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DT, Commerzbank cooperate to develop digital industry solutions

Deutsche Telekom stated its enterprise IT subsidiary T-Systems was already working with Commerzbank on a pilot system   German operator Deutsche Telekom and compatriot bank Commerzbank have partnered to develop digital supply chain systems with integrated financial services which use 5G, AI, IoT, blockchain, sensors and...

NEC creates new digital healthcare division, targeting $4.5bn revenues by 2030

Japanese tech giant NEC has announced a new digital healthcare and life science business, as part of its stated mid-term strategy to develop new business units to drive growth for the company in the period to 2025. It wants to grow company revenues by...

Hitachi, Microsoft partner for manufacturing and logistics digital solutions

Predictive maintenance, process automation focus use cases Hitachi and Microsoft Corp. announced a multi-year strategic alliance to accelerate the digital transformation of the manufacturing and logistics industries across Southeast Asia, North America and Japan. In a release, the partners said that the first solutions will be...

Orange takes part in contact tracing app to fight COVID-19 in France

  French telecommunications group Orange announced it has joined a French government-backed research and development project bringing together national players to set up a contact tracing application, as part of the country’s fight against the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. In a statement, the French carrier said it...

DC Cloudification & Consolidation Smooths Digital Transformation for Operators

  The cloud transformation that Huawei helped operator W implement is comprised of four steps: The first was forming a hybrid cloud blueprint and planning the migration rollout roadmap for the solution with the best return on investment (ROI). The second was building the cloud...

Digital Transformation: Where should you begin?

  Digital transformation is a huge and confusing topic, making it very difficult to know where to begin. The Open ROADS Community has created the Digital Mastermind to answer this question and guide your entire transformation journey. The essence of this method, which we call...

5G demands more network densification

  While 5G networks continue to be a major topic in the network communications industry, there are still many questions around how 5G will be achieved. Digital usage trends—such as 220 million connected vehicles on the road by 2020 and videos accounting for 82 percent of...

Six challenges for smart manufacturing and industrial IoT

Research house Strategy Analytics has produced a report, in conjunction with low-power wide-area (LPWA) network provider Actility, that considers the opportunities and the challenges of internet-of-things (IoT) technologies in smart manufacturing, and the broad industrial sector. The benefits of digital technologies, including advanced data analytics...

France puts industrial transformation at the heart of ambitious 5G roadmap

The industrial internet-of-things (IoT) is at the heart of France’s new 5G roadmap, unveiled late yesterday by the French electronic communications and postal regulatory authority (Arcep). The new plan, presented by Arcep chair Sébastien Soriano, flanked by secretaries of state for economic affairs and...

The IIoT interview (pt2): “Three is the magic number for digital ROI,” says Hitachi

Manufacturers should treble their money on digital transformation, at least, reckons Greg Kinsey, vice president of Hitachi Vantara. If the digital ROI does not stack up, before starting out, then they should down tools, and start over. If the it does, they should expect to...

The IIoT interview (pt1): “It’s a two-speed market; the US doesn’t get it,” says Hitachi

The industrial ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market is geographically skewed, reckons one of its leading protagonists. Greg Kinsey, vice president of Japan-based Hitachi's Vantara business, says the US is way behind, fixated on sensors in factories, while European countries rewrite the industrial rule-book with...

Caribbean digital policies emerging under Cisco, Digicel agreement

Cisco, Digicel sketch digital vision for Caribbean countries with new agreement Cisco and Digicel announced they have signed a Caribbean Countries Digitalization Frame Agreement, detailing each company's plans for advancing the digital agenda and policies for 26 countries in the Caribbean and Central America. As...

Cisco kicks off IoT initiative in Hong Kong

Cisco has established a partner-driven IoT digital lab Cisco has launched an IoT-based smart city pilot program in Hong Kong dubbed the Digital Living Lab. Together with a number of partners, Cisco set up a low-power RAN gateway (LoRaWAN) at Hong Kong Science Park (HKSTP)...