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ccording to Zebra Technologies’
inaugural Intelligent Enterprise
Index, 42% of companies spend
more than $1 million towards the Internet
of Things (IoT) annually, with an average
of $3.1 million per year, and 75% expect
that number to increase in the next one to
two years.
In fact, 42% of companies expect their IoT
investment to increase by 11 to 20%. The
global survey analysed companies that are
on the journey to becoming an Intelligent
Enterprise; how they are connecting the
physical and digital worlds to improve
visibility, efficiencies and workflows.
To help companies on this journey,
Zebra recently introduced Savanna, a
fundamental building-block platform
that accelerates asset intelligence in
the enterprise, as well as the digital
transformation of enterprise operations.
Gartner predicts that by 2020, IoT
technology will be in 95% of electronics for
new product designs. With this anticipated
prevalence of IoT technology, sensors,
devices and environments will be smarter
and better connected than ever before.
This will allow for greater streams of
data to be analysed and acted upon by
enterprises resulting in digital environments
becoming relatively predictable in behaviour,
compounding insights that drive greater
efficiency and more profitable actions.
Vast amounts of data are being collected
by various devices throughout enterprise
operations, in nearly every imaginable
business and workflow situation.
Orchestrating the use of this sensed data
requires new analytics and the operational
intelligence to know how and when to act.
The new Zebra Savanna Platform is the
orchestration layers between the ‘sense,
analyse and act’. Savanna accelerates
the digital transformations of business
operations and enterprise workflows by
unlocking vast amounts of data from smart,
connected devices and environments and
providing customers with predictive and
actionable insights into their business,
helping them make their next best action.
Gartner also states that edge computing
will be a top technology trend in 2018. Edge
computing describes a computing topology
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Hozefa Saylawala, Middle East Sales
Director, Zebra Technologies
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GARTNER ALSO
STATES THAT
EDGE COMPUTING
WILL BE A TOP
TECHNOLOGY
TREND IN 2018.
in which information processing, and content
collection and delivery, are placed closer to
the sources of this information.
Zebra’s Savanna helps enable applications
that make use of edge data from smart
devices and the IoT to create insights,
ensuring the right data is available to the
right people at the right time, empowering
them to make the best decisions at critical
business moments. For example, Savanna
helps ensure the right medication gets to
the right patient at the right time; the right
packages are loaded on to the right truck
at the right time; confirms delivery of an
important part to the assembly line and
helps inventory levels stay replenished during
the holiday rush.
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