IT investments: gain or loss?

One of the big questions facing businesses in the current century, especially with regard to the IT industry. Research commissioned by Ricoh from Censuswide shows that failure to innovate in IT can significantly limit business revenue. The survey was conducted on a sample of one thousand medium-sized European companies (50-500 employees) located in the UK,…

Artificial intelligence: not just robots

Artificial intelligence has been talked about for several years now, and while in the past we used to reckon with the most amazing scenarios presented by science fiction movies, today machines have become an integral part of our daily lives. Perhaps expectations have been a little betrayed: those who thought they would see themselves interfacing…

Global Innovation Index 2017: the results

Some time ago we discussed in our blog the results of a survey conducted on 60 countries in the world to measure their degree of digitization over the period 2008-2015 (see the article “Measuring digitization, levels reached and impetus for investment“). The results of this survey produced a map in which the countries involved were…

Technology and productivity at work

Technology at work has become a rather debated topic: on the one hand, there are the admirers who recognize all the benefits associated with technology itself, especially if you work on the move in the so-called smart working mode; on the other hand, owning connected devices can be a source of distraction and, consequently, can…

Industry 4.0: the Italian situation

Let’s take stock of the situation regarding the trend of Industry 4.0 in Italy. This sector is still taking its first steps in our country, or rather, it is much discussed but little practiced, except for a few companies characterized by a highly innovative management. There are still many obstacles to the development of this…

Document digitisation

Documents, reports, quotations, orders, invoices, reports, and so on. Whatever your business is, it is virtually impossible for your office not to be overrun with all kinds of paperwork. And beyond the large amount of paper, surely one of the most stressful activities is its recording and filing, a process that requires clear ideas and…

The evolution of ransomware

Today’s ransomware looks nothing like the ransomware of 2013, when it was born. We are not simply talking about its structure, which has obviously evolved, but rather about the purpose of the malware itself, as the direction in which hackers are moving has changed. The criminals who spread such malware obviously have the sole objective…