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Big Data, Cloud, Mobile and Social strategies

Open Source Conference 2012
The OSC 2012 edition was a great success and we received a lot of positive feedback from visitors, speakers and partners. People enjoyed the diversity of content, the customer cases, the networking, the openness and the atmosphere of the conference. For 90% of the attendees the conference met their expectations and 96% indicated that they would visit the conference again in 2013. The Open Source Conference 2012 turned out to be yet again very valuable to the Open Source market and …
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Big Data
Data can be found everywhere, structured or non-structured, and it is created rapidly from various sources. Increasing storage capacity, rapid growth in smart devices and popularity of social networking are some reasons behind the current trend in Big Data. More data means that the ability to access, manage and gain insight from it have become utterly important and also very relevant in business today. Being aware of this trend, Big Data has been selected as one of the main themes in the Open …
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Open Source
Open Source continues to be relevant for organizations. In the last year we have seen several clients continue to work with Open Source at a large scale, and we have seen an increase in proposal work related to Open Source. The Open Source Conference 2010 indicated a tipping point in the market and was one of the largest Enterprise IT events in the Dutch market that was attended by almost 450 people. Looking forward now, market analysts expect this trend to continue. Enterprises will …
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Social Media
Social media is beginning to make its impact on business, yet businesses are a long way from being social. Digital and social influences have forever changed the expectations of both customers and employees. It has affected the speed at which customers expect to be serviced. Social has redefined what “easy-to-do-business-with” really means and everyone expects a company to know at least a little bit “about me” when talking with them. This is a stark contrast to how businesses have …
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Cloud Computing
Cloud and open source software are closely linked. One cannot exist without the other. Google, Yahoo and Twitter can offer their cloud services free of charge thanks to the fact that they do not have to pay for the software. As far as that, the economics of the cloud and the traditional licensing models are diametrically opposed. And the cloud model is catching on because the business is calling out for new solutions. During the conference we will show that cloud development is not …
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Mobile
Proliferation in mobile devices has changed the way of working in Enterprise, always on and always connected. Recent survey shows that mobile device has already become the main platform and organizations put mobility as high priority in their agenda. Although it will be quite a challenge for IT to determine mobility strategy, mobility opens many doors for innovation and business opportunities, which will be captured and presented in the Open Source Conference 2012 Mobile strategy: …
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