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Turning Products Into Services
Consider the jet engine industry and the disruption of the business model in the ‘90s. Traditionally the industry competed on product functionality like thrust-to-weight ratio, design, just-in-time delivery of parts and so on. These elements are connected to the actual offering, where features and performance are at the core. The same applies for the computer [...]
The usability behind Vismas new web
Two weeks ago we launched a new Visma web experience. I would say that it is a quite dramatic improvement. How dramatic you might ask? Well, read on and I will briefly go through the main usability and design highlights. And, yes – this is a first step and there are many improvements to come. [...]
What can Visma learn from SXSW?
During the last week, I have attended the South by South West (SXSW) conference in Austin Texas. This is one of the biggest festivals in the world. The conference consist of three different parts: Film, Music and Interactive. I attended the Interactive part, five days of presentations from the best people in emerging technology, industry leaders [...]
Cloud basics – the Layers
There is probably no other concept facing the IT-industry that is more hyped than Cloud Computing. Some say it will totally disrupt the industry, which very well may be the case, but in our eager to support the hype, it is important to break Cloud down into the concrete parts of which it is build. [...]
Turning efficiency into a better customer experience
Visma Retail has over the last year, together with Bunnpris, gained many experiences and insights around self checkout and how it should be implemented. Bunnpris Blindern opened June 20th, as the first store of its kind, with only self checkout tills. This generated a lot of publicity, leaving many wide eyes wondering how this should [...]
SOA in the Cloud
For those of you with a good memory you will have vague memories about SOA that was one of the big buzz words some years ago. SOA was supposed to be the silver bullet that solved integration problems, you could put together different services, build on top of other services and magically compose new services. [...]
