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Blockchain: Unexpectedly Quick Adoption by Banking and Finance

By Dick Weisinger

Banks are taking blockchain, a digital public ledger not even ten years old, very seriously.  90 percent of US, UK and European banks are investigating the technology, according to research by Accenture.  US banks have been especially active. JP Morgan, Wells…

Digital Object Architecture: Long Term Persistence of Information

By Dick Weisinger

If you’ve ever run into browser 404 errors — “Page does not exist” — when browsing the internet and coming across a news article or page that existed maybe a year or two ago but has since been removed, you…

Digital Twins: Virtual Modeling for Optimizing Performance of Both Products and People

By Dick Weisinger

Digital Twins.  Gartner says it’s a top technology for 2017, but what is it? A digital twin is a computer model of a physical object.  Every aspect of the object can be accounted for in the model, so it’s possible…

IT in Upheaval: A Need to ReInvent in order to Avoid Irrelevance

By Dick Weisinger

Can IT remain relevant? Company Line of Businesses routinely bypass IT every chance they get. A recent report by Accenture on the plight of IT said that “IT is no longer seen as the optimal organization to quickly achieve business outcomes, nor are…

Technology Trends: Gartner’s Ranking of the Top Ten Technologies that will Dominate 2017

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner recently identified what it sees as the top ten technology trends for 2017: AI and Advanced Machine Learning Intelligent Apps Intelligent Things Virtual and Augmented Reality Digital Twin Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers Conversational Systems Mesh App and Service Architecture…