Day: October 21, 2021

LONG BEACH, Calif., Oct. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Laserfiche — the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation — was named as a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner^® Magic Quadrant™  for Content Services Platforms. Laserfiche was evaluated as one of 18 vendors in the market, and was recognized based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute.

“Today’s most successful digital transformation strategies focus heavily on content-centric process automation and increasing access to critical information, which our products help organizations achieve,” said Chris Wacker, CEO of Laserfiche. “Laserfiche remains committed to providing the connected, intuitive digital experiences that organizations need, and employees and customers expect.”

According to Gartner, “Visionaries, like Leaders, present modern, innovative and often highly differentiated offerings. They typically have broad applicability across several industries and geographies. Visionaries are suitable for organizations looking to modernize and transform. They can tackle familiar problems in new ways.”

The Laserfiche product suite — including e-forms, document management, workflow rules management, content collaboration, dashboard analytics, records management and robotic process automation (RPA) — is available as a SaaS or self-hosted system. Laserfiche’s platform provides organizations with capabilities to:

• Rapidly automate business processes at scale with intuitive, no-code interfaces that include RPA, automatic content classification and machine learning-based Smart Invoice Capture
• Jump-start deployments with prebuilt industry templates, including electronic forms and workflows
• Integrate content workflows with business applications using secure APIs
• Deploy a hybrid architecture to support both cloud and on-premises business applications
• Provide content- and process-driven insights with analytics
• Enable business innovation securely with a multi-tenant SaaS platform, providing information governance, enterprise security and robust records management

“The City of Los Angeles embraces technology and innovation to transform our services to residents and businesses, even being recognized by the Center for Digital Government as a top digital city in the U.S.,” said Ted Ross, CIO of the City of Los Angeles. “Key to our digital strategy are visionary partners, like Laserfiche, who are committed to innovation and can provide robust tools for digital transformation that elevate the user experience for all Angelenos.”

“We believe to be named a Visionary is a testament to Laserfiche’s relentless focus on product innovation and our customers — especially those that drive hyper-automation and digital workplace initiatives,” said Thomas Phelps IV, senior vice president of corporate strategy and CIO of Laserfiche. “Thanks to customer feedback, we were also named a 2021 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Content Services Platforms.”

To learn more about Laserfiche among vendors in the content services platforms market, download a complimentary copy of the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms here.

Gartner Disclaimer:

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Services Platforms, Michael Woodbridge, Marko Sillanpaa, Lane Severson, Tim Nelms,18^th October 2021

Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Content Services Platforms, Peer Contributors, 9^th April 2021

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Gartner and Magic Quadrant are registered trademarks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

Gartner Peer Insights reviews constitute the subjective opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences and do not represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.

About Laserfiche

Laserfiche is the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management and business process automation. Through powerful workflows, electronic forms, document management and analytics, the Laserfiche^® platform accelerates how business gets done, enabling leaders to focus on growth across the enterprise.

Laserfiche pioneered the paperless office with enterprise content management. Today, Laserfiche’s cloud-first development approach incorporates innovations in machine learning and AI to enable organizations in more than 80 countries to transform into digital businesses. Customers in every industry — including government, education, financial services, healthcare and manufacturing — use Laserfiche to boost productivity, scale their business and deliver digital-first customer experiences.

Laserfiche employees in offices around the world are committed to the company’s vision of empowering customers and inspiring people to reimagine how technology can transform lives.

Connect with Laserfiche:

Laserfiche Blog | Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook

Logo – https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/626078/Laserfiche_Logo_RGB_Main_v1.jpg

SUZHOU, China, Oct. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The 41st GITEX Technology Week in Dubai, the largest technology show in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, was held from October 17-21, attracting many internationally renowned IT companies from all around the world. With the theme of “Enlightening the Future”, Hengtong took part in the exhibition with products and solutions such as AC charger, air-blowing micro cable, rail transit, industrial cable series, 5G indoor distributed connection solution, charging products system solution, FTTx solution, and so on.

With its complete communications industry chain and technological innovation achievements, Hengtong has attracted the attention from operators and customers from the Middle East, Europe, Africa, etc. In recent years, the infrastructure construction requirements are growing rapidly and the communications market is wide and fiercely-competing in the Middle East. The Middle East also leads the world in early 5G adoption (commercial) and 5G data usage.

In order to meet the 5G era, Hengtong has made a comprehensive layout of 5G industry basic communication products and applications. The 5G indoor distributed connection solution exhibited by Hengtong is aimed at improving indoor mobile communication environment. Compared with the traditional DAS (distributed antenna system), the new indoor distribution is evolutionary, upgradeable, and easy to be deployed. It has been installed and put into use in many venues.

In addition, under the general trend of global energy conservation and emission reduction, Hengtong takes advantage of the trend and enters the field of new energy vehicles to provide scientific solutions for people’s green travel. As one of the key components of new energy vehicles, the charging interface developed by Hengtong has passed the CQC certification and meets the IP 67 Waterproof standard. The new type of charging products system solutions has advantages such as high and low temperature resistance, long service life, waterproof performance and so on to provide a safe and stable technical support, and ensure connectivity between electric vehicles and charging facilities.

In the future, Hengtong will continue to promote technological innovation, increase the industrial layout of 5G, AI, smart city, energy interconnection and other emerging fields, and lead the industry to accelerate digital and intelligent transformation.

Photo – https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1666827/1.jpg

DUBAI, UAE, Oct. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — At the Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF) 2021, Hank Chen, president of the Router Domain of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, delivered a keynote speech during the Intelligent Cloud-Network session titled “Build Intelligent Cloud-Network, Enabling All-Service Growth.” He emphasized that Huawei’s Intelligent Cloud-Network Solution can help operators build future-oriented target networks, adapt to diversified service changes, unleash the potential of traditional services, seize new B2B opportunities, and ultimately enable all-service growth.

Consumer and vertical industry services are becoming more diversified. For individuals, the user experience is continuously improving, with short videos, social apps, live streaming, and AR/VR rising in popularity. For homes, they are expanding from places for entertainment to places for work and education, with the traffic volume and number of subscribers continuously growing. For enterprises, more and more services are becoming cloudified at an astonishing pace. All these diversified services bring huge opportunities to operators — B2C and B2H services are the cornerstone of an operator’s stable revenue, and the B2B service is the largest and most important opportunity.

Operators mainly face two waves of service development challenges: The first wave is that consumer services are shifting from connection-oriented to experience-oriented. This involves three specific challenges. First, the multi-service aggregation point— the central office — becomes a bottleneck due to a lack of space when downward DC movement to the edge gains popularity. Second, traffic and its directions are getting increasingly uncertain, but networks lack an intelligent scheduling capability, leading to low network utilization. Last, traditional IP networks work in shared and best-effort-forwarding modes, which are difficult to guarantee the user experience once congestion occurs. The second wave is that more enterprises need multi-cloud connection capabilities for their digital services. However, network and cloud capabilities do not match well. Challenges such as slow network service provisioning and lack of tenant-level assurance are present.

To address these challenges and fuel all-service growth, Chen believed that a future-oriented target IP network must have the following four characteristics:

• First, all services in one network. This network must be able to bear all B2C, B2H, B2B services.
• Second, network programmability. This network must be able to flexibly schedule route paths between clouds and networks based on SRv6 to optimize network utilization.
• Third, deterministic experience. This network must be able to provide tenant-level bandwidth and latency guarantee, replacing traditional best-effort forwarding.
• Last, agile cloud connection. This network must support flexible multi-cloud connection for fast service provisioning.

Huawei’s Intelligent Cloud-Network Solution is specially designed for operators to build such a future-oriented target IP network. This solution provides five key capabilities to enable operators’ all-service growth.

1. All-service super edge CO, enabling all-service bearing. Huawei’s compact super edge CO can bear diversified services, significantly reducing the TCO and improving the service experience. Specifically, Huawei’s super edge CO router adopts an all-in-one design. It integrates the BRAS, CGN, IPsec, and service router (SR) functions into one box-shaped device, saving 60% of space and reducing power consumption by 70%.
2. SRv6-based network programmability for flexible cloud-network scheduling: Huawei’s Intelligent Cloud-Network Solution supports flexible network path programming and service orchestration, and on-demand traffic scheduling, optimizing the utilization of the entire network. SRv6-based service chaining enables VASs to be flexibly orchestrated and subscribed to on demand. At present, SRv6 has been put into large-scale commercial use.
3. Elastic slicing for differentiated service assurance: Innovative technologies are used to make slices operable, productizable, and monetizable, helping operators increase revenue and optimize return on investment. According to Chen, Huawei made the following slicing innovations: NetEngine A800 series devices provide tenant-level slicing, enabling one line to be used for multiple purposes. Hierarchical slicing upgrades the original one-dimensional slicing to two dimensions, enabling fine-grained service assurance and doubling the monetization capability. Elastic slicing enables lossless dynamic capacity expansion and on-demand adjustment, without affecting services or wasting resources.
4. One-hop connection to multiple clouds for flexible multi-cloud connection and scheduling: The multi-cloud backbone network can pre-connect the resources of multiple cloud vendors. Enterprises only need to negotiate services with a single operator. Services can be quickly migrated to the cloud and flexibly scheduled based on SRv6, and service paths can be flexibly selected based on latency and bandwidth to ensure service experience. Huawei’s unique intelligent cloud-map algorithm enables operators to intelligently and evenly schedule multi-cloud resources, improving cloud resource utilization by 30%.
5. Network as a Service (NaaS) for an e-commerce-like service experience: The cloud-network integration architecture provides an e-commerce-like service experience. This involves three stages: At the pre-sales stage for service subscription, optimal cloud access position and latency-based path selection capabilities are provided. At the in-sales stage, services can be quickly provisioned with a visualized network-wide status. At the after-sales stage, tenant-level self-services are provided, enabling operators to query private line SLAs anytime anywhere. In addition, Huawei significantly simplifies the number of northbound interfaces from 1000 to 100, and reduces the integration time by 90% through modular interfaces. Services can be provisioned in minutes, bandwidth can be adjusted on demand, and orders, SLAs, and faults can be visualized from multiple dimensions.

To date, the key capabilities of the Intelligent Cloud-Network Solution have been deployed on more than 100 networks around the world, including both operators’ and vertical industries’, such as smart healthcare, smart education, smart government, and smart manufacturing. Huawei will continue to cooperate with operators and partners to accelerate the innovation and deployment of the Intelligent Cloud-Network Solution and promote the evolution of IP networks.

Chen believed that the Intelligent Cloud-Network Solution is the foundation for DICT transformation and can help operators achieve all-service growth. For B2C services, it will help build ultra-broadband, automated, and intelligent networks and promote long-term evolution. For B2H services, it will accelerate network monetization and increase the ARPU through experience assurance and refined operation. For B2B services, it will provide differentiated cloud-network capabilities to help operators boost digitalization development.

“IP On Everything will be the future,” said Chen. “IP connectivity will continue to extend, continuously bring intelligence and computing power to every person, every home, and every industry for a fully connected, intelligent world.”

Photo – https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1665698/Huawei.jpg