You no doubt know that location, location and location are the only three things that matter in real estate. But there’s a high chance that location is about to become a game changer in mobile app development as well. Location-based services are making an entry in a growing number of markets and industries, based on the use of GPS, BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) Wi-Fi, geofencing and… beacons.

‘Competition is no longer between companies, but between networks’. Although that’s an often-heard and widely accepted statement, building partnerships and innovating with partners is easier said than done. To succeed in the pursuit of shared goals, companies must overcome their deep-seated fear of sharing and build a relationship based on trust.

Faster applications, real-time analytics on transactional data and an improved user experience… These are some of the promises of the SAP HANA in-memory database technology. How alluring these benefits may sound, the fear of going through a complex migration path is still holding back quite a lot of companies. An unfounded fear in many cases, as the database migration, as such, causes very few challenges. Complexity often arises when technical system upgrades are planned at the same time. 

So be aware of these 5 common pitfalls:

The days are long gone that you could only exchange files with another user by means of a USB stick, an external hard drive or even, for those of us who are over 40, a floppy disk. Today the internet is omnipresent and allows you to send files to someone else without even getting out of your chair.

But as well as being convenient, the internet also poses some real threats. As CIO, I am concerned about this. Actually, data protection should concern us all, because our business partners and customers expect that their data is in good hands.