AI
“ We build solutions for power plants , transportation and more – it impacts people ’ s everyday lives ”
— Wael Elrifai , VP , Solution Engineering , Big Data , Analytics and IoT , Hitachi Vantara
70 and this hasn ’ t gone unnoticed by the international community either with the firm recently being placed on the Thomson Reuters ‘ Top 100 Global Innovators ’ list .
Hitachi Vantara has etched a unique path in the IT and OT space , paying particular attention to the rise of IoT . The benefits of the technology are welldocumented : in fact , recent research from Forbes Insights found that 45 % of executives surveyed identified IoTenabled manufacturing as a high or very high priority for their enterprises .
But , for companies wanting to take the first step on their IoT-led digital transformation , where should they begin ? “ A good place to start is to look for a business process which you already do like managing a fleet or restocking shelves and find a way to do it better through prediction ,” Elrifai suggests . “ We talk a lot about disruption but most companies want an evolution .”
From manufacturing and supply chain , to energy and healthcare , IoT is set to up-end all our preconceived notions of how to run a business ,
JUNE 2019