Philip Hooker
Vice President, Strategic Programs at Software AG
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Remember, your data will be with you, always
Industry 4.0, a new hope… It is a period of intense economic rivalry… New entrants, leveraging the power of global cloud services, have won their first victory against mature incumbents… During the engagement, the new entrants were made aware of the incumbents' common key weakness; their fractured enterprises, with silos of data disconnected between departments, IT and operations… Pursued by… -
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The thin end of the IoT edge
Edge computing often takes place on assets located in harsh or low-connectivity working environments; this is where “thin edge” lightweight, low-powered edge devices excel. Many of the more than 26 million software developers in the world (and growing), are focused on making small, semi-autonomous devices (upon which our modern lives depend) work better. These can range from controllers that sense when industrial paint… -
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How to build resilience into your IoT architecture
Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse, as was discovered by a prospective customer recently. Picture the scene. It’s a video conference like many others over the last year. Stakeholders from both the prospect and Software AG came together to discuss the prospect’s challenges and determine its way out of a pickle. The prospect, an office supply company, eager to… -
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On Pi Day, STEM skills matter
The challenges of the last 12 months proved that the world is increasingly dependent on technology. Yet, counter-intuitively, there remains a skills shortage in key areas – particularly in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Is the STEM skills shortage really a skills mismatch? Or is there something else happening? March 14 (3/14 in US terms) is Pi Day 2021, the… -
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Incubating Our Hidden Heroes
Making something complicated seem easy is an art – and a science. It’s not until you really investigate something complex that you realize the lengths experts have gone to make it simple to use. Since the dawn of electricity, electric motors have literally been driving automation and industrialization of the world. But it wasn’t until 50 years ago that Hasse… -
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What does Freedom as a Service Mean for IoT?
For organizations already struggling with an abundance of rapidly evolving technologies, virtually unbounded business possibilities and the competitive necessity to accelerate adoption, freedom is imperative. We believe that freedom for IoT involves recognizing the context of your organization and its relative maturity in its IoT-driven transformation. In Altimeter’s report, “The Race against Digital Darwinism,” it is proposed that there are six… -
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Come Visit us at MWC 2019 in Barcelona!
Everyone’s favorite city of Barcelona will once again be the host for Mobile World Congress 2019, offering an unbeatable mix of art, cuisine and culture to more than 100,000 attendees from more than 2,400 leading companies. So come and see us at the world’s largest mobile event. Dive into your IoT-connected future at our stand 8.0D11 in the IoT Pavilion, Hall… -
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See What Intelligent Connectivity Really Means
Intelligent, smart, brainy: These are terms that no longer relate only to humans, but today also to phones, cities, cars, industry and – maybe most importantly – to connectivity. According to mobile communications industry group GSMA: “Intelligent connectivity marks the beginning of a new era defined by highly contextualized and personalized experiences, delivered as and when you want them.” Intelligent connectivity,…
