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Last year The METISfiles reported on the ongoing transformation from a traditional to a digital economy. But as the term ‘Digital Economy’ is increasingly used as a desired direction of our economic destiny we still have not much of a clue what it actually is. Most publications on this topic refer to a narrow concept […] Read more »
Only 40% of the top 125 Belgian cloud providers in our most recent cloudscape offer online ordering and onboarding. Worst offenders? HRM and online accounting providers. Best in class? IaaS and communications providers. Check out the graph below to find out how other categories perform. The average result mirrors that of the top 250 Dutch […] Read more »
During two events we attended last week it became strikingly clear; we have so many great software firms in the Netherlands and we (as an industry) do such a lousy marketing job profiling these great companies. The first event we attended was a Main Capital event that focused on: “Successful international partner and channel strategies […] Read more »
The promise of big data is finding useful correlations between numerous data sets and variables in a short time span and applying the outcomes for business or scientific purposes. But before reaping those benefits we need data. Fortunately there’s plenty of data available for analysis. The Digital Universe study, sponsored by EMC, estimates that in […] Read more »
This week we spoke at the SaaS Cloud Symposium of the Dutch ICT trade association. Theme for the day, inspired by the European Commission and its public sector cloud computing initiative was “Cloud for Europe, Europe for Cloud”. We kicked off the afternoon event with a presentation on the state of the Dutch Cloud (see […] Read more »
Since the introduction of the smartphone the ICT sector is no longer leading when it comes to information technology. The pendulum has definitely swung towards information as the key driver of growth rather than technology. It gets harder to amaze us with yet another mind blowing gadget. Instead we just ask ourselves: what can this […] Read more »