April : Thoughts and Insights

Terry Walton - Understanding your Bitcoin from your Blockchain.

So let’s start with the basics, Bitcoin is a form of digital currency that no one person controls often used in peer-to-peer payment systems. Blockchain is a tool that can help companies redesign business processes, share data securely, or prove... Read more.

Terry Walton - Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the kitchen.

Advancements in IoT have provided the ability to light up 'dark devices' and connect almost anything to the outside world, but in the midst of the competition to produce feature-rich products has the point of it been forgotten?For AGA, the luxury... Read more.

Terry Walton - Appoint an Undertaker to Decommission Applications.

Gartner suggests that between 2016 and 2020, IT organisations will decommission more than three times the number of applications they have decommissioned since 2000....but why is there a need, and how can it be addressed?Let's start with... Read more.

Terry Walton - Artificial Intelligence Security.

If you have seen the film 'Minority Report' you will understand the concept of 'Precrime,' they use three gifted humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand.Well that's Hollywood, and it was... Read more.

Tim Puddefoot - IoT, having to really think outside the box to successfully solve an old problem.

An interesting article which explores the "external factors" that IoT projects face. Rarely does one size really fit all - integration is a necessary evil to get really specific business value from systems or processes. Meanwhile, companies like... Read more.

Paul Watson - Transforming healthcare through AI.

Amazing article on how AI capabilities are making breakthroughs that could transform the speed and accuracy of life saving diagnoses. How long will it be before such technologies move from science to practice? Read more.

Terry Walton - Innovation Made Easy: The Cloud's Long-Term Value Proposition.

Chuck Hollis, Oracle, makes an excellent point that it is all too easy to be distracted by IT articles relating to 'The New Shiny Thing' and technology for technologies sake is nothing if it does not address a particular problem or deliver a... Read more.

Mike Pell - Skills key to Big Data success.

A recent TDWI article on Big Data points to the fact that to succeed in these pilots we need to start with a maturity assessment , ensure we have the right skills and most importantly identify a key business issue to resolve. This is similar to... Read more.

Terry Walton - Do you know your Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)?

Your factory runs fine; you produce enough widgets to meet demand and generally there are few complaints. But how do you know things are running well, how can you accurately predict if you have the capacity to produce more widgets at a lower... Read more

Suranjan Som - Big banks still lead over Fintechs.

Every fintech and regtech conference I have been to in the recent past, talks about the imminent apocalypse where traditional players will soon get replaced by the new challengers. Easier said than done, I would say. While new challengers, online... Read more.

Terry Walton - The decline of Cloud or is it?

Panorama Consulting's recent '2017 ERP Report' at first glance could send shock waves through the heart of the SI community as they reported a decrease in companies implementing cloud based solutions. Thinking I had been misguided in attending... Read more