Tag: A&D manufacturing

Defense News names the top 100 defense companies of 2015.

Evans Data’s Internet of Things Study 2015, Volume I, published in July is summarized in the post.

Nearly 80% of senior execs rate innovation as either the top-most priority or a top-three priority for their company. The following graphic compares where innovation and product development tank among respondent company’s top strategic priorities over the last ten years.

Enterprises surveyed are predicting they will invest an average of $2.87M in cloud computing technologies in 2016. 90% of enterprises are relying on APIs in their cloud integration plans for 2016. 25% of total IT budgets will be allocated to cloud computing in 2016. Security continues to be the biggest challenge enterprises face in adopting cloud computing.

Bottom line: Manufacturers today are facing the global challenges of staying in step with increasingly complex customer requirements while accelerating product development and reducing costs. Excelling on these three dimensions is going to require an entirely new level of Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Manufacturing Intelligence and analytics performance.

Explore the reasons 56% of enterprises report an intention to increase investment in big data analytics by 2018.

Big data manufacturing apps are abundant in the field of complex manufacturing. Did you now nearly 50% of them are created by enterprises?

Gartner predicts that algorithms will have a galvanizing effect across and within enterprises and implies this will extend to value chains, defining the future of business from an interconnection and relationship standpoint.

These and other insights are from the 2015 IDG Enterprise Building the Mobile Enterprise Survey published this week.