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Big IT Projects are Hard
Posted by Bain Hollister on 8 February 2010 | 0 Comments
One of the great aspects of ClearPoint is we are in the business of helping clients achieve great things with technology. With most of our work in either corporate, local government or State Owned Enterprise(SOE's) we find there is no shortage of challenges.
new media pow wow
Posted by Bain Hollister on 30 November 2009 | 0 Comments
There's an interesting public stoush going on between the online advertising behemoth that is Google and Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate. A heap of analysis and comment out there - even the Economist has seen fit to comment this week. One of the comforting aspects of true technology disruption is that no one truly knows where things end up. Old business models struggle, a seemingly endless string of promising tech startups entice and then stumble, and then every now and then a game change occurs delivering faster, better cheaper. Change is good. Reason #2345 why Technology is cool!
SAP Integration using Open Source
Posted by Bain Hollister on 11 November 2009 | 0 Comments
Today we were delighted to co-present with our client Auckland Regional Council at the New Zealand SAP User Group forum hosted here in Auckland by Deloitte. Our session entitled "Open Source Middleware Interfacing with SAP" was an opportunity for us to talk through our recent successful solution that integrated telco billing information directly into ARC's SAP system. To deliver this solution we worked closely with the ARC's internal SAP team to design and build the fully automated middleware solution over a 20 day period using Talend Open Studio. The solution offers huge operational productivity benefits to the ARC and a standardised method for dealing with further SAP integration requirements including data extraction and analytics.
TechDrop Google Wave
Posted by Bain Hollister on 3 November 2009 | 0 Comments
Tonight we hosted another ClearPoint Tech Drop covering GoogleWave. Big thanks to Jan and Susan from Cloudbreak for providing us with a Wave background and overview, and to Jonathan Ackerman for presenting to us on the underlying architecture. Slides, videos and good stuff here...
Fruits of Design
Posted by Bain Hollister on 22 October 2009 | 0 Comments
Notwithstanding they are huge fans of Apple over at RoughlyDrafted.com- there are some compelling stats in this Nokia/Apple article. For a relatively new entrant into the smart phone market - Apple really are in a phenomenal position revenue and margin-wise.
Cloudbreak Tech Drop
Posted by Bain Hollister on 9 October 2009 | 1 Comments
Last night we ran our regular "ClearPoint Tech Drop : Enterprise SaaS with Google Apps". Big thanks to Jan and Susan from Cloudbreak for sharing their knowledge and experience with the ClearPoint network. As part of the programme we ran through the changes that are occurring in the Enterprise SaaS market and some real world implementation stories. There's no doubt that there is a huge amount of investment going on globally - and it is still very early days. We covered all sorts of aspects including lifecycle of an implementation, information protection, security and authentication models, full lifecycle licensing and hardware costs, operational costs, service levels, DR, change management and some very interesting project 'gotchas' that can potentially arise.
Information really is beautiful
Posted by Bain Hollister on 4 October 2009 | 0 Comments
One of our ClearPoint perspectives is that we - the collective Information Technology world "we" - are only just scratching the surface of technologies that can visualise information from data in a meaningful, relative and easily consumable way. Two cool examples twittered today;
Go AnaPlan!!
Posted by Bain Hollister on 24 September 2009 | 0 Comments
We are delighted to have been able to help our cool client AnaPlan LLC prepare for the launch of their revolutionary new business at Demo09. A fantastic disruptive business model and very exciting story for us to be part of. Big congratulations to Guy and Sue Haddleton, Michael Gould and all the team at AnaPlan US and UK.
Tech people rock!
Posted by Bain on 22 August 2008 | 0 Comments
Our values (High technology, talent, kiwi scale, etc) reflect how we are into technology people. Tech’s are cool and from from time to time we like to get together to shoot the breeze and talk about the interesting stuff that people are doing/seeing/hearing about. Last night ClearPoint hosted our second ‘Drinks with Interesting Tech people’ at ClearPointHQ. RabidGremlin was kind enough to chat to us all about the Google programming competition for the mobile Android platform. An excellent interesting walk-through thoroughly enjoyed by all. Think maybe he may have motivated a few more entrants. Next get together will be in a month or two. Email me if you are interested in coming along.
Technology New Zealand
Posted by Bain on 6 August 2008 | 0 Comments
Last Thursday ClearPoint we guest presented at the Auckland ICT Cluster. In keeping with our core organisation values, we presented ICT New Zealand. In essence, this presentation captures our belief that technology has a critical role to play in supporting New Zealand’s economic prosperity – for all businesses big or small. The general approach is to look at international themes and local pressures to put into context ICT strategy and emerging trends and how they can add value to New Zealand businesses. We see enormous potential in coupling kiwi “No8″ design flair with the very cheap, highly commoditised utility computing services available internationally. The key we believe is getting design right, leveraging technology and thinking beyond our shores.