Views from the Lab tag:blogs.techworld.com,2009-06-25:/views-from-the-lab//92 2013-04-05T13:05:58Z Accenture Technology Labs, the technology research and development (R&D) organization within Accenture, has been turning technology innovation into business results for 20 years. Our R&D team explores new and emerging technologies to create a vision of how technology will shape the future and invent the next wave of cutting-edge business solutions. Movable Type Enterprise 4.38 What makes for a good API? tag:blogs.techworld.com,2013:/views-from-the-lab//92.15730 2013-04-05T12:59:31Z 2013-04-05T13:05:58Z Web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are quickly becoming the de facto integration model for IT systems. Key promises of web APIs (e.g., reducing development cycles within an organisation, fostering collaboration within the partner ecosystem, or monetising APIs from external use... Accenture Technology Labs Staff Web APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are quickly becoming the de facto integration model for IT systems. Key promises of web APIs (e.g., reducing development cycles... Driving innovation and agility through an API strategy tag:blogs.techworld.com,2013:/views-from-the-lab//92.15647 2013-02-28T11:16:35Z 2013-02-28T11:26:02Z Today’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play the role of business-level artefacts, which provide the means to enable new business models and modes of efficiency. This could be interacting with customers over new mobility and social channels, reaching new customers through... Accenture Technology Labs Staff Today’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play the role of business-level artefacts, which provide the means to enable new business models and modes of efficiency. This... Testing for cloud - Unleashing a barrel of monkeys tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/views-from-the-lab//92.15412 2012-11-19T17:28:00Z 2012-11-19T17:29:03Z Accenture Technology Labs Staff Indeed cloud providers strive to offer high reliability for their services, but part of this promise supposes that tenants use the services correctly. Large scale... Data consistency problems in RDBMS applications tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/views-from-the-lab//92.15339 2012-10-24T15:24:00Z 2012-10-25T10:27:18Z The 2007 New York Times Bestseller, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Naseem Nicholas Taleb covers events characterised as 1) being outliers beyond normal expectation, 2) having extreme impact, and 3) being able to be rationalised... Accenture Technology Labs Staff The 2007 New York Times Bestseller, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Naseem Nicholas Taleb covers events characterised as 1) being... Multi-tenancy models from the view of data architecture: Horses for courses tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/views-from-the-lab//92.15192 2012-08-31T09:50:00Z 2012-08-31T10:09:48Z Accenture Technology Labs Staff ... Don't confuse standard with commodity - added insight tunes cloud to meet customer needs tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/views-from-the-lab//92.15141 2012-08-10T12:07:00Z 2012-08-14T07:49:31Z Many of today’s cloud services are one-size-fits-all, offering little or no customisation. In fact, this standardisation is part of the secret sauce: offer a few services and do them really well. But “standard” does not mean that customers need to... Accenture Technology Labs Staff Many of today’s cloud services are one-size-fits-all, offering little or no customisation. In fact, this standardisation is part of the secret sauce: offer a few... Using enterprise social technology to promote peripheral awareness between adjacent teams tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/views-from-the-lab//92.15036 2012-06-29T15:23:37Z 2012-07-18T09:52:44Z Collaboration has become a first-tier concern for enterprises looking to transform their organisations. There are now several powerful social collaboration suites on the market, but to take collaboration to the next level, organisations need to reassess their specific needs.Most collaboration... Accenture Technology Labs Staff Collaboration has become a first-tier concern for enterprises looking to transform their organisations. There are now several powerful social collaboration suites on the market, but... Whose PaaS is it anyway? tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/views-from-the-lab//92.14847 2012-04-25T16:14:57Z 2012-04-26T16:47:25Z Cloudy days are here, but in the most positive sense. After the hype we are gradually witnessing a healthy adoption of cloud computing. However, as cloud can refer to IaaS, PaaS or SaaS platforms, the degree of adoption among these... Accenture Technology Labs Staff Cloudy days are here, but in the most positive sense. After the hype we are gradually witnessing a healthy adoption of cloud computing. However, as... What if life was more like a game? tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/views-from-the-lab//92.14756 2012-03-26T15:31:58Z 2012-03-26T16:05:48Z What if work could be more like our favourite games? This question has been inspiring growing interest in bringing "gamification" to the workplace, which means using games and game mechanics to help shape workplace behaviour. The idea that businesses might... Accenture Technology Labs Staff What if work could be more like our favourite games? This question has been inspiring growing interest in bringing "gamification" to the workplace, which means... Data economics tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/views-from-the-lab//92.14676 2012-03-07T16:23:03Z 2012-03-07T16:23:33Z A number of commentators, including Accenture, rightly point out that the advent of so-called "Big Data" technologies doesn’t change the need for our trusty relational databases and our well-curated data warehouses. Quite the contrary - the increasing availability and usability... Accenture Technology Labs Staff A number of commentators, including Accenture, rightly point out that the advent of so-called "Big Data" technologies doesn’t change the need for our trusty relational... Advice on IT strategy from a one-year old tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/views-from-the-lab//92.14588 2012-02-14T10:46:08Z 2012-02-14T10:53:00Z As a non-parent, I find it fascinating to watch the development of my nieces and nephews. My brother and his wife have been teaching my young nephew simple signs from American Sign Language to help him communicate. As I’m told,... Accenture Technology Labs Staff As a non-parent, I find it fascinating to watch the development of my nieces and nephews. My brother and his wife have been teaching my... A privacy-centered economy tag:blogs.techworld.com,2012:/views-from-the-lab//92.14460 2012-01-13T09:57:02Z 2012-01-13T09:52:28Z From a cover story in Time magazine, to high profile reporting in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, to several landmark privacy bills in US Congress, the concerns around online privacy are on the rise. Battle lines... Accenture Technology Labs Staff From a cover story in Time magazine, to high profile reporting in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, to several landmark privacy... Surge to meet demand tag:blogs.techworld.com,2011:/views-from-the-lab//92.13991 2011-11-14T15:23:51Z 2011-11-15T10:20:09Z According to a recent study published by Symantec, 52% of security organisations are "doing well" in responding to routine security events. But these same organisations struggle when under a complex cyber attack. Like a skilled surgeon, incident responders are best... Accenture Technology Labs Staff According to a recent study published by Symantec, 52% of security organisations are "doing well" in responding to routine security events. But these same organisations... Thriving in the predictably unpredictable tag:blogs.techworld.com,2011:/views-from-the-lab//92.13972 2011-11-09T10:46:07Z 2011-11-10T11:16:30Z Cloud’s on-demand value proposition is attractive, but there remain concerns around its reliability. Indeed service levels offered by most providers are basic—prominent providers promise 99.95% availability. Also service response varies. Our recent measurements of a widely known Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider... Accenture Technology Labs Staff Cloud’s on-demand value proposition is attractive, but there remain concerns around its reliability. Indeed service levels offered by most providers are basic—prominent providers promise 99.95%... Operating Big Data without a net tag:blogs.techworld.com,2011:/views-from-the-lab//92.13851 2011-09-30T14:23:18Z 2011-09-30T14:04:07Z There seems to be a common misconception around the reliability of emerging big data platforms: "NoSQL—no worries, the backup is built-in". The built-in redundancy of distributed NoSQL architectures leaves many with a false sense of security. But alone the out-of-the-box... Accenture Technology Labs Staff There seems to be a common misconception around the reliability of emerging big data platforms: "NoSQL—no worries, the backup is built-in". The built-in redundancy of...