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.
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
Sramana Mitra: Are there other really interesting, far out there, use cases that you’ve encountered that are worth discussing? Michael Martin: We have one going on in the lab right now. It’s an interesting one. It is a replenishment application. We have an innovation lab where our engineers work on thought provokers that we bring to our
Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. You were a services and solutions company. It sounds like you have built this whole system from scratch. How is it that there aren’t off-the-shelf systems out there from the people who do retail enterprise software? Michael Martin: There are and they’re coming. For us as an integrator, we’re not as
Sramana Mitra: I’m trying to understand what are good interesting Internet of Things use cases, not the process of how you service clients. Michael Martin: One interesting use case from the experiment stage is we work with a large grocer who has typical business objectives that a large grocery retailer would have. In that experiment phase,
If you think large enterprises are readily rolling out IoT solutions, think again. They are not, they should not. Find out why. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company. Michael Martin: I’m the CTO and CIO at nfrastructure. nfrastructure is a technolgy services and solutions company.
Sramana Mitra: How does your identity work? From the perspective of each unit that is being identified, people are capturing different types of data. The parameters that are being captured from that identity point of view is different. Is that something that is customizable in your solution and that’s up to the industry vertical to
Sramana Mitra: I’m not convinced about what you’re saying. The horizontal stuff is commodity, but the real differentiation of what the user experience can be for an automobile that is IoT-enabled is where the interesting opportunity is. Daniel Raskin: It’s going to be companies like Toyota or others like that who are building those next generation platforms