Source to Success
In our series on the Dutch Digital Economy we have so far analyzed the Dutch B2B and B2C e-commerce market. The total business conducted in the B2B and B2C commerce in 2014 equaled € 1015 billion of which 8,7% can be attributed to e-commerce. But when analyzing e-commerce there are a few other markets that […] Read more »
Of the 124 SaaS and PaaS vendors we identified in our Swedish cloudscape, 38% operate their own infrastructure. The other 62% partner with a hosting provider. More than 50% of those have their production site hosted inside Sweden (see Figure below). The most popular hosting partners for Swedish Saas and PaaS vendors are Amazon (25%), […] Read more »
Of the 92 SaaS vendors we identified in our Danish cloudscape, 30% operate their own infrastructure. The other 70% partner with a hosting provider. More than 50% of those have their production site hosted inside Denmark (see Figure below). The most popular hosting partners for Danish SaaS vendors are Amazon (15%), Hetzner (12%), Microsoft (6%), […] Read more »
Businessmen, futurists, ICT evangelists, economists and even some politicians are wholeheartedly embracing digital transformation and the digital economy as the future for country, society and economy. And they agree that more should be done to facilitate that future. Unfortunately measuring the impact of digital transformation and sizing the digital economy proves to be tough as […] Read more »
Nearly three years ago we wrote about the existential crisis that systems infrastructure vendors faced: will the future systems infrastructure vendor be selling on-premise systems to enterprises, on-premise systems to independent IaaS players, or selling IaaS services to both? The crisis has not gone away and vendors are reshuffling their cards and stacking the deck […] Read more »
Privatization did beautiful things for a few people. Overnight some became CEO of a large incumbent giving them much prestige and ample salary. For consumers the benefits of privatization, a much more market driven and henceforth efficient company, never emerged. A parliamentary investigation committee into the privatization of telephone and postal services, railways, coaching of […] Read more »