Back in January, I presented a keynote at the BETT Conference in London. Presenting to a full room of higher education decision makers, I explained my thoughts on the future of education and technology. During the question and answer session, one area which attracted special interest was our social collaboration offering and its value in read more
Lately we have seen Bitcoin surge and fall in value. At first, it was said to be down to the economic issues in Cyprus turning investors to look at other (safer?) forms of storing their money. And now, since I first started this article, collapse in value in under a less than a month. Is read more
On December 15th 1664 a shipwreck occurs near the cast of Wales; 82 people are killed, only one person named Hugh Williams survives. On December 5th 1785 a similar accident takes place in roughly the same spot; 70 casualties this time, and only one survivor, whose name was coincidentally Hugh Williams. Yet, on August 5th read more
Digital Technology is transforming many of our lives. It used to be that technology innovations would target the enterprise first and eventually, as the costs reduced, reach the home. Now, in the New Normal, the rise of consumer technology innovation coupled with ubiquitous connectivity has – for many areas of technology – reversed this trend;employees read more
As the local IT support person for my village (I’m sure you know what I mean) I was approached on Christmas Day by one of my neighbours, who’s grandson needed to get online using a new Windows 8 machine. It was an emergency; he needed to activate Football Manager 2013. Now, as CTO, of course read more
I like asking questions and I like getting good answers even better. It is because of that, I now have a love / hate relationship with search engines. Most of the time they give me a 50% answer, a kind of direction, a suggestion, a kind of coaching to the real answer. It is like read more
The Atos Scientific Community, in its recent research paper; Ascent Journey 2016, considers the impact of combining video, multimedia and data on how people will interact on both a personal and organizational basis. Until not all that long ago, to organize a night out with my friends we would typically phone each other. In the read more
If you like curly fries you are probably intelligent (1). This insight comes from the University of Cambridge. The researchers analysed the data from Facebook to show that ‘surprisingly accurate estimates of Facebook users’ race, age, IQ, sexuality, personality, substance use and political views can be inferred from the analysis of only their Facebook Likes’. read more
About a year and a half ago in the Atos Scientific Community we started focusing on the importance that social media would have on other traditional forms of media, especially broadcasting. One of the main outcomes of this was our “Social Second Screen” where we analysed (and prepared an enduser app) the relationship and, in read more
During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 2013, many people from all places of the world come to my city to learn about the latest trends and new solutions around mobility. Among these new solutions, I would like to highlight those related to new shopping experiences that are enabled by smartphones. Mobility has read more
The Atos Scientific Community, in its recent research paper; Ascent Journey 2016, considers the challenge that an enterprise will have with business processes not confined to a single cloud but distributed across multiple clouds. The topic of cloud is no longer a hype. Cloud solutions in a variety of forms are now well established and read more
There are nearly 2.5 billion people online now, and on average we have 2.8 devices each. Mobile access to the Internet accounts for an increasing proportion of traffic and more and more of the world’s population will join, in one form or another, over the next few years. How amazing that the majority of the read more
For a long time organizations have been outsourcing their application management. Initially, outsourcing happened only with servers and databases with focus on availability, response time and cost reduction. Later, applications were also outsourced, mainly those that were technology-oriented: some SAP applications or the Oracle custom-made applications. By having introduced process models like ITIL and CMMI read more
The term “sing along” is often used to indicate a very famous tune that (almost) everybody can sing. A famous example is a theme from 1930-ties Disney cartoon “Who´s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”. Back then, and since the early middle ages, the Big Bad Wolf was a kind of universal threat used in read more
Alfred’s alarm clock awoke him with the latest Top 5 hits from the Irish charts, in line with the preferences he had set in his virtual assistant. Why 5:15 am? On the wall was flashing the answer: the personal automated agenda indicated that he should take a day off and go to Barcelona; the flight read more
Over the last couple of months I have found myself thinking time and time again of this quote attributed to Bruce Lee: “One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.” When working on or reviewing technical architecture, software designs or code read more
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