Tecnología | ALVANTIA

GDPR: What is it and how does it affect us?

According to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data is a fundamental right. However, rapid technological change and globalisation have posed new challenges in this area. The scale of the collection and exchange of personal data has increased significantly, and technology now enables both private companies and public authorities to use personal data on an unprecedented scale in carrying on their activities. At the same time, awareness of personal information is growing, and there is clearly a growing concern for security, privacy and the protection of personal data.

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10/08/2018

E-invoicing: distinctive features and benefits

For some years now, commercial transactions have been moving towards the digital world. However, we still maintain processes that reduce the agility and competitiveness of companies and entail an additional cost for them. One of them is physical or manual billing, which is still used in many organisations in our country.
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14/06/2018

Women in IT: initiatives to awaken vocations

It is paradoxical that given that the majority of university students in Spain who obtain better results than their peers are women (54%), it is in the ‘scientific or technical field’ where there is a less significant presence of women. This is reflected in current statistics on the presence of women in Sciences, since in the field of Engineering they account for less than a quarter of the total number of students and only 12% in some technical degrees. In light of these data, we should ask ourselves why girls and female adolescents do not choose a technological or science degree.

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07/06/2018

Speeding up development with Spring Boot

Spring Boot has made a significant impact in J2EE application development using the Spring Framework: this tool aids the developer with the implementation of a project using starters, which can be loaded in order to start using Spring’s basic features for that specific purpose.

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09/05/2018

The Internet of Things, an unstoppable revolution?

The Internet of Things (IoT) will bring about such significant changes in our lives that it is often referred to as “the Second Industrial Revolution”. But what do we mean by the Internet of Things? This technology consists of connecting a large number of ordinary objects, which are traditionally disconnected, to the internet.

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26/04/2018

Fintechs: an introduction and analysis

What are Fintechs and how do they affect the consumers of financial products and services? Although the term has become popular in recent years, it originated two decades ago, when new Internet-based payment systems started to emerge. For example, Paypal, founded in 1998, has been considered as one of the first Fintechs.

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06/04/2018

Changing e-commerce with Bitcoin

‘The money of the future’, ‘the currency in fashion’… In a constant fight to change e-commerce, this concept has many peculiarities and has been given just as many names. How can this currency achieve it? In this post, we will analize the “Bitcoin revolution” and why this ‘cryptocurrency’ is in the public eye.

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21/02/2018

Digital Banking – Neo Banks, ChallengerBanks & BaaS

The exponential growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is revolutionising the world around us. This phenomenon has of course not been lost on the financial sector.

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18/01/2018

Big Data & Machine Learning

The current world is defined both by the enormous amount of data that we have and by the high rate at which we continuously generate new data. In fact, 90% of all data available today has been generated only in the last two years.

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08/11/2017