TEAMS IN 2021
When someone brings up “teams” in conversation at work, hopefully you have two context views. The first of course is the team of workers at…
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CYBERSECURITY: DOES IT EVEN EXIST ANYMORE?
Not a month goes by where we don’t hear about the discovery of a high-profile cybersecurity breach like the ones that compromised Sony Pictures or…
WHAT IS TINYML?
We live in incredible times. So many technologies are being developed right now that have the potential to affect our everyday lives in many positive…
THE SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE
What do you think of when you hear Scrum, ScrumMaster, Ceremonies, Scope Creep, and Sprint Planning? Do you think of a group of friends grabbing…
GETTING IN TOUCH WITH TOUCHLESS TECH
Every crisis yields entrepreneurial opportunities. This year’s COVID crisis is driving businesses in the hospitality industry to quickly seek out new technologies and novel approaches…
WHAT DO WE DO NOW?
Hopefully you have been relatively unscathed by the “Rona,” and like myself, are back in the office after a prolonged furlough or were lucky (?)…
THE DATA DRIVEN GAMING AND LEISURE ENTERPRISE
It is widely, if not universally, understood that to compete effectively today and into the future, organizations need to transform into “Data Driven Enterprises.” Data…
VPS: INTRODUCING THE FIRST EVER GROUP SAVINGS ORGANIZATION
Virtual Procurement Services (VPS) began, like many technology success stories, when its founder, Scott Robins, realized that a new approach to old ways of doing…
Heading into the Future of Cashless Gaming
The COVID-19 pandemic has become a catalyst for change. What was once “normal” in the workplace and society at large may never return. Replacing handshakes…
THE TRANSFORMATION OF TRAVEL
After a century of planes, trains and automobiles, our world is on the verge of a transportation revolution. Electric vehicles have begun driving themselves. Taxis…
EFFECTIVE ADOPTION OF AUTOMATION
One effect that the pandemic has had on Enterprise Information Technology is the increased interest in adopting and implementing automation across the business. There are…
THE RISE OF THE SPACIAL WEB
One decade ago, the number of devices connected to the internet exceeded the number of people on the planet for the first time. A decade…
STRATEGY FOR SUCCESS IN THIS NEW DECADE OF GAMING & LEISURE IT
The pace of change in Enterprise Information Technology has never been faster. As we begin this new decade, it might be informative to look back…
WE’RE CLOSED
We are living in unprecedented times. As I write this, the dogs are crashed on the sofa, baseball opening day came and went without a…
QUANTUM COMPUTING
I would like to bring attention to a technological race that is going on right now, the results of which are going to bring profound…
POSITIVES OF THE HOSPITALITY VERTICAL MOVING TO SAAS SYSTEMS
As business and solution architects we are often asked, “Why should I move from on-premise to cloudbased technologies?” That is usually followed by, “I’m comfortable…
MODERN FACIAL RECOGNITION & ITS IMPACT ON GAMING OPERATIONS
In the 1960s, Woodrow Wilson Bledsoe developed a system to classify photos of faces by hand and then used something called a RAND tablet to…
THE SECURITY OF CLOUD COMPUTING
Cloud computing is probably one of the most disruptive technologies affecting our information systems business models. It comes with the promise of long-term reductions in…
TECH TRENDS FOR THE ROARING TWENTIES
A century ago, the Roaring Twenties was a time in America when economic growth, technological change and the loosening of social codes encouraged a lively…
DON’T SAY NO
How many times have you seen this happen? A member of the end user community calls your help desk and asks for some assistance with…
THE FUTURE IS FASTER THAN YOU THINK
The biggest challenge facing technology columnists in today’s hyperlinked/hyperdrive world is this: From the time an article is submitted to the time it appears in…
LEVERAGING ADVANCED ANALYTICS TO REDUCE & RECOVER YOUR IT SPEND
THE VISION Like many innovative companies, Virtual Procurement Services (VPS) can trace its inception to just three visionary ideas: identifying what economists refer to as…
CRYPTOCURRENCY IN GAMING: FACTS AND PREDICTIONS
Cryptocurrency has created quite a stir over the last three years. Since Bitcoin (BTC) hit $20,000 per coin in 2017, crypto has been on a…
BLOCKCHAIN: WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT WORKS – PART 1
In the physical world we use centralized, trusted parties that help us identify, validate, authorize, settle and record-keep any type of asset transfer or financial…
IS YOUR FACE A PASSWORD TO THE FUTURE?
When I first heard Apple was building Face ID into its iPhone X as a handy (make that hands-free) method for unlocking the screen, I…