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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Oct 20th

Sramana Mitra: What you mentioned is data in general. That’s not data generated by Internet of Things because they’re not rolling out Internet of Things yet. David Parker: You’re missing the point. What I’m saying is what’s preventing them from rolling out Internet of Things is the data security because they want to take that

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, Oct 19th

Sramana Mitra: Only if you can ensure that it is a secure process. Because if you look at all the breaches that we’ve seen like the Target breach, it’s opening up huge question marks on whether it’s a good idea to expose that much of surface area to security threats. David Parker: That’s one side

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, Oct 18th

Sramana Mitra: How pervasive would you say is the adoption of Internet of Things? Do you have sensors’ use cases in each of these segments that you brought up? It sounds like manufacturing and industrial automation is one of the early adopters. Is that 100% penetrated? What are we talking here? David Parker: The irony

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Oct 17th

David Parker: Number two is, these industries like manufacturing, CPG, automotive, mining, oil & gas are the primary industries that we’re seeing a lot of traction from our customers across the globe, irrespective of the initiative that’s coming out of Germany. The main reason for that is that they envision that there must be a

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Oct 16th

Sramana Mitra: I have a specific question on what is the state of the union that you are seeing in your customer base with SAP. Are there large customers who are connecting up through these RFID/sensor devices with huge numbers of assets? If so, then which industry sectors are they in and, if you are

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 15th

Sramana Mitra: What has that got to do with IoT? David Parker: When you look at IoT, my view of IoT is just another data artifact. Unfortunately, the market does get hung up on terminologies. It was Big Data a couple of years ago. Before that, you had enterprise service architectures. There’s always a terminology.

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Oct 14th

David discussed IoT in the context of SAP customers, and also points out open problems that entrepreneurs can work on. Very interesting discussion on the nuances of the industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s introduce you to our audience. What is your role at SAP? Where do you come from? What kind of background and perspective do

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