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Burger King Announces Whoppercoin in Russia

8/24/2017

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Will firms release their own currencies?  They already are.

cointelegraph.com/news/burger-king-russia-releases-its-own-whoppercoin-powered-by-waves-platform
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Venturebeat Article on Reverse ICOs

8/16/2017

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venturebeat.com/2017/08/16/the-reverse-ico-how-existing-businesses-will-start-tokenizing/
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Hostile ICO Takeovers

7/26/2017

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Crypto investors are now beginning to look at takeovers and buyouts to deploy their billions of liquid funds.  One disturbing idea is to perform ICOs on firms without permission.   Here is a writeup:

Hostile ICOs can damage your company reputation and worse

Watch out.  Be aware, and become literate in ICOs and crypto tokens.  These are the next wave of the technology industry, like mobile or cloud, or a dozen other waves.  As a tech executive, you have no choice but to become educated and surf this wave, or else you get slammed by it.

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What is an ICO?

6/23/2017

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ICOs are "Initial Coin Offerings" -- a new type of startup funding technique that has grown quickly in the past 6 months.  In some cases startups have raised $35 million dollars in 30 seconds.  In other cases they've raised $200 million in a matter of days. 

Links:  ​New York Times  TechCrunch  Forbes

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Indoor Localization Test #340 Finally Succeeds

6/22/2015

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OK that's a teeny exaggeration. 

We've been testing indoor localization for so many years and seen so many false promises.  The use cases are so wide and profound. Perhaps this the enterprise product developer's pot of gold.

But then, it works.  There's nothing like walking around a building and seeing it right there in your hand.  We used a few iBeacons of course, these are the obvious choice for the fine detail work, but they won't work for the larger building.  Nor would we want to use them, since that requires "too much" hardware, which mandates both IT and Facilities approval, which torpedoes most enterprise installations.

It's not enough to have indoor localization.  You need indoor localization that is politically acceptable to big enterprise organizations.


We'll publish more later in our paper on SAIL (Statistically Acceptable Indoor Localization).  

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Fully Integrated Mobile Payroll/HCM Apps are The Future

4/15/2014

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15 years ago, a few of us realized that workforce scheduling and timekeeping systems must be fully integrated...the flow of schedule-to-track made it impractical to sync time data between two different vendors.  

We won this argument, and fully integrated scheduling/timekeeping suites from vendors like Kronos were the result.

Now there is a new realization just dawning on the HCM world:  we need much more integration.  The potential cost savings, and the demands of mobile-savvy employees, will demand it.

"In the mobile millennial future workplace, perhaps 5 years from now, Payroll, Timekeeping, Scheduling, Daily Supervision, and Performance Management will be integrated into a single mobile app used every day, all day by employees and supervisors alike.  This will create double-digit productivity gains across the corporate world.  Managers of the future will look back and scratch their heads, wondering how we could have allowed these functions to exist in silos."  

All of the innovation in the HCM and WFM markets happening today, lead to this inevitable goal.  Vendors who being working now will be the winners later.


This system will be:
  • Contextual:  we know where in the building the employee is when they arrive for the day
  • Predictive:  we predict what the employee should do next and where we should send them, to maximize their skill set
  • Training Centric:  our system provides training materials to each employee constantly and intelligently...the system teaches the employee in real time
  • Customer Service Focused:  we use all of this to provide extraordinary quality of service to the customer...the employee knows exactly where to find this customer and has exactly the knowledge that will best serve this customer's desires at that moment

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Announcing Mobile Health Analytics

4/8/2014

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Analytics plays a part in everyday healthcare management, but today's providers don't have time to sit down and use complex tools.  They need information that appears when needed, on phones or iPad.

Introducing Mobile Health Analytics from iOptimal.  This system automatically sends Phone or Pad-sized graphs of key information, based on your location or based on a recent event or set of data.  Our MHA server is constantly evaluating data from your other HIMSS systems to find situations that need to be alerted.  When found, it sends a text message to your phone.  Tap that message and the full graph appears.
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iOptimal Launches iBeacon Event App at Macworld

3/19/2014

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At Booth # 1209 we gave a peak into the future of iBeacons and the mobile event economy!

iBeacons link event apps to attendees in a way that mobile apps alone cannot rival.

That was the message at Macworld in San Francisco, on 3/29 at 11:45. We demonstrated our new event manager, a dashboard for creating event apps with iBeacons fully integrated.

iOptimal was one of the teams chosen to design and run the Macworld Passbook event. We ran a scavenger hunt, but even better, showed off how iBeacons can dramatically enhance the show itself, in tandem with mobile event apps, to delight convention attendees and optimize operations.
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Estimote iBeacon Uses for Hospital iPad HIPAA Compliance

3/12/2014

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Our researchers this week tested the use of iBeacon (Apple Bluetooth radio transmitters, which are being pumped out in massive quantities very cheaply these days) as tools to make iPad and iPhone apps dramatically more secure and more productive for Physicians, Radiologists, etc.

Proximity-based iBeacons as a convenient new way for hospitals to increase security...and revenue.

The Beacons serve a triple use:

1.  for adding security and reducing HIPAA risk.

2.  increasing health system revenue through improvement in patient satisfaction and patient recovery times.  This is crucial under the new AHA rules that change how hospitals pursue income. 

3.  and finally a raft of different ROIs by increasing hospital productivity, nurse utilization, etc. 

For example in case of security, they make devices more HIPAA compliant, at a root level, since removal of the device from the hospital by a non-approved, non--checked out person can trigger the device to automatically delete all data.  This can be triggered whether the app is open, closed, or even deactivated (the new iOS7.1 allows apps to save this behavior permanently into the Core Location manager, resident on the iOS operating stack).  You can also establish "zones" -- for example, an iPad might be set up for use only on the 7th floor of a building, and if it's removed from the 7th floor, it intelligently deletes the PHI related to that floor.  Conversely when you take the device to the 6th floor, it can intelligently load data relevant to that floor, based on it's detection of it's arrival on that floor.  It can use time, date, and role of the person who is carrying it as well, to determine the level of data load or delete.

Stay tuned for a seminar where we'll describe this work and ask the audience for suggestions of areas they'd like to get more solutions.   

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Microsoft IT shops Will Dominate Mobile Development in 2014 With a Trio of New Toolsets

12/12/2013

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Like or Follow on Linkedin To See Parts 2 and 3 of This Post


Researchers this week reviewed 3 new products for 2014 that dramatically reduce the effort required for Microsoft-centric enterprise IT teams to develop cross-platform mobile apps for ERP/SCM/CRM.  These products "look and feel" like Visual Studio or .NET products, yet they build extremely powerful iOS/Android phone and tablet tools for the enterprises.  This is part of a wave of products in this category.

This has huge implications for the future of IT and of the Microsoft-centric IT workers:
  1. IT Keeps Mobile Funding For Themselves.  The funding for internal mobile enterprise apps is expected to explode in 2014...and pundits have predicted that this would undercut IT power in the enterprise.  But now it looks like IT departments will keep the funding, and the control.
  2. Mobile development in 1/50th the cost.  IT teams have been facing the massive learning curves/costs for native platforms (iOS or Android) or mobile platforms (like IBM, SAP, and Kony).  Now developers are providing simpler, faster, more professional mobile platforms, with almost zero learning curve for .NET and SQL developers.
  3. IT can feed a voracious internal hunger for mobile.  Sales, HR, Manufacturing, Accounting...these functional departments are screaming for mobile tools that extend existing line of business/ERP apps.  Now IT will be able to churn these apps out quickly and professionally.
  4. IT as heroes, not scapegoats.  When IT departments can deliver mobile apps quickly and keep them integrated with legacy internal databases, this will unlock huge new ROIs and Return-on-Data.  The BYOD trend which has threatened IT's reputation, will be reversed and IT people will be heroes.
  5. Career boost for CIOs and IT departments.  Need we point out the obvious?  People with a record of successfully delivering mobile internally are going to be in big demand.  What a resume-builder!

In Part II:  Product Reviews
(Like or Follow on Linkedin to Get Them!)  In Part II of our post, we'll look at these 3 new products and how they work.  We'll also compare them to Xamarin, which is  the other product on the market that supports Microsoft world fully.


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