State of peace, of emergency, of crisis or of war… Who wrote that war is only the continuation of diplomacy: Machiavelli or Talleyrand? I was wondering how many wars were just only mere processes of Economic Models after unsuccessful commercial negotiations. On the TV, an old blockbuster movie, "The 55 days of Peking" reminded me that many wars had only economic issues: the Boxers' war compelling China to open its market, the Boers' war imposing the British model of colonization to the Afrikaners' agrarian one and more recently, the Cold War opposing the liberal model to communism.

Since 2008, the world has entered in one of its worst economic and financial crisis doubled by the A-flu threat of pandemic. Enterprises need to define new Business Models. Both represent ruptures of peacetime models.

Figure: Business Models from peace time to war time.

Crisis and war Business Models belong to different types. The basic model type (Type 0) refers to the defense industry, which does not exclusively address nations in war. This model belongs to the market segment of selling to national Public Sectors.

Type 1

The permanent combat model

Its main objective is to organize the enterprise as a warriors' entity. Its application could be limited to areas where military approaches are currently adopted, for example in Business Intelligence, IT Security, … or to men's behavior!

This agressive model applies only in peacetime because in crisis or war time the social and competition environment have changed and the market requires other kinds of responses from the enterprise.

Type 2

Bespoke Business Model reflecting the War Model

It applies locally and in a limited time to organizations when a part of their activities are conducted in conflicted zones. Various situations could be found: NGO operating in countries in war, enterprises trading with clients in contaminated areas, oil or mining companies tapping resources in insecure zones. This kind of model has to compel with martial or urgency laws that apply in the concerned territories.

Type 3

The Comprehensive Adaptive Business Model

Its purpose is to offer a robust framework for Business activities, which applies in normal conditions and allow starting adaptive mechanisms in hard times. Read my previous post.

Major ruptures resulting from crises, wars, sanitary alerts, etc… affect Business Models. The first points to check are the adequation between the enterprise offer and the customers' requests. Needs could change a lot during unstable era: a service or product not widely used in normal situation could suddenly become an absolute need (example: some medication or vaccine in pandemic). However, the enterprise must rethink its Business Model and the whole Business Framework supporting it and more precisely:

• Business Processes

The processes may vary a lot according to the actors who remain still active in situation of war or emergency. Communication technologies — for example: video conference and collaborative office automation — should be extensively used in order to palliate to reduce physical meeting.

• Business Rules

In general, they are submitted to various constraints imposed by:

- Local laws which include all specific regulations due to the state of war,

- Measures of protections decided by the companies themselves according to the level of insecurity.

• Business Intelligence

In any state of emergency, this domain is fully part of Information Intelligence, whatever the type of Information — it could be Business, Military, Economic, Social, etc… In many cases, contracts are granted to appointed companies which comply with Governmental requirements. So, competition is reduced to a very Short List and therefore objectives of BI are:

- To make sure that enemies have no access to our technologies,

- To detect any advantages in offers of the other side and upgrade our offer.

• Business Plan

Any specific situation has an end! And more particularly in case of war or emergency. Business Plan must take into account the return to normality.

• Business Ethics

This major issue should always be kept in mind, even when it becomes difficult to trim an ethic heading in a chaotic environment. Obviously, some missions are apparently easier to manage ethically than others: nobody would criticize sales of vaccines to fight pandemic, while it need diplomacy to morally justify the trade of weapons. However boosting one's Business in the context of a sanitary disaster could well be regarded as somehow looting a devastated country! Applying Business Ethics in emergency and war situations is always trying to find an instable balanced attitude between taking simply the opportunity to increase one's revenues and keeping a human and moral approach to help. Then, apart from the case of health relief, the question is: What party to help? If the answer is both, there's no more ethics! Whatever the party, is any political answer compatible with ethics?

But, the number-one issue is the place where the company's stakeholders stand: Is he outside of or inside the conflict? The answer defines the War Business Model!

Figure : A rupture-robust Business Framework

The SaaS and Cloud Computing Business Models have initiated new notions of services. As virtual infrastructures and applications are easily deployed, in a near future, the Business of system and application integration will change. Vendors of services will have to work out new Business Models. Their forthcoming major challenges will cover three types of services:

- Coupling Web Services will remain the only part left to the technical side of their job. It won't be only just coding APIs in SOAP or REST protocols or whatever! It could require a high level of expertise because Interoperating services partly hosted on premises or by outsourcers, and partly on-line will require a thorough know how in SOA architecture.

— Common services for end-users ranging:

- From training and change management,

- To first level application support.

— Operation support, which will be a reduced, but however not a secondary domain:

- On the servers side all hardware is virtual and operated by the SaaS/IaaS providers;

- The IT System administration is definitely the most interesting part of the job as small structures will prefer to be helped for these tasks;

- On the clients' side, a site support will be needed.

These services should be integrated in all-in-one packages configured by free-lance engineers for small companies or by integrators for major customers. The real economic ruptures are in the answers to the following question: "What ratio of the present volume of services business will remain to integrators?" I'm afraid the answer will be written with only one figure…

Actually, there are two embedded issues in this question:

Issue 1: "How much money will a user accept to spend in services while it would cost him from nothing to some tens of euros per user and per month in a PayN mode?" (PayN stands for “Pay as you Need or N / N = Serve, Use, Demand, etc.).

Issue 2: "Will there be a way to propose extra services linked to applications and data storage, which would go beyond the standard offer proposed by the ISP?"

The only viable solution for major integrators is based on a three-party Business Model where they could continue to offer:

1) Some value-added services "below the cloud", for example: hosting private data, specific to the clients;

2) Secure and certified hosting spaces and processes.

Figure 1: From SaaS to Software Integration of Internet Services

Some activities offer grounds for more appropriate specific services. It‘s the case for the Geographical Information Systems where:

• The satellite photos repository is standard and common to all provides;
• The applications are now offered on a SaaS mode;
• However, the processed data and specific maps belong to each customer.

In all analogue cases, integrators may offer irreplaceable services and really play a major role as a third party in a three-role Business Model.

Figure 2: Example of standard repository and proprietary data.

While I was searching on Google for the works of William Tufnell Le Queux, a British writer and journalist of the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th Century, I discovered that his writings, which were never re-published, are now available on "archive", a site dedicated to archiving past books, movies, musical records and TV broadcasts of the world. It allowed me to read the books I was searching, in their original digitalized editions. Digging deeper on the Net for our cultural legacies, I realized that the www is going to become a huge virtual on-line library for humanity. We may call this part of the Web, the Pan-Library (PanLib).

Another personal anecdote leads me to a complementary conclusion while helping my wife, searching for traces of her ancestors, the key words I typed brought up a link to a patent form filled by her grandpa in 1951!

So, the www has become also the main mass-memory of our societies.

Fig. PanLib, MasMem, InfoWave, Ghost

On its PanLib side, the Web is swelling constantly, on its MasMem side, it is quite similar to man's memory: selective! Mass of information is available for the public, and then it's either archived or destroyed forever. The Web MasMem is like the dynamic tides and ebb-tides of a nascent ocean.

A very interesting example concerns the French government national initiative for e-Democracy, called "les assises du numerique". In June and July 2008, the French Ministry of IT and High-Tech invited all citizens to share ideas for the future evolution of France's digital infrastructure, on a site organized in 27 threads. Until March 2009, these forums could be consulted… and suddenly, the site was replaced by another one, which says that it draws the conclusions of the past exchanges … In May 2009, when searching for this event, only remain links to a ghost URL leading to a “forbidden page”.

Meanwhile, when typing the former site: http://www.assisesdunumerique.fr 

It is re-routed to the new "France Numerique 2012" site: http://www.francenumerique2012.fr  

What happened to the discussion threads where eight hundreds cyber-citizens have contributed? Maybe archived… or flushed forever!

What is the fate of flushed away information? Actually, nobody knows really! Some are archived in private silos (probably to the “French Archives Nationales” in the section “Assises du Numériques”) and may come back to a certain form of life one day; others will disappear forever… Anyway both are part of the i-Web, where "i" stands for "invisible".

Another series of search shows clearly how the www is getting replete and depleted by waves of information. In May 2008, when typing George W Bush, Google Search found approximately 80 millions hits, while it found only about 10 millions for Barack Obama. Both were live information. In May 2009, the score is above 100 millions for the late and only 40 millions remaining for the first, a figure which will probably continue to decline in the forthcoming years to its bottom line, consisting in historical archives.

However, the score of Google hits is not linked to the level of celebrity, as Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte and Alexander the Great are scoring only from few millions results to 40 millions for Alexander, supported the blockbuster movie relating his life. John F Kennedy Google score is 20 millions. Probably, presidents of the Internet eras will have bigger Web archives.

There should be a name for the huge compound of pan-library, humanity mass-memory, ghost or invisible Web. It's the Hulk Web. It's like a ship hulk, except than its volume is globally growing all time. Unlike a ship, it won't sink! Humanity should be careful for the Hulk Web might well become a kind of tremendous monster reflecting the past, the present and the prospective future of Humanity as technology allows us to use 3D and virtuality to build our web wild world to come…

A Market Place is a physical or electronic space where users may exchange, barter, trade, sell and buy various items. Market Places must offer to their users:

- Bidirectional transactions

- Animation by an Operating Entity (OE)

- Value Added Services (VAS),

Bidirectional transactions are the distinctive fundaments of Market Places. They are their main differentiators from mere virtual malls. Example: On a market place, user "U" may sell to user "S" who may also buy from user "E" who may sell to users "R" and "U", etc.

The OE is in charge of missions extending from:

• On one end, only managing the intermediation between two users, basically a tender and a caller, i.e. a seller and a buyer;

• On the other end, acting as the unique collector of remittance and payments;

• And, between these two ends, offer various either free or commercial VAS, such as promoting sales, animating groups or communities, operating forums, guiding users' choice, etc…

The OE is also in charge of:

- defining the Business Rules that apply to the Market Place, when they haven't been fixed up by a regulating authority,

- And always making sure that all transactions are compliant with the rules and laws governing the market.

In the early Internet ages, banks and Stock Exchanges rushed on the emerging opportunity to bait new customers with attractive functions and interactive tools for trading, brokering and… speculating. The existing Market Places could then address a broader population, among which many millions became small shares speculators and addicts! For those who were already familiar with this activity, either as a hobby or as a lucrative way to self-manage their investments and spared money, e-Banking and e-Trading allowed both real-time quotations  and immediate on-line transactions which could be directly observed by users. Some features could be implemented only in Web mode: In particular hyperlinks to images, pictures, audio and video illustrations.

Figure: From Market Places to Self-Business sites

Soon, other kinds of Market Places were launched, dealing with any kind of items. The following non-exhaustive examples show the diversity of these sites:

- Auction sells & buys on eBay,

- Sells of new and re-sales of second hand books, records and films on Amazon,

- Specialized and thematic sites dedicated to various collections (stamps, toys, comic strips, etc.), cars or consumable goods.

Web technologies were necessary to create new and innovative models for these Market Places that I prefer to call Self-Business Places. For example, the continuous chain linking two users since the establishment of the first direct contacts between them until the conclusion of their bargain. A new era for making personal Business started with these models. As they were able to sell and buy at will users were no longer passive consumers and slowly became actors requesting tools to help them.

Making Self-Business in a domain doesn't mean that one becomes himself or herself a businessman or a professional… However, let's anticipate what the use of the Web 2.0 will change in our perception of the world.

When President J.F. Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner", in 1961 it was difficult to Americans to be in the place of a German citizen living over the ocean in West-Berlin. For a European citizen, the problem was the hermetic post-WW 2 frontiers and the Iron Curtain of the Cold War. Today, the WWW has eliminated distances and the EU has dotted physical frontiers.

When, in 2008, forthcoming President B.H. Obama launched his motto "Yes we can!" , the Web 2.0 usages have allowed anybody to become a volunteer encyclopedist with Wikipedia or a (re)searcher with Google.

While companies wanted their employees to become productive workers at office… at home, the lates prefer to become creative workers… But can they? Yes, they can since Web 2.0 sites offer social networking, on-line games and unlimited mash-ups.

Figure: From self-Business sites to (re)creative places

It's why I prefer the word recreative instead of "creative". Read My Storefront to know why.. .The Internet user may be diverted and could refresh his mind after hours of interactive (un)intelligent work. He may become an actor on "Recreative Spaces" of the Net, where he could find a mixture of entertainment, games and artistic expression, only by the use of Web 2.0 tools. On a technical point of view, the Rich Client Architecture brings the necessary ergonomic comfort and the right level of user-friendlyness. On a Business point of view, other value-added services are offered to the user, for example:

- Edition and packaging of artistic works by unit, which is most valuable for self-publishing;

- Payment of small amounts of money, made possible only with micro-credit-carding;

- Direct contacts between the artist and his/her audience;

- Collaborative works.

In the next few years, the objective of governing correctly self-Business 2.0 is a major challenge on both local and international levels.

Since the most prominent Internet Service Providers have launched their SaaS offers, everyone, as a simple user or as a professional, may build up a complete on-line IT stack, which includes virtual platforms with their OS and applications. The Webware is born! — and the word might be already reserved for copyrights, see the CNET Webware URL. At its bottom is the Hardweb, which is natively part of the Web n.0 (n>2)! Is it just a good marketing post published on a geek's Blog? I think no because Hardweb became a reality since the technologies of virtualization of both Software and Hardware have allowed users to avoid investing in physical systems.

The first question is: why wouldn't we call virtual Hardware offers "Hardweb"? Some colleagues would prefer HaaS — Hardware as a(n Internet) Service — or IaaS, or Paas or whatsoever ("I" as in Infrastructure or "P" as in Platform). For me, "Hardweb" sounds better for multiple reasons…

If Hardweb is considered as the first generation of on-line virtual Hardware delivered as an Internet Service, it would make sense to call it Hardweb 1.0… But, it objectively belongs to the World Wide Web 2.0, even to the next generation: Web 3.0?

Actually, with the predictable success of Cloud Computing, the most natural way to interoperate systems hosted on the Cloud, is definitely to use a native n tiers Service-Oriented Architecture, based on whatever Web Services or REST Services! So, why not call it Hardweb n.0 specially to definitely show that the multiple tiers architecture will remain perennial?

Many organizations have already started subscribing for virtual machines with Internet Service Providers, often for evaluation. Once the trial step will be passed, the forthcoming extensive use of Hardweb raises many issues to be considered from various angles.

• The economic points of view

Cost issues are always either show-stoppers or adoption-pushers.

Issue 1: Reduction of Hardware budgets

Hardweb is really valuable to avoid buying or renting equipments. Hence, there are neither deployment nor appropriation costs nor practically no cost of ownership, which usually appear much higher than the mere cost of acquisition.

Issue 2: On-demand Business Model for Hardware needs

Furthermore, Hardweb is the most scalable platform ranging from nothing to unlimited power and huge storage capacity, delivered by smart bespoke configurations which could be adapted at anytime according to needs.

• The organizational points of view

Issue 3: Independence of subs

More over, with Hardweb and SaaS, branches and subsidiaries could make freely their own decisions when evaluating new systems. They even may adopt definitely the Webware model.

Issue 4: Purely métier approach

Choosing an application is done exclusively on the bases of functional requirements, with no technical consideration, because all the nodes of the whole hardware system are virtualized (users need only a browser).

• The Professional points of view

Issue 5: Zero-op' environment

Operating teams are no more needed… as users don't have to manage the operational issues!

Issue 6: New needs for system architecture and interoperability

Although Hardweb/SaaS stack is delivered by the ISPs, end-users remain in charge of the design of their global virtual IT system. Therefore, architects will have another key mission not only in the design of the distributed system but also in the forecast of needs.

• The technical points of view

Issue 7: Criticality of mash-ups

Interconnecting various applications of the Cloud implies a thorough control of API and mash-ups, which will become one of the major challenges for integrators.

Issue 8: Loosely-coupled system

When an enterprise chooses Hardweb, they may host on it either bespoke applications or other Software or data. However, their own Management Information System will continue to work. Moreover, for other needs they may use SaaS offers. Meshing securely these three types of system through loose coupling is a major challenge.

• The Sociological points of view

Issue 9: Web 2.0 habits

The Web 2.0 has changed users into actors. Hardweb n.0 is also addressing private and individual needs. Gridding PH (Personal Hardweb) will terrifically increase the innovation capabilities of technical and professional communities. As long as they belong to the Enterprises ecosystems, social networking may have huge benefits with the increasing use of Hardweb. It is already the case, for SaaS! Just consider only those of Facebook's API, which could be used semi-professionally: Some Facebook Groups are currently managing community Projects this way.

• The Legal points of view

Issue 10: Compliance issues

These issues depend on three layers:

- The physical Hardware layer

As the Hardware hosting the Hardweb is not operated by the users, the objectives of compliance depend mainly on the ISP's will to offer compliant shared space to their Clients.

- The Applications layer

- The Data layer

Future solutions allowing hierarchical approach, will include the notion of authoritative nodes. This should allow selecting certified nodes for applications and data which require certified hosts.

Issue 11: Cross frontier legislations

Cloud Computing environments can be natively nation less. Does it mean that their market could develop lawlessly? Of course, the only possible answer is NO… But the good question is: How to rule this new Wild Web World? Could international agreements and laws be strong enough to govern this potential monster?

Issue 12: How many divisions?

It's a question that a famous dictator — I've forgotten his name — used to ask when his devoted counselors were presenting a case about anyone his neighboring countries. In our century, computational power will play a more and more important role in the world. Today this power is in the hands of private owners: The ten major ISP. States organizations have lost the control of their growth. Will we have to wait until a major crisis before our rulers will start to try to reverse the situation?

======================= (Google Translation to French) =================

[… je renonce à la mettre : elle est incompréhensible …]

Internet is a ubiquitous media, developing its tentacles over any device, which presents the tiniest possibility to be automated. In particular it’s the case for “smart devices”. A close examination of our current household tools shows that practically all of them are already or will be “smart items”. Netting all these devices on a “Home Appliances Area Network” (HAAN) – i.e. a Web-based domestic network – leads to an uncompleted puzzle. However, the concept of “smart meter” should bring the missing pieces.

The scope of the “Ultimate Net” includes three areas: On one side is the “Home Side Web” (HSW), at the other the World Wide Web (www) and in between, what we should call the “Utility Smart Network” (USN). The last is the most critical for its purpose is to provide an on-demand Business Model for the consumers of water, electricity, gas, in the same way it already works for telephone and TV-on-demand. It’s why smart meters are definitely the most critical pieces of the final frame. There are various stakes, which could be summarized as following:

Stake 1: Promote a new and sustainable Business Model for Energy providers

The main advantage for a device to be “smart” is its ability to communicate in a two-way mode:

1 - It can fetch and transfer data to servers,

2 - In return, it could be remotely controlled by software.

These features allow utilities providers to work out a new Business Model which will allow to:

- Offer energy or water on-demand…

- Propose customized contracts based on pre-paid consumptions or services limited to predefined hours range or seasons, etc…

- Operate a Sell & Buy Business Model as more and more consumers do produce their own electricity with roof solar panels or a domestic wind propeller and may resell it to electricity providers…

- Predict and adjust production according to real-time metered consumption in order to optimize provisioning and avoid waste…

Another major stake is to comply to UE directives for the use of smart metering as a mean to support sustainability and reduce the Carbon Trace on a European interstate level.

To reach the complete objectives, which is the connection of all consumers in each country, the Information Systems of the Utilities Providers should have the capability to process millions and millions of connected smart meters. Massive Data Base Management System (MDBMS) will be necessary. However, such issues have been already solved by the Telco Industry. Solutions are not the same, but, similarities could be

Stake 2: Achieve a real “Home Side Web” on top of the HAAN and launch new Models for the professionals of the Habitat Business (real estate agents, landlords, property, lessors, etc.)

The old dream of “Domotics” can now become a reality, should it be called Domotics 2.0 or should we try to find a name more conform to new approaches, technologies and usages? I think that “Home Side Web” (HWS) is a very good choice as it reflects the acronym WWW to the private use of Internet. Today’s situation is a HWS limited to PCs, Mobile Phones, PDAs and TV, plus some entertainment device such as the WiiFit… However, sensors for home security and air-coolers are already connectable to any computer and could be managed through the Web.

Connecting the following home appliances on an area network is not a problem, providing the devices are “smart’’:

- Home appliances

- Heating monitoring

- On-demand entertainment

- Remote safety and emergency alerts

- Etc.

Clearly, the main issues are what services could be offered on top and based on what kind of Business Models? Freemium , subscription, commercial… models?

Another issue is the “Extended Home”.

The “Extended Home” is comparable to the “Extended Enterprise”. It includes all places, which is obviously an extension of the “home, sweet home”, would it be mobile or not, such as:

- The family’s cars and other terrestrial, nautical or aerial vehicles…

- The holidays shed or log cabin or house…

- All the landing places when a member of the family is traveling: a hotel room, a camping tent…

Of course, the appliances of the extended home must be part of the HSW!

Applications for the Habitat Business do exist and are efficient, ranging form 3D virtual visits to panoramic cams for real views of both inside the apartments and outside.

Stake 3: Build the ultimate gridding of the World Wide Web 3.0

Of course, the final state is leveraging this all new world to “Cloud Computing”. The third stake consists in gridding the three types of “Web Information Systems“ (WIS):

- The HSW

- The IT Systems of the Utilities Providers

- … and the computing centers of the WWW!

On one side, the HWS will continue to connect to Service Providers such as Security Agencies or Entertainment sites. On the other side, they have to connect to the Utilities Providers’ “Web Information Systems”.

Different architectural models exist. Their common point is the hierarchical netting, which could be summarized as following: The HAANs are the basic network components; they are grouped in a bAN (Building Area network) or in BAN (Block Area Network). The provider’s WIS connects first to the bBANs…

This post is not a Sci-Fi prospective! Large blocks of this infrastructure already exist.

Figure: The ultimate Web

(Google Translation to French)

Tissage de la toile ultime: Est-ce que "Home Side Web" est une nouvelle frontière pour le Web dans le monde entier?

Internet est un média omniprésent, le développement de ses tentacules sur tout dispositif, qui présente la moindre possibilité d'être automatisé. En particulier c'est le cas pour les «smart devices". Un examen attentif de nos outils de ménage montre que la quasi-totalité d'entre eux sont déjà ou seront "smart articles». Netting tous ces appareils sur une "Home Appliances Area Network" (HAAN) - c'est-à-dire une base de réseau domestique - conduit à un puzzle inachevé. Toutefois, la notion de «compteurs intelligents» devrait apporter les pièces manquantes.
Le champ d'application de la "Net Ultimate» comprend trois volets: D'un côté, le "Home Web Side" (HSW), à l'autre, le World Wide Web (www) et entre les deux, ce que nous appelons le «Smart Network Utility" (USN). La dernière est la plus critique de ses objectifs est de fournir sur demande un modèle d'affaires pour les consommateurs d'eau, d'électricité, de gaz, de la même façon, il travaille déjà pour le téléphone et la TV à la demande. C'est la raison pour laquelle les compteurs intelligents sont certainement les plus critiques des morceaux de l'image finale. Il ya plusieurs enjeux, qui peuvent être résumées comme suit:
Enjeu 1: Promouvoir un nouveau modèle d'affaires durable et de l'énergie des fournisseurs

Le principal avantage d'un dispositif pour être "smart" est sa capacité à communiquer dans les deux sens en mode:
Il peut allerà1 chercher et transférer des données vers les serveurs,
En retour, il peutà2 être contrôlé à distance par un logiciel.
Ces fonctions permettent aux fournisseurs de services publics au point un nouveau modèle d'affaires qui permettra de:
- L'offre d'énergie ou d'eau à la demande ...
- Proposer des contrats personnalisés basés sur le pré-payé la consommation ou des services limités aux heures prédéfinies gamme ou les saisons, etc ...
- Exploiter une Vends & Buy Business Model et de plus en plus de consommateurs produisent leur propre électricité avec des panneaux solaires de toit ou d'une éolienne domestique hélice et mai revendre aux fournisseurs d'électricité ...
- Prédire et d'ajuster en fonction de la production en temps réel de compteurs de consommation afin d'optimiser la fourniture et éviter le gaspillage ...
Un autre enjeu majeur est de se conformer aux directives de l'UE pour l'utilisation de compteurs intelligents en tant que moyen pour soutenir la durabilité et de réduire les traces de carbone sur un niveau inter-européen.
Pour atteindre l'objectif, qui est la connexion de tous les consommateurs de chaque pays, les systèmes d'information des fournisseurs de services devraient avoir la capacité de traiter des millions et des millions de compteurs intelligents connectés. Massive Data Base Management System (MDBMS) sera nécessaire. Toutefois, ces questions ont déjà été résolus par l'industrie Telco. Les solutions ne sont pas les mêmes, mais les similitudes peuvent être
Enjeu 2: Assurer une véritable "Home Side Web" en haut de la HAAN et lancer de nouveaux modèles pour les professionnels de l'Habitat d'affaires (agents immobiliers, les propriétaires, les biens, les bailleurs, etc)

Le vieux rêve de la "Domotique" peut maintenant devenir une réalité, devrait-il être appelé Domotique 2.0 ou devrions-nous essayer de trouver un nom plus conforme à de nouvelles approches, des technologies et des usages? Je pense que "Home Web Side" (HWS) est un très bon choix, car il reflète le sigle WWW à l'utilisation privée d'Internet. Aujourd'hui, la situation est un HWS limité aux PC, téléphones mobiles, assistants personnels et de la télévision, plus de divertissement tels que le dispositif de WiiFit ... Toutefois, les capteurs pour la sécurité et de refroidisseurs d'air sont déjà utilisées sur n'importe quel ordinateur et peut être géré par le Web .
Connexion de la suite de l'électroménager sur un réseau n'est pas un problème, en fournissant les appareils sont "intelligentes'':
- Home appliances
- Chauffage de surveillance
- À la demande
- Remote alertes de sécurité et d'urgence
- Etc
Manifestement, les principales questions sont ce que les services pourraient être proposés sur le dessus et sur la base de quels types de modèles d'affaires? Freemium, de souscription, les modèles commerciaux ...?
Une autre question est la "Extended Home".
Le «Extended Home" est comparable à la "Extended Enterprise". Il comprend tous les lieux, ce qui est de toute évidence une extension de la "home, sweet home", ne serait-il être mobile ou non, tels que:
- La famille de voitures et autres écosystèmes terrestres, marins ou de véhicules aériens ...
- Les jours fériés ou hangar en bois rond ou de la maison ...
- Tous les lieux de débarquement, lorsque les membres de la famille se déplace: une chambre d'hôtel, la tente de camping ...
Bien entendu, les appareils de la maison étendue doit être une partie de la HSW!
Applications pour l'habitat d'affaires existent et sont efficaces, à la forme 3D des visites virtuelles panoramiques à cames pour de vrai point de vue de l'intérieur de l'appartement et à l'extérieur.
Enjeu 3: Construire l'ultime maillage du World Wide Web 3.0

Bien sûr, l'état final est de levier de ce tout nouveau monde de "Cloud Computing". Le troisième enjeu consiste à maillage des trois types de "Web Information Systems" (SIO):
- La HSW
- Les systèmes informatiques des fournisseurs de services publics
- ... Et les centres de calcul sur le Web!
D'un côté, le HWS continuera de se connecter à des fournisseurs de services tels que les agences de sécurité ou de lieux de divertissement. De l'autre côté, ils doivent se connecter à des fournisseurs de services "Web Information Systems".
Différents modèles architecturaux existants. Leur point commun est la structure hiérarchique de compensation, qui peuvent être résumées comme suit: Le Haans de base sont les composants de réseau, elles sont regroupées au sein d'un BAN (Building Area Network) ou dans BAN (Block Area Network). Le fournisseur de WIS se connecte d'abord à la bBANs ...
Ce message n'est pas une science-fiction prospective! De gros blocs de cette infrastructure existe déjà.

Happy New Year 2009

... and Happy New Web!

If BEW means "Business everywhere", the answer is: YES!

If BEW means "Business Engineering Workbench", the answer is again "yes" because the Web is the best tool for benching Business engineering...

All events and steps described in our BIG Approach contain a semantic and a pragmatic dimension. Both are necessary for governing the Enterprise Business Model.

• The pragmatic dimension is linked to the user experience and knowledge of the human behavior in Business matters;
• The semantic dimension carries rules and answers to Business events detected the BI processes.

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The Business Intelligence Global Approach (BIG Approach)

 

The BIG Approach takes into account all information necessary to analyze the company's Business in terms of:

1. Business Performance

· Intrinsic performance

· Performance compared with competitors

2. Business Processes:

· Eventual BP re-engineering to improve efficiency

·New process needs to be defined, if necessary

3. Business Model, as it might be necessary to tune the enterprise Organization to better address new Business opportunities.

BIG Approach requests not only a close analysis of all Business events.,but also:

 

• The semantic understanding of Business sequences
• A pragmatic knowledge of Business rational ... or irrational

The BIG Approach takes into account all information necessary to analyze the company's Business in terms of:

1. Business Performance

· Intrinsic performance

· Performance compared with competitors

2. Business Processes:

· Eventual BP re-engineering to improve efficiency

·New process es to be defined, if necessary

3. Business Model, as it might be necessary to tune the enterprise Organization to better address new Business opportunities.

BIG Approach requests not only a close analysis of all Business events.,but also:

• The semantic understanding of Business sequences
• A pragmatic knowledge of Business rational ... or irrational

Business Intelligence is not only a process to investigate on actual results and Busniess Performance. It should be also an approach, which integrates all pieces of information useful to help improving the company's Business Model. These pieces are not restricted to the content of the IT System. It should cover the market trends, Human Intelligence and all subjects linkes to subjective approach.

The Instant Web is definitely one of the i-Web components.

Of course, the wellknown sites like

• MSN and  all other instant Messaging Systems
• Twitter
• Webcams sites
• Collaborative web tools
• Etc.

are examples of Instant Web.

But, the Instant i-Web to come will concern virtual reality or real virtuality...

Oui une partie du marché Web 2.0 a déjà pour champ de bataille les encyclopédie... Comme vous avez pu me lire, contribuer à KNOL est un vrai plaisir...

Mais que deviennent nos éditeurs classiques d' encyclopédies? j' ai eu l' heureuse surprise de trouver dans l' un des hypermarchés de mon secteur une clef USB 2 / 16 GO avec les 20 volumes de l' encyclopédie Larousse...

J' ai pu ainsi mettre à jour la version papier que j' avais acheté il y a 20 ans, alors de retour de Calgary... pour 25000 Francs... Il est vrai que j' avais du mal dans les conversions monétaires, je m' étais trompé d' un zéro... Avec cette nouvelle édition qui m' a coûté 1% de la précédente, aujourd'hui décorant ma bibliothèque, je ne suis pas du tout fâché!

Et voilà un bon Business Model de riposte de la part de Larousse!

Back to Geophysics! Here's the URL of my second article:

http://knol.google.com/k/jean-lw-lequeux/pangaea-gondwana-pangaea-ultima/3ks7ptqmau6cv/3#

My first impression of KNOL:

- A wonderful editor, compatible with office automation tool

- Gr8! No Anonymity!

- Preservation of ownership!

It' s here: http://knol.google.com/k/jean-lw-lequeux/geophysical-logging/3ks7ptqmau6cv/2#