Automotive IT News and Facts
German managers see big savings potential from the use of business process management software, according to a recent poll. The Software Initiative Germany (SID), an industry association, and software group Metasonic interviewed 100 German business managers and found that 58 pc of them see an industry-wide savings potential of around 5 billion euros. Another 35 [...]
German industrial robot maker Kuka is boosting its presence in the US through the acquisition of the plant engineering business of privately owned Utica Companies. Utica is a Michigan-based welding equipment specialist with a focus on the auto industry. The acquisition will make Kuka the biggest systems supplier in the North American automotive sector, the [...]
Passenger car sales in the European Union fell 10.2 pc in March, posting the 18th consecutive monthly decline, the European auto industry association, ACEA, said Wednesday. Unit sales fell to 1.307 million in March from 1.455 million a year earlier. Sales in the first three months of the year dropped 9.8 pc to 2.989 million [...]
Covisint has launched a new cloud-based collaboration platform for automotive suppliers. The US based cloud services company, which is a subsidiary of technology group Compuware, said its new global platform connects more than 80,000 organizations and eight major auto manufacturers. Covisint has teamed up with Akamai, a US based provider of cloud optimization services, for [...]
Daimler’s Chinese joint venture officially opened a new product development center for vans this week, as the German premium car and truck group continues to broaden the geographical spread of its operations. The center, located in Fuzhou in southeastern China, houses a design and computation department, a proving ground, several component and complete-vehicle test rigs and [...]
Independent IT and engineering consultants can command higher fees as demand for IT services continues to pick up, according to a survey of German IT specialists. According to the survey, which was conducted this month by the Gulp project management and recruiting company, independent IT and engineering consultants are earning an average 79 euros an [...]
T-Systems has entered into a cooperation with US-based Cloudera to boost its offering of big data analytics. The business services arm of Germany’s Deutsche Telekom said it will deliver cloud-based data analytics solutions based on Cloudera’s platform for big data. The two companies will also work together to develop further big data analytics products. Cloudera, [...]
RTT and Canon are joining forces to help companies speed up development times in the product design process. RTT, a Germany-based 3d software specialist, said it has agreed with Canon, a Japanese maker of digital imaging hardware and software, to combine its RTT DeltaGen high-end 3d visualization software with Canon’s new Mreal mixed reality platform. [...]
Cloud-based data sharing poses major risks for companies, according to a new report. “There is potentially a wave of disruption that could spread over corporations,” data specialist Varonis Systems warns in a report on what is referred to as “shareconomy.” Shareconomy is also the keynote theme of the upcoming CeBIT high-tech fair, which takes place [...]
Oracle has implemented an IT overhaul at Mazda that will reduce the carmaker’s server operating costs by 40 pc and lower power consumption by 75 pc. The US-based hardware and business software group said it had modernized and consolidated the Mazda Digital Innovation (MDI) system on Oracle servers that run the IT group’s Solaris 10 [...]
