XR for the enterprise – Accenture and Qualcomm debut hospitality offering
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailIHG piloting XR Event Planner for sales enablement, remote collaboration We’ve all attended corporate events hosted in hotel meeting rooms but perhaps we overlook the hotel staff, event planners and …
Accenture adds IoT engineering expertise via new acquisition
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemail Accenture recently entered into an agreement to acquire Nytec, a U.S.-based product innovation and engineering company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Nytec is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington …
Accenture snaps up security outfit Deja vu to combat $5.2 trillion cyber threat
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailProfessional services company Accenture has bought Seattle-based ‘security-of-things’ company Deja vu Security for an undisclosed fee, as it seeks to ramp up its cyber-security offer in the face of an …
Digital transformation investments focused on process automation, Accenture says
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailFuture 5G investments will focus on creating service revenues HANNOVER, Germany–Despite major marketing efforts coming out of the telecoms sector, industrial manufacturers today aren’t focused on “leveraging 5G within the …
Japan Airlines and Accenture to trial AI-based service for passengers
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe new service will be initially implamented at Narita and Haneda airports in Tokyo Japan Airlines is working with Accenture on a new service that uses artificial intelligence to answer …
The workforce implications of the industrial IoT
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailReport: Industrial internet of things good for jobs and GDP There are fears that the rise of the industrial IoT and widespread automation of formerly manual processes will lead to …
PTC tops three separate polls of the leading industrial IoT platforms
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailNeedham-based industrial software maker PTC has come top in a series of reviews of industrial IoT (IIoT) platform providers. Its ThingWorx proposition has been consistently identified by analysts in 2018 …
Eight crucial technologies to drive the digital revolution in smart manufacturing
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailThe move to a ‘lights-out’ factory has already begun, but the developing transition requires an overhaul of industrial facilities, equipment, systems and people if it is to go the distance. …
From Accenture to Software AG: the top 10 industrial IoT platforms
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailAnalyst house Gartner has put the leading IIoT platforms through their paces, and named the best in the business. Here, Enterprise IoT Insights reviews the Gartner review, and orders the …
PTC, Hitachi, SAP top Gartner review of IIoT platforms, but major challenges remain
FacebookTwitterLinkedinemailPTC, Hitachi and SAP have come top of Gartner’s inaugural ‘magic quadrant’ for IIoT platforms, ahead of IBM, Software AG and Accenture. But the analyst house warned also that major …
