News What is an agile company?
Agility has been the subject of numerous theories, publications and conferences for several years. The concept was historically created during a gathering of software development experts in 2001. They explain the ins and outs of what we know as « agile » through a founding document called the “agile manifesto“, which encompasses 4 values and 12 principles. At the time, it was mainly a solution proposed by developers to manufacture a software in the most efficient way while guaranteeing its adequacy with the needs of the customer. 17 years later, things have changed, and the agile manifesto provides only part of the answers to bring out a new product or service with what specialists call a good time-to-market and a good product market fit in the digital age.
News Containers: focus on a technology that revolutionizes infrastructure
In a digitized environment, challenges such as fault tolerance, scalability and maintainability are becoming increasingly important.
Containers, combined with design patterns, especially micro service architecture, are revolutionizing the way IT systems are designed to better meet the needs of the new digital era.
Tribune Is Blockchain really an energy chasm?
Regarding the blockchain technology, observers are endlessly debating many points which are, for the most part, totally false or at least only a very small side issue. And if there is one subject that has been debated for many months, it is for sure the energy-consuming aspect of blockchain. Thus, many experts argue about the misdeeds of blockchain on the environment, assuming that it is a real energy calamity for our planet. But then, who is really right in this battle between pro and anti blockchain on its energy consumption? Is there only one truth?
News Kaggle Challenge: TalkingData AdTracking Fraud Detection
TalkingData, China’s largest independent big data service platform, covers over 70% of active mobile devices nationwide. Their current approach to prevent click fraud for app developers is to measure the journey of a user’s click across their portfolio, and flag IP addresses who produce lots of clicks, but never end up installing apps. While successful, they want to always be one step ahead of fraudsters and have turned to the Kaggle community for help in further developing their solution.
News Sparkube: when OLAP becomes child's play
You finally have your favourite notebook, your Spark cluster is well configured and powerful, and your HDFS contains everything you need in data. And yet, do you know that you can boost the added value of your data, thanks to the power of OLAP? At the Devoxx France 2018 conference, Antoine Chambille, R & D Director at Activeviam , came to present the Sparkube project that has just been launched.
News Digital Women Day #ForABetterWorld
On Tuesday, April 17th 2018, the Margo HR team attended the French Digital Women Day (Journée de la Femme Digitale), thought up by Delphine Remy-Boutang. It was a great opportunity to meet inspiring, bold, innovative and creative women. On the agenda: CEOs, Senior Officials, intra and entrepreneurs, Heads of Communication, General Managers, Secretaries of State. Many profiles with various careers and one common goal: innovation for all and by all.
News Tunisia Digital Summit 2018: key points
Last week, Margo was invited to participate in the Tunisia Digital Summit 2018. This is the second year of this major North African event, held in the centre of Tunis, at the recently re-furbished Laico Hotel. Two days of talks were held on the topics of digital transformation, artificial intelligence, social media and blockchain. Over 40 Tunisians and international speakers attended, as did around twenty local start-ups to show their solutions and provide a specific focus on the major disruptions that digital is causing for companies. Here are some notes on the main topics to draw our attention at this two-day event.
Press release Margo reveals its new strategic and brand positioning
Paris, February 12, 2018 - Margo, a French Consulting company created in 2005 and historically specialized in IT and in the Financial Markets, changes its business model in order to accompany new industries in their transformation plans. This is also the opportunity for Margo to reveal its new original brand identity, using a customizable logo.