BROWSING: SAP

How Industry 4.0 chilled out and got real (‘not with 5G’) – Software AG hails new dawn for IoT

A good – and overdue and delayed – catchup with Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software AG, at Hannover Messe some months back gave pause to reflect on broader developments with Industry 4.0, and with 5G as an adjunct to it, as well...

Vodafone starts SAP migration to Google Cloud

The migration, now in its pilot phase, will take two to three years and involves 100 apps and processes Vodafone has partnered with Google Cloud to modernize its SAP workloads to Google Cloud, the companies announced. The core initiative at Vodafone, called EVO2CLOUD, is expected to...

The big benefits of better billing in a digital world (Reader forum)

Along the way to becoming one of the world’s largest 5G providers, India’s Jio also has shown telecom companies around the globe how to build a thriving, customer-focused 4G business in record time. This summer, Jio noted that its all-IP 4G LTE network has grown...

IBM, SAP make hybrid cloud play

IBM and SAP have announced a new hybrid cloud partnership aimed at helping SAP's large enterprise customers move ERP workloads to the cloud.

SAP and Software AG team up on self-service analytics for smart factories

Software AG and SAP have announced a deal to offer the former’s TrendMiner industrial analytics software on the latter’s industrial cloud platform for Industry 4.0 operations. The pair said factories can use TrendMinder as a self-service tool to bring new insights to shop floor...

European automotive firms, smart cities get behind industry-wide data sharing

German carrier Deutsche Telekom has issued updates on key projects around industry-wide data sharing in the automotive supply chain and smart cities sectors in Europe. It has also announced, via subsidiary T-Systems, a “high three-digit million” deal with DHL Deutsche Post for public, private,...

Bosch and SAP develop ‘digital industrial standard’ to spark Industry 4.0 fireworks

German pair Bosch and SAP are working to develop a “digital industrial standard” to govern the exchange and usage of company data along the value chain. The partnership holds special promise for the manufacturing industry, and particular for automotive manufacturing, the pair said. It...

Research firm sees 10x increase in digital twin investment by 2025

Digital twin growth led by automotive, energy and manufacturing sectors At a high level, the goal of investing in the internet of things is to capture and analyze data from the physical world--machines, people, products, nature, everything--in pursuit of process efficiencies. For a manufacturer, for...

Siemens, SAP stitch together Industry 4.0 software for entwined digital thread

Siemens and SAP have agreed to offer each other’s industrial production software as complementary solutions in an integrated Industry 4.0 offer, enabling a digital thread between lifecycle management and business operations. SAP will offer Siemens’ cloud-based Teamcenter software to customers as the core foundation for...

SAP recruits startups for Industry 4.0 foundries in Singapore, Tokyo and Berlin

SAP has announced a trio of Industry 4.0 initiatives in Singapore, Tokyo, and Berlin to help startups integrate with its solutions and customers. The programmes are run by so-called ‘foundry’ setups in each market, organized by SAP.iO, the company’s early-stage venture arm. In each case,...

SAP intros Leonardo IoT, tightens integration with Azure IoT Hub

German software company SAP has launched a new internet of things (IoT) suite for its Leonardo platform, as well as closer cloud integration with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub. SAP Leonardo IoT enables customers to combine business process data with IoT data garnered from machines...

5G represents a complex exercise in data management and monetization

SAP executives discuss the data demands operators will face in bringing 5G to market Enhanced mobile broadband will allow mobile users to more quickly consume more data, while massive support for the internet of things and ultra reliable low latency communications will similarly push a...

Talking heads: What to consider when matching industrial IoT use cases to edge-cloud setups

Jean-Philippe Provencher, vice president, manufacturing strategy and solutions, PTC “The governing factors are the facilities, the cost of downtime, and speed of product development. "Cloud computing could hit a snag with these factors as facilities in lower cost areas may struggle with intermittent or costly...

Siemens and SAP join Industry 4.0 initiative to move enterprises out of digital ‘pilot trap’

A new industrial consortium including SAP and Siemens has convened to help industrial organisations go beyond the ‘pilot trap’ with their Industry 4.0 deployments. The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and German testing and certification company TÜV Süd have recruited SAP and Siemens, alongside management...

German software giants cooperate to launch open smart city platform

  SAP and Software AG said they have developed the new smart city platform in compliance with the standards of the EU’s open urban platform initiative   German software companies SAP and Software AG announced a cooperation agreement for the development of an open smart city platform. The...

IIC shows how to optimise assets in smart buildings, machines in smart factories

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has announced results from a pair of testbeds investigating, alternatively, artificial intelligence (AI) for smart buildings management and ways to connect up old factories to new smart manufacturing tools. In the first case, Dell EMC and Toshiba have developed an...

Four “truly smart” smart cities – by SAP’s reckoning

What is a ‘smart city’, exactly? Is it a city with a neat collection of smart solutions, or is it one where everything works together to create new innovations? As it stands, the term is attached to practically any urban centre with a network of...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: Does the tech industry need a new way to sell to cities? (5/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: Should cities build a central data platform? (4/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: Which smart city apps provide the surest ROI? (3/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: What’s so good about PPP? (2/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city – procurement models to make every city smart, we present five burning questions...

Smart cities Q&A | Five key questions for five tech providers: How hard is it to fund smart cities? (1/5)

Ahead of the release on November 5 of a major report by Enterprise IoT Insights into the state of the smart city market, entitled How to buy / sell a smart city - procurement models to make every city smart, we five burning questions for...

Eurotech intros IIoT architecture with Red Hat, trackside data with Vertigo supercar

Italian industrial internet-of-things (IoT) solutions provider Eurotech has introduced a new open, modular, multi-cloud IoT architecture. The solutions was developed with US software companies Cloudera and Red Hat. Separately, it has brought data analytics track-side with Belgian manufacturer Gillet, maker of the Vertigo race...

Kuwait announces smart meter project with Ericsson and Zain

  Ericsson will provide SAP’s HANA in-memory platform for this smart meter project   Kuwait's Ministry of Electricity and Water has announced a new smart meter project which will connect hundreds of thousands of buildings across the Arab country. Under the project, the government aims to install a...