Port of Rotterdam on Mars!
Thanks to modern technology, Rotterdam can continue to be the world’s safest, most efficient and most sustainable harbor over the long term. In order to be able to guarantee social and economic value, we regularly attempt to present an image of both the near and distant future. During the recent IBM Think 2018 Conference […]
IoT – Those who make the connections, persist
The Internet of Things (IoT) is playing an increasingly important role in the use and management of critical infrastructures such as harbors, roadways and bridges, telecom, water and power supplies, airports and railway. Moreover, these infrastructures are becoming increasingly inter-related. A good example is the Port of Rotterdam, where sensor data is used to improve […]
IBM supports Hack Belgium – will you join us?
During Hack Belgium 1,000 entrepreneurs, developers, students and academics gather together to solve societal challenges with the help of cognitive and cloud technology. By developing new disruptive technologies these innovative entrepreneurs change the way the various fields work, including mobility, healthcare and the job market. It is no easy task, there will be sweat and […]
IoT gives asset management a new boost
Forget all the classic opinions regarding enterprise asset management (EAM). Links to new technological possibilities such as the IoT open up a world of new possibilities. This provides a real-time, mobile component when managing the life cycle of business resources and work processes. This development has not gone unnoticed. With IBM Maximo, we were recently […]
Smart Building opens a new world
Products and services are increasingly being produced from ecosystems and collaboration models. When you realize that the margin within the building industry is typically between 1 and 3%, you understand that this industry has to accelerate and deploy technology to deliver projects on time within budget and, using this method, to monitor and, where […]
CFO – with the C of ‘Continuous’
A few forces that were at play these past few years have caused a perfect storm to drastically change the way finance departments go about their business. Disruption by versatile start-ups, the boom in financial and non-financial big data, and the refinedness of analytics tools have put much pressure on the classic annual report. So […]
A cloud with a silver lining for the future of finance
Migration of company data and business processes to the cloud is one of the megatrends of these past few years. Apart from radically reducing the total cost of ownership, the cloud also plays into the needs of a mobile workforce, and relieves some pressure from the IT departments, who are often suffering from a shortage […]
Quantum computing for everyone, in particular the director
IBM expects quantum computing to experience a real breakthrough in 2018 [link to the previous blog], impelled by a combination of rapidly growing processing capacity (to 50 qubits), new applications and new problem areas. This offers opportunities galore for companies and their managers. With our IBM Q-initiative, which is accessible to everyone, we are […]
Time for FP&A experts to steal the limelight!
These are challenging times for organizations jumping on the digitalization train. The amount, the variety and the complexity of data is growing at an exponential rate, and so does our knowledge and ability to gain insights from said data. However, the amount of educated employees that are well-versed in working with that data just can’t […]