Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’

This morning Microsoft announced that Satya Nadella will be taking over as the new CEO.  Satya Nadella is the former head of the Cloud and Enterprise division at Microsoft.  The last few years Microsoft has been focused on providing a better cloud solution.  They have rapidly iterated on Windows Azure, SharePoint Online, Office 365, Xbox […]

Information will be the basis for competitive advantage so make it everything you do. A decisive theme conveyed during a number of sessions at NRF for retailers has been the demand for knowledge automation. Ginni Rometty set the tone with a call to arms during the IBM Keynote. Whether it’s uncovering new sources of information […]

The cloud trend continues into 2014 as more cloud platforms mature, confidence in security and reliability grows, and the retail use cases for cloud begin to overlap with driving trends like mobile and big data. Analysis from Aberdeen and Accenture show retail investments doubling or tripling through 2015 as cloud business cases begin to prove […]

In case you missed it, we’ve kicked off our list of retail technology trends you can’t ignore in 2014 and covered Social Commerce and Marketing in our first post. The proliferation of social media, smartphones, tablets, mobile wallets, and wearable technology all made headlines in 2013. These converging technology trends have helped formulate the Age of […]

A lot has been written about potential cost savings for SaaS as utility computing. SaaS has a subscription cost model versus a large upfront capital investment. However, there is another interesting aspect of moving to a SaaS model – the reduction of risk. And, the reduction of risk should also influence your investment decision. Let’s […]

Facebook has been one of the software pioneers when it comes to Big Data.  They have an continuously increasing amount of data that constantly needs to be indexed and queried in a fast, efficient manner.  Facebook originally developed Hive which is a distributed data warehouse that allows for querying and managing of large data sets.  They released […]

If you are old enough to remember PCs coming into your business and the reaction most IT shops had to them, then Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and Cloud Computing services should seem like déjà vu. IT worried about PC security, backups and the lack of standards and all the while business people kept buying […]

Omni-channel is probably one of the hottest buzzwords in the retail industry and we’re starting to see it spill over into other industries like financial services.  Omni-channel opens up the doors for organizations to attract and satisfy customers by engaging with them on a whole new level as they become more tech savvy and engage […]

Business Insider published an article titled “12 Technologies That Are Improving at Insane Speeds” describing a McKinsey report about technologies that are disrupting the global economy.  The image shown here summarizes the 12 technologies and provides a glimpse into the amount of technological improvement provided over the years. Not surprising to me is that areas […]

Whatever industry you work in, whatever your department or area of expertise, cloud computing has established its presence. From retail to banking, from travel & hospitality to healthcare, organizations are using the cloud. And businesses are implementing cloud applications in functional areas from sales & marketing, to human resources, accounting, and enterprise resource management. Growth […]

I recently came across a Gigaom article, written by Phil Fasano of Kaiser Permanente, discussing the parallels to new and disruptive technologies in the financial services industry healthcare systems need to embrace to improve the quality of patient care while reducing costs.  This article got my wheels turning.  There are a lot of parallels to financial services […]

… that the “Key To Great Web Software Is A Consistent, Intuitive User Experience“ Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)  providers, according to last week’s Forbes article, will need to focus on the user’s experience across all products. The author, Alexander Pasik, Ph.D., CIO for IEEE, points to Google’s cloud computer services as “providing best-in-class user experiences that are consistent across […]