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Growing the long tail of smart applications

Published on January 26, 2012 By R R Dasgupta

Is there a case for democratization of smart applications? Cities across the world are vying to be smarter. Ageing infrastructure and spiraling population are jostling with each other in a progressively destructive way. Upping the ante for provisioning of newer and better services is often a futile cry for enabling the change. Public procurement [...]

May a thousand cities be smart

Published on December 18, 2011 By R R Dasgupta

The promise of the Internet of things This is not a Maosian paraphrase but rather a commentary on a new kind of revolution that is being enabled by the ubiquity of the internet, the ingenuity of people, the intelligence of technologies and the pervasiveness of devices The internet of things is here. Social collaboration is [...]

Leveraging the software ecosystem for growth

Published on December 10, 2011 By R R Dasgupta

The growth conundrum From the smallest start-up doing 18 hour days in a garage, to the largest behemoths in the software industry, the need to scale is critical. Growth is the quintessential elixir of any business. Growth drives everything else. And yet time and again, the smaller product companies seem to spend a lot [...]