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For this PAC INNOVATION RADAR PAC evaluates and compares 19 leading ServiceNow service providers in the European market in seven segments focusing on different application areas.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Edge computing – more than a hype?!
Edge computing is often discussed as an attack against cloud computing. In fact, it’s not! Edge computing can support computing tasks which cannot be done in the cloud in an appropriate manner.
Les 10 concepts qui feront buzzer l'IT en 2019
2019 sera l’année où l’on se pose les questions fondamentales. Au sens propre, d'ailleurs : quelles sont les fondations nécessaires pour mettre en œuvre de façon pérenne les programmes de transformation numérique ?
GE Digital – exciting times ahead!
GE’s recent announcement to establish a new GE-owned, independently run entity to expand the company’s leadership in the Industrial IoT market and to better serve industrial customers probably did not come as a surprise to the industry.
Les plateformes IoT en Europe : 12 acteurs "best in class" dans le Radar PAC
PAC vient de publier la plus grande analyse du marché des fournisseurs de plateformes IoT. Le Radar PAC « Les plateformes IoT en Europe 2018 » analyse plus de 120 plateformes, et en évalue 43 d'entre elles dans sept segments différents, afin d’identifier les meilleurs fournisseurs de chaque catégorie dans différents domaines. Sur l'ensemble ...
Oracle’s six degrees of autonomous computing, and why they matter
At its digital-transformation-focused Impact Event in Liverpool Street in London this week, Oracle outlined what it described as six levels of autonomous computing. Here's why they matter. A lot.
Hosting innovation and co-creation: IBM’s Watson IoT Center in Munich
PAC recently had the chance to visit IBM's Watson IoT Center in Munich. Discussions quickly revolved around topics like connected objects, artificial intelligence (AI), and smart cities, and took a cross-vertical perspective.
Cyber security in healthcare - key issues and trends
Cyber attacks have been on the rise in the past few decades. The reasons are numerous, but they all boil down to the increase in digitalization and the associated massive availability of data, rendering cyber security one of the major issues in today’s digitized world. The number of cyber attacks in the healthcare sector has exponentially ...
Why is Munich Re paying $300m for IoT startup Relayr?
Relayr started out as an IoT middleware platform developer back in 2013. Fast forward five years: Relayr expanded its portfolio into IoT analytics and a range of supporting services around its products. Now it is being acquired by the €50bn insurance giant Munich Re for an eye-catching price tag of $300m.
Simulation reloaded – how immersive technologies can transform healthcare
The success of Pokémon Go was probably what made the immersive technologies, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), known to the wider public. What unites the technologies is the simulations they create; what divides them is the level of immersivity of the environment:
While VR completely detaches the user from the reality, AR ...
The IoT Survey
The IoT survey is the first of its kind to evaluate the leading IoT platform providers based on feedback from users worldwide available to participants in English, German, French and Spanish.
Your AI Friday - 11000
Welcome to the weekly selection of links compiled by PAC's AI team. This week, we offer you some good reads connected to this new world in the making. Please note that we, the A(I) Team, will take a little break over the summer months and see you back in 2 months – in case we haven't been replaced by AI til then... Enjoy reading!
Artificial intelligence in healthcare – great fear but even greater potential!
The rapid commercialization of machine learning and big data has helped bring artificial intelligence (AI) to the forefront in healthcare, giving it the capacity to change healthcare and everyday medicine for doctors and patients alike. AI’s potential ranges from IT tools that can impressively interpret images to devices that present users ...
EOS – a viable alternative to Ethereum, Hyperledger and IOTA?
This past weekend, the mainnet of EOS, a new cryptocurrency, was officially launched. This is especially remarkable, since the event was preceded by a noteworthy ICO (initial coin offering, during which more than $4 billion in initial investment were raised), a bitter conflict among the community and quite some chaos with respect to ...
Your AI Friday – 10101
Welcome to the weekly selection of links compiled by PAC's AI team. This week, we'd like to invite you to a little game: Who can define a suitable image for AI? Enjoy reading!
Lessons learned at ConhIT
Last week, PAC attended conhIT in Berlin, Europe's leading health IT event. The motto of conhIT, a combination of trade fair and congress, was “transforming healthcare.” It hosted over 570 exhibitors and approximately 10,000 visitors, so judging by mere attendance figures, conhIT clearly was a success. What is our takeaway from the event?
Digitalization and healthcare – quo vadis, Germany?
From all the industry segments in Germany, the level of digitalization is lowest in healthcare. There, the share of SITS expenditures in terms of total IT spend stands at 37% and is thus below the average of 50% we see across the other sectors.
European transport industry bets on IoT and AI
Transport incumbents across all sub-segments are investing in technology solutions based on IoT and AI to boost their operational efficiency while improving the customer experience at the same time. PAC recently published several reports on the back of its recent projects in the transport segment and recent engagements with the players on ...