Blockchain, the underlying digital ledger technology for Bitcoin, has been gaining popularity as institutions from diverse backgrounds start to test and measure its potential impact. The World Economic Forum predicts that 10% of the world’s gross domestic product will be stored on blockchains by 2025.

The evolution of enterprise infrastructure—from legacy, physical infrastructure to virtualized environments—is changing the way enterprises consume back-up and replication solutions. Traditionally, enterprises required back-up and replication solutions designed for data on physical servers (henceforth called physical back-up). Today, enterprise...

The European Commission (EC) has proposed new rules in its Regulation of Privacy and Electronic Communication, an update of ePrivacy directives last amended in 2009. The proposed rules will be debated by the European Parliament for implementation in line with the 25 May 2018 timeline for the General Data Protection Regulation. Because they are re...

You probably already heard about blockchain, Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and distributed ledger, but you might not fully understand the concept and technologies behind these solutions. Let's start from the beginning to better understand the existing and future impact of these technologies to the payment ecosystem.

eCommerce has remained a continuous growth story since the new millennium. In 1999, eCommerce accounted for less than 1% of US retail sales. This figure rose to about 8.4% by the third quarter of 2016. Behind this growth trajectory are the driving forces of ubiquitous connectivity and of increasing trust in online retailers. While still only a fra...

Calling a topic "relevant to all companies and sectors" is bold. It is with these words that Peter Mockler, managing partner of BearingPoint, chose to introduce Digital Ecosystem Management (DEM) when he opened the BearingPoint Infonova global DEM summit on 27 September 2016.