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IBM’s gigantic Think 2018 conference came on the back of the company’s first quarterly revenue rise since Q1 2012. Good news then, and it undoubtedly lent an extra spring to the proceedings at the Mandalay Bay convention centre in Las Vegas....
CoSMoS – Conference on Smart Mobility Services
This year, the third edition of CoSMoS took place at the Technical University of Ingolstadt (THI) in Germany, with about 170 participants in attendance. As the name of the conference suggests, the presentations revolved around smart mobility. It was not only the latest trends from a business perspective that were on display, but also the ...
CoSMoS – Conference on Smart Mobility Services
Dieses Jahr fand die CoSMoS zum dritten Mal mit rund 170 Teilnehmern an der Technischen Hochschule (THI) in Ingolstadt statt. Wie der Name der Konferenz schon vermuten lässt, drehten sich die Vorträge rund um das Thema Smart Mobility. Und es wurden nicht nur die neuesten Trends aus der Businessperspektive gezeigt, sondern auch der aktuelle ...
European transport industry bets on IoT and AI
Transport incumbents across all sub-segments are investing in technology solutions based on IoT and AI to boost their operational efficiency while improving the customer experience at the same time. PAC recently published several reports on the back of its recent projects in the transport segment and recent engagements with the players on ...
Bosch Connected World 2018 - focus on autonomous driving and smart logistics
At this year’s Bosch Connected World in Berlin (Feb 21-22) it became obvious yet again that Bosch’s IoT-related focus was on the topics of connected car and autonomous driving. At the same time, the topics of logistics and supply chain within the area of industrial IoT/Industry 4.0 have gained momentum. Bosch is still very keen to expand its ...
Bosch Connected World 2018 - autonomes Fahren und Smart Logistics im Fokus
Die Bosch Connected World in Berlin (21.02.-22.02.) hat auch dieses Jahr wieder deutlich gemacht, dass der IoT-Fokus von Bosch ganz klar auf den Themen Connected Car und autonomes Fahren liegt. Gleichzeitig gewinnt das Thema Logistik und Supply Chain innerhalb des Bereichs Industrie 4.0 an Bedeutung. Nach wie vor legt Bosch großen Wert auf ...
Tendances 2018 : plus d'intelligence et d'automatisation
Le numérique reste un sujet prédominant dans le programme des DSI pour l'année à venir. Ce concept a déjà fait couler beaucoup d'encre et suscité de nombreuses discussions. Bon nombre d'entreprises ont déjà lancé des projets et augmenté leur budget numérisation de manière significative. Pourtant, il est clair qu'il reste encore beaucoup à ...
L’IT contextuelle tire fortement la croissance du marché !
Le modèle traditionnel de l’IT a fait son temps. C'est ce que nous expliquions en début d'année, et les chiffres que nous venons de publier confirment bien qu’au-delà d’un angle vertical et/ou métier, l’approche doit se faire selon un « contexte » donné qui est centré sur l’usage et peut donc déborder des schémas classiques. Nous avons ...
HPE repositions in IoT to focus on Intelligent Edge
The spin-out of the HP Enterprise Services business means that HPE also needs to reposition in the IoT ecosystem. PAC recently caught up with the company's IoT leadership and discussed where their ambitions lie in the post-separation world.
Capgemini Deutschland wächst mit Digitalisierungsprojekten
IoT news from the Bosch ConnectedWorld conference
The ConnectedWorld conference, which took place in Berlin from March 15-16, 2017, clearly indicated the direction Bosch will be heading in in the following years. Three subjects will be at the center of undertakings: the connected car and autonomous driving, expansion of the Bosch IoT partner ecosystem and pursuit of its own digital ...
IoT-News von der Bosch ConnectedWorld
Die ConnectedWorld in Berlin hat deutlich gemacht, wohin die IoT-Reise bei Bosch in den nächsten Jahren gehen wird. Im Zentrum stehen die folgenden drei Themen: Connected Car und autonomes Fahren, der Ausbau des IoT-Partner-Ökosystems und die eigene digitale Transformation.
SAP introduces its IoT portfolio - is Leonardo a big step forward or rather a big hype?
To answer the question right away – this announcement is neither a big step nor a big hype, it is a logical evolution of what we saw SAP doing in 2016. After the acquisition of the Plat.One IoT platform in the 2nd half of 2016, the announcement of the SAP Leonardo Innovation Portfolio demonstrates the integration of SAP’s existing IoT ...
Impressions from the Genius of Things Summit: A new IoT Crystallization Point
IBM’s recent IoT (Internet of Things) Summit at the now officially opened ‘Watson IoT Center’ global headquarters in the heart of Munich gave a lot of insight into how far the industry has come with its industrial IoT efforts. The industry seems to have found a new IoT crystallization point.
HCL appoints new leader to continue digital momentum
It was a strong quarter for HCL whose growth has now moved ahead of its bigger peers such as TCS, Cognizant and Wipro. And the company has a new man tasked with continuing this momentum, with former COO C Vijayakumar stepping up to the CEO position.
NTT DATA Services sets out positioning in Industrial IoT
It has been a year of massive change for Dell, which has seen it snap up EMC for a whopping £43bn and sell its IT services business to NTT DATA for $3bn. The NTT DATA deal closed this week, and PAC recently caught up with executives from NTT DATA Services, formerly Dell Services, to discuss its positioning around IoT.
EY looks to Industrial IoT for digital momentum
EY, one of the Big 4 firms, has recently started to make a bigger push around IoT. Things changed since its recent alliance with GE Digital, which secured it one of the best seats at the IoT table. PAC views EY as a serious contender in the IoT race and it will use its influence at CxO level in client organizations. Its wide European ...
GE Digital raises stakes on European IoT market
PAC spoke with Bill Ruh who is currently at the forefront of GE's digital efforts as GE Digital CEO and Chief Digital Officer of GE. GE Digital is trying to position itself as the number one IoT provider with Predix, its vendor-agnostic platform purpose built for industrial customers. To retain its leading position in the industrial IoT ...
Usage-based insurance: How to get access to the required data?
Connected cars promise new business models, as does usage-based insurance (UBI) for the insurance industry. Currently it is still unclear how insurance companies will get access to the required data. What is clear, however, is that OEMs will not offer their help.
When machines do nothing for humans
Three quite serious anecdotes remind us that “bugs” are and remain IT’s worst enemy. And they will continue to have an impact on our daily lives.
AI will shake things up a bit
Are you familiar with the Tensor Processor Unit or “TPU”? It is a brand new processing unit, or chip, unveiled last week at Google’s I/O conference keynote. This “accelerator” chip - which can fit into a hard drive slot in Google’s data center rack - can speed up machine learning processes, the science and technology that imitates, extends ...
