Digital Leaders – Page 25
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ArticleautomotiveIT Congress: Mercedes-Benz advances multi-channel strategy
Mercedes CIO Drakopoulos (Photo: Claus Dick)HANOVER - Internet companies such as Amazon can show automakers the way to a better customer-facing digital sales approach, Mercedes-Benz CIO Nikitas Drakopoulos said Thursday.Automakers have to face the challenges that do not only comprise makeovers of web pages but every single area of ...
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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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ArticleautomotiveIT Congress: CIO says VW needs 2 kinds of IT
VW's Hofmann (Photo: Claus Dick)Volkswagen is on its way to become the world's largest automaker with more than 10 million vehicles sold in 2014. And of course, the executives in Wolfsburg are keen on staying at the forefront of information technology revolution as well.Volkswagen CIO Martin Hofmann underlined this ...
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ArticleSiemens to build industrial cloud platform
Siemens operates cloud competence centers, combining all its cloud activities (Photo: Siemens)Siemens will build a cloud platform for data-based services, working with business software maker SAP to create a new product for industrial companies."The establishment of the new cloud platform will make a significant contribution to driving forward the ...
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ArticleBMW: Zipse to become new production boss
Oliver Zipse (Photo: BMW)Oliver Zipse will become the new production chief at BMW, succeeding Harald Krueger, who will take over as CEO May 13.BMW, in particular, cited the international manufacturing experience Zipse has gathered in his 24 year career at the premium car maker.Zipse, 51, joined BMW as a ...
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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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ArticleMcKinsey urges preparation for future with autonomous driving
Daimler showed its vision of autonomous driving at the CES in Las Vegas (Photo: Daimler)The arrival of autonomous vehicles will fundamentally change the automotive industry and car drivers, automotive companies and other personal mobility players should start preparing today already, a new report from management consultants McKinsey says."Although it ...
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ArticleReuters: BMW isn't building car with Apple
Apple's CarPlay is only available on a few production vehicles (Photo: Apple)The rumors surrounding Apple's alleged interest in building an electric vehicle took another twist this week, when German magazine auto, motor und sport reported that BMW and the California-based consumer electronics group are negotiating to possibly make BMW's ...
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ArticleAcquisition makes NTT 3rd largest European data center provider
NTT operates 130 data centers worldwide, including this one in Thailand(Photo: NTT)NTT Communications is buying 86.7 pc of Germany's e-shelter, propelling the Japanese company into third place among data center service providers in Europe.NTT Communications, a division of the NTT telecommunications group, said the acquisition of e-shelter lays the ...
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ArticleOpel launches OnStar in Europe as free service in first year
Opel CEO Neumann wants Opel to be a leader in connected-car technology (Photo: GM)Opel joined the race to be the best connected car brand in Geneva Tuesday, when it announced that General Motors' OnStar connectivity suite will be available on all of its models starting this year.Opel CEO Karl-Thomas ...
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ArticleVW's Winterkorn welcomes Apple's, Google's interest in car industry
Winterkorn, seen here testing a new manufacturing tool, is an engineer by training (Photo: VW)Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn said plans by consumer electronics companies to get more actively involved in the car industry may have a positive effect on car sales to a younger generation of consumers."I highly ...
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ArticleNXP, Freescale in semiconductor mega-merger
(Photo: NXP)Netherlands-based NXP has agreed to acquire Freescale, creating a mixed signal semiconductor group with combined annual revenue of more than 10 billion dlrs.The two companies said in a press release that the combined group, which will have a leading position in automotive semiconductor products, will be able to, ...
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ArticleVW: Diess can take over as head of VW brand earlier
Diess (Photo: BMW)BMW's Herbert Diess will take over as head of the Volkswagen brand three months earlier than originally planned, following an agreement between Europe's largest auto group and the Munich-based premium car maker.VW said Diess, formerly head of R&D at BMW, will take the helm at the VW ...
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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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ArticleApple will build 2 data centers in Europe
(Photo: Apple)Apple will build two data centers in Europe, spending 1.7 billion euros to construct and operate the facilities, which will be located in Ireland and Denmark.The US based consumer technology group said the centers will provide the European backend for online services that include the company's iTunes store, ...
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ArticleReport shows connected car data, privacy vulnerabilities
US Senator Markey is critical of connected-car data security and privacy (Picture: Continental)A US report published this week shows how connected cars may be vulnerable to hackers.The paper, based on answers to questions by 16 major car manufacturers, highlights growing concerns that networking cars with the world around them ...
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ArticleGartner laments absence of internet-of-things standards
(Graphic: Robert Bosch)The internet of things will be marked by a notable absence of business or technical models in coming years, according to market researchers Gartner. Through 2018, the company predicts there will be no dominant internet-of-things ecosystem platform. Most IoT projects will continue to contain custom elements and ...
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ArticleBosch CEO: Low fuel prices won't hurt pace of electrification
Denner: "Connected electric cars are better." (Photo: Robert Bosch)Low oil prices won't lead to a slowdown in the pace of automotive electrification, Robert Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner said at a conference. The German supplier is sticking to its forecast that roughly 15 pc of all new cars sold worldwide ...
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ArticleGlobal 2015 car sales forecast to rise 2.4 pc
Car sales will rise in 2015, but the global picture will be mixed (Photo: Emil Frey)Global car sales are set to rise 2.4 pc to 88.3 million units, despite widespread geopolitical and economic uncertainties in many parts of the world, a leading market forecaster said this week. It would ...
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ArticleHP announces leadership for split company
(Photo: HP)Hewlett Packard said last year that it would be splitting the technology company in two. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is set to handle hardware, software and services in the business market, while HP Inc will take over printer and PC businesses.Now, the company, which will continue to operate as ...
