Information Technology

The payment industry is transforming rapidly with many interesting technologies emerging on a regular basis. Most of these solutions are disruptive and strongly impact the way companies and individuals communicate and interact. As a result, the payment ecosystem is also changing.

Open Data has sparked increasing excitement in recent years. It reflects data that had previously been locked away and limited in application to uses by the data owner opening up to the general public.

The hottest trend in machine learning is to give away stuff for free. Tech companies have always been advocates of the open-source community and often release code using an open-source license. Over the last year, however, market leaders in machine learning have given away complete codebases.

As the largest event in the world dedicated to the future of cities, the Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona brought together urban planners, public administrators, and technology innovators to debate a more citizen-centric vision for the connected urban space.

Although the financial services, telecommunication, and retail industries have been investing in Big Data analytics (BDA) for a while, adoption by utilities is still at a relatively early stage—partly because of their predominantly cautious mentality.

Bitcoin is a powerful and successful digital currency. Based on cryptography and a decentralized ledger, it has simultaneously been heralded as the future of finance and a gateway to the criminal underworld.

This analysis chooses the somewhat provocative thesis: "Big Data Analytics and Lean Six Sigma – A Marriage Made in Heaven?" It explores the validity of this thesis through five main sections. First, it starts with a brief introduction to the key aspects of Lean Six Sigma (LSS).

On 5 and 6 November, T-Systems held its most recent Analyst & Sourcing Advisor Summit in Berlin. The event took place as T-Systems, the IT services and enterprise customer division of Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG), is coming into the home stretch of a major restructuring.

Managed cloud provider Rackspace recently launched managed security and compliance offerings to assist clients with the planning of their security monitoring and threat analysis needs. To begin with, the offerings will be available to global customers of Rackspace’s managed hosting services; although, the provider sees a distinct market opportuni...