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PAC recently published the first rankings at global and EMEA level, taking into account 2020 revenue. Given the strong impact of the Covid 19 crisis in 2020, we decided to add some short vendor rankings at worldwide as well as at EMEA level ...
Infinity Works acquisition reinforces Accenture's UK Cloud and Engineering capabilities
This week, Accenture announced the acquisition of UK-Based cloud and digital transformation consultancy Infinity Works - adding 440 professionals to Accenture's talent pool. Including experienced software and data engineers and cloud architects and specialists. Headquartered in Leeds, the firm has offices across the UK, including Manchester, ...
GAIA-X – A Federated Data Infrastructure for Europe
The aim of GAIA-X is to create a sovereign European cloud network for data exchange, to strengthen Europe’s digital innovative power and independence. First projects will be launched in 2021 and all organizations that follow the rules are welcome to participate.
Impressions from AWS re:Invent 2020 - Part 1: “the right tool for the right job“
Many things were different this year at AWS’ global customer event. It was extended from one to three weeks, with five key notes and more than 500 technical sessions. And instead of hosting 65,000 attendees onsite in Las Vegas as last year, AWS welcomed over 500,000 registered attendees at their virtual event.
But many things also felt ...
DevOps, container technology, and cloud-native are shaping the future of industrial platforms and applications
PAC has published the PAC INNOVATION RADAR “Open Digital Platforms for the Industrial World in Europe 2020”. It is the broadest analysis of the vendor landscape around newly emerging topics in the context of digital platforms. PAC evaluated 61 in seven different segments, around specific focus areas.
La clé du digital ? L'aspect transformationnel !
« C’est bon, le digital, on sait ce que c’est ; si on passait à l’étape d’après ? » Voilà une remarque que j’entends très souvent lors de mes premières interventions en entreprise. Et bien sûr, la réponse est non. D’une part, parce que d’expérience, ce que la plupart de mes interlocuteurs nomment des « projets digitaux » ne sont en fait que ...
The IoT C&SI Survey 2020 – weltweite Kundenzufriedenheitsumfrage zu Anbietern von IoT-Beratung und -Systemintegration
Das Marktanalyse- und Beratungsunternehmen teknowlogy | PAC hat heute die erste Ausgabe des The IoT C&SI Survey 2020veröffentlicht. In der Kundenzufriedenheitsumfrage zur globalen Anbieterlandschaft für IoT-Beratung und -Systemintegration (Consulting & System Integration, C&SI) kommen IoT-Anwenderfirmen weltweit zu Wort. Basierend auf ihren ...
Enquête IoT C&SI Survey 2020 | Enquête mondiale de teknowlogy | PAC sur la satisfaction des clients des prestataires de services de conseil et d’intégration de systèmes en IoT
Aujourd'hui, le cabinet de recherche et de conseil teknowlogy | PAC a publié l'enquête IoT C&SI Survey 2020.Il s'agit de la première édition de l'enquête de satisfaction des clients des prestataires mondiaux de services de conseil et d’intégration de systèmes en IoT. Cette enquête mondiale exhaustive donne la parole au nombre croissant ...
The IoT C&SI Survey 2020 – teknowlogy | PAC’s global customer satisfaction survey on providers of IoT consulting & system integration
Today research and consulting firm teknowlogy | PAC published The IoT C&SI Survey 2020. It is the first edition of the customer satisfaction survey on the global landscape of IoT consulting and system integration (C&SI) providers. The comprehensive worldwide survey gives a voice to the growing number of IoT user companies. They shared their ...
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...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (3) – Trend 2: Edge und 5G ermöglichen Echtzeit-IT-Standorte
Zwei Technologien werden 2020 immer mehr verschmelzen und sich gegenseitig vorantreiben – Edge Computing und 5G-Campusnetze. Beide Technologien haben einen gemeinsamen Zweck, nämlich Rechenleistung vor Ort mit volumenstarken Hochgeschwindigkeitsnetzen zu kombinieren, um Echtzeit-IT-Standorte zu schaffen, an denen...
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 (2) – Trend 1: Platform-based industrial value networks will spread
Platform-based industrial value networks will spread - trend 1 of our top 10 IT trends, which we believe will have the greatest impact in 2020
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 (2) – Trend 1: Plattformbasierte industrielle Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke breiten sich aus
Unsere Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 – Trend 1: Plattformbasierte industrielle Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke
SPS 2019: Edge computing becomes the basis of industrial IoT in realizing the digital factory
With more than 60,000 visitors, the SPS fair that took place in Nuremberg, Germany, at the end of November was once again a real hot spot for the industrial automation industry. Edge computing was clearly one of the key topics at the fair. Edge computing avoids cloud latency by allowing real-time data processing directly at the edge of a ...
What is IOWN? Impressions from the NTT R&D Forum 2019 (part 2)
Here are my impressions, part 2, from the NTT R&D Forum (for part 1, please refer to “What is IOWN? – Impressions from the NTT R&D Forum 2019 [part 1]). On Thursday and Friday, the focus was on NTT DATA’s R&D work…
What is IOWN? Impressions from the NTT R&D Forum 2019 (part 1)
I had the great pleasure to spend four days with NTT and NTT DATA in Tokyo at the occasion of NTT R&D Forum 2019. It was four days with an incredibly huge variety of innovation across all stages and technologies.