| | OCTOBER 20238JATIN DALAL, THE NEW CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER OF COGNIZANTCognizant announced the hiring of Jatin Dalal, a former Wipro executive, as its new Chief Financial Officer. Cognizant stated in a statement that the appointment would take effect in December 2023. Dalal will report to Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S and will be in charge of the company's global financial planning and analysis, accounting and controllership, tax, treasury and internal audit, corporate development, investor relations, and enterprise risk management functions, among other things. "Dalal will succeed Jan Siegmund, who, as previously disclosed, intends to retire in early 2024," the company said.Upon Dalal's taking over the role of CFO, Siegmund will remain with the company as a non-executive officer and special advisor to support an orderly transition."Jatin is a highly experienced technology services CFO with a proven track record of financial and operational success in a complex and quickly evolving industry," Ravi Kumar S, Chief Executive Officer said.He exuded confidence that Dalal will help Cognizant achieve its goals as the company continues to focus on driving revenue growth, as per PTI.Dalal has considerable executive-level financial knowledge from large, worldwide corporations. He joins Cognizant from Wipro, a Bengaluru-based IT services major, where he was CFO since April 2015 and acquired additional responsibilities as President in December 2019.From 2011 until 2015, he was the CFO of Wipro's Global IT Business in Bengaluru, and before that, he was Wipro's UK Head of Finance for the Europe area, as well as the Global Finance Head for the company's Energy and Utilities, Health Care, and Manufacturing business divisions. Atera, the cloud-based all-in-one remote monitoring and management (RMM) and Helpdesk, Ticketing, and Reporting platform for IT professionals, announced the release of its new deep fusion with Microsoft Azure Open AI. The introduction of this AI suite heralds the birth of a new category in IT: artificial intelligence-powered IT, or "AIT," which enables IT teams to achieve 10X operational efficiency, minimize time-to-resolution, and provide better results quicker. This implies that IT teams may now cut reaction times from one hour to three seconds and average time-to-resolution from four hours to ten minutes.The new category was developed in partnership with Microsoft and made possible through a fusion with its Azure OpenAI Service, which enables customers to tap into the power of large-scale generative AI models. Through the integration with Azure OpenAI, customers gain access to cloud and computing infrastructure-security, reliability, compliance, data privacy, and built-in responsible AI capabilities, as per Atera. "The impact that AI-powered IT has on the IT industry cannot be overstated," said Gil Pekelman, CEO of Atera. "Technicians can now focus on more high-value work. Before unveiling our AI suite, our platform helped to cut the amount of time those technicians spent managing IT by up to 50 percent. But since integrating Azure OpenAI into our platform, we have seen even more improvements on operational efficiency -- up to 10 times the number of tickets are solved in a day."AI-powered IT totally transforms the antiquated, time-consuming processes that IT workers are accustomed to working with on a daily basis. AI-powered IT may handle up to 50percent of requests before they reach a professional since it enables end users to repair common problems on their own, such as password resets and blue screens. INFOCUSATERA, MICROSOFT COLLABORATE TO UNVEIL AI-POWERED IT
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