TechTouch Asia

BEX Asia 2023, held in September 2023, presented over 250 market-ready and innovative products and solutions, including smart building solutions, software to improve productivity and efficiency, data-driven solutions, mixed reality training, building information modelling (BIM), and digital twin technology. Companies participating at the event included: • Ailytics, which had a customisable portable AI video surveillance system at its booth. The recently-launched 15.5 kg solution is solar-powered and equipped with a CCTV built for outdoor use. Ailytics' AI-powered video analytics software, Ailyssa, can lead to a 7x increase in hazard detection and halve the need for manual inspections. Some of the risks that Ailyssa can detect include open edges, vehicles nearby, and the presence of personal protection equipment (PPE). There are installations in Singapore and Hong Kong, a booth representative shared. • OneClick LCA, a software company that helps the construction industry reduce...

Dell Technologies has announced the availability of Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure , a new fully integrated turnkey system developed in collaboration with Microsoft that extends the Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud experience to data centre and edge environments. It is the first offer in the Dell APEX Cloud Platform family and the first available Premier Solution for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI . This new Azure Stack HCI solution category only includes platforms that provide the fastest time to value for Azure hybrid cloud through the deepest levels of integration with Microsoft. “Dell Technologies and Microsoft have a long history of hybrid cloud innovation and collaboration to help customers deploy apps and data wherever they need them. Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure is the latest innovation to stem from our long collaboration,” said Karolis Macionis, Regional Director, APEX, Dell Technologies, Asia Pacific and Japan. “This new platform will enabl...

With the new Data Cloud now natively integrated with the Einstein 1 Platform , companies can unlock siloed data in entirely new ways; create rich, unified customer profiles; and deliver entirely new customer relationship management (CRM) experiences. Data Cloud – Salesforce’s real-time hyperscale data engine – unifies and harmonises customer data, enterprise content, telemetry data, Slack conversations, and other structured and unstructured data to create a single view of the customer. The platform is already processing 30 trillion transactions per month, and connecting and unifying 100 billion records every day. The new development means customers can start ingesting, harmonising, and exploring their data with Data Cloud and Tableau to extend the power of their data across every line of business and jumpstart their AI journey. Highlights of the update include: Data at scale: The Einstein 1 Platform has expanded to support thousands of metadata-enabled objects per customer, each...

Source: TeamViewer. The TeamViewer client showing the mobile device management dashboard integrated into TeamViewer ’s remote management. TeamViewer, a global provider of remote connectivity and workplace digitalisation solutions, is teaming with Ivanti to provide businesses with a holistic overview of their desktop as well as mobile IT assets with designated security, compliance, and management features at a scale. The collaboration will leverage Ivanti's mobile device management capabilities ( Ivanti Neurons for MDM ) to enhance TeamViewer's remote monitoring and management (RMM) offering. The partnership allows TeamViewer Remote and TeamViewer Tensor customers to manage their diverse device-fleet out of one unified platform. It empowers IT professionals with: 360° device management Holistic large-scale onboarding, management, and monitoring of mobile devices running iOS or Android by remotely rolling out company profiles with designated access rights and predefined a...

Salesforce has unveiled the Einstein 1 Platform , which features major advancements for Salesforce Data Cloud and Einstein AI , all built on Salesforce’s underlying metadata framework. A trusted AI platform for customer companies, the Einstein 1 Platform gives companies the ability to safely connect any data to build AI-powered apps with low-code, delivering entirely new customer relationship management (CRM) experiences. “A company’s AI strategy is only as good as its data strategy,” said Parker Harris, Co-Founder and CTO, Salesforce. “We pioneered the metadata framework nearly 25 years ago to seamlessly bridge data across applications. It’s the connective tissue that fuels innovation. Now, with Data Cloud and Einstein AI native on the Einstein 1 Platform , companies can easily create AI-powered apps and workflows that supercharge productivity, reduce costs, and deliver amazing customer experiences.” According to Salesforce, customer data is highly fragmented. Enterprise data s...

Net Insight has announced that Console Connect , a network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform, has leveraged its Nimbra Edge cloud media delivery platform to launch a new cloud-based content delivery and live streaming solution. Console Connect’s Live Internet Video Exchange (LIVE) is a cloud-based IP media transport platform that has been specially developed to meet the ever-increasing demands of the media and entertainment industry. The platform gives businesses complete control over the end-to-end delivery and performance of their content with a secure and resilient global network infrastructure. “The integration of Net Insight's platform with Console Connect’s Live Internet Video Exchange creates a powerful and compelling offering that will help customers with their business development,” said Crister Fritzson, CEO of Net Insight. “We are confident that this transition to a cloud-based media delivery service will not only meet the contemporary demands of customers, but will al...

Source: JTC. The virtual TOP inspection session in progress at JTC semiconSpace with the screen at left showing a 360-degree photo of the building and the screen at right showing its point cloud data. JTC and the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) have successfully piloted Singapore’s first virtual Temporary Occupation Permit (TOP) inspections at two JTC industrial projects, eliminating the need for inspectors from technical authorities to be present on-site. These pilots will pave the way for industry-wide adoption. The virtual inspections are enabled by advanced reality capture technology, which allows accurate and reliable 3D data to be produced. Using point cloud data* and integrating with 360-degree photo capture solutions, detailed inspections can be conducted on works to allow for checking and an easy tracking of progress for construction. LiDAR scanning was utilised for the first virtual TOP inspection at JTC Logistics Hub @ Gul as this technology produces highly accur...