I recently had the chance to participate in a panel discussion in hosted by the Financial Times on technology and innovation in Canada. Dubbed as the FT Global Investment Series: Focus on Canada, my fellow panelists included: Natan Aronshtam, Partner, Global Managing Director – R&D and Government Incentives, Deloitte & Touche LLP Kenny Rosenblatt, Co-founder [...]
The lines between work and play, home and office are continuing to blur as technologies make it easier for employees to be productive from virtually anywhere and at any time. As a result, where employees work is fast becoming a dominant topic of conversation for many business executives. In fact, several large companies have recently [...]
In a recent, independent global survey, 73 percent of the respondents said that their company has leveraged Big Data to increase revenue. Given that it has the potential of being a strategic differentiator and business asset, this is hardly surprising. However, the road to success seems to be riddled with quite a few traps. As [...]
As I reflect on my lengthy career at several cutting-edge, high-technology companies helping to advance business intelligence (BI) within the enterprise, it confirms my belief that BI and advanced analytics will change the world. We are experiencing changes of a magnitude never seen before. These changes will mandate a redesign in the way people work [...]
One of the reasons I enjoy my role at Avanade is because I get to have discussions with major customers around how disruptive technology shifts, (such as cloud), will make a difference to their business and IT strategies. However, it is quite rare for a customer to deal with these trends in isolation (I wrote [...]
2012 has been a very exciting time to be in the IT industry. The much talked about four mega tech trends of Cloud, BigData, Social Computing and Mobility have started to converge and their combined impact is having a real transformational impact in the way that many of our customers are running their businesses. It [...]
Twenty-four hundred years ago, a Middle Eastern farmer named Halfat paid his taxes by giving barley and wheat to King Artaxerces. The receipt that documented this transaction was recorded on a fragment of pottery which is now part of the treasure trove of some of the earliest recordation practices of mankind. While we have come [...]
Earlier this month, I contributed an article on Forbes that discussed whether big data will live up to all the hype. In the article, I shared a few tips on how companies can overcome obstacles in dealing with big data. Perhaps most importantly, companies need to empower their employees to act on the insights they unlock. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
