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The European IT services market maintained its steady growth trend in 2019. Despite the increasingly gloomy economic outlook, the widening scope of digital transformation initiatives across all...
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (8) – Trend 7: RPA & automation increasingly integrate AI
First, companies can only automate processes that are well-known, documented, and already working. In many cases, companies need to reengineer their processes before they can apply any kind of automation. They should not take the risk of automating faulty processes and then...
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (8) – Trend 7: RPA und Automatisierung integrieren zunehmend KI
Automatisierung steht bereits weit oben auf der Liste bei IT-Dienstleistern und Anwenderunternehmen, da sie Geschwindigkeit und Qualität verbessert und gleichzeitig eine Vergrößerung der Belegschaft überflüssig macht. Zwei Faktoren bremsen diesen Markt jedoch noch immer aus. Zum einen können die Unternehmen nur...
teknowlogy’s CxO Survey 2019: Improving the digital customer experience is among the top goals of manufacturers’ digital transformation projects
For manufacturing companies, optimizing internal processes is leading the list of major goals of digital transformation projects. Given the increasing maturity of digital technologies, this is not particularly surprising for teknowlogy, as the potential to reduce costs on all sides is still high and in the light of global competition and the ...
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (7) – Trend 6: AI-empowered business applications
teknowlogy | PAC believes that cloud-based application software providers will go even further by leveraging all their customers’ data to provide both anonymized data sets and preconfigured algorithms to run benchmarks, accelerate calculations, and enhance business processes. In order to do so, vendors will need to...
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (7) – Trend 6: KI-gestützte Geschäftsanwendungen
teknowlogy | PAC ist überzeugt, dass die Anbieter von Cloud-basierter Anwendungssoftware sämtliche Daten ihrer Kunden auswerten werden, um sowohl anonymisierte Datensätze als auch vorkonfigurierte Algorithmen zur Verfügung zu stellen, mit deren Hilfe sich Benchmarks ausführen, Berechnungen beschleunigen und Geschäftsprozesse verbessern ...
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (6) – Trend 5: Anwendungsplattformen der nächsten Generation bieten digitale Innovationen
Cloud-basierte Anwendungsplattformen werden zu Schrittmachern der Software-Industrie. Reine Cloud-Plattformanbieter wie Salesforce, Workday und ServiceNow sind ins Scheinwerferlicht gerückt, und dort werden sie auch bleiben. Die Plattformen der nächsten Generation ermöglichen eine schnelle Bereitstellung von Anwendungen und nutzen dabei die ...
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (6) – Trend 5: Next-gen app platforms embrace digital innovation
Cloud-based application platforms are becoming the pacemakers in the software industry. Pure cloud platform providers such as Salesforce, Workday, and ServiceNow have been getting a lot of attention, and this will continue and even intensify. Next-generation platforms allow for fast deployment of applications, taking advantage of the new ...
An Effervescent New Year on the CEE Acquisition Market
teknowlogy has been analyzing the new consolidation wave that started in Central and Eastern Europe at the beginning of 2020.
GFI, grand gagnant de la décennie 10-20 ?
Les ESN françaises se portent bien. La décennie qui s’achève, commencée dans la morosité des « subprimes » et l’incertitude quant à la pérennité de nos champions ESN, s’achève finalement en fanfare. Après la fusion Sopra Steria qui a créé un nouveau poids lourd approchant des 5 milliards d’euros de CA, après la consolidation d’Atos et ...
Use cases for AI in CPG and retail will grow exponentially
Artificial intelligence (AI) raises the analytical capabilities of CPG manufacturers and retailers to a new level and helps to optimize decision-making and to automate processes and actions. This includes optimizing internal processes such as logistics, inventory, and supply chain management in order to reduce costs as well as increasing ...
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (5) – Trend 4: Unternehmensanwendungen wandern in die Public Cloud
Public-Cloud-Infrastruktur ist bei Unternehmen weltweit heute gang und gäbe. 2020 werden wir viel häufiger beobachten, dass Firmen mit Unternehmensanwendungen Hyperscaler für den Betrieb ihrer erfolgskritischen Workloads nutzen. Google, Microsoft und Amazon Web Services werden Partnerschaften mit Anbietern von Geschäftsanwendungen eingehen, ...
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (5) – Trend 4: Enterprise applications move to the public cloud
Public cloud infrastructure has become commonplace for companies worldwide. What we will see much more in 2020 is customers of enterprise applications using hyperscalers to operate their mission-critical workloads. Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services will partner with vendors of business applications, and more and more system ...
PTC - Augmented Reality as the Internet of Things for People in UK’s Manufacturing Industry
In December 2019, teknowlogy Group was offered a look inside the Industrial Innovation Global Series presented jointly in London by US-based software and services company PTC, and the Financial Times. PTC gave its view on how UK manufacturers are adapting to remain competitive in an age driven by digital technologies.
Les TJM encore en croissance en 2020 sur les profils applicatifs !
Bonne nouvelle pour les ESN : les TJM devraient encore croître cette année en ce qui concerne les profils applicatifs. La hausse constatée en 2017 et en 2018 s’est en effet confirmée en 2019 et devrait se prolonger en 2020, même si la croissance devrait ralentir. D’autre part, cette tendance haussière touche l’ensemble des profils.
teknowlogy’s CxO Survey 2019: Manufacturers plan to spend more on cyber security, AI, and cloud
Increased competition and the resulting need to reduce costs and increase efficiency are among the major challenges of manufacturing companies worldwide. Investments are, therefore, often related to IT projects that help to reduce costs and increase the efficiency of operations.
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (4) – Trend 3: IT/OT integration leads to OT data platforms
The OT world and the IT world used to be separate for decades. OT systems are more proprietary than IT systems and were basically left untouched during the lifetime of a production plant, while IT has always had a reputation for needing frequent changes and being vulnerable to cyber security issues. Nowadays, though, in light of Industry 4.0 ...
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (4) – Trend 3: IT-OT-Integration führt zu OT-Datenplattformen
Die OT-Welt und die IT-Welt waren Jahrzehnte getrennt. OT-Systeme sind proprietärer als IT-Systeme und blieben im Wesentlichen während der Lebensdauer einer Produktionsanlage unverändert. IT hingegen hatte schon immer den Ruf, häufig verändert werden zu müssen und für Cyber-Sicherheitsrisiken anfällig zu sein. Heutzutage führen jedoch ...
Accenture expands its SAP C/4HANA business with maihiro
Accenture has been investing heavily into its SAP Business Group. With the acquisition of German-based maihiro, the provider adds a highly competent consulting firm for SAP C/4HANA.
The top 10 most promising European AI startups
The worldwide race to take the leadership in artificial intelligence has started. And given the financial and scientific powers of the United States and China, Europe will probably not have a choice, but to show a common strategy in order to be a serious competitor. It is not an easy task as the major European countries have announced ...
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (3) – Trend 2: Edge and 5G enable real-time IT locations
Two technologies will increasingly merge in 2020, pushing each other – edge computing and 5G campus networks. Both technologies have a common purpose, which is to combine on‑site compute power and/or high-speed and high-volume networks in order to create real-time IT locations where automation and the autonomy of complex systems become a ...