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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 ...
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
The top 10 IT trends for 2020 - Part 1: Forecast for the European IT services market
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 industry sectors kept investment in IT-related consulting, systems integration, and operations services ticking over. But what about 2020? Overall, ...
Die Top 10 IT-Trends für 2020 - Teil 1: Prognose für den europäischen Markt für IT-Dienstleistungen
Der europäische Markt für IT-Dienstleistungen verzeichnete auch 2019 konstantes Wachstum. Unsere Erwartungen zur Marktentwicklung 2019 waren zurückhaltender angesichts der zwei Vorjahre, in denen das Wachstum leicht gestiegen war. Treiber hierfür waren hohe Investitionen in Projektdienstleistungen und Public IaaS/PaaS. Doch wie sieht es für ...
Volkswagen Car.Software: The right move at the right time
Today Volkswagen announced more details with regards to its new internal software division, “Car.Software”. The manufacturer made the first announcement of this kind during its presentation at the IAA in Frankfurt in September and is now following up with more details. As Volkswagen’s plans are becoming more concrete, we thought it was about ...
Process mining - Shifting from pure discovery to process improvements
On November 12, I took the opportunity to join the Celonis Superfluid World Tour in Munich. For those of you who are not familiar with Celonis: Celonis offers a process mining solution which helps companies to uncover gaps between designed and real-life processes.
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 ...
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.
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.
Honeywell on its digital journey transforming into an industrial software-centric company – my key takeaways from the Honeywell User Group Conference HUG 2019
On September 24-25, 2019, Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) held its media and analyst event along its 31st Honeywell User Group Conference (HUG) 2019 at The Hague World Forum, in the Netherlands. During this event, I had the opportunity to talk to HPS’s key executives and to participate in customer sessions and experience a digital ...
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 ...
Digital factory use cases: Current maturity levels and expected adoption speed
We typically do not see large-scale digital transformations of entire factories and shop-floor operations. What we rather see are single use cases and PoCs that are tested and implemented in factories. We therefore believe that it is helpful for manufacturers to get an overview of potential use cases in a digital factory that leverage ...
How Siemens addresses increasing complexity in manufacturing – my key takeaways from the Siemens Media and Analyst Conference 2019
On September 4-6, 2019, the software division of Siemens Digital Industries held its media and analyst conference in Brooklyn, New York. For this event, Siemens invited around 100 analysts and media representatives to give an update on their strategy and achievements. Here are my key takeaways.
Closing the gap between operations and experience: Insights from the SAP Industries Analyst Base Camp 2019
In July, I joined the 10th SAP Industries Analyst Base Camp in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. This event is a “must visit” for all analysts covering specific industries, like me focusing on the manufacturing industry. During two half-day sessions, a lot of updates were given on SAP’s go-to-market and portfolio enhancements that are ...
The role of edge computing in autonomous vehicles
Autonomous vehicles are one of the most hyped topics in car/truck manufacturing, while already being available for campus/factory traffic. In both cases edge computing plays a vital role. For campus or factory traffic, edge capabilities do not necessarily need to be on board of the vehicle, i.e. it can be in the data center of a factory or ...
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.
Our outlook for the manufacturing industry in Germany for 2019
The economic outlook for 2019 for the German manufacturing industry is currently strongly impacted by the uncertainties related to potential trade barriers with the US (driven by the Trump administration) and with the UK (as a result of Brexit). These political uncertainties as well as the slowdown in economic growth in major export markets ...
La maintenance prédictive est en train de devenir une réalité en Europe
La maintenance est un sujet de première importance pour les industriels depuis très longtemps. Or, les industriels européens sont seulement 4% à trouver qu’ils maîtrisent ce processus parfaitement ; un chiffre frappant de notre étude « Digital industrial revolution with predictive maintenance ».
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 ...
Hannover Messe 2019: It’s all about enabling the smart digital factory - #3
Production networks in the cloud are a major topic these days. Major announcements at Hannover Messe came from VW, which announced a collaboration with Siemens (MindSphere) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) or BMW announcing a partnership with Microsoft Azure. And, besides these announcements, we can generally see a rising interest among ...