September: Thoughts and Insights

Terry Walton - Pay by finger!

Finger veins, the tiny blood vessels inside your finger, are laid out in a pattern which is unique to every individual. Fingerprints have for many years been used for identification based on the fingers ridge patterns that are also unique to every... Read more

Pierson Broome - "AI is no longer optional in the world of Retail...".

One of the most striking changes in recent times when speaking with Retail customers is their enlightened focus on contemporary technologies as enablers and accelerators. I still have meaningful discussions about how it's possible to improve... Read more.

Brian Erickson - What Helio Castroneves taught me about IoT.

I recently had an opportunity to see Indy race car driver Helio Castroneves speak at a conference hosted by Hitachi Consulting. I was hoping that he would share some of his secrets to success - was it cat like reflexes, nerves of steel, a need for... Read more.

Sean Bryson - Who Owns Security in the Cloud World?

Over the last decade I have met with many companies looking at making their move to the cloud and the most common issue has always been security. For the first 6 or 7 years, most companies believed they were better than the cloud vendors. Lately,... Read more

David Wechsler - When natural disaster hits, is your water supply safe?

Multiple hurricanes have pounded our country's coasts in the past few weeks. Additionally, Mexico has just experienced one of its worst earthquakes in recent years. How can you make sure your water supply is safe?  When natural... Read more

Ramgopal Sultania - Defying Disruption: What Sets the Winners Apart?

The demise of once great brands always grabs headlines. But from our perspective the real excitement is at those organizations that have survived multiple waves of disruption, demonstrated their resilience and held on, or even reclaimed leadership... Read more

Sean Bryson - Staying Current in the Cloud World.

We often talk about the numerous benefits of moving to the cloud, using the new services available, and how these service can help create and shape new capabilities within our organizations. But, we often fail to discuss one other side effect of... Read more.

Shawn Shell - Technology velocity and "keeping up with the Jones'".

Businesses are at an inflection point. The need to innovate is critical. Even in industries that are mature and well understood - innovation is the key to both new and enduring success. In many cases, innovation is less about the core product and... Read more.

Sean Bryson - The Next Stage in Data Protections in the Cloud Arrives.

Recently the Azure team announced an important new feature called Azure Confidential Computing. This feature changes how data and code operating putting them inside a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) or sometimes known as an enclave. When the... Read more.

Michael Teytaud - Great day for MLA at Hitachi NEXT 2017.

I had the opportunity of joining my Hitachi Consulting colleagues this week at NEXT to recognize an outstanding company and showcase the business outcomes they have achieved from their powerful transformation journey. Hitachi Vantara... Read more.

Rajesh Devnani - 10 Tips to unravel the Predictive Maintenance Conundrum.

One of the pioneering applications fueling the resurgence of manufacturing in the digital era has been the rise of Predictive Maintenance as the poster child within the suite of digital transformation technologies. Estimates from analysts vary... Read more.

Mike Naimoli - The Digital Arms Race in Life Sciences Affects All of Healthcare.

As we experience the digitalization of our own lives, one thing is clear: We are drowning in data. At times, we are hard pressed to get the information needed from that data, let alone build any sort of informed action plan based on... Read more.

Philip Townsend - Using Machine Learning to Enhance Cyber Security.

Security breaches and ransomware attacks are painful reminders of how reliant society is on technology. These attacks exploited well-documented weaknesses of some of the most common methods used to hack more than 90% of large organizations... Read more.

Sean Bryson - Per Second Billing Comes to AWS.

The next wave in the cloud pricing wars begins today. With Google pushing the per minute billing for their Compute Engine solution, it was only a matter of time until Amazon's Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure matched or got down to per... Read more.

Shawn Shell - Making sense of Blockchain.

There is much being said about Blockchain. It's a technology that was invented exclusively for BitCoin - an electronic currency. Many are pursuing ways to use the concepts in the context of other problem sets. Unfortunately, much of that work is... Read more.

Terry Walton - Your next co-worker could be a robot.

In my previous article Could Machines Replace Humans I looked at the many types of activities that have the potential to be technically automated and how they varied significantly between industry sectors and activities. Where predictable physical... Read more.

Suranjan Som - The robots are here - and things are about to change.

We’re probably still a few years away from humanoids roaming around doing the chores at home (and work). However, they definitely are here in spirit. These robots don’t have a physical shape or form but are intelligent pieces of software that... Read more.

Pierson Broome - Biometrics and the Customer Experience.

The pace of biometric payment technologies continues to quicken and along with it the opportunities to provide a smarter Customer Experience (CX). Whether, like KFC, it's facial recognition or instead Retail and/or Hospitality providers choosing... Read more.

Terry Walton - Why CIOs Still Need a Cloud Strategy.

Cloud is proving organisations more deployment options than ever before while gaining significant market share over traditional on-premise deployments. The result is that traditional on-premise vendors now offer cloud alternatives in public or... Read more.