Outlining a business model for Webhosting in Africa. Presentation by Fredy Kuenzler, Init7 at AIS 13 (Africa Internet Summit) / AFRINIC 18 in Lusaka, Zambia. June 19, 2013.
Transportation & Mobility - Company Presentation by Jochen Engert, Founder & MD of FlixBus at the Axel Springer NOAH Conference 2018 in Berlin, Tempodrom 6-7 June 2018.
Healthcare, Science & Education - Fireside Chat with Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer, CEO of eGym and Walter Masalin, Partner at NGP Capital at the Axel Springer NOAH Conference 2018 in Berlin, Tempodrom 6-7 June 2018.
Healthcare, Science & Education - Company Presentation by Stanislas Niox-Chateau, CEO of Doctolib at the Axel Springer NOAH Conference 2018 in Berlin, Tempodrom 6-7 June 2018.
Transportation & Mobility - Company Presentation by Jochen Engert, Founder & MD of FlixBus at the Axel Springer NOAH Conference 2018 in Berlin, Tempodrom 6-7 June 2018.
Healthcare, Science & Education - Fireside Chat with Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer, CEO of eGym and Walter Masalin, Partner at NGP Capital at the Axel Springer NOAH Conference 2018 in Berlin, Tempodrom 6-7 June 2018.
Healthcare, Science & Education - Company Presentation by Stanislas Niox-Chateau, CEO of Doctolib at the Axel Springer NOAH Conference 2018 in Berlin, Tempodrom 6-7 June 2018.
RSS Feeds und Blogs aus Sicht des Suchmaschinenmarketingsflyingpotato
Ein Blog kann einen signifikanten Einfluss auf ihre Rankings haben. Ziel dieses Vortrags:
- Einrichtung eines Blogs, do's and dont's
- „suchmaschinen-gerechtes“ Schreiben
- RSS Integration in Websites
FTTX conferece Berlin December 2010 - Slides by Emanuel Kleindienst (5th Inte...flyingpotato
Service provider view: Swiss FTTx landscape, planning and schedules, disastrous situation
* Who is who in the Swiss FTTx-Market, planning, schedules and many different business plans / cases
* Building fibre in cities and towns, no coordination, no standardised planning, to many services from to many providers for just one customer = CHAOS!
* Possible solutions, ways of coordination, open discussion with the forum
Emanuel Kleindienst
CEO
Init Seven AG, Switzerland
2013 09-30 defining the postal market of the future - the postal market spide...Dirk Palder
The future of posts: Postal Services 3.0
It is time to summarise the high level results of our second global postal innovation study (for more refer to www.capgemini-postalservices.com/insights-resources/studies/. So let us draw some conclusions on the future of posts after Facebook, Google+ or Twitter – Postal Services 3.0. Let us redefine the future of postal services by combining the past, the brand value and the future digital capabilities of the postal service providers, or even better, the 5-E transformation model to design the digitally enabled postal service platform. The vision of the future can be defined by understanding the present day operators in the postal markets. To arrive at this vision, we have to demystify the elusive image that a postal brand has today where its customers give varied answers when asked as to where does the business of the postal service seems to be at present. We, at Capgemini Consulting, have developed our “Postal Market Spider Net”, which presents five key market segments defining the postal industry. These are the key elements for creating a future vision because the actual brand recognition is quite close in several countries. Another reason being that if we asked the consumers and customers and gave them an example of postal services existing in the market, the consumers and the customers would easily agree upon, respect and accept the logic behind postal operators’ efforts on the expansion of their value chain.
This document brings together a set
of latest data points and publicly
available information relevant for
Manufacturing Industry. We are very
excited to share this content and
believe that readers will benefit from
this periodic publication immensely
Services as one of my 2015-2016 lectures at the University of Bergamo.Roberto Peretta
Services as one of my 2015-2016 lectures at the University of Bergamo. It's stimulus material, posted to improve communication with current students. It's not interesting for the academia.
Tonny Bosch presented on Planning and Design; Sketch of Future Developments at the City of [Bike] for City Seminar held in Istanbul, Turkey, on December 11, 2013. The Seminar was held as part of EMBARQ Turkey's BikeLab project. Bosch's presentation was given during Session 2 of the Seminar, "Planing and Design of Urban Bike Roads."
This presentation provides a selection of no name case studies to showcase how OpenText B2B solutions are used by companies across different industry sectors. Updated May 2014
Most of the city roads, motorways and highways across the globe are creaking under the pressure of teh increases in road vehicles leading to fuel wastages, higher rish in accidents and increase in carbon emission. Efficicent Toll Collect solutions should offer an easy way to collect road user charges, reducing the cost of transaction processing, decreasing the errors, frauds while maximising the revenues.
FinTech Forum DACH is the first event focused on Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with the mission to identify innovators and disruptors in the Financial Services sector and bring them together with high-calibre investors.
Sap Billing for Public Transport & Passenger RailSAP
Various estimates put global investment in smart transportaion systems nearly to $15B from 2011 through 2017. Smart ticketing is a subset of this market. Railway carriers face high operating costs for siloed homegrown systems. Learn more about how to streamline your smart ticketing system.
Two PeopleSoft clients and their journey to The CloudDuncan Davies
At the UKOUG Apps 2013 conference I gave a presentation on two of Succeed's clients and moving their PeopleSoft systems from on-premises hardware to the cloud, the costs savings made and the agility gained.
RSS Feeds und Blogs aus Sicht des Suchmaschinenmarketingsflyingpotato
Ein Blog kann einen signifikanten Einfluss auf ihre Rankings haben. Ziel dieses Vortrags:
- Einrichtung eines Blogs, do's and dont's
- „suchmaschinen-gerechtes“ Schreiben
- RSS Integration in Websites
FTTX conferece Berlin December 2010 - Slides by Emanuel Kleindienst (5th Inte...flyingpotato
Service provider view: Swiss FTTx landscape, planning and schedules, disastrous situation
* Who is who in the Swiss FTTx-Market, planning, schedules and many different business plans / cases
* Building fibre in cities and towns, no coordination, no standardised planning, to many services from to many providers for just one customer = CHAOS!
* Possible solutions, ways of coordination, open discussion with the forum
Emanuel Kleindienst
CEO
Init Seven AG, Switzerland
2013 09-30 defining the postal market of the future - the postal market spide...Dirk Palder
The future of posts: Postal Services 3.0
It is time to summarise the high level results of our second global postal innovation study (for more refer to www.capgemini-postalservices.com/insights-resources/studies/. So let us draw some conclusions on the future of posts after Facebook, Google+ or Twitter – Postal Services 3.0. Let us redefine the future of postal services by combining the past, the brand value and the future digital capabilities of the postal service providers, or even better, the 5-E transformation model to design the digitally enabled postal service platform. The vision of the future can be defined by understanding the present day operators in the postal markets. To arrive at this vision, we have to demystify the elusive image that a postal brand has today where its customers give varied answers when asked as to where does the business of the postal service seems to be at present. We, at Capgemini Consulting, have developed our “Postal Market Spider Net”, which presents five key market segments defining the postal industry. These are the key elements for creating a future vision because the actual brand recognition is quite close in several countries. Another reason being that if we asked the consumers and customers and gave them an example of postal services existing in the market, the consumers and the customers would easily agree upon, respect and accept the logic behind postal operators’ efforts on the expansion of their value chain.
This document brings together a set
of latest data points and publicly
available information relevant for
Manufacturing Industry. We are very
excited to share this content and
believe that readers will benefit from
this periodic publication immensely
Services as one of my 2015-2016 lectures at the University of Bergamo.Roberto Peretta
Services as one of my 2015-2016 lectures at the University of Bergamo. It's stimulus material, posted to improve communication with current students. It's not interesting for the academia.
Tonny Bosch presented on Planning and Design; Sketch of Future Developments at the City of [Bike] for City Seminar held in Istanbul, Turkey, on December 11, 2013. The Seminar was held as part of EMBARQ Turkey's BikeLab project. Bosch's presentation was given during Session 2 of the Seminar, "Planing and Design of Urban Bike Roads."
This presentation provides a selection of no name case studies to showcase how OpenText B2B solutions are used by companies across different industry sectors. Updated May 2014
Most of the city roads, motorways and highways across the globe are creaking under the pressure of teh increases in road vehicles leading to fuel wastages, higher rish in accidents and increase in carbon emission. Efficicent Toll Collect solutions should offer an easy way to collect road user charges, reducing the cost of transaction processing, decreasing the errors, frauds while maximising the revenues.
FinTech Forum DACH is the first event focused on Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with the mission to identify innovators and disruptors in the Financial Services sector and bring them together with high-calibre investors.
Sap Billing for Public Transport & Passenger RailSAP
Various estimates put global investment in smart transportaion systems nearly to $15B from 2011 through 2017. Smart ticketing is a subset of this market. Railway carriers face high operating costs for siloed homegrown systems. Learn more about how to streamline your smart ticketing system.
Two PeopleSoft clients and their journey to The CloudDuncan Davies
At the UKOUG Apps 2013 conference I gave a presentation on two of Succeed's clients and moving their PeopleSoft systems from on-premises hardware to the cloud, the costs savings made and the agility gained.
SAP Billing for Public Transport & Passenger RailIsabelle Roussin
Various estimates put global investment in smart transporttaion systems nearly to $15B from 2011 through 2017. Smart ticketing is a subset if this market. Railway carriers face high operating costs for siloed homegrown systems. Managing vouchers are still manual most oif the time, apportionment of a trip to 3rd party infrastructure carriers are cumbersome, and introduicng new subscription packages, promotions take too long. Learn how to streamline your smart ticketing system.
Startup Stage - Automotive & Transportation - Presentation by Sven Lackinger, Co-Founder & MD of Evopark at the NOAH Conference Berlin 2017, Tempodrom on the 22nd of June 2017.
Financial Services: The next Mobile challengeAlan Quayle
Financial Services: The next Mobile challenge
Presented at TADSummit Lisbon, 18th November 2015
Daniel Sendin
COO
NAKA Mobile
MVNOs showed the industry that new services and revenue streams could be possible. Convergence of services is a reality that operators are bringing to the market. Naka developed a convergence platform of Mobile services and now also Financial Services. The noi [BOX] service allows a customer to benefit of having multiple mobile identities with Remittance and peer2peer digital cash transactions.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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DISCLAIMER
These slides show experience examples of the Init7 / AS13030
backbone over various years. They may work or may not work for
you. Please use the methods described with care and at your own
risk. Init7 or the author cannot be held responsible for any damage
occurred by using the methods described here.
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Full control over the quality of IP Transit Services
Autonomy from suppliers
Init7 operates an international n*10Gbit IP backbone with AS
number 13030 (autonomous system)
The AS13030 is located at around 20 Internet exchange points,
where nearly 1000 further networks are so-called peering
partners
This means that direct interconnections exist with all these other
networks, enabling direct contact with approx. 60% of the global
routing table
As a result, we can secure optimal connectivity, latency, capacity
and availability
The remaining approx 40% of the targets are connected via
globally distributed upstreams
Advantages
Init7 operates its own backbone with the AS
number 13030
Facts
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Webhosting business:
some general remarks 1/3
Very competitive market in Europe, webhosting
packets (www.domain.com) go for a few €/$ per
month only, with good self service administration
tools such as CPanel, Plesk etc.
Low market entrance hurdle: anyone with decent
Linux knowledge can start a webhosting business
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Webhosting business:
some general remarks 2/3
Mass business: it scales only with several 1000
customers – operating only a few hundred
accounts means cash loss
Once the critical customer mass has been reached,
it pays off very well. Revenue scales much better
than cost. From a certain breakeven-point (i.e.
3000 accounts) earnings scale very well.
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How the #1 webhoster hostpoint.ch in
Switzerland started 12 years ago... 1/2
three friends were lamenting during an premier
league ice hockey game about the poor
(commercial) webhosting services of current
market participants and were sharing ideas how to
do it better...
from their website (about us):
“All good things are simple: – like love, good food and
the business idea with which Hostpoint entered the market
in 2001: Web hosting for everyone! Today with its 30
members of staff, the company based in Rapperswil-Jona,
which went public in 2005, hosts 165,000 websites and
190,000 domains.”
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How the #1 webhoster hostpoint.ch in
Switzerland started 12 years ago... 2/2
They did it better! Otherwise they never would
have become #1 in the .ch market...
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The Challenge
New market entrants should consider: (1/2)
Competition is global! Why should an African small
business customer run its website with a local
supplier and pay a premium?
They can easily host with one of the
(European/American) big players for cheap!
(means only a few € or $ per month)
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The Challenge
New market entrants should consider: (2/2)
Face facts: A small or medium business customer in
Africa with a simple website has absolutely no
advantage to host in Africa (which would keep
content local) and pay a premium. To be
competitive, an African webhoster has to provide
equal or better support
equal or better performance
similar pricing
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The Opportunity
Equal or Better Support!
Invoice in local currency / local payment (it's often
difficult to make international payments from
Africa), support Mobile Money Payment
Support your
(local) customer
in his language:
Arab, Swahili,
Nyanja, Kx'a...
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The Opportunity
Equal or Better Performance
While webhosting in Europa has 100-200ms
latency due to it's geographic distance, local
servers can serve local users much faster and
tentatively also less congested... better
performance should be achieved easily.
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The Opportunity
Equal or Better Price 1/3
Big advantage in Europe vs. Africa: IP connectivity
is way cheaper (are we still on factor 100?) - in
Europe per mbps and month ~1€
For European Webhosters the IP traffic doesn't
count into the cost calculation of the business
(hardware, labour, power, cooling, colocation etc.)
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The Opportunity
Equal or Better Price 2/3
Bandwidth must become cheaper to enable
webhosting business in Africa. Carriers / ISPs
should think of special transit service for local
hosting providers and content.
Example: A hosting provider should pay only his
inbound traffic, and outbound would be for free
(his ISP has plenty of empty outbound capacity)
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The Opportunity
Equal or Better Price 3/3
A typical webhosting bandwidth ratio is 1:5 or 1:6
in favor of outbound:
(Note that in/out in the graph below is swapped from the webhosting providers viewpoint)
If a webhosting provider in Africa would have to
pay only the 'blue' traffic, the business case would
look much better.
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All the strategies, models, concepts, ideas, calculations and conclusions incorporated
into this documentation are the exclusive intellectual property (sources are referenced)
of Init7 and are protected under copyright. They have been turned over to the client
exclusively for his own use for an unspecified period. All information included in them is
to be kept confidential and is intended for the client’s eyes only. The client is not
permitted to change this documentation, make it public outside his own company or
disseminate it in any way. This rule may only be amended or revoked with the express
written consent of Init7. Verbal agreements shall not be deemed valid.
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