Enabling operational intelligence with M2M

摘要

In today's hyper-competitive environment, everyone is looking for ways to increase the value and sustainable differentiation of their products and services. Competitors and customers share the goal of improved efficiency and effectiveness throughout business. Manufacturers and suppliers are constantly striving to enhance business metrics and profits. This need to improve creates the requirement to access information, make better decisions, and provide better insights into product development, service deployment, and operations management. It seems easy for business executives to conclude that making better-informed "Right Time" decisions creates the need to collect and process better information. There is an endless list of information available in today's digital world as products become smarter and more digitally enabled. In addition, analytic solutions, ERP, and business process solutions are ever-increasing in their capability of consuming large amounts of information. The challenge is not in understanding the need for information or better analytics but rather understanding how to instrument assets and products, interconnect them into available networks, and move them into processes to make a positive impact on our business.