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There are 2 billion people around the world using smartphones that have an internet connection and a touchscreen or something similar as an interface. By the end of the decade that number looks set to double to just over 4 billion, according to Benedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz, a venture-capital firm. By 2020, something like 80% of adults will own a smartphone connected to this remarkable global resource. Like the book, the clock and the internal combustion engine before it, the smartphone is changing the way people relate to... [Lire la suite]

How a Takeoff in Advanced Robotics Will Power the Next Productivity Surge from The Boston Consulting Group Robotics are quickly approaching an inflection point in usage and are being adopted in new industries. This deck highlights key findings from BCG's research the shifting economics of global manufacturing and the role that advanced robotics will play.

By shifting from a product-centric approach to a customer-centric approach, Product and Pricing Lifecycle Management (PPLM) is transforming the way banks manage products, pricing, loyalty and billing.     more information: http://zafin.com/  

According to the EMC/IDC Digital Universe Report, data is doubling in size every two years. From 2013 to 2020, the digital universe is projected to grow from 4.4 trillion gigabytes to 44 trillion gigabytes. For executives faced with the age-old challenge of how to organize and learn from the data available to them, the problem just got a lot harder. The Internet of Things (IoT) may be a new topic to many executives, but it lies at the heart of the phenomenon of data proliferation. Today, according to the EMC/IDG study, consumers... [Lire la suite]

What role for the insurer in the coming years? A simple risk-bearing, deprived of value in the client relationship, or will he play a more global role of life coach in the heart of a partnership network expanded? That is indeed the question posed by the development of connected objects. Indeed, this second digital revolution could transform the insurers deals, but many obstacles still to be overcome. Whatever the field, connected objects can help change the role of the insurer to that of "life coach" able to advise those who wish... [Lire la suite]

  The BoschConnected World 2015 is the annual conference on the Internet of things (IoT) and takes place on 17-18 February in Berlin. Executives, thought leaders, and expert speakers share their best practices and case studies around IoT-empowered products, services, and solutions. Some of the connected products showcased during the conference are shown in this video. More about the #BCW15 conference:

                        In an all-new report from BI Intelligence, we examine what is currently driving growth in the Internet of Things and how various sectors of the economy will embrace IoT innovations.  Here are a few of the key findings from the BI Intelligence report: The Internet of Things will be the largest device market in the world. We estimate that by 2019 it will be more than double the size of the smartphone, PC, tablet, connected car, and... [Lire la suite]

When “everything is becoming digital,” private, public, and civil institutions become more dependent on information systems and more vulnerable to attack by sophisticated cybercriminals, political “hacktivists,” nation-states, and even their own employees. As a result, all of our institutions will have to make increasingly thoughtful trade-offs between the value inherent in a hyperconnected world and the risk of operational disruption, intellectual property loss, public embarrassment, and fraud that cyberattacks create. Over the... [Lire la suite]

Presentation of INI and opportunities of collaboration  

Deloitte experts believe that French companies should spend experimentation in terms of masses of data analysis this year, after a year of reflection. The focus is particularly on data governance.   The analysis of large-scale digital data (social networks, mobile connections), has become a topic of discussion in all executive committees of major companies last year. In his report on the digital transformation of the digital economy submitted to the government last November, Philippe Lemoine had, however, noted that "the vast... [Lire la suite]