All Big Data & analytics articles – Page 7
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ArticleFord CIO Marcy Klevorn: Experiments in new areas are OK
Ford CIO Marcy Klevorn will speak at the automotiveIT Kongress March 17 (Photo: Ford)It’s been little more than a year since CEO Mark Fields formally announced that Ford Motor was making some fundamental changes to its tried-and-tested business model. “We are driving innovation in every part of our business ...
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ArticleVolkswagen CEO: Europe should lead in new mobility
VW's Mueller talks to reporters at the Detroit auto show (Photo: VW)Europe should take the lead in developing new mobility and "not leave the playing field to Silicon Valley," Volkswagen Group CEO Matthias Mueller said.In a speech at the New Year's reception of the European auto industry association - ...
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FeatureKia USA executive: "Automakers are willing to take more risks"
Kia's Bzeih says CRM will be crucial in attracting customers to the brand (Photo: Arjen Bongard)Kia announced at the CES consumer electronics show that it plans to spend an initial 2 billion dlrs on advanced driver assistance systems in the next three years as it pursues a goal of ...
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ArticleCES: Toyota steps up connected-car technology
Toyota wants to improve maps with data from camera-equipped production cars (Photo: Toyota)LAS VEGAS - Toyota announced it is stepping up its effort to provide enhanced connectivity in its next-generation vehicles. As part of the plan, the world's biggest automaker is establishing a Toyota Big Data Center that will ...
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ArticleFord turns to Pivotal for software development
Ford and Pivotal developers work together at Pivotal Labs (Photo: Ford)Ford Motor has engaged Pivotal to develop new software, marking the second time this year that a major automaker is contracting with the California specialist. In September, Daimler announced that it had quickly developed its Mercedes me application with ...
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ArticleAt Schaeffler, a new manager focuses on digitization
Gerhard Baum (Photo: Schaeffler)Following in the footsteps of several other automotive companies, Schaeffler has appointed a chief digital officer. Gerhard Baum, formerly the head of IBM's automotive business, assumed his new responsibilities at the German supplier in October.Baum's primary task will be to optimize, synchronize and merge the growing ...
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ArticleToyota plans massive artificial-intelligence investment
Gill Pratt joined Toyota earlier this year. He previously was a robotics program manager at DARPA, a US Defense Department agency (Photo: Toyota) Toyota Motor is investing 1 billion dlrs over the next five years in artificial intelligence and robotics, underscoring how the automotive industry's corporate priorities are changing.The ...
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ArticleStudy: Big data slow to take hold in transportation industry
PwC warns that, without big data analysis, logistics companies will lose competitiveness (Photo: Toll Collect)Transportation and logistics companies are slow to implement big data and business intelligence tools, according to a study by consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers. Only 19 pc of companies surveyed are using the technologies as part of their ...
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ArticleWorries grow over security of cloud data transfers
Surveys show that many IT managers are unhappy about breakdowns in data transfers to and from the cloudEnthusiasm was high at the outset, but now a survey shows that companies are beginning to have second thoughts about relying on cloud-based architectures. Many experts, for example, are increasingly questioning whether ...
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ArticleSalesforce raises ambitions in Europe
CEO Marc Benioff is the main speaker at the Salesforce World Tour sessions (Photo: Salesforce)MUNICH - With 7,100 guests registered to attend the German part of its World Tour, Salesforce.com is sending a clear signal that it aims to grow its presence in Europe.The San Francisco-based business software group ...
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ArticleAt Ford, autonomous driving moves to next stage
Ford's autonomous vehicle project is part of the company's Smart Mobility Program (Photo: Ford)Ford Motor appointed a director of autonomous vehicle development and said it is moving ahead with its driverless-car project.The US automaker said 29-year Ford veteran Randy Visintainer will lead a global team to work on the ...
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FeatureInterview: Daimler China CIO Marc Lampe discusses CRM
Greater China CIO Marc Lampe (Photo: Daimler) Marc Lampe moved to Beijing as regional CIO of Daimler’s operations in September of 2013. Before taking charge of the carmaker’s IT operations in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, he was responsible for IT in the German company’s vans segment. Lampe’s ...
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ArticleITS World Congress - Bordeaux
(Photo: ITS)The annual ITS World Congress, a global forum to discuss smart transportation strategies, will take place in Bordeaux, France, Oct 5 - 9.The gathering, which brings together public and private transportation stakeholders, will have as its main theme:Â “Towards Intelligent Mobility ”“ Better Use of Space.”The meeting's focus ...
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ArticleautomotiveIT Congress: BMW addresses disruptive innovation challenge
CIO Klaus Straub says BMW IT is changing processes to address new digital challenges (Photo: Claus Dick)HANOVER - Silicon Valley is the source of various new disruptive technologies and the auto industry should treat these "with respect," BMW CIO Klaus Straub said Thursday.Carmakers are facing "dramatic changes," Straub  ...
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ArticleautomotiveIT Congress: ThyssenKrupp IT undergoing total change
Muehleck and Grabmair jointly outlined the far-reaching IT changes at ThyssenKrupp (Photo: Claus Dick)Information technology is crucial at ThyssenKrupp as the steel and engineering group aims to be a trailblazer for need-based management of services. ThyssenKrupp, which has a sizeable automotive division, is undergoing a total change process that ...
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ArticleDeutsche Telekom, Cisco, Intel to help IoT startups
The internet of things means that, by 2020, 50 billion devices are likely to be connected (Photo: Beecham Research)Deutsche Telekom, Intel and Cisco have launched a joint program to help startup companies develop internet-of-things projects. The three IT groups said, in a joint press release, that they will provide ...
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ArticleautomotiveIT magazine: Visiting VW's new data lab
Volkswagen recently opened a new data lab in the trendy Schwabing section of Munich.automotiveIT's Hilmar Dunker paid a visit and discovered a research facility with a singular focus on implementing digital innovations across the VW Group."We want to bring  big data and advanced analytics into the company - and ...
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FeatureautomotiveIT publishes book about car industry's future
MUNICH ”“ Germany's Media-Manufaktur has published a book that provides an in-depth look at how the world's biggest car companies are preparing for an era of new mobility.The German business publisher, parent company of automotiveIT and automotiveIT international, said the new 88-page ”“ English-language ”“ book is titled “Automotive 4.0 ...
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ArticleStudy: Industry revenue is hit by data losses
An EMC poll shows that unplanned downtime and data losses cost companies money (Graphic: EMC)German companies and larger public organizations have posted 33.6 billion euros less revenue in the past 12 months because they have lost data as a result of a technical problem, according to a new study.The ...
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ArticleBMW on track with efforts to reduce energy consumption in plants
At BMW's Spartanburg plant, more than 80 production units and robots have smart meters (Photo: BMW)BMW is on track with efforts to lower the amount of energy it needs to build cars, with energy consumption per vehicle dropping 31 percent between 2006 and 2013. By 2020, the Munich-based premium ...
