Digital Torque Transformation

The Equipment Installment Plan (EIP) was a game changer in telecom industry and is an integral part of T-Mobile’s Un-carrier strategy. The EIP system is a home-grown system based on Java/J2EE and a combination of client-server and SOA architecture principles. The application runs on Bea Web Logic servers with Oracle DB with multiple batch jobs. As the system grew in size, operational challenges surfaced which includes multiple physical server security updates and maintenance cost. (DTT)” was the answer to address these challenges. The method employed PaaS Pivotal Container Services (PKS). Enterprise PKS uses the latest stable OSS distribution of Kubernetes—with no proprietary extensions. PKS is widely expansible to other applications in T-Mobile ecosystem as PKS can be deployed On-premises as a PaaS

Revealing the Vicious Circle of Disengaged User Acceptance: A SaaS Provider's Perspective

User acceptance tests (UAT) are an integral part of many different software engineering methodologies. In this paper, we examine the influence of UATs on the relationship between users and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, which are continuously delivered rather than rolled out during a one-off signoff process. Based on an exploratory qualitative field study at a multinational SaaS provider in Denmark, we show that UATs often address the wrong problem in that positive user acceptance may actually indicate a negative user experience. Hence, SaaS providers should be careful not to rest on what we term disengaged user acceptance. Instead, we outline an approach that purposefully queries users for ambivalent emotions that evoke constructive criticism, in order to facilitate a discourse that favors the continuous innovation of a SaaS system. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of our approach for the study of user engagement in testing SaaS applications

TechNews digests: Jan - Nov 2009

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AI-DRIVEN PAYMENT ORCHESTRATION PLATFORMS: PERFORMANCE METRICS, SCALABILITY, AND INTEROPERABILITY

Payment orchestration platforms powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly transforming the global payments landscape. These innovative solutions enable businesses to streamline and optimize their payment processes, leading to improved operational efficiency, enhanced customer experience, and increased revenue growth. This research article explores the key performance metrics, scalability considerations, and interoperability challenges associated with AI-driven payment orchestration platforms. By examining these critical aspects, we aim to provide valuable insights for businesses seeking to leverage these cutting-edge technologies and stay competitive in the ever-evolving digital payments ecosystem

Digital omvandling av en skidort: en fallstudie

Digital technology and new ways of benefitting from information have the potential to radically alter business models and change interaction between a company and its customers. Some leading ski resorts are becoming aware of the potential of customer data and the benefits of having a digital service offering. Weisse Arena Gruppe (WAG) is the company behind the LAAX ski resort in Switzerland. WAG formed an internal digitalisation team to professionalise data handling, increase their understanding of the digital realm and build future digital capabilities. This thesis gives reasons for why a company running a ski resort decided to assemble an internal team to build digital services, an area out of their core expertise, instead of relying on external contractors. The factors that were instrumental for the digitalisation team’s results are defined. For this purpose, key persons behind the digitalisation initiative were interviewed. Several factors were fundamental for the success of the digitalisation initiative. The digital services team worked in short development cycles, enabling quick creation of minimum viable products resulting in short feedback loops. The team had the appropriate freedom to form suitable processes and work methods, and support from the CEO throughout the process. Certain web- and mobile development technologies were essential for building impactful services with limited resources in a short time.Digital teknologi och nya sätt att utnyttja information kan potentiellt förändra företagsmodeller och företags växelverkan med kunder på ett fundamentalt plan. Några ledande skidorter börjar förstå möjligheterna som kunddata möjliggör och fördelarna av att ha ett digitalt tjänsteerbjudande. Weisse Arena Gruppe (WAG) är företaget bakom skidorten LAAX i östra Schweiz. WAG grundade ett internt digitaliseringsteam för att professionellt kunna hantera data, skapa digital kompetens och bygga en grund för framtida digitala möjligheter. Detta diplomarbete förklarar varför ett företag som driver en skidort och tillhörande tjänster, bestämde sig för att skapa ett internt team för att utveckla digitala tjänster, ett område utanför företagets kärnkompetens, i stället för att anlita utomstående entreprenörer. De viktigaste faktorerna för resultaten av digitaliseringsteamets arbete definieras. För detta har nyckelpersonerna bakom digitaliseringsinitiativet intervjuats. Flera faktorer var grundläggande för framgången av initiativet. Digitaliseringsteamet använde sig av korta utvecklingsperioder, vilket möjliggjorde utveckling av tjänster och insamling av respons så snabbt som möjligt. Teamet hade nödvändig frihet att skapa egna processer och arbetsmetoder, och verkställande direktörens stöd genom hela processen. Vissa teknologier för utveckling av mobilapplikationer var väsentliga för att bygga betydande tjänster med begränsade resurser inom en kort tid

Creation of a Cloud-Native Application: Building and operating applications that utilize the benefits of the cloud computing distribution approach

Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Information Management, specialization in Information Systems and Technologies ManagementVMware is a world-renowned company in the field of cloud infrastructure and digital workspace technology which supports organizations in digital transformations. VMware accelerates digital transformation for evolving IT environments by empowering clients to adopt a software-defined strategy towards their business and information technology. Previously present in the private cloud segment, the company has recently focused on developing offers related to the public cloud. Comprehending how to devise cloud-compatible systems has become increasingly crucial in the present times. Cloud computing is rapidly evolving from a specialized technology favored by tech-savvy companies and startups to the cornerstone on which enterprise systems are constructed for future growth. To stay competitive in the current market, both big and small organizations are adopting cloud architectures and methodologies. As a member of the technical pre-sales team, the main goal of my internship was the design, development, and deployment of a cloud native application and therefore this will be the subject of my internship report. The application is intended to interface with an existing one and demonstrates in question the possible uses of VMware's virtualization infrastructure and automation offerings. Since its official release, the application has already been presented to various existing and prospective customers and at conferences. The purpose of this work is to provide a permanent record of my internship experience at VMware. Through this undertaking, I am able to retrospect on the professional facets of my internship experience and the competencies I gained during the journey. This work is a descriptive and theoretical reflection, methodologically oriented towards the development of a cloud-native application in the context of my internship in the system engineering team at VMware. The scientific content of the internship of the report focuses on the benefits - not limited to scalability and maintainability - to move from a monolithic architecture to microservices

Mobile computing in a clouded environment

textCloud Computing has started to become a viable option for computing centers and mobile consumers seeking to reduce cost overhead, power consumption, and increase software services available within their platform. For instance distributed memory constrained mobile devices can expand their ability to share real time data by utilizing virtual memory located within the cloud. Cloud memory services can be configured to restrict read and write access to the shared memory pool on a partner by partner basis. Utilization of such resources in turn reduces hardware requirements on mobile devices while lessening power consumption for each physical resource. Within the Cloud Computing paradigm, computing resources are provisioned to consumers on demand and guaranteed through service level agreements. Although the idea of a computing utility is not new, its realization has come to pass as researchers and corporate companies embark on a journey of implementing highly scalable cloud environments. As new solutions and architectures are proposed, additional use cases and consumer concerns have been revealed. These issues range from consumer security, adequate service level agreements and vendor interoperability, to cloud technology standardizations. Further, the current state of the art does not adequately address these needs for mobile consumers, where services need to be guaranteed even as consumers dynamically change locations. Due to the rapid adoption of virtualization stacks and the dramatic increase of mobile computing devices, cloud providers must be able to handle logical and physical mobility of consumers. As consumers move throughout geographical regions, there exists the probability that a consumer’s new locale may hinder a producer’s ability to uphold service level agreements. This inability is due to the fact that a producer may not have physical resources located relatively close to a mobile consumer’s new locale. As a consequence, producers must either continue to provide degraded resource consumption or migrate workloads to third party producers in order to ensure service level agreements are maintained. The goal of this report is to research existing architectures that provide the ability to adequately uphold service level agreements as mobile consumers move from locale to locale. Further we propose an architecture that can be implemented along with existing solutions in order to ensure consumers receive adequate service levels regardless of locality. We believe this architecture will lead to increased cloud interoperability and decreased consumer to producer platform coupling.Electrical and Computer Engineerin