Why light the sky at night, when lights can be dimmed? Why perform onsite inspections of street lights, bridges, locks, poles and road signs when they can be monitored from anywhere? Let us have a look at the environmental footprint of public lighting. Public lighting accounts for 30% of the energy used in public spaces…. Continue
This post has been co-written by Jim Hunt and Dorothee Stoffels who work in the Business Change and Transformation practice within Logica Business Consulting. Jim is an Enterprise Architect specialising in enhancing business effectiveness and optimisation using systemic analysis and design. He has over 20 years of experience in IT across a multitude of industries. Dorothee… Continue
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
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
Do you remember the days when huge firewalls tried to protect the poor intranet from the outside world and staff struggled to use MSN, Yahoo and their other favourite apps? When companies still provided their employees with locked-down laptops and mobile phones or only supported a few models or versions? When contractors needed to be… Continue
Cloud enables a better and faster service for ecosystem partners, employees, clients and citizens by giving us more storage and computing power. But it also produces and requires a huge amount of data. Why? And what is going to happen to the data? And how can it be used to create even better services? People,… Continue
This week I’ll be packing my passport and heading off to California for the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference which is taking place between July 10th and 14th. The conference is a premier event for Microsoft’s Industry Partners, but this year has special significance for Logica as we’ve won not one, but two Microsoft Awards. We… Continue
Online shopping already recommends items based upon your previous purchases, but imagine if the recommendations were based upon Facebook and Twitter conversations you are having with your friends. Spooky? Well maybe not. It’s the coming together of predictive analytics and social media. It’s the future and its starting to happen now. We all know that social media… Continue
The first day of the Cloud Computing World Forum was extremely well attended. It was often difficult to move because it was so crowded. All levels of seniority attended – it was not just the “techies”. There are 96 companies attending though the prominent public-only cloud providers, VMWare and SAP are conspicuous by their absence…. Continue
The World Wide Cloud Forum event is running in London today and tomorrow, and I’m looking forward to seeing how quickly the cloud market is evolving and the gap between what the industry is proposing and what clients actually want. How commercially compelling are enterprise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) approaches that go beyond mere… Continue