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Today’s citizen expects a modern, streamlined, and responsive citizen service experience across government institutions, comparable to leading private-sector organizations. An online web-based service ensures that citizens get consistent, accurate, and up-to-date answers regardless of who is at the service desk. Documenting the frequently asked questions and guiding citizens with helpful text on the website can help reduce the calls to the support desk.

Multinational corporations are now increasingly faced with the challenge of operating across partner companies with diverse corporate cultures. For leaders who are currently leading these business functions or would likely move into such roles - training plays a vital role.

The Internet is a mission-critical infrastructure, for any nation. Increasingly government institutions are making their services available online to improve citizens' quality of life.

The road transport department is constantly battling with the problem of poor routing and scheduling; random criminal acts that destroy public transport vehicles - resulting in higher maintenance costs. The department is also faced with the problem of having very little data available at its disposal to track and optimize the current fleet’s performance. The complexity of the problem further enhances when public transport vehicles start and return from multiple depots, and many of these routes are return journeys to the original depot.

Fast-food restaurants managers are in the eternal pursuit of reducing waiting time for customers. They understand that customers have a busy lifestyle. During the rush hour, when people queue up before the cash register and it becomes crowded, kiosks give customers the option of placing their own orders. They could enter their choices on their own and have the kitchen preparing their orders, reducing the wait time for their meals.

This era is marked by a constant technological breakthrough that repeatedly disrupts the business world. Professionals constantly re-educate themselves to outdo competition at a workplace. More than ever, Universities are facing fierce competition from online learning platforms that offer short, stackable certificate programs; and or blended online courses of great value.

Today’s shoppers demand unified experience across channels. They wish to buy anywhere, receive anywhere, and return anywhere. If they bought it online, they want to return in-store. If an item is out-of-stock in-store, they want to see it on their mobile. They walk into the store and ask the in-store sales associate to order something online for them and wants to get it delivered at their residence.

Globally supply chain managers are constantly faced with the challenge of reducing variability about items procured from vendors. The problem of variability is far higher in the real world and an off-the-shelf ERP software does not provide meaningful support to handle this crisis.

How artificial intelligence and robotics will amplify people products and business

Remember a very popular game which came out some years back and caused ripples of excitement for at least some months - yes, you guessed it right, it was Pokemon Go. With the user’s smartphone and camera, the game turned the real world into an augmented reality world which included Pokemon. Augmented Reality (AR) is an interesting field, just like Artificial Intelligence and if you think it is only meant for games, then think again!

Remember a very popular game which came out some years back and caused ripples of excitement for at least some months - yes, you guessed it right, it was Pokemon Go. With the user’s smartphone and camera, the game turned the real world into an augmented reality world which included Pokemon. Augmented Reality (AR) is an interesting field, just like Artificial Intelligence and if you think it is only meant for games, then think again!

Remember Pokemon Go? The game that once had everyone, from kids to adults, wandering around with their smartphones in pursuit of virtual creatures? This wasn't just a gaming fad. It was a groundbreaking example of how AR could blend the digital and physical worlds, creating an immersive experience. Pokemon Go demonstrated that AR has the potential to go beyond gaming, setting the stage for innovative marketing strategies.

Narrative Magazine approached Zyxware in 2008 with a request for support for their website www.narrativemagazine.org. One of the first tasks that was entrusted to Zyxware was to set up an online gift store for donors. The gifts included books and merchandise. Each gift was accompanied by a description. Zyxware set up the store on Ubercart with complex features. The feature set was limited because it was felt that since an upgrade/migration from Drupal 5 was impending, it would not be wise to implement the entire feature list in Drupal 5.

Audeze is a company dedicated to manufacturing high end audio head phones and accessories that provide exceptional quality in rendering sound output. Its high quality build and state-of-the-art technological innovations put together by their talented team of engineers help to realize a product that is unique and render the most accurate sound reproduction available today, as mentioned in their website www.audeze.com. An important channel for their sales is their website. THE ENGAGEMENT Audeze approached Zyxware around the time they had ported from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Analytics have been evolving rapidly for quite some time now. Technology giants like Google and IBM have played a crucial role in democratizing it. Business organizations have started using AI based services massively for the betterment of their processes and improvement of efficiency. Right from marketing to operations management, AI based tools have started upending conventional tools. The insights delivered by Analytics help organizations in making crucial business decisions.

The two industry-wide security vulnerabilities named Meltdown and Spectre are hardware bugs that can allow hackers to steal sensitive information such as passwords, encryption keys from the memory of other programs. They work in different ways, affect different processors from Intel, ARM, and AMD, and require different fixes.

In today’s digital world, one size fits all marketing is no longer relevant, instead, the focus is on contextual marketing and personalized customer experience across the entire sales funnel through digital platforms. Many businesses are working hard trying to build their customer engagement, but often fail because they are focused on any and all kind of interactions without considering the value that is added through the relationship. When a business uses Drupal 8 as its platform of choice, it takes ownership of the experience that is being delivered to customers.

Patternlab is a dynamic organizational and prototyping tool for Drupal theming. By theming with pattern lab, your custom theme allows us to manage and build components in accordance with the required workflow using atomic design concepts1. Using Pattern Lab for Drupal 8 Theming Instead of rendering default Drupal templates, we can introduce pattern lab to include twig files using atomic concepts. It allows us to include external twig files by overriding the specific templates.

The 2018 DrupalCon is all set to start today at Music City, Nashville, Tennessee. The event will be flagged off by the customary keynote address by Drupal founder- Dries Buytaert. Zyxware’s founder and CTO, Anoop John will be attending the conference on behalf of the company.

If you are a Drupal enthusiast, business owner, consultant or anyone one who loves web technology, this infographic will be useful for you. It explains the capabilities of Drupal in various aspects like types of project, integration capabilities, database choices, and interoperability. This infographic can be used as a quick check sheet for driving conclusions on technology choices.