Sustainability is claiming its rightful place in the manufacturing industry – insights from Hannover Messe 2023
Hannover Messe 2023 has illustrated how ESG and, more precisely, sustainability are being integrated into industrial companies’ daily operations. Recent regulatory initiatives like the Supply Chain Act, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and the Inflation Reduction Act are forcing companies to look into their carbon ...
AWS : Un écosystème riche et innovant
Début avril, AWS a tenu, son « AWS summit Paris », le plus grand événement autour du cloud en France, réunissant plus de 8 000 développeurs, partenaires et clients AWS. Au travers de plus de 100 présentations, démonstrations, ateliers pratiques et témoignages clients, le groupe a expliqué comment ses derniers services et solutions pouvaient ...
The importance of a digital customer engagement (DCE) strategy for organisations in Europe
At PAC, our DCE research is focused on determining the trends, dynamics, and forces influencing the demands of organisations for solutions and services from vendors. This drives our market and vendor analysis at the heart of our DCE research cluster portfolio that informs a DCE strategy.
2022 : une année record pour le marché des services numériques !
Lors de la dernière mise à jour de nos chiffres du marché des services numériques en septembre 2022, nous avions été prudents au vu des incertitudes géopolitiques et économiques qui pesaient sur les économies française et européenne. Il s’avère que depuis les indicateurs macro-économiques sont meilleurs qu’annoncés aussi à cette période avec ...
De nombreuses opportunités pour l’hydrogène dans les transports
Les défis de la transition environnementale, de l'urgence climatique et de la crise énergétique requièrent de mettre en place des solutions afin d’assurer un futur pérenne. Dans ce cadre, l'Europe prend des initiatives pour développer sa filière hydrogène et se positionner en tant que leader dans les années à venir sur ce marché, notamment ...
Between the pope in a puffy jacket, garments shielding from facial recognition, and calls by the tech elite for a halt to AI research
Artificial intelligence (AI) has caused a great furor recently. It started with the AI language model ChatGPT from OpenAI, in which Microsoft invested USD10 billion to incorporate OpenAI's services in its own products. Then the entire tech community started to talk about generative AI again. Google, for example, invested USD300 million in a ...
F&A, HR, and payroll solutions provider Sage announces new updates to Sage Intacct
UK-based Sage announced new artificial intelligence and automation updates to its Sage Intacct, a core cloud-native financial management proposition for mid-sized businesses in Sage's core markets (US, Canada, UK, France, Australia, and South Africa).
The competition to access data for LLM generative AIs is already escalating
Implications around issues accessing LLM generative AIs and search engine data may already signal a shift towards increased competition and less collaboration among tech companies. This could make it more difficult for companies to access the data and resources they need, slowing down innovation and progress in the field.
Pegasystems embeds generative AI across low-code platform Pega Infinity
Pegasystems teases with upcoming generative AI functionality in its low-code Pega Infinity platform, enabling application developers and IT managers to not start from a blank canvas.
Macroeconomic headwinds place a temporary damper on Belgium’s IT investments
According to the Belgian Association of CIOs & Digital Technology leaders (Beltug) high inflation and IT labor shortages are hindering IT investments and projects.
Adobe announces new products and innovations
At the Adobe Summit 2023, Adobe unveiled new generative AI services, personalization, content management, and product analytics. PAC takes a closer look at what it has to offer.
GROW with SAP and Datasphere: SAP raises its profile in data management and cloud services
After the portfolio streamlining of recent months (sale of Qualtrics, withdrawal from the health and banking segments, and Business by Design), SAP has launched a new product initiative in the innovative areas of cloud and data. With Datasphere, SAP is finally addressing the integration challenge of heterogeneous data sources. GROW with SAP ...
Visma's M&A trajectory continues to lay the foundation for growth
Over the last few years, SaaS provider Visma has invested over EUR 1.1 billion in 42 acquisitions to boost its mission-critical SaaS products. This has enabled the Norwegian IT vendor to grow its revenues by 19% in 2022.
Accenture confirms its leadership on the global IT Services market
PAC recently published its first vendors rankings at global and regional level for 2022. Most of the leaders posted impressive growth in 2022, yet currency fluctuation had a substantial impact.
Accenture, IBM, TCS and Capgemini retained their Top 4 positions, Deloitte managed to enter the Top 5.
Dutch IT provider Ordina agrees to an all-cash public offer from Sopra Steria
France's Sopra Steria and Netherlands-based Ordina have come to an all-cash public offer agreement. The French IT provider will expand its presence and competencies in the Benelux region after acquiring Belgian-based IT provider Tobania in November 2022.
La CDP, fer de lance pour accompagner les marques dans leur stratégie de valorisation de la donnée client
L’expérience client a pris un nouvel élan depuis l’essor de la pandémie avec le passage au modèle omnicanal. Les détaillants cherchent aujourd’hui à aller encore plus loin, en offrant à leurs clients une expérience en ligne et physique qui soit fluide. Le défi consiste à être en mesure d’identifier les données clés pour délivrer une ...
Proximus partners with Google Cloud and LuxConnect to provide sovereign cloud services
Proximus partners with Google Cloud and LuxConnect to deliver Google Distributed Cloud Hosted - a disconnected sovereign cloud solution - in Belgium and Luxembourg.
D’excellents résultats 2022 pour les grandes ESN françaises et optimisme pour 2023
Ces dernières semaines, toutes les grandes ESN françaises ont publié leurs résultats 2022 et, dans l’ensemble, ces derniers ont été excellents. En effet, toutes, à l’exception d’Atos, ont affiché des croissances organiques supérieures à +5%, surpassant leurs objectifs qui avaient souvent, déjà, été relevés en cours d’année. Pour 2023, la ...
The impact of Silicon Valley Bank on the European tech sector
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 deeper with firms in the tech industry across Europe.
Trends in the Austrian insurance market
The Austrian insurance market is an important consumer of software and IT services. PAC currently observes two major trends in the Austrian insurance market: embedded insurance and sustainability.
