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PAC observes that with the loss of SVB, many European firms may now find it harder to access large funds, which SVB provided, which are not common within European countries. However, other banks need to take the positives from SVB to engage ...
Figure of the day: Investment in 5G - CxO survey - worldwide
39% of companies we surveyed for the CxO Investment Survey worldwide plan to invest in 5G within the next 2 years.
Most enterprises don’t have a clear 5G strategy – just 34% have a plan for integrating 5G into their business
A new PAC study reveals that many business leaders are yet to develop a detailed strategy for the adoption of enterprise 5G. More pressingly, only a third of telecommunications firms have a strategy in place – lagging behind enterprises that will inevitably rely on the sector to support their adoption journey.
PAC INNOVATION RADAR Open Digital Platforms for the Industrial World in Europe 2021: agile and efficient scaling is key
Today PAC published its seven-part PAC INNOVATION RADAR “Open Digital Platforms for the Industrial World in Europe 2021”. It is the broadest analysis of the vendor landscape for open digital platforms for use in industrial contexts.
Figure of the day: Investments in IoT solutions and technologies - CxO survey - France
According to PAC's CxO Investment Survey, 40% of respondents in France say that their organizations plan to invest in 5G networks over the next two years.
Figure of the day: IoT platforms - CxO survey - worldwide
47% of companies we surveyed for the CxO Investment Survey worldwide stated that they already use Microsoft’s Azure IoT as IoT platform.
Figure of the day: Top goal of digital transformation projects - CxO survey - Austria
According to PAC´s CxO Investment Survey, 59% of respondents in Austria say that enhancing existing products and services is the major goal of their organization’s current digital transformation projects.
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 ...