much as 25,000 households. There is a necessity to move the focus to optimizing for energy efficiency while maintaining high service level performance than optimizing data center resource management for pure performance, as the energy cost is increasing while the availability dwindles. According to certain reports, the total estimated energy bill for data centers in the year 2010 was $11.5 billion and energy costs in a typical data center doubles every five years. For the development of cloud computing and it to sustain green technologies is exceedingly essential. Of the numerous green methodologies enquired, the DVFS technology is a highly hardware oriented approach and hence it is less flexible. Cloud computing is a highly scalable and cost-effective infrastructure for running an enterprise and the web applications. But the critical issue is the drastic surge in the energy consumption of data centers which is triggering by the growing demand for cloud infrastructure. Hence, the energy-efficient solutions are required which results in less number of carbon footprints and thus help in achieving greener computing. July 2020| 22

26. Cloud Insights UsingAI to Automatically Optimize Cloud Costs he Birth of Cloud Computing The birth of Spotinst: Rising cloud costs T Today, there is a similar revolution beginning in the world of cloud computing. One still in its early stages, Back in the early days of cloud computing, if we would tell you that every business and consumer would but seemingly destined to grow just as quickly as AWS. eventually be running their entire compute and storage “Spotinst aims to be the largest provider of cloud infrastructure digitally, we would sound crazy. But just infrastructure without running any servers,” says 17 years later, it seems inevitable that the old world of Amiram Shachar, CEO & Founder of Spotinst. The data centers and on-premise servers will go the way of statement is bold on its own, but when you dive a bit the physical newspaper and radio. deeper, not much bolder a claim than had you asked Andy Jassy the same back in 2003. Indeed, even Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS, didn’t envision this future back in 2000. At the time, Amazon was Just as Jassy found an internal struggle today, Spotinst simply struggling to scale despite hiring a lot of new began with Shachar’s identification of a problem at his developers. Jassy, who was Amazon’s Chief of Staff at company, then Lycos Global Group. As Director of the time, dove into the problem to discover that the DevOps, Shachar was pressed with the task of migrating hardware and infrastructural needs simply were not all Lycos’ servers to the cloud, but costs quickly jumped. being met fast enough. Jassy set out to speed up this “Within a couple of months of moving to the cloud, our process internally, allowing the internal R&D team to costs had actually risen dramatically, way beyond any access a pool of common compute and storage resources, calculator that we used to predict it” continued Shachar. making it easier for each to launch their own projects “To the point where we were actually planning to move without needing to deal with the underlying everything back to on-premise.” infrastructure. Eventually, at a team summit in 2003, they realized this was a need for every other company on Just around that time, Shachar encountered the relatively the planet, and so AWS was born. unused offering at AWS, called Spot Instances. Spot July 2020| 24

27. Amiram Shachar CEO & Founder Spotinst About the CEO Amiram Shachar is CEO & Founder of Spotinst, which leverages excess cloud capacity to help customers save ~80% on cloud costs. Before Spotinst, he was Director of DevOps at Ybrant Media and led the Israeli Defense Forces migration to the cloud. |July 2020 25

28. Instances were spare server capacity at AWS, cleverly packaged to enable monetization of these servers. AWS offered these idle servers for massive 90% discounts with one major caveat - they’ll kick you off once a most cost-effective servers, given your performance customer wants to pay full price for those servers. requirements. Instead of exploring the long list of alternatives within and across the different cloud Shachar smelled opportunity. “By building algorithms providers, Spotinst will take care of it all under the hood. that could predict the spare capacity terminations in Today, their platform recognizes any workload that could advance, we could then migrate to another spare server be run on a cheaper server. Just put those workloads beforehand, saving us 80% on our cloud costs.” After a under Spotinst’s control and their algorithms will take few months, Shachar and his team were running nearly care of the rest - those workloads will forever run on the 75% of their compute power on AWS spare capacity. Just cheapest servers available. All without compromising like Jassy back in 2003, the lightbulb eventually went off performance or availability. - there was a far larger opportunity at hand here. Using a new Serverless offering, where developers can The virtual cloud: run code without dealing with simply write code without dealing with any of the cloud providers underlying infrastructure, Spotinst aims to deliver on this promise in a major way. “All you should ever have to do “All companies running on cloud struggle to keep costs is write code,” says Shachar. “Our algorithms will make down,” Shachar says. “But with a long list of priorities sure it is always running on the most cost-effective including security and maintaining site reliability, infrastructure, across all cloud providers, for your DevOps teams often don’t have the time to do all of the performance and availability needs.” In other words, just work required to optimize cost.” But while Spotinst’s write the code, and Spotinst will make sure it always first product was aimed at helping companies reliably runs at the lowest cost possible for your performance leverage spare capacity to reduce costs, Shachar and his needs. co-founders, Liran Polak and Aharon Twizer, had a bigger vision. As Shachar says, “in 10 years, just as everyone is making the shift to cloud today, they will be making the Today, managing cloud infrastructure has become just as shift to Serverless computing. Only with Spotinst, they’ll complex as running on-premises. With a plethora of new be able to also ensure they are paying the best possible AWS, Google, and Azure offerings launching every price, all without doing anything.” The promise of month, along with an increasingly vast list of companies companies all running a perfectly optimized cloud that build off these offerings, figuring out the balance without ever dealing with the infrastructure seems bold. between cost and performance is a major challenge. But, But as we learned from Jassy and AWS, in another 10-15 Shachar envisions a world where you don’t have to. years, it may just be an inevitability. The promise of the virtual cloud The promise of Shachar’s vision is simple at heart - a virtual cloud. Spotinst will leverage machine learning to ensure that your applications are always running on the July 2020| 26

30. Burstorm An Intelligent Architect of Futuristic Cloud Solutions ulfilling a large part of our daily virtual them in solidarity towards a common goal. Burstorm experience, cloud solutions are increasingly platform aims to meet these exact criteria to build the F becoming an integral part of our lives. It stores, cloud solutions of tomorrow. The platform delivers backs up, recovers data and helps create new five key functionalities to enterprises and cloud applications. Additionally, it hosts websites, blogs, solution providers. These five key functionalities streams audio-visual content, and provides on-demand include providing a visual model to compute, storage, software. To top it all, cloud solutions include Big network, and datacenter infrastructure. Secondly, it Data to make intelligent analysis and predictions, provides a product catalogue consisting of over saving costs and improving productivity for 40,000 options provided by thousands of vendors. Its enterprises in the process. It would be fair to say that third benefit hammers home the bottom line of the experience of living in a virtual world would be corporates and helps companies reduce costs. far less exciting without the availability of cloud Burstorm provides a comparison of price, services at our fingertips. performance and value gained with an objective overview in realtime. Additionally, the platform On the other hand, increasing demands for cloud delivers a summary to its clients about the existing solutions is creating a chain of problems of its own. state of its infrastructure. It also allows enterprises and With a huge number of cloud solution providers cloud solution providers to build and sell applications emerging in the market,, enterprises are having a hard based on location, performance, price and security. time telling them apart from each other without a fair Lastly, it allows colleagues to collaborate in overview, objective comparison and real insights. real-time across the globe to envision and build the futuristic cloud solutions. Similarly, cloud solution providers have had a tough ask competing with tech giants owing to their limited An Enriching Experience and a Perceptive expertise and resources. In order to win this prevalent Leadership cloud war, it is imperative for cloud providers position themselves at the forefront of innovation through Burstorm was incepted by Brandon Abbey, the transformation in ideas, design, real-time dynamic current CEO of the company when he united with quotations and deployment. leaders from the cloud industry, former Oracle On- Demand President Dr. Timothy Chou and ex-Netflix Burstorm offers a fitting solution to this headache, Cloud architecture guru Edward Wustenhoff. which aims to bring enterprises, cloud solution providers and futuristic minded developers together to Prior to Burstorm Brandon worked in the Silicon architect an ideal world of cloud solutions. Valley for some of the largest network and data center providers including AT&T, Qwest and Savvis (now Centurylink). After an enriching professional journey, A Platform to Build Dream Cloud Solutions he moved on to put his own ideas to work as a An ideal platform brings various stakeholders together entrepreneur in the data center colocation space. and bridges their various differences in order to unite July 2020| 28

31. The Mzst Reczmmeoded CLOUD CLOUD CLOUD COMPUTING COMPUTING Czmpaoies io 2020 Our platform helps organizations make decisions more quickly and accurately assess to select the optimal cloud solutions. Brandon Abbey CEO & Founder In late 2009 Brandon, Timothy and Edward formed people did not see designing of projects in real-time Burstorm. The company began as an IT brokerage and hence, were unable to participate with their firm working with companies to avail an ideal cloud suggestions or inputs. With the newly introduced infrastructure. As the company helped various Salesforce Integration , sales people are always on enterprises, the Founders felt the need to create a board in the designing process and can communicate platform-based solution to meet the challenges of a their feedback in real-time. booming, rapidly evolving and complex IT ecosystem and thus, Burstorm platform came into existence. Burstorm continues to rise to new heights due to innovation and constant improvements. Its recent Adding a Touch of Transparency and Innovation to success include receiving the seal of approval from the Future prestigious firms in the industry including the likes of Fidelity Investments, Telmex, managed service Burstorm provides a touch of magical innovation to providers like Hostway, Systems Integrators like the cloud solution industry. This includes providing a Engility and many more. The reason behind the digital sales and design platform for providers. The continuous rise of the company can be attributed to platform also automates the process of sending the early challenges it encountered and strategic quotation and delivering insights to the clients based thinking that developed as a result. In its initial on intelligent analysis. The current tools have consulting phase, Burstorm was simply providing transformed the ideation, design and quotation process solutions based on human insights and experiences to to make it more efficient and competitive. enrich IT infrastructures. Over time, the management at Burstorm realized that these human relied solutions Burstorm plans to add a touch of transparency and were insufficient to deliver the desired results to the innovation on to its platform, in the upcoming future. clients. It was important to bring in machine learning, The company will add more tools, more insight and rich insight built into a platform to lead the industry; more value to the clients. Currently there are several Burstorm has not looked back since. projects in the pipeline to achieve this goal. One example of these projects automates and adds visibility to the design process. Earlier, the sales |July 2020 29

32. Tech-Trend EMBEDDED SYSTEMS ARE GAINING POPULARITY ACROSS ALL DOMAINS n today’s emerging world, embedded system is it helps to reduce The category- based on its systems have bought an ease of the complexity of the circuits which performance and functional I work due to its inherent becomes expedient. It also offers a requirements are classified into four advancements and features. The cost effective and an appropriate size types that are Stand alone, Real time, embedded system is one of the most which is suitable for the system. This Networked, and Mobile embedded imperative subjects in the digital electronic system can perform single systems. Further, the category- world. Thinking about technology, or multiple tasks based on the performance of the microcontroller is daily lifestyle essential devices like application. An embedded system classified into three types that are mobile phones, tablets and laptops consist of hardware such as power small scale, medium scale and come to our mind, but the internal supply kit, central processing unit, sophisticated embedded systems. features is not known to most of us. memory devices, timers, output An Excellent Application Provider The presence of these devices is circuits, serial communication ports almost inevitable in all facades of the and system application specific circuit The embedded systems are highly human endeavor. In order to components and circuits. applicable as it is a special-purpose understand more about the operations, system due to its unique Types of Embedded Systems functions and features of embedded characteristics. It is used in a systems, it is defined here ahead. The Embedded systems are classified diversified area of things as its into categories such as components and functions of Embedded Systems -It is an electronic hardware and software are different system incorporating hardware · Based on its performance and for each system. It is applicable in integrated circuit with software functional requirements areas like communication, space, programming techniques for · Performance of the transportation, robotic systems, and delivering various projects solutions. Microcontroller home appliances and many more. The main advantage of using an July 2020| 30

33. Real Time Applications of Embedded heartbeat monitors, the embedded technologies are Systems electrocardiogram responsible for the intellectual Ø Automobiles- Antilock braking capabilities of utmost modern devices, As it has a vast variety of application systems, air-conditioner controls, for both consumers as well as domains it differs from high expense electronic fuel injection systems industrial. To present this in a simpler to low, consumer electronics to Ø Industrial Applications- Assembly manner, the embedded systems not industrial equipment, academic lines, multiple parameter just control the lifestyle devices like equipment to entertainment devices monitoring systems, data collection microwaves, smartphones, tablets, and from weapons to medical systems and other consumer electronics but Ø Aerospace- Navigation systems, instruments and aerospace control also directs the telecommunication guidance systems, GPS systems. Here goes some of the systems, submarines, ATMs, and Ø Communications- Routers, categories embedded systems are many more. network hubs, satellite phones used: The upper echelons in the field of Progression of Embedded Systems Ø Consumer electronics- Mobile embedded technologies have created over the Decade phones, videogame consoles, some innovative technologies over the digital camera last decade which is highly admired. With changing times, inventions have Ø Household appliances- Washing Multi-core processors, virtualization, become a routine in the world of machines, microwave ovens, the expansion of devices with technology; the embedded systems refrigerators improved security requirements, have also undergone some salient Ø Medical Equipment- CT Scanners, 64-bit processors and new chip modifications. In the existing times, manufacturing processes are some of the innovative achievements. |July 2020 31

34. Embracing such innovative technologies addresses the scale of the market and the number of its players which include companies like semiconductor suppliers, system software development, and mechanical components suppliers, system software development companies, and mechanical components suppliers. The embedded systems market leaders include national and international renowned companies. Advancing with Multifunctional Features With the advent of multi-functional engineering, the next age of wireless communication systems is encouraging a new level of technology integration. Incorporating effective measures like progressive data rates, great connectivity for systems such as the Internet of Things (IoT), less power consumption, and other striving goals can be achieved by joining advanced digital, RF, and antenna technologies. An embedded system which performs multiple applications is known as a multi-mode embedded system as it dynamically recomposes the system functionality. Moreover, an embedded system which additionally assists multiple tasks to be executed in a mode is known as a multi-mode multi-task embedded system. The multi-material additive manufacturing processes offer the potential for multi-functional parts to be manufactured in a single procedure. To utilize the potential benefits of the developing technology, analysis, new designs, and optimization methods are needed. Such methods are facilitated in the optimization of a multifunctional part by pairing both the structural design aspects and system. An application development platform known as Multifunctional Embedded Application Platform (MEAP) is used to create customized applications. Trends to Watch Developers should constantly keep an eye on the trends and make appropriate use of the latest advances in techniques and technologies. Some of the trends include Internet of Things (IoT), processor technology, storage, artificial intelligence and, virtual and augmented reality. Also, there are several trends like embedded security, real- time visualization; cloud connectivity and Bluetooth mesh networking, low power consumption and optimization that will help developers working with microcontroller-based solutions. Elevating with Time Over the years, embedded systems have come a long way and contributed to every aspect of the industrial sector. All the devices or appliances used in our daily lives are designed in such a way that can be used without creating difficulties using the embedded systems. Taking this into account, in coming times every object around will consist of a either a small processor or sensor embedded within itself. Even though it is invisible to the naked eye it still connects with multiple other devices to make the lives more allied and accessible than ever before. Using embedded systems, wonders like driverless cars, fully automated factories, adaptive home appliances and many more devices have successfully been created. In the upcoming times, the embedded systems are looking forward to evolve with technologies that will assist large data storage dimensions, faster communication and highly linked connections among the devices. July 2020| 32

36. CXO Standpoint Leverage Existing SAP Solutions with Cloud Procurement procurement solutions need to feel confident that solutions ompanies that have already invested in SAP find will lead to cost savings and higher productivity and that they can achieve even better results from their efficiency. Users quickly see returns by focusing on user existing investment with cloud technology and C adoption, compliance, and spend management. Spend eProcurement. After the initial investment, companies find Management allows companies to visualize purchasing certain roadblocks preventing mass user adoption and spending patterns and usage and drives employees to diminishing cost savings. Issues such as inability to stay leverage preferred pricing with contract suppliers. To connected, lack of insight into data, and complex and increase user adoption and compliance, the cloud empowers fragmented business rules stop businesses from using the a mobile workforce with the right resources and experience full power of SAP. As cloud application technologies so everyone stays connected and available so that business advance, companies gain the benefits of rapid deployment is not disrupted. As user adoption and compliance cycles, increased self-service tools, and faster performance. frameworks increase with cloud-based systems, Vroozi delivers on the promise and power of eProcurement organizations gain immediate cost savings in procurement in the Cloud with seamless integration into SAP. by decreasing transaction costs and preventing spend leakage with your supply chain. SAP users looking to the cloud generally face a few questions, including: Efficiencies · How can I benefit from using cloud procurement? · Will my transition to the cloud be cost-effective? Process efficiency is key for a successful, healthy business. · How will my business processes be affected by cloud Cloud technology enables better processes by keeping technology? everyone connected through a mobile experience and automating transaction tasks through the use of machine To understand the benefits of cloud technology to existing learning and pattern matching. With a centralized, unified SAP users, let’s evaluate three procurement strategies that system, cloud automation can yield immediate benefits in highlight the power of cloud procurement. requisition to invoice and payment business processes and reduced errors and issues leading to higher productivity and Value Realization decreased processing costs. Further, by allowing employees to interact with cloud procurement via smart Phones and Return on Investment (ROI) is a central factor in any procurement strategy. Buyers and trading partners of cloud July 2020| 34

37. tablets, business can continue to move with efficiency and speed. IT Cost Savings Perhaps no determinant is more important in realizing the benefits of cloud technologies versus traditional on premise software is in IT Cost Savings. Systems and applications which required large physical infrastructure and monetary investments can now provide inexpensive and scalable solutions through the Cloud and cloud infrastructure providers. A procurement solution that integrates with SAP is easier to access, less expensive, and takes a fraction of the implementation time companies once faced with traditional software solutions. Cloud technology relieves the user of hidden costs such as hardware, consultants, infrastructure, maintenance, and costly upgrade cycles, providing lower risk and lower total cost of ownership. Brad Hill Conclusion Director of Global Sales & Marketing The cloud offers little upfront expense, automatic Vroozi upgrades, and pre-integrated best practices which allow organizations to focus on business growth and improved operating margins. Vroozi’s Brad Hill, Director of Global Sales & Marketing eProcurement solution that takes SAP solutions of Vroozi is a passionate leader and is to the cloud empower users with better returns, responsible for expanding the Vroozi Product better processes and higher savings, so their overall SAP investment’s ROI is accelerated. Suite, Brand Adoption, Partnership Network & ensuring our customers receive an unparalleled According to IDC, spending on Cloud computing is growing at 4.5 times the rate of IT spending experience with Vroozi. Brad spent the last 20 since 2009 and is expected to continue growing years building Enterprise Sales and Product at more than 6 times the rate of IT spending from strategies with leading IT Services 2015 through 2020. (via Forbes) This massive growth is easily understood when businesses organizations. His entrepreneurial strategies understand the power and value of cloud have served a vast number of Fortune 500 solutions. With the Vroozi Platform, companies can take advantage of robust eProcurement industries and verticals. He is also an aspiring technology delivered in the Cloud and integrated mechanic and frustrated golfer, two good seamlessly with SAP. reminders to keep his day job. |July 2020 35