Four years ago, businesses found themselves in a global recession. Revenues were flat or decreasing; credit was very tight; and layoffs were commonplace. Investment in technology and communication services slowed and in many cases halted as businesses held steady and planned carefully for the future. Seeking an update on the business climate, CSG International joined MachNation to conduct the Business Services Global Survey 2014. This online survey of over 800 businesses worldwide measured attitudes and […]
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Automation in the industrial internet: giving up control
MachNation recently moderated a panel on the Industrial Internet at an IoT event. One key question we addressed — are we comfortable excluding all human intervention from an IoT-enhanced business process and allowing machines to control our industrial world?
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Connecting the unconnected is more than a conceptual platitude. Connecting people and things in new ways allow us to create new industries and businesses, address issues of global environmental importance, bring economic stability to unstable nations, educate populations in new ways, and fuel myriad other public- and private-sector endeavors. In order to address these types of national and global challenges, while spurring business innovation and growth, we must integrate technologies in new ways. This new […]
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CLIENT RESEARCH click here. Analytics is a critical enabler of IoT solutions. Being able to aggregate, store, manipulate and analyze data from connected devices yields value to the public and private sector organizations adopting these types of solutions. This research document discusses specialty analytics’ vendors for IoT, ancillary tools and some enterprises using novel IoT analytics solutions.
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At Cisco Live! Cisco announced new video solutions to further augment its Internet of Everything story. Cisco defines the Internet of Everything (IoE) as “bringing together people, process, data, and things to make networked connections more relevant and valuable than ever before-turning information into actions that create new capabilities, richer experiences, and unprecedented economic opportunity for businesses, individuals, and countries.“ The IoE includes technology solutions that drive productivity, cost optimization, innovation, national development, national security […]
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