Technology Magazine October 2019 | Page 115

CLICK TO WATCH : ‘ REIMAGINE EVERYTHING WITH SAP & DELOITTE ’ 115 a new business model around that and charge for that as a service . You can then expand that to remote equipment diagnostics , or being able to engage in a retail experience in novel ways . We see 5G as very much a game changer as we look at the next three , four or five years .”
The introduction of 5G brings with it a host of considerations as well , an increase in data volume being one of the most important to address . “ One of the main opportunities that we ’ re encountering is data management ,” says Wilde . “ As we move from a 4G
to a 5G world , the size and quantity of data streams is growing exponentially . We ’ re envisioning a six , seven , eight-fold increase in data usage over the next few years . That is going to be a significant challenge for our customers with regards to data management and data strategy .” To successfully deal with data in such volumes , one solution SAP offers is its recently launched Data Hub , which can link data regardless of where it is stored . “ Organizations which had been trying to organize data into data lakes can now lean on HANA and our Data Hub
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