A key element to Enterprise Architecture (EA) is the capacity to create a component repository /application portfolio to centralise, manage & re-use components within an organisation and to define the IT landscape. Collating an organisation’s components and assets allows Enterprise Architects to understand the capabilities, define roadmaps & gap analysis and identify weaknesses & risks with … Continue reading “LeanIX Evaluation”
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Monitoring Outdoor WIFI Coverage using Drones
IT Services always aims at providing a good WIFI signal coverage within the university for staff and students. With more and more mobile users, how to detect the WIFI signal strength and maintain a stable WIFI connection is one of the key challenges. More WIFI access points were planed and installed last year to help with the … Continue reading “Monitoring Outdoor WIFI Coverage using Drones”
The Data Cookbook Evaluation
Organisations have become more reliant on their data and reporting capabilities. However, knowing what information needs to be reported and where that information is stored is difficult to answer. Trying to find an answer to a simple question can be quite a lengthy & difficult process if the data is not organised, manageable or easily accessible. Due to … Continue reading “The Data Cookbook Evaluation”
3D Printing Technology Overview
3D printing is an additive manufacturing process which creates a physical object from a digital design. It involves using layers of material, building the structures through construction of layers of materials to grow the structure from bottom upwards. 3D printing technology has been around for quite a while, however, recently it has expanded its usage into many different … Continue reading “3D Printing Technology Overview”
Voice Authentication – AudioPIN Solution
Voice Authentication as a means of biometric authentication has been around for quite a while. Along with the technological progress and the improved accuracy, voice authentication has again attracted the market’s attention. Voice authentication is to use the voice biometrics as a method of determining the identity of a speaker for access control. Voice biometrics is a … Continue reading “Voice Authentication – AudioPIN Solution”
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education
Technology is improving at a rapid pace, as many things emerging today can only exist in human being’s imagination before. Some of the impossible things rising to the occasion are the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Although they are very similar in terms of creating virtual objects, they are different in creating immersive environments for the audience. Recently, … Continue reading “Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Education”
Virtual Reality Using Leap Motion and Oculus Rift
The advent of more precise consumer virtual reality (VR) systems garnered the interest of numerous industries over the unimaginable potential of these head-mounted displays (HMDs). These HMDs, coupled with an input device, enables us to interact within the virtual environment – which boosts the sense of immersion. With recent advances in software, it has become easier to interact … Continue reading “Virtual Reality Using Leap Motion and Oculus Rift”
Intranet Newsfeed Experiment – Feedly
Feedly is a news aggregator application for various web browsers and mobile devices. It is available as a cloud-based service. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customise and share with others. It can also act as a browser add-on for Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari that delivers news feeds … Continue reading “Intranet Newsfeed Experiment – Feedly”
Chatbot overview and IT service desk chatbot experiment
Chatbot is one of the emerging technologies leading the agenda in 2016. Microsoft launched “Tay” in March 16. Facebook announced in April 2016 that businesses would be able to provide chatbots to deliver automated customer support via its “Messenger” services. Other providers include IBM and Microsoft are also providing development platforms to develop the chatbots. A bot is … Continue reading “Chatbot overview and IT service desk chatbot experiment”
In-memory computing – EXASOL evaluation
EXASOL (http://www.exasol.com/en/) provides an in-memory computing solution for data analytics. It combines in memory, columnar storage and massively parallel technologies to support high performance, flexibility and scalability. In-memory computing (IMC) is an architecture-style where applications assume all the data required for processing is located in the main memory of their computing environment. In-memory computing (IMC) is a … Continue reading “In-memory computing – EXASOL evaluation”