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Internet of Things
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John McDonald, CEO of CloudOne (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: These platforms that you’ve described so far, besides the customer example that we went over, do each of these platforms have other customers? John McDonald: In both cases, there are other companies that we’re working with and have been working with to implement an extremely similar kind of environment. For instance, we also
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John McDonald, CEO of CloudOne (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch to a different platform and a different customer and do the same kind of use case description. John McDonald: I’ll give you another example of a well-known company. Panasonic has many different businesses but one of their businesses is a unit called Panasonic Automotive Systems that makes car radios or as they
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John McDonald, CEO of CloudOne (Part 1)
CloudOne focuses on IoT applications as they pertain to the industrial engineering sector, primarily. Based in Indianapolis, in the heart of the manufacturing industry hub of the United States, the company caters to over 50 customers, and in this interview, John shares some examples and trends from the sector. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 7)
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
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 6)
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
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 5)
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
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 4)
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
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: David Parker, Global Vice President, SAP (Part 3)
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
