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Towards 3D Location-Based Services
Because the Earth is not flat!Geo-information (or geo-spatial information), geographic information systems (GISs), and location-based services (LBSs) have experienced a boom in recent years, both in people’s ...
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Using Social Network Analysis (SNA) in organizational change
Delivering a new perspective on the impact of relationships on your corporate performance When a company goes through an organizational change program, there is often a lack of knowledge about actual relationships within the company and about single points of ...
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Open-Source Solutions for Big Data Management
Understanding the capabilities and limits of NoSQL and distributed-computing technologiesUntil the end of the 1990s, computer performance increased rapidly enough to meet growing data storage and processing needs. Since then, several major changes in the IT world ...
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Command and Control for Data Centers
An industrial approach to Data Center management This whitepaper from Atos’ Scientific Community describes the current Data Center norm, presents existing and upcoming monitoring tools, and describes how Command & Control solutions, from the industrial world, ...
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Computational Finance
Business opportunities afforded by progress in financial modeling and advanced technological solutions The use of Computational Finance, i.e. algorithmic trading and high frequency trading (HFT), on the financial markets is becoming predominant. The gains ...
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Smart Metering
A powerful driving force behind the transformation of Europe's energy market The smart meter makes it possible to track energy consumption remotely from the point of delivery and, in certain instances, to remotely control distribution to customers. ...
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Emerging Networking Technologies to deal with the challenges of Cloud
Many of today’s dedicated and costly infrastructure solutions will be replaced by cost effective cloud services that are expected to deliver increased agility, scalability and uptime. However, private and public clouds increasingly rely on multi-tenanted architectures ...
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The Effects of solvency II
What effect is the quintessentially European Solvency II initiative having when examined from the multiple perspectives of the organisations it is impacting across Europe? Will it increase the opportunities for regulatory arbitrage rather than decrease them as originally intended? ...
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The Impact of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis on Public Services and Healthcare Procurement
Europe’s debt crisis is both a continuation of the global financial crisis and the result of the region’s attempts to address the issues that brought an end to a decade of prosperity and unrestricted borrowing.However, the decisions ...
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Electricity Smart Metering Business Drivers
Smart Metering will change the way we produce, deliver and consume our energy. It is a major building block towards the implementation of the Smart Grid for which Utilities are preparing.It is therefore important that Smart Metering systems ...
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Beyond IT Outsourcing
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Cloud Orchestration – A Real Business Need
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Consumerization technology is it really good for business?
Consumerization in the enterprise is one of the most hotly debated points today. To take advantage of consumerization, CIOs must ask two questions “why shouldn’t we?” and “why do employees have access to better, ...
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Expecting the Unexpected – Business Pattern Management
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Internet of Things
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Mobile Augmented Reality – One Step Beyond
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Serious Gaming Demystified
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Top-to-Bottom Technology Provision
Pursuing continuous growth in the current economic climate and anticipating the increasing competition from public clouds, many traditional software and hardware vendors are broadening their portfolio to be able to offer end-to-end infrastructure and application services known as ...
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Three Interlocking Strategies to Improve Supply Chain Performance
Today’s world is a challenging and fast moving business environment where it is increasingly difficult to drive profitable growth. Customers are demanding greater value from products and services, and consumer power has increased dramatically through media and Internet ...
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Cloud and Sustainability - An Actionable Approach
This short paper aims to help bring sustainability into the foreground in a way which makes it easier for us all to make it part of our day-to-day thinking. It refers specifically to the cloud, as this ...
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Cloud: Its potential for businesses
Cloud is the latest symptom of a general trend towards more open, collaborative ways of working, in which companies become much less self-sufficient “islands” of activities than they were in the past. Indeed, it ...
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Centralised Desktops – where, why and how
This latest white paper looks at why centralised desktops could well be one of the next big things in IT.It dispels the often repeated myth that centralised desktops can save a lot of money and instead explores the wider benefits ...
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Secure Government Collaboration from the Cloud
This whitepaper from Atos Consulting looks at how collaboration as a service is emerging as a transformational model for business IT. Government departments and institutions need to collaborate to increase their productivity and more easily meet targets.Well-designed collaboration ...
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Business Drivers for Smart Metering across the Electricity Value Chain
Smart Metering will change the way we produce, deliver and consume our energy. It is a major building block towards the implementation of the Smart Grid for which Utilities are preparing.It is therefore important that Smart Metering systems ...
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Wholesale Payments – Predicting the World of 2015
The Wholesale payments sector is currently under severe pressure from the credit crunch. The outcome of the economic crisis is impossible to predict, but there are signs at the horizon that give direction to the expected future market dynamics. ...
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