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Personal Data Stores – Get ready for a step change

What if Facebook, Google, Amazon etc all started paying you for the personal data you create whilst browsing their sites? Well, this may be a reality sooner than you think. With many organisations making millions from selling targeted advertising using user generated profiles and given that Forrester say that more than $2 billion is spent… Continue

Innovation

Business App Stores – the way forward?

Consumerisation of IT is impacting our business and that of our clients. It feels like a seismic shift. Initiatives like 100% mobility and BYOT – Bring Your Own Technology change the way we experience technology. The development of Enterprise Application Stores (EAS) is a new challenge. Business’s move to providing their software applications in a… Continue

Future IT and Cloud, Public Sector

Easing the squeeze on Europe’s municipalities

  When the English Barclays Bank launched its first automatic cash dispensing machine in 1967, customers feared a decline in the bank’s services. Since then we have been checking our accounts and drawing money 24/7 and only visit the bank for personal or complex matters. The innovative breakthrough was successful through cooperation and standardisation. Customers… Continue

Future IT and Cloud

Sibling rivalry

Competition is a strong driver. For me, as the youngest of 4 siblings, winning against my older brother was a glorious feeling that I never forgot. Four weeks ago when we started Logica Futurescope, the competing element of it was the thing that I liked the most.  The peer to peer rivalry is currently generating… Continue

Innovation

The future is still huge

Forgive me, there is nothing like the passing of a landmark birthday for the excuse for a bit of reminiscing. I got to thinking about what I thought the future held way back when I joined Logica. I have fond memories of a project for France Telecom which considered the application of machine translation over… Continue

Financial Services

Keeping the price of liquidity down

With liquidity shortfalls playing such a fundamental role in the financial crisis of 2008, it’s no surprise that regulations such as Basel III and Dodd-Frank are pushing financial institutions to raise their capital and liquidity ratios. Banks are trying to understand how these new regulations will impact their business. And there’s one overarching theme: the… Continue

Financial Services

Becoming more transparent

In my recent blog, I pointed out that regulations are constantly changing, becoming more complex. Global banks operate across regions and have multiple products, which makes it difficult to prove transparency to regulators. Most tier one banks still have some old systems in place and even, in many cases, manual data sources. This is why… Continue

Innovation

Blurring the lines between work and play

Last weekend I watched my friend’s 2-year-old son swipe through her iPhone to find his favourite video clip. I realised then just how much the future of business applications will need to change in order to keep the future generation of iBabies engaged. Game dynamics have long been used to build loyalty in brands and… Continue