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The traditional definition of “economy” according to the Oxford Dictionary is “the state of a country or region in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services and the supply of money”. According to Wikipedia, the term “Digital Economy” refers to “an economy that is based on digital technologies. The digital economy is […] Read more »
Which organisations are best placed to adapt and benefit most by fully embracing the trend towards cloud-based business models? Whether or not you have legacy has got a lot to do with it: [legacy] something left or handed down by a predecessor [legacy] denoting or relating to software or hardware that has been superseded but […] Read more »
During SAPs Database and Technology summit in Barcelona SAP reinforced its HANA commitment once more together with a selection of its tier one partners. SAP’s first HANA (originally short for Hasso’s New Architecture later baptized as High Performance Analytic Appliance) announcement as well as it first release dates back to 2010 and was labeled an […] Read more »
Enterprise public cloud services can be segmented into infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS). In a wider context, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS are being supported by digital infrastructure layers and sold either direct or through cloud channels. The picture below provides a value chain view of what we call the Public Cloudscape: This Public […] Read more »
We are at the beginning of a significant shift in system and supplier strategies, where established and acquired Intellectual Property is being used to get closer to a complete offering than the days of the mainframe and Unix minicomputers. These systems differ in being built for the large part on standard components and incorporating some […] Read more »
Publishers have been slow to adapt to the digital future that has yet arrived. Both the movie industry and the music industry have in the end -and not without fierce and still ongoing battles- accepted the new digital reality of Youtube and Spotify. The oldest mass medium, print, is still struggling to get to terms […] Read more »