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May 2022

IoT in Hotel Tech-The Smart Room Transformation

Smart Room tech goes a long way in creating a lasting and memorable positive experience for millennial and next-gen customers who want all the information and convenience at their fingertips. Leading hotels are already on their journey towards experimenting or creating their own Smart Rooms leveraging IoT. IoT-driven Smart Room Technology creates multiple benefits for the guest, the service provider, and the environment, says Deepakumar, Principal Consultant, Cigniti Technologies.

IoT in Hotel Tech-The Smart Room Transformation

You have just arrived at your favorite holiday destination and reached the hotel reception on a busy morning. It shouldn’t matter to you today if the hotel reception is crowded or there is no one available to help you with check-in. You will directly walk over to the self-service kiosk, enter your booking details, and scan your passport. The check-in process is completed in no time and you are provided with your room details. The kiosk even vends out your swipe card!

Best Practices and Business Benefits of DevOps Transformation

Even though DevOps adoption and implementation appear to be simple, implementing DevOps at scale remains a difficult task for many enterprises. The fact that the DevOps journey is purely technical is something that many businesses misunderstand. Contrary to popular belief, proper DevOps implementation involves more than just technology. Processes and platforms, tools and technology, governance and metrics, people and culture, and management are all part of the DevOps journey. This is where Cigniti's expertise emerges.

Best Practices and Business Benefits of DevOps Transformation

Every enterprise in today’s competitive environment is undergoing digital transformation. Businesses are attempting to improve their present IT infrastructure and techniques while welcoming new technologies and software development approaches to stay ahead of the competition. Enterprises’ ability to achieve all of this is highly dependent on their willingness to implement best practices for a successful DevOps transformation.

Shield Yourself Against Payment Frauds Using AI/ML Models

Preventing, detecting, and eliminating fraud is one of the major focus areas of the e-commerce and banking industries at present. Banks and other financial institutions are investing in new ways to meet the challenge of preventing fraud. Firms are now embracing Artificial Intelligence (#AI) and Machine Learning (#ML) technology to detect, investigate, and reduce money laundering and transaction fraud effectively and efficiently. AI-based fraud prevention is very effective at reducing chargebacks, fake accounts, spam, account takeovers and so on., says Payel Ghosh, Associate Principal Consultant, Cigniti Technologies.

Shield Yourself Against Payment Frauds Using AI/ML Models

Scammers exist in all forms of commerce. With the advancement of e-commerce, fraud has taken on new forms and become more powerful than ever before. Fraudsters take full advantage of any loophole in any system. Preventing, detecting, and eliminating fraud is one of the major focus areas of the e-commerce and banking industries at present. Banks and other financial institutions are investing in new ways to meet the challenge of preventing fraud.

Cloud Migration Assurance - COTS Migration Challenges

With fierce competition from enterprises and increased cloud adoption across the industries, it's past time to rethink the COTS portfolio approach to future-proof the growing business needs while lowering overheads. COTS apps, on the other hand, have their own set of issues when it comes to cloud migration. A standard R path analysis will not suffice to define the COTS cloud adoption journey, says Deepak Vijayaragavan, Vice President, Delivery, Cigniti Technologies.

Cloud Migration Assurance - COTS Migration Challenges

Assume you’re building a website, an application, or software, and you don’t want to build everything yourself for a variety of reasons – you’re short on time; you don’t want to code the tedious sections, and so on. So you have the choice of purchasing some elements of the software that you will use in it, such as the login, sign up, and other pages, and here comes the COTS-commercially –off –the –shelf software.

SAP Performance Testing - Breaking Down the Longer SAP GUI Response Times

Performance Assurance is one of the critical nonfunctional testing types that cannot be ignored for even certified products like SAP ECC or SAP HANA, because every implementation could be different in terms of customizations, integrations, data volumes, hardware sizing, and network topology. Performance assurance would add value to business operations in the effort spent and dollars burnt towards performance testing, says Prasad Paduchuru, Senior Manager, Cigniti Technologies.

5G - Myths vs Realities

So, in the end, it is not necessarily a matter of the myths vs realities of 5G – it is more about the timing. Everything we are hearing about 5G and the promise it holds is true. It will all just take more time for reality to catch up to the hype. And with that, we are encouraging all our clients that while they should not be stressed, they should certainly have their eyes wide open about how 5G will come into play, says Chris Manuel, Vice President, Cigniti Technologies.

SAP Performance Testing - Breaking Down the Longer SAP GUI Response Times

SAP offers one of the best ERP solutions for enterprise business critical operations. The success of these business operations depends on the reliability of the SAP deployment. Though the SAP solutions are perhaps thoroughly tested, rigorous performance testing is needed to understand the operations behavior of SAP under heavy loads.

5G - Myths vs Realities

“5G is coming! I saw the commercial!” “No, 5G is already here. Didn’t you see the other commercial?” “Yes, but I don’t have 5G, do you?” “Yes, I have had it for the last year. Well, I think I have. What is 5G anyway?” Have we ever seen anything so overhyped yet, at the same time, so misunderstood? Has there ever been a major technical advancement, that at the same time is already here, yet seemingly so far off in the future?

Propelling into the Digital Orbit: Cigniti's Digital Journey and Insights into our Acquisition of Aparaa Digital (RoundSqr)

Successful companies are those that are becoming Digital First. Research shows operating models, EBIDTA margins, market share and brand longevity are all tied to Digital experiences that companies can offer to their end customers. No vertical segment is exception to this. Digital today is a dialogue that confluences a cross section of CXOs inside a company whose goals are tied to Digital outcomes that they own and deliver. As Marc Anderseen famously said, Software is eating the world.

How IoT is Revolutionizing the Insurance Sector: Use Cases and Benefits

IoT apps are linking the globe in ways it has never been connected before. The use of IoT apps has increased dramatically in the healthcare, insurance, and automobile industries. IoT apps' ability to detect, analyze, and assess real-time data via IoT sensors and devices is assisting the insurance industry tremendously in providing better insurance services, says Ashis Kumar Rout, Associate Principal Consultant, Cigniti Technologies.

How IoT is Revolutionizing the Insurance Sector: Use Cases and Benefits

Traditional businesses are projected to be disrupted and revolutionized at an unprecedented rate as the Internet of Things (IoT) emerges. These new technologies have the potential to benefit the insurance business, which has been hesitant to adapt in the past. Before we get into how the Internet of Things will affect insurance, let’s define what we mean by “IoT” in this context.

How Blockchain is Solving the Pain Points in the Payments Sector

Digital security has always been an issue for payment organizations and their customers. Transparent and immediate payment is the basic need. To enhance and popularize digital payments and be more customer-focused, payments need to be made easy, fast, and highly secure. #Blockchaintechnology has come up with the solution which addresses the payment security needs, transaction transparency and boosts the overall efficiency of financial transactions. The #technology works on a no-intermediaries method that excludes the need for a primary regulator, says Payel Ghosh, Associate Principal Consultant, Cigniti Technologies.

How Blockchain is Solving the Pain Points in the Payments Sector

Digital security has always been an issue for payment organizations and their customers. Transparent and immediate payment is the basic need. To enhance and popularize digital payments and be more customer-focused, payments need to be made easy, fast, and highly secure. Blockchain technology has come up with the solution which addresses the payment security needs, transaction transparency and boosts the overall efficiency of financial transactions.