121 – B2B Trends and Future Direction [Oct 2013]
“The scope and responsibilities of B2B are rapidly changing in response to business and technical environments. Companies already face challenges to improve efficiency, on-board more trading partners faster, consolidate systems, comply with E-Invoicing legislation and to ensure appropriate security. Simultaneously, the scope of B2B is expanding from industry standard data exchange to include semi- and non-structured data, mobile data and the cloud.”
The theme presentations included:
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| Keynote HP solutions for the New Style of IT by Gudrun Heim, Director HP Enterprise Services SMB Germany |
| Top 10 Trends in B2B & MFT – what needs to be done by Frank Jelinek VP Solution Management @ Seeburger and Stefan Ceulemans of HP
This presentation gives an overview over the actual top trends in B2B & MFT. How will your business be affected by this trends? What are the consequences for your B2B and MFT landscape? We will provide you real life examples and how HP addresses these trends. |
| EDI consolidation within Magna by Stefan Tropper, Team Leader B2B Europe @ Magna IT
In 2006 Magna started an initiative to consolidate the EDI environment on a global scale. The main goal was to reduce the TCO by utilizing synergy effects on hardware, software & human resources but also to increase the reliability and quality of the EDI service. Over the last years Magna IT build up a global infrastructure which covers all aspects of electronic data interchange like message routing, conversion, data validation or web portals. Starting with four pilot plants the number of subscribing Magna division has been continuously growing. At the moment about 170 out of 245 manufacturing locations worldwide are operated by the Magna IT B2B team. This presentation provides an overview on Magna’s EDI service; Challenges in the consolidation project and Challenges a global automotive supplier is facing in the area of EDI |
| From B2B connectivity to B2B collaboration: leveraging the four IT pillars (cloud, mobility, social business, big data analytics) to drive higher ROI by Pierfrancesco Manenti of IDC
Based on a recent survey, IDC Manufacturing Insights will share how the approach to B2B is changing from mere connectivity to multi-enterprise collaboration. IDC Manufacturing Insights will discuss how the four IT pillars (cloud, mobility, social business, big data analytics) are driving the technology change. IDC Manufacturing Insights will also discuss the changing approach to ROI calculation related to B2B integration. |
| Platform Industry 4.0 by Hanno Borns & Steven Spence of HP
INDUSTRIE 4.0 is a strategic initiative of the German government that was adopted as part of the High-Tech Strategy 2020 Action Plan in November 2011. “Platform Industrie 4.0” is the organizational implementation by the professional associations of the IT-, Manufacturing- and Electronics-Industry (BITKOM, VDMA and ZVEI) to establish the ICT-enabled convergence of technological and business processes. The talk introduce the platform and presents Germany’s vision of production as part of a smart, networked world. It will cover the recommendations to usher the fourth stage of industrialization by vertical networking, end-to-end engineering and horizontal integration across the entire value network of increasingly smart products and systems is the manufacturing environment. |
| HP outbound e-Invoicing by Matthias Mueckenhaupt and Beate Teschler of HP
The presentation introduces HP and outlines HP‘s (e)invoicing complexity due to multiple regional ERPs, various business units and their specific (e)invoicing demands. By streamlining regional and business unit specific (e)invoicing solutions HP has successfully started a new (e)invoice distribution solution providing one face to the customer, leverage between paper and eInvoicing and improved time to market cycles. |
| Virtual Fort Knox by Carsten Malischewski, Business Development Executive @ HP’s Application and Business Services division
The Virtual Fort Knox platform (VFK) offers innovative software solutions for construction and production processes. VFK enables innovative software companies to offer their solutions as a secure, managed service in a consumption based billing model to small and medium sized machinery companies. In this presentation you will learn about VFK services, their value propositions for independent software vendors, and solution customers. |
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