About my Magma consulting activities

  Now that the year has started, it's a new dive in the day to day business, running from one client to another, shifting between priorities and deadlines. And what strikes me this year, besides the energy crisis (and the IT CIO costs cut paired to scarce resources), inflation, climate crisis, the Ukrainian war, it's the motivation to change the current status. Let me explain. Now that the majority of budgets has been granted, there is the recurrent pressure to 'do more, with less' (less people, less time to execute or to test, less money to get things done) and a need to address the legacy situation within IT departments. Tackling the legacy (being the old systems and solutions, already obsolete or nearly out of date) is not a walk in the park. You need to get an accurate inventory of what you have in prod (back office, front office solutions, hardware, storage, security solutions, development frameworks, security solutions, language used to code...or even your project

Time to move on, to pause and to reflect on what has been achieved during 2022. In a nutshell, we made this year a subtle mix of management consulting projects (heart of Brussels, regional administration), a second-level of Open Group certification in Enterprise Architecture and, during the last part of the year, we designed a specific approach for managing what is called technical debt . The concept of technical debt is broadly detailed online, but concretely, it addresses all the legacy, the old code, the old technologies a client might have in his IT ecosystem and that need to be updated to new IT norms (code language, software versions, security levels etc.) A quite funny journey 😅 On our recruitment side, Magma filled every client request with a new candidate and quite great profiles were recruited. Congrats to our partner Delphine that made that amazing job! And, last and certainly not least, we hired 2 people for Blue Soft Belgium, bringing the team to 4. And this is a first y

It has been a while since the launch of Blue Soft in Belgium (yes, we started in April!! Nearly six months already 😨😨😨 and yes (thanks for asking!), the business is doing good. We had this new venture started, but we also boosted our Magma head hunting pillar that was literally exploding during the Spring and the Summer. Several profiles we identified for our clients, in the automotive and industry sectors, offering new positions and new career changes to our candidates! Congrats to all of them and good luck with your new endeavors!! And as from end of August, we will continue to work within the Public Sector, through our NTT Belgium collaboration. A lot of fun (and heavy work) yet to come...

  It has been now a public secret: I'm starting a new venture with Blue Soft Group, a French IT provider, mainly active in France and Switzerland. This will be the opportunity to create synergies and develop projects on application development, professional services sourcing and any innovative joint projects (proof of concepts on IoT or Cloud technologies) that could be a technological answer to a concrete business need (yes, I like the concrete side of business: what's the problem and how can we solve the issue?).  Any information about Blue Soft Belux can be found on our Linkedin Company page (and follow us if you want to stay updated on the job offers :). Everything right here.

Is there something really new happening on the Internet space? I mean something else than cloud computing, refactoring old (crappy) code, revamping Amazon's web shop....and is the Internet of today a GAFA private money club, where the users have to pay for quality content, adds free music, first hand conversations, without the trolls, the haters, the product advertisements?  Well, it seems that some scientists are preparing another possible future for a network that should belong to anyone, without any closed systems, any 'owner' of infrastructure nor specific protocols (yes, in a way, we all have been 'vendor locked' in our private life). We all heard about the Facebook name change, the construction of a Meta Universe (let's hope we will improve the virtual copy)...but have you heard about DFINITY? Does the Internet Computer ring a bell? If not, I strongly recommend to have a look at this Swiss foundation and the work of Dominic Williams. Understanding the comp

 If you're a Sillicon Valley sitcom fan as I'm, you know that Big Tech has no other ambition than making the world a better place , which is one of the most misused, fake, hypocritical statement that Tech leaders do. And yet. There are, sometimes, real innovative ideas, potential breakthrough that could save people, improve health...and transform our planet for the better. In this post, I would like to promote the work of some colleagues, working on the  NTT's Medical and Health Vision toward the Creation of a  Bio-digital Twin. This attempt to duplicate your body, simulated through computing power, needs to perform researches for  acquiring and analyzing  biological information and enabling treatment in the body, namely, elemental  technologies concerning bio-digital twins. * Data-driven Medical and Health Support Created Using Bio-digital Twin * Efforts in Analyzing Risks and Factors Concerning Lifestyle-related Diseases and Long-term Care * Behavior-change Support T