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Persistent Systems - an Indian e-business product engineering firm, serving global customers in digital business transformation, banking and healthcare - today announced a breakthrough deal with the USAA group of American financial services companies to access and productize USAA’s patent portfolio in secure authentication. The immediate outcomes of the agreement will be diverse new Risk Based Authentication (RBA) methods available across multiple channels and multiple devices.
On Feb 9, 2017 Adobe Document Cloud hosted their 2nd annual Future of Work Think Tank. I was honoured to be the moderator for this hour long discussion, with an amazing group of participants:
It seems to have become fashionable in some circles to suggest that IoT market is failing. Certainly if you were one of those people who just two years ago was predicting amazing numbers then, yes, IoT has failed to achieve those over ambitious levels. Business Market valuable solutions were never likely to match predictions that included numbers of household objects such as Toothbrushes. This blog aims to be a reality check by taking different reports each using different criteria to define IoT deployments.
We had the opportunity to attend the Oracle HCM analyst meeting on February 22nd 2017, held at the beautiful Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay. The meeting was well attended with 20 analysts participating.
Mobile Strategy, Marketing Automation & Sustainability in Digital Tech | DisrupTV Ep. 50
In DisrupTV Episode 50, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by:
Microsoft has led development with a "cloud first" approach under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, but that doesn't mean it has abandoned support for on-premises deployments going forward. To that end, Microsoft will soon offer an on-premises version of Dynamics 365 for Operations, the cloud ERP and CRM system it launched in November.
Is there room in the market for yet another productivity software suite? Amazon Web Services reportedly believes there is, according to a report in the Information:
I was on a briefing call earlier this week with ICANN board member and CTO of Afilias Ram Mohan about the need for the technology industry to adopt Universal Acceptance (UA) standards for websites and email domain extensions. UA is defined as a technical compliance process that ensures that all domain names and email addresses can be used by all internet-enabled applications, devices, and systems. Simply put, UA is the ability to have domain name extensions in local languages beyond today’s ASCII and latin based characters, especially important in this age of globalization.
The widely held belief that billions upon billions of interconnected devices will make up the Internet of Things within just a handful of years rests partly on a parallel assumption: That many of these devices will be tiny sensors often deployed in far-flung places.
The discussion around keeping important legacy software systems up and running for the long term sometimes centers on the concept of third-party maintenance, where major upgrades are pushed off but important tax updates and bug fixes keep getting applied.
Adobe will soon roll out digital signature capabilities based on an open standard it worked on as part of the Cloud Signature Consortium. The vendor says this is an industry first. Here are the key details from Adobe's announcement:
Services Vendors Need To Move Beyond Trump, H1B, and Re-skilling Concerns
Constellation participated in the 25th edition of Nasscom’s India Leadership Forum 2017 (NILF17) in Mumbai at the Grand Hyatt. Though everyone was here to Reimagine, not Re-engineer , during the off-stage conversations with technology buyers, IT services providers, and the press, the hot topics included:
Any description of the Digital Services Economy will focus on the development of marketplaces through hyper connectivity, and massive data flows. Those enterprises that become competitive winners have learnt how to read and respond in an optimized manner to new business opportunities. The Digital Enterprise Business model demands new levels of Enterprise activity integration.
Building Digital Ecosystems, Platform Strategy & Customer-Centric Innovation | DisrupTV Ep. 49
In DisrupTV Episode 49, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar bring together three thought leaders who each bring a different vantage on technology, platforms, and innovation:
IBM Machine Learning for z/OS could be a boon to big banks and insurance companies that want advanced analytics on the mainframe. Next up is the IBM Power platform. Public … Continue reading →