Dr. Katy Ring is a Research Director for IT Services at 451 Research. In this role, she covers consultancies, system integrators and outsourcing companies applying advanced technologies to deliver digital transformation services.
Katy has more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry, providing strategic advice to C-level executives at vendor and end-user organizations. She has developed strong research-based expertise and has focused on areas where the global IT service delivery model is changing, including cloud services, the evolving CIO role, innovation, sustainability and global sourcing of labor. Most recently, Katy led K2 Advisory, a research resource for CIOs, their senior colleagues and suppliers. Before K2, she spent 12 years at Ovum Research, leading research in emerging software and services markets, as well as developing the company's Outsourcing Practice. Before her tenure as a Principal Analyst and Practice Leader at Ovum, Katy was a journalist with publications, including Computer Weekly and Computergram International, and was a founding editor of Software Futures.
Katy holds an Honours degree in politics, philosophy and history from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in the popularization of science from the University of Kent in Canterbury.
Products and services continue to converge at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The company is positioning itself as an edge-to-cloud platform-as-a-service company, and IoT is therefore an increasingly important professional services opportunity for HPE Pointnext.
Industry X.0 provides a framework for Accenture to gather its strategic consulting and technical skills to work with industrial clients adapting to new business models around connected products. Using technologies like IoT platforms, analytics, AI and robotics, it is designed to create new ways for clients to work with customers, employees and partners.
The coronavirus outbreak has rapidly shifted global markets, including those related to enterprise technology, since we published our 2020 Trends report on the Internet of Things in November 2019. This foreword serves as an update to our 2020 predictions in light of market changes due to COVID-19.
The company has formally integrated Hitachi Vantara and Hitachi Consulting into one business line. How is the new Hitachi Vantara combining this professional services expertise with the industrial culture of Hitachi to target digital transformation projects involving physical assets?
With its acquisition of Realm last year, the company has been able to strengthen its edge data collection capability. A larger part of IoT platforms can now be built on the MongoDB stack, and customers include Bosch, Jon Deere and Toyota.
Achieving more efficient operational systems is only the first step in creating business value from the Internet of Things. EY's approach takes a pragmatic view of ways to take larger strides to achieve business growth.
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