Advisory Note
Blockchain Impact on the Financial Industry
The Financial industry is estimated to spend over US$1bn on Blockchain projects over the next two years. This report provides an overview of impact Blockchain is having within t...
Advisory Note
Emerging Technologies Fostering Digital Business Innovation:...
The energy and utilities sector will need to adapt to new industry trends of digitalization, decentralization, and the advent of a new type of consumer: the prosumer. Smart grids a...
Advisory Note
Blockchains and Cybersecurity: Augmenting Trust with Algori...
From trusted third parties to algorithmic consensus: new cybersecurity opportunities and challenges with blockchains. Blockchains can provide distributed and decentralised improvem...
Market Compass
Decentralized Identity: Blockchain ID & Self-Sovereign Ident...
The KuppingerCole Market Compass provides an overview of product or service offerings in a certain market segment. This Market Compass covers decentralized identity, specifically...
Advisory Note
The Disruptive Potential of Blockchains in IoT Security
Blockchains have the ability offer many solutions regarding the security concerns currently limiting the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). Blockchains, combined with other d...
Advisory Note
Blockchain and Risk
A blockchain is a data structure, originally used by bitcoin, that maintains a growing list of transaction records in a way that is extremely resistant to tampering. This technolog...
Executive View
Microsoft Azure Blockchain Services
Azure’s Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) operates both as Infrastructure-as-a-Service and a Platform-as-a-Service. With its large number of strategic partnerships and template librar...
Advisory Note
The Blockchain and Life Management Platforms
The core features of blockchains - decentralization and algorithmic consensus – can enable the creation of Life Management Platforms (LMPs) with better security and availability, a...
Advisory Note
The Impact of Blockchains on Business Process Management and...
Distributed and decentralised ledger technology with Smart Contracts and the Internet of Things (IoT) can enhance BPM (Business Process Management) and BPO (Business Process Optimi...
Advisory Note
Information Stewardship in the Age of Blockchain
Blockchain seems to be one of the most important basic technologies of emerging business models and countless entrepreneurial initiatives using it have been started in the recent p...
Advisory Note
Demystifying the Blockchain: What Makes a Blockchain Useful...
Blockchain technology – as the hype advertises – can be a value-adding solution for businesses and individuals. However, it is necessary to separate blockchain’s functionality from...
Advisory Note
The Future of Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrencies remain a speculative asset, but the launch of Facebook’s Libra could upset the status quo. There are many business opportunities which would stem from widespread a...
Executive View
1Kosmos BlockID
1Kosmos BlockID is one of the first commercial implementations of a blockchain-based identity solution that works for both consumers and employees. It is well-thought-out and imple...