Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’
Posted on December 14th, 2011 at 2:05 pm by Geert Batterink
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Theme: Innovation that works, Latest Post | Tags: cloud computing, CMIS, High Performance IT, Information technology, Mobility, Open Source, Open Source Conference, Social CRM
Today enterprises can strongly benefit from the innovation that can be unlocked using Open Source solutions. Now that the consumerization trend in IT is moving so quickly, newest technology solutions are Open Source right from the start. Open Source is no longer a mere substitute for commodity solutions, it has become a key enabler of innovative solutions that just would not have existed without Open Source. Open Source now has started to out-innovate the IT mega-vendors.
These concepts summarize the Accenture keynote presented by Accenture’s Tony Roby on the 4th edition of the largest and most successful recurring Open Source Conference in the Benelux that was held on December 9th in Amsterdam. The annual conference, founded by Accenture and Red Hat attracted nearly 800 people and offered an extensive program of real-life cases and first class keynote speakers. Simone Brummelhuis, founder and CEO of thenextwomen.com chaired the event. Simone is no stranger when it comes to innovation, as she is also part a member the Accenture Innovation Awards jury.
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Posted on December 13th, 2011 at 2:18 pm by Ad Jan Brouwer
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Theme: Business Transformation, Latest Post | Tags: cloud computing, DSSF, Dutch Shared Services Forum, Enterprise Recourse Planning, ERP, Human resources, Information technology, Shared services
Recently, Accenture’s research report “Trends in Shared Services: Unlocking the full potential” confirms that shared services organizations are enjoying the benefits of cost savings, efficiencies and better service. But the shared services model continues to evolve. One of the main outcomes is that “the gap between what is and what can be will continue to be bridged by the innovative spirit of pioneering shared services leaders”. With this knowledge it is key to have insights in the developments and challenges of Shared Services professionals.
Since December 2009 Finance & Enterprise Performance and Talent & Organisation facilitate the Dutch Shared Services Forum twice a year. During these events structural Shared Service challenges are discussed by Shared Services professionals and Accenture representatives. Although the focus of the event is on HR and Finance, Shared Services Directors from all functions in the Netherlands and Belgium are welcome. By discussing structural challenges, the participating members share knowledge and experience to help each other take Shared Services to the next level.
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Posted on December 5th, 2011 at 2:45 pm by AccentureNL
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Theme: Business Transformation, Column, High Performance IT, Latest Post | Tags: Analytics, business process outsourcing, cloud computing, DCS, Information technology, infrastructure service, ISA95
Information technology has become increasingly more integrated into maintenance. But the advantages are not yet visible. Most often, it is seen as an administrative burden. Yet, further integration of information technology will be necessary in the future to deliver visible results.
Research by the US Department of Energy has shown that the shift from preventive and corrective maintenance to predictive maintenance offers a number of advantages, such as lower maintenance costs, downtime reduction and increased production. However, it requires quite an investment in time and money to realize vertical integration of the current systems.
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Posted on September 12th, 2011 at 12:09 pm by Pieter Paul van Oerle
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Theme: Innovation that works, Latest Post | Tags: A2 Challenge, Accenture Innovation Awards, cloud computing, De Waag, Entrepreneurship, High Performance IT, High Tech Campus Eindhoven, Innovation that works, Mobile apps
Last month on August 30th the winner of the A2 challenge 2011 ‘Crowdriding‘ was announced during the Grand Finale in one of the most historic buildings in Amsterdam ‘De Waag‘. What started as an initiative of Philips, Mediaguild and High Tech Campus Eindhoven has become one of the largest local business plan competition for talent in the Netherlands.
By bringing together technical and business talent fragmented across the Dutch A2 high way road (which connects the 2 most prominent Tech melting pot High Tech Campus Eindhoven with the center for creativity, finance and business opportunities in Amsterdam), we aim to stimulate the level of innovation and entrepreneurship in this region. The participants were challenged to come up with new business ideas and innovations across four thematic streams: Consumer Lifestyle, Clean Tech and Energy, Healthcare and Media & Communication.
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Posted on November 8th, 2010 at 10:12 am by AccentureNL
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Theme: High Performance IT | Tags: cloud computing, integration as a service, SaaS
Cloud Computing enjoys an increasing popularity, and more types of services arise in the Cloud. Traditionally there was a relatively short list of Cloud services consisting of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (Paas) and Software (or: Application) as a Service (Saas). Nowadays we start running out of acronyms, as services such as Process as a Service (PRaaS), Storage as a Service (also SaaS), Integration as a Service (also IaaS) and Enterprise Service Bus as a Service (ESBaaS) have been added. This trend of having every thinkable service in the Cloud has even evolved into Everything as a Service (EaaS, XaaS or *aaS).
With my background in Integration Architecture, I wrote this article to provide insight in the world of Integration as a Service and to introduce an Integration-as-a-Service Offerings Model.
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Posted on June 16th, 2010 at 3:42 pm by Michael Widjaja
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Theme: High Performance IT | Tags: cloud computing, SaaS
Everyone is talking about the Cloud. And reducing cost is one of the most hailed advantages of migrating to the cloud. Infra and software clouds do offer the sharing of commodities which provides these advantages. But Cloud computing and SaaS do also enable innovative and differencing solutions within organizations with cloud platforms . These advantages are discussed at Innovate IT 2010 conference where ‘Creating innovation in the Cloud’ is the main theme. International keynote speakers from Accenture and other leading cloud system integrators and suppliers will provide an usefull update concerning the latest trends and challenges on the cloud, and will discuss the value of Cloud to Innovate in IT. I hope to see you there!
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Posted on June 16th, 2010 at 11:50 am by AccentureNL
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Theme: High Performance IT | Tags: cloud computing, privacy, security
Welcome to my first post on the new Accenture BlogPodium!
If you are a returning reader of my blog, you might have noticed that my blog is now in the Technology theme, rather than the RFID theme. I’m happy about this, because my day to day job is more about Technology and Architecture than about RFID. So let me take advantage of being part of a broader theme, and re-publish an internal article that I wrote earlier this year. Enjoy reading!
Cloud Computing is hot: “Cloud Computing heralds an evolution of business that is no less influential than e-business”.
It might sound very simple: Instead of maintaining your own applications, platforms and servers, you obtain them as a service from outside your own organization, so you don’t have to care about maintenance, performance, scalability, software upgrades and uptime anymore. But is that all? No, there’s more.
According to a recently published research (see this survey and risk assessment) by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), Confidentiality of corporate data and Privacy are the number 1 and 2 main concerns (and showstoppers) for companies who are on a journey of implementing Cloud Computing.
This article addresses Cloud Computing from a Security and Privacy perspective and introduces a four step approach to overcome cold feed for Cloud Computing.
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Posted on June 11th, 2010 at 6:17 am by Michael Widjaja
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Theme: High Performance IT | Tags: cloud computing, web2.0, webtrends
Every year I look forward to visit the Next Web conference held in Amsterdam. It shares the buzz going around in the global internet economy and provides insights in latest trends and startups. And this year was not an exception where a number of different startups attracted my attention.
Some of the new initiatives focus on cloud mashups to provide low-threshold value Read more…
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