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C’est l’heure du bilan pour les ESN françaises, et il est plutôt bon : 9 ESN du top 10 ont bénéficié d’une croissance cumulée supérieure à celle du marché, à 5,3%. Alors que le marché avait été tiré par les ESN « mid-market » pendant plusieu...
No let-up in the pace of change at ServiceNow - an update from Knowledge19
teknowlogy Group attended ServicesNow's Knowledge19 event in Las Vegas, and caught up with company's ongoing mission to revolutionise the world of work through transformation of digital workflows
“Increasing innovation and going beyond buzzwords”: Insights from this year's Adobe EMEA Summit
teknowlogy was among the Adobe EMEA Summit's 6,000 visitors in London last week. The sheer number of visitors alone is an indication of how mission-critical providing a good “customer experience” has become and that it indeed distinguishes “leaders” from “laggards”. Key topic of the conference was the Adobe Experience Platform that brings ...
SAP is pushing forward integration – something customers have been waiting for
While the topic of experience management took center stage at this year's SAPPHIRE NOW conference, for me the proposed integration schemes for the various products developed or acquired by SAP over the last few years (e.g. SAP S/4HANA, SuccessFactors) were of particular interest.
BCW 2019: Welcome to the Economy of Things
The key focus of the Bosch Connected World (BCW) conference, which took place in Berlin from May 15-16, 2019, was the constant evolution of IoT – the foundation of which was the spreading and integration of new technologies (sensors, connectivity, software, cloud). One example in this context are IoT platforms, which evolved to a central ...
The Post-Digital Era is Upon Us - Insights from Accenture’s Analyst Conference 2019
"The Post-Digital Era is Upon Us" – This was the key message from two days at Accenture's Global Industry Analyst Conference 2019 and is also the headline of Accenture’s Technology Vision 2019. Accenture is thinking about (and preparing for) what is coming after digital transformation while many companies are still stuck on their ...
Our outlook for the manufacturing industry in Germany for 2019
The economic outlook for 2019 for the German manufacturing industry is currently strongly impacted by the uncertainties related to potential trade barriers with the US (driven by the Trump administration) and with the UK (as a result of Brexit). These political uncertainties as well as the slowdown in economic growth in major export markets ...
IBM – open to multi-cloud environments
In the competition among cloud hyperscalers, IBM has lost market awareness in recent years despite billion-dollar investments (such as the acquisition of SoftLayer). The company is countering this with a multi-cloud strategy that emphasizes on the integration needs of customers and its own integration capability. This strategy could work.
Der deutsche Mittelstand rüstet sich für komplexere IoT-Einsatzszenarien
Das Internet der Dinge ist ohne Zweifel eines der wichtigsten Themen der Digitalisierungswelle. Dank neuer Möglichkeiten zur Vernetzung und Datenverarbeitung sowie der Verbreitung von Cloud Computing ist IoT insbesondere für den Mittelstand attraktiv und zugänglich geworden. Das birgt viel Potenzial. Allerdings bekommt der Mittelstand auch ...
OpenStack's Open Infrastructure Summit: bare metal made easy, that's Ironic
OpenStack's Open Infrastructure Summit in Denver (April 29 – May 1) was clearly oriented towards edge computing. There were several announcements, such as on Airship for better automating datacenter management, or on StarlingX for managing very small cloud infrastucture. The most interesting project for me, however, is the Ironic project, a ...
Hits the European cyber security market like a thunderbolt: Orange Cyber Defense to acquire SecureLink
On May 8, Orange Cyber Defense (OCD), one of the leading cyber security service providers in Europe, announced its plans to acquire SecureLink, the leading cyber security service provider in the Benelux region, with offices in the UK, in Germany and in Scandinavia. This acquisition will make OCD the second biggest cyber security player in ...
La maintenance prédictive est en train de devenir une réalité en Europe
La maintenance est un sujet de première importance pour les industriels depuis très longtemps. Or, les industriels européens sont seulement 4% à trouver qu’ils maîtrisent ce processus parfaitement ; un chiffre frappant de notre étude « Digital industrial revolution with predictive maintenance ».
Les chatbots s'imposent comme l'interface principale de l'ère digitale
L'hyper-personnalisation passe par une multiplication des canaux de communication digitaux, du smartphone aux réseaux sociaux en passant par la voiture connectée, à laquelle s'ajoute la nécessité d'offrir une disponibilité quasiment 24h sur 24 et 7 jours sur 7. Impossible donc d'y répondre avec des ressources humaines, ce qui amène ...
Aus „Freudenberg IT (FIT)“ wird „FIT a Syntax Company“ – eine erste Einordnung der Übernahme
Der traditionsreiche deutsche Mischkonzern Freudenberg hat sich Anfang 2019 von seiner IT-Services-Sparte getrennt. Wie es nun mit FIT weitergeht, und was die Akquisition durch die kanadische Syntax für die Kunden von FIT bedeutet, erfuhr teknowlogy auf ihrem diesjährigen Customer Innovation Day in Frankfurt.
Identities are the new perimeter: why IAM is more important than ever
Identity and access management (IAM) is becoming increasingly important across all industries since it is a core element of IT security, dealing with one of the most prevalent vectors, the human identity.
Industrial IoT platforms at HMI 2019: AWS and Microsoft are becoming the digital platforms of the German manufacturing backbone
At HMI 2019, two bold announcements of partnership were made in the context of industrial IoT platforms: AWS with VW and BMW with Microsoft. Both partnerships underpin the fact that hyperscalers are increasingly becoming the cloud infrastructure for the backbone of the German manufacturing industry, the automotive sector. The evolution to ...
Hannover Messe 2019: It’s all about enabling the smart digital factory - #3
Production networks in the cloud are a major topic these days. Major announcements at Hannover Messe came from VW, which announced a collaboration with Siemens (MindSphere) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) or BMW announcing a partnership with Microsoft Azure. And, besides these announcements, we can generally see a rising interest among ...
Hannover Messe 2019: It's all about enabling the smart digital factory - #2
Clearly among the trending topics in the digital factory is edge computing. Particularly in manufacturing environments with close to real-time requirements for data processing, edge computing solutions will play an increasing role thanks to advantages of low latency, speed and no connectivity costs…
Hannover Messe 2019: It's all about enabling the smart digital factory - #1
This year’s motto at Hannover Messe was “Integrated Industries – Industrial Intelligence”. With only three days to get an overview of the major trends out there, I tried to focus on what’s happening in particular in the digital factory domain. So, let me share with you my personal highlights related to the digital factory, which are my key ...
Nachzügler oder Taktgeber: Wie innovativ sind Firmen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz?
Innovative Firmen haben einen Wettbewerbsvorteil, wachsen schneller und generieren mehr Umsatz. Dies galt bislang und hat auch in Zukunft seine Gültigkeit. Die Art und Weise, wie Unternehmen mit Innovationen umgehen, wandelt sich hingegen. Innovationen sind nicht mehr beschränkt auf die Verbesserung von bestehenden Produkten und Prozessen, ...
Quantum computing state of the art
In 2018, both the USA and the European Union pledged around EUR 1 billion in investments for quantum computing, and many then discovered that quantum computing seems to be the new IT frontier. Is this the case? Quantum computing uses quantum properties to bypass silicon-based limitations in computing capacities. Calculations are made at ...