25 / 08 / 22
Thanks to cloud computing, software-as-a-service and other concepts, digital technologies ensure that data can be made available to the user as a utility. A business model we know for years from the ‘traditional’ utilities such as...
11 / 08 / 22
The cloud has no limits and Europe ensures free movement of goods, services, capital and people in a single EU internal market but vendors in the business software and cloud services industry don’t market their solutions...
28 / 07 / 22
Software is the driving force behind open innovation and digital transformation. As a result, each company has become wholly or partly a software company. Once every organization had an IT department, now every department has an...
14 / 07 / 22
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” (Leonardo da Vinci) and “In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) are statements by wise Europeans but apparently still unknown by the relatively young business software...
30 / 06 / 22
Data, data, data … Data is the new gold, data is the new oil, the sky is the limit but the cloud is not the limit at all. So many slogans fly around in the data...
23 / 06 / 22
Today in Europe we find it the most normal thing in the world that trains all run on the same track width, that electricity is delivered at 220V and that soon all smartphones will come with...
16 / 06 / 22
“Data is the new oil” and all companies are digitally transforming to create value in their own way in the new data economy. Data must be able to flow in a transparent way between vendors and...
15 / 06 / 22
“A robust architecture, suitable for the deployment of agile service delivery” was one of the top priorities of Beltug members in our annual Priorities Compass. But is that description a contradiction? The building blocks of an...
14 / 06 / 22
Most organisations highly depend on their cloud solutions. However, the imbalance in the relationships between cloud providers and their business customers leads to unfair practices. The upcoming European regulations offer several possibilities to improve the situation....
31 / 05 / 22
It should be no surprise that security strategy was the number one priority for Beltug business users in 2021. Every organisation is executing (whether formally or informally) a security strategy, based on its own security challenges,...
