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The pandemic had hit the world hard and many businesses collapsed. However, the crisis enabled rapid technology adoption and accelerated digital transformation across the industries. Companies started leveraging disruptive technologies to deliver value to customers and enhance business growth and productivity. With consumers largely shifting to online platforms and due to the pandemic-induced restrictions, businesses started building a digital presence to cater to their audience. With technology being integrated everywhere and considering the changing business landscape, digital transformation has a lot to offer this year. Let us look at the top 10 trends that will shape the digital transformation journey of businesses in 2021.

In the current scenario, digital is normal and businesses are striving to manage operations from homes and remote spaces. 5G had already been hailed much during last year and from this year onwards this technology will gain more prominence. 5G network can provide unprecedented speed and connectivity that can cater to the growing demand for increased bandwidth and reliable connectivity. 5G going mainstream will enable better IoT connectivity, enhance user experience and digital collaboration, and accelerate digital transformation.

With rapid technology adoption last year, blockchain has been brought to the limelight. Although it earlier resonated with cryptocurrency, blockchain is now adopted in different industries, especially in financial institutions. Blockchains capabilities are being explored and recently India appointed a panel that is said to focus on the exploration and expansion of blockchain technology in different industries. In the coming years, blockchain will play a crucial role in cybersecurity and will mature with increased adoption in industries.

The pandemic that surfaced last year made cybersecurity more relevant as there were many and continuous attacks on several companies in a short time. Since most of the companies switched to remote working, there arose a need for better and vigilant security measures. Robust cybersecurity practices are one of the top priorities of businesses going through digital transformation and planning to adopt it. The speed of digital transformation must be on par with a companys security strategies and infrastructure.

The finance and banking sector were some of the most impacted industries with rapid digitalization. Most of these services went online and initiated digital payments, digital credit application processes, online loan applications, etc. They are on a move to enhance the digital user experience through efficient digital transformation. Coming years will see a rise in digital banking and open banking initiatives. Digital payments services and digital banking will reshape the transformation in the financial sector.

Data is the fuel in todays customer-centric business models. However, gathering and managing data can be quite difficult without good infrastructure. Customer Data Platforms or CDPs step in here. CDPs collect data from all sources, organize, tag, and make them usable. There is an abundance of data available today and businesses often end up not utilizing them to maximum benefit. Data analytics has also become a potential ingredient to enhance growth and efficiency. Considering these factors, CDPs will empower and revolutionize digital transformation.

While businesses are actively migrating to the cloud, it is imperative to note the growth of a multi-cloud system. It will remove common barriers providers face and also eliminate vendor lock-ins. Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud systems will flourish this year and beyond and will shape the transformation of businesses. Multi-cloud enables the user to distribute cloud computing assets, software, and applications across different cloud platforms. They can also use several public and private cloud infrastructures.

Recently, Google announced that it will develop a commercial-grade error-free quantum computer within a decade. Although quantum computing has not been commercialized fully yet, it has become a vital research subject. Many industries will explore quantum computing in the coming years to enhance digital transformation.

Everything as a Service or XaaS has already gained importance in the business ecosystem. It is a generalized term for cloud service delivery models and it recognizes all the different products and services across the internet. It can simplify technology deployments and as the services will have quick access, it can be widely employed by companies. The XaaS model can enhance agility and help businesses in streamlining digital transformation.

Since the pandemic, offices have been working from home and in remote conditions. Several surveys and studies suggest that this remote work strategy is to stay here for long. Companies have identified the potential benefit of working remotely and this has also led to accelerating digital transformation. There will be more innovations and smart technologies to cater to the needs of the work from home population.

Automation can increase the pace of digital transformation and businesses will largely focus on automating the processes and ERP in years ahead. During the pandemic, several companies had to adopt automation to remain in the market. Thus, automation has become the core of digital transformation. With AI, machine learning, and robotics being integrated into businesses, it will be possible to automate the Enterprise Resource Planning model to enable better growth and agility.

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Hillary and Bill Clinton were captured in photos enjoying dinner with friends on Manhattan's Upper East Side on Tuesday, May 25 evening. The former presidential pair were seen arriving separately with a Secret Service detail to high-profile restaurant Fleming by Le Bilboquet.

Hillary Clinton reportedly looked glum while sipping her favorite white wine as her husband was deeply engrossed in conversation with Sting's wife Trudie Styler, who was caught resting her head on Bill's shoulder while posing for a group selfie.

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Exclusive photos obtained by the Daily Mail saw the former POTUS rocking a blue suit with a checkered button-down shirt and no tie. Meanwhile, his wife, a former US Secretary of State, wore a three-quarter-length striped wool coat, per the outlet. The famous couple was joined by Trudie and two others in the outdoor seating area of the restaurant. They enjoyed a live conversation and meals at the posh establishment, where entrees reportedly range from $23 to $43.

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According to the newspaper, Hillary arrived first at the restaurant at 6.30 pm. Bill arrived in a separate vehicle just a few minutes later, before snapping a few selfies with fans and then heading to the table where his wife was already seated with "a brunette woman and a young man with glasses," who weren't identified. Trudie arrived at the restaurant shortly after.

The merry group of five, at some point, had a waiter take a group selfie. A bystander claimed Hillary did not want to be a part of the photo, per the Daily Mail.

The group was finally seen leaving the restaurant around 9 pm when some well-wishers approached the Clintons for selfies. The couple obliged and took photos, before she and Bill hopped in the same car and went home together.

In 2019, staff at Fleming by Le Bilboquet claimed that their bosses allegedly made them Google the names of guests before handing out reservations. This was allegedly done to ensure the guests were either rich, famous, or both. The posh New York restaurant can accommodate only 50 people across 20 tables inside. Other notable celebrities that have been spotted dining there include Ivanka Trump, Robert De Niro and Paul McCartney.

However, according to a page-long 'Fleming Hostess Reservation Protocol' document, hostesses are required to "pull up each unknown guest on Google." Their staff has previously claimed it's because they "want to keep the restaurant for special people only." But while bosses admitted to carrying out online searches at the time, they vehemently denied it was to filter out diners who weren't rich or famous.

"Yes, we Google people," a waiter at the restaurant told the New York Post at the time on the condition of anonymity. "There are more rich than famous people coming in but we get Robert De Niro, Paul McCartney, Ivanka Trump."

The staff member added that those entering reservations needed to clear it with their manager before confirming their tables. Meanwhile, those who are rejected from the dining list simply don't get their phone call returned, someone who works in the kitchen told The Post.

A rep for Fleming by Le Bilboquet categorically denied the claims. "What the staff is claiming is absolutely not true and whoever said it is making it up," Josh Vlasto told the Post at the time.

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Hillary Clinton is really drinking in New York Citys post-coronavirus atmosphere.

The former secretary of state was seen using two hands to down a big glass of white wine at a posh Upper East Side restaurant Tuesday evening.

Clinton was enjoying her beverage as she waited at Fleming by Le Bilboquet on 62nd Street near Madison Avenue for her hubby, Bill, and some pals, including rocker Stings wife, Trudie Styler, to arrive.

The 73-year-old former Democratic presidential nominee got to the chic eatery with a team of Secret Service protection around 6:30 p.m., and didnt wait long before her ex-president hubby showed up and took a few selfies with fans before sitting down at their table, according to the Daily Mail.

The former president was dressed in a blue suit with a checkered button-down shirtand no tie, while his wife wore a three-quarter-length striped coat.

The two were filmed chatting and laughing with a brunette woman and a young man in glasses before Styler, 67, arrived.

At one point, a waiter snapped a group photo, though Hillary apparently didnt want to be in it, a bystander told the Mail.

Other photos showed the party engaged in a lively conversation during their meal, with Styler, who married the British rocker in 1992, at one point leaning her head on Bills shoulder.

Well-wishers descended on the Clintons when they left around 9 p.m., according to the report.

The former secretary of state, who was the only one in a mask, was seen taking a selfie with a fan before she and Bill got into a car together.

The chic eatery made waves in 2019, when staffers there told The Post that they were required to Google any unknown guests and make sure they were rich or famous enough to grace the dining room.

Aside from the Clintons, celebrities who have dined there include Paul McCartney, Robert De Niro and Ivanka Trump.

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Kanye West tried to get tough with Tyson Beckford in 2018, according to the model at a black-tie gala attended by Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey.

It all started when Beckford, 50, accused Wests then-wife Kim Kardashian of getting plastic surgery and criticized her on social media about it.

Beckford eventually ran into West, 43, at Ralph Laurens 50th anniversary party, where Beckford revealed he tried to get tough with me.

I was standing in the middle of Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton. He was on the other side of the table, and when I tried to make eye-contact with him, he wouldnt look at me, Beckford recalled on the Instagram show Lets Go Live! with Sharon Carpenter.

He claims West, instead, sent one of his minions to follow him to the bathroom to talk to him, but the male model told the goon, I suggest you get out of this bathroom before I wipe you all over the wall.

West eventually called him out in an Instagram video two weeks later according to Beckford, who suggested he was too afraid to approach him in person at the Ralph Lauren event.

Im like, You did not want no smoke. I had on my tuxedo. I would have undone my tie and got into it if you wanted to, but you didnt. I think you didnt realize how big I was, he said.

Kim and Kanye have since divorced and even though Beckford is exposing the incident now, he wishes them well.

Theyre going through some hard times right now. My whole energy is positive, he concluded.

It would not have been Beckfords first bout of celebrity fisticuffs over a woman.

In 2016, Page Six reported that Beckford had an ugly exchange at a Manhattan nightclub with DJ Ruckus who had recently started dating his ex, Shanina Shaik and then chased the DJ several blocks on his motorcycle.

When they arrived at Ruckus condo building, sources told us, Tyson [got] off his bike, still with his helmet on and [started] confronting Ruckus, and then they went back and forth until the doorman called the cops.

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On Monday The New York Times put Arkansas politics where it belonged. We were on the front page. We had national implications.

A national political correspondent named Jonathan Martin had parachuted into what he described--and it's the truth--as an uncommon place always peculiar, and still so, for playing above its weight limit in politics.

In 1992, we exported to the nation what Massachusetts couldn't produce, meaning a neo-electable Democratic president. Bill Clinton had honed his skills in our little laboratory of democracy. He'd necessarily found a way in our culture to finesse his unpopular liberal instincts. National Republicans didn't quite know what to do with a Southern Democrat who didn't give the game away.

Since then, people from Arkansas originally or partly--Mike Huckabee, Wes Clark and Hillary Clinton--have run semi-seriously or very seriously for president.

Now the players and party have changed dramatically, owing to an anti-Obama, pro-Trump wholesale Republican takeover occurring over a dozen wild years. But, as The Times said, Gov. Asa Hutchinson and U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton may soon be running into each other more in Iowa, site of the first presidential caucuses of 2024, than Arkansas--Hutchinson to advance a less-angry, more center-leaning Republican Party leaving Trumpism behind, and Cotton scowling through his own mean-spirited right-wingness both tied to Donald Trump and independent of him.

For full Trumpism, as The Times explained, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is likely to be the next governor representing the insurrection.

The Times produced a detail and a couple of quotations I envied.

I had assumed but not known that Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, also running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, had pleaded with Trump not to endorse Sanders, but to let her fight a fair fight of two competing Trump puppets. He paid her no mind. His bed with Sanders had been made.

Hutchinson, usually cautious, seemed to let his hair down a little to The Times' reporter. He said of the state's business behemoths who are worried about right-wing cultural warring by Republican state legislators: "They've [Walmart, Tyson] got to recruit people to this state, and this makes it harder for them. And there's many in the base of the state party that just don't care. They would rather fight the cultural war and pay the price in terms of growth."

Then, of Sanders having forced resume-rich Tim Griffin out of the Republican governor's race, Hutchinson said, perhaps dismissing much substance to Sanders, or at least to her campaign essence, "It shows you the power of media and personality."

Martin quoted Sanders only from a terse text. She's in coasting-to-victory mode, and live interviews with serious reporters are speed bumps best avoided. "I take nothing for granted," she texted.

The rest of us can take for granted that she'll speak in safe clich.

Altogether, this was a splendid take on our politically rich little province, worthy of the nation's finest newspaper. I'd like to have read only three more paragraphs.

One would have been that Arkansas has long had an affinity for populist-seeming demagogues like Trump. Jeff Davis, Orval Faubus and Tommy Robinson come to mind. Clinton's greatest gift to the state was plying his skills to deny the governorship to Robinson in the late '80s and early '90s. Or maybe credit ought to go to left-leaners who crossed over into a small Republican primary to take out Robinson early in 1990. Either way, Trump is, in Arkansas, a mere imitation.

The second additional paragraph would have called attention to the fact that an exhaustive piece capturing the state's current political environment had not mentioned a Democrat or needed to do so. That's because the Democratic Party is comatose here, not on its own local account but because of the toxicity of national liberal positions. It is arguable that the state is pro-Trump only second and that its first instinct is to recoil against national Democrats on abortion, guns, "socialism," the "cancel culture" and the rest.

The third would have been to make the point that, for all the discussion of a Trump-loyal/Trump-resistant competition in Arkansas Republican politics, there isn't much of one. A recent poll of favorable-unfavorable ratings showed that the two most popular politicians in Arkansas by far are Trump and Sanders, and that Hutchinson has flipped upside down abruptly, from prevailing approval to prevailing disapproval, presumably for daring to cross Trumpism.

It all somehow reminds me of a renowned Church of Christ revivalist preacher who came through our family's little congregation in a summer of my childhood, quoting some scripture that included the words "no hope," then slowly repeating those words, droning over and over, until people were ready to walk the aisle and improve his marketing numbers just to get him to stop.

Maybe someday Arkansas will walk the aisle. As former Republican House Speaker Davy Carter told The Times, "I'm convinced that, even in Arkansas, Trump and Trumpism is a slow-sinking ship."

John Brummett, whose column appears regularly in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is a member of the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame. Email him at jbrummett@arkansasonline.com. Read his @johnbrummett Twitter feed.

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