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Dealing with day-to-day activities as a business analyst or project manager needs a well-designed project management approach. And as we know, most methods that are used nowadays and have the appropriate maturity is the Waterfall management approach or the Agile method. 
But there are a lot of assumptions that need to be considered if we're willing to follow this approach, such as the full requirements of a predefined project which would impact the cost if major changes happened during the development. And the most important thing is how to achieve full delivery without client involvement, and also how to run the project with full requirements from the beginning?The Waterfall approach is like a domino effect. It needs one event to knock on, affecting the whole project, but it needs more if obstacles start appearing.
Agile is a process by which a team can manage a project by breaking it up into several stages and involving constant collaboration with stakeholders and continuous improvement and iteration at every stage.The methodology begins with clients describing how the end product will be used and what problem it will solve. The client in this approach needs to be well-educated and know about the most efficient way to get the final results.Eventually, as I said earlier, it's all about the client's expectation and the project profitability that allows us to decide which approach will get the most benefit.There are a lot of aspects that need to be considered to know which approach to follow as shown in the table below:
Considering all the mentioned aspects, it still depends on what I need to accomplish and what the client needs to see. Say I have a demanding client that needs to be highly engaged, it's better to implement the Agile method. But what if the client demands exceed my expectations? Do I need to implement a requirement document and get it signed-off to minimize the changes requests? Or maybe implement a high-level project charter?Now, is there a way that you can use these two development methodologies to work on a single project? Is there anything called Waterfallgile? Do we use it unawarely? Could it be considered as a hyper management approach? Waterfallgile is an approach that could be the best of both methods. The reason the two methodologies can work harmoniously is that Agile is more of a mindset and approach than a methodology, so it’s possible to use the Agile philosophy with the more rigid Waterfall methodology. 
Author: Saif Al Najjar, Business Analyst Team Lead [post_title] => Waterfallgile [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => waterfallgile [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-05-06 15:16:13 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-05-06 11:16:13 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.tahaluf.ae/?post_type=blog&p=5093 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => blog [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [1] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 5085 [post_author] => 6 [post_date] => 2021-04-22 11:02:40 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-04-22 07:02:40 [post_content] => Lies spread faster than truth, fake news and misleading headlines can fool millions of watchers and readers, and the ability to alter reality has taken a leap forward with the prevalence of “deepfake” technology.Deepfake technology doesn’t only have the ability to produce fake news but it is also used in financial fraud, hoaxes, and pornography. 
It then uses deep learning methods – the most powerful of which is GANs (Generative Adversarial neural networks).GANs are relatively recent concepts in AI which aim to synthesize artificial images that are indistinguishable from authentic ones.GANs consist of two separate artificial neural networks contesting with each other in a game, one of the networks working as a generator and the other one as a discriminator.
Even with these characteristics, the continuous advances in technology created more trained and advanced deepfakes that are very hard to detect and that’s why a lot of researches and initiatives have been made to use AI algorithms to detect and attack the deepfakes which are also generated by AI.Hence, It’s like using AI against AI.One of these initiatives have been done to detect the deepfakes like DFDC (Deepfake Detection challenge) that was kicked off by major companies like Facebook to help innovation in deepfake detection technologies and to achieve faster solutions by sharing work and motivating the researchers to create creative solutions, the highest average precision achieved in this competition was 82.56% on a public dataset shared with 124k videos. The whole challenge also featured 8 different algorithms to detect facial modifications.Also, one of the most recent and interesting researches has been made by scientists from the University at Buffalo to detect deepfakes by detecting the reflection of light in the eyes.The concept is that, if you captured a photo for a real face with a source of light, the reflection on both eyeballs will be similar because they are seeing the same thing in the scene, which successfully attacks GANs. In this case, while generating these deepfakes, it failed to imitate this reflection behavior on both eyeballs, and by analyzing the corneas, a score generated for each eyeball which used as a similarity metric that indicates the deepfakes with the smaller scores 
The system is effective with 94% accuracy in deepfakes detection. Despite that, it has some limitations regarding the ] need for a light reflection source for both eyeballs and it’s proven effective only in portrait images.Overall, the researchers plan to investigate these issues to improve the effectiveness of their method.Read more about the research here.
2. Post the invoice and notice that the invoice entry is posted to the deferred expense account.
3. Run the “multiperiod accounting” process. 
4. Check the entry generated after the process has been completed.
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To Be Continued …. Demonstrating the sourcing and invoice retainage features Dealing with day-to-day activities as a business analyst or project manager needs a well-designed project management approach. And as we know, most methods that are used nowadays and have the appropriate maturity is the Waterfall management approach or the Agile method. But there are a lot of assumptions that need to be considered if we're willing to follow this approach, such as the full requirements of a predefined project which would impact the cost if major changes happened during the development. And the most important thing is how to achieve full delivery without client involvement, and also how to run the project with full requirements from the beginning?The Waterfall approach is like a domino effect. It needs one event to knock on, affecting the whole project, but it needs more if obstacles start appearing. Agile is a process by which a team can manage a project by breaking it up into several stages and involving constant collaboration with stakeholders and continuous improvement and iteration at every stage.The methodology begins with clients describing how the end product will be used and what problem it will solve. The client in this approach needs to be well-educated and know about the most efficient way to get the final results.Eventually, as I said earlier, it's all about the client's expectation and the project profitability that allows us to decide which approach will get the most benefit.There are a lot of aspects that need to be considered to know which approach to follow as shown in the table below:Considering all the mentioned aspects, it still depends on what I need to accomplish and what the client needs to see. Say I have a demanding client that needs to be highly engaged, it's better to implement the Agile method. But what if the client demands exceed my expectations? Do I need to implement a requirement document and get it signed-off to minimize the changes requests? Or maybe implement a high-level project charter?Now, is there a way that you can use these two development methodologies to work on a single project? Is there anything called Waterfallgile? Do we use it unawarely? Could it be considered as a hyper management approach? Waterfallgile is an approach that could be the best of both methods. The reason the two methodologies can work harmoniously is that Agile is more of a mindset and approach than a methodology, so it’s possible to use the Agile philosophy with the more rigid Waterfall methodology. Author: Saif Al Najjar, Business Analyst Team Lead [post_title] => Waterfallgile [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => waterfallgile [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-05-06 15:16:13 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-05-06 11:16:13 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.tahaluf.ae/?post_type=blog&p=5093 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => blog [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [comment_count] => 0 [current_comment] => -1 [found_posts] => 4 [max_num_pages] => 0 [max_num_comment_pages] => 0 [is_single] => [is_preview] => [is_page] => [is_archive] => [is_date] => [is_year] => [is_month] => [is_day] => [is_time] => [is_author] => [is_category] => [is_tag] => [is_tax] => [is_search] => [is_feed] => [is_comment_feed] => [is_trackback] => [is_home] => 1 [is_privacy_policy] => [is_404] => [is_embed] => [is_paged] => [is_admin] => [is_attachment] => [is_singular] => [is_robots] => [is_favicon] => [is_posts_page] => [is_post_type_archive] => [query_vars_hash:WP_Query:private] => 025e5e23109a4624207f6d94c5b5fb75 [query_vars_changed:WP_Query:private] => [thumbnails_cached] => [stopwords:WP_Query:private] => [compat_fields:WP_Query:private] => Array ( [0] => query_vars_hash [1] => query_vars_changed ) [compat_methods:WP_Query:private] => Array ( [0] => init_query_flags [1] => parse_tax_query ))Waterfallgile - 2021-05-06 15:11:28 - publish
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Waterfall + Agile: Waterfallgile
Have you heard about this management approach? Have you ever considered this approach to run and manage your daily work? There is no such thing as "The Best" or the "Most Comprehensive" approach to follow, but all project management approaches are fine to implement as long as it serves the project desires and success.Dealing with day-to-day activities as a business analyst or project manager needs a well-designed project management approach. And as we know, most methods that are used nowadays and have the appropriate maturity is the Waterfall management approach or the Agile method. Waterfall VS Agile
It's all about how to manage the client's expectations and how to achieve the project's desires, so in any project, the success points or milestones need to be identified from the very beginning.The Agile approach is adopted to identify the project milestones, implemented through something called sprint planning. This way, it will give the client and the project controller the ability to predict. So maybe at this point, we could use a "milestone" word to refer to sprint, but in most cases, the sprint plan won't be able to achieve something tangible, or in another term, something the client sees."The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them — preferably in unexpected and helpful ways"
So again, it's all about client expectations and how to achieve the set milestones.The Waterfall management approach also cares about the client's expectations and could be more useful to fulfill the project's desires, and also could be a good approach to enhance the project's profitability by identifying full package milestones including specific deliverables on a specific date. In this case, both parties won't need to revisit the plan and keep going forward to finish the full project release.Maybe implementing the Waterfall method will give the stakeholders what they need from the beginning (project kick-off), to achieve the full delivery with full covered desires, so in this case, the project plan will be built on predefined milestones along with a specific full delivery date. But there are a lot of assumptions that need to be considered if we're willing to follow this approach, such as the full requirements of a predefined project which would impact the cost if major changes happened during the development. And the most important thing is how to achieve full delivery without client involvement, and also how to run the project with full requirements from the beginning?The Waterfall approach is like a domino effect. It needs one event to knock on, affecting the whole project, but it needs more if obstacles start appearing. Agile is a process by which a team can manage a project by breaking it up into several stages and involving constant collaboration with stakeholders and continuous improvement and iteration at every stage.The methodology begins with clients describing how the end product will be used and what problem it will solve. The client in this approach needs to be well-educated and know about the most efficient way to get the final results.Eventually, as I said earlier, it's all about the client's expectation and the project profitability that allows us to decide which approach will get the most benefit.There are a lot of aspects that need to be considered to know which approach to follow as shown in the table below:Considering all the mentioned aspects, it still depends on what I need to accomplish and what the client needs to see. Say I have a demanding client that needs to be highly engaged, it's better to implement the Agile method. But what if the client demands exceed my expectations? Do I need to implement a requirement document and get it signed-off to minimize the changes requests? Or maybe implement a high-level project charter?Now, is there a way that you can use these two development methodologies to work on a single project? Is there anything called Waterfallgile? Do we use it unawarely? Could it be considered as a hyper management approach? Waterfallgile is an approach that could be the best of both methods. The reason the two methodologies can work harmoniously is that Agile is more of a mindset and approach than a methodology, so it’s possible to use the Agile philosophy with the more rigid Waterfall methodology. Author: Saif Al Najjar, Business Analyst Team Lead [post_title] => Waterfallgile [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => waterfallgile [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-05-06 15:16:13 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-05-06 11:16:13 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.tahaluf.ae/?post_type=blog&p=5093 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => blog [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [1] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 5085 [post_author] => 6 [post_date] => 2021-04-22 11:02:40 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-04-22 07:02:40 [post_content] => Lies spread faster than truth, fake news and misleading headlines can fool millions of watchers and readers, and the ability to alter reality has taken a leap forward with the prevalence of “deepfake” technology.Deepfake technology doesn’t only have the ability to produce fake news but it is also used in financial fraud, hoaxes, and pornography. What is a Deepfake?
The term Deepfake melds two words: deep and fake. It combines the concept of deep learning which is a subfield of artificial intelligence with creating content that isn’t real.Deepfakes are generated images, videos, and sounds created by Deep learning algorithms for real people doing things they never did or said and it’s hard to detect by the average user.It gained more attention after a lot of users used it for making pornography for celebrities and fake videos for politicians saying and doing things they never did or said which is a real threat.Below is a deepfake image of Jim Carrey instead of Jack Nicholson in the movie ‘The Shining’.How does Deep Fake work?
The technique first extracts information about the anonymous subject’s facial expressions by finding the positions of their eyes, ears, shoulders and nose.- The Generator is like a money forger that wants to fool the police detective to successfully use his forged money.
- Simultaneously, the Discriminator is the police detective who wants to detect the forged money and allow people with real money to safely spend it without punishment.
- With time, both players get better and better in doing their job until the generator becomes smart enough to fool the discriminator in 50% of the cases which is the goal of GANs to establish equilibrium between the errors of the two networks so that the generator is capable of creating very realistic fake images.
How to detect the deep fakes?
Poorly made deepfake videos and images may be easy to identify, but higher-quality deepfakes can be tough and difficult to detect.Below are some characteristics we can use to detect deepfakes:- Unnatural body shape, hair, or skin color.
- A lack of blinking.
- Unnatural eye movement.
- Bad lip-syncing.
- A mismatch between the size of eyes and ears.
- Unnatural positioning between the head and body during the video.
Even with these characteristics, the continuous advances in technology created more trained and advanced deepfakes that are very hard to detect and that’s why a lot of researches and initiatives have been made to use AI algorithms to detect and attack the deepfakes which are also generated by AI.Hence, It’s like using AI against AI.One of these initiatives have been done to detect the deepfakes like DFDC (Deepfake Detection challenge) that was kicked off by major companies like Facebook to help innovation in deepfake detection technologies and to achieve faster solutions by sharing work and motivating the researchers to create creative solutions, the highest average precision achieved in this competition was 82.56% on a public dataset shared with 124k videos. The whole challenge also featured 8 different algorithms to detect facial modifications.Also, one of the most recent and interesting researches has been made by scientists from the University at Buffalo to detect deepfakes by detecting the reflection of light in the eyes.The concept is that, if you captured a photo for a real face with a source of light, the reflection on both eyeballs will be similar because they are seeing the same thing in the scene, which successfully attacks GANs. In this case, while generating these deepfakes, it failed to imitate this reflection behavior on both eyeballs, and by analyzing the corneas, a score generated for each eyeball which used as a similarity metric that indicates the deepfakes with the smaller scores Images of real human eyes
Images of Fake synthesized human eyes
Some precautions you can take against a Deepfake
One of the precautions you can take is to limit your public presence on social media and apply more privacy restrictions to prevent scammers from stealing your images and voice.Applying more powerful verification procedures in your work and validating well the people you are talking to through digital communications.Don’t believe anything you see or hear for the first time on social media or even the news, always validate first.In the end, more education and awareness of the technology to the average users will help society more than anything else to face these new challenges – as detectors get better and smarter, so will the deepfake technology. Author: Mina Tharwat, Computer Vision Engineer [post_title] => AI: Detectors and Precautions against Deepfakes Attacks [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => ai-detectors-and-precautions-against-deepfakes-attacks [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-05-06 15:17:01 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-05-06 11:17:01 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.tahaluf.ae/?post_type=blog&p=5085 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => blog [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [2] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 5084 [post_author] => 6 [post_date] => 2021-04-22 11:00:48 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-04-22 07:00:48 [post_content] => Companies usually log expenses that need to be recognized on different periods, say for example an insurance policy that spans for a whole year.According to accounting principles, “Expense to be recognized as and when services are rendered”, which implies the following in our insurance example:- The expense of insurance should not be recognized as a whole for the period the invoice is recorded.
- Insurance service is going to be recognized for the coming year.
- Expense recognition start date
- Expense recognition end date
- Accrual account (pre-paid expense account)
2. Post the invoice and notice that the invoice entry is posted to the deferred expense account. 3. Run the “multiperiod accounting” process. 4. Check the entry generated after the process has been completed. Author: Mohammad Abdulfattah Hussein, Oracle Finance Consultant [post_title] => Oracle Cloud Application: How to amortize deferred expenses using Multi Period Accounting [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => oracle-cloud-application-how-to-amortize-deferred-expenses-using-multi-period-accounting [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-04-22 11:00:48 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-04-22 07:00:48 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.tahaluf.ae/?post_type=blog&p=5084 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => blog [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [3] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 5080 [post_author] => 6 [post_date] => 2021-04-22 10:58:42 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-04-22 06:58:42 [post_content] => Introduction
The supply chain is a global network used to deliver products and services from raw materials to end customers through an engineered flow of information, physical distribution, and cash “as per APICS/ASCM definition".
The Basic Supply chain has a minimum of three entities producer/service provider, supplier, and customer. Information between these three entities flows in both directions upstream and downstream. Most of the organizations that deal with suppliers that provide services use the concept of service procurement or complex purchase order to manage milestones, work confirmation, payment plan, recoupment, and retentions.
Retainage is a practice of withholding funds from payment until the contractor completes an agreed-upon portion of the work or fulfills contractual obligations. The practice of retentions has its origins in the British Railway Mania of the 1840s, Retentions are widely used in the British construction industry; featuring in the majority of all contracts awarded. It is a sum of money that is withheld as security against poor quality products (defects) or works left incomplete.
Most ERP consultants, Implementors, Presales and Sales who interacted with Oracle E-Business suite ERP then shifted to Oracle Cloud ERP noticed that there is no complex purchase order feature exist till update 20D, we also noticed that most of our customers who migrated or are planning to migrate from on-premise to oracle cloud ERP found this point an obstacle.
Therefore, some customers, especially those who use service procurement as a core in their business decided not to shift to Oracle Cloud until this feature existed or they decided to develop a full custom solution on PaaS to cover this part. Recently, Oracle released a new update 21A which has one of the complex work procurement features namely, the “Retainage”.
In the 21A update, the Complex Work Procurement solution is comprised of 3 features as below:
- Create Purchase Orders with Retainage Terms (Oracle Procurement Cloud)
- Negotiate Retainage for Services (Oracle Procurement Cloud)
- Creation and Management of Supplier Invoices with Retainage (Oracle Financials Cloud)
Value Proposition
From a business point of view, the use of retentions is intended to encourage efficiency and productivity. The contractor has a financial incentive to achieve completion as early as possible (to release the first moiety payment) and to minimize defects in the works (to achieve the second payment).
From a system point of view, Complex Work Procurement is an end-to-end integrated solution across Oracle Procurement Cloud, Oracle Financials Cloud, and Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud applications. This solution is designed to model the procurement of complex contracts in industries such as construction, consulting, and professional services. Complex work contracts tend to have high dollar values and long lead times and are governed by complex payment terms.
You can use Complex Work Procurement to manage various aspects of the acquisition processes involved in procuring complex work.
How to Enable the Retainage
- Login to Oracle Cloud instance which has the update 21A.
- You need to have a role that contains the “Manage Purchasing Document Style “privilege such as the Procurement Application Administrator Role.
- From the Navigator choose “Setup and Maintenance”.
- Search for the “Manage Document Styles “task.
- Create a new document style or update an existing user-defined document style then save and close.
- Now you can navigate to the home page → Procurement → Purchase Orders → Tasks → Create Order.
- Choose the new purchase order style which has the retainage option enable and press create.
- Fill the purchase order header details then navigate to the line level and add new line → Fill Line details → then you have to show the retainage columns from the view section as below:
- Navigate to the right side till you find the Retainage Rate (%) and Maximum Retainage Amount, Fill in the required percentage and maximum amount.
- Submit the purchase order for approval, then after approval search for the purchase order and open the view lifecycle option as below:
- Now you can see the total retainage amount and the total retainage release on that purchase order.
- You can do the same but search by schedule level so you can see the retainage and retainage release per schedule as below:
To Be Continued …. Demonstrating the sourcing and invoice retainage features Notes:
- You can Enter the Maximum Retainage Amount and Retainage Rate on FBDI Purchase Order Import Template.
- You can Analyze retainage-enabled purchase orders using the OTBI Purchasing Real-time subject area.
References:
- https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/tutorial/cloud/r13/wn/proc/releases/21A/21A-procurement-wn.htm#F15900
- https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/procurement/21a/oapro/purchasing-configuration.html#OAPRO4334991
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retainage#History_and_purpose
- https://www.ascm.org/
Waterfall + Agile: Waterfallgile
Have you heard about this management approach? Have you ever considered this approach to run and manage your daily work? There is no such thing as "The Best" or the "Most Comprehensive" approach to follow, but all project management approaches are fine to implement as long as it serves the project desires and success.Dealing with day-to-day activities as a business analyst or project manager needs a well-designed project management approach. And as we know, most methods that are used nowadays and have the appropriate maturity is the Waterfall management approach or the Agile method. Waterfall VS Agile
It's all about how to manage the client's expectations and how to achieve the project's desires, so in any project, the success points or milestones need to be identified from the very beginning.The Agile approach is adopted to identify the project milestones, implemented through something called sprint planning. This way, it will give the client and the project controller the ability to predict. So maybe at this point, we could use a "milestone" word to refer to sprint, but in most cases, the sprint plan won't be able to achieve something tangible, or in another term, something the client sees."The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them — preferably in unexpected and helpful ways"
So again, it's all about client expectations and how to achieve the set milestones.The Waterfall management approach also cares about the client's expectations and could be more useful to fulfill the project's desires, and also could be a good approach to enhance the project's profitability by identifying full package milestones including specific deliverables on a specific date. In this case, both parties won't need to revisit the plan and keep going forward to finish the full project release.Maybe implementing the Waterfall method will give the stakeholders what they need from the beginning (project kick-off), to achieve the full delivery with full covered desires, so in this case, the project plan will be built on predefined milestones along with a specific full delivery date. But there are a lot of assumptions that need to be considered if we're willing to follow this approach, such as the full requirements of a predefined project which would impact the cost if major changes happened during the development. And the most important thing is how to achieve full delivery without client involvement, and also how to run the project with full requirements from the beginning?The Waterfall approach is like a domino effect. It needs one event to knock on, affecting the whole project, but it needs more if obstacles start appearing. Agile is a process by which a team can manage a project by breaking it up into several stages and involving constant collaboration with stakeholders and continuous improvement and iteration at every stage.The methodology begins with clients describing how the end product will be used and what problem it will solve. The client in this approach needs to be well-educated and know about the most efficient way to get the final results.Eventually, as I said earlier, it's all about the client's expectation and the project profitability that allows us to decide which approach will get the most benefit.There are a lot of aspects that need to be considered to know which approach to follow as shown in the table below:Considering all the mentioned aspects, it still depends on what I need to accomplish and what the client needs to see. Say I have a demanding client that needs to be highly engaged, it's better to implement the Agile method. But what if the client demands exceed my expectations? Do I need to implement a requirement document and get it signed-off to minimize the changes requests? Or maybe implement a high-level project charter?Now, is there a way that you can use these two development methodologies to work on a single project? Is there anything called Waterfallgile? Do we use it unawarely? Could it be considered as a hyper management approach? Waterfallgile is an approach that could be the best of both methods. The reason the two methodologies can work harmoniously is that Agile is more of a mindset and approach than a methodology, so it’s possible to use the Agile philosophy with the more rigid Waterfall methodology. Author: Saif Al Najjar, Business Analyst Team Lead [post_title] => Waterfallgile [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => waterfallgile [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-05-06 15:16:13 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-05-06 11:16:13 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.tahaluf.ae/?post_type=blog&p=5093 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => blog [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [comment_count] => 0 [current_comment] => -1 [found_posts] => 4 [max_num_pages] => 0 [max_num_comment_pages] => 0 [is_single] => [is_preview] => [is_page] => [is_archive] => [is_date] => [is_year] => [is_month] => [is_day] => [is_time] => [is_author] => [is_category] => [is_tag] => [is_tax] => [is_search] => [is_feed] => [is_comment_feed] => [is_trackback] => [is_home] => 1 [is_privacy_policy] => [is_404] => [is_embed] => [is_paged] => [is_admin] => [is_attachment] => [is_singular] => [is_robots] => [is_favicon] => [is_posts_page] => [is_post_type_archive] => [query_vars_hash:WP_Query:private] => 025e5e23109a4624207f6d94c5b5fb75 [query_vars_changed:WP_Query:private] => [thumbnails_cached] => [stopwords:WP_Query:private] => [compat_fields:WP_Query:private] => Array ( [0] => query_vars_hash [1] => query_vars_changed ) [compat_methods:WP_Query:private] => Array ( [0] => init_query_flags [1] => parse_tax_query ))Waterfallgile - 2021-05-06 15:11:28 - publishAI: Detectors and Precautions against Deepfakes Attacks - 2021-04-22 11:02:40 - publish
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