Why you must upgrade your systems as soon as possible

Obsolence

It is not a should, it is a must, you need to upgrade your business systems as soon as possible.

Software technologies are constantly evolving, and with it come new and better ways to create and develop complex systems.

The fast growth of technologies means that if you do not upgrade your systems as soon as possible they will eventually become obsolete and weaker against your competitor's.

Higer Cost

Not only your systems become obsolete, but the more time you wait to upgrade reflects into a higher cost for upgrading, meaning that what could cost just a hundred of dollars in the past, could potentially increase to thousands and even more depending on your systems complexity.

No developers found

The longer you wait to upgrade your systems, the less software developers in the market for your specific technology.

Security Risk

Failing to upgrading your systems represents a huge security risk, for the longer you wait, the more susceptible you are to found security holes.

Innovation

By staying informed of edge technologies and constantly upgrading your systems, 
you frequently find new opportunities to innovate, reduce your costs, and find new ways to generate business around your systems.

1. Do you upgrade your business systems every year? If you do not why not?
2. Which issues have you had due to not frequently upgrading your business software?

Check this link to check some of the signs of outdated technology killings your business
https://www.cio.com/article/3411956/10-signs-outdated-it-systems-are-killing-your-business.html

What is PTI Analyzer?

PTI has been working in the development of tools which have the objective to create positive social impact and awareness on society taking adtange of the benefits included in combining Psychology and Technology.

PTI Analyzer nuget package is a small subset of a  system which has the objective to aid in the prevention of suicide.

Long before people execute the act, they tend to give signs, which are not always easy to detect, especially if there is no knowledge about the subject.

PTI Analyzer nuget package current implementation and the Windows Client Tool allows a user to feed the system with facebook exported data, or excel files with text from a specific person, and once analyzed returns an excel file indictaging the sentiment over time, and personality attributes charts, which can be used as insights to identify if there are signs of depression or suicidal tendencies.

Here you will find a preview for the Document Analyzer Feature in PTI Portal

You can see some examples of the Windows Tool and Nuget pacakge in the videos below

We are currently working in the support for more features including

• Analysis of Photos along with mood changes over time.
• Alerts on places, days, and months which tend to reduce positive emotions.
• Predictions on possible dates where a person could have positive emotions reduced.

We are also working on the Web Portal Version including the previous mentioned features.

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Leveraging the power of technology to identify cases of depression and prevent suicides

Depression is one of the most common pathologies present in human beings, and however, it is not always evident, persons with depression and suicidal tendencies tend to present behavioral patterns many times so subtle that get unnoticed by most people, and this is something normal, since not everyone has knowledge on these topics, after all, one simply can't know everything, and here is where technology can help us, cloud computing and artificial intelligence can be integrated with psychology studies, and help identify these cases.

By leveraging the power of technology you can help parents identify possible signs of depression on their children utilizing the children's social networks data.

With the data it is possible to get important metrics like how many times per week a user has posted in a social network, how possitive or negative the person has been throughout the time, association betwwen a negative mood and places visited, the many different emotions a person has through the time, like happiness, anger or sadness.

We can also get information on the most common used phrases, and map them to common words and phrases used by persons with depression.

Below you will see some sample Power BI reports consuming the analyzed data for a user's social network.

Weekly Posts

Some studies mention that if a person posts more than 3-5 times per week, that may be a possible indicator of a person having depression, of course that indicator alone mean nothing, when compared to other indicators like the emotions and negativity of posts, it begins to take meaning.

Weekly Posts

Monthly Sentiment

How positive or negative a person has been during a particular period and the trend of each can also be a possible indicator of depression. How sad and dark/obscure the person's messages have been can also be a possible indicator.

Sentiment Per Year

Sentiment Per Month

Association Between Sentiment and Places

With the data analysis it is possible to identify association between sentiment and the visited places, which is a useful key to check if when a person has been negative tends to visits a place or if the negativity tends to be a result of visting a specific place.

Sentiment And Place Association

Emotional Analysis

Furthermore, the data can be compared to case of study and even create some preddictions like when a person will possibly feel sad, or angry in the future.

Weekly Sentiment With Filters

The previous report takes advantage of Power BI filtering capabilities to help the user identify sentiment in a range, and the weeks and months where that happens. In a real case scenario a therapist or a father can search for data where sentiment is below a given threshold (45% for example),, and the report will show the months and weeks in the year when this has happened.

Posts with Sentiment and Places

The previous report takes advantage of Power BI filtering capabilities to help the user identify the posts where there is a sentiment in a given range. This report allows the user to associate the places where a sentiment is low, which can be used as additional insight to discover places that could be causing depression, or the places a person visits in order to run away from depressive emotions.

For more information about the project you can send an email to services@pticostarica.com

What is a #modernbiz?

Do you know what is a Modern Business?

A modern business is that which uses the latest in technology on their benefit, in order to maintain a competitive advantage over their competitors.

A modern business is that which uses the benefits of technology to give the best to their collaborators, creating employee engagement and satisfaction.

A modern business leverages the power of technology in order to do business everywhere, to stay productive outside the office, even without a connection to the Internet.

A modern business allows collaborators to work from home, the bus, another city, and even from another country, while still having the business data secure.

A modern business allows teams to collaborate efficiently in real time, from many different devices and locations.

A modern business helps you maintain your data secure and backed-up, and it protects you from the downsides of events such as data breaches and downtimes.

A modern business is able to adapt more quickly to changes in business needs.
A modern business also has reduced costs due to their decision to leverage the benefits of cloud.

But a modern business is more than technology, modern business also focus on collaborators, those usually called employees.

A modern business give their collaborators the same (or more) level of importance they give to their customers, they know their employees beyond just their names and roles in the company, in a modern business you really get to know your employees, their interests, what motivates them, modern businesses give a voice to their collaborators so that they can express themselves, participate in business decisions, and feel very useful and valuable.

Modern Business are design to encourage collaboration, thinking not only on productivity but also on their collaborators to make friends inside the office. They are designed to stay productive while at the same time improving quality of life for their collaborators, which in turn keeps them happy, engaged and reduces staff turnover.

Behind are the days where you would design the physical space in teams or projects which caused that many of the collaborators on the organization would barely know each other.

Visit the following links to learn more about what a Modern Business should look like

• Imagine Yourself Working in These Offices Next Time You Get a Case of the Mondays
• Modern Workplace Series

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