Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) is running its annual virtual partner conference, Connex24, on 7 and 8 of February. Themed Technology for a Sustainable Future, the focus will be how ALE's people, partners, and technology can create and deliver positive outcomes.
At the event, the executive management team will illustrate how Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise technology can help drive digital transformation for partners and their customers across multiple sectors including healthcare, education, government, transportation, hospitality and energy and utilities sectors.
The company will share its value propositions, and how ALE can build secure, sustainable, and compliant enterprise solutions.
ALE released some 2024 predictions ahead of the event:
2024 use cases
ALE expect gen AI to be used more extensively in business data analytics to augment productivity through smarter automation. "Organisations can tap on AI to distill the massive amounts of data available today at our fingertips, while the insights gleaned and communicated to the end user in the relevant context can prove invaluable in high-stakes scenarios such as healthcare, mission-critical operations and crisis management," the company said.
ALE also sees AI harnessed for network management, where it can accelerate operations and ensure optimal performance. "AI can adapt to varying network conditions, making real-time decisions in optimising network health and traffic flows or even to remediate potential security issues before they happen, thus reducing downtime, and streamlining processes," the company noted.
"In doing this, businesses can partner with experienced technology providers to unlock the potential of AI with drastically-reduced costs, significantly-improved efficiencies in delivery, and to maximise offerings to customers that will enable them to maintain a competitive edge."
Geographically-distributed teams
For many companies today, the conversation is about adapting to hybrid work styles, ALE said. "As companies increasingly lean on geographically-distributed teams and a global talent pool, there is the need to have the right technology investments, such as AI tools and functionality embedded in collaboration suites, that enable more effective collaboration between employees, regardless of their location," ALE noted.
"Investing in technology and smarter tools looks to be a focus for 2024; in fact, 76% of the CEOs in PWC’s 26th annual CEO Survey for 20231 note that they plan to invest in automating processes and systems in the year to come. This reallocation of human capital can significantly boost productivity, as employees are freed from busy work, and enabled to spend more time with strategic and creative output, and ultimately have more control over their work processes.
"Forrester’s 2024 predictions also note that enterprise AI initiatives will boost productivity and creative problem solving by 50% in the year to come2. This presents an opportunity for businesses to continue investing in training their employees. The learnings should centre around giving the employees a base and methodology of how to approach difficult problems creatively and collaboratively, and to include data from disparate sources. Aided by AI, the companies that enable this approach in their teams will get ahead as the technology evolves in complexity."
Demand for AI-ready infrastructure
ALE observed that Asia Pacific nations are already formulating national strategies concerning AI and digital infrastructure. "More recently, Singapore announced an update to its original AI strategy launched in 2019; National AI Strategy 2.0 includes considerations to scale up AI for compelling use cases in sectors including advanced manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, education, and public services," the company said.
"However, many facilities are not equipped to support the high-performance computing and high-bandwidth networking requirements that AI workloads require. In fact, more than four in 10 IT leaders surveyed globally believe their existing IT infrastructure is not fully prepared for the demands of AI3."
ALE advises businesses to approach gen AI with eyes wide open, and by establishing clear ethical frameworks around deployment. The company also predicted increased demand for purpose-built, scalable, and flexible digital infrastructure that can accommodate the compute and networking performance requirements of high-performance workloads such as AI.
"Organisations who want to be able to innovate and stay competitive must invest in transforming their digital infrastructure to reinforce their strategic advantage," ALE said.
The company recently won the 2024 IoT Health & Wellness Connected Healthcare Solution of the Year award, part of the IoT Breakthrough awards, for its Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess Stellar Asset Tracking solution.
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1 Winning today’s race while running tomorrow’s (PWC)
2 Forrester's Predictions 2024: Only 30% Of Firms In Asia Pacific Will Harness The Transformative Power Of Generative AI
3 Equinix 2023 Global Tech Trends Survey
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