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 determined by many factors.

Multi-cloud strategies of large European companies

Most major organizations use cloud services intensively for IT infrastructure, application development, testing, and operation or rely on the increasingly comprehensive services offered by the large cloud platforms in areas such as machine learning, AI, and IoT. And most of them use more than one cloud platform – they rely on multi-cloud or hybrid clouds. While hybrid cloud refers to a combination of public cloud and private cloud or legacy deployment models, multi-cloud usually stands for the deployment of several public cloud platforms.

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 la BI qui dépasse les 4 milliards d’euros en France (en croissance de 6,6% !). Parmi les autres bonnes pratiques à retenir, nous pouvons aussi citer un recours raisonné à la data science et la nécessité d’automatiser les choses au maximum, qu’on nomme cela intelligence artificielle ou non.

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, quality assurance, supply chain optimization, and autonomous driving are enormous. However, other industries can also benefit from technical improvements in machine learning, image and speech recognition, and 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.

teknowlogy releases newest SAP services rankings at global and regional levels - good news, most players are growing

The SAP ecosystem is one of the largest in the software and IT services space, very active and in continuous evolution. Even if the SAP services market is not the fastest-growing one as a whole, teknowlogy sees a deep transformation from legacy apps and platforms towards new – new applications, including cloud-based, and the new platforms SAP Cloud Platform and SAP HANA.