Confident Communications, a specialised marketing communications agency, is the new partner for the Romanian Smart City Association (ARSC), the primary independent authority in the Romanian Smart City industry. ARSC has taken on the mission of promoting the development of smart cities in the country by collaborating with public authorities and industry partners to implement innovative solutions that enhance the quality […]

Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, provides some of the foundational physical infrastructure and software solutions for STACK Infrastructure (“STACK”) at their MIL01A facility in Milan, helping the organization to power the path for a more sustainable, digital future in Italy. STACK, the digital infrastructure partner to the world’s most innovative companies and a […]

Businesses’ readiness to adopt anything-as-a-service1 (XaaS) models has risen dramatically since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the technology sector leading the way and others gaining momentum. While today only 9% of surveyed businesses have completed XaaS transformations, most (85%) are at the progress stage – either piloting or operating at scale. This is according to EY report, As-a-Service […]

Data centers in Romania consume about 1.5 billion kWh of electricity annually, which represents about 3% of the total of about 50,818 billion kWh nationwide, according to Tema Energy, Data Center Forum Romania conference’s organizer, now in its fifth edition. In 2019 this percentage was 2.1%, according to Tema Energy estimates, but the intense digitalization in recent years, the emergence […]

Connections Consult (CC) announces the establishment of its wholly-owned US subsidiary, Connections Consult USA LLC (CC USA), in Fairfax, Virginia.  CC USA will focus on digital transformation and the delivery of software solutions to public and private sector customers in the United States of America.  The location of CC USA in Northern Virginia, part of the Washington DC Metropolitan area, […]

The proportion of businesses in Romania using cloud technology must significantly increase by 62% points in order to meet the Digital Decade goals set out by the European Commission, according to a new report published today called ‘The progress towards the EU’s Digital Decade ambition,  produced by Deloitte and commissioned by Vodafone. The EU’s Digital Decade, which sets key targets […]

People across the globe see national governments as primarily responsible for tackling climate change (54%), followed by the UN (40%), according to the results of a new Vodafone Institute survey conducted by Kantar, which included 17,000 people from 17 countries, including Romania. And digitalisation is considered by most to be a solution for achieving climate goals, as mentioned by almost […]

According to EAD data, the largest Portuguese player in the digital archiving market, also present in Romania, more than half of Romanian entrepreneurs are reluctant to digital archiving of documents, amid fear of cyber attacks, but also considering the legislation in force. This legislation stipulates that some documents must be kept in physical form for five years, but others must […]

A new report, Digitalisation: An opportunity for Europe, shows how increased digitalisation of Europe’s services and value chains over the next six years could boost Romania’s GDP per capita by 16.48% and also increase productivity by 16.70%. The report, commissioned by Vodafone and conducted by Deloitte, looks at the five key measures – connectivity, human capital, use of internet services, […]