Adobe Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products 

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products 

by | Aug 10, 2021 | Security, Technology

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The Importance of Facial Expressions Within American Sign Language

The Importance of Facial Expressions Within American Sign Language

by | Aug 10, 2021 | American Sign Language

For the deaf and hard of hearing, your facial expressions convey so much meaning. “Language is grammar — it’s sentence structure,” said Sharron Hill, the director of the American Sign Language Interpreting (ASLI) Program at the University of Houston, “And so, the way that individuals who communicate with a visual mode of communication convey grammar is on the face.”   

ASL uses hand movements, body language, facial expressions, and lip-reading to convey the nuances of a transmitted message. For example, it matters whether your eyebrows are up or if they’re down. This small detail decides how you answer a question. If eyebrows are up, this means a yes or no question, and if they are down, it is an open-ended question. Your mouth wide open or closed tightly conveys how large or small an object is, whether it’s thin, smooth, or thick.

The movement of the tongue can tell you how far something is. It also explains whether it’s right next to you or if it is thousands of miles away. The nod of the head determines whether you understand something or you do not. The way you turn your shoulders shows who is talking in a story or taking the lead in a race. It has been said that 50% of ASL consists of facial expressions or body movements.   

These intricacies of the language are endless. The best way to learn these is through those who are native to the language. If you’re learning ASL, find those in the deaf community, and don’t be afraid to ask questions! You will find that most community members are eager to help those who sincerely want to learn. Learning ASL has personally brought me many joys. I have developed lifelong friendships with those who first taught me the language. The language and the culture have made me more in touch with the unspoken communication we all use. They have given me many opportunities to help others. I would, without doubt, suggest it to anyone who has the time to learn.   

My suggestion to you, if you are currently learning, is to seek out native users. Spend time with them, get to know their history, the challenges they face. You will surely come out with a new perspective and increased incentive to learn their language. 

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox

by | Aug 10, 2021 | Security, Technology

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Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.

CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Firefox 91, Firefox ESR 78.13, and Thunderbird 78.13 and apply the necessary updates.

Summarize text with Text Analytics API

Summarize text with Text Analytics API

by | Aug 9, 2021 | Technology

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Text Analytics extractive summarization is in public preview!


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The extractive summarization feature in Text Analytics uses natural language processing techniques to locate key sentences in an unstructured text document. These sentences collectively convey the main idea of the document. This feature is provided as an API for developers. They can use it to build intelligent solutions based on the relevant information extracted to support various use cases.


 


In the public preview, extractive summarization supports 10 languages.  It is based on pretrained multilingual transformer models, part of our quest for holistic representations.  It draws its strength from transfer learning across monolingual and harness the shared nature of languages to produce models of improved quality and efficiency. The 10 languages are English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean,  Portuguese (Portugal), and Portuguese (Brazilian). 


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Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management is now generally available

Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management is now generally available

by | Aug 9, 2021 | Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Technology

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Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management, a cloud-based solution that helps accelerate omnichannel transformation from order intake through orchestration to fulfillment.

Increasingly, consumers expect seamless omnichannel buying and after-purchase experiences with multiple fast delivery options. Companies are responding to this challenge by adopting solutions to centrally manage the entire order lifecycle from the time their customers place the order to the time it is delivered. Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management enables organizations to adapt quickly and meet future order and fulfillment complexities while supporting contemporary methods like buying online or from an app for in-store or curbside pickup.

With Intelligent Order Management, business professionals gain real-time cross-channel inventory visibility and advanced analytical capabilities for better decision-making processes. Using AI-powered order insights, they can re-model and orchestrate the order fulfillment journey with easy-to-use drag and drop tools, and proactively overcome bottlenecks all while driving efficiencies across the supply chain to ensure that their customers’ needs are met on time and cost-effectively.

Order fulfillment becomes a competitive advantage

According to Statista, “In 2019, the same-day-delivery market in the United States amounted to 5.87 billion U.S. dollars. By 2024, this market is forecasted to reach 15.6 billion U.S. dollars. Same-day delivery in e-commerce in the U.S. is one of the most requested services.”

At Microsoft, we view this rise in demand for same-day delivery as an opportunity for businesses to turn order management into a competitive advantage. With Intelligent Order Management, we are providing businesses with the ability to meet these growing digital commerce needs by automating and optimizing fulfillment using real-time omnichannel inventory data supported by AI and machine learning.

Learn more in this webinar: Turn order fulfillment into a competitive advantage.

Configurable, not coded

According to Gartner, “by 2023, 50 percent of medium to large enterprise will have adopted a low code application program (LCAP) as one of their strategic application platforms.” In responding to the trend toward low-code/no-code (LC/NC) applications, our solution is designed to be configured, not coded, making it a more modern open platform. Moreover, it allows users to proactively overcome disruptions by reconfiguring order flows using a powerful but simple drag and drop interface. With these tools, users can rapidly deploy and scale with the latest fulfillment methods by leveraging pre-built connectors to various ERP, order intake, fulfillment, and delivery partner from our growing ecosystem.

Learn more in this short video introduction:

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Solution architecture

One of our objectives with Intelligent Order Management is to enable order intake from a variety of sources and pass them through the order orchestration, and process layers within the application. Intelligent Order Management’s event-driven order orchestration services then coordinate the events triggered by various APIs to different system connectors to make optimal fulfillment decisions. These decisions are continuously communicated and tracked for the entire order life cycle across all fulfillment partners and legal entities.

We also wanted to ensure that Intelligent Order Management could be used with other legacy systems within your business and since this is built on the Microsoft Power Platform, it enables us to deliver the low code, no code environment that users need to adapt quickly and respond intelligently to constraints and disruptions in the supply chain.

What’s next?

Dynamics 365 Intelligent Order Management allows companies to intelligently orchestrate fulfillment and automate order flows through a rules-based system with effective exception handling. Our groundbreaking solution also empowers business users with real rime visibility across inventory and order flows, and more importantly, provides the capability to quickly adjust and change any order path. Intelligent Order Management uses machine learning to learn how business users react to each exception and provide better recommendations each timehelping them achieve optimal stock levels and improve cash flow.

Ready to take the next steps with Intelligent Order Management? Get started today with a free trial. Or, to learn more, check out the top five reasons to transform your order management system with our e-book The Savvy CSCO’s Guide to Transforming Order Management.

1- “Same-day delivery market size in U.S. 2019-2024”, E. Mazareanu, May 12, 2021

2- Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms, 30 September 2020, Paul Vincent, Yefim Natis, Kimihiki Lijima, Jason Wong, Saikat Ray, Akash Jain, Adrian Leow

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