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Introduction If you ever stumbled, lately, on a tech article talking about Super Apps, it would probably mention that they were first invented  in 1999, by Mike Lazaridis, the founder of Research in Motion (RIM), the manufacturer of the BlackBerry device. Mike has defined Super Apps  as applications which make use of all the BlackBerry resources available. From usage of notification pop ups, context menu integration right down to being able to access any application from within anywhere on the device. Deep integration across the…

While the interest for the Internet of Things by companies is no longer to be proven, this area continues to give a hard time to experts, as for security and architecture. Indeed, the multiplication of data sources brings a reflection on the architecture of networks. As Satya Nadella (Microsoft CEO) said on stage in 2017: "When I joined Microsoft in 1992, all Internet traffic was 100 gigabytes a day. Today is 17.5 million times that amount ... per second! "And we are only at the…

Bank's current systems and issues Today, Retail and Private Banks' Core Banking System (CBS) and Portfolio Management System (PMS) are strong assets. They have matured over the years and are often a very solid basis for the rest of the satellite IT systems. They are used to efficiently manage the basic core banking data, like clients, portfolios, their security composition, the pending orders, the market transactions and so on. Portfolio-level and bank-level consolidated metrics however are often based on long running algorithms and are therefore…