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BMW i3 Vorfreude
Vorfreude is German for anticipation. The BMW i3, their new new electric car will be announced this month.
InBloom is hoping that when you combine the best games, tablets, flat screen TVs and schools that real 1:1 education becomes a reality? Kinda maybe the game changer we need to make
InBloom made quite an impression at SXSWedu 2013.
BMW will launch a new Genius Everywhere program, an Apple-like Genius Bar in time for the launch of their i3 electric vehicle which is expected in 2014. Clearly BMW sees Apple’s massive success in retail as a proven solution to support the launch of a new series of electric cars in North America. BMW will also rely upon Apple mobile technologies to arm their sales staff.
The Genius BMW Genius Everywhere program announced in AdvertisingAge will have pre-sale employees armed with iPads helping educate potential customs about this new electric line. The major difference as this point is Apple’s Genius Bar is for post sales while BMW will focus on education and pre sales. This is not the first time BMW has adopted Apple products, design and user experiences. BMW and Apple collaborated to bring iPod support to BMWs early in the car controls your digital device world and today they are also working to integrating Siri technology into more BMW models.
As the crowded cloud space continues to rapidly change today’s business landscape an emerging service is finally just arriving: Data Warehouse as a Service or WaaS, is joining SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and the still late-in-arriving SuperComputer as a Service or SCaaS.
Is it remarkable to see this type of new service that offers data warehousing as a service? This big data service can be consumed rapidly across companies and still keep the hardware layer in the background. While Amazon’s RedShift (still in limited preview) will capture a lot of attention, BitYota is just coming out of private funding. BitYota is moving their solution around SaaS:
Clearly we are moving into a dynamic change in network enhanced services for a new cloud empowered internet. BitYota’s initial focus is mobile, advertising and educational applications.