Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst opened his presentation at Gartner’s Data & Analytics Summit in Sydney this week with a dire warning: companies must fully exploit data to survive. “We have a saying in Silicon Valley: in the 21st century all companies are data companies, will be data companies, or will be extinct. Those are the […]
Hitachi Vantara to analyse Disney theme park rides
Hitachi’s IoT subsidiary, Hitachi Vantara has become the official ride and show analytics provider to Disney theme parks in Florida and California. Hitachi technology will be used to provide analytics from theme park operations to improve operational efficiency. Hitachi’s Lumada data management, analytics and IoT software will be used to collect and analyse data and […]
CCP plans fridge maintenance and food blockchain
ASX listed CCP Technologies (ASX: CT1), which has built its business to date on monitoring the temperature of commercial refrigeration units, is now exploiting data analytics and blockchain to enable it to offer proactive refrigeration maintenance and food tracking and provenance services. Details of the latest initiatives were announced by CEO Michael White at the […]
Data scientist training school opens in Sydney
The masses of data generated by IoT is creating enormous opportunities for the application of data analytics in almost every industry, exacerbating an already dire shortage of data scientists A new school has opened in Sydney to help meet the need. Data School Australia is the first international location for the UK-headquartered Data School established […]
Huawei gets closer to SAP to exploit IoT opportunities
Huawei has announced plans to expand its existing collaboration with SAP on the SAP HANA platform saying it will enable both companies to explore new opportunities in Asia Pacific and Japan in big data and analytics, smart city, safe city, IoT and cloud. Huawei says it has a long-standing partnership with SAP around the SAP […]
Johnson Controls promises to transform field servicing
Johnson Controls has introduced into Asia Pacific what it says is a transformational program that will use cloud-based services, mobility tools and data analytics to increase service technicians’ productivity by more than 10 percent and lower equipment maintenance and repair costs. The company says its cloud-based field mobility productivity tools and connected services will give […]
