Vendor lock-in: the invisible brake on innovation
maandag 1 juni 2026, Xavier D.
Open APIs, cloud-native architectures, AI integrations, extensible platforms, and extensive ecosystems are meant to convince companies that they are ready for the future. Yet, after a few years, many organizations find that change has become more difficult rather than easier.
Automation, Middleware & iPaaS: why companies today...
vrijdag 22 mei 2026, Xavier D.
Anyone discussing digital transformation today is flooded with new terms, platforms, and technological promises. Every software company claims to be faster, smarter, and more innovative. Every platform promises to be the solution for integration, automation, and AI.
Security is no longer an IT detail. AI is changing the...
woensdag 6 mei 2026, Xavier D.
For years, cybersecurity was often viewed as something that “went with the territory.” A firewall. An audit. A penetration test. A password policy. Important, certainly, but rarely the core of the strategic discussion. That time is over.
Would you rather buy a company with good numbers... or...
maandag 5 januari 2026, Xavier D.
Anyone who's ever bought or sold a company knows the drill: EBITDA, normalized EBITDA, recurring revenue, churn, cash position, backlog. Important figures. Absolutely. But in recent years, I've increasingly noticed an elephant in the room: technical debt. And you don't see that in the annual accounts.
Why modern companies choose middleware and how a data...
woensdag 19 november 2025, Xavier
Ask ten companies what software they use, and you'll get ten completely different landscapes: an ERP here, a CRM there, a planning tool in the cloud, an accounting system that runs locally, a webshop in between and at least one Excel file trying to keep it all together.
Why an LLM Alone Isn't Enough
woensdag 1 oktober 2025, Xavier
Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or Gemini seem like the perfect solution for every digital challenge. They're powerful, versatile, and ubiquitous. But deploying them in a business context quickly runs into three challenges: 1. Privacy – many commercial models use your data to improve themselves....
Build vs. Buy: How to Make the Right Strategic Software...
dinsdag 23 september 2025, Xavier
Building or buying software seems like a purely technical question. In reality, it's about vision: about speed, innovation, risk, and how IT drives your business forward. And that's where things often go wrong. Some companies quickly purchase a ready-made solution, only to later become mired in...
From AI events in 2019 to experiments with 1.5B and 70B...
dinsdag 1 juli 2025, Xavier
At DX-Solutions, we didn't jump into AI yesterday. Our first AI event was back in 2019. Back then, generative AI was still in its infancy, but we already saw its enormous potential for businesses. In 2023 and 2024, we organized AI hackathons again, exploring with customers and partners how AI can deliver real...