A year has passed..

This last year have passed by quickly. A lot of things have happened. We left the US in June 2011 and moved back to Scandinavia, which means that I am commuting between Stockholm and Oslo. Still employed at the DNV HQ in Norway, where information continues to be high on the agenda. Many organizations are looking for solutions where their historical data-, information- and knowledge resources can be reused and repurposed for a wider selection of customers and users. Information is becoming a crucial immateriell resource in these organizations.

At the same time, there are many organizations out there struggling to upkeep their growing volumes of data and information. Recent events in the Mexican Gulf requires the Oil & Gas industries to be even more transparent, and to be able to show their proactive hazard- and risk analysis. This means management of even more information, concluding in higher costs and longer lead-times. Defense organizations are looking for automatic solutions where the bulk part of information will not be processed by humans, but computers. This trend will go hand-in-hand with the trend of outsourcing data- and information resources to companies that can protect, quality assure and adapt the information for many different usages.

Many new projects are in the pipe-line. The SESAR Project in Europe, that is consolidating information for Air Traffic Management (ATM). The Net Enabled Capability (NEC) managed by European Defense Agency and their Crisis Management Operation Program will do the same. The European Union will look more deeply into the shared data issue for the European Digital Agenda. It is going to be an exciting 2012, and I hope to blog more than once a year.