One of the key reasons for the move to Cloud-based IT services is support. Cloud services promise to make life easier and more flexible for the end user organisation, in part because someone else (the service provider) has to worry about keeping things running, with quality being assured through the need for the supplier to meet defined service level agreements, [...]

That SAP HANA was the dominating topic on the vendor‘s recent Sapphire event did not come as a surprise. But what is becoming clearer is that SAP positions it as a ubiquitous platform to address market segments beyond traditional enterprise software. HANA is becoming the engine of SAP‘s software and cloud offerings. In addition, the vendor wants to make HANA [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Atos invited a handful of IT analysts to join a briefing about its financial services unit. Being keen to get an update, I took my chance and joined the meeting. Some background facts on Atos in Financial Services In 2012, Atos generated 20% of its total revenue with clients from the financial services segment, making [...]

One of the more interesting outcomes of CGI’s acquisition of Logica is the impact of its approach in the area of innovation. Logica long had a reputation as one of the most creative and technically innovative of the big SIs, but its track record on its exploitation of its IP (intellectual property) was patchy and regionally fragmented. CGI is giving [...]

L’université de Chicago vient de publier une étude sur le comportement des acheteurs menée par des psychologues. Celle-ci, également reprise par la Harvard Business Review (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/10/the_presentation_mistake_you_d.html), montre qu’il existe un paradoxe du marketing lorsque l’on parle de perception de valeur, de packaging d’offres et de gestion de portefeuille. En effet, l’étude montre que pour un produit et un package donné [...]

En Avril de cette année, un groupe de recherche soutenu par la commission Européenne a lancé le projet « E-Highway 2050 ». Ce projet vise à concevoir un plan de développement et une méthodologie appropriée pour développer un réseau de distribution d’électricité modulable et pan-européen à l’horizon 2020-2050. Les parties prenantes sont autant les opérateurs de réseaux, des associations, des [...]

Très populaire en France et dans le monde, Trace One, l’éditeur de solutions collaboratives en ligne a su se créer une position de niche privilégiée grâce à des solutions permettant d’optimiser le travail entre les industriels et les distributeurs. Ces solutions facilitent le sourcing, les appels d’offres et le développement des produits (notamment pour les marques de distributeurs), tout en [...]

At the beginning of this week, I had a chance to visit the SAP Financial Services Summit in Den Haag that was dedicated to SAP’s partners in banking and insurance. I got a good insight into SAP’s recent accomplishments in the banking and insurance industry, which I’d like to share with you here. Recent achievements in FSI During 2012, SAP [...]