"Sharing My Occasional Musings — This Certainly Fascinated Me!"

Smart SaaS https://www.cioreviewindia.com/magazines/saas-startups-special-august-2017/ SaaS has come a long way and has truly become the first port of call for meeting the compute, business solution needs for startups and SMEs. The evolution has been strong and it has now proven itself against the naysayers who earlier cried foul over security, privacy, availability and reliability concerns. The truth now is that SaaS is pushing the tech envelope and adopting the cloud, cyber security and technology platform trends. SaaS solution vendors are providing ever increasing business confidence with tiered Service Level Agreements, Data protection commitments and standards compliant Information Security protection practices. With AI and Automation, RPA (robotic process automation) and bots, the next stage of evolution is upon us and it is an exciting time. Gone are the days where system did only what they were told, now machine learning capabilities that are aligned with a...

Its become trendy to speak transformation, and it is getting more and more rampant. It has been so for a while now that we notice everyone prefixing pretty much everything with the term Digital as a mandatory condition.  So what is this all about anyway?    Is it a band wagon that you must get on without questioning? With the rapid changes in technology, and greater consumerization of technology, businesses have found themselves being left behind the customers and the digital transformation effort help the organization adapt the latest in technology faster.  The primary reason is to stay innovative, retain customers and serve the business and customer needs with efficiency.  Here is where it gets interesting, if it is treated as an initiative or a project, then it has a beginning and an end.  But fact is, it has to be on going.  Because the moment you stop, the world has moved on again and you are at risk of sliding into legacy. ...

I look at my day gone past.  The early morning walk to the bus stop with the kids is a lovely experience.  It used to bother me but now I realized I am not whining much while walking. We carefully pick our way for this 40-meter trudge, avoiding the dirt, and expertly walking over uneven sand, dirt, stones and part paved roads.   This is when alarm bells begin to ring, it’s the state highway,  we are in the city’s central district area, yet why isn’t the road better, the pavements walk-able, the garbage not cleared. Imagine the rest of the state. We have learned to accept that this is the norm, we have been conditioned to think bad roads and dirt and garbage on the street sides and undisciplined driving and behavior is part of our culture almost.  NO, NO its not, as citizens we are being dumb and stupid. Is this what we deserve?  Is this what we pay for? Are we getting value? Are the Government officers, Public works departments doing their jo...

Sam Sung Note 8 I came across this fantastic joke - >  Once upon a time, in the magical fantasy kingdom, there lived a young monk named Sam. (https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/6nb0uo/once_upon_a_time_in_the_magical_fantasy_kingdom/)  His order was renowned for their beautiful choral singing. They trained, hours every day, refining their voices and their art. Their song floated down the mountainside, enriching the lives and souls of the townspeople below. Sam was particularly gifted, and on his 19th birthday, in mid-song, he hit upon a beautifully intricate note of pure magic. Everyone within miles just froze in mid action, stirred to the very core of their souls by the pure bliss of the tone. And all the realm realized, instantly, that it was Sam, and Sam was the first person in history to hit one of the rumored Magical Notes that musicians had theorized must exist... yet no one before Sam had ever reached one. And on Sam's 20th birthday, it happened a...