Hannover Messe 2019: It's all about enabling the smart digital factory - #1

This year’s motto at Hannover Messe was “Integrated Industries – Industrial Intelligence”. With only three days to get an overview of the major trends out there, I tried to focus on what’s happening in particular in the digital factory domain. So, let me share with you my personal highlights related to the digital factory, which are my key take-aways from conversations I had with several execs at the fair. Speaking of whom, thanks to all of you who have taken the time for meeting up with me!

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 this new digital core is certainly not going to stop at the infrastructure layer (IaaS) and will also spread into the platform layer (PaaS). Let’s take a quick look at what was announced.

Under the hood of Atos' new strategy

It has been a busy 12 months for Atos.  The world’s tenth largest IT services supplier completed the $3.4bn purchase of Syntel, started the separation process with its Worldline payments processing division, and kicked off a new three-year strategy (“Advance 2021”).

Edge computing – more than a hype?!

Edge computing is often discussed as an attack against cloud computing. In fact, it’s not! Edge computing can support computing tasks which cannot be done in the cloud in an appropriate manner. 

PAC RADAR "SAP Services in Deutschland und der Schweiz": Vielfalt ist gefragt

Angesichts des wachsenden SAP-Portfolios und des Einflusses durch Cloud Computing sind Dienstleister gefragt, die ihre Kompetenzen auf mehr als ein SAP-Produkt ausweiten. Dies bedeutet nicht nur, die Beratungskompetenz im Bereich SAP Roadmap und Architekturstrategie zu stärken, sondern auch, die eigenen Angebote im Bereich SAP Hosting und SAP Application Management neu auszurichten...  

The IoT Survey 2019 gives a voice to IoT platform users

We are happy to present the world’s first comprehensive overview of the IoT platform market from a user perspective: The IoT Survey 2019. It presents 38 IoT platform providers and makes them easier to compare thanks to the categorization according to 24 KPIs and 8 peer groups. The first issue of teknowlogy's annual report provides an invaluable resource to companies in the process of identifying a suitable IoT platform.