Blockchain Is 2016’s Biggest Tsunami Says Major Software Company
Excelian, an award-winning tech consulting firm operated by multi-bln dollar software development company Luxoft, recently released its 2016 tech report entitled “Big Data: Technology Special,” featuring the most important and disruptive technologies such as Fintech and Blockchain. Blockchain is in the investigative phase. On a section entitled “Three Techs to Track,” the company listed three emerging technologies for businesses to understand and analyze. One of the three technologies was Blockchain, which the Excelian research team described as “the biggest tsunami of 2016.” The research....
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