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new media pow wow
Posted by Bain Hollister on 30 November 2009 | 0 Comments
There's an interesting public stoush going on between the online advertising behemoth that is Google and Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate. A heap of analysis and comment out there - even the Economist has seen fit to comment this week. One of the comforting aspects of true technology disruption is that no one truly knows where things end up. Old business models struggle, a seemingly endless string of promising tech startups entice and then stumble, and then every now and then a game change occurs delivering faster, better cheaper. Change is good. Reason #2345 why Technology is cool!
Living In The Cloud – the Server-less dream
Posted by Phil Pietersen on 18 November 2009 | 1 Comments
With our planning for Christmas hols in full swing, including how we will do invoicing and payment processing whilst on holiday, it made me think about how well our “server-less” IT infrastructure is working for us. We have been using these “cloud” or SaaS apps (call them what you will) for nearly 3 years now and have learnt a lot and refined our usage over time with experience.
John Quirk joins ClearPoint advisory board
Posted by Bain Hollister on 12 November 2009 | 0 Comments
We are delighted to welcome John Quirk of Howard and Company as Chairman to the ClearPoint advisory board. John is a recognised and respected leader in the New Zealand Information Technology sector and we look forward to working with him and the team at Howard and Company. John will advise us on developing and growing our business and help to ensure we continue to deliver great results to our expanding list of New Zealand corporate clients.
SAP Integration using Open Source
Posted by Bain Hollister on 11 November 2009 | 0 Comments
Today we were delighted to co-present with our client Auckland Regional Council at the New Zealand SAP User Group forum hosted here in Auckland by Deloitte. Our session entitled "Open Source Middleware Interfacing with SAP" was an opportunity for us to talk through our recent successful solution that integrated telco billing information directly into ARC's SAP system. To deliver this solution we worked closely with the ARC's internal SAP team to design and build the fully automated middleware solution over a 20 day period using Talend Open Studio. The solution offers huge operational productivity benefits to the ARC and a standardised method for dealing with further SAP integration requirements including data extraction and analytics.
TechDrop Google Wave
Posted by Bain Hollister on 3 November 2009 | 0 Comments
Tonight we hosted another ClearPoint Tech Drop covering GoogleWave. Big thanks to Jan and Susan from Cloudbreak for providing us with a Wave background and overview, and to Jonathan Ackerman for presenting to us on the underlying architecture. Slides, videos and good stuff here...