What's News....
June has rapidly come around. For many there is only a month to decide if the first half of 2014 has been good business wise, or if it has provided an overly challenging environment. I hope that your company will have a good first half to 2014 that accelerates through the year.
Having long promoted ASEAN as one of the hottest global markets, the recent coup in Thailand was a disappointing setback. capioIT believes that it will have a disruptive influence on the Thai market for at least the next two years. We have scaled back expectations and forecasts accordingly. At this point in time there will be limited ASEAN impacts.
Michael Harte has now left his role as CIO of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He helped redefine technology at the CBA and made it a differentiated leader in the overall Australian market, and the Asia Pacific Financial Services space from a technology point of view. The challenge and opportunity for the CBA is to come up with a new generation CIO focused on accelerating a digital, analytics and governance play, not one focused on delivery of more of the same.
In May I attended the global customer events of two of the largest legacy vendors, EMC and Cisco. What was clear to me is that legacy vendors typically are not setting the agenda for the future of technology, rather they have to react to a macro agenda set by others.
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