McKinsey & Company utilise les renseignements générés par l’IA pour fournir des expériences centrées sur le client avec CustomerOne

CustomerOne étend la puissance de la prise de décision basée sur l’IA, en utilisant son approche complète et éprouvée pour aider les organisations à générer une croissance de leur chiffre d’affaires allant jusqu’à 20 %

NEW YORK et LONDRES, 12 oct. 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Aujourd’hui, les équipes de marketing et ventes doivent se connecter à leurs clients et acheteurs de manières totalement inédites. Toutefois, des données désordonnées, des piles technologiques complexes et des pratiques de travail cloisonnées peuvent faire échouer ces efforts.

C’est pourquoi McKinsey & Company étend la puissance de l’approche complète et éprouvée de CustomerOne. En favorisant la personnalisation à l’échelle, la croissance des ventes et la tarification pilotée par les données, les organisations de n’importe quel secteur peuvent obtenir une croissance de 10 à 20 % de leur chiffre d’affaires.

Optimisée par QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey, CustomerOne utilise une approche d’intelligence hybride, combinant la compréhension humaine avec l’intelligence machine et l’IA pour révéler des informations sur les clients, identifier des opportunités de croissance et offrir un impact durable et rapide. Elle fournit également des modèles d’exploitation agiles et construit des capacités pour transformer les informations critiques en action client.

Des informations exploitables à la surface avec des transformations de croissance de bout en bout
Les préférences, les demandes et les dynamiques des clients évoluent rapidement. Pour les entreprises ayant des fonctions cloisonnées et des piles technologiques complexes, il est difficile de se synchroniser avec leurs clients. Le boom des données, ainsi que la prolifération et la convergence des canaux de vente, rendent ce défi encore plus difficile. Pour saisir les bons moments sur tous les canaux, identifier de nouveaux horizons de croissance et capturer de la valeur à long terme, ces organisations ont besoin d’une approche de bout en bout qui aligne la technologie avec une expertise approfondie.

CustomerOne intègre de manière transparente la stratégie, la technologie, les capacités de croissance basées sur l’IA et les accélérateurs de mise en œuvre. Elle stimule une croissance de premier ordre, crée de la valeur client à long terme et aide les équipes marketing et commerciales à obtenir des retours plus élevés en optimisant l’efficacité et l’efficience sur l’ensemble de l’entonnoir des ventes.

« Nous avons constaté de nombreux bouleversements dans le comportement des consommateurs et des acheteurs », a déclaré Kelsey Robinson, associée principale de McKinsey & Company. « Ils ont un pouvoir énorme. La capacité des équipes marketing et commerciales à réussir dans ce nouveau monde dépend de ce qu’elles font avec les quantités incroyables de données autorisées par les consommateurs pour se rapprocher du client, personnaliser les expériences et créer des moments “déclencheurs”. »

L’ensemble étendu de capacités de domaine de CustomerOne comprend :

  • Personnalisation et gestion de la valeur client : favorise la personnalisation à l’échelle en intégrant des données client unifiées, des algorithmes d’apprentissage automatique et des analyses, afin que les spécialistes du marketing puissent en tirer les bonnes informations et agir en conséquence. Les entreprises sur-performantes produisent 40 % de plus de leur chiffre d’affaires issu de la personnalisation que leurs pairs.
  • Croissance des ventes : les capacités basées sur l’IA permettent aux équipes de vente de gagner de nouveaux clients, d’accroître leur rétention et de stimuler leur fidélité. Les entreprises qui y parviennent génèrent une croissance de 10 à 20 % de leur chiffre d’affaires.
  • Tarification B2B : aide les organisations à analyser la dynamique complexe du marché, y compris la volonté des clients de payer, la segmentation des clients et des produits et la performance contractuelle. CustomerOne utilise les résultats pour gérer les prix et les performances de manière dynamique, et obtenir des améliorations supérieures au marché. Les entreprises qui utilisent la tarification pilotée par les données obtiennent un retour de 2 à 7 % sur les ventes en augmentant leurs marges.

« Un changement réussi s’étend à l’ensemble de l’entreprise. Depuis la décision stratégique sur l’endroit et la manière de se développer jusqu’aux connaissances qui informent chaque interaction client, la plupart des entreprises ont du mal à combiner les talents, l’expertise, les capacités et la technologie adéquats en une approche globale pour stimuler le changement. L’extension de CustomerOne réunit nos capacités pour mener des transformations de bout en bout plus rapides pour nos clients dans tous les secteurs », a déclaré Stuart Schardin, associé chez McKinsey & Company.

« Même au meilleur des moments, il n’est pas facile de croître. En fait, 25 % des entreprises ne se développent pas du tout », a déclaré Jeff Hart, associé de McKinsey & Company. « Notre principale mission consiste à aider nos clients de tous les secteurs à saisir ce moment avec une approche technologique éprouvée qui facilite la consommation d’informations et de recommandations, tout en débloquant rapidement de nouvelles opportunités de croissance. Par exemple, une entreprise de logistique utilisant cette approche a pu augmenter ses marges de 44 %, tandis qu’une société chimique a enregistré un retour sur ventes de 2 % en seulement six semaines. »

Pour en savoir plus sur CustomerOne, cliquez ici.

À propos de McKinsey Growth, Marketing & Sales
La mission de McKinsey Growth, Marketing & Sales est d’aider les chefs de file des clients consommateurs et inter-entreprises à créer une croissance qui compte par le biais de transformations significatives et de profits axés sur le marketing. Cette pratique aide nos clients à définir leur orientation stratégique, à développer leurs capacités de marketing et de vente et à connecter leur organisation pour réaliser le plein potentiel des opportunités omnicanales d’aujourd’hui. Les clients bénéficient de l’expérience de McKinsey dans les domaines clés du marketing, de la tarification B2B et B2C, de l’expérience client, ainsi que de la gestion des ventes et des canaux.

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McKinsey & Company Usa Inteligência com Base em IA para Oferecer Experiências Centradas no Cliente com a CustomerOne

CustomerOne amplia a capacidade de tomada de decisão com base em IA, usando sua abordagem abrangente e comprovada para ajudar as organizações a aumentar a receita em até 20%

NOVA YORK e LONDRES, Oct. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As equipes de marketing e vendas de hoje têm que se conectar com seus consumidores e compradores de maneiras totalmente novas. Mas dados desarticulados, pilhas de tecnologia complexas e práticas de trabalho em silos podem inviabilizar esses esforços.

É por isso que a McKinsey & Company está ampliando a abordagem comprovada e abrangente da CustomerOne. Ao impulsionar a personalização em escala, o crescimento das vendas e a ativação de preços baseados em dados, as organizações em qualquer setor podem alcançar um aumento de 10-20% da receita.

Desenvolvida por QuantumBlack, AI da McKinsey, a CustomerOne usa uma abordagem de inteligência híbrida, combinando a compreensão humana com a inteligência de máquina e IA, para revelar insights do cliente, identificar oportunidades de crescimento e proporcionar um rápido impacto duradouro. Ela também fornece modelos operacionais ágeis e cria recursos para transformar insights críticos em ações do cliente.

Insights Acionáveis na Superfície com Transformação Total do Crescimento
As preferências, demandas e dinâmicas do cliente estão mudando rapidamente. Para as organizações com funções em silos e pilhas de tecnologia complexas, é um desafio permanecer em sintonia com seus clientes. O boom de dados, bem como a proliferação e convergência de canais de vendas, torna esse desafio ainda mais difícil. Para capturar os momentos certos em todos os canais, identificar novos horizontes de crescimento e obter valor de longo prazo, essas organizações precisam de uma abordagem completa que alinhe a tecnologia com profundo conhecimento.

A CustomerOne integra perfeitamente a estratégia, tecnologia, capacidades de crescimento alimentadas por IA e os aceleradores de implementação. Ela impulsiona o crescimento de primeira linha, cria valor para o cliente a longo prazo e ajuda as equipes de marketing e vendas a obter retornos mais altos, otimizando a eficiência e a eficácia em todo o funil de vendas.

“Observamos muitas grandes alterações na maneira como os consumidores e compradores estão mudando”, disse Kelsey Robinson, Sócia Sênior da McKinsey & Company. “Eles têm um tremendo poder. A capacidade de as equipes de marketing e vendas terem sucesso neste novo mundo depende do que elas fazem com as incríveis quantidades de dados liberados pelo consumidor para se aproximar do cliente, personalizar experiências e criar momentos de ‘ignição’.”

O conjunto expandido de recursos de domínio da CustomerOne inclui: 

  • Personalização e Gestão de Valor do Cliente: Impulsiona a personalização em escala, integrando dados unificados do cliente, algoritmos de aprendizado de máquina e funções analíticas, para que os profissionais de marketing possam obter os insights certos e agir de acordo com eles. As empresas com desempenho superior alcançam uma receita 40% mais alta com a personalização do que as outras.
  • Aumento das Vendas: Os recursos com base em IA viabilizam que as equipes de vendas conquistem novos clientes, aumentem a retenção dos clientes, e conquistem a fidelidade. As empresas que fazem isso bem impulsionam um crescimento de 10-20% da receita.
  • Preços B2B: Ajuda as organizações a analisar dinâmicas de mercado complexas, incluindo a disposição do cliente para pagar, segmentação de clientes e produtos, e desempenho dos contratos. A CustomerOne usa os resultados para gerenciar dinamicamente os preços e o desempenho, e alcançar melhorias superiores às do mercado. As empresas que usam preços com base em dados alcançam 2-7% de retorno sobre as vendas, expandindo suas margens.

“Mudanças bem-sucedidas se estendem por toda a organização comercial. Desde a decisão estratégica sobre onde e como crescer, até os insights que informam cada interação com o cliente, a maioria das organizações tem dificuldades quando se trata de colocar o talento, a experiência, as capacidades e a tecnologia certos em uma abordagem abrangente para impulsionar a mudança. A extensão da CustomerOne reúne nossas capacidades em um só local para impulsionar transformações totais mais rápidas para nossos clientes em todos os setores”, disse Stuart Schardin, Sócio da McKinsey & Company.

“Mesmo nos melhores momentos, o crescimento não é fácil. Na verdade, 25% das empresas não crescem”, disse Jeff Hart, Sócio da McKinsey & Company. “Estamos concentrados em ajudar nossos clientes em todos os setores a conhecer esse momento com uma abordagem comprovada e habilitada para a tecnologia, que facilita o consumo de insights e recomendações, e revela rapidamente novas oportunidades de crescimento. Por exemplo, uma empresa de logística que usou essa abordagem conseguiu expandir suas margens em 44%, enquanto uma empresa química alcançou 2% de retorno sobre as vendas em seis semanas.”

Para mais informação sobre a CustomerOne, clique aqui.

Sobre o Crescimento, Marketing e Vendas da McKinsey
A missão da McKinsey Growth, Marketing & Sales é ajudar os líderes de clientes consumidores e business-to-business a criar Crescimento Que Importa por meio de transformações significativas e lucro orientado por marketing. Ela ajuda nossos clientes a definir sua direção estratégica, desenvolver suas capacidades de marketing e vendas, e conectar sua organização para realizar todo o potencial das oportunidades omnicanal de hoje. Os clientes se beneficiam da experiência da McKinsey nas principais áreas de marketing, preços B2B e B2C, experiência do cliente e gerenciamento de vendas e canais.

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Henry Hui Named Corporate Vice President of Hydrogen Strategy and Energy Infrastructure for Nikkiso Clean Energy and Industrial Gases Group

TEMECULA, Calif., Oct. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nikkiso Cryogenic Industries’ Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (“Group”), a part of the Nikkiso Co., Ltd (Japan) group of companies, is pleased to announce that Henry Hui was promoted to Corporate Vice President of Hydrogen Strategy and Energy Infrastructure, effective October 1, 2022.

Henry will continue to inspire a strategic vision in his new role for the Group and set action plans to accelerate the deployment of Nikkiso’s cryogenic, process and turbomachinery technologies. His efforts will enhance customer growth in the global clean energy market and foster collaborations with government agencies, trade associations, consortium, partnerships, and all CE&IG functional units and regional companies. In addition, Henry will be responsible for heading up a total engineering team in Houston, TX, for the newly created Energy Infrastructure and Strategic Projects (NESP) functional unit to better serve customers with Nikkiso’s world-class equipment, service, and solutions.

“Henry has comprehensive experience in business development, value engineering, and project delivery, along with 25 years of industry knowledge and achievements in the energy and industrial gas sectors. He brings a balance of both strategic planning and execution capabilities to the Group and NESP,” according to Emile Bado, Executive Vice President, Sales & Business Development of the Group. “Henry’s role further supports our mission to provide innovative equipment, technologies and services through our global group of companies to help our customers to make a difference.”

Henry joined the Integrated Cryogenic Solutions functional unit over one year ago and has been instrumental in the recent success of Nikkiso’s Hydrogen Refueling Station business line. Henry has a BS in Chemical Engineering and an MS in Engineering from North Carolina State University. He is also a registered PE and a certified PMP.

ABOUT CRYOGENIC INDUSTRIES
Cryogenic Industries, Inc. (now a member of Nikkiso Co., Ltd.) member companies manufacture, and service engineered cryogenic gas processing equipment (pumps, turboexpanders, heat exchangers, etc.), and process plants for Industrial Gases, Natural gas Liquefaction (LNG), Hydrogen Liquefaction (LH2) and Organic Rankine Cycle for Waste Heat Recovery. Founded over 50 years ago, Cryogenic Industries is the parent company of ACD, Nikkiso Cryo, Nikkiso Integrated Cryogenic Solutions, Cosmodyne and Cryoquip and a commonly controlled group of approximately 20 operating entities.

For more information, please visit www.nikkisoCEIG.com and www.nikkiso.com.

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aquigley@cryoind.com

LeddarTech Adota Modelo de Negócios de Software Automotivo para Suporte às Soluções ADAS e AD

QUEBEC, Oct. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A LeddarTech®, líder global no fornecimento da tecnologia de detecção ADAS e AD mais flexível, robusta e precisa, tem o prazer de anunciar que está adotando uma estratégia de negócios que se traduz em maiores recursos financeiros e de equipe dedicados a um modelo de negócios de software automotivo.

Há mais de uma década, a LeddarTech tem estado na vanguarda do desenvolvimento de tecnologia de detecção para os mercados de mobilidade, para estrada e fora da estrada em todo o mundo. Há muitos anos a empresa vem investindo fortemente no desenvolvimento de uma solução única de fusão e percepção de sensores de dados brutos. Esta solução recebeu vários prêmios e a atenção dos principais OEMs e Tier 1 automotivos de todo o mundo.

A solução de software de fusão e percepção da LeddarTech, LeddarVision™, é uma solução de alto desempenho, escalonável, independente de sensores e de grau automático que oferece modelos ambientais 3D altamente precisos. Além disso, a LeddarVision é compatível com todos os níveis de autonomia SAE com a aplicação de algoritmos de IA e visão computacional para fundir dados brutos de sensores empregados em aplicativos L2-L5. A LeddarTech usa a fusão de dados brutos para detectar obstáculos muito pequenos na estrada com melhores taxas de detecção e menos alarmes falsos do que as soluções legadas de “fusão de objetos”. Além disso, obstáculos não classificados também são detectados, proporcionando uma camada adicional de segurança ao veículo.

“Tenho o prazer de anunciar a próxima etapa da evolução da LeddarTech como líder em software automotivo para aplicativos ADAS e AD”. disse Charles Boulanger, CEO da LeddarTech. “Iniciamos nossa incursão em software automotivo há muitos anos, e nosso desenvolvimento nos levou a uma solução única e premiada altamente considerada por uma indústria que luta para resolver os desafios da aceleração da adoção em grande escala de maior autonomia.” O Sr. Boulanger continuou: “As conclusões dos analistas de mercado e dos clientes confirmam claramente que estamos em uma posição única com uma solução de software que os OEMs precisam para melhorar o desempenho do ADAS e do AD.” O Sr. Boulanger disse: “A necessidade do mercado de uma solução de fusão e percepção de sensores que possa ser facilmente integrada e inclua todos os benefícios da LeddarVision nunca foi tão grande, e o uso da fusão de dados brutos torna a nossa oferta ainda mais atraente para os clientes.” O Sr. Boulanger concluiu: “A equipe da LeddarTech está animada e preparada para seguir em frente e dedicou o seu trabalho e o trabalho dos nossos técnicos a um objetivo ambicioso, porém alcançável, de ser a solução de software de fusão e percepção de sensores mais adotada do mercado.”

Sobre a LeddarTech
Fundada em 2007, a LeddarTech é uma empresa de software ADAS e AD automotivo que oferece soluções abrangentes de fusão e percepção de dados brutos completos, para que os clientes resolvam desafios essenciais em toda a cadeia de valor.

A tecnologia de software de nível automotivo da LeddarTech, LeddarVision™, é uma solução flexível, robusta, econômica e independente de sensores que oferece modelos ambientais 3D altamente precisos. Além disso, o software escalonável é compatível com todos os níveis de autonomia SAE com a aplicação de algoritmos de IA e visão computacional para fundir dados brutos de sensores empregados em aplicativos L2-L5. A LeddarTech usa a fusão de dados brutos para detectar obstáculos muito pequenos na estrada com melhores taxas de detecção e menos alarmes falsos do que as soluções legadas de “fusão de objetos”. Além disso, obstáculos não classificados também são detectados, proporcionando uma camada adicional de segurança ao veículo.

A LeddarTech é responsável por muitas inovações de aplicações de automotivos e de mobilidade avançadas, tendo mais de 140 capacidades aprimoradas de condução ADAS e autônomas com patentes concedidas ou em andamento.

Para mais informação sobre a LeddarTech visite www.leddartech.com, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook e YouTube.

Contato:
Daniel Aitken, Vice-Presidente, Marketing Global, Comunicações e Relacionamento com o Investidor, LeddarTech Inc.
Tel.: + 1-418-653-9000 ramal 232 daniel.aitken@leddartech.com

Contato de relações com investidores: InvestorRelations@leddartech.com
https://investors.leddartech.com/

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Leading in Cloud Native, Huawei Cloud Unleashes Digital with 10 New Services

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — HUAWEI CONNECT 2022, themed “Unleash Digital”, kicks off in Dubai today. Industry leaders, experts, partners, and guests from the Middle East and Africa gather to share their thoughts on technological innovation, ecosystem collaboration, and digital transformation. Ken Hu, Rotating Chairman of Huawei, delivered a keynote speech under the conference theme and called for enterprises to “embrace cloud for leapfrog development” for digital transformation. Joy Huang, President of Huawei Cloud Computing Strategy & Industry Development, delivered a speech “Unleash Digital with Everything as a Service”.

oy Huang, President of Strategy & Industry Development, Huawei Cloud

Mr. Huang said that greener infrastructure, continuous innovation, and shared experience are the paths to digital transformation.

Huawei Cloud marks its presence with innovations in native technologies. At this event, three cloud native products are released globally: CCE Turbo for container engine and UCS for ubiquitous cloud native. CCE Turbo accelerates computing, networking, and scheduling to achieve ultimate scalability. For example, it helps Sina Weibo easily cope with traffic bursts by scaling out 3,000 pods in just one minute. UCS enables users to manage cloud native applications across clouds and regions with one consistent experience. GuassDB has been re-architected to become serverless, and now you can scale your GaussDB automatically in seconds. It’s part of our Backend as a Service plan.

Many enterprise applications have to process hybrid requests. For example, a financial application may need to process loans and analyze transaction data as well.

To unleash the real-world potential of AI, Huawei Cloud focuses on three core AI technologies: foundation models, solvers, and knowledge computing. Huawei Cloud worked with partners to develop the Pangu NLP model for the Arabic language that supports hundreds of billions of parameters. The semantic understanding accuracy reached 95%. The OptVerse AI Solver combines operations research and AI, improving the solution speed by 100 times and modeling efficiency by 30 times. The upgraded knowledge computing provides a faster path to combine industry knowledge with AI, and integrates knowledge acquisition, modeling, management, and application all in one place, greatly improving the efficiency of using AI.

Application modernization is a must for digitalization. To ease this process, Huawei Cloud launches four pipelines for software development, data governance, AI development, and digital content production. Huawei Cloud also dives deep into digital technologies and distills them into aPaaS services to customers. At this event, two new core aPaaS services are released: KooMessage and KooSearch.

As a constant innovator, Huawei Cloud hopes to support customer growth with the cutting-edge technologies.

Unleash Digital Productivity and Embrace Cloud

At the Huawei Cloud TechWave Summit held on the same day, Jacqueline Shi, President of Marketing and Sales Service of Huawei Cloud, delivered an opening speech. She pointed out that the key to unleashing digital is to embrace the cloud, and cloud native is the way to realize digital transformation.

Jacqueline Shi, President of Global Marketing and Sales Service, Huawei Cloud

Following the “Everything as a Service” strategy, Huawei Cloud builds full-stack cloud native services covering Infrastructure as a Service, Technology as a Service, and Expertise as a Service. Huawei Cloud shares localization experience gained from global services, as well as the insights into businesses and industries in major regions, all of which constitute advanced technologies and solutions to serve more customers in a wider range of industries. “The key to making the most of cloud is to think cloud native, act cloud native. Cloud native has the path to agile and modern applications.” said Jacqueline. To provide better local support, Huawei Cloud has built 70 AZs in 27 Regions around the world and rolled out 92 cloud services in the Middle East. Huawei Cloud is launching new Regions in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, another effort of Huawei Cloud to enlarge its global network and provide customers in the Middle East and Africa with more secure, stable, and low-latency networks.

Cloud Native 2.0 Architecture White Paper: https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/about/cloudnative2_0/whitepaper.html

Drive Productivity with Digital Technologies

Human society is becoming digital and intelligent, presenting both challenges and opportunities. Frank Dai, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East, delivered a keynote speech “Inspire Innovation with Everything as a Service”, introducing Huawei Cloud’s approach to help customers in the Middle East make the most of cloud, improve digital resilience, and go further in digital transformation.

Frank Dai, President of Huawei Cloud Middle East

Cloud features efficiency, convenience, and scalability, much beneficial to digital transformation for enterprises. Frank said that countries in the Middle East have realized the value of cloud to digital economy. Building a digital infrastructure is essentially to make the most of cloud. Cloud once meant elastic computing resources to enterprises, who used IaaS services mostly. Now, cloud capabilities branch out to emerging fields such as AI, application development, and big data, with integrated development tools and consulting services accessible whenever needed. Huawei has shifted from helping you “migrate to a good cloud” to “make the most of cloud”.

The local ecosystem is an indispensable force to digital transformation. According to Mr. Dai, in the Middle East, Huawei Cloud will work with stakeholders to develop the local digital ecosystem in three aspects, including building industry-specific digital capabilities, cultivating digital talent, and providing support for SMEs.

Dr. Tian Qi, academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEEE Fellow, and chief AI scientist of Huawei Cloud, introduced Huawei Cloud’s innovations in Enterprise Intelligence (EI) services and described the value and potential of AI for scientific research, production, and daily life. Dr. Tian said, “AI for Science brings not only tech breakthroughs, but a total changeover in scientific research methods. It will help scientists overcome bottlenecks and leapfrog the technical gap.”

Dr. Tian Qi, Chief AI Scientist of Huawei Cloud

Full-Stack Architecture Innovation and Ubiquitous Cloud Native

Cloud native is becoming the preferred choice for enterprises to move to the cloud, previously by Internet companies and now enterprises in traditional industries. Cloud native is poised for full-fledged development.

William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing, pointed out that in the future, applications, data, AI models, and digital content will become the core assets of a digital and intelligent enterprise. Enterprises will develop, run, and manage these resources in a converged pipeline, and cloud native will be the technology to help businesses navigate uncertainty.

Based on its own technical innovations and practices, Huawei Cloud believes that enterprises are not just migrating to the cloud, but also building on the cloud. Therefore, cloud native covers not only microservices, Kubernetes, and containers, but also big data, AI, and media services. This is called Cloud Native 2.0. Huawei Cloud provides a full-stack cloud native solution with leading capabilities.William Dong, President of Huawei Cloud Marketing

Mr. Dong said that Huawei Cloud will dive deeper into cloud native and stay open to enrich its cloud native service portfolio. Huawei Cloud not only provides high-performance, stable, and reliable cloud native infrastructure, but also provides easy-to-use tools and pipelines easily accessible for application development, AI, big data, and digital content production during digital transformation. Huawei Cloud plays an active role in open source for cloud native development. In 2015, Huawei became the only CNCF founding member from Asia. Huawei keeps contributing to the community, ranking No. 1 in Asia and No. 6 in the world by committed code.

To extend cloud native to wherever customers run their services, Huawei Cloud, with its global layout and software-hardware synergy, overcomes geographical restrictions, abstracts away the differences of underlying IT resources, and eases global service deployment and management for customers. Cloud native is the path Huawei Cloud takes to realize Everything as a Service.

At the event, Huawei Cloud released the Cloud Native 2.0 Architecture White Paper, aiming to enable local customers with full-stack cloud native capabilities to take a quantum leap to the future.

By Local, For Local

In 2020, Huawei Cloud was launched in the Middle East. In 2021, Huawei Cloud launched a Region in Abu Dhabi. Huawei Cloud can now provide local support to quickly respond to customer needs. Currently, more than 50 governments and enterprises in the region are using Huawei Cloud services.

Huawei Cloud aims to build the cloud foundation for an intelligent world with ubiquitous cloud and pervasive intelligence. Empowering customers, partners, and developers with cloud native, Huawei Cloud stands ready to drive digital transformation for the local economy.

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Scientists Grow Human Brain Cells in Rats to Study Diseases

Scientists have transplanted human brain cells into the brains of baby rats, where the cells grew and formed connections.

It’s part of an effort to better study human brain development and diseases affecting this most complex of organs, which makes us who we are but has long been shrouded in mystery.

“Many disorders such as autism and schizophrenia are likely uniquely human” but “the human brain certainly has not been very accessible,” said said Dr. Sergiu Pasca, senior author of a study describing the work, published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Approaches that don’t involve taking tissue out of the human brain are “promising avenues in trying to tackle these conditions.”

The research builds upon the team’s previous work creating brain “organoids,” tiny structures resembling human organs that have also been made to represent others such as livers, kidneys, prostates, or key parts of them.

To make the brain organoids, Stanford University scientists transformed human skin cells into stem cells and then coaxed them to become several types of brain cells. Those cells then multiplied to form organoids resembling the cerebral cortex, the human brain’s outermost layer, which plays a key role in things like memory, thinking, learning, reasoning and emotions.

Scientists transplanted those organoids into rat pups 2 to 3 days old, a stage when brain connections are still forming. The organoids grew so that they eventually occupied a third of the hemisphere of the rat’s brain where they were implanted. Neurons from the organoids formed working connections with circuits in the brain.

Human neurons have been transplanted in rodents before, but generally in adult animals, usually mice. Pasca, a psychiatry professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, said this is the first time these organoids have been placed into early rat brains, creating “the most advanced human brain circuitry ever built from human skin cells and a demonstration that implanted human neurons can influence an animal’s behavior.”

To examine a practical use of this approach, scientists transplanted organoids into both sides of a rat’s brain: one generated from a healthy person’s cells and another from the cells of a person with Timothy syndrome, a rare genetic condition associated with heart problems and autism spectrum disorder.

Five to six months later, they saw effects of the disease related to the activity of the neurons. There were differences in the two sides’ electrical activity, and the neurons from the person with Timothy syndrome were much smaller and didn’t sprout as many extensions that pick up input from nearby neurons.

Researchers, whose study was funded partly by the National Institutes of Health, said they could do the same sorts of experiments using organoids made from the cells of people with disorders such as autism or schizophrenia — and potentially learn new things about how these conditions affect the brain, too.

Dr. Flora Vaccarino of Yale University – who previously grew lumps containing cerebral cortex that were made with DNA from people with autism – said the study moves the field forward.

“It’s extremely impressive what they do here in terms of what these cells can actually show us in terms of their advanced development … in the rat,” said Vaccarino, who wasn’t involved with the study.

Such experiments in animals raise ethical concerns. For example, Pasca said he and his team are cognizant of the rats’ well-being and whether they still behave normally with the organoids inside them, which he says they do. Still, Pasca does not believe this should be tried in primates. Ethicists also wonder about the possibility of brain organoids in the future attaining something like human consciousness, which experts say is extremely unlikely now.

Some scientists are studying human brain organoids outside of animals. For example, researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland published a study in Nature earlier this month describing how they are growing brain-like tissue from stem cells in the lab and then mapping the cell types in various brain regions and genes regulating their development. Some are using these structures to study autism.

Pasca said brain organoids could also be used to test new treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders, the largest cause of disability worldwide. Such research, he said, should help scientists make strides that have been extremely difficult until now because it’s so hard to get at the human brain – which is “the reason why we’re so much more behind in psychiatry compared to any other branch of medicine in terms of therapeutics.”

Source: Voice of America