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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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
State of AI in France and top French AI start-ups
In our report The status quo of AI in France: an effervescent landscape, we have compiled some use cases in segments that are important for the French economy, as well as a selection of the most promising French AI start-ups. AI is definitely growing in France among companies that have a strong data culture and the right resources. The ...
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.
Allianz opens its platform with the help of Microsoft Azure
Allianz will provide parts of its ABS insurance software to other insurance companies via Microsoft's public cloud, Azure. The project expands the market opening of the software, which was launched with the Allianz Open Source initiative announced almost two years ago.
Know Data Intelligence : le Cloud, premier allié de la data science et de la BI
Le Cloud doit désormais être une composante essentielle d’une stratégie de valorisation de la donnée. C’est l’un des principaux enseignements qui ressortent de la matinée « Know Data Intelligence », événement de teknowlogy Group qui s’est tenu la semaine dernière, en présence de nombreux utilisateurs et partenaires, consacré à un marché de ...
The status quo of AI in Germany: a sprouting landscape
AI is certainly the most important current buzzword. This is understandable because AI holds enormous potential for process improvement and the design of new services and business models. Especially in the German economy, which is characterized by the manufacturing and automotive industries, the capabilities of AI for process automation, ...
AI in manufacturing operations – Lack of internal capabilities will drive the need for external specialists
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning hold a lot of potential for manufacturers to optimize processes on the enterprise level and on the shop-floor level.
Usage of artificial intelligence in cyber security
Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently one of the most hyped topics, and this is also the case in cyber security. There are a series of use cases were AI can be used to reduce manual work by humans and increase the level of security due to the ability to monitor 100% of traffic or 100% of actions taken by users – a task that human cyber ...
Key takeaways from MongoDB World, New York: an increasing focus on mobile and the edge
NoSQL database firm MongoDB gathered its users and prospects to a summit in New York last month to update them on its progress: here’s what we learned.
Les chatbots s'imposent comme l'interface principale de l'ère digitale
L'hyper-personnalisation passe par une multiplication des canaux de communication digitaux, du smartphone aux réseaux sociaux en passant par la voiture connectée, à laquelle s'ajoute la nécessité d'offrir une disponibilité quasiment 24h sur 24 et 7 jours sur 7. Impossible donc d'y répondre avec des ressources humaines, ce qui amène ...
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.
Industrial companies & IT providers cooperate to enable IoT business cases
Insights from the MWC19: Apart from the omni-present 5G buzzword (see my colleague’s sobering view on this in another blog post), we got to see an increasing trend towards IT companies, industrial companies and niche experts bundling forces to develop real IoT solutions for new business models.
teknowlogy unveils its "AI vendors of tomorrow - horizontals" mappings
Our third and last report about the AI vendors is published. This one focus on the horizontal topics wihtin a company.
teknowlogy has carried out a major study on the artificial intelligence players on a global scale. We first listed some 3500 start-ups and SMEs which are software vendors and claim to offer artificial intelligence ...