How well is Germany positioned in Race for Digitisation compared to other Countries?
The IoT’s impact on the European industry was the topic in three earlier articles. In the first one we have discussed how new…
Smart Cities Will Need Smart Strategies & Technology
Cities are all about the people living in them. The infrastructure and face of municipal areas have always reflected changes within society. Since…
IBM Watson & EBV MAREN Are Machine Learning’s Dream Couple
By now you might have read about our versatile high performance and low power IoT sensor hub MAREN (if not click here). The…
If Data Is The World’s New Currency You Want HFactory To Be Your Bank
The current state of the industrial IoT (IIoT) is defined by decreasing hardware and component costs as well as unsatisfactory data analytics implementations.…
A Closer Look At Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016
When Gartner revealed its new list of the top 10 technology trends which will be strategic for organisations in 2016 some well-known names…
Cloud Technology – A Crash Course
Cloud technology is a vital part of Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT) – but what is the cloud? The Cloud…
The Top IT trends for 2015 – with Avnet CIO Steve Phillips
There is no doubt that semiconductors and IT are like Romeo and Juliet as non of both works without the other. Therefore it…
Bigger is always better – let’s do big data!
Big data has been a “thing” for some years now and still many mid-sized and smaller businesses are figuring out if it is worth getting into it or not. The answer will most definitely be yes. To explain this rather radical statement let us define big data real quick.
In theory Gartner, Inc.’s definition “Big data is high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making.”