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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 ...
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.
The Live Enterprise
I had the chance to participate in Infosys’ European Customer and Analyst Event, EMEA Confluence 2019, in Barcelona last week. The key topic was “The Live Enterprise”. With this vision, Infosys addresses the need of organizations to intuitively adapt to the shifting business environment with frequent, quick-paced changes just like living ...
IT/OT integration – investment drivers depend on many factors
Nowadays, the topic of IT/OT integration has gained a lot of traction, in particular in manufacturing. However, we believe that IT/OT integration is not equally relevant in all the various manufacturing sub-sectors. In fact, the relevance of IT/OT integration differs quite a lot depending on what sub-sector we are looking at and is ...
Friedhelm Loh Group has big ambitions and is challenging the hyperscalers: German Edge Cloud and IoTOS launch ONCITE to ensure the independence of hidden champions in Europe
You don’t know much about Friedhelm Loh Group, German Edge Cloud, IoTOS, and/or ONCITE so far? Let me fill you in on this.
CxO priorities, and digital and IoT-related investment trends in the manufacturing industry – insights from various sub-verticals
Manufacturers today are investing in the modernization of their enterprise landscapes (e.g. migrating to SAP S/4HANA), moving their IT infrastructures to the cloud, or implementing data management and analytics solutions. These are all important measures to lay the foundations for the digital transformation of companies’ processes.
But ...
OSIsoft PI World 2019 in Gothenburg – IoT projects in XXL size
As an analyst I attend many events related to my topic of interest – IoT. What we often see is a lot of ‘show’ around new IoT use cases, many product presentations from vendors and their partners, and of course also some client projects, but mainly at a very early stage of the project life cycle, often still in the PoC (proof of concept) ...
GFT pushes into industrial IoT by acquiring Axoom’s team
GFT Technologies SE announced the acquisition of around 90 industrial IoT experts from Axoom – a good reason to take a closer look at what is currently going on at GFT, and to understand their approach to entering the industrial space.
The IoT Survey C&SI 2020 – teknowlogy launches first edition of its global customer satisfaction survey on IoT consulting & system integration
The IoT Survey C&SI 2020 is online. It is the first edition of the survey on the global landscape of service providers for IoT consulting and system integration (C&SI). The online-based worldwide survey runs until the end of September 2019 and is open for heads of IoT, project managers, and developers in IoT user companies.
PTC LiveWorx 2019 – clients on the way to realizing the digital thread
I had the pleasure to attend PTC’s leadership event, LiveWorx. It took place in mid-June in Boston, which since the beginning of the year has also been the new home of PTC’s headquarters. The new headquarters - an impressive building with an outstanding view - is now just a stone’s throw from the location of the annual LiveWorx event, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is becoming the “new CeBIT” – MWC19 served as a stage to present many new connected devices and announce what is new around platforms
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) was initiated in 1987 by the GSMA, the global association of the telco industry. It has always been a big hardware show, especially around new smartphones, and of course it still is.
The IoT Survey 2019 gives a voice to IoT platform users
We are happy to present the world’s first comprehensive overview of the IoT platform market from a user perspective: The IoT Survey 2019. It presents 38 IoT platform providers and makes them easier to compare thanks to the categorization according to 24 KPIs and 8 peer groups. The first issue of teknowlogy's annual report provides an ...
