BBVA and Bankinter, for instance, are both testing the possibility of externalizing some basic functions, like e-mail and office automation.
Some service providers drag their feet when asked to automate functions, as automation reduces their revenues.
And as much as the political narrative tells of workers losing their jobs to foreign competition, which is obviously true in some cases, the decline in those jobs is as much a function of automation as of global competition.
Development of the electronic digital computer (the ENIAC [Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer] in 1946 and UNIVAC I [Universal Automatic Computer] in 1951) has permitted the control function in automation to become much more sophisticated and the associated calculations to be executed much faster than previously possible.
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence were big topics at the conference and as one speaker after another lined up the next industry or function for automation, so some would start philosophising on what this meant for society.
Function-specific automation (Level 1) Some specific control function(s) such as electronic stability control or precharged brakes is are) automated.
The emergence of a holistic view of productivity development across an entire company and its assets, coupled with the high hopes Asia-based senior executives have for AI's influence on their firms' success, means it is likely that business leaders will focus their investment and adoption efforts on complementing and enhancing job functions with automation, rather than eliminating them.
Out of the box, Event Grid also supports Azure Blog Storage, Resource Manager, Application Topics, Event Hubs, Azure Functions, Azure Automation and Logic Apps, with support for other Azure-based services, including the new CosmosDB database service and IoT Hub, coming later this year.
The use of e-alert with SRT exemplifies the use of automation and forcing function in improving adherence to the best practice.
