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Digital bank Umba raises $15M, plans to expand into three new African markets

TechCrunch

There’s no shortage of digital banks in Nigeria and, in general, in Africa. As the region continues to experience rapid growth in mobile usage and the corresponding growing young population, these fintechs think this is the right time to provide financial services to every market category, from the banked to the unbanked.

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5 top ERP trends for 2022 — and their implications for IT leaders

CIO

Customization gives way to standardization The traditional practice of enterprise technology leaders customizing an ERP solution to meet their specific enterprise or business needs is giving way to implementing an off-the-shelf solution. This is cumbersome and leads to additional cost.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

Some prospective projects require custom development using large language models (LLMs), but others simply require flipping a switch to turn on new AI capabilities in enterprise software. “AI We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We Webster Bank is following a similar strategy.

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Unlocking generative AI’s greatest growth opportunities

CIO

Along the way, business leaders in every industry have been scrambling to develop their generative AI strategies, address potential risks, and figure out the best next action while trying to stay one step ahead of the competition. Where will the biggest transformation occur first? First, it is clear that generative AI will transform business.

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Drone data scanning company Skycatch announces a $25M raise

TechCrunch

It typically is owned by the laser scanning market,” says Sanz. Image Credits: The company’s technology works with off-the-shelf drones, including ones manufactured by DJI. Skycatch today announced a $25 million raise, led by ADB Ventures and Wavemaker. Indonesia, China, Philippines, Thailand and Japan.

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Transforming IT culture for business success

CIO

In lieu of integrating and customizing off-the-shelf enterprise applications such as Salesforce or SAP, Power Home Remodeling has constructed its own proprietary NITRO platform used to run and optimize all aspects of the business and customer experience. Back in the day, IT culture was all about the perks.

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Low code/no code tools reap IT benefits—with caveats

CIO

Low-code/no-code visual programming tools promise to radically simplify and speed up application development by allowing business users to create new applications using drag and drop interfaces, reducing the workload on hard-to-find professional developers. It’s for speed to market,” says CTO Vikram Ramani.