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Challenges and outlook for Australian business applications in the cloud
Recently, Computerworld Australia, the face of Australian IT, published a range of videos regarding the "Australian Cloud", presented by prominent Australian IT identities.
In this blog post we present two selected videos, which we believe are worthwhile to be watched by business people interested in "Software as a Service" (SaaS) and the future of Cloud computing in Australia. Enjoy!
First video: Provides an overview of SaaS, the application side of Cloud computing, and its importance for Australian businesses.
Second video: Challenges and outlook Cloud computing is facing in Australia.
Disclaimer: RSDataWeb is a SaaS application for Australian accounting and advice businesses, developed and hosted in Australia.
Posted by Wolf Schumacher
Using Ensemble to integrate disparate application systems
We have been InterSystems partners for a number of years and tremendously enjoy the reliability, powerful features and excellent support of its software products for developers, most notably the Caché object data base and developing environment, as well as Ensemble, its powerful integration platform.
With this post we make the readers of our blog aware of the unique capabilities Ensemble holds for integrating disparate systems. While Ensemble is known for being heavily deployed in the medical space, we use it successfully for building composite applications in the Cloud for other industries, such as Financial Services and Accounting.
Enjoy both videos:
First video: Paul Grabscheidt from InterSystems Corp explains why Ensemble is the better Integration platform for composite applications:
Second video: Joe de Santis from InterSystems Corp demonstrates key features of Ensemble for building composite applications:
Posted by Wolf Schumacher
Financial Planners look to lower costs, lift efficiency using Cloud computing
The Australian Financial Review published a very interesting article in their print edition today. Among other industry pundits, this leading Australian business daily interviewed Wolf Schumacher, the Director of RewardSuper.
Read what Wolf and other experts had to say about Cloud Computing as used by the Australian Financial Planning profession:
- Cloud computing leads to a whole pile of servers in offices becoming redundant.
- The industry wants an online service that will allow planners to outsource administration tasks such as data entry,
- Security issues are of concern to some firms.
- Planners want better integration of professional software with investment platforms.
Posted by Wolf Schumacher
SMSF administration in the Cloud - A RSDataWeb case study
Our recent article about "Accountants moving into the Cloud to administer SMSFs", yielded an excellent response by some large and mid-sized Accounting firms with SMSF clients.
Most of these firms are well aware of the benefits that Cloud computing can offer and are keen to start moving into the direction. The automation of investment and cash transactions is an excellent area to start, as it allows to integrate with a large number of external data providers.
RSDataWeb is a web-based data automation & integration platform, that integrates a wide range of electronic financial data feeds into streams of real-time and historic data helping to eliminate the tedious tasks of client data preparation in most accounting offices. RSDataWeb is not an afterthought by otherwise non-web oriented software vendors, but a powerful scalable web solution that saves Accounting and Advice firms real staff time and money.
As a case in point, we’ve put together a case study of an Australian Accounting firm, which automated its data preparation with the help of RSDataWeb.
Enjoy the introductory video!
View and download the presentation slides shown in the video here.
Posted by Wolf Schumacher
Australian accounting firms move into the cloud to administer SMSFs
Today the leading Financial Standard publishing house released an article written by Wolf Schumacher, Director of RewardSuper, for the Journal of Financial Planning.
Wolf's article introduces its readers into cloud computing as applied to SMSF administration. It concludes with three case studies of RewardSuper client firms, that actively use RSDataWeb, its web based data automation & integration platform for the administration of Self managed superfunds and other transaction rich client structures.
Enjoy reading the article and please let us know what you think!
Posted by Wolf Schumacher
Cloud computing - impact and barriers
The World Economic Forum is the well established independent watchdog for major developments in global economies, businesses, technology and humanity. Every year global leaders convene to review global developments and agree on action plans to make the world a better place.
Watch this video by the World Economic Forum on the impact Cloud computing has on our economies and the barriers, which may hinder its global success.
Enjoy!
Posted by Wolf Schumacher
Cloud computing, a game changer for the astute
A recent FST Banking and Financial Services Technical conference in Sydney concentrated on the Cloud computing theme, which has entered the enterprise world for good.
The last presentation on the day was actually the most memorable. Rob Livingstone is an accomplished business man, advisor and leading academic at the University of Technology (UTS) in Sydney.
Rob reflected on his vast experience with Cloud computing from its early days onwards in his book "Navigating through the Cloud" , which gives a helping hand to businesses considering implementing Cloud computing in all its forms. Risk, compliance, privacy are only a few of Rob's important topics that pave the way to successful cloud ventures for any enterprise.
The presentation addresses key points from Rob's book and demonstrates his clear thinking. Flick through the slides and listen to Rob's recorded presentation.
Please note: The audio has a short time delay before start.Enjoy!
Posted by Wolf Schumacher
The four cornerstones of effective leadership
Deborah Ancona is an accomplished Professor and Director for Leadership studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research and teaching focusses on distributed leadership and supporting models and tools for organisations that practice superior leadership.
In this insightful video, Prof Ancona, a lead author of the '4 Capabilities Leadership Framework', describes the key attributes of a successful leader and explains how to put them in action:
- Sensemaking: making sense of the world around us, coming to understand the context in which we are operating.
- Relating: developing key relationships within and across organizations.
- Visioning: creating a compelling picture of the future.
- Inventing: designing new ways of working together to realize the vision.
We believe that Prof Ancona's insight and advice is highly relevant to business leaders in the industries we are dealing with, i.e. introducing cloud based systems and processes to traditional organisations such as accounting firms.
Enjoy the video!
Posted by Wolf Schumacher
Impressions from Cloud centred VM World 2011
This video shows a few impressions from the recent VM World 2011 conference / exhibition in Las Vegas, NV USA. The event centred all around enterprise Cloud computing and in particular vendors' products and opinions regarding infrastructure as a service (IAAS). It demonstrated clearly that Cloud computing is not only ubiquitous in the comsumer and small business IT space, but increasingly a strong movement to reckon with in Enterprise IT.
Enjoy the video!
Posted by Wolf Schumacher
Jeff Kaplan on Cloud takeup by small and medium sized businesses
Recently 'ITEC This Week', the technology program of online media company 'The pulse Network' interviewed Jeff Kaplan, Founder and Managing Director of US based strategic technology consulting company 'THINKstrategies'.
Jeff is an accomplished researcher/consultant and thought leader for Cloud computing. With this very informative video interview he concentrates on the rapid takeup of Cloud computing by small and medium sized businesses. Enjoy!
Posted by Wolf Schumacher
