Some great examples of transparent technology when you don't notice it ... making technology work for you!

• SAP ERP
• SEEK Job Board
• Gumtree Online Community Noticeboard
• ESPN CricInfo
• eBay Online Marketplace
• Google Search
• Facebook Social Networking
• Apple iPhone
•  ... and let's not forget about Microsoft! ...
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft SharePoint (when implemented correctly!)
• Microsoft Dynamics AX
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM
• Microsoft Partners In Learning

The end result – a complete & seamless merging of Physical and Virtual worlds!

• Convergence of physical and virtual worlds NOT collision!
• Ticket to Ride and Carcassonne running on iPad
• Still a physical board game but seamless integration to a virtual environment
• Magic the Gathering (a fantastic game)
• Use mobile browsers to look up card prices
• A simple one; being able to get Sports statistics and news (any device) from the Internet whilst still watching it on TV
• So there’s no discord.

Now these technologies are good in terms of a technology platform there is however a bit of dischord in their business which is noticeable: 

• Uber
• Share code with traditional taxis companies
• Share code with the regulator (why be seen to be writing your own laws)
• Air BnB
• Share code with traditional hotel & motel operators
• Share code with brick and mortar property investors
• Share code with the regulator

You may be successful in the long run but you are making it much harder for yourself … it is not efficient

So on this point there’s a smarter way to go then directly conflicting with the traditional industries, their partners and the regulator!

List of [Personal] Equipment you'll need for Productivity Software ...

List:

Item	Value	Notes
Portable USB Hard Drive	$60	1TB is sufficient - store your Courseware, Virtual Machines etc …
USB Flash Drive	$10	This needs to be big enough to hold all the documents you are working on (not just one document) try for 64 GB+ [as of mid 2021]
Official MOC Courseware and Books	~	Purchase a necessary licenses of copyright materials
Smart Phone	$400	Doesn't have to be the latest model but needs to be able to run Mobile Apps to connect to O365 etc …
Smart Watch	$80	An extra screen to tell the time!
Laptop or Desktop	~	For off-site use - needs to be at least an acceptale specification
High Speed Internet	$100 per month	Co-working Spaces usually have very good connections - often faster than ADSL2+, NBN etc …

Corresponding AX Classification:

Expanding the footprint of your business!

If you have got that valuable toe-in to a customer-site - favour Horizontal and probably more synergous integration over Vertical!

That is that main advantage of this is you have the equipment & training and are therefore capable of doing the job!

Hailing a taxi from a taxi stand or taxi hub …

• More secure (for both driver and passenger)
• More guarantees around timings
• Taxi is probably already waiting there
• So avoid ‘last mile’ costs

Working from home => working from hubs!

• 80% of the functionality at 20% of the cost
• Working from home -> working from a hub
• Residential zoning is not light Industrial!
• Temperature control
• Electricity – plug in all these devices and knock out your appliances!
• Adverse effects on liquidity of the Property

Centralise telecommunications networks …

• Not fibre to the home - but fibre to the hub! – Reduced costs for the NBN!
• We don’t want high mobile and data reception everywhere! Only high data & reception in certain designated hubs!

Australia Post Innovations

 Last Mile Costs in Delivering Mail

• Get rid of the postie and high last mile costs (everyone has a centralised mail box in a hub rather than a post box)
• 80% of the cost is the Postie

Post Office over Internet Protocol

• Upload Digital format to Australia Post Website - this includes letters and greeting cards and Print Out at Last Mile to save on 80% of the transportation costs
• You could also choose from a selection of greeting cards online
• Very cost-effective for businesses

Public Cloud and Artificial Intelligence

Now THIS is as an example of the Public Cloud in action!

Is your smart phone or laptop going to become sentient? Highly unlikely -
but a Global Data Center?? Possibly!

The future of gaming has said to be Internet connected - multi-player, hence all Single Player games probably need to start looking that way including one of my favourites Civilization!

And whilst you could play against bots why pay for CPU cycles if you can arrange to play against other human players.

One only needs to look at the way even mechanisms are taken away by games to make it more challenging for the human player - to know that the AI running on your local PC or locally on your phone isn't that good!

Have you tried https://cloud.google.com/products/ai/

Great [Microsoft] Courseware:

Pros:

• Fantastic Global Intellectual property, Microsoft is a mega-corporation with lots & lots of resources
• Some very good content
• Training can carry you if you do not have sufficient experience, previous qualifications etc ... 

Cons:

• Very proprietary - so typical vendor lock-in
• Goes deep into very specific information 
• Trick questions
• Questions are often more about the way they are worded than SharePoint content
• Lots of ambiguity which may be deliberate

Even so still a bonus if you can pass the exam!

If you considering studying the SharePoint Exams 70-331 & 70-332 make sure you spend plenty of time with fast Internet access!

And I'm not sure why Microsoft doesn't make this fantastic Marketplace easier to find!

https://shop.courseware-marketplace.com/en-GB/Account/Logon?ReturnUrl=%2fen-GB%2fHome