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Pros and cons of SAP Cloud Platform integration tools

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In today’s complex heterogeneous information network, there are typical challenges which need to be addressed in Integration domain. Some of the questions which immediately arise are which technologies to use? How complex is running and maintaining integration solution? Which protocols to use? What about our organisation data security? What is the total cost of ownership? How much time is needed for integration? What about the software upgrades etc? One stop solution for all these problems is SAP HANA Cloud Integration. So, let’s get the basics right! Based on queries from customers, we have realised that most of our understanding towards HCI is not up to the mark. If we need to summarize in one line: "SAP HCI is SAP PI solution on cloud with better flavour. It is a pre-packaged integration content hub in cloud that “Discover, Configure, Manage “the data.". HCI comes in two flavours, HCI for process integration, and HCI Data Services for data provisioning. In

RailYatri receives Series B funding from Omidyar Network

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RailYatri, a travel start-up, has raised an undisclosed amount in Series B funding led by Omidyar Network. With the addition of bus and one-way cab bookings, this Noida-based start-up has rapidly increased its footprint in the long-distance travel space and quickly emerged as a top travel destination with over 12 million monthly users. This round led by Omidyar Network, saw participation from all other existing investors, including Nandan Nilekani, Blume Ventures and Helion Venture Partners. Manish Rathi, Co-Founder & CEO RailYatri, said, “We are overwhelmed by the travellers response to our platform, and at current growth rates we expect to be India’s largest traveller destination this year. Our marketplace has exceeded expectations and is touching 100 crore run rate in bookings in its first full year. Our offline reach extends to over 100 cities with the tier-2 and -3 cities helping drive growth. We plan to reach 10 million annual transaction rate this year, and this ro

Dahua introduces Dual Biometric Identification Time Attendance Terminals

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Dahua Technology Co., Ltd has launched its new time attendance terminals – the DHI-ASA4214F and DHI-ASA6214F. These highly intelligent devices will support both face and fingerprint identification for access control and time attendance in office scenarios, enabling easy staff management and security control. According to the company, Dahua’s attendance terminals offer dual-biometric identification integrated into a single device. Embedded with advanced infrared face recognition algorithms, these new time attendance terminals further improve on poor lighting environment performance, making it smart enough to identify a designated face in a very short time. Access to live face detection significantly improves safety, preventing the use of “picture camouflage” to deceive the system. If needed, you can add a card or password to the combination to make the whole system even safer. Rich functionalities simple to operate even for beginners Despite having multiple advanced

MTNL to winding up soon

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Life line of two major metro in Delhi and Mumbai ,Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) which provides telecom services and brings telecom revolution since 1986 , Now  struggling with declining revenues and mounting losses in the very technology and price competitive market with it's has a huge staff strength of 27,919 which needs to be taken care of by the government is finally exploring the option of shutting down the debt-laden firm by monetise its land, buildings and tower business. Government is also exploring various options on how to give MTNL's licence fees of Rs.11,000cr will come up for renewal in April next year. Sources said, as far as the firm’s mobile subscribers are concerned, they can easily port out to other operators which has happened of late when some private operators shut down their services. MTNL’s landline business can be assigned to fellow PSU, BSNL which currently does not have presence in Delhi and Mumbai Previously, different governments explored th