Life for a CIO or CTO used to be complex. Then came Cloud Computing. Now life is even more complex. A year ago the Atos Scientific Community published a whitepaper on Cloud Computing. In the paper the concept was explained and we predicted that interoperability among clouds was going to be a major headache. The read more
I bought my own bed. I like it, it is a big bed with a proper mattress and pocket springs. I also bought my own pillow and now that I think of it, I also bought my own milk and decided, by my own, that I really needed to eat a hamburger and chips last read more
The divide between Software Developers and Application (Support) Managers is a much-discussed topic that may be compared to “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”. But is this point of view still valid nowadays? Software development and application management have much in common. Software development has distanced itself from yesteryear’s quickly hacking together of read more
“… the success of nanopayments within the social networking environment was the election of Barack Obama as US President. His election was financed by a vast number of small donations that was totally at odds with the way his competitor was financed with much higher and more traditional donations.” The quote above comes from a read more
I expect that you, like myself, love and hate spreadsheets. They are a great tool for a large variety of mathematic tasks but also for activities like project-planning or creating a really cool family calendar. And I bet your financial controllers love spreadsheets to bring order to your business world; I can say for myself read more
I used to play rugby, so I understand what good team work can do. I played in a student team as a tight-head prop (a forward position). With 70 kg, I belonged to the heavy players in our team. Students don’t eat well, and their appearance on a Sunday morning exposes an exhaustive “Saturday night read more
During the Web 2.0 conference in October 2011, Steve Ballmer went on stage and expressed to everybody his opinion on the Microsoft Windows Phone user experience in comparison to Android and iPhones: “…but when you grab a Windows phone and use it… your information is front and centre… and you don’t have to scroll through read more
There is a debate that has raged for at least 2 years. On one side are those who claim that the Cloud is merely an evolution of where we have been. On the other side are those, like myself, who claim that the Cloud is fundamental revolution. Those who claim that the Cloud is merely read more
In an article published this month, the economist Brian Arthur is presenting what he calls “The Second Economy” where digitization will bring the biggest chance since the Industrial Revolution. Analyzing the way we are doing our check-in at the airport today as compared to twenty years ago, Brian Arthur emphasizes that by letting a machine read more
Technology often goes unnoticed and yet it is absolutely critical to the smooth running of London 2012. Without Technology, the results would not be available for the world in real time! Today, I am excited to be at the unveiling of the Technology Operations Centre – the mission control for all 94 Olympic competition and read more
In a recent contact centre case study, SAP found that using SAP Real Time Offer Management (RTOM) with SAP CRM typically yielded 20% to 30% offer acceptance rates; more than ten times greater than the response gained without RTOM. In fact, using RTOM led to an overall increase of over 60% in contact centre offering read more
New technology is changing the way we access media content. At the same time, it makes it easier to capture and distribute self-generated content. Some of the main challenges media companies are already facing, and that will continue to evolve while generating, editing, delivering and monetizing their content are: - More information, different sources: User generated read more
My first exposure to interoperable systems. Roughly a decade ago when I was involved in the design of a new digital TV system that worked across many international and cultural boundaries I was invited to help make some decisions concerning the systems and software needed to deliver the TV signal and data into a customers’ read more
You may have heard about zero mail – I would now like to introduce you to the “Zero Network”. Unlike zero mail, the Zero Network is not an official Atos term; it’s my own invention (probably simultaneously coined by others too, I’m sure, but this is my claim to ownership!) For a long time I read more
What distinguishes an object, a person, an animal of another? What is the essence that gives entity to their nature, how are we able to feel it? These questions have been asked for centuries in Philosophy, perhaps the story that best illustrates this point took place in ancient Greece. In the Dialectic and Dialogues from read more
European Commissioner Neelie Kroes fears a great scarcity of app developers in the European ICT market. She has calculated that 700,000 jobs in the digital economy will be released the next few years. These are not only pure Apps developers, but are also adjoining functions as strategists, project managers, programmers, interactive designers, visual designers and read more
The excitement and intensity is growing for our team which will more than double in size from 150 to 330 between now and the London 2012 Opening Ceremony. It’s a huge privilege for me and all of the team to be at the heart of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and we’ll be doing everything read more
Almost everywhere in the press we can find articles about the introduction of electric vehicles in every part of the world. In many countries the first pilots have been started and the car manufacturers have brought the first EV models at the market. But all the existing activities are still looking for the right business read more
Tap-tap&No-go By itself, the NFC technology is a promising technology that could bring a lot of convenience to mobile users by a single tap-and-go. However, numerous attempts to market this technology still remain tap-tap and… no-go. My quick web search results in the following facts and figures: – The first commercial NFC phone (Nokia 6231) read more
A dozen years ago (bear with me) I was involved in one of the dot-com boom start-ups using DRM (Digital Rights Management) technology to protect music and other digital content. It was a noble effort to protect information, but as we all know there has been somewhat of a battle in the music industry since read more
Today’s enterprise application landscapes are voluminous, complex and scattered. Over the past decades, new applications have been added to the landscape using the popular technology of that decade. Therefore, it can be that one organization has several applications built in Cobol, PL/1, Oracle Forms, PowerBuilder, Adabas/Natural, C, C++, Microsoft VB, Java or C#, and standard read more
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