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In today’s fast-evolving digital economy, Marketplace-as-a-Service (MaaS) is rapidly emerging as a transformative force in B2B commerce.

In today’s era of digital transformation, marketplaces have evolved from traditional storefronts into intelligent, dynamic ecosystems.

The Middle East is advancing digital transformation with initiatives like Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and UAE’s Centennial 2071 plan. The G2B2C model, supported by AI, enhances public services, citizen engagement, and economic growth. AI-powered platforms like DubaiNow and UAE API Marketplace drive innovation and collaboration between governments, businesses, and citizens.

In an era where businesses are driven by efficiency, innovation, and global expansion, Global Capability Centers (GCCs) have emerged as a critical enabler of enterprise transformation.

Effective data integration enables organizations to consolidate disparate data sources and create single sources of truth, improving decision-making and timely responses to market changes.

Data integration enables organizations to dismantle data silos and derive a holistic view of data from disparate sources including traditional databases, cloud-based applications, social media, and IoT devices.

Cloud applications and services are bringing the benefits of the cloud to the healthcare industry including scalability to serve variable workloads, accelerating the speed of innovation, access to the latest security and infrastructure technology and big data diagnostics and analytics.

The digitalization of healthcare has raised concerns about data privacy and security. Read this blog to understand how to address these concerns and enable seamless data access.

In 2008, a significant outage in its data center prevented Netflix from sending DVDs to its customers for three days which prompted the company to rethink its IT architecture.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) has taken businesses to the edge of a new frontier that promises unprecedented levels of productivity, innovation, and new revenue streams.

Organizations today are confronted with challenges arising from the growing number of applications and managing the volume of data being generated across cloud and on-premise environments.

Today, as business data increasingly proliferates a multitude of systems, app-integration teams are finding it increasingly difficult to keep pace. While a platform-based approach takes the pain out of integrating and scaling applications, the volume, velocity, and veracity of data are adding to integration complexities.

Site reliability engineering is a process that relies on software tools to automate and streamline IT infrastructure tasks like incident response, system management, change management, and application monitoring.

Many IT leaders are investing in cloud migration as part of their digital transformation strategy, but the industry’s success record has been patchy. According to a 2021 report by McKinsey, poorly orchestrated cloud migrations could cost enterprises up to US$100 billion over the next three years.

A UK-based telco migrated to the cloud to take advantage of cost efficiencies and scalability through cloud adoption. But contrary to expectations, the costs kept mounting over time and strained the telcos operating budgets.

With data pouring in from multiple sources, in different formats and across multiple environments, traditional ETL methods for data integration can no longer cope with the growing volume, variety and velocity of data. Data virtualization (DV) can help by acting as a bridge between disparate data sources, unifying them to deliver a single source of truth for consumers.

The cloud-native era of application development allows for a much higher rate of iteration than previously possible with legacy application architecture. Monolithic application development lifecycles are ill-suited to the demands of hyper-growth minded...

Read this cloud computing blog on the top cloud computing trends of 2023 that discusses serverless computing, edge computing, blockchain and cloud collaboration, cloud gaming, AI/ML and containerized applications.

Cloud computing has been a historical leap forward, especially when it comes to managing IT resources. On-demand access to IT infrastructure like computing power, storage, servers, and databases has redefined the meaning of agility and scalability in today’s businesses.

Migrating applications and data to the cloud and deploying cloud-native technologies promises many business and operational benefits – from reduced risk, cost, and downtime to greater operational and business flexibility, bringing advantages such as faster time to market and the ability to react faster to market changes.

As digital marketplaces mature, they evolve, and we are now well and truly into the era of digital marketplace 2.0, where, as we explored here, differentiation is the name of the game. In a highly competitive world, a digital or physical item or service is much the same, regardless of where the customer buys it.

AIOps is a category of tools designed to bring the benefits of AI, most typically machine learning, to data generated by telemetry. The aim is to enable teams to evaluate and act on data faster, reduce manual tasks and human errors, and predict and so prevent problems.

Digital Marketplace products play a central role in providing a customer-facing storefront, where your offerings can be bundled with your partner’s offerings and sold online.

Traditional business models are unable to longer drive growth in the new normal. Research conducted by Accenture Global found that organizations that doubled down on tech investments before the pandemic are now growing 5x faster than their non-tech counterparts

Microservices are central to a cloud native architecture because they structure applications as a collection of services that are easy to maintain and test. Microservices are loosely coupled, meaning that constituent parts can be updated and swapped, and each can be deployed independently.

When asked about what a telecoms network operator would look like in the future and what capabilities are most important, the CTO of one of the world’s largest telecom operator groups1 said he and his organization need to be a systems integrator.

Cloud has immense potential for enterprises to do lots of things better. Sometimes though, we forget that migration to the cloud is a huge and rare opportunity to do things differently as well as better – and smart integration is a big part of achieving that.

Enterprises today have an enormous volume of data spread across numerous on-premise, private cloud and public cloud locations. Cloud data integration is critical for consolidating all that data into a single, unified hybrid cloud environment, enabling enterprises to leverage that data to achieve impactful business outcomes.

Data integration consulting can help enterprises understand the data they have at their disposal and use it to solve emerging business challenges.

Digital companies are laser-focused on customer experience. Creating data-driven, actionable insights is one of their biggest weapons in the war to win and keep customers, and this comes from being able to combine disparate data sets – data integration.

Digitalization is a top priority for businesses in the digital economy. Far too often, however, organizations move headlong into their digital transformation efforts without stopping to properly prepare their systems and processes for the transition.

The introduction of APIs is an exercise of integration. This cohesive umbrella, the structure to secure compliance of published norms across diverse users and often business units, is referred to as “API governance”.

Telcos and financial institutions can empower SMEs by bundling their core services and functionality in an “as-a-service” model, along with digital enablement tools.

Remote working may have been enforced due to the prevailing situation for businesses around the world. However, after experiencing it first-hand, many may end up making it a logical choice even post COVID-19 crisis.

The success and smoothness of operations of the past few months has planted seeds of interesting, game-changing ideas which we are in discussions about, with our strategic teams. Compliances like ISO are for a physical premise, but these controls can be implemented successfully as cloud solutions for our remote workforce.

Modernizing applications by adopting microservices requires a new set of tools for efficiency and speed. My blog aims to guide you by reviewing tools that help with microservices.

Microservices Governance is an approach or method that sets up best principles, policies, and standards that enable a successful transition to a microservices landscape.

In order to resolve the challenges of outdated infrastructure, you need a cost-effective solution that enables you to securely and quickly access and process essential business data from any device.

A mature integration strategy, a strong governance framework and robust implementation of such an integration framework largely determine the success of your digital transformation initiative. In this blog, we discuss common integration challenges faced by large enterprises and present a wider scope for integration that transcends organizational boundaries.

A robust API management strategy is a must to effectively monetize your APIs. Managing your APIs is not just about the security aspect but about how well they are designed, what implementation standards they’re built on, how they are deployed, their discoverability and monitorability.

A key outcome of Digital transformation is in the creation of new business models and meaningful partner and customer ecosystems that allow a business to evolve with the times. Instead of trying to compete by bettering your existing products and services, digital transformation is about disrupting the norm and offering new services and products that transform your business.

API management as the name suggests, helps manage the entire lifecycle of APIs – from the initial planning, design and documentation of APIs to deploying them and tracking their usage till their retirement. The API strategy of an organization sets the context for API management.

Digital Transformation is a prerequisite for all organizations in today’s dynamic ever-changing ecosystem of technology. This new transformation is changing business models and processes; making them increasingly customer-centric.

API business strategy is a component of your overall business strategy, where APIs are positioned as monetizable business offerings. A strong API strategy enables creation of Digital Platform business models that exponentially increase the value of transactions by creating a network effect.

Competition to secure retail consumers has resulted in price cutting, as differences in service features is marginal.

Connected health is made possible by system integration services offered by CSPs. It is facilitated either through web or tablet apps by invoking the relevant APIs on the gateway.

Winning in the digital economy means moving from digital silos to establishing your business as a platform using APIs.

For value creation, you will have to think about finding your core value provision, your core capabilities, mapping through IT systems built on APIs and making them open APIs.

There is a process to build a useful digital ecosystem that can also include connected devices that enables the collection, connection, crafting and combination, needed to make the most of existing investments.

With today’s focus on the role of digital ecosystems and the Internet of Everything, integration, API management and big data are all key tools.

Digitization or digital transformation is the most important element of any business evolution. When we use the term “digital” we refer to the term sigital economy using APIs as a means.

The age of the platform: Winning in the digital economy means moving from digital silos to establishing your Business as a Platform using APIs

mBaaS is a model of providing mobile app and web developers a way of linking their applications to cloud storage and backend APIs, with the capability of user management, push notification and integration with third party systems.

The great thing about software is that it can enhance and optimize the workings of almost any industry. At Torry Harris we continually seek to make this happen for all our clients even in fields that don’t automatically lend themselves to “software”. And, not surprisingly, one of our major telecommunications clients tapped us to do just that.