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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward

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For most enterprises, this involves deploying existing industry-specific offerings from SaaS providers or hypervisors. German vehicle manufacturer Volkswagen is one enterprise going the co-creation route, building its own industry cloud for automobile manufacturing in concert with AWS and MHP, a Porsche-owned IT consultant.

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Salesforce seeks to unify automobile supply chain with Automotive Cloud

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Now Salesforce is hoping to sweep that away with Salesforce Automotive Cloud, a dedicated platform for the auto industry that sticks close to industry standards on data exchange. Michael Ramsey, a VP and automotive analyst at Gartner, said Automotive Cloud offers a way for auto makers to take back control of their branding. “At

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Generative AI usage gains traction among enterprises: McKinsey

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The usage of generative AI across enterprises is already widespread, although it is still early days for the new technology, according to a report from McKinsey’s AI consulting service, Quantum Black. This usage was highest in the technology sector, and among respondents from North America, the report showed.

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SAP, IBM Consulting partner to offer genAI-based services

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IBM’s consulting arm and SAP are partnering to offer generative AI -based services to enterprises to help accelerate digital transformation. RISE with SAP is the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider’s managed offering that helps enterprises move their on-premises ERP operations to the cloud.

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Ford’s high-tech business transformation, fueled by cloud

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s wholesale pivot to technology has transformed not only the automaker’s business operations but its corporate identity. “We Mike Amend, Ford’s chief enterprise technology officer, was once CTO for Dell’s global online business. Ford’s digital transformation, like those of most enterprises, is far from complete.

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American Honda IT to fuel innovation with generative AI

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The completion of such transformative EV and hydrogen fuel cell engineering — amid uncertainty about which technology will prevail as the industry standard — reflects the one constant American Honda’s VP of IT Bob Brizendine has confronted throughout his 36 years with the company: an ever-changing, winding road that never slows down. “We

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CommonGround raises $25M for immersive video avatar technology that doesn’t rely on VR gear

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“There is Zoom and there are phone calls, but we think there is a big aspect of remote meetings [not being addressed by technology today],” said Bassan-Eskenazi. But Bassan-Eskenazi believes that avatars also very much have a place in enterprise environments.

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