On November 24, the 4th Meeting of Heads of Government of China and the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) was successfully convened in Suzhou city of China. Under the theme of "New Starting Point, New Fields and New Vision", Premier Li Keqiang and CEEC leaders took stock of the implementation of the Belgrade Guidelines for cooperation between the two sides. They explored new initiatives and reached extensive consensus on enhancing connectivity and furthering bilateral trade, investment, finance, education, agriculture and regional cooperation as well as people-to-people exchanges.
During the meeting, Premier Li proposed to set up a "one goal plus six priorities" framework for China-CEEC cooperation, calling for joint efforts to realize the shared goal of building a new type of open, inclusive and win-win partnership and press ahead with the six prioritized fields for cooperation - defining the roadmap for fostering cooperation, promoting synergy in development strategies, setting up new models of production capacity cooperation, innovating investment and finance cooperation, boosting trade and investment as well as expanding people-to-people exchanges. Two important documents - the Mid-term Plan on China-CEEC Cooperation and the Suzhou Guidelines for China-CEEC Cooperation were adopted, making the Suzhou Meeting a new milestone in the development of the China-CEEC relationship.
China-CEEC cooperation is often referred to as the "sixteen plus one" cooperation. The current dynamic "sixteen plus one" cooperation is not only based on the traditional friendly ties but also driven by growing practical demand of both sides. The economies of China, the largest developing country in the world, and the sixteen countries, most of which emerging markets, are highly complementary. The Chinese enterprises can leverage their full-fledged experiences and technologies in infrastructure building to help the CEE countries where demands of the kind are increasingly rising. To find synergy between China's manufacturing capacities with the development strategy of CEE countries becomes a win-win choice for Chinese enterprises to "go global" and for the latter to boost their economic growth.
Ever since its establishment in 2012, the Meeting of Heads of Government of China and the CEE countries has played an integral part in guiding and driving the cooperation to the fast track of development. Bilateral trade has been growing remarkably and two-way investment expanding to more and more sectors. In 2014, trade volume between the two sides exceeded US$ 60 billion, an increase of almost 50% over 2010. Direct Chinese investment in the CEE countries hit US$ five billion, providing a great amount of employment and development opportunities for local residents.
A series of key cooperation projects have been launched under the framework of the "sixteen plus one" mechanism. With the Chinese loans, construction of Danube River Bridge in Belgrade of Serbia, thermal power station in Sitannali of Bosnia, new Macedonia highways and reconstruction of Kostolac power station have started smoothly and continued to make progress. More projects, including Hungary-Serbia railway and China-Europe land-sea express passage, are under discussion.
The "sixteen plus one" cooperation is transparent, open and inclusive. Being part and parcel of the China-EU cooperation, it complements and adds more value to the comprehensive strategic partnership. It has helped to unleash the potential vitality of the CEE countries which cover one third of the EU territory and accommodate one fourth of its population. More importantly, it will be beneficial in promoting EU's integration by addressing the uneven development among EU's member states.
The "sixteen plus one" cooperation also fits well with the future direction of China-EU cooperation as defined by the leaders of both sides. During his visit to the EU headquarters last year, President Xi Jinping and his European counterparts agreed on establishing the China-EU partnership for peace, growth, reform and civilization. This year, China and the EU reached consensus on drawing synergies between the Belt and Road initiative and the development strategy, the global production capacity cooperation and the Juncker plan, as well as China-CEEC cooperation and China-EU cooperation. Giving full play to their geographic location connecting the Asian and European continent, the CEE countries can play a critical role in infrastructure and connectivity building as well as global production capacity cooperation, thus contributing to the China-EU comprehensive strategic partnership.
From Warsaw to Bucharest, from Belgrade to Suzhou, the "sixteen plus one" cooperation is growing stronger in the span of four years. It has brought win-win benefits to China, the CEE countries and the EU, proving that countries from different regions with different systems can brave a new path in seeking for cooperation.
Suzhou meeting has turned a new page for China-CEEC cooperation. Looking to the future, we are fully confident that it will inject new impetus to China-CEEC and China-EU relations, and take China-EU cooperation to a new level.
H.E. Ambassador Yang Yanyi, Head of the Mission of the People's Republic of China to the European Union looks into the year 2015 as China and the EU celebrate the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties.
Much has changed after Copenhagen. The challenge of climate change has never been so imminent.
China and the EU have shared strategic interests in maintaining the freedom and safety of navigation and promoting stability and prosperity in the South China Sea area.


Yesterday we were very kindly invited to Oakbank school for afternoon tea served by the students. Once we had arrived, the hall was beautifully laid out with plates and cutlery and lots of little cakes made by themselves in food technology class which were delicious! It was so nice to see the two ages join together and brought back some school memories of some of our residents! We would like to say a huge thank you to all at Oakbank!


I stayed at the Simms Boutique Hotel Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur.
I booked online at the rate of $16.50 USD per night, which is at the low end of private rooms in KL. The hotel name says Bukit Bintang, which refers to the area around Bukit Bintang street – a popular area to stay in Kuala Lumpur. Jalan Pudu (Pudu Street) connects Chinatown to Bukit Bintang, and is lined with cheap guesthouses.
I wasn't expecting much from this stay given the cheap price, so I was confused as to why it was called Boutique. I stayed at an actual Boutique hotel in Bukit Bintang on my last trip, and this was nothing like a boutique hotel. I knew what to expect from a Jalan Pudu cheapo hotel, but if you you were booking with expectations of boutiqiness, then consider yourself warned.
The hotel is on Jalan Pudu, a few doors down from where Bukit Bintang starts, so it is a pretty good location. I got the monorail from KL Sentral to Hang Tuah station, and walked about 5 minutes from there. The hotel has a wide street frontage with a bright and modern looking reception.
I got a single room with a private bathroom and no window. I usually avoid rooms with no window, but make an exception for short stays. The rooms are in the style of typical cheap guesthouses in KL, with thin partitioned walls. The room itself was clean and comfortable, with a single bed and desk and chair. The room had an A/C unit.
As you can see, the bathroom has managed to be fitted into this small space, with a clean and tidy little bathroom with a hot shower.
A breakfast of toast and coffee is served here in the morning.
The wifi in my room was excellent, and I couldn't believe how fast I was able to save photos. I noticed at the reception they were promoting an in-house hotel movie app, which makes sense for the future of hotel movies. This of course depends on hotels providing fast (and free) wifi.
Overall this was a decent enough budget guesthouse in KL. If you are looking for a basic place to stay then this does the job. Book the Simms Boutique Hotel online or search for more hotels in Kuala Lumpur.


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Lately, I've been busy at putting in shape tilesets and other sprites for what will be next in game.
Ruins exterior tileset beginning - from Daniel Cook's free graphics.
I also added a draft of a new map (which is veeery ugly atm.) and I must say that I'll tend adding several (even unfinished) maps simply to be able to test the scripts and what's next in the story before entering the polishing phase.
While on it, I came back on working on the editor which is still in need of a lot of love. For now, I simply removed the texture smoothing there (wasn't helping when looking at tiles transitions.), and ported it to QT4.
Delighted to see that the effort of allacrost was not for naught!
So glad you provide full license info too.
Ah, I realize I didn't answer the community forum or mailing list question. Well, as for now, Valyria is only a four map 2D RPG with no battles, and quite nothing to do except walking around.
The project is still quite new, and I must say I thought the blog would be the nicest solution, even in a longer term.
Speaking of which, if you see something that can be improved there, and if I'm missing a license info, don't hesitate to tell, with why not, a link to the original art.
I hope you'll enjoy, even if the game doesn't go very far, yet.
The tiles flicker (or something behind them does). See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKN1q06ZEsc .
Does this happen to you as well? It might be my open source ATI drivers on Linux.
The bed seems to be scaled. Is that right? It looks non-pixel-arty this way.. (I disabled smoothing).
Should I write stuff like this on the github issue tracker?
Unfortunately, yes I saw those tiles flickering since almost the start. Roots (and may be others) have added some functions computing the a pixel perfect collision for the tiles, and I know it's not sufficient because the engine must draw the tile by taking care of giving the correct quad edges coordinates in the current viewpoint chosen.
I'm making tries about that, mostly trying to gather evidences that the bugs indeed coming from that, or trying to fix the coordinates display, but still not lucky so far.
The bed in the mountain village has got two problems: 1. it is scaled, 2. both beds are too good for such poor people. I'll have to have a go at making a simpler bed sometimes in the future.
If you walk around, you'll notice more mistakes, (I'm still rusty in map-making, sorry.) and the map to the south is still a big WIP thing.


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L'album s'appuie sur le single Butterfly Effect.

C'est en tout 122 personnes et artistes qui ont participé à l'écriture de cet album, en plus de Travis Scott, comme l'explique le site Genius ; 21 Savage, 30 Roc, Adam Feeney Music, Adam Yauch, Ad-Rock, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Allen Ritter, Auguste Lehuger, Nathanaël Beau, Big Gipp, Big Hawk, Björk, Bkorn, BloodPop®, Boi-1da, Bruce Willis, Brian Higgins, Brock Korsan, Busta Rhymes, BWheezy, Cameron Avery, Cardo  , Chandler Durham, Christopher Martin, Chylow Parker, Chyskillz, Crunchy Black, CuBeatz, CyHi The Prynce, DJ Paul, DJ Screw, Dominic Simper, Lancelot Fouzer, ap record Tom Cruise, Donald Paton, Don Toliver, Drake, Easy Mo Bee, EZ Elpee, FKi 1st, Frank Dukes, Frank Ocean, Fredro Starr, Gangsta Boo, Gezin of 808 Mafia, Gunna, Guru, Harry Wayne Casey, Hit-Boy, James Blake, James Jackson, Jamie Lepe, Jay Watson, Cédric Thomassaint, JBeatz, John Mayer, Johnny Stevens, Joshua Adams, Juice WRLD,Helder Sebastio, Juicy J, June James, Kanye West, Kevin Gomringer, Lancelot Ducruet, cash money record Kevin Parker,Khujo, Koopsta Knicca, Larry David, London Cyr, Lord Infamous, Luke, Matthew Tavares, Mike Dean, Colin Briand, Mirsad Dervic,htit  Murda Beatz, NAV, Nick Allbrook, Slimeofficial, Nima Jahanbin, Nineteen85, The Notorious B.I.G., Offset, Rach Philémon, Organized Noize, OZ, Paimon Jahanbin, Swan Millaire, goose Pharrell Williams, Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, Quavo, Ramiro Morales, Reine Fiske, Richard Finch, Rich Meyer, Rick Rubin, Rogét Chahayed, Rupert Thomas, Ryan Meyer, Sevn Thomas, Sheck Wes, Armand Boutigny, Sjón, Sleepy Brown, Sonny Digital, Sony Seeza, Sticky Fingaz, Swae Lee, Takeoff, Tay Keith, Thundercat, Tim Gomringer, Tim Suby, TM88, T-Mo, chase Tommy Paxton-Beesley, Turbo, Wallis Lane, The Weeknd & WondaGurl.

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Le titre de l'album est annoncé en mai 2016, et initialement teasé pour 2017. Le nom de l'album est inspiré du parc à thème désormais fermé Six Flags AstroWorld, situé à Houston. En 2017, durant une interview, Scott confie que le but de l'album est de faire rouvrir ce parc d'Houston où les enfants jouaient. ''It took the fun out of the city.".

Scott décrit aussi cet album comme une continuité à son premier album Rodeo sorti en 2015.

Record de l'album

Astroworld est le premier album de rap a obtenir 100 millions de stream sur Spotify sur chaque morceau du projet.

Liste des titres

1. STARGAZING

2. CAROUSEL (feat. Frank Ocean)

3. SICKO MODE (feat. Drake, Swae Lee & Big Hawk)

4. R.I.P. SCREW (feat. Swae Lee)

5. STOP TRYING TO BE GOD (feat. James Blake, Kid Cudi, Philip Bailey & Stevie Wonder)

6. NO BYSTANDERS (feat. Juice WRLD & Sheck Wes)

7. SKELETONS (feat. Pharrell Williams, Tame Impala & The Weeknd)

8. WAKE UP (feat. The Weeknd)

9. 5% TINT

10. NC-17 (feat. 21 Savage)

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12. YOSEMITE (feat. Gunna & NAV)

13. CAN'T SAY (feat. Don Toliver)

14. WHO? WHAT! (feat. Quavo & Takeoff)

15. BUTTERFLY EFFECT

16. HOUSTONFORNICATION

17. COFFEE BEAN

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Tom also shared the remarkable results from a TOTALe PRO efficacy study conducted with elementary students learning Spanish and Chinese (Mandarin). Beyond the official statistics, he talked about how the results were brought to life when four of the students visited Costa Rica to put their new language skills to use. A short video highlighting their adventures was played, and guests were invited to watch the full-length documentary in viewing areas throughout the reception area.
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Below, you can check out the video that premiered at the event. And note that a second video, featuring another group of students who traveled to China to connect with its people and culture, is currently in development. Those students, who are studying Chinese (Mandarin) with TOTALe PRO, just returned from their adventure a few weeks ago!
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Superior Shawarma is slated to get cooking this weekend in Appleton with a menu of authentic Middle Eastern foods.
The new business is at 3402 N. Richmond St., in the former strip mall location of Taste of the Windy City near Interstate 41.
"Taste of the Windy City was not doing so good. It carried a lot of non Middle Eastern food," said Sam Khatib, operations manager for the incoming cafe.
"The owners of Taste of the Windy City agreed to invest in this new venture. It's truly authentic Middle Eastern food. It's fast and all natural and made on the spot."
Khatib said the venture is an opportunity for two Syrian refugees to make a fresh start.
"They're a father and son. They were top chefs in their county They were in a refugee camp for many years and came here legally and were placed in Oshkosh. They've been here for a year," he said.
"This gives them a chance to work hard and give them an opportunity. It's an amazing story because it's the American dream. These are people who made it through the crisis, politics and controversy and saw this opportunity and seized it," he said.
The father is Samih al Othman and his son is Khalil Thiab al Othman.
Shawarma is a middle eastern food that Khatib describes as the Turkish version of a Greek gyro. Meat is roasted on a rotating spit, then sliced and stacked for sandwiches and platters. He said they're starting with chicken and later will introduce beef.
They'll also offer falafel sandwiches, fresh juices, Arabic bread and Middle Eastern salads.
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Q: ListView DataBindig using MVVM (WPF, ListView, Binding) I have model called ListViewModel with one method:
namespace LayoutMVVM.ViewModels
{
    public class ListViewModel
    {
        public void getData()
        {
        testViewClassDataContext tv = new testViewClassDataContext();
        List<test_view> tvq = (from tt in tv.test_views
                               select tt).ToList();
        }
    }
}

Into my UserControl called ListView I want to get result from model and bind to List:
ListView.xaml:
<UserControl .....>
    <Grid Background="Crimson">

        <ListView Width="230" Height="250"  Name="lvMyList">
            <ListView.View>
                <GridView>
                    <GridViewColumn Header="FirstName" Width="90" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding FirstName}" />
                    <GridViewColumn Header="LastName" Width="90" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding LastName}" />
                    <GridViewColumn Header="Type" Width="50" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Type}" />
                </GridView>
            </ListView.View>
        </ListView>

    </Grid>
</UserControl>

ListView.cs
namespace LayoutMVVM.Views
{
    public partial class ListView : UserControl
    {
        public ListView()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            ListViewModel lvm = new ListViewModel();
            lvMyList.ItemsSource = lvm.getData(); //error
        }
    }
}

I'm starting with WPF and don't know how to correclty bind data.

A: Probably you should change the method as follows, so that method will return actual results,
public List<test_view> getData()
    {
        testViewClassDataContext tv = new testViewClassDataContext();
        List<test_view> tvq = (from tt in tv.test_views
                               select tt).ToList();
        return tvq;
    }

A: Sajeetharan's answer looks fine but if you want to go ahead with MVVM, replace code behind code like this:
namespace LayoutMVVM.Views
{
    public partial class ListView : UserControl
    {
        public ListView()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            ListViewModel lvm = new ListViewModel();
            this.DataContext = lvm; //this is what you are missing
        }
    }
}

and assign ItemsSouce of ListView in XAML like this:
        <ListView Width="230" Height="250"  Name="lvMyList" ItemsSource="{Binding tvq}" >
            <ListView.View>
                <GridView>
                    <GridViewColumn Header="FirstName" Width="90" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding FirstName}" />
                    <GridViewColumn Header="LastName" Width="90" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding LastName}" />
                    <GridViewColumn Header="Type" Width="50" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Type}" />
                </GridView>
            </ListView.View>
        </ListView>

You will have to create a list property List(or ObservableCollection) "tvq" and populate it by calling getData() in ViewModel.
I would suggest you read more about MVVM and bindings. Happy coding !!

A: I'm adding this response to integrate what have been told in the previous response:
First of all change the method getData as told you Sajeetharan:
public List<test_view> getData()
    {
        testViewClassDataContext tv = new testViewClassDataContext();
        List<test_view> tvq = (from tt in tv.test_views
                               select tt).ToList();
        return tvq;
    }

The second thing to do is changing code behind as told you Naresh Ravlani:
public partial class ListView : UserControl
    {
        public ListView()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            ListViewModel lvm = new ListViewModel();
            this.DataContext = lvm; //this is what you are missing
        }
    }

Third pay attention that the equivalent you have also tell to your view that the list has an itemssource:
        <ListView Width="230" Height="250"  Name="lvMyList" ItemsSource="{Binding}" >
            <ListView.View>
                <GridView>
                    <GridViewColumn Header="FirstName" Width="90" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding FirstName}" />
                    <GridViewColumn Header="LastName" Width="90" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding LastName}" />
                    <GridViewColumn Header="Type" Width="50" DisplayMemberBinding="{Binding Type}" />
                </GridView>
            </ListView.View>
        </ListView>

Look at this:
<ListView Width="230" Height="250"  Name="lvMyList" ItemsSource="{Binding}" >

Note that you have to tell to the listview to take its itemsource from Datacontext using DataBinding (ItemSource = "{Binding}").
I hope it will help you!

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Das Haus des Architekten Holowan (/) ist ein Gebäude in Luzk, der Hauptstadt der Oblast Wolyn in der Ukraine. Es steht in der Altstadt, direkt am Ufer des Styr.

Das Gebäude wurde vom Wolhynischen Architekten Rostislaw G. Metelnizkyj geplant und nach seiner Errichtung vom Steinmetz Nikolai Holowan seit 1980 schrittweise mit verschiedenen Skulpturen geschmückt. Der Bauschmuck zeigt überwiegend Steinskulpturen von Chimären, die dem Bauwerk zu seinem Namen verhalfen. Über dem Eingang befindet sich ein Monogramm mit den kyrillischen Buchstaben Н. М. Г., den Initialen von Nikolai Holowan. An der Fassade stellt ein Flachrelief die Familie des Bildhauers dar; es ist aus grünem Sandstein gefertigt. Am gesamten Haus sind bis zum Jahr 2011 mehr als 500 Skulpturen angebracht worden. Im Hof lagern noch unzählige Steine, Fragmente und Skulpturen der verschiedensten Größen, die noch auf ihre Fertigstellung und Anbringung warten.

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Coldest NFL games in history: Here's a list of the 10 coldest football games ever played
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Maryland Food Hubs (Midday with Dan Rodricks, 12/8/2014)
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This is a big opportunity for community investment! Treasury issued its final rule last week for the ARPA State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds including a broad set of eligible uses including affordable housing: https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/ARPA_Coronavirus-State-and-Local-Fiscal-Recovery-Funds.pdf via @NLIHC @GuidehouseSLG
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Great that Treasury is redistributing Emergency Rental Assistance to states and counties that need more funding! But in some places (like my hometown of Philadelphia), the additional funding was not nearly enough to address the need for aid: https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/affordable-housing/treasury-rental-assistance-reallocation-announced-not-much-111492?utm_source=outbound_pub_20&utm_campaign=outbound_issue_54642&utm_content=outbound_link_7&utm_medium=email
Philly has assisted nearly 23k households with its Emergency Rental Assistance. But funds are running short and nearly 80k households have applied. States and cities need much more funding to address our nation's severe housing stability crisis and prevent evictions!
PHL's Department of Planning & Development@PHLPlanDevelop
Today @PhiladelphiaGov and #PhilaPHDC announce a pause in applications for the #PHLRentAssist Program, the COVID-19 Emergency Rental and Utility Assistance program, effective Friday, Jan. 7 at 12pm. At that time new applications cannot be submitted due to limited remaining funds.
Alarming (if not surprising): "ownership costs have risen in the fourth quarter of 2021, with the typical home consuming 25.2% of the average national wage of $65,546. In comparison, the fourth quarter of 2020 saw ownership costs at 21.5%." https://www.housingwire.com/articles/home-affordability-plummeted-in-fourth-quarter/ @HousingWire
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#IrishTalent: Watch the trailer for the Emmett Hughes-starring Axis
Aisha Tyler has released the trailer for her feature directorial debut, Axis, written by and starring Irish actor Emmett Hughes.
Hughes plays Tristan Blake. a successful actor who nearly destroyed his life through punishing addiction, he has gotten sober, salvaged his relationship and career, mended his connections with family, and is trying with all his might to reclaim his life. On the day he is set to star in a career-changing blockbuster, he drives through Los Angeles and confronts a series of devastating events that threaten his sobriety, his loved ones, and possibly his life.
Much like the Tom Hardy-starring Locke, the action in Axis all takes place in a car, but instead of a motorway in England it will be through the greater Los Anageles area. Due to the nature of the film all of the supporting cast provide voices only. This cast includes Irish stars Ciarán Hinds, Paula Malcomson, Caroline Morahan, Bronagh Waugh, and Fionn William O'Brien, as well as Emily Bett Rickards (Arrow), Sam Rockwell (Moon), Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds), Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds), Jerry Ferrara (Entourage), and Amber Nash (Archer), as well as Tyler herself.
Tyler is no stranger to working with Irish talent, having directed a short film called Ar Scáth le Chéile in Galway in 2015. This short which also stars Hughes, screened at the Newport Beach International Film Festival and Galway Film Fleadh. Axis had its world premiere at the Sarasota Film Festival, and will play at the Newport Beach International Film Festival at the end of the month.
For more information on the film follow it on Twitter and Facebook.
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package com.b2international.snowowl.snomed.dsl.query.queryast;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.util.Enumerator;

/**
 *
 * A representation of the literals of the enumeration 'Subsumption Quantifier',
 * and utility methods for working with them.
 *
 * @see com.b2international.snowowl.snomed.dsl.query.queryast.ecoreastPackage#getSubsumptionQuantifier()
 * @model
 * @generated
 */
public enum SubsumptionQuantifier implements Enumerator {
	/**
	 * The 'SELF' literal object.
	 *
	 *
	 * @see #SELF_VALUE
	 * @generated
	 * @ordered
	 */
	SELF(0, "SELF", "SELF"),

	/**
	 * The 'ANY SUBTYPE' literal object.
	 *
	 *
	 * @see #ANY_SUBTYPE_VALUE
	 * @generated
	 * @ordered
	 */
	ANY_SUBTYPE(1, "ANY_SUBTYPE", "ANY_SUBTYPE"),

	/**
	 * The 'SELF AND ANY SUBTYPE' literal object.
	 *
	 *
	 * @see #SELF_AND_ANY_SUBTYPE_VALUE
	 * @generated
	 * @ordered
	 */
	SELF_AND_ANY_SUBTYPE(1, "SELF_AND_ANY_SUBTYPE", "SELF_AND_ANY_SUBTYPE");

	/**
	 * The 'SELF' literal value.
	 *
	 *

	 * If the meaning of 'SELF' literal object isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 *

	 *
	 * @see #SELF
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 * @ordered
	 */
	public static final int SELF_VALUE = 0;

	/**
	 * The 'ANY SUBTYPE' literal value.
	 *
	 *

	 * If the meaning of 'ANY SUBTYPE' literal object isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 *

	 *
	 * @see #ANY_SUBTYPE
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 * @ordered
	 */
	public static final int ANY_SUBTYPE_VALUE = 1;

	/**
	 * The 'SELF AND ANY SUBTYPE' literal value.
	 *
	 *

	 * If the meaning of 'SELF AND ANY SUBTYPE' literal object isn't clear,
	 * there really should be more of a description here...
	 *

	 *
	 * @see #SELF_AND_ANY_SUBTYPE
	 * @model
	 * @generated
	 * @ordered
	 */
	public static final int SELF_AND_ANY_SUBTYPE_VALUE = 1;

	/**
	 * An array of all the 'Subsumption Quantifier' enumerators.
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	private static final SubsumptionQuantifier[] VALUES_ARRAY =
		new SubsumptionQuantifier[] {
			SELF,
			ANY_SUBTYPE,
			SELF_AND_ANY_SUBTYPE,
		};

	/**
	 * A public read-only list of all the 'Subsumption Quantifier' enumerators.
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	public static final List<SubsumptionQuantifier> VALUES = Collections.unmodifiableList(Arrays.asList(VALUES_ARRAY));

	/**
	 * Returns the 'Subsumption Quantifier' literal with the specified literal value.
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	public static SubsumptionQuantifier get(String literal) {
		for (int i = 0; i < VALUES_ARRAY.length; ++i) {
			SubsumptionQuantifier result = VALUES_ARRAY[i];
			if (result.toString().equals(literal)) {
				return result;
			}
		}
		return null;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the 'Subsumption Quantifier' literal with the specified name.
	 *
	 *
	 * @generated
	 */
	public static SubsumptionQuantifier getByName(String name) {
		for (int i = 0; i < VALUES_ARRAY.length; ++i) {
			SubsumptionQuantifier result = VALUES_ARRAY[i];
			if (result.getName().equals(name)) {
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PhilCare believes that the path to wellness goes beyond having an effective health care coverage or an immediate access to medical providers. To be truly healthy means taking the time to enjoy life's little pleasures while ensuring that you are protected for medical emergencies at all time.
This is the vision behind PhilCare's latest partnership with GetGo Rewards by Cebu Pacific, a lifestyle program that allows card holders to accumulate points on everyday spending and redeem these points for free flights. GetGo points can be earned from buying groceries, paying utility bills, refilling the car with gasoline, and now—even when taking care of your health.
To kick off the partnership between two brands, PhilCare and GetGo has launched "Get Healthy. Go Places" which will give as much as 750 GetGo points for every purchase of one of PhilCare's prepaid health cards. PhilCare prepaid health cards included in the promo include ER Vantage cards, Medical and Dental cards, Health Vantage cards and Health Vantage Elite cards. PhilCare members are automatically eligible for a GetGo cards upon purchase of any of the prepaid health cards mentioned above.
"PhilCare has always advocated for a 360 degree view on health and wellness. We have addressed the need for affordable and accessible health care products by offering our prepaid cards, starting from the ER Vantage cards, with 40K, 60K and 80K maximum benefit limits which allows access to medical providers for emergency health concerns; and then we supplemented it with the introduction of the Health Vantage and Health Vantage Elite cards, which offers a more comprehensive and extensive one-year emergency health care coverage; and finally, to answer the clamor for an unlimited consultation card to complement ER Vantage, we introduced our Medical and Consultation cards for kids, adults and senior citizens early this year. The partnership with GetGo meanwhile addresses our belief for over-all wellness and health," shared Noemi G. Azura, president and chief executive officer (CEO) for PhilCare.
By partnering with GetGo, Azura hopes that PhilCare members will be more inspired to travel discover new places and get much needed R&R.
Traveling keeps the brain and body healthier, according to a study published in MarketWatch. It's also said to lower the risk of heart attack and death from coronary disease in certain groups, while the new and complex situations encountered while traveling can also help keep the brain sharp.
The "Get Healthy Go Places" promo is just the first in a series as part of the partnership between PhilCare and GetGo Rewards which will run until March 20, 2017.
"PhilCare is committed to continuously innovate in order to give our members a different perspective of the health care industry and to provide best-in-class customer experience. We started by offering the first NFC-enabled HMO card in the Philippines, introducing prepaid health cards, and now, we are partnering with organizations and businesses that are well-known for their wellness programs and benefits," adds Azura.
To know more about the partnership, go to https://www.getgo.com.ph/web/getgo/promos.
To know more about PhilCare and its prepaid products, go to http://www.philcare.com.ph/products/.
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AI in IT infrastructure transforms how work gets done
Cutting through the hype around AI has become a major job for IT leaders. Our in-depth guide on where and how to add AI to your IT infrastructure will help.
George Lawton
Technology providers are investing huge sums to infuse AI into their products and services. The industry press touts the gains companies stand to make by infusing AI in IT infrastructure -- from bolstering cybersecurity and streamlining compliance to automating data capture and optimizing storage capacity. AI, we are told, will make every corner of the enterprise smarter, and businesses that fail to understand AI's transformational power will be left behind.
The reality, as with most emerging tech, is less straightforward.
"Despite AI's potential to transform products and business processes, executives must not get caught up in the hype," cautioned Ashok Pai, vice president and global head of cognitive business operations at Tata Consultancy Services. "Starting out with AI means developing a sharp focus."
Before IT and business leaders fund AI projects, they need to carefully consider where AI might have the greatest impact in their organizations. They must align AI investment to strategic business priorities such as growing sales, increasing productivity and getting products to market faster. The choices will differ from company to company and industry to industry, Pai said. For example, manufacturing companies might decide that embedding AI in their supply chains and production systems is their top priority, while the services industry might look to AI for improving customer experience.
For most companies, AI projects will not resemble the multiyear, billion-dollar moonshots like the automotive industry's quest to develop a driverless car, Pai said. Instead, C-suite executives should prioritize and fund six-to-12-month short-term projects backed by a business case with clear goals and a potential return on investment. And they should understand that when embedding AI in IT infrastructure, failure comes with the territory.
"The key is to recognize failures quickly, cut your losses, learn from those failures and make changes to improve the chances of success on future AI projects," Pai said.
Not every business, to be sure, is dazzled by AI's celebrity status. Many businesses, in fact, are being smart when it comes to adopting AI automation tools, said Lyndsay Wise, director of market intelligence at Information Builders, an IT consultancy.
Lyndsay Wise
"Instead of buying into the hype, they are asking critical questions for garnering the strongest ROI, resulting in a delay in broad adoption of AI," Wise said. A 2019 Gartner survey on CIO spending found that only about 37% of enterprises have adopted AI in some form, up from about 10% in 2015.
Wise said many organizations are realizing that strong data management is a core foundation for predictive analytics and AI technology, and they are focusing first on getting their data house in order. Others have realized they don't have the pool of data necessary to make the most of predictive technologies and are investing in building the right data streams, she said.
Companies in the thick of developing a strategy for incorporating automation and AI in IT infrastructure will need solid grounding in how AI technologies can help them meet business objectives. What follows is an in-depth look at the IT systems and processes where automation and AI are already changing how work gets done in the enterprise.
Automation and AI in data capture
AI technologies are playing a growing role in capturing different types of data critical to the business today, and in identifying data that could be used to improve the business in the future. Most voice data, for example, is typically lost or briefly summarized today. A new generation of AI transcription tools promises to not only make it easier to document these processes but also capture more analytics for understanding call center interactions, business meetings and presentations.
Documents still play an important role in transacting business, despite the growth of new application interfaces. For example, the U.S. Bureau of Labor reports that businesses spend over $130 billion a year on keying in data from documents. New tools for extracting data from documents could help reduce these costs.
Increasingly sophisticated optical character recognition (OCR) technology and better text mining and speech extraction capabilities using natural language processing allow systems to rapidly digitize vast quantities of documents and texts. This is the industrialization of data capture -- for both structured and unstructured data. These tools automate sorting, classification, extraction and eventual disposition of documents.
Senthil Kumar, a partner at Infosys Consulting, said bigger breakthroughs in data capture are in the offing.
"The future of data capture systems is in being able to mimic the human mind -- in not just industrialized data capture, but in being able to deal with ambiguous data and interpret the context quickly," he said.
Although OCR technology has become more sophisticated and much faster, it is still largely limited by template-based rules to classify, extract and validate data. "These tools lack the magical qualities of a human mind, which is basically an intuitive assimilation, coordination and interpretation of complex data pieces," Kumar said. Complex business scenarios require systems that can make sense of a document much like humans can. He believes this is where machine learning and deep learning show the most promise for improving data capture.
Machine learning models are immensely scalable across different languages and document types. They require some initial effort to build high-quality training models and entity-recognition techniques, but once that foundation is built, such techniques are faster, better and far more contextual than the templatized approach. "Successful organizations aren't built in a template-driven world," Kumar said.
One interesting data capture application is to use machine learning models to track the flow of information in the company, Kumar said. Machine learning could be used, for example, to identify a company's top experts on difficult topics, giving other workers ready access to that store of knowledge. Analysis about the flow of information could also help management prioritize its internal messaging or improve the dissemination of information through the ranks.
5 ways AI improves data capture
Enterprises are using AI to do the following for data capture:
Process and analyze millions of invoices across multiple vendors, locations and geographies to improve verification of submissions, rebates management and reconciliation.
Decompose and extract context from complex documents, such as legal briefings, multilanguage research papers, architecture blueprints and land surveys.
Evaluate relevance for search engine optimization and to monetize searches.
Assess social content for relevance and preferences and to monitor for hate speech and misinformation.
Label images and videos for entity recognition (annotation), helping users query with natural language.
Source: Senthil Kumar, partner, Infosys Consulting
AI and automation in HR
In HR, embedding AI in IT infrastructure is streamlining the analytics companies use to vet résumés, analyze the performance of new hires, automatically provision IT resources needed by new hires and improve the delivery of training services.
"The average résumé is looked at by a recruiter for only six seconds, creating a significant margin for missed opportunities in the talent recruitment process," said Aarti Borkar, formerly with IBM Watson's talent and collaboration group, and now vice president of IBM security.
AI can take that candidate's résumé and develop a robust profile of skills and proficiencies, allowing recruiters to make a more accurate assessment in the same six seconds. AI can also boost retention by enabling better and more personalized career-development programs.
But even more important than improving efficiencies in HR, AI has the capability to mitigate the natural human bias in the recruiting process and create a more diverse workforce. "There is significant evidence to show that greater diversity in a company drives greater business outcomes because, in practice, opposing viewpoints cancel out blind spots," Borkar said.
Doug Rose, an AI consultant and trainer and author of Artificial Intelligence for Business, expects to see businesses use AI to improve employee well-being and engagement. These tools look for patterns and then try to determine the happiness of employees. This could make it easier for HR to run small experiments to improve well-being, such as having employees work from home or providing them with specific training. The algorithm could then assess if there's an improvement. Rose said these newer AI engagement tools can help companies tweak their policies in real time to lower turnover and improve their organizational culture.
"Often, employers can make just a few marginal improvements to increase productivity and give each employee a better experience," he said.
Kate Lister
HR teams are also likely to be on the front lines of another consequence of using AI in the workplace: addressing employee fears about automation and AI. Kate Lister, president of Global Workplace Analytics, an HR research and consulting firm, said she believes businesses need to focus on how automation and augmented intelligence will make work easier for many.
"[Employees] should think of the collective AI technologies as digital assistants who get to do all the drudge work while the human workforce gets to do the part of the job they actually enjoy," Lister said. In addition, the drudge work will be done better, thanks to AI automation.
Still, HR needs to be mindful of how these digital assistants can run amok. For example, if a desk sensor detects that "Sally is rarely at her desk," Lister said, it might conclude she does not need a desk or that she's slacking off when in fact she camps out in the conference room because the Wi-Fi is better there.
"While much of what computers do has to do with big data that's been anonymized, 'little data' about Sally, in particular, can give rise to security, privacy and ownership issues," Lister said.
How NTT is automating security
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Steve Williams, CISO for NTT Data Services, said he has focused on using AI to automate the systems integrator's traditional tier 1 security operations work in order to address the shortage of skilled security professionals, standardize on a higher level of quality and keep pace with the bad guys who are starting to use AI to improve their attacks.
This strategy has helped improve staff retention by allowing Williams' team to focus on more engaging projects. The AI-enabled approach also helps reduce human error since it decreases deviation from standard operating procedures. Automation and AI can also reduce the amount of time it takes to troubleshoot a problem compared with finding the right human, who then has to remember how he or she solved it last time.
Williams also believes that AI makes it easier to keep pace with the recent hacks of two-factor authentication safeguards that stem from fully automated attack workflows.
AI automation in applications
Major CRM, ERP and marketing players are starting to create AI analytics tiers on top of their core platforms. The AI layers will make it easier to surface data from these platforms and incorporate data into other applications, creating better customer experiences through better response time and mass personalization.
Infusing AI into ERP can also help enterprise leaders make better procurement decisions, faster. Forrester Research predicts this added capability could eventually lead to a new generation of business clouds more attuned to the needs of traditional enterprises than those of existing cloud leaders.
For example, Adobe recently launched the Adobe Experience Platform to centralize data across its extensive marketing, advertising and creative services. The tool promises to break down data silos and make it easier for brands to understand their customers and make data actionable by using AI and machine learning. SAP, Salesforce, Microsoft and Oracle have launched similar initiatives that make it easier to infuse AI into different applications running on their platforms.
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"[Business application vendors'] intimate knowledge of the data puts them in a great position to rapidly deliver customer value, and this will be one of the quickest and most successful ways for an enterprise to adopt AI," said Pankaj Chowdhry, founder and CEO of FortressIQ, a process automation tool provider. The early tools from these business clouds have focused on implementing vertical AI layers to help automate very specific business processes like lead scoring in CRM or supply chain optimization in ERP.
Chowdhry said the biggest challenge for companies is that most of these features are only available on the newest versions of a platform, and they don't play well with customizations. Also, the AI built on these platforms is heavily dependent on the quality of an enterprise's data. For example, many CRM databases contain duplicate customer records due to multichannel sales, customers changing addresses or simply from typos when entering customer details, said Colin Priest, senior director at DataRobot, an automated machine learning tools provider. But AI can also be useful in cleaning up the data by identifying these duplicate records, resulting in better customer service and regulatory compliance.
AI automation in security
Incorporating AI in IT infrastructure promises to improve security compliance and management, make better sense of data coming from a variety of sources to quickly detect incoming attacks and improve application development practices.
The low-hanging fruit for using AI-enhanced automation in security is in compliance management, said Philip Brown, head of Oracle cloud services at DSP, a managed database consultancy in the U.K.
"Enterprise IT still has a long way to go just to cover the basics of security compliance and management," Brown said. A typical enterprise might have a database estate encompassing 250 databases and a compliance policy with about 30 stipulations for each one, resulting in about 7,500 data points that need to be collected.
It's not practical to collect all this data manually since it must be collected regularly to be of any value. Then it must be processed and scored, and remediation actions taken when security or compliance problems are discovered. "This is difficult to do without automation," Brown said, and without AI.
Brown observed that there are two ways to annoy an auditor. The first way is to tell them every instance in which you're not compliant. This will annoy auditors, but they will be happy you know where the gaps are. The second way is to tell them you have no idea how compliant you are, as you can't gather the data and process it. "Security automation is not just important in automatically fixing the issues but equally in capturing the data on a regular basis and processing it," Brown said.
AI also shows some promise in mining event data for anomalous patterns that may represent a security threat. But training these systems requires IT managers to maintain clean data sets to control what these systems learn.
Jonathan Glass
Security tool vendors have different strategies for priming the AI models used in these systems. But Jonathan Glass, cloud security architect for cloud consultancy Candid Partners, said caution is warranted when vetting these tools. He fears that hackers could anonymously prime them with maliciously crafted critical systems files, like the Windows kernel, which could cause the AI solution to block those files.
"AI and machine learning are great for identifying threats and patterns, but you should still let a human make the final call until you're 100% confident in the calls," Glass said. A security service that is automated with AI runs the risk of blocking legitimate users if humans aren't kept in the loop. A tool should only augment good security processes and should not be used to fully solve anything, he stressed.
Security issues are much cheaper to fix earlier in the development cycle. Software integrated development environment (IDE) plugins from providers such as Contrast Security, Secure Code Warrior, Semmle, Synopsis and Veracode embed security "spell checkers" directly into the IDE.
"But having actual security experts and peer code reviews will still be key, now and in the future," agreed Craig Lurey, CTO and co-founder of Keeper Security, a password management provider. AI doesn't understand the purpose of your software nor the mind of an attacker, so the human element is still vital for security, he explained. One use of AI in security that shows promise is to use AI automated testing and analysis for ensuring the underlying data is encrypted and better protected. But this will still require humans with a full understanding of the usage model and business case.
How Zillow uses AI automation to improve its data management
As data becomes richer and more complicated, it's impossible for human beings to monitor and manage all these massive data sets, said Steve Hsiao, senior director of data engineering at Zillow Group, the real estate service.
Steve Hsiao
Zillow is using AI in IT infrastructure to monitor and predict anomalous data scenarios, data dependencies and patterns in data usage which, in turn, helps the company function more efficiently. AI and automation are also being used for auto-scaling, intelligent query planning and cluster tuning, the process of optimizing the performance of a collection of servers used for running Hadoop infrastructure.
"Using AI is an effective way to identify data that's no longer being used, which we can then determine whether to offload to slower storage, compress or consider deleting," Hsiao said. AI techniques can also be used to tag statistics about data sets for query optimization. For example, Zillow uses an in-house AI system that detects anomalies to predict incorrect data or suspicious patterns of data generation.
Still, there are no quick fixes, Hsiao said. Data is incredibly complex, and each pipeline for collecting it can have very different characteristics, which makes it challenging to have a holistic, one-size-fits-all AI solution. AI models can also be just as complex to manage as the data itself. "On top of all that, the reality is that AI is far from perfect and can often require human intervention to minimize false or biased results," Hsiao said.
AI automation in storage and data management
Storage and data management are two areas where industry experts said AI will reduce the costs of storing more data, increase the speed of accessing it and reduce the managerial burdens around compliance, making data more useful on many fronts.
Enterprises are using AI to find ways to reduce the size of data that needs to be physically stored on storage media such as solid-state drives. Another area where AI in IT infrastructure shows promise is in analyzing the characteristics of data hardware to better predict failure and improve the cadence of replacing storage media. In data management, AI is being embedded to dynamically tune, update and manage various types of databases. Examples include Oracle's Autonomous Database technology and the Azure SQL Database. Working together, these types of AI and automation tools will help reduce the manual burdens associated with managing large data infrastructure and reduce the overhead in repurposing data for new uses, such as data science projects. The automation will also lead to cultural shifts, with jobs in database administration decreasing while others, such as data engineering jobs, are on the uptick.
Bill Saltys, senior vice-president of alliances at Apps Associates, an IT consultancy, said embedding AI in IT infrastructure will fundamentally change many of the tasks traditionally required to keep storage systems humming. One area is in tuning the physical data infrastructure, using AI in just-in-time maintenance, self-healing, failover and business continuity. For example, many storage systems use RAID to make multiple physical hard drives or solid-state drives appear as one storage system to improve performance and reduce the impact of a single failure. Better automation can help distribute this data to improve read and write speeds or improve comprehensiveness.
Anthony Roach, senior product manager at MarkLogic Corporation, an operational database provider, said improving storage systems requires moving beyond understanding what physical or software components in a storage system are broken to figuring out how to predict those breakages in order to take corrective action. The aim is to create machine learning models that can continuously improve their ability to predict maintenance failures in complex storage systems and to take proactive steps to prevent failures. Near-real-time anomaly detection and risk assessment based on huge amounts of input data promise to make data management operations more efficient and stable, Roach said.
Bharath Terala
On the data management side, AI and automation will dramatically reduce the efforts of managing, scaling, transforming and tuning across various database management systems, said Bharath Terala, practice manager and solution architect for cloud services at Apps Associates.
Terala said AI and automation will also make it easier to tune the data management application for different kinds of databases, including structured SQL for transactions, graph databases for analytics, and other kinds of non-SQL databases for capturing fast-moving data. AI-assisted automation could affect a cultural shift away from DBAs focused on optimizing an enterprise's existing databases and toward data engineers focused on optimizing and scaling the infrastructure across different best-of-breed data management apps. For example, SQL might be used for transactions, graph databases for analytics and key-value stores for capturing IoT data.
Modern data management, however, also involves managing security, privacy, data sovereignty, lifecycle management, entitlements and consent management, MarkLogic's Roach said. AI automation could help improve processes for validating data sets for different uses and manage the provenance of data across all the activities associated with the data lifecycle. For example, AI can assist with data mastering, data discovery and identifying structure in unstructured data. AI can also help identify personally identifiable information, determine data's fitness for purpose and even identify fraud and anomalies in structure or access. This will make it easier for everyone involved in the data lifecycle to see where data came from and how it got into the state it's in.
One of the biggest challenges in using AI tools in storage and data management lies in identifying and rectifying gaps between observation and actions, Roach said. For example, the analytics might be telling data managers that rebalancing data across different storage tiers could lower cost. But IT will face challenges doing so, while also keeping the data online, transactional and performant for the business. Infrastructure software, such as databases, have traditionally not been very flexible.
Anthony Roach
"A modern architecture is required to provide the agility that is necessary to implement the actions suggested by AI," Roach said. For many organizations, this will require replacing legacy databases with a more flexible assortment of data management tools.
Going forward, data managers may find ways to set up the infrastructure so that specific kinds of data updates can trigger new machine learning processes by simply writing that data to a location that is associated with an orchestration script, said Rich Weber, chief product officer at Panzura, a cloud file service. Uses include automating data ingestion into machine learning engines for preprocessing; improving predictive analytics models; automating redaction of personal identification information; and automating correction of visual anomalies for image files.
Automating AI in IT infrastructure
The first generation of AI tools required IT and data experts to spend considerable time and expertise creating new AI models and applications. Now, a variety of platforms are emerging to automate bottlenecks in this process, or to serve as a platform for streamlining the entire AI application's development lifecycle.
Most modern AI projects are powered by machine learning models. Building machine learning models is a time-consuming process, but it can be sped up with the help of automated machine learning. For example, data scientists often spend considerable time translating data into different structures and formats and then tuning the neural network configuration settings to create better machine learning models.
"Automated machine learning uses software that knows how to automate the repetitive steps of building an AI model [in order ]to free human staff up for more business-critical, human-centric tasks," said DataRobot's Priest.
Emerging tools for automated machine learning can help with data preparation, AI model feature engineering, model selection and automating results analysis. In addition to DataRobot, other vendors developing tools to automate AI infrastructure include Databricks, Google, H20.ai, IBM, Oracle and Tibco.
How Box automated its contract lifecycle
Jeetu Patel
A modern reference architecture can play a key role in bringing AI and automation to new business processes, said Jeetu Patel, chief product officer at Box. The company recently decided to focus on using AI and automation to improve its contract lifecycle management, which was very time-consuming due to back-and-forth communications, reviews and markup. The strategy called for using services already integrated with the provider's IT infrastructure, including MxHero for email attachment intelligence; DocuSign for e-signatures; Office365 for contract editing and negotiation; Crooze for reporting, analysis and obligations management; and EBrevia for metadata intelligence extraction and tagging. The company extended its internal product, Box Skills, to analyze and better understand all its contracts to help quickly identify any inherent legal problems in the contracts, Patel said.
AI-enabled automation tools are still in their infancy, which can challenge IT executives in identifying use cases that promise the most value.
"There are many opportunities with AI, but a lack of focus and strategy can prevent a company from driving successful AI projects," said Omri Mendellevich, CTO and co-founder of Dynamic Yield, a personalization platform.
An AI strategy should start with a good understanding of the problems that can be solved by incorporating AI in IT infrastructure. This allows the organization to analyze if it wants to solve the problem in-house or to buy a product that will solve it for them. Mendellevich said a good AI adoption strategy will define and clarify the processes the organization will need to go through in order to achieve the desired outcome. Applying KPIs to each phase of the AI project will help ensure successful implementation.
Omri Mendellevich
This requires a great deal of patience, as companies need to understand that it is still early days for AI automation, and delivering results is complicated. Considerable time is required for building models, testing, adjusting, failing, succeeding and then failing again.
"But success is inevitable if done right, and this is ultimately the future," Mendellevich said.
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