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Customer Engagement: The Foundation for Digital Marketing
At a recent networking event, one of the speakers said something that really resonated with me around companies spending big on digital marketing activities. To paraphrase, they advised: “Park social...
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Deflating the Hype of Big Data
Although it may be hard to believe, big data has always existed. Some forget the days when data warehouses had yet to be invented, but we’ve always created more data than they knew existed. Today, big...
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Does a Big Data Problem Always Need a Big Data Solution?
A big data problem doesn’t always require a “big data solution” as many have come to believe. Often, the challenges arise when it comes to storing, processing and analyzing the data to come to the...
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What a Difference 10 Years Makes for Technology Delivery
A lot can change over the course of a decade. That has certainly been the case for Avanade. Back in 2003, we had just established our company presence in India. Today, we have seven offices across...
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Cultivating a Passion for Technology at Avanade
Innovation is at the core of everything we do at Avanade. We aim to be at the forefront of adapting to the latest technologies and trends for both our client’s sake and our own. Megatrends like the...
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5 Tips to Transform Business through Technology, Experience, and Process
A few weeks ago, Dan O’Hara, our global Mobility lead and I completed a Work Redesigned roadshow across APAC, meeting with nearly a dozen customers across several cities from a variety of industries to...
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Can Technology Change Lives for the Better? (Part 1)
Can technology change lives for the better? Or is it “all about the money?” Is IT used to positively influence our society? Or is its role primarily to help businesses increase revenue and lower...
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Opportunities and Change: How Technology Evolves Our Business
I recently had the chance to participate in a panel discussion in hosted by the Financial Times on technology and innovation in Canada. Dubbed as the FT Global Investment Series: Focus on Canada, my...
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How is Work Getting Done in your Organization?
The lines between work and play, home and office are continuing to blur as technologies make it easier for employees to be productive from virtually anywhere and at any time. As a result, where...
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Six Anti-patterns to Avoid for Success with Big Data
In a recent, independent global survey, 73 percent of the respondents said that their company has leveraged Big Data to increase revenue. Given that it has the potential of being a strategic...
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BI Shakes Up Companies to Develop New Insights
As I reflect on my lengthy career at several cutting-edge, high-technology companies helping to advance business intelligence (BI) within the enterprise, it confirms my belief that BI and advanced...
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IT Strategy: Hitting Three Birds With One Stone
One of the reasons I enjoy my role at Avanade is because I get to have discussions with major customers around how disruptive technology shifts, (such as cloud), will make a difference to their...
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2013 Tech Trends: The Amplification Loop
2012 has been a very exciting time to be in the IT industry. The much talked about four mega tech trends of Cloud, BigData, Social Computing and Mobility have started to converge and their combined...
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The “About-ness” of Content: Finding Context in a Big Data World
Twenty-four hundred years ago, a Middle Eastern farmer named Halfat paid his taxes by giving barley and wheat to King Artaxerces. The receipt that documented this transaction was recorded on a fragment...
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Executing on Big Data Insights: It’s Everyone’s Business
Earlier this month, I contributed an article on Forbes that discussed whether big data will live up to all the hype. In the article, I shared a few tips on how companies can overcome obstacles in...
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The Challenge and Reality of Big Data
Some things in life are inevitable: death, taxes and the ability of the tech sector to create acronyms and overly-hyped buzzwords. Today, I’m going to address the latest of those buzzwords, Big Data,...
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Avanade’s latest global research findings were announced today highlighting executive attitudes and adoption trends surrounding big data. The big data survey shows that the investments companies are...
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What Counts as Big Data?
Recently I read an article from Network World that claimed the definition of big data changes based on who you’re asking. In the article, data scientist John Rauser said that big data is “any amount of...
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The Convergence of Tomorrow’s Technology
Recently I read an article from Inc.com that outlined the six major tech trends for 2012. Inc.com claimed that these trends could create huge opportunities or huge disruptions in the enterprise. As I...
View Article2012 Tech Predictions – Do we really need a laundry list of things to watch?
Recently, I read a Huffington Post article that outlined 20 technology-driven trends that cover everything from the rapid growth of Big Data to social business and the gamification of training to...
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