Frédéric Sudraud and Yves Cornu are participating until this Friday evening at CES Las Vegas, the most important exhibition dedicated to technological innovation in consumer electronics, in the United States.

The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Executive Officer of Facil’Iti present their digital accessibility solution, which already equips more than 500 sites and is used by a million users.

The company located in the Ester Technopole park in Limoges employs 24 people. In 2021, it achieved a turnover of 1.8 million, an increase of 35%.

Fewer exhibitors and visitors

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This is the seventh time that Frédéric Sudraud has participated in this show which is taking place this year in a particular context. ?The CES has been reorganized because of the health crisis,? he explains. We are no longer in the “accessibility” area, so we are less visible than the previous editions. It will be more difficult to find us. Will this penalize us? We will take stock on Friday evening since the show was shortened by one day. Around us, there are a lot of stands available. The large groups not coming, the small subcontractors who came to pick them up are not there either. Visitors and the curious are not there either. Those who will come are therefore those who will have an economic, strategic or solution-seeking interest. We therefore hope that it will be more qualitative than quantitative. “

With the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region

The Nouvelle-Aquitaine region supports the presence of Facil’Iti at the show. ?The Region is behind us but absent,? emphasizes Frédéric Sudraud. The teams were not able to come for health reasons but they support us financially and on communication. On site, we can count on a team from the Nouvelle-Aquitaine chamber of commerce and industry and from French Tech. On Wednesday morning, we launched together. We have a room at our disposal for professional meetings, it is an important rallying point for exchanging our business cards. We are stronger at hunting in a pack than alone! “Facil’Iti’s booth at the Las Vegas show.

An essential and strategic presence

With fewer exhibitors and visitors, CES in Las Vegas remains an important meeting point for the Limousin company, which has been trying since 2020 to create a structure in the United States.

“This subsidiary should already exist but we have so far lacked visibility,” confides Frédéric Sudraud. Despite everything, we want to reactivate the market, relaunch our contacts to reach groups of sellers – web agencies, resellers, communication groups, etc. – who can implement our solution upstream. We have someone who has been working with us in New York for a year and a half to prepare for this business development. If the lights turn green, the subsidiary will be set up in the first half of 2022. “

A prototype presented as a world premiere

In the meantime, Facil’Iti presented at the show a new filter for people with autism spectrum disorders. It will help support children in learning to read.

?We are the only ones in the world to offer such a filter which is the result of a lot of work with autistic associations. We present our prototype at the show. We will be able to collect the first reactions from the technicians and the public present. It’s a real step forward because today, no one knows how to do that, ?confides Frédéric Sudraud, who is staying in the United States for a fortnight longer. He will participate next week in a mission organized by the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region and the following week, in an e-commerce fair in New York.

The Limousin company ITI communication to conquer America

Anne-Sophie Pédegert

The company located in the Ester Technopole park in Limoges employs 24 people. In 2021, it achieved a turnover of 1.8 million, an increase of 35%.

Fewer exhibitors and visitors

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With the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region

An essential and strategic presence

With fewer exhibitors and visitors, CES in Las Vegas remains an important meeting point for the Limousin company, which has been trying since 2020 to create a structure in the United States.

A prototype presented as a world premiere

In the meantime, Facil’Iti presented at the show a new filter for people with autism spectrum disorders. It will help support children in learning to read.

The Limousin company ITI communication to conquer America

Anne-Sophie Pédegert

Every quarter, ImmoStat, an Economic Interest Grouping bringing together the four main commercial real estate councils (BNP Paribas Real Estate, CBRE, JLL and Cushman & Wakefield) presents the main indicators of the commercial real estate market in Ile-de-France. of France.

Offices (Ile-de-France)

The office property market in Ile de France represents 90% of the French market. For the year 2021, the take-up of offices in Ile-de-France amounted to 1,853,400 m², an increase of 32% compared to 2020. The 4th quarter of 2021 totals 631,000 m² thus registering up 29% compared to the 4th quarter of 2020. The immediate supply of offices in Ile-de-France at December 31, 2021 reached 4,041,000 m², up 10% compared to its level a year ago .

Office rents: + 1.59% over the year

Based on the transactions that took place during the quarter, the headline office rent averages:

? 415 excl. Tax HC / m² / year for second-hand goods, ie stability over one year;
414 ? excluding tax HC / m² / year for new or restructured properties, an increase of 2% over one year.

The face rent corresponds to the value entered in the lease and does not take into account the accompanying measures which amounted to 24.4% in the previous quarter and whose level for the 4th quarter of 2021 will be published next month.

Evolution of office rents © ImmoStat

Real estate investment in France

In France, the total amount of investments in commercial real estate for the year 2021 is 24.9 billion euros, down 8% compared to 2020. The 4 th quarter of 2021 is up 5 % compared to the 4th quarter of 2020, reaching 10.3 billion euros.

Real estate investment in Ile-de-France

In Ile-de-France, the total amount of investments in commercial real estate for the year 2021 is 14.7 billion euros, down 25% compared to 2020. The 4 th quarter of 2021 is underway down 18% compared to the 4th quarter of 2020, reaching 6.0 billion euros.

Price per square meter

The average price of offices purchased in Ile-de-France during the 4th quarter of 2021, all types combined, amounted to ? 8,220 / m² (duties included), which represents an increase of 1% over one year.

Warehouse market

The demand for warehouses is rising sharply in 2021. For the year 2021, the demand for warehouses of more than 5,000 m² in Ile-de-France (southern part of the Oise included) amounted to 1,148,900 m², up 26% compared to the previous year. year 2020. For the whole of France, demand for warehouses of more than 10,000 m² in 2021 amounted to 3,596,300 m², at a rate of 2,711,000 m² in Regions and 885,200 m² in Ile-de-France for transactions of this size. Compared to 2020, this nationwide result represents an increase of 8%.

Offices (Ile-de-France)

Office rents: + 1.59% over the year

Based on the transactions that took place during the quarter, the headline office rent averages:

? 415 excl. Tax HC / m² / year for second-hand goods, ie stability over one year;
414 ? excluding tax HC / m² / year for new or restructured properties, an increase of 2% over one year.

The face rent corresponds to the value entered in the lease and does not take into account the accompanying measures which amounted to 24.4% in the previous quarter and whose level for the 4th quarter of 2021 will be published next month.

Evolution of office rents © ImmoStat

Real estate investment in France

Real estate investment in Ile-de-France

Price per square meter

Warehouse market

Nvidia’s AI software stack optimized for VMware provides a robust machine learning alternative in AWS, Azure and Google cloud environments. The LaunchPad trial program puts it all out for free.

Nvidia AI Enterprise is a set of comprehensive AI solutions. This includes software to clean the data, prepare it, perform neural network training, convert the model to a more efficient form for inference, and deploy it to an inference server. In addition, the Nvidia AI software suite includes a GPU, a DPU (data processing unit), accelerated network support for Kubernetes (the native cloud deployment layer shown in the diagram below) as well as that support for shared terminals on VMware vSphere with Tanzu. Tanzu Basic allows you to run it and manage Kubernetes in vSphere.

Nvidia’s LaunchPad trial program offers AI and data science teams free access for one trial to the full AI Enterprise stack running on a private computing infrastructure. It also facilitates access to Nvidia experts and training modules. Nvidia AI Enterprise is an attempt to take the training and deployment of AI models out of the realm of academic research and larger tech companies. While the latter already have doctoral-level data scientists and GPU-filled data centers, ordinary businesses that need to apply AI for operations, product development, marketing, human resources and other areas. LaunchPad is a free way for these companies to give their IT administrators and AI practitioners hands-on experience with the AI ??Enterprise stack on supported hardware. The most common alternative to Nvidia AI Enterprise and LaunchPad is to use GPUs (and other model training accelerators, such as TPUs and FPGAs) and AI software available from hyperscale cloud providers, combined with courses, models and labs provided by the cloud providers and open source communities of the AI ??framework.

The Nvidia AI Enterprise stack consists of several elements including hardware to speed up processing and tasks to data science tools and frameworks. (credit: Nvidia)

What’s in Nvidia AI Enterprise

Nvidia AI Enterprise provides an integrated infrastructure layer for the development and deployment of AI solutions. It includes pre-trained models, GPU compatible software for data preparation (RAPIDS), GPU compatible deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, software to convert models into a more efficient form for the inference (TensorRT) and a scalable inference server (Triton).

A library of pre-trained models is available through Nvidia’s NGC catalog for use with the Nvidia AI Enterprise software suite; these models can be refined on your datasets using its TensorFlow containers, for example. The deep learning frameworks provided, although based on their open source versions, have been optimized for Nvidia GPUs.

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Nvidia AI i software stack flowchart for training and inference. (credit: Nvidia)

Nvidia AI Enterprise via the LaunchPad program

Nvidia has been talked about a lot regarding DGX systems, which feature four to 16 A100 GPUs in a variety of form factors, ranging from a tower workgroup appliance to rack systems designed for use in data centers. While the company is still committed to DGX for large installations, as part of the LaunchPad program, the company has assembled smaller 1U to 2U rackmount systems with base servers based on two Intel Xeon Gold 6354 processors, one only Nvidia T4 or A30 GPU, and Nvidia DPU (data processing units). Nine Equinix colocation regions around the world each with 20 such rack-mounted servers are qualified by Nvidia under this program.

Nvidia recommends the same systems for enterprise deployments of Nvidia AI Enterprise. These systems are available for hire or hire in addition to purchase.

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Servers supporting LaunchPad and Nvidia AI Enterprise are varied, where the Dell R750s but those from other manufacturers may also be quite suitable. (credit: Nvidia)

Getting started with Nvidia AI Enterprise

Nvidia offers three different trial programs to help customers get started with Nvidia AI Enterprise. For AI practitioners who just want to get their feet wet, there’s a trial demo that includes predicting NYC taxi fares and answering BERT questions in TensorFlow. One hour of set-up is necessary for access limited to 48 hours. The standard test requires 8 hours of implementation. In this mode LaunchPad is slightly more fleshed out to accompany AI practitioners and IT staff with access to systems for two weeks with an optional extension to one month.

The third trial program is a 90-day on-site assessment sufficient to complete a PoC. But in this case the customer must provide (or rent) an Nvidia certified system with VMware vSphere 7 u2 (or later version), to benefit from free evaluation licenses.

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There are three ways to try Nvidia AI Enterprise including a 48 hour trial which can go up to 3 months with the most extensive program. (credit: Nvidia)

Nvidia LaunchPad Demo for IT Administrators

Since I’m more interested in datascience than IT administration, I just watched a demo of the hands-on administration lab first and then got my hands on it. The first screenshot below shows the start of the lab instructions; the second displays a VMware vSphere Client web interface page. According to Nvidia, most of the IT administrators they train are already familiar with vSphere and Windows, but are less familiar with Ubuntu Linux.

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This screen presents the instructions for creating an Nvidia AI Enterprise virtual machine using VMware vSphere. This is part of the IT administrator training. (credit: Nvidia)

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This screen displays the hardware overview for the Nvidia AI Enterprise virtual machine created for tutorial purposes in VMware vSphere. (credit: Nvidia)

Launchpad for AI practitioners

I spent most of the day browsing the LaunchPad Lab for AI Practitioners, which comes mostly as a Jupyter notebook. The Nvidia teams told me this is a level 400 tutorial; it certainly would have been if I had to write the code myself. As it was, all code was already written, there was a basic BERT model trained to refine, and all training and test data for the fit was provided by SQuAD (Stanford Question Answering Dataset).

The server GPU A30 that came with the LaunchPad trained when I got to the fine-tuning step, which took 97 minutes. Without the GPU, it would have taken much longer. Training the BERT model from scratch, for example, Wikipedia content, takes a lot of effort involving many GPUs over a long period of time (probably weeks).

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The top section of this page sends the user to a Jupyter notebook that refines a BERT model for customer service. The lower section explains how to export the trained model to the inference server. By the way, if you forget to shut down the kernel after the fine-tuning step, the export step will fail with mysterious error traces. Don’t ask me how I know it. (credit: Nvidia)

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This is the start of the Jupyter Notebook which implements the first stage of the AI ??Practitioner course. It uses a pre-trained BERT TensorFlow model, uploaded in step 3, then refines it for a smaller, focused dataset, uploaded in step 2. (credit: Nvidia)

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This step uses TensorFlow to convert sample sentences to token form. It takes a few minutes to run on the processors. (credit: Nvidia)

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The fine-tuning step should take around 90 minutes with the A30 GPU. Here we are just starting the training on the estimator.train call. (credit: Nvidia)

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The fine-tuning drive step is finally complete, taking a total of 5838 seconds (97 minutes). About four minutes were needed to start. (credit: Nvidia)

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Jupyter Notebook continues with an inference test and an evaluation step, both using the refined TensorFlow BERT model. After this step, we stop Jupyter Notebook and start the Triton inference server in the virtual machine, then test the Triton server from a Jupyter console. (credit: Nvidia)

The balance sheet

Overall, Nvidia AI Enterprise is a great hardware / software package for solving AI issues, and LaunchPad is a handy way to get started with Nvidia AI Enterprise. I was struck by how the deep learning software takes advantage of the latest innovations in Ampere GPUs, such as mixed precision arithmetic and tensor cores. I noticed how much better the experience was trying the Nvidia AI Enterprise hands-on labs on the Nvidia server instance than other experiences I had running TensorFlow and PyTorch examples on my own hardware and on cloud virtual machines and AI services.

All major public clouds offer access to Nvidia GPUs, as well as TPUs (Google), FPGAs (Azure) and custom accelerators such as Habana Gaudi chips for training (on AWS EC2 DL1 instances) and chips AWS Inferentia for inference (on Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances). You can even access TPUs and GPUs for free in Google Colab. Cloud providers also have versions of TensorFlow, PyTorch, and other frameworks optimized for their clouds.

Assuming you can access Nvidia LaunchPad for Nvidia AI Enterprise and test it successfully, your next step, if you want to continue, should probably be to set up a proof of concept for a high value AI application. for your business, with buy-in and support from top management. You can then rent a small Nvidia certified server with an Ampere-class GPU and take advantage of Nvidia’s 90-day free trial license for Nvidia AI Enterprise to accomplish the POC with minimal cost and risk. It’s your turn !

Nvidia’s AI software stack optimized for VMware provides a robust machine learning alternative in AWS, Azure and Google cloud environments. The LaunchPad trial program puts it all out for free.

The Nvidia AI Enterprise stack consists of several elements including hardware to speed up processing and tasks to data science tools and frameworks. (credit: Nvidia)

What’s in Nvidia AI Enterprise

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Nvidia AI i software stack flowchart for training and inference. (credit: Nvidia)

Nvidia AI Enterprise via the LaunchPad program

Nvidia recommends the same systems for enterprise deployments of Nvidia AI Enterprise. These systems are available for hire or hire in addition to purchase.

Nvidia

Servers supporting LaunchPad and Nvidia AI Enterprise are varied, where the Dell R750s but those from other manufacturers may also be quite suitable. (credit: Nvidia)

Getting started with Nvidia AI Enterprise

Nvidia

There are three ways to try Nvidia AI Enterprise including a 48 hour trial which can go up to 3 months with the most extensive program. (credit: Nvidia)

Nvidia LaunchPad Demo for IT Administrators

Nvidia

This screen presents the instructions for creating an Nvidia AI Enterprise virtual machine using VMware vSphere. This is part of the IT administrator training. (credit: Nvidia)

Nvidia

This screen displays the hardware overview for the Nvidia AI Enterprise virtual machine created for tutorial purposes in VMware vSphere. (credit: Nvidia)

Launchpad for AI practitioners

Nvidia

This step uses TensorFlow to convert sample sentences to token form. It takes a few minutes to run on the processors. (credit: Nvidia)

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The fine-tuning step should take around 90 minutes with the A30 GPU. Here we are just starting the training on the estimator.train call. (credit: Nvidia)

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The fine-tuning drive step is finally complete, taking a total of 5838 seconds (97 minutes). About four minutes were needed to start. (credit: Nvidia)

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The balance sheet

Arrived Wednesday January 5 at CES in Las Vegas, the world high technology show, Carlos Tavares, the general manager of Stellantis (group born a year ago from the merger between PSA and Fiat-Chrysler), took the opportunity to announce a large partnership with Amazon. He granted the World an interview on the technological turning point of his company.

You were not at the Munich Motor Show in September 2021, you are, on the other hand, at CES in Las Vegas. Why ?

We can see that in the development of companies like ours, the technological dimension is now major. The evolution of regulations, the evolution of uses mean that if we do not put technology at the top of our priorities, we are marginalized. The presence at CES of Stellantis, very clear, very visible, was maintained despite the abandonment of some of our competitors. This reflects the fact that we are becoming a technological automotive company, that is, one that puts technology at the top of its priorities. And it is a desire expressed by our own employees of the 35-45 generation, who tell us that we must take this turn to high-tech faster and harder.

What does the partnership with Amazon do for you?

These are actually four partnerships. We first buy a fairly standard cloud service, with data storage and processing. Then, as part of the joint venture created with the Taiwanese FoxConn [baptisée Mobile Drive], intended to make a qualitative leap to “infotainment” [information, communication et divertissement à bord] brands of Stellantis, we use Amazon for the operating system part. Third element: we have decided – in a company which employs 30,000 engineers – to create a software university. We will train 1,000 people there per year; traditional engineers in our industry who will become, on a voluntary basis, IT specialists who will have followed a very specialized course. Amazon will help us train them.

Read also Why PSA and Fiat Chrysler found Stellantis

What is encouraging is that we have an absolutely astounding influx of applications right now from tech companies that want to join Stellantis. I believe Stellantis has imposed the idea that it is a business on the move and that if you come from tech companies, you are not going to be crushed by bureaucracy, that you are going to be able to express your full potential.

Finally, we are going to sell electric ProMaster vans to Amazon. [version américaine du plus gros véhicule utilitaire de Stellantis en Europe], whose functionalities for urban delivery will be developed with them. This will allow us to improve our overall utility offering. It’s not just selling a bunch of vans to Amazon that I’m interested in, but sharpening our offer. However, we are currently in the top 2 worldwide for sales of commercial vehicles, very close to the first [Ford]. And our ambition is to exceed it.

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At CES 2022 HP presents new 2-in-1 Ultrabooks convertible into 360 ° openable touch screen tablet equipped with a latest generation Intel Alder Lake processor, the HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3 under Windows 11 with 3K OLED panel but also HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook and HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Enterprise on Google Chrome OS.

L?HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3 is a new Ultrabook 2-in-1 presented at CES 2022 certified Intel Evo and equipped with a frame that is intended to be robust with its compliance with the American military resistance standard MIL-STD-810H.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

Son design recycled aluminum and magnesium is original because it can be opened to 360° to turn into Tablet. Because it is equipped with a 13.5 inch touch screen multi-touch 400cd/m² Corning Gorilla Glass. This adopts a format 3:2 IPS Full HD+ WUXGA (1920×1280) 100% sRGB with option SureView 1000nits (privacy protection from prying eyes) or OLED 3K2K (3000×2000) DCI-P3.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

Above is a 5 megapixel webcam with 2 microphones accompanied by 4 Bang & Olufsen speakers, a backlit chiclet keyboard and a fingerprint reader allowing biometric authentication via Windows Hello.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

It is based on an Intel Alder Lake vPro processor up to Core i7 with integrated graphics solution Iris Xe, and this in the Alder Lake-U range.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

The Alder Lake is coupled with up to 32 GB of soldered RAM LPDDR5 5200MHz as well as a storage SSD M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 up to 2TB.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

The HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3 also has a connection Wi-Fi 6E ax, Bluetooth 5.2, HDMI 2.0, audio combo Casque/Micro, 1 USB 3.0 et 2 USB-C Thunderbolt 4.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

Optional modules 4G/ LTE and 5G are also planned, just like a chip NFC.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

Equipped with a 100W USB-C charger, this ultraportable convertible into a tablet runs under Windows 11 with a 45Whr or 68Whr battery. He weighs 990 grams and measures 297.4 x 220.4 x 16.9 mm.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

The HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3 in Natural Silver (silver) or Slate Blue (blue) design is expected for mars 2022, at a price not yet communicated.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

L?HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook stands out for the fact that it works under the free system Chrome OS de Google.

CES 2022 HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Enterprise

Also equipped with a low-power Alder Lake processor, it is associated with up to 32 GB LPDDR4x 4266MHz of RAM as well as 12/256/512 GB SSD storage.

CES 2022 HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Enterprise

This 2-in-1 ultraportable has a 13.5 inch 3: 2 touch screen multi-touch 400cd / m² Corning Gorilla Glass 3 which can be opened 360 ° to transform into a Tablet, in several options: IPS Full HD+ WUXGA + (1920×1280) 100% sRGB with SureView 1000nits option or 2.5K+ QHD+ (2256×1504).

CES 2022 HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Enterprise

L?HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook pèse 1.28 Kg, measures 294.5 x 221.85 x 16.6 mm and has a 51Whr battery that can be recharged to 90% in 90 minutes.

It is available in edition HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Enterprise offering an upgrade to Chrome Enterprise as well as security features like HP Privacy Camera for the webcam to protect privacy.

CES 2022 HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Enterprise

The HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook and HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Enterprise are scheduled for April 2022, at prices not yet disclosed.

Find the latest CES 2022 news on this page.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

Above is a 5 megapixel webcam with 2 microphones accompanied by 4 Bang & Olufsen speakers, a backlit chiclet keyboard and a fingerprint reader allowing biometric authentication via Windows Hello.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

It is based on an Intel Alder Lake vPro processor up to Core i7 with integrated graphics solution Iris Xe, and this in the Alder Lake-U range.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

The Alder Lake is coupled with up to 32 GB of soldered RAM LPDDR5 5200MHz as well as a storage SSD M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 up to 2TB.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

The HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3 also has a connection Wi-Fi 6E ax, Bluetooth 5.2, HDMI 2.0, audio combo Casque/Micro, 1 USB 3.0 et 2 USB-C Thunderbolt 4.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

Optional modules 4G/ LTE and 5G are also planned, just like a chip NFC.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

The HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3 in Natural Silver (silver) or Slate Blue (blue) design is expected for mars 2022, at a price not yet communicated.

CES 2022 HP EliteBook Dragonfly G3

L?HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook stands out for the fact that it works under the free system Chrome OS de Google.

CES 2022 HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Enterprise

Also equipped with a low-power Alder Lake processor, it is associated with up to 32 GB LPDDR4x 4266MHz of RAM as well as 12/256/512 GB SSD storage.

CES 2022 HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Enterprise

L?HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook pèse 1.28 Kg, measures 294.5 x 221.85 x 16.6 mm and has a 51Whr battery that can be recharged to 90% in 90 minutes.

CES 2022 HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Enterprise

The HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook and HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Enterprise are scheduled for April 2022, at prices not yet disclosed.

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Olivier Thévenet, manager of the company OCT Fusion, came to inform the 5th year students about the real opportunities offered by the building sector.

Hear an encouraging message and interact with a company. This Friday, January 7, 2022, the 77 5th year students (G2-G3 and G4) of the Center College had the opportunity to understand that the building trades offer a varied activity and guarantee an evolving career, with desire.
Think about a future internship, take an interest in training and have a different perspective on these professions.
That was the aim of this meeting, scheduled within the framework of the Forecast Management of Jobs and Territorial Skills supported by the AGIRE association. It was a question of giving the envy to audiences in search of direction and to enhance the image of this sector, vector of jobs.

It is Olivier Thévenet, manager of the OCT FUSION company (formerly OCT-Vailleau), but also a former student of the Center college, whose mission was to convince, if not at least to inform students about the real opportunities in this sector.
Thanks to the open-mindedness and willingness of Corinne Cometti Principal of the college and her teachers, she was able to meet with 5th graders in the morning before continuing the discussions in the afternoon with a group of volunteers from 4th and 3rd.
Olivier Thévenet explained how he had climbed the ranks to become a business manager, then he detailed all the trades related to the building world: electrician, tiler, carpenter, mason, plumber … by explaining that it was necessary above all else: want to work and do such a job.
?You are young and in the projection, I am here to make you want, I have always had the desire! He said addressing the students. It was then a question of experience and how it could be obtained: by studying and learning about the profession and especially by practicing.
Respect for the environment, recognition, craftsmanship, the role of buildings in France, and sought-after trades such as stonemasons? This is all that the company manager explained before asking students who had just listened to it, what they would like to do for a job in the building industry.
The responses were virtually identical in all three 5th grade classes, with a large proportion of architects, painters and electricians.
Already carried out in the territory thanks to the companies involved in the GPECT, the experimentation of this type of meetings set up by AGIRE and the Principals of the colleges, had made it possible to inform the students of 4th mainly, in Génelard, Montceau and Saint- Vallier.
These meeting actions take place in parallel with the screening of the film ?Meeting the building and our territory?, in which the company is a player. This film is available for viewing from AGIRE’s YOUTUBE page.

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Olivier Thévenet, manager of the company OCT Fusion, came to inform the 5th year students about the real opportunities offered by the building sector.

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The “?copywriting??(Writing text in French) is the art of writing content in order to push readers to action, especially to purchase. Here is all you need to know.

Copywriting: the art of persuading with words

Copywriting consists of write highly persuasive and emotional texts in order to capture the attention of readers and inspire them to take action. The goal may be to make a purchase, download a white paper, request a quote, to make a donation or to make an appointment. The work of a copywriter is therefore different from that of a journalist, whose primary mission is to inform.

Copywriting can be used for different media: emailing, web page, social media post, product sheet, demonstration video, blog article, etc.. The technique is tricky to grasp. You have to know how to creativity, while remaining consistent. Nonetheless, once integrated into a company’s marketing strategy, copywriting can do wonders in getting consumers to act immediately.

3 effective copywriting techniques

Capture attention from the hook

It is important to capture the attention of readers from thecommercial hook. To this end, write your text in ordering your ideas in decreasing order of importance. So by giving the most important information up front, you increase the chances that your visitors will continue reading. Also prefer short sentences, simple language but precise in accordance with your editorial line.

Use testimonials and numbers

To back up your comments, you can highlight certain feedback or “ success stories», Through written or video customer testimonials. In general, consumers have become suspicious of brands. So you have to prove what you are saying. Just like the testimonials, the numbers reassure readers. The latter appreciate that the information is proven by studies, surveys or, failing that, by proven facts.

Focus on storytelling

Finally, the ideal is to use storytelling in your content. The principle is to tell a story for communication purposes, rather than classically highlighting the arguments of a product or service. The technique should normally capture attention, arouse emotion and facilitate memorization. We also speak of narrative communication. Apple, for example, has been practicing storytelling since its inception. Everyone knows that the brand was born in the garage of Steve Jobs. Coca Cola has also been using this method for many years. Finally, luxury brands are champions in this area, particularlyCartier.

How to train in copywriting?

Copywriting is an art that cannot be improvised. On the one hand, you have to be a good copywriter. To do this, it is necessary to have a certain linguistic ease and a broad general culture. The idea is to be able to express ideas and concepts, while arousing emotion in readers. On the other hand, a copywriter must demonstratecuriosity, fantasy and above all creativity.

Some specialized courses in copywriting or advertising copy exist but the list is very limited. Especially online training and experience will give you the skills you need. The ideal, however, is to hire an in-house copywriter or to call on a specialist service provider.

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The “?copywriting??(Writing text in French) is the art of writing content in order to push readers to action, especially to purchase. Here is all you need to know.

Copywriting: the art of persuading with words

3 effective copywriting techniques

Capture attention from the hook

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The very strong increase in cases of Covid-19 in France from the school holidays causes an avalanche of sick leave at Center Services Belfort, a company that offers home help throughout the department.

“12 of my 50 employees are on sick leave at the moment“, explains Sandrine Perrin, the business manager, phone stuck to the ear since the opening of her office on avenue Jean Jaurès in Belfort.
This forces him to organize himself every morning, in the face of this upsurge in stoppages, since around December.

We recall former candidates to fill the gaps in the schedule

The business manager receives calls every day from her employees, who tell her that they are in contact, sick, and that in all cases they must isolate themselves because of the Covid-19. Eyes on her computer and her schedule, Sandrine Perrin stares at the red boxes, which accumulate: “Look, all the red there are cancellations, just this morning I have 1, 2, 3, 4 …. 8! We replaced girls who had to go to clients and today, the replacement is sick!“blows the business manager.

Sandrine Perrin is struggling to find solutions, and for that, she must urgently call back the candidates she saw last month to ask them if they are available. “Hello, you were interviewed, do you have anything planned at the moment?“She asks a young woman on the phone. Unfortunately, the candidate has accepted a temporary assignment elsewhere.

The Covid lowers turnover

Because of the multiplication of work stoppages in her company, Sandrine Perrin works a lot more, it takes a lot of time to constantly redo the schedules and “it adds stress“, she admits.

The incessant replacements tire some customers, who, tired, simply decide to look elsewhere, “when we call them and we tell them “the girl who was to come to your house to do the housework is sick, so you will finally have the replacement of the replacement”, we answer you “it is too much, I am breaking the contract“, says Sandrine Perrin, who notes thatin December, she lost 24 clients.

Customer losses added to services not provided, the business manager believes that the Covid-19 has already cost 30% of its turnover in December. “Since the start of the year, we are at around 40%“, she slips.

We recall former candidates to fill the gaps in the schedule

The Covid lowers turnover

Because of the multiplication of work stoppages in her company, Sandrine Perrin works a lot more, it takes a lot of time to constantly redo the schedules and “it adds stress“, she admits.

Murdered by a judicial reorganization in April 2018, cut of forty-two positions out of a workforce of 120 employees by a PSE engaged in the wake and weakened by a liability of 7.8 million euros, the company Pyram was stuck in a strong zone of turbulence, almost seventy years after its creation by François Prieur. The manufacturer of kitchen and bathroom furniture, based in Vic-sur-Cère, has a much brighter face. It has found serenity between its walls in the artisanal zone of Comblat.
This dynamic finds part of its explanation in the health crisis which has boosted the kitchen market.

?During the confinements, there is a break in leisure and travel spending, this budget has been partly transferred to the beautification of the interior of homes. The health crisis has been beneficial to our sector. And these investments start with the kitchen, which is a room where we naturally spend a lot of time cooking but also teleworking ?

Jean-Philippe Sourice (CFO of the Néoform group (see elsewhere) and manager of the Pyram site in Vic-sur-Cère.)

As a result, turnover jumped from 10.1 million euros in 2019 to 10.6 million in 2020 to reach 13.7 million in 2021

, with growth of 32% over the last financial year. The health crisis was beneficial in improving the image of this industrial flagship, but it does not in itself explain the renewal of the Cantal company. ?The French have invested a sizeable budget in sophisticated kitchens, in qualitative and more functional fittings. They turned to the mid to high end, the Pyram niche. We also completely revised our commercial offer in 2018 and renewed our colors by around 15% in 2021 to regain market share. We created added value in the workshops. Before 2018, we subcontracted 30% of our facades. Today, we have gone to only 5%. A piece of furniture that comes out of our country is really made in Vic ?, explains Jean-Philippe Sourice.

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How the new management of Pyram wants to relaunch this industrial flagship of Cantal

Faced with supply difficulties last year (melamine panels, laminate sheets, hardware, etc.), Pyram managed to control its delivery times “without ever exceeding eight weeks when some of our competitors reached sixteen weeks. We were looking for market shares thanks to this reactivity ?.

Pyram regains its standing
Pyram relies on one hundred partner distributors, around twenty more than in 2018, mainly located in western and central France. ?We want to find new partners and customers, where we have little or no presence, in the South-East and in Île-de-France. This is a development axis for this year, ?announces the 36-year-old entrepreneur from the Nantes region, who has a sales force of six people.

Pyram has regained its rank, its standing which has made the hallmark of the company. Investment

– Jean-Philippe Sourice has planned an investment of 1.5 million euros in the Vic-sur-Cère plant by 2024. This envelope will concern the acquisition of machines, partly for machining. “We have to go back to 2015-2016 to find such a level of investment,” said the leader. In order to bring added value to its workshops, Pyram had invested since its recovery, in “a machine for mixing the paints ourselves, an activity that we had previously subcontracted”.?It is our customers who make Pyram famous through word of mouth. Customers are attached to our brand, the quality of our Made in France products, our services and our responsiveness. The basis of our turnover is very solid today, in the order of 60 to 70%. We offer a very comprehensive offer, with a multitude of possibilities for facades and boxes. We are in the capacity to respond to all of our clients’ projects, ?says the manager.

Behind the two heavyweights in the sector, Schmidt and Mobalpa, Pyram is positioned in the leading pack and stands out for the quality of its products, the personalization and the design of its models. The company has returned to its fundamentals and has strengthened its workforce, which has gone from seventy-eight employees after the PSE to ninety-two today. ?There is an attachment of customers to Pyram just like an attachment of employees to their company. Me the first. I am proud of this nugget, of this industrial flagship through the quality of its products and its anchoring in a mountain environment. “

Great prospects
The Cantalian specialist in kitchen and bathroom furniture sees the future with serenity. Jean-Philippe Sourice expects a maintenance or a slight decrease in turnover this year. ?I see 2022 very optimistically, the kitchen market remains growing, between 3 and 4%. Unlike in Germany, the fitted and equipped kitchen in French households is only 70 to 75%. We therefore still have very good prospects. Pyram, at the bottom of the wave in 2018, has found the keys to the economic rebound to surf the wave of renewed dynamism today.

Kitchen furniture accounts for 90% of turnover, the remainder being supplemented by bathroom furniture.

Jean-Philippe Sourice (CFO of the Néoform group (see elsewhere) and manager of the Pyram site in Vic-sur-Cère.)

As a result, turnover jumped from 10.1 million euros in 2019 to 10.6 million in 2020 to reach 13.7 million in 2021

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How the new management of Pyram wants to relaunch this industrial flagship of Cantal

Faced with supply difficulties last year (melamine panels, laminate sheets, hardware, etc.), Pyram managed to control its delivery times “without ever exceeding eight weeks when some of our competitors reached sixteen weeks. We were looking for market shares thanks to this reactivity ?.

Pyram has regained its rank, its standing which has made the hallmark of the company. Investment

Behind the two heavyweights in the sector, Schmidt and Mobalpa, Pyram is positioned in the leading pack and stands out for the quality of its products, the personalization and the design of its models. The company has returned to its fundamentals and has strengthened its workforce, which has gone from seventy-eight employees after the PSE to ninety-two today. ?There is an attachment of customers to Pyram just like an attachment of employees to their company. Me the first. I am proud of this nugget, of this industrial flagship through the quality of its products and its anchoring in a mountain environment. “

Kitchen furniture accounts for 90% of turnover, the remainder being supplemented by bathroom furniture.

According to a new report from Zapata Computing, a software developer for quantum computing, 69% of business executives surveyed are looking at how quantum computing can benefit their business.

The study interviewed 300 CIOs, CTOs and “other senior VPs and above” in global companies with annual sales exceeding $ 250 million. It shows that the vast majority of them have already started to take an interest in quantum computing, with 74% of them believing that companies “will fall behind” if they do not exploit it.

The driving force behind this positive sentiment is the belief that quantum technology could offer a competitive advantage. 41% of those surveyed believe that it will have a positive impact on the performance of their company within two years. A smaller proportion (12%) think they have already benefited from it or will benefit from it in a year.

Supply chain expectations

When it comes to areas where these benefits are most likely to emerge, machine learning and data analytics seem to be the most common targets, with 71% of those surveyed specifically stating that they want to apply quantum technology. to these areas. In addition, the transport sector is the one that seems the most eager to integrate quantum technologies: 63% of transport company executives say that their organizations are already integrating quantum technologies into their infrastructures. The report notes that this enthusiasm is likely driven by the hope that quantum computing will help solve current global supply chain problems and logistical bottlenecks.

While the majority of those surveyed seem enthusiastic about the promises of quantum technology, nearly half of them agree that this technology is complex, with integration into existing systems seen as the “main obstacle to technology. ‘adoption of quantum technology’.

Cost also plays a big role, as 28% of those polled said their company’s budget for quantum computing had already exceeded $ 1 million.

Of all the variables in the survey, the one on which most respondents agree is the need for outside help to adopt quantum computing technology. Indeed, 96% of them said they would need a relationship with a trusted quantum computing vendor to be successful. That said, 73% fear being locked into such a relationship, while 47% are ?very or extremely? concerned about the outcome.

Source : ZDNet.com

According to a new report from Zapata Computing, a software developer for quantum computing, 69% of business executives surveyed are looking at how quantum computing can benefit their business.

Supply chain expectations

Cost also plays a big role, as 28% of those polled said their company’s budget for quantum computing had already exceeded $ 1 million.

Source : ZDNet.com

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Copywriting: the art of persuading with words

3 effective copywriting techniques

Capture attention from the hook

Use testimonials and numbers

Focus on storytelling

How to train in copywriting?

Copywriting: the art of persuading with words

3 effective copywriting techniques

Capture attention from the hook

Use testimonials and numbers

Focus on storytelling

How to train in copywriting?

We recall former candidates to fill the gaps in the schedule

The Covid lowers turnover

We recall former candidates to fill the gaps in the schedule

The Covid lowers turnover

Faced with supply difficulties last year (melamine panels, laminate sheets, hardware, etc.), Pyram managed to control its delivery times “without ever exceeding eight weeks when some of our competitors reached sixteen weeks. We were looking for market shares thanks to this reactivity ?.

Faced with supply difficulties last year (melamine panels, laminate sheets, hardware, etc.), Pyram managed to control its delivery times “without ever exceeding eight weeks when some of our competitors reached sixteen weeks. We were looking for market shares thanks to this reactivity ?.

Supply chain expectations

Supply chain expectations