Edmund Hain and Ursula Drost, Managing Directors, Business Consulting Network International

San Francisco, October 10, 2011. New technologies are transforming the IT industry and global business world.
· Social media as part of a strategic online marketing
· Cloud computing – efficiency model for IT infrastructures and applications
· Social technologies and cloud computing as technological drivers for fundamentally new business models and innovative collaboration

“The PC has been the digital hub for the better part of last 10 years. But this is broken down in the last few years”, Steve Jobs, June 6, 2011, when introducing the Apple iCloud.
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San Francisco, May 25, 2011. The industry-savvy experts of .BCNI outline the near future of universal acceptance of cloud computing and point out the pros and cons from the business view. The investment cycle that began in the final years of the last millennium—driven by local installations of e-business and especially ERP software with high maintenance, operating and upgrade costs—is drawing to a close. The end of this cycle coincides with the emergence of the technological potential of cloud computing.

Read more about:

  • Cloud computing—benefits and risks for enterprises
  • Cloud computing revolutionizes business models, processes and enterprise IT
  • Cloud computing transforms provider market
  • Technical variations on cloud computing (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS)

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Edmund Hain, Managing Director, Business Consulting Network International

San Francisco, May 25, 2011

The investment cycle that began in the final years of the last millennium—driven by local installations of e-business and especially ERP software with high maintenance, operating and upgrade costs—is drawing to a close. The end of this cycle coincides with the emergence of the technological potential of cloud computing.

Read more about:

  • Cloud computing—benefits and risks for enterprises
  • Cloud computing revolutionizes business models, processes and enterprise IT
  • Cloud computing transforms provider market
  • Technical variations on cloud computing (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS)

Brussels, January 3, 2011. Enterprises will focus even more on business-oriented Web applications and Internet-based business models in the year ahead, with the key trends being augmented reality, cloud computing, real-time Web and multi-channel commerce.

Augmented Reality

The technological potential of augmented reality is still largely untapped. Augmented reality can bring added value to many areas of business and day-to-day situations, further virtualize collaboration and streamline business workflows.

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is one of the most promising technologies and is currently revolutionizing the IT world. In various industries, it is not only SMEs but increasingly large enterprises that opt for cloud computing.

Real-Time Web

The Internet is changing. It’s becoming increasingly important to know what is happening, right now.

Multi-Channel Commerce

Multi-channel commerce is more than just online sales: it describes communication from and with customers, business partners and co-workers through various media and devices on the basis of Internet technologies.

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Edmund Hain, Managing Director, Business Consulting Network International

January 3, 2011
Enterprises will focus even more on business-oriented Web applications and Internet-based business models in the year ahead, with the key trends being augmented reality, cloud computing, real-time Web and multi-channel commerce.

Augmented Reality

The technological potential of augmented reality is still largely untapped. Augmented reality can bring added value to many areas of business and day-to-day situations, further virtualize collaboration and streamline business workflows.

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is one of the most promising technologies and is currently revolutionizing the IT world. In various industries, it is not only SMEs but increasingly large enterprises that opt for cloud computing.

Real-Time Web

The Internet is changing. It’s becoming increasingly important to know what is happening, right now.

Multi-Channel Commerce

Multi-channel commerce is more than just online sales: it describes communication from and with customers, business partners and co-workers through various media and devices on the basis of Internet technologies.

Challenges as Opportunities-How ICT Faces the World of Tomorrow

Edmund Hain, Managing Director, Business Consulting Network International

Düsseldorf, March 12, 2010. This article is part one of two about CeBIT 2010, which intend to give an overview of the latest trends and developments in information and communication technologies (ICT).

Covered topics:

  • IT as Management issue
  • Sustainability as one of the main trends
  • The Future will be digital
  • Mobility trends

How terabytes of data are making companies either more nervous or more successful

Edmund Hain, Managing Director, Business Consulting Network International

February 3, 2010. We live in an era of transition, coming from the industrial era, passing through the information age and moving into a knowledge-based society. The information age has brought a flood of information that can no longer be grasped without technology. But making the right decision at the right time depends on quick access to targeted information in a comprehensible format—knowledge, in other words—at the right time, in the right place and with the right quality. This access is the success factor that must serve as the benchmark for modern information and communication systems.