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Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/fZirmwarM0E) As businesses get more sizable and more mature they now, inevitably accrete more and more software systems. This estate expansion leads not only to greater complexity and expense for the enterprise, but also to fragmentation, inconsistency and siloing of business processes. Because platform rationalisation and system decommissioning never […]

Software system rationalisation: How to get better outcomes through stronger ...


Ever since blockchain burst onto the scene a decade ago as a technology primarily designed for use in the financial services industry, people have continually found new—and sometimes odd—applications for the technology. Blockchain has been applied to everything from “buying” time (sic!) to renting a supercomputer, yet when it comes to the life sciences, a […]

The Future Of Blockchain: The Use Cases Set To Reshape ...


Ahead of Bio-IT World Expo 2019 (#BioIT19), Richard Shute from Curlew Research is interviewed by Bio-IT World on the ever-growing potential for blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) in life sciences. Blockchain has great potential within the clinical arena to support enhanced data management at nearly every level, he maintains. Added to this its potential […]

Blockchain – Not Just For Bitcoin




 Amazon’s Alexa has become very popular as a Voice assistant and especially in the home over the last 18 months. Alexa Skills, the apps that can run on Alexa and integrate with other services have grown considerably.  In terms of market share, Alexa has over 15000 skills compared to the other platforms (Google Assistant and […]

Will Alexa and Alexa Skills (and other Voice Recognition) be ...