Privacy will reinforce hyper-personalized customer experiences (2023 Prediction #7)

Posted on January 26, 2023

Since the inception of omnichannel over a decade ago, the “holy grail” for customer experience (CX) has been to gain enough insight into a customer/client/citizen to provide personalized engagement through any channel specific to an individual's needs. This rapacious demand for insight spurred exponential growth in third-party activity ...

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Die Voraussetzungen schaffen für Hyperautomatisierung (2023 Prediction #6)

Posted on January 25, 2023

Unternehmen und Organisationen automatisieren auf breiterer Front – auch immer mehr kritische Elemente ihrer Betriebsabläufe. Hierbei stoßen viele an Grenzen, da ihnen die grundlegenden Bausteine fehlen, um dies effektiv und effizient umzusetzen.

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Erweiterbare ERP Cores ebnen den Weg für individualisierte Digitalisierung (Prediction #5)

Posted on January 25, 2023

Bei der Neugestaltung der Geschäftsanwendungslandschaft konzentrieren sich viele Unternehmen auf Anwendungsarchitekturen mit einem Cloud-basierten ERP Core. Das ist sinnvoll, da die Modernisierung hauptsächlich darauf abzielt, agile und resiliente Geschäftsprozesse und -modelle zu schaffen, die sich in einer immer digitaleren Welt rasch an ...

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Application Management und Infrastrukturkonsolidierung in der digitalen Fabrik – mehr digitale Effizienz im Edge-Bereich der Fabrik (2023 Prediction #4)

Posted on January 25, 2023

Fabriken haben heute stark verteilte IT-Infrastrukturen. Nicht selten nutzen Unternehmen hunderte oder sogar tausende von Industrie-PCs für verschiedenste Zwecke in ihren Fabriken. Das macht das IT-Infrastruktur- und Anwendungsmanagement sehr komplex. Kunden, die die Komplexität und Kosten ihrer IT-Infrastruktur im Bereich Betriebstechnik ...

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Energiemanagement – der erste Schritt in Richtung Net Zero (2023 Prediction #3)

Posted on January 25, 2023

Das Geschäft mit Energiemanagement-Lösungen boomt dank explodierender Energiekosten und wird auch 2023 weiter an Bedeutung gewinnen. Laut Recherchen von PAC stehen Energiemanagement-Lösungen bei europäischen Firmen aktuell an zweiter Stelle der am häufigsten genutzten Technologiebausteine im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit, direkt nach Software zur ...

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Zwischen Edge und Cloud – warum Orchestrierung und Management erfolgskritisch sind (2023 Prediction #2)

Posted on January 25, 2023

In den verschiedenen Branchen werden physische Standorte zunehmend mit IoT und Betriebstechnik ausgestattet, um aus den Daten mehr Einblicke in den Betrieb zu gewinnen. Hierbei hat sich gezeigt, dass Latenzzeiten und Konnektivität zwischen dem Edge-Bereich einer Organisation und der Cloud zu ineffizienter Datenverarbeitung führen können.

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Optimierung der Cloud-Nutzung / optimiertes Kostenmanagement / FinOps – ein wesentlicher Schritt in Richtung bedarfsgerechtes Management von Multi-Clouds und hybriden Clouds (2023 Prediction #1)

Posted on January 25, 2023

Trotz der weltweiten wirtschaftlichen Probleme erwartet PAC weiterhin erhebliches Wachstum bei Public Cloud Services im Jahresvergleich, da Unternehmen und Organisationen schrittweise auf hybride und Multi-Cloud-Betriebsmodelle umstellen. Cloud Computing in all seinen Formen gilt als Impulsgeber für Geschäftsinnovationen, da Anwendungen bei ...

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Putting the foundations in place for hyper-automation (2023 Prediction #6)

Posted on January 25, 2023

As organizations automate more broadly, and increasingly critical aspects of their operations, many are hitting a glass ceiling as they lack the fundamental building blocks to ensure that they do this in an effective and efficient way.

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Expandable ERP cores are paving the way for individualized digitalization (2023 Prediction #5)

Posted on January 24, 2023

When redesigning the business application landscape, many companies focus on application architectures with a cloud-based ERP core. This makes sense, as modernization is primarily aimed at setting up agile and resilient business processes and business models capable of adapting to rapid change and adversity in an increasingly digitalized ...

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Application management and infrastructure consolidation in the digital factory – more digital efficiency at the factory edge (2023 Prediction #4)

Posted on January 23, 2023

IT infrastructures within factories are highly distributed today. It is not uncommon for companies to use hundreds or even thousands of industrial PCs (IPCs) for various different purposes on their shop floors. This leads to complexity in IT infrastructure and application management. When clients consider reducing the complexity and cost of ...

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Les gros acteurs pure player de l’ingénierie, une espèce en voie de disparition ?

Posted on January 20, 2023

Représentant près de 7,4 Md € en France en 2022, en croissance de +7.6% (Observatoire de Conjoncture S2 2022 PAC pour Numeum), le conseil en technologies (CET) est un marché dynamique, porté par la reprise de ses deux principaux verticaux en 2022 : l’automobile et l’aéronautique. Ainsi, après avoir été le secteur du numérique le plus touché ...

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Energy management – the first step towards net zero (2023 Prediction #3)

Posted on January 20, 2023

The energy management business is booming due to soaring energy costs and will continue to gain in importance in 2023. Energy management solutions are currently the second most frequently used building block of sustainability-related technology for European firms, according to PAC research, just after ESG data monitoring & reporting ...

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Recent trends in AI adoption by German banks

Posted on January 19, 2023

Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) has been steadily increasing across the banking sector in Germany. This is due to the fact that with the help of machine learning (ML), standardized and repetitive processes in particular can be automated to increase efficiency. Virtual assistants and smart language recognition solutions are other ...

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From edge to cloud, why orchestration and management are critical for success (2023 Prediction #2)

Posted on January 19, 2023

As industries continue to expand how they instrument physical locations through IoT and operational technology (OT) to provide richer data insight into their operations, it became apparent that latency and connectivity from the edge of an organization to the cloud can cause data processing inefficiencies. This drove the need for a degree of ...

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Cloud usage optimization / optimized expense management / FinOps - an essential step to managing multi and hybrid clouds at scale (2023 Prediction #1)

Posted on January 18, 2023

Despite the global economic issues, PAC continues to see significant growth year-on-year (YoY) for public cloud services as organizations transition gradually to hybrid and multi-cloud operating models. In all its forms, cloud computing is seen as a catalyst for business innovation as applications are modified or rearchitected entirely when ...

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Separating the hype from the reality of ChatGPT

Posted on January 18, 2023

ChatGPT is a great example of how AI offers a new way to interact with the repository of human knowledge. Despite its current capability and future potential, a range of societal, legal, and governmental factors still need to be addressed for humanity to benefit from AI technologies like ChatGPT.

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Le marché des services autour de la data en France attirent beaucoup d’acteurs différents

Posted on January 13, 2023

PAC est en train de finaliser son panorama des fournisseurs des services data en France. Le moins que l’on puisse dire est que le marché des services de la data est en pleine croissance et que de nombreux acteurs essayent de s’y positionner. Cet écosystème n’est pas nouveau mais est en constante mutation avec de nouveaux venus qui se ...

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Shakeup of the vendor landscape and new initiatives around open-source-based industrial IoT platforms

Posted on January 12, 2023

Open-source-based industrial IoT platforms have a clear focus on leveraging open-source technologies for large-scale IoT deployments across industrial, mobile, and other enterprise-related use cases. As the market for IoT platforms is maturing, we observe that open-source-based industrial IoT becomes a relevant alternative in the market. ...

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Fields of digital innovation: blockchain, quantum, VR/AR - VI

Posted on January 11, 2023

Cloud, IoT, and analytics are highly dynamic but widely established building blocks of digital innovation. In addition, less mature, or even newly emerging technologies are considered as important milestones of digital innovation, such as blockchain technology, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), and quantum computing.

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Dutch consortium NL-ECO: a testbed for energy-efficient technologies

Posted on January 10, 2023

Dutch consortium NL-ECO consisting of over 30 organizations covering academia, social partners, and industry, set to investigate new concepts for energy-efficient IT to curb energy usage and emissions.

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