I have had meetings with various vendors recently - where we are talking about mobile and tablet computing in banking, big data, cloud and the such like - and I am fed up with it. I am not fed up with the vendors, but of this bandwagon of hype around words that are just meaningless jargon. Five or 10 years ago, they were meaningful, when no one knew what they meant, but now everyone throws these buzzwords into their presentations and I think: "Shut up and show me something useful." Big data, cloud, mobile, social... it's like watching the news. The first time you hear that about a major issue, you go: "That's interesting." When that issue is aired over and over again, day in and day out, you eventually switch off and wait for something else that is interesting to come along. That is how many of us feel about vendors and their mobile, big data, cloud storage dialogue. What we really want to hear is something new. Tell me about the Internet of Things and wearable computing, and how that is going to change banking. That is a far more interesting dialogue. I am not hearing enough of that. That is future positioning.
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