White Paper: Creative Uses for iBeacons By Team Arrk Thought Leadership < 1 min read Unobtrusive and relatively low cost, a beacon (or iBeacon when using Apple nomenclature) is a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) device which contains its own battery unit which means they can be positioned pretty much anywhere. Although there are a variety of…
Appification of the Enterprise Explained By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read The phrase “there’s an app for that” has been well-established among consumers for years – we’re accustomed to the idea of being able to download an app for almost any purpose, leading to buzz terms like “the appification of everything” and the…
What is Google Brillo? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read The Internet of Things (which we explained here with our Beginner’s Guide to the Internet of Things) is drawing the attention of some big names, with Qualcomm recently announcing its plans to develop smart devices that suit this new technology. Now, Google has…
SQL or NoSQL: The fairy tale By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read A long, long time ago, when the Earth was still young, an innocent computer science graduate entered a castle, looking for work. The castle’s occupants were kind and took him in. Surrounded by experienced analysts, designers, programmers and testers, he developed his…
How 3D printing will change the world By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, “has the potential to change everything.” That was the sweeping statement made by a former ship engineer in an interview with Forbes back in 2012. Three years on, if you’re not buying into…
SMAC – Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud: A Guide By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Described as “driving innovation inside many, if not most, enterprises” by Vince Kellen in the Cutter IT Journal, social, mobile, analytics, cloud (SMAC) represents a bundle of new technologies that is rapidly replacing basic messaging and communication services, as…
Bespoke or Off the Shelf Software: A Comparison By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Bespoke or off the shelf software: depending on the depth of your knowledge about software and how to run it for your organisation or business, it may seem like an obvious choice because whereas off the shelf packages are…
Digitising public services in the UK: An introduction By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Better public services that are more integrated and readily available than ever before. That’s the manifesto behind the Government’s decision to digitalise public services in the UK. However, is it really working? In this introduction to digital public services…
Guide to Big Data Analytics By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read There is big talk about big data, but do you actually understand it and what it could do for your business? In this guide to big data analytics we take a closer look at the concept and explain how companies can integrate…
iBeacons: Tomorrow’s retail stores today By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 2 mins read Take a trip to your favourite retail store in 2015 and you might just notice several discrete iBeacon devices dotted around the shop’s walls, these micro-location gizmos are promising to usher in a new way of shopping on the high street. In this…
