Data Warehouse

(Big) Data management can be a great asset for a company if you carefully plan and execute a data strategy based on a clear Data Roadmap. With all the available data extraction, storage, modeling, and analysis opportunities, data can give you an edge over your competition. Doing nothing with data will do the opposite: lagging behind the competition, missing opportunities, and losing grip on an organization that demands agility in this era of information technology and a 24/7 global economy.

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The Application Playbook | Part 4

In my last post, I started to put the theory of Application Rationalization into practice, first by Phase 1: setting up an application inventory by doing an application survey. After you have completed Phase 1, you start with Phase 2: the rationalization of the applications you have inventoried. Once you have completed these two phases, you can consolidate (Phase 3), after which you can do a periodical evaluation of all your applications: portfolio management (Phase 4).

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The Application Playbook | Part 3

In my previous posts, the Application Playbook Part 1 and Part 2, I discussed the theory behind Application Rationalization. However, the theory is not the same as the practice. Most organizations already have a lot of applications (some not even known by the ICT department), and to start inside a situation of vast application landscape instead of a lean one might be overwhelming for any ICT manager that begins with this task from scratch.

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The Application Playbook | Part 1

Applications exist to make life easier for employees. A good application improves the maturity and efficiency of business processes. Applications simplify processes for people working inside and for business process owners, supporting the people in doing their job in a very straightforward way without any unclarity.

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WiFi Networks | How to Protect your WiFi Home Network

Almost all families have a WiFi router in their homes nowadays. A router provides internet access to the whole family and is the digital front door of your home network. This front door can be wide open or adequately closed with the right locks. In many cases, the front door is wide open, granting easy access to outsiders that shouldn’t have access.

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Wireless Networking

4G wireless technologies and connected devices only contain a glimpse of the impact that 5G will have: the next generation of wireless connectivity. Many organizations do not realize the magnitude of this transformation in their day-to-day business and the impact that 5G will have in the evolution of Industry 4.0.

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