By The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 wrapped up last week, and apart from 4K TVs (3D was so last year), there were many gesture-based products and services being showcased - including Leap Motion, a gesture add-on for iOS...
Read more
Capping IT Off
For the latest in technology: we round up the latest trends on Capping IT Off, Capgemini's Technology Blog
All posts for January 2013
The problem of Data Gravity - why tactical solutions never go away
By Steve Jones
Information is Knowledge, Knowledge is power, power is energy over time, energy is mass times the speed of light squared... if something has mass then it has gravity therefore information has gravity...The odd piece about this clearly false statement...
Read moreHow to start with Big Data?
By Steve Jones
When looking at Big Data the first question is always 'where do I start?' for software vendors the answer to a company is simple 'by buying software', but then the answer from software vendors to any question is 'by buying software'. The real...
Read more#SAPonHANA – Light bulb moment or a bit of a grower?
By Gary James
3CommentsI’ve now had the weekend and a few days to think about the Press Conference that SAP ran to announce that Business Suite would now be available on HANA. The press conference itself was interesting with a lot of detail provided about future plans...
Read moreChanging IT - moving from 'T' to 'I'
By Steve Jones
Information Technology has been a very mis-named area for many years. When you look at IT spend and investment historically its been about two things - Technology and Technologies that provide Business Processes. The concept of Information has been a...
Read moreBPM and the Joys of Parenthood
Time for another of those blogs, where I come across things in life which mirror my experiences with Business Process Management (BPM) – this may be because, either I have spent too much time in the BPM arena and have become increasingly...
Read moreThe right money on time, six million times: Modernizing social security in the Netherlands
In 2006 the Dutch tax administration found itself at the centre of a media storm when a single mother was not paid the correct amount of child benefit, leaving her and her family in serious need. That story made the front page of more than one...
Read moreHow can Business Intelligence help cut costs?
A while ago I was discussing the economic slowdown with some fellow business intelligence (BI) experts. I vividly remember that somebody said, “The recession is an opportunity; it is the strongest business driver so far. BI will help companies...
Read moreKilling Big Data hype - talk about the Big Questions and Big Complexities
By Steve Jones
Tech Crunch have decided that we need to kill Big Data mainly because the hype is getting silly. Over the last few years every startup and established software vendor threw a 'social' sticker onto their products and as Facebook bombed and others...
Read moreYes you need a community manager, though what about a data scientist for your community?
By Rick Mans
It might be the showcase of a filter bubble, though I would say that we all agree that if you want to do anything with communities, social platforms are anything related to that, that you need a community manager. You need a community manager to...
Read more
By 
By 
