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Relevant Technologies IT Leaders Can’t Ignore in 2023

After the pandemic in 2020, businesses started to see an increase in sales and overall revenue. But by 2022, there were new hurdles to face – rise in inflation, energy scarcity, and the nosedive in the tech industry – explaining the increased need to learn how to keep up with tech trends.

With these challenges, IT leaders are actively seeking innovative methods for supply chain, energy sourcing, and digital skills acquisition to save costs, improve margins, grow, and stay ahead of the curve in 2023. 

The strategy begins with understanding the relevant technologies and trends to leverage to impact your business positively.

This article will discuss the trends for businesses in 2023, how you can leverage them, and the benefits they offer. 

Key technical trends for leaders in 2023

Here are some tech trends for IT leaders looking for where to invest in 2023:

Accelerated cloud adoption

The results from a survey show that 40% of businesses in North America and Europe have embraced the adoption of industry cloud platforms, while 15% are considering deployment by 2026. 

This data indicates that in 2023, the trend will continue to see even more adoption as business owners consider these cloud platforms to manage, connect, and automate their business processes.

The swift adoption is mainly owed to its scalability. 

According to Gregor Petri, VP Analyst at Gartner, “Industry cloud platforms turn a cloud platform into a business platform, enabling an existing technological innovation tool to also serve as a business innovation tool.” 

Once you determine when and where the cloud platform will fit your workflow and organize the business tech and teams, the industry cloud platform can support a complete set of industry-relevant features. 

It will function like a custom software ecosystem to help your business scale efficiently.

Digital Immune System

It is speculated that by 2025, organizations that invest in digital immunity will increase customer satisfaction by decreasing downtime by 80%.

This is because the digital immune system (DIS) combines practices including observability, artificial intelligence, augmented testing, chaos engineering, auto-remediation, site reliability engineering (SRE), and software supply chain security to reduce unprecedented vulnerabilities and improve the reliability of products, services, and systems. 

Superapps

A superapp is an app that provides your users with a boutique of core features and access to independently developed miniapps to deliver reliable and customized experiences. 

Gartner predicts that by 2027, over 50% of the global population will be daily active users of several superapps. 

An example of this latest trend in technology is PayPay, a Japanese payment provider boasting about 50 million users. 

PayPay’s significant growth strategy is its integration of third-party miniapps for getting cinema tickets, ordering food deliveries, and bicycle sharing, together with its apps for financial management, retail shopping, and other services.

Mainstream adoption of Web3 technologies

According to McKinsey, the data privacy concerns from regular internet platforms may cause an increase in the general adoption of Web3 technologies soon.

As one of the latest trends in technology, Web3 systems are now employed for daily activities in communication, business activities, or financial transactions and are projected to contend with the standard methods actively.

In the coming years, more people will adopt smart contracts instead of formal agreements and crypto instead of fiat currencies.

For IT businesses to survive this evolution in the Web3-driven world, they need to focus on being more user-centric by emphasizing transparency, investing in data privacy and security, and building communities in the Web3 space.

Transparent data governance

On the topic of data privacy, this is the reality—consumers are becoming increasingly skeptical. 

According to Cisco’s State of Consumer Data Privacy Report, only 21% of users trust established global brands to secure their personal information.

So, by 2023, more IT companies will adopt thorough transparency measures to earn users’ trust with user-first data governance. 

This way, users will be more involved in defining their data collection, processing, storage, and disposal.

Adaptive AI everywhere

Adaptive Artificial Intelligence systems like Generative AI models are known for their flexibility and efficient real-time iterations. 

They are equipped to immediately adjust to changing real-world production situations by analyzing the datasets’ behavioral patterns. 

With the ever-changing, fast-paced market, more businesses will adopt adaptive AI systems to scale efficiency, shorten launch dates, and maximize low resources in 2023.

The rise of the metaverse

We have all heard of the metaverse, and one thing is for sure, by 2023, it will be more mainstream in marketing, events, and general business operations. 

IT leaders can position themselves to maximize this information technology trend by developing more products and solutions with the metaverse technology.

Additionally, they can invest in radical data governance policies to protect the business and users’ data in the metaverse.

Ethical regulations for AI usage

Data from FICO’s State of Responsible AI report reveal that almost 78% of companies are “poorly equipped to ensure the ethical implications of using new AI systems.”

So, IT leaders will actively execute policies to bridge ethical gaps in using AI technology by

  • improving data bias detection,
  • simplifying copyright for generative AI models to improve transparency
  • formalizing AI model deployment and management.
  • prioritizing data privacy and security 

The rise of the AI of Things (AIoT)

The AI of Things is an innovative and efficient part of artificial intelligence where AI and the Internet of Things meet. 

It involves using AI technologies in IoT devices and systems to independently collect and examine data, make decisions, and automatically take action.

So you can train AI models to be more natural and correct with the data from first-party – Internet of Things devices like Siri and Alexa.

Now that we have answered the question, “what are the next big tech trends?” let’s see some benefits of investing in these trends

Benefits of investing in technology and digital transformation 

These digital technologies and changes offer some significant benefits to companies. Let us now see how tech trends impact business:

Alignment with Strategic Business Plans

Modern business structures are more flexible than they used to be. So when you want to choose digital innovations, ensure that they are incorporated seamlessly to handle any workload in hours. 

The result will be an increase in overall productivity, especially in IT and DevOps teams. The development cycles will be faster, more flexible, and more efficient to align with your business plans.

Business agility

Over the years, most companies have faced performance challenges uploading important business and company data to the public cloud.

That is why over 85% of enterprises consider or implement moving to the data center from the public cloud. With a private cloud that features innovative technologies, you can increase the performance of any application or workload.

Greater efficiency and productivity

According to the 2019 Cloud Data Management Report Application, a system downtime costs the average company $20.1 million in lost earnings and efficiency.

Fortunately, reliable technology trends can impact businesses positively by eliminating scheduled downtime, lowering the risk of random downtime, and ultimately, improving productivity.

Competitive advantage

Exploring the shift to multicloud is the top priority of most IT leaders. On-premises infrastructure should provide IT-as-a-service features and simple API-driven integrations with public cloud services and data portability to the cloud. 

These on-premises infrastructures provide modern solutions that give your business that competitive edge.

Optimizing IT systems for greater reliability

With the on-premises architecture, IT teams can reduce costs by leveraging centralized software-defined systems, data reduction, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. 

The IT team members can now focus on more strategic plans to improve resources, upload, storage, and network resources. 

Additionally, this system allows flexible pricing models with an option to “pay as you grow.”

Scalability (increasing pace of product delivery)

You can scale your business seamlessly with a stateless architecture for uploading and storing data.

So, you don’t have to reorganize your infrastructure whenever you want to incorporate new information technology trends.

Final Note

Technology will constantly evolve, and businesses that demonstrate flexibility and adaptability will always remain ahead of the curve.

In the same vein, IT companies that adapt to these technology trends in 2023 will gain the market advantage to stand out from the competition. So, invest in developing user-centric infrastructures to protect your customers and their data from risk.

 

Esri maps influential women around the world and invites submissions from the public

Esri Ireland, the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has created a digital map which celebrates inspirational women in Ireland and around the world for International Women’s Day which falls today, Wednesday 8th March.

Esri Ireland’s female employees have contributed to the map by sharing stories of influential figures who have made positive impacts on their lives. From architects in Africa and swimmers in Sydney to authors in America and botanists in Bantry, this interactive map demonstrates the influence of women across borders.

Esri Ireland is also inviting the public to share their own stories about women who have inspired them. These women can be anyone who serves as a role model, mentor, or source of motivation, whether they have made an impact through small acts in their daily lives or significant contributions in the public sphere. The aim of the map is to highlight ‘lesser-known’ women, showcasing the diversity and breadth of women’s contributions around the world.

This year’s International Women’s Day theme is #EmbraceEquity. The purpose is to encourage global conversations on why equal opportunities aren’t enough and why equal isn’t always fair. Everyone starts from a different place in life, so true inclusion involves equitable action. According to recent data published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), less than one-third (32%) of Ireland’s information and communications technology (ICT) workers are women.

Esri Ireland embraces a diverse workforce, 40% of which are female. All employees who join Esri Ireland are assigned a career coach who offers mentorship and guidance to help advance their career path.

The European Power Platform Conference Programme

We are very excited to share – The European Power Platform Conference Programme!

This June, prepare yourself to deep dive into all things Power Pages, Dataverse, Power Fx, Canvas Apps, Fusion Teams, Governance, Microsoft Teams, Power Virtual Agents, Adoption, Azure,  AI, CreatorKit, Connectors and so much more.

Alongside the learning, this conference will provide a fantastic networking opportunity for those on the journey of Power Apps implementation who want to share ideas and receive insight from their peers.

You will see some of your favourite Power Platform leaders deliver expert sessions, tutorials and keynotes. Expect to see Charles Lamanna (CVP, Microsoft), Heather Cook (Principal PM, Microsoft), Dona Sarkar (Software Engineer, Microsoft), Chris Huntingford (MVP), Samit Saini (MVP), Nick Doelman (Developer, Microsoft), Luise Freese (MVP), Joe Gill (MVP), Kristine Kolodziejski (MVP) and so many more wonderful individuals.

This year The European Power Platform Conference is very excited to reveal a dedicated Case Study track. The case study track involves a mix of tutorials and sessions covering topics like Power Platform in Airports, Governance & Adoption, Power Platform in Government, Scaling Power Apps organisation wide and more!

With a line-up of exceptional speakers and topics, curated by an independent programme team, we truly believe this programme will provide you with the expertise to power ahead in your career and projects.

The European Power Platform Conference is delighted to offer all Technology Records a 10% Discount Code: TechBuzzIreland

We hope to see you in Dublin!

Bear Robotics announces plans for European Hub in Dublin

Californian headquartered robotics company, Bear Robotics, has today announced plans to establish a European hub in Dublin. This hub will create 25 jobs in the next 3 years, including roles in sales, software engineers, finance, and operations. The company’s flagship products, Servi and Servi Plus, are fully autonomous service robots that assists staff by alleviating repetitive work like running orders and bussing tables. Servi Plus is designed to meet evolving market demands for higher capacity. It carries 16+ dishes at once, with an expanded 40kg payload and enhanced suspension for transporting liquids and traversing ramps. These innovative service aids are popping up in a variety of hospitality businesses such as restaurants, corporate campuses, hotels, senior living facilities, and casinos around the world.

This new European hub will serve customers across the continent and help expand the company’s global footprint which includes offices in Redwood City, Dallas, Seoul and Singapore. As a part of this European expansion, Bear Robotics has recently deployed a Servi robot in Iceland.

Malachy Ryan, Head of Sales EMEA with Bear Robotics, said: “We plan to make a big impact across European service and hospitality spaces in the next few years. Our first robots have been installed in  The Glenroyal Hotel in Maynooth . Further robots will be deployed across Ireland and Europe over three to four months. Over the last few years, Ireland has experienced staffing shortages in the hospitality sector. We believe our robots will make a very positive difference for guests and the staff who will have a much better experience serving them.”

Commenting on the announcement, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney TD said: “I warmly welcome Bear Robotics announcement to open a European Hub in Dublin, creating 25 jobs over the next 3 years. This expansion into Europe will provide innovative new ways of working for so many in the service industry and beyond.  The use of service robots highlights the importance of technology and how we can use it as a powerful aid in our everyday lives. The new roles in Dublin will provide opportunities for our skilled workforce to join a new and exciting company as they begin their growth into Europe. I wish the team at Bear Robotics all the best with their European Hub and new chapter in Ireland.”

Dónal Travers, Head of Technology at IDA Ireland said: “Bear Robotics’ decision to locate its European Hub in Dublin where it plans on creating 25 new jobs is very good news.  The technology employed by the company in the design and development of its robots is exciting and at the very cutting edge.  I would like to wish Bear Robotics every success with its establishment in Ireland.”

“As the hospitality industry evolves, we’re committed to meeting market demands across the globe,” says John Ha, Founder and CEO of Bear Robotics. “Our recent deployments in Dublin and Kildare are especially exciting as we believe there is an abundance of opportunities in the ever-growing hospitality and economic engines of the Republic of Ireland. We sincerely hope our automation solutions benefit businesses and elevate service experiences across this incredible region.”

Integrity360’s Security First conference returns to Dublin

Integrity360, the cyber security specialist, has announced the return of its ‘Security First’ conference to Dublin this year. The conference, which is focusing on the theme of visibility, is being held at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin, on Thursday, 27th April 2023, with 250 people expected to attend.

The event will bring together experts and industry leaders from the cyber security industry to discuss the latest threat landscape developments and industry insights, and offer actionable advice on how to protect organisations from the most prevalent cyber threats in 2023.

The keynote speaker at the event will be investigative journalist and author Geoff White. During his career, Geoff has published a number of books and covered topics including election hacking, money laundering and cyber heists. His latest book is entitled ‘The Lazarus Heist – From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea’s Global Cyber War’* and his next book (‘Rinsed’) will reveal technology’s impact on the world of money laundering.

Integrity360 speakers will include Richard Ford, Brian Martin and Nick Brownrigg. Brian will be discussing the latest cloud trends and their impact on cyber security, including developments across public and private cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), the impact of security tools and platforms migrating to cloud, and cloud security in the modern hybrid working world.

Nick will be talking about why the concept of identifying threats is being neglected. This session will explore modern-day exposure management, how the market has predominantly focused on detect and recover, and how technology can be used to proactively identify cyber threats.

A number of industry leaders, as well as Integrity360 partners, will also be speaking at the conference – including Checkpoint, Varonis, XM Cyber, Mimecast, Darktrace, Rapid 7, Splunk, Zscaler, and Fortinet. These sessions will touch on topics such as how to gain data visibility and the benefits of Managed Detection and Response.

Speaking about the conference, Richard Ford, CTO, Integrity360, said: “It’s fantastic to be returning to Ireland for this year’s Security First Conference and we are delighted about the interest already. It really shows that cyber security continues to be a top priority for Irish businesses and individuals.”

The conference offers senior business and IT professionals from organisations of all sizes the chance to discuss, learn, grow, and connect with Integrity360’s tight-knit network of industry professionals across Ireland. For more information and to register, click here.

Salesforce Announces Einstein GPT, the World’s First Generative AI for CRM

Salesforce, the global leader in CRM, today launched Einstein GPT, the world’s first generative AI CRM technology, which delivers AI-created content across every sales, service, marketing, commerce, and IT interaction, at hyperscale. With Einstein GPT, Salesforce will transform every customer experience with generative AI.

Einstein GPT will infuse Salesforce’s proprietary AI models with generative AI technology from an ecosystem of partners and real-time data from the Salesforce Data Cloud, which ingests, harmonizes, and unifies all of a company’s customer data.

With Einstein GPT, customers can then connect that data to OpenAI’s advanced AI models out of the box, or choose their own external model and use natural-language prompts directly within their Salesforce CRM to generate content that continuously adapts to changing customer information and needs in real time.

For example, Einstein GPT can generate personalized emails for salespeople to send to customers, generate specific responses for customer service professionals to more quickly answer customer questions, generate targeted content for marketers to increase campaign response rates, and auto-generate code for developers.

“The world is experiencing one of the most profound technological shifts with the rise of real-time technologies and generative AI. This comes at a pivotal moment as every company is focused on connecting with their customers in more intelligent, automated, and personalized ways.

“Einstein GPT, in combination with our Data Cloud and integrated in all of our clouds as well as Tableau, MuleSoft, and Slack, is another way we are opening the door to the AI future for all our customers, and we’ll be integrating with OpenAI at launch.” said Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.

Integration with OpenAI: Salesforce is combining OpenAI’s enterprise-grade ChatGPT technology with Salesforce’s private AI models to deliver relevant and trusted AI-generated content.

“We’re excited to apply the power of OpenAI’s technology to CRM,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. “This will allow more people to benefit from this technology, and it allows us to learn more about real-world usage, which is critical to the responsible development and deployment of AI — a belief that Salesforce shares with us.”

Salesforce Ventures launches $250 million Generative AI Fund: Salesforce also announced a Generative AI Fund from Salesforce Ventures, the company’s global investment arm. The new $250 million fund will invest in high-potential startups, bolster the startup ecosystem, and spark the development of responsible, trusted, and generative AI.

Einstein GPT is the next generation of Einstein, Salesforce’s AI technology that currently delivers more than 200 billion AI-powered predictions per day across the Customer 360. And by combining proprietary Einstein AI models with ChatGPT or other leading large language models, customers can use natural-language prompts on CRM data to trigger powerful, time-saving automations, and create personalized, AI-generated content. Launching today are:

  • Einstein GPT for Sales: Auto-generate sales tasks like composing emails, scheduling meetings, and preparing for the next interaction.
  • Einstein GPT for Service: Generate knowledge articles from past case notes. Auto-generate personalized agent chat replies to increase customer satisfaction through personalized and expedited service interactions.
  • Einstein GPT for Marketing: Dynamically generate personalized content to engage customers and prospects across email, mobile, web, and advertising.
  • Einstein GPT for Slack Customer 360 apps: Deliver AI-powered customer insights in Slack like smart summaries of sales opportunities and surface end users actions like updating knowledge articles.
  • Einstein GPT for Developers: Improve developer productivity with Salesforce Research’s proprietary large language model by using an AI chat assistant to generate code and ask questions for languages like Apex.

ChatGPT for Slack, built by OpenAI: In addition, Salesforce and OpenAI today announced the ChatGPT for Slack app. The app provides new AI-powered conversation summaries, research tools to learn about any topic, and writing assistance to quickly draft messages.

The customer perspective: Customers like HPE, L’Oréal, RBC US Wealth Management, and S&P Global Ratings discuss the value generative AI delivers to improve customer engagement.

  • “Embedding AI into our CRM has delivered huge operational efficiencies for our advisors and clients,” said Greg Beltzer, Head of Tech for RBC US Wealth Management. “We believe that this technology has the potential to transform the way businesses interact with their customers, deliver personalized experiences, and drive customer loyalty. We are excited to explore this opportunity with Salesforce and drive the next generation of personalized customer experiences.”
  • “Advances in AI continue to facilitate deeper, multi-dimensional insights from market participants globally. Consequently, Sales and Marketing teams can improve their customer-centricity and become even more embedded in their customers’ journeys,” said Chris Heusler, Chief Commercial Officer of S&P Global Ratings. “The next chapter of AI has exciting implications for elevating the customer experience.”

Availability

Einstein GPT is currently in closed pilot.

Fairphone gives a fond farewell to its 7-year-old Fairphone 2

Fairphone, the Dutch social enterprise building a market for ethical smartphones, has announced that after an unprecedented over seven years of support, Fairphone 2 has reached the end of its life. The software update for Android 10 releasing today will be its final update. However, certain spare parts for Fairphone 2 will still be available as long as supplies last or as long as there are a reasonable amount of active users. Fairphone 2 was the world’s first modular smartphone on the market, a revolutionary concept for the electronics industry. In total, around 115,000 Fairphone 2s were sold and there are now around 15,000 still in use. Producing the first modular phone presented new challenges for Fairphone, both in the supply chain and software longevity.

Fairphone has had to work with chipsets that no longer support the latest software to keep Fairphone 2 going for as long as possible. Against all odds and with the help of many dedicated Fairphone and open source community members, the company was able to overcome software challenges to provide Fairphone 2 users with continued software updates, effectively using a DIY style to keep the device going for longer. Fairphone 2 launched with Android 5 and was subsequently upgraded to Android 6, Android 7.1, Android 9 and most recently Android 10. It is one of the few devices from 2015 to have received an upgrade to Android 9 and 10.  Fairphone provided users with a total of 43 software updates throughout Fairphone 2’s lifetime.

Fairphone has embraced open source software since its founding, working closely with open source communities. The open source community is crucial to allowing Fairphones to run securely for longer, even after the official end of software support. They helped Fairphone complete the last Android upgrades but also to provide alternative software available for its users. Today, users can now install OSes such as LineageOS or /e/OS available on Android 11 for Fairphone 2. Fairphone’s ambition is to bring more fairness to the electronics industry for both hardware and software.

Agnes Crepet, Head of Software Longevity at Fairphone, states:

“When we first launched Fairphone 2, our software team had the ambition to support the phone for three to five years. We didn’t know we would achieve our goal (and more) because it was an industry first. We are proud to have gone above and beyond our initial ambitions for Fairphone 2. The end of life for Fairphone 2 is bittersweet because in the ideal world, we’d support our devices indefinitely, but due to industry and financial constraints, that is simply not feasible. But we are happy we can say we supported Fairphone 2 for an unprecedented seven years.”

For more information on what this means for Fairphone 2 users, please read the blog post here.

What are the best strategies to get backlinks?

Is your website struggling to get the best ranking on Google? Don’t worry because you can succeed with the help of backlinks. This is used as a tool to expand a website’s reach and it can be useful for both websites to have this to build a relationship and market their services on both ends.

Getting the right formula to get backlinks is vital in improving your website’s ranking on search engines and its popularity. This has become the standard for the industry because people love getting high-quality backlinks because it drives organic traffic.

Websites like online casinos have improved with their gambling backlinks. A lot of platforms of the said niche are now competing for the top rankings in search engines since backlinking helps them gain traffic and profit. Look at the best strategies that SEO experts use when they want to get backlinks. 

The Skyscraper Technique

This technique will involve building backlinks by following a process. People are attracted to the best of the best with the content they consume. It is aptly named because the goal is to become the tallest skyscraper.

This is the process that you need to look into when using this technique:

  • Find the successful content that earned multiple links and take inspiration from them.
  • Create your content according to the niche and your target audience.
  • Promote the content to those who loved the initial pieces that you were consuming.

You need to ensure that your content will not be the same as the content that you consumed. Just take inspiration from that so you can implement it in your content. You also need to be comprehensive with the information that you are looking to release while maintaining an enticing aura. 

Find broken links within your niche

This will be the process of finding broken links on the pages within your niche. You need to reach out to the webmasters to get a solid look at the links that you can get. The broken link led to the 404: Not Found error which makes for a poor user experience for people. It also makes the site owner look worse because they did not maintain their website. 

You will get to replace a broken link with a backlink to your website. Navigate the backlink analytics so you can see the indexed pages and broken pages. This is where you can see opportunities for SEO people to find the best backlinks by making a replacement page and reaching out to the owners to offer your page as the alternative target.

Create content that naturally attracts backlinks

As you move forward with creating backlinks, you need to ensure that you are creating compelling content. It needs to be enticing that people will gravitate to those links and become possible patrons for the linked website.

Check out your niche and you will have some useful topics that can help you stand out from the rest. You need to use both nuance and statistics so you can attract backlinks from other people too. As you have enticing content, there will be a bright future with all of the content that you have made.

Do not miss out on using backlinks

An online casino needs gambling backlinks to get high traffic and rank higher in search results to prove itself as reliable. Doing this can be challenging with all of the time, effort, and money that will be spent but it helps with engaging potential patrons that can help the business move forward.

Boom Collaboration Launch Complete Conferencing Solution As Hybrid Work Demand Intensifies

Fast-growing video conferencing manufacturer, Boom Collaboration, has officially launched a portable all-in-one device which further blurs the lines between home and office work.

The Boom UNO is a complete conferencing system that combines a 120° wide angle full HD camera with a 360° omnidirectional microphone and built-in speaker.

The compact stylish device has plug-and-play functionality via one USB cable and is available in black and white color variants. It is compatible with Zoom, Teams, Webex, Google Meet and all the major meeting apps.

A status light is complemented by full duplex HD audio, a vertically adjustable lens and touch keypad with volume and mute controls.

Boom Collaboration was created in 2020 by founders Fredrik Hörnkvist and Holli Hulett, in a bid to disrupt the sector and stand out from the crowd – creating high performance, high value advanced products.

The ambitious Texas-based business has quickly developed an extensive conferencing portfolio and operates in 20 countries, with plans for major expansion to 30 more this year including the UK and central Europe.

“There’s little doubt hybrid work is here to stay and for many organizations it’s already embedded as an integral part of modern working cultures,” Hörnkvist explained.

“From our own research and experience we estimate around 55% of businesses globally have work from home policies, with this number growing in a post pandemic world. In addition, 30% of all employees are full-time remote workers while over 60% work from home occasionally. The right equipment can boost productivity while saving corporations money – creating true meeting equity for all participants.

BOOM UNO

“For us, demand for flexible portable products that are suitable for home as well as office life continue to accelerate. The Boom UNO ticks every box.”

Hulett added: “The Boom UNO gives users all the tools they need for effective collaboration in a simple user friendly package. Enjoy video calls in full HD combined with a powerful speakerphone with omni-directional pickup, full-duplex and advanced echo cancellation and noise suppression. It’s very easy to use and pop in a bag to transport between the home and office, or wherever people are working.”

The Boom UNO is lightweight and compact. It measures 18.1cm tall and is 6.2cm wide and deep.