Cloud-Native as enabler of new digital business models
It is common knowledge that many companies fail at establishing new digital business models. But what is the reason for their inability to implement digital or software-based value creation? On one hand, it could be due to a lack of innovation capacity; on the other, it could be due to technical and organizational reasons. Digital […]
June 2, 2021
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Public Cloud & Public Sector – A European Trust Challenge
Public Clouds and the “Public Sector” are almost namesakes, but the two domains couldn’t be more different in Europe. This widely confusing situation is mostly mutual: while the cloud providers have ignored the needs of the public administration for years, many decision-makers and CIOs government agencies have had predominantly false notions about what a cloud […]
May 26, 2021
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Spartacus storefront vs. SAP Commerce Accelerator
SAP Spartacus is getting visibility and good vibes among developers and agencies. However, starting the Spartacus project, especially in an upgrade/migration situation, can be difficult. The problem is in the need to upgrade the whole tech stack including the Hybris back end. In this situation, the companies that have large-scale hybrid deployments often choose to […]
May 24, 2021
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Why GAIA-X hasn’t been successful yet
What’s the future of GAIA-X? Ambitious initiatives that, in their early stages, are pushed with excitement in the media and discussed on the political stage, unfortunately have put themselves through some criticism quickly. As much as we wished to report on a new super-competitor in the public cloud market that sets exemplary privacy and regulatory […]
May 21, 2021
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A list and comparison of serious open-source eCommerce platforms in 2021
The popularity of open-source eCommerce – thanks to the flexibility and safety it offers – has seen a flood of platforms hit the market in recent years. There are so many alternatives for opening up an online store and digitizing inventory… and each claims to have the best technology, feature set, dev community, and technical […]
April 30, 2021
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How fast is Spartacus?
My personal thoughts on front-end performance When picking a technology, experienced stakeholders are usually concerned with performance. There’s a well-known chant that “for every second of application loading time, we lose customers.” Given that eCommerce is all about conversion, performance is really a thing to worry about. In this blog post, I’ll help you answer […]
April 26, 2021
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The ecosystem for an entire vehicle twin life
The great potential of the automotive industry is a digital ecosystem for future consumer and B2B vehicles alike. Experts in the vehicle industry agree that this can no longer be mapped with proprietary point-to-point communication between software applications and vehicles. In the recently published article “The architecture for an entire vehicle twin life”, Cloudflight presented […]
April 13, 2021
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The limits and opportunities of digital communication assistants
What are chatbots and voice assistants really capable of? In 2018, Google gave us a good impression of how digital communication assistants would be able to support us in everyday life. Unfortunately, our current experience with chatbots, voice assistants, and the like leaves a lot to be desired. Repetitive, monosyllabic answers in chat or a […]
March 31, 2021
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The architecture for an entire vehicle twin life
Unfortunately, the physical world of all kinds of vehicles – from cars and trucks to construction machinery and aircraft – is often poorly represented in (or connected to) the digital world. Unsynchronised digitalization initiatives by individual stakeholders such as CDOs, CIOs, or COOs, who are often responsible for the after-sales service life cycle, quickly create […]