Dr. Katy Ring is a Senior Research Analyst for Professional Technology Services at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. In this role, she covers consultancies, system integrators and outsourcing companies applying advanced technologies to deliver IoT-centric 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. Prior to joining 451 Research, 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 Honors 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.
The company is targeting custom software engineering, outsourced product development and product IT operating models. Mindtree NxT highlights its digital engineering expertise to enhance its position as an innovative digital service provider.
The company is bringing together its industrial businesses, with the systems integration and data management expertise of Hitachi Vantara and the digital engineering skills of GlobalLogic. The acquisition of GlobalLogic is intended to help expand these skills as Hitachi develops more intelligent and digitally enabled products for end customers and accelerates its own transformation journey.
The shift to model-based engineering has the potential to change business models within and beyond the industrial world, and some systems integrators are better positioned than others. TCS offers IoT and digital engineering services as an ongoing set of engagements built around data and the digital thread that evolves from it.
Considered large enough to be a global systems integrator, Atos is spinning off its engineering, IoT and other digital capabilities to form part of a new company called Evidian, which is being carved out to focus on the fast-growing areas of digital, big data and security.
No longer a pure-play IT service business, Capgemini is now offering strong capabilities to the industrial services space of OT. The new Capgemini Engineering brings together R&D and engineering services, and the company now has one of the largest digital engineering benches available to the market.
Positioning as a network-native digital services provider, Orange Business Services is showcasing its success at developing business in the blurred market area between telecom and IT. A key factor is its professional services arm, and one business development opportunity lies with industrial IoT.
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