Kategorie: emerging trends
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Big Data: Bring Computation to Data
Big Data is the topic of the coming years. Even today large Internet companies store exabytes of data and their revenue model is based on selling products as well as services around this data. Consequently, they need to process data using advanced statistical methods, such as machine learning. Hence, they need to think about how…
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Enterprise Architecture Management in Business Networks
In my last blog post, I wrote about multi-cloud scenarios for enterprise applications focusing on enterprise applications of one company distributed over several different cloud providers. This blog post will be about enterprise applications connecting data, processes and the organization of different companies within business networks. Particularly complex scenarios with a high competition and margins,…
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Scenarios for Inter-Cloud Enterprise Architecture
The unstoppable cloud trend has arrived at the end users and companies. Particularly the first ones openly embrace the cloud, for instance, they use services provided by Google or Facebook. The latter one is more cautious fearing vendor lock-in or exposure of secret business data, such as customer records. Nevertheless, for many scenarios the risk…
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Bitcoin & Co: Perspectives for Cryptomoney in your Business
I will talk in this blog entry about Cryptomoney with special emphasis on how you can offer payment with Cryptomoney in your business and what you might need to consider when doing this. Cryptomoney is produced by individuals and used for transactions involving real as well as virtual goods. It does not require a central…
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The Future of 3D Printing
3D Printing has become a hot topic over the last years, although it roots can be found already 30 years ago. Analysts say it will become a billion dollar industry in the near future. This blog investigates what is exactly new and what we can envision for the future. I start with an overview of…
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The Emergence of Rule Management Systems for End Users
Long envisioned in research and industry, they have silently emerged: rule management systems for end users to manage their personal (business) processes. End users use these systems to define rules that automate parts of their daily behavior to have more time for their life. I will explain in this blog entry new trends and challenges…
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Revisiting Risk Management for Business Process Management/Workflow Systems
Risk management and is a very important topic in the world after the financial crisis and dozens of recent natural hazards. I see risk management as a broad concept that does not only apply to the financial domain, but to any process of any organization. Two years ago, I worked briefly on the topic of…
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Research Challenges for Case Management
I describe in this blog entry research and innovation challenges for case management from a business and technical perspective. This blog entry complements my existing blog entries on case management: introduction & standards, what constitutes a case and system concepts. This entry is relevant for managers, business analysts, enterprise architects, researchers and developers. Business Challenges…