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A much smoother transition to an Industry 4.0 can be pursued by leveraging the clouds that several industrial players are already using. There are clouds that have been and are used as a way to obtain flexible, on demand processing and storage capabilities (basically lowering the total ownership cost) and …

After considering the abundance of Digital Platforms for Smart Cities (and the need to converge on a limited subset with my vision of achieving that through the adoption of a semantic layer –more of this in the last part of this discussion) I would like to consider the Digital Transformation …

Lyft, a ride-hailing company, is trying to differentiate its offer from Uber. It has focussed at the business market trying to become the ride-hailing company for companies by striking agreement with several of them in their US market to carry their employees. Last week it has included in the app …

Let’s now consider Digital Platforms designed for specific application areas, starting with Smart Cities. Just to point out the interest existing in this area a search on Google (on February 11th) returned over 200 million references! At the Smart City Expo World Conference (Nov 2018 in Barcelona) the theme was …

At EXPO 2015, Milan Italy, the Municipality of Milan and Lombardy Region had the objective of creating a digital ecosystem (E015) where all data related to the EXPO could be shared in an open way and leveraged by third parties, in addition to the EXPO 2015 organisation. Several streams of …

Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all? There was some magic implied in asking the mirror who was the most beautiful lady in the kingdom but we took it, as children, as a perfectly natural question to ask a mirror. As we grew up the …

What about starting from scratch to create a Digital Platform that could succeed?  As stated it has to have the following characteristics: it needs to have storage capabilities it needs to have processing capabilities it needs to have embedded connectivity it needs to be open to let third parties develop on …

I started my discussion on Digital Platforms considering the one created by smartphones because it was easy to point out the basic characteristics of a Digital Platform: it needs to have storage capabilities it needs to have processing capabilities it needs to have embedded connectivity it needs to be open to …

Let me start with a note: in no way this post has to be seen as disrespectfuf to Buddhism, nor to any other religion. It is not intended to be at all. I spent a few vacation days in Chiang Rai, a wonderful place in the Northern Thailand, nice people, …

The Digital Transformation is made possible by technology advances and it is steered by economic and societal factors. It is a whole system transformation that requires the availability of a tremendously complex infrastructure, as the atoms economy has evolved over centuries by creating in parallel tremendously complex, and intertwined, infrastructures. …