Thought Leadership

Digital transformation (DX) starts and ends at the contact point of the customer. But the entire DX journey of the business is powered by data. In a recent ‘fireside chat’, GigaSpaces’ Sr. Director of Solutions Engineering Andrew Showstead and Intellyx president and analyst Jason Bloomberg, shared best practices about [...]

Let’s face it: modernization is getting long in the tooth. While modernization only became popular in the last decade or so, enterprises have been conducting legacy modernization and application modernization projects ever since the first RPG and COBOL apps were deployed. Naturally, no business wants to be left in [...]

This article provides key highlights from our ‘Introduction to DIH’ webinar series. For the complete information on the new DIH concept and architecture we invite you to register to watch the full webinar on-demand here. Data nowadays is taking center stage in the business world. Decision-makers have realized that [...]

There’s a reason why banks are the exemplary institutions at the forefront of any serious enterprise integration discussion -- and there’s a good reason why they’re held up as either success stories or cautionary tales. Forget the ROI calculations of adapting and adopting. With nearly every aspect of their [...]

This is a guest post by Jason English (@bluefug), Principal Analyst, Intellyx In business, waiting for change is no longer in style. Today’s enterprise has an endless fascination with achieving innovative new capabilities that will provide a competitive advantage -- as well as a short attention span when it [...]

Legacy platforms that run COBOL remain a mainstay across a large swath of private and governmental organizations, especially in the banking and insurance sectors. They should also continue to play a key role for many banks’ and insurance firms’ digital transformations. All told, over 80% of all in-person transactions [...]

This question will inevitably come up when an organization opts to make the leap to cloud environments: what will become of their investments in legacy data center infrastructure?  This concern is well warranted. Enterprises in traditional industries have often made significant investments in data centers and server equipment. In [...]

Achieving a customer-centric service within the financial sphere can be no easy feat; traditional banks are finding themselves competing with emerging digital banks, amongst many other pain points they are faced with in today’s modern world.  Recently, Gigaspaces had the opportunity to moderate a virtual panel for CDAO Financial Services. [...]

Guest post by Christian Villumsen, Senior Advisor at 2021.ai Fraud is a growing problem across many industries and banking is certainly no exception. Whether internal or external, all banking institutions should be aware of the potential risks as well as sources of fraud within their organizations. That being said, with [...]

The Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented, profound and lasting impact on the economy, rapidly accelerating the transition from brick and mortar to digital services, especially retail and eCommerce. Black Friday, originally known for its door-busting crowds rushing at big-box retailers, now has become a pay-by-click digital affair, with most [...]

Back in May, we hosted a live panel discussion “The Impact of Covid-19 on Technology Requirements & Investments” with our partners Magnus Poromaa, CEO of S04IT, Frédéric Warin, Enterprise Architect at Capgemini, and GigaSpaces’ Yoav Einav, VP Product, and Uri Zilberman, Partners & Alliances Director.  The main topic of discussion [...]

American Airlines’ mega-merger with US Airways created the largest airline company in the world. It also created an IT nightmare. The combined entity had to handle 92% higher passenger volumes, dozens of new airports, and tens of thousands of new crew members-- all of this while relying on mainframe [...]