Some things in life are inevitable: death, taxes and the ability of the tech sector to create acronyms and overly-hyped buzzwords. Today, I’m going to address the latest of those buzzwords, Big Data, and by the end I promise to try to come up with an acronym of my own just for fun. Big [...]
In other posts, I have alluded to the fact that the cloud computing paradigm, (with it’s pay-as-you-go financial modelling and it’s prescriptive service descriptions), will present a disruptive factor in traditional sourcing, but I thought I would flesh this out a little more. Fundamentally this is all about what I refer to as the [...]
Watching my kids dance to Donna Summers “Hot Stuff” on Dance Central 2 at the local Microsoft retail store I began to realize that this game console may single handedly solve the obesity problem in the United States. Rather than spending endless hours on the couch honing their hand eye coordination playing Halo or the [...]
Microsoft held a global webcast today introducing the latest functionality in Windows Azure, including an expansion of the Virtual Machine (VM) functionality that now enables an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering from Microsoft. Avanade has a deep understanding of Windows Azure and we have been working closely with Microsoft before the public release today. These new features [...]
To accompany the results of our global big data survey, our creative team put together the following infographic that highlights three main takeaways from our research: More people have access to technology putting more data in everybody’s hands Investments are paying off and big data has begun to create real value The benefits of [...]
Avanade’s latest global research findings were announced today highlighting executive attitudes and adoption trends surrounding big data. The big data survey shows that the investments companies are making to manage big data are paying off. In fact, 73 percent of companies have already used data to increase revenue by growing existing revenue streams or creating entirely new [...]
I’m excited to reveal that Avanade will be sponsoring this year’s Gartner Customer Strategies & Technologies Summit, in London (June 11-12). The summit is a great event every year, showcasing the latest CRM solutions, discussing successful customer strategies and looking at new and emerging technologies. This year’s topics are particularly interesting: social and mobile [...]
