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Toast, Inc., the all-in-one digital platform built for restaurants, today celebrated the opening of its new office on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin. Toast CEO Chris Comparato and Senior Vice President of Engineering Robert McGarry were joined by Minister of State for Business, Employment and Retail Damien English TD, IDA Ireland, guests and Toast staff members to launch the new office and to welcome the news that the company is on track to create 100 jobs in 2022 across several functions including software development, sales and customer support.
Toast is a cloud-based, all-in-one digital technology platform purpose-built for the entire restaurant community. Toast provides a single platform of software as a service, or SaaS, products and financial technology solutions that give restaurants everything they need to run their business across point of sale, operations, digital ordering and delivery, marketing and loyalty, and team management. Headquartered in Boston, Toast was founded in 2012 and today employs over 3,000 people across the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and India. Toast established its first international technology and product development centre in Dublin in 2017. Toast has enjoyed a partnership with the Irish government through IDA Ireland, and Ireland continues to strategically contribute to the growth of the company’s talent base and innovation capabilities.
Welcoming the news Minister of State Damien English said “I am delighted to welcome this announcement from Toast, which will see the creation of 100 new jobs as part of their Irish expansion. I am happy to hear that the jobs will be in a range of areas including software development, sales and customer support. It shows that Ireland continues to be a location of choice for FDI thanks to the large pool of highly skilled workforce we have and can attract. The concept of a one stop shop for restaurants to manage all their digital needs shows great innovation and I’ve no doubt it will be welcomed by many companies in the industry. I wish Toast all the best with their new office in Dublin and with their future endeavours in Ireland.”
Robert McGarry, Senior Vice President of Engineering for Toast and leader of Toast Dublin office said “Toast originally chose to invest in Ireland largely for its concentration of high level technical capability; over the last several years, we’ve come to reap so many more benefits from our strategic investment here–ease of collaboration with other Toast teams, Irish hospitality, and more. We look forward to more fruitful days to come for Toast in Ireland.”
Commenting on the announcement Martin Shanahan, CEO, IDA Ireland said “This expansion underlines the company’s commitment to Ireland. It builds on Ireland’s reputation as both an established software hub in Europe and as a strategic location of choice for driving international growth. I wish the team at Toast every success in the new office here in Ireland.”
The new Dublin office will include elements such as:
Spaces to facilitate open collaboration and socialisation, and flexible “neighborhoods” to support growth;
Top of the line technology to better connect our Toast employees whether at home or across the globe;
Reception design inspired by an open market; and
A community gathering area (cafeteria) designed to resemble a restaurant.
To learn more about current opportunities at Toast, visit the company’s careers site.
On June 30th, Dell Technologies will host the latest event in their Transformation Made Real Series focused on theme of ‘Making Your Business Cyber Resilient’.
As business leaders look back over the last two years, it’s clear there has been a seismic shift in how organisations perceive technology and its role in shaping a do-anything-from-anywhere economy.
However, with new technologies shaping a data-driven economy, there is a growing need for businesses to place cyber resilience at the heart of their digital transformation journey. After all, success in a digital economy relies on the ability of businesses to secure data and maintain trust in their IT systems.
To truly thrive in the digital era, leaders must focus not only on the power of new technologies to transform their business but also on the importance of putting in place measures to mitigate against, respond to and recover from the growing threat of cyber-attacks.
With cyber-attacks occurring every 11 seconds globally, what steps can Irish businesses take to strengthen their cyber resilience and ensure they can continue transforming at speed in the months ahead?
Connected and The Business Post, in association with Dell Technologies, will host a Transformation Made Real hybrid event on Thursday, 30 June.
The hybrid event will reveal the growing focus on cybersecurity amongst Irish business leaders. With the cyber risk front of mind for everyone right now, speakers will map out the steps leaders can take to make their business cyber resilient.
Speakers will include Jason Ward, Vice-President and Managing Director and Tom Digan, Cyber Security Director, both of Dell Technologies Ireland. Further members of the panel will be announced in the coming days.
The world is developing at a fast pace. People’s needs are met with technological inventions that ease our lives and help us enjoy them more. There is the idea of busyness. That people, to be successful or happy, have to be busy, running between meetings, and always be in a rush. Technology makes our lives easier by creating and offering the tools we need to support our lifestyles.
And one of the domains that rely heavily on technology and grows with it is e-commerce. Placing an order online for everything is now available. If you are busy and you don’t have time to find a present for your partner, you can order it online.
You can order furniture for your new house, clothes, a new phone, and so on. And because this domain is flourishing, offering customers the best shopping experience is mandatory. The competition is fierce and if you do not align with the e-commerce trends, you will likely experience drawbacks in your business. This is why headless eCommerce should be applied to forward-thinking businesses.
About Headless Ecommerce
Headless eCommerce is a rather new concept that entered this domain and it refers to what happens behind. Customers mainly see just a part of your business: the website they place an order on. But behind this user interface layer is a backend one, where the business logic is. The frontend and backend layers are strongly intertwined in traditional eCommerce. You have a predefined user interface and you rely on only one vendor, which gives you limited flexibility.
On the other hand, headless eCommerce gives you everything you need to improve the user experience of your customers. You can choose and add tools that come from distinct vendors. On top of this, the frontend and backend parts are not coupled which gives you endless possibilities. They communicate through APIs, which are like some bridges through which data is transferred between the two main layers and other apps.
How Is Headless Ecommerce Boosting Forward Thinking Businesses?
As a business owner, you want it to be successful. Maybe you do not dream about becoming a giant in your niche now, but things can change along the journey. Implementing tech-related decisions that improve the user experience of your visitors will make your business successful. And, why not dream big?
Headless eCommerce is boosting forward-thinking businesses and it helps them keep updated with the latest domain trends. There are incredible benefits of using headless eCommerce.
Progressive Web Applications
The concept of progressive web apps is rather new, but it has been applied until now successfully by some of the world’s giants. For example, Twitter launched the Twitter Lite app back in 2017 which was much smaller in size than the native app. Over the years, it has become the only option available. The same goes for Starbucks, which increased the number of online orders by designing a progressive web app (PWA).
A progressive web app is like a mobile app, but the experience is delivered on the web. You can add it to your desktop screen and access it anytime. The experience will be such as the one of a native app. This helps eCommerce businesses increase their revenues and meet the needs of all their customers, both mobile and desktop users. Headless eCommerce offers the possibility of implementing a PWA easily so that you can boost forward-thinking business.
Unlimited Control
A few years ago, monolithic architecture was the only option. However, technology has developed tremendously and it made the job of administering an eCommerce more facile, but more challenging too. With headless eCommerce, you have unlimited control over what you want to do with the user experience and user interface.
All changes can now be made easily, without working on the backend layer. And it will not take months to implement and test the changes, but only days. Headless eCommerce gives you unlimited control to customize the experience of the visitors and make it as enjoyable as possible.
Distinct Vendors
As the frontend and backend layers communicate through APIs, customizing each layer is easy and facile. You can make the changes anytime, test, and add them after the bugs are solved. As now these layers are decoupled, you can also choose tools or apps to add to your eCommerce website that come from different vendors.
You might want to add a tool that measures your analytics so that you can understand the customers’ behavior better. You might want to create a blog section on your website where you share tips and tricks for using your products. Well, with headless eCommerce you do not have to buy them all from the same vendor. You can now choose distinct ones and integrate the changes quickly. Headless eCommerce gives you unlimited flexibility to customize the layers however you want much faster.
Enjoyable Omnichannel Experience
A monolithic architecture does not help you stay updated with the market and technological trends. On the other hand, a headless eCommerce architecture helps you do this successfully. There are many ways you can stay in touch with your customers and increase your brand awareness. Being present on as many channels as possible helps you get closer to your target audience.
Offering an enjoyable experience to all your customers, no matter where they shop from is essential. Headless eCommerce helps you create and offer your customers an enjoyable omnichannel experience. No matter if they are using your PWA or accessing the mobile app, they all should have seamless contact with your business.
Final Thoughts
Headless eCommerce is revolutionizing the retail world. It makes administering a business even easier. It comes with a lot of benefits, such as a great degree of flexibility, the option of creating progressive web apps, or the opportunity to offer a seamless omnichannel experience.
The frontend and backend layers are not coupled anymore, which allows you to make changes to either layer easier and faster. To achieve success with your business you have to stay updated with the trends in the domain. And implementing headless eCommerce is what you should do for a forward-thinking business.
Dell today unveiled the new Inspiron family – with 13-inch, 14-inch and 16-inch sizes available – providing an immersive experience while streaming videos, browsing social media, creating content or connecting with friends and family around the world.
“We live in a world where people – especially the younger generations – want to creatively and easily connect with friends, families and the rest of the world – all with the click of a button while showcasing their personalities,” said Kevin Terwilliger, vice president, Inspiron and Vostro, Client Product Group, Dell Technologies. “This is what inspired our latest Inspiron portfolio, all while keeping productivity and quality at the forefront of our products so individual expression flows freely.”
Meet the New Inspiron Plus
Designed to provide extra performance to power passions, the new Inspiron Plus laptops are built for those who want to bring their creative projects to life and share with others.
The Inspiron 16 Plus, presented in a Dark Green color, is a powerful laptop that features the latest 12th Gen Intel® Core™ H-series processors and optional NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics, which allows for quick photo and video editing. When configured with a GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, it provides access to a powerful suite of NVIDIA Studio tools including Broadcast and Canvas apps. Load and switch between apps effortlessly with the new 4800 MHz DDR5 memory, which has 1.5x more bandwidth than the previous generation of 3200 DDR4 memory. And with a 15% increase in the area of air outlet vents over the previous generation, the laptop can circulate out more air, keeping it running fast and smooth.
The Inspiron 16 Plus has a larger 16:10 aspect ratio active area with up to a 3k resolution display, allowing consumers to see more content while working and playing. Video chats get even better with Inspiron’s latest technologies. The built-in FHD webcam with temporal noise reduction and wide dynamic range work together for crisp detail. Dual microphones capture voices distinctly, while echo cancellation and AI-based noise reduction cuts down on background noise. And a mechanical camera privacy shutter provides peace of mind.
Inspiron 16 Plus levels up viewers’ front-of-screen experience with Dolby Vision® and Dolby Atmos®. With Dolby Vision, take full advantage of HDR content’s superior dynamic range with infinitely deep blacks and dazzling brights. Entertainment recorded with Dolby Atmos allows you to experience sound exactly the way the artist wanted. Quad speakers, two of which are up-firing and two are down-firing, provide loud, clear, and unmuffled audio.
With everyone spending more and more time in front of their screens, it is essential to keep your eyes comfortable. The Inspiron Plus series comes equipped with ComfortView Plus hardware, a low blue light solution that reduces harmful blue light emissions without sacrificing true-to-life color. Coupled with dimming technology that reduces flicker, extended screen time is easy on your eyes. Additionally, there is plenty of space for navigation with a roomy touchpad, that is both aesthetically pleasing and functional. Edge-to-edge material stretches across the palm rest and touchpad for a modern and smooth work surface.
The Inspiron 14 Plus is a new member of the Inspiron family, designed to meet the needs of those who want an Inspiron Plus but prefer a smaller form factor. The Inspiron 14 Plus comes in light (Platinum Silver – available only in China) and dark (Dark Green) and provides impressive performance in a mobile design, allowing for connectivity on the go. Select configurations of both the Inspiron 14 Plus and Inspiron 16 Plus are Intel® Evo™ certified.
Inspiron 13, 14 & 16 and Inspiron 2-in-1
Inspiron laptops and 2-in-1s provide fast and smooth performance for everyday needs, whether it’s checking email, posting on social media, or streaming music and movies. The experience is customizable, making it easy to pick and choose the features that are most important, with optional colors, fingerprint readers, backlit keyboards, and more.
The new Inspiron family is powered by Windows 11 and includes more options to meet customers’ diverse needs, with 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors or AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series processors with AMD Radeon™ Graphics. The Inspiron family also provides a choice of color options – Platinum Silver, Pebble Green or Light Pink (check models for specifics).
The new portfolio has an immersive front-of-screen experience, with products featuring a 16:10 aspect ratio and 4-sided narrow borders for more viewing room. Panels start at FHD+ resolution and offer DC dimming and low blue light solutions such as optional ComfortView Plus hardware, helping ensure comfort even when viewing the screen for extended periods.
Aiming to keep family and friends close, the new features allow for even more connectivity. Products are equipped with a built-in FHD webcam and dual microphones with noise reduction technology.
And for added flexibility, the new Inspiron 14 2-in-1 features a 14% larger touchpad, providing extra room for navigation. An optional active pen offers a natural and accurate writing experience with no pairing required.
In line with Dell’s 2030 Goals, the company incorporates environmentally-friendly solutions, materials, and packaging. The new Inspiron laptops and 2-in-1s feature and 100% low volatile organic compound (VOC) waterborne paint on all painted parts. Our laptop and 2-in-1 packaging components are comprised of up to 90% recycled materials.
Services
Software, support and services are available for all new Inspiron PCs, with Premium Support Plus option available on Inspiron Plus. There is also the option to upgrade to Dell Migrate.
Dell Premium Support Plus offers support features under one comprehensive plan, including 24X7 phone support, automated issues detection, virus removal and automated PC optimization. Repairs for accidental damage and onsite support following remote diagnosis are also included.
Dell Migrate makes it easier than ever to move the hard to replace data, photos, personal records and important files to your new Dell PC. Bring your whole digital life with you using our simple, automated tool.
Product pricing & availability
The new Inspiron line is available in Ireland today, with pricing available on the Dell website here.
Refurbed, Ireland’s leading online marketplace for refurbished electronics, is today announcing its pledge, along with 16 other members of the European Refurbishment Association (EUREFAS), for a responsible refurbishment market. The goal of this pledge is to standardise renewed products with quality standard seals by 2023. With their active role in EUREFAS, refurbed are helping to shape a greener future as they encourage consumers to move towards environmentally friendly products.
In May 2022, refurbed attended the EUREFAS general assembly in Brussels where a new pledge was discussed. Members of EUREFAS pledged to take necessary actions to improve their business models in order to create a high-quality refurbishment sector for electronic devices in Europe. This includes standardising newly processed products with quality standard seals by 2023.
During the event members also had the opportunity to meet with crucial EU stakeholders from the European Commission. Members discussed key topics such as the Sustainable Products Regulation and the Right to Repair movement, both of which aim to influence industry and encourage consumers to change their consumption habits towards greener products.
Kilian Kaminski, Chair of the Working Group Communications and co-founder of refurbed, said:
“As a member of EUREFAS, we have the chance to define structures and guidelines for a relatively young industry together with competitors and partners. And not just on a local or national level, but across Europe. This creates transnational cooperation with members who pursue a similar mission. As co-founder of refurbed, it was important to me from the very beginning to be able to offer customers products of the highest quality – but this requires regulations and standards that also hold manufacturers accountable in order to make the refurbishment market trustworthy in the long term.”
He continued:
“I am delighted to see that the refurbishment market is growing increasingly popular among many countries in Europe. It is clear that there is a shift in consumer habits in many of refurbed’s markets, particularly Ireland where the number of Irish consumers buying refurbished devices is continuously increasing.”
The new EUREFAS member commitment is as follows:
EUREFAS members commit:
Towards a qualitative electronic equipment remanufacturing sector.
By signing this pledge, EUREFAS (European Refurbishment Association) members commit to take the following actions to improve their business models in order to create a high quality refurbishment sector for electronic equipment and high quality end products in Europe.
EUREFAS members commit to enabling a strong circular economy in Europe to combat climate change by reducing e-waste, carbon emissions and over-consumption of raw materials and aiming for carbon neutrality, as well as maximising the reuse of electronic equipment through refurbishment.
EUREFAS members are companies headquartered in the European Union that commit to comply with applicable EU and national laws.
EUREFAS members are committed to participating in certification schemes in order to provide the highest quality to their partners and customers and to continuously improve their systems to meet new challenges for their companies.
EUREFAS members undertake to use or allow the use in their electronic equipment and refurbishment processes of only original or compatible spare parts that have the same functions and technical specifications as the original parts.
EUREFAS members commit to ensuring privacy and consumer safety at every step of the reprocessing process.
EUREFAS members are committed to providing the best end-user experience by offering a commercial warranty on every electronic device sold and quality after-sales service.
EUREFAS members ensure the full functionality of all electronic equipment sold to the end user by testing all key control points.
By committing to the pledge, the refurbishment industry and the quality of the products will be structured and the interests of consumers will be safeguarded. The association has set itself the goal of providing this new quality seal by 2023 with the help of its internal members and experienced external experts.
Augustin Becquet, President and founding member of EUREFAS, says: “As there are still no pan-European standards in the market for remanufactured electronics, this commitment signed by all EUREFAS members is an important step towards making the industry more reliable, enabling a circular economy and empowering consumers to make informed, sustainable purchasing decisions.”
The current scope of countries represented in the association currently includes 9 countries and 17 members. In addition to refurbed, Recommerce, ReWare, Tech2Com, Foxway, Olinn, Omocom, Panzerglass, Asgoodasnew, Backmarket, ReBuy, ITC (ReCall First Hand), Swappie, AfB Group, Enjoy Recondizionati/Prestige Group, FixFirst and Remarketed are also
Part of EUREFAS. According to the Commission, a circular economy like remanufacturing can create 700,000+ jobs in Europe by 2030.
Recent studies indicate that Google processes 3.5 million searches per day and processes 40,000 searches approximately every second.
Research also indicates that 75% of the users never go beyond the 1st page of the SERPs (search engine result pages).
These figures are enough to specify the impact of search engine ranking on digital business. Google constantly keeps on expanding its criteria for a better user experience. Introduction of Page Experience Signal is one of the new criteria announced by Google.
The motto of page experience update is to provide an improved web experience for all users, be it for desktop or mobile. Of course, multiple factors will impact the same, so let’s check them out.
Factors to be Included in Page Experience Update:
Apart from an enjoyable and memorable user experience, page experience is also measured by factors like website performance, page/site load speed, mobile-friendliness, visual stability, secured browsing, HTTPS (Hyper-text Transfer Protocol Secure), and display of intrusions (Ads). Also if you are a wordpress user check out the best WordPress theme for core web vitals.
In a nutshell, a page experience update will check the user experience and rank the same in the search results accordingly. Undoubtedly the good experiences have an advantage over bad ones. Though a few of these factors already exist in SEO, there are some new additions for gaining better precision in user experience.
Five signals cover the entire Google Page Experience Update, as shown in the below image.
1: Core Web Vitals:
Core Web Vitals measure the page performance with the help of 3 basic aspects.
Largest Contentful Paint (LCP):
LCP measures the complete page load time, including the content, images, if any, videos, etc.
An LCP of 2.5 seconds or less is ideal.
Removing any unused CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or shifting them to another style sheet may also help reduce LCP time.
First Input Delay (FID):
FID tests the time between the user’s first interaction or the first click on a web page and the actual page response time.
An ideal FID score is 100 milliseconds or less.
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS):
Visual stability of your content is important, which is measured by CLS. Unstable visuals or site layouts are responsible for a weak user experience. Ensure a CLS score of 0.1 or less to be in the ranking game.
2: Mobile-Friendly:
This signal verifies your page responsiveness for mobile devices.
3: Safe Browsing:
This signal checks the page’s security in terms of viruses and malware and verifies whether the same is free from other malicious content, links, bad downloads, etc., or not.
This signal checks the ease with which your content is displayed to the end-users. For example, intrusive interstitials like ads, while the page download process is on, will be checked and confirmed before the ranking for page experience update takes place.
Expectations from the Page Experience Update
Google gives an advance intimation of approximately six months regarding every update, and this portrays its sincerity and desire to web developers, business owners, SEO/IT team for making the necessary changes in their digital infrastructure before the update is finally rolled out in the market.
Example: For page experience update, the announcement was made in November 2020 and went partly live from April 2021, though it would take a few more months (August 2021) to be completely intertwined with all systems.
So slowly and steadily, page experience updates will start playing their complete role in SEO.
How to Prepare for the Page Experience Signal?
After this announcement, there has been a phenomenal rise in the usage of page performance tools like Google Page Speed Insights and KeyCDN Speed Test, etc.
You can also monitor the Core Web Vitals of your website with Core Web Vitals Report (on Google Search Console), which portrays your page performance and picks out the pages which need improvement. Fix these issues by using any page performance tools, and you’re back in business.
Mobile-Friendly Test to check out the site and page performance on mobile devices and Security Issues Report for checking the page for security issues can help in better page optimization.
Tips to Optimize your Website for Google’s Page Experience Update:
Make sure Your Site is Secured With SSL Certificate:
In an online business, if you wish to provide a memorable user experience to your visitors, website security is a must. No one likes to ponder on unsecured sites or risk purchases by punching in card details when unsure about their data privacy. Security lapses in site security can harm your SEO ranks.
Apart from using web security check tools like WPScan or Sucuri SiteCheck, for checking security issues on the website for fixing them, installing an SSL certificate for site and data security is a must.
SSL certificate encrypts all the website data (browser-server communications) by converting it into ciphertext, which looks like gibberish language. As a result, hackers cannot penetrate or misuse encrypted text, and hence customer and site data privacy is maintained.
This digital certificate transforms your website from HTTP to HTTPS, thus enhancing the page experience update signal.
I would recommend purchasing an SSL certificate from ClickSSL, which provides web securities at nominal rates for a decade. Offering all global brands as a choice to customers, this platinum SSL certificate provider provides top-notch quality customer service, money-back options, and other VAS (value-added services).
Make sure Your Site is Responsive to Mobile and Other Devices:
Since mobile users cover almost half of the entire web traffic, your website and web pages need to be responsive to mobiles and tablets.
Statistics indicate that in the first quarter of 2021, mobile devices accounted for 54.8% of the global web traffic and are increasing every year.
One section of page experience update needs your website to be mobile-friendly for a better ranking. As stated above, Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test tool helps test your website’s responsiveness and pinpoint other page load issues.
It’s simple. Just click “view details” near the page loading issues and fix them as suggested by the tool.
WordPress plugins like OBox Mobile help in making your site mobile-friendly.
Make sure Your Site Speed is Swift:
Since page load time is one of the major factors of Core Web Vitals, being a site owner, you need to ensure that the faster the page load time, the better the user experience. Therefore, Google, too, condemns slow load time and gives priority to fast-loading sites.
An ideal page load time is less than 2 seconds. But, unfortunately, 40% of the customers abandon sites that take more than 3 seconds to load.
As stated above, Google’s Page Speed Insight Tool helps determine your site speed and scores your website from 1-100 where 0-49=poor, 50-89=improvement, and 90-100=good.
Make sure Your Site is Free from Intrusive Interstitials:
Ensure that your visitors are not displayed intrusive interstitials when they click your site from Google. These intrusions are pop-up ads that make site content inaccessible, specifically in mobiles, since they are visible on the entire screen.
To be more specific, interstitials that are not blocking the content are still fine, but Google does not favour interstitials that block the primary content.
The below image clearly states that in the 1st image, the pop-up is at the top of the screen, making the page content visible, whereas, in the 2nd image, the pop-up covers the entire screen, which creates a negative website impression and provides a bad user experience, which Google disapproves of.
Avoid these intrusions for a better Google page experience update.
Wrapping Up:
Ample variables are responsible for gaining a successful SEO rank. After all, everything ends up giving a good user experience. The same rule applies to Page Experience Update too. Checkout on the metrics which Google uses for the same and ensure that your site is up to the expectations set by Google.
Your SEO is bound to be successful if you secure your current rankings and follow all the Page Experience Update signals so that when the same gets rolling, you are ready to maintain your current SEO position.
While in the past, interpretation was leading the way in interpreting a speaker’s words into another language in real-time and physically present at the venue. Now, we have another variant of it- the Remote Simultaneous Interpretation – RSI, which is widely gaining ground due to its use in various interpretation platforms.
What is Remote Simultaneous Interpretation?
Remote Simultaneous Interpretation (RSI) is a process of transforming spoken or signed speech from one language to another in a matter of milliseconds while being in a remote location. It is an advancement in the interpreting field and a premium way of making conferences of any size access to a multilingual audience.
Where can it be used?
Remote Simultaneous Interpretation can be used in a number of places according to needs and requirements for the on-site or off-site meeting. It turns events into multilingual sessions, guaranteeing the precise interpretation and transmission of thought in order to remove language barriers and increase engagement.
It is a proven way to increase attendance and provide information in a more suggestive/mesmerizing manner.
Remote Simultaneous Interpretation can be used in:
Conferences
Panel discussions.
Online meetings.
Webinars.
Seminars.
International businesses.
Minor meetings,
How do I integrate Remote Simultaneous Interpretation services for an online meeting?
There are different interpretation platforms that help you attain a successful multilingual online meeting/event. Through these platforms, the speaker, interpreter(s), and audience create a connection and take part in the online meeting. As “remote” suggests, meetings can be held from various parts of the world where parties are connected using the RSI platform.
Speakers, interpreters and the audience are integrated in the following way:
Speaker- A presenter speaks in one language. Their speech and image are streamed live to a remote interpreter, typically through a web browser on a desktop computer or laptop.
Interpreter(s)- A remote interpreter hears and sees the speaker on the device. Using a quality headset and a microphone, they translate the speaker’s language into the desired different language, in real-time.
Audience- Attendees and/or delegates can connect to the interpretation platform via a computer or a mobile device seeing and hearing the speaker in the language of their choice interpreted by the interpreter.
Interpretation Platform – The interpreter’s speech is transmitted to a cloud-based remote simultaneous interpretation platform through the laptop or desktop computer. Good broadband is essential. Platforms like Interprefy integrate with popular teleconferencing products like Skype, and Zoom, as well as offering a standalone web conferencing service.
What are some common Interpretation Platforms?
Remote simultaneous interpretation platforms can make virtual, hybrid, and onsite multilingual events happen and thrive assisting you from the preparation stage to the last minute of your event with a help of the highest expertise having interpreters.
Following are some interpretation platforms that integrate remote simultaneous interpretation services in online events:
Kudo – It is an RSI platform that doesn’t need any additional external program such as Zoom or Skype.
Interactio – it is both an event and an RSI platform.
Interprefy – It is also an event as well as RSI platform which can directly host online events with or without external programs.
Zoom – an online platform for holding meetings with interpreting functions.
Speakus – a dedicated RSI platform that connects to external programs for online events.
What are the Benefits of Remote Simultaneous Interpretation Platforms?
Reduced cost- RSI platforms reduce the costs of organizing the event.
Enhanced Flexibility – Meetings and conferences often need to be arranged at a short notice. Using RSI, you can provide various means and languages and other accessibilities at whatever time and at whatever place.
Hassle-Free Tech- Expensive on-site equipment days are gone. With RSI, participants adhere to the rule “bring your own device” and listen in your own language.
Greater Versatility- With RSI, events at difficult-to-reach locations like remote places, resorts and mountains can now be served by world-class interpreters.
More Floor space- RSI takes away the need for soundproof interpreter booths, freeing up valuable space.
To Wrap Up
Remote simultaneous interpretation is an advanced and constantly evolving asset for multilingual events. The combination of industry knowledge, experienced interpreters, and the right tools can significantly improve the experience for all participants in RSI. Hence, interpretation platforms are thriving in the remote simultaneous interpretation businesses.
The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has chosen the island of Ireland for the first time as the destination for its 34th Annual Conference, entitled ‘Neart Le Chéile: Strength Together’ in the Convention Centre, Dublin, from June 26 to July 1, 2022.
Over 1,000 people from six continents will participate, as the not-for-profit aims to deliver worldwide coordination and cooperation among computer security and incident response teams.
From Tonga to Tanzania, Greece to Guatemala, Australia to America, the participants from nearly 80 countries are the leading lights in their field. From governments, academia, and businesses, all have a critical agenda as cyber security issues continue to rapidly increase worldwide, and global coordination is now vital to make the internet safe for everyone.
Google’s Maddie Stone delves into the unknown during the conference, focusing on 0-day exploits used in-the-wild. A security researcher on Google Project Zero, she will disclose crucial insights and learnings from previously detected 0-day attacks – which occur when a cyber attacker abuses a vulnerability that was totally unknown – to help delegates defend organisations and society in future incidents.
The five-day event will explore various themes with contributors from industry and academia, from notable organisations such as the World Economic Forum, National Police Agency from Japan, Amnesty International, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity.
Other notable discussions on the agenda include the preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Games, analysis of the SolarWinds supply chain compromise, and lessons learned from supporting national responses to COVID-19.
Brian Honan, CEO, BH Consulting and FIRST Annual Conference Programme Chair, commented: “Dublin, and Ireland, is a perfect setting to host leading experts in this area with the cyber security sector on a significant growth trajectory on the island. The recent State of Cyber Security Sector in Ireland 2022 report states that by 2030 the industry will be worth €2.5 bn GVA – an increase of €1.4 bn from 2021 – employing over 17,000 people.
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The latest technology is being used to drive the sports analytics market forward in several different ways. Which companies are leading the way and what can we expect in the future?
Some of the Leading Companies
Kitman Labs is one of the Irish companies to hit the news headlines in the last year. This Dublin-based sports technology firm tied up a €45 million investment in 2021, with Guggenheim Investments leading the way. This took the total amount of external investment in the company to an impressive €70 million.
They say that they plan to use the investment in areas such as the development of their own platform and growing their global team. This follows the previous increase in the size of their team from 100 to 125 in the space of a year and suggests that they will carry on expanding in the next year or so.
Also based in Dublin, Outputs Sports provides a single device that can be used to measure the results from 160 different exercises. Based on measuring power, speed, and strength, it promises to free up coaches from the time currently spent monitoring exercises, to give them more time to coach.
The Outputs Sports site currently states that its devices are used in over 30 countries and 22 sports. Their list of clubs and authorities that use the device includes Leinster Rugby, Hockey Ireland, the English FA and Watford FC.
The Continuing Role of Technology in Sports
Many teams and athletes have now discovered the power of using the latest technology to improve their performances. Several leading companies have sprung up in Ireland and the value of the overall market has been put at over €2 billion according to some experts.
The popularity of sport in Ireland and the availability of the skills needed to set up big data projects mean that it has emerged as a leading force in the industry. Several of the top solutions were first used in the GAA or Irish rugby, as seen at the Analytica 2020 event, before being moved across to other countries and sports once proven.
While data analytics is currently one of the most exciting areas in sports technology, it’s far from the only one. We can also see it used in the likes of goal-line technology and instant replays. This is commonly seen in football, where the video assistant referee (VAR) is used to help the referee make the right decisions in extremely difficult situations where the naked eye isn’t accurate enough.
Another example comes from sports betting, where the leading iGaming platform providers such as Sportingtech provide live feeds to operators with the latest information. Bettors gain access to a huge range of sports, and gives the operator full control of the odds, as well as giving them the chance to offer appropriate bonuses to each player. This allows new operators in the industry to jump in using a pre-made platform, allowing for more choice for the average consumer. In theory, this should allow for a more competitive marketplace.
We can expect all of these markets to carry on growing as new technology is introduced and the number of companies involved increases over time. Ireland looks like it will carry on leading the way in sports analytics, and this should lead to more career opportunities for anyone interested in data analytics and other related areas.
