Ekonomi

Molnet och digitalisering stöper om inte bara industriell verksamhet, utan också en rad offentliga verksamheter, som t ex kommunal förvaltning, vilket dagens case-story från affärssystemutvecklarens, Unit4, miljöer är ett intressant exempel på. När nio kommuner i östra Skaraborg gick samman i ett samverkansprojekt för att dela ekonomisystem var målet att effektivisera och standardisera ekonomihanteringen. Idag, ett par år efter implementationen, tar projektet nu nästa steg i digitaliseringsresan genom att migrera till molnet samtidigt som projektet håller koll på 900 integrationer till affärssystemet.
Ö9 ett samarbete mellan kommuner i östra Skaraborg för effektivisering och förbättring av kommunernas tjänster. Dess användarorganisation tillhandahåller idag användar- och systemsupport samt ansvarar för driften av ett affärssystem med 1 800 användare. En stor utmaning är att varje kommun har egen IT-drift och egna anslutna system, vilket har resulterat i närmare 900 integrationer till affärssystemet. Majoriteten av dessa är filbaserade integrationer (filöverföring i batcher i tex. csv eller xml-format), vilket underlättar migreringen jämfört med äldre databaskopplingar.
En framgångsfaktor i projektet har varit det strategiska beslutet att arbeta webbaserat, där nästan alla användare arbetar i ett webbgränssnitt vilket minskar licenskostnader och hanteringen av mjukvara. För att ytterligare hantera komplexiteten i projektet etablerades en särskild organisation.
”Vi har en styrgrupp med ekonomichefer från alla nio kommuner som är med och driver arbetet framåt. Vårt team i Skövde hanterar integrationerna tillsammans med leverantören Unit4s experter och trots komplexiteten har arbetet flutit på bra. Det är en utmaning att koordinera en central organisation med nio olika IT-miljöer, men med rätt kompetens och samarbete går det,” säger Malin Markebro som är enhetschef på systemförvaltningsenheten i Skövde kommun.
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"Hägglunds designs in Dassault's CATIA, but Siemens NX CAD and the PLM platform TEAMCENTER dominate within the entire BAE Group." Major Nordic consultancy AFRY announces that it has entered into a five-year framework agreement with BAE Systems Hägglunds, developer of of vehicle systems for military and civil applications, including world-leading combat vehicle CV90. AFRY will according to the deal deliver engineering services covering product development, purchasing, quality and production-related services in several parts of the company's operations. The estimated annual order value for the agreement is $15-20 million.
BAE Systems Hägglunds is within the British defense and military group specialized in the design, development and production of military systems, and with the now extended agreement, deepens its cooperation with AFRY. The new agreement will take effect in the second quarter of 2025 and extends until 2030. AFRY will deliver engineering services within, among other things, product development, purchasing, quality and production-related services with the aim of strengthening BAE Systems Hägglunds' productivity and efficiency.
In the product development aspect the PLM tools play important roles and BAE Systems Hägglunds has when it comes to the CAD domain long worked in Dassault Systemes CATIA V5, in which, for example, the successful CV90 concept was developed. This combat vehicle is a product developed by and has been mainly manufactured at BAE Hägglund's Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, facility. CV90 is used by the Swedish Armed Forces, and by the Finnish, Swiss, Norvegian and Danish armys, among others, and is an export success. Not least the vehicle has received high marks for its capacity in the field in connection with Ukraine's defense efforts against the Russian occupation forces. The CV90 is available in many different variants, including tanks, anti-aircraft gun carriages, fire control carriages and other specialized vehicles.
Notably for the BAE Group when it comes to PLM and CAD is that Siemens Digital Industries Software's NX CAD and the PLM platform Teamcenter are the dominant digital development tools.
Another interesting fact is that Swedish Eurostep's software ShareAspace–today the company is a part of BAE Systems acquiered in October 2023–has played significant roles in terms of data management in the development and maintenance work around CV90. BAE Systems Hägglunds in Örnsköldsvik has used the ShareAspace software for many years in terms of data management. But they have also, at least for a period, also used Aras PLM and Innovator.
Martin Öman (pictured above with CV90 in the background), Division Manager at Industrial & Digital Solutions at AFRY, says in a comment that the extended and new agreement with BAE Systems Hägglunds, "is a clear recognition of our ability to deliver high-quality engineering solutions."
Why did BAE Systems Hägglunds choose to extend and deepen the collaboration with AFRY?
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”Hägglunds designar i Dassaults CATIA, men Siemens NX CAD och PLM-plattformen TEAMCENTER dominerar inom hela BAE-koncernen.” Storkonsulten AFRY meddelar att man ingått ett femårigt ramavtal med BAE Systems Hägglunds för att leverera ingenjörstjänster som omfattar produktutveckling, inköp, kvalitet och produktionsrelaterade tjänster i flera delar av företagets verksamhet. Det uppskattade årliga ordervärdet för avtalet är 150–200 miljoner kronor.
BAE Systems Hägglunds är inom ramen för den brittiska försvarskoncernen specialiserat på design, utveckling och produktion av militära system, och fördjupar med det nu utökade avtalet sitt samarbete med AFRY. Det nya avtalet träder i kraft under andra kvartalet 2025 och sträcker sig fram till 2030. AFRY ska leverera ingenjörstjänster inom bland annat produktutveckling, inköp, kvalitet och produktionsrelaterade tjänster med målet att stärka BAE Systems Hägglunds produktivitet och effektivitet.
På sub-PLM-sidan och när det gäller CAD-domänen har BAE Systems Hägglunds sedan länge jobbat i Dassault Systemes CATIA V5, i vilket t ex det framgångsrika CV90-konceptet är utvecklat. Detta stridsfordon är produktutvecklat av och har huvudsakligen tillverkats i BAE Hägglunds Örnsköldsviks-anläggning. CV90 används bl a av den svenska försvarsmakten, men är också en exportsuccé och har exporterats till flera andra länder, inte minst har fordonet fått höga betyg för sin kapacitet i fält i samband med Ukrainas försvarsinsatser mot de ryska ockupationsstyrkorna. CV90 finns i många olika varianter, inklusive stridsvagnar, luftvärnskanonvagnar, eldledningsvagnar och andra specialiserade fordon.
Notabelt för BAE-koncernen som helhet när det gäller PLM och CAD är att Siemens Digital Industries Softwares NX CAD och PLM-plattformen Teamcenter är de dominerande digitala utvecklingsverktygen.
Ett annat intressant faktum är att svenska Eurosteps mjukvara ShareAspace – numera är bolaget uppköpt av BAE Systems - har spelat betydande roller ifråga om datahantering i utvecklings- och underhållsarbetet kring CV90. Men den brittiska försvarsjätten har bl a också använt ShareAspace i den tekniska informationen för Royal Navys hangarfartyg HMS Queen Elizabeth. Och som sagt, även inom BAE Systems Hägglunds i Örnsköldsvik har ShareAspace-mjukvaran alltså också under många år utnyttjats ifråga om datahantering. Men man har även, i alla fall under en period, utnyttjat även Aras PLM och Innovator.
Martin Öman (bilden ovan med CV90 i bakgrunden), divisionschef på Industrial & Digital Solutions på AFRY, säger i en kommentar att det förlängda och nya avtalet med BAE Systems Hägglunds, ”är ett tydligt erkännande av vår förmåga att leverera högkvalitativa ingenjörslösningar.” Varför valde BAE Systems Hägglunds att förlänga och fördjupa samarbetet med AFRY?
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A 10 percent REVENUE DECLINE is expected for the full year 2025, according to an updated forecast from the heavy industry association VDMA Robotics + Automation. There is no doubt that times are tough for the European manufacturing industry in general. Not least, the figures for the German robotics and automation industry reflect the challenging situation. Today, the industry association, the VDMA Robotics + Automation Association (VDMA R+A), with more than 420 member companies - and which is also part of the larger VDMA, which represents 3,600 German and European companies in mechanical and plant engineering - notes in a press release that German industrial companies in the field are expected to reduce their sales by 10 percent compared to last year. In total, sales are expected to fall to 14.5 billion euros in 2025, according to an updated forecast.
"The revenue weakness announced at the beginning of the year has been confirmed in our current forecast for 2025," says Dr. Dietmar Ley, Chairman of the Board of Directors of VDMA Robotics + Automation. "The growth outlook is currently cloudy in all sub-sectors until the end of the year."
The sharpest decline is expected in Automated Solutions, with a forecast revenue decline of 15 percent to 7.7 billion euros. The figures for robotics also continue to point downwards and have deteriorated slightly in the new forecast from minus 3 percent to minus 5 percent, with expected revenues of 3.7 billion euros for 2025. This is while the subsector Machine Vision is stagnating with zero growth and is expected to generate industrial revenues of 3.1 billion euros.
As important reasons for the economic weakness in Europe and Germany, the German industry association points to, among other things, postponed investment plans due to current geopolitical tensions and increasing competitive pressure from Asian rivals. Effects that are of course also linked to the US Trump administration's tariff war, although this is not explicitly pointed out in the press material.
"Robotics and automation are key technologies without which industrial production in a high-wage country like Germany will no longer be conceivable in the future," says Dr. Ley and adds: "Politics and business must now take joint measures to reduce location-based disadvantages in international competition and set the course for renewed growth." To this end, the previously published "VDMA Robotics Action Plan for Europe" sets out three core requirements - what are they? Click on the main heading to read more on PLM&ERP News.

10-procentig INTÄKTSNEDGÅNG förväntas för helåret 2025 enligt uppdaterad prognos från tunga branschorganisationen VDMA. Att tiderna är tuffa för den europeiska tillverknings-industrin i allmänhet behöver ingen tvivla över. Inte minst är siffrorna för den tyska robot- och automationsindustrin en spegling av det utmanande läget. Idag noterar branschorganisationen, VDMA Robotics + Automation Association (VDMA R+A), med mer än 420 medlemsföretag - och som också är en del av den större VDMA, som representerar 3 600 tyska och europeiska företag inom mekanik och anläggningsteknik - i en pressrelease att de tyska industribolagen på området förväntas minska sin försäljning med 10 procent jämfört med förra året. Totalt beräknas försäljningen landa på 14,5 miljarder euro 2025.
"Intäktssvagheten som meddelades i början av året har bekräftats i vår nuvarande prognos för 2025", säger Dr. Dietmar Ley, styrelseordförande för VDMA Robotics + Automation. "Tillväxtutsikterna är för närvarande grumliga i alla undersektorer fram till slutet av året."
Jämfört med de tidigare prognoserna som PLM&ERP News rapporterade om tidigare i år förväntas den kraftigaste nedgången komma inom Automated Solutions (automationslösningar), med en prognostiserad intäktsminskning på 15 procent till 7,7 miljarder euro. Även siffrorna för robotik fortsätter peka nedåt och har i den nya prognosen har försämrats något från minus 3 procent till minus 5 procent, med förväntade intäkter på 3,7 miljarder euro för 2025. Detta medan undersektorn Machine Vision (maskinvision) stagnerar med nolltillväxt och förväntas generera industriintäkter på 3,1 miljarder euro.
Som viktiga orsaker till den ekonomiska svagheten i Europa och Tyskland pekar den tyska branschorganisationen på bl a uppskjutna investeringsplaner på grund av nuvarande geopolitiska spänningar och ökande konkurrenstryck från asiatiska rivaler. Effekter som naturligtvis också har kopplingar till den amerikanska Trump-administrationens tullkrig, även om man inte explicit pekar ut detta i pressmaterialet.
"Robotik och automation är nyckelteknologier utan vilka industriell produktion i ett höglöneland som Tyskland inte längre kommer att vara tänkbar i framtiden", säger dr Ley och tillägger: "Politik och näringsliv måste nu vidta gemensamma åtgärder för att minska platsbaserade nackdelar i internationell konkurrens och sätta kursen mot förnyad tillväxt." För detta ändamål anger den tidigare publicerade, "VDMA Robotics Action Plan for Europe" tre kärnkrav - vilka är de? Klicka på huvudrubriken för att läsa mer på PLM&ERP News.

“DS is far from alone in PLM within Airbus - Siemens, PTC and Aras are just a few examples of competitors that continue to be present.” Playing a leading role as a supporting PLM system for one of the giants in the aerospace and defense industry not only brings technological prestige but also involves big money. When Dassault Systemes (DS) announced a few weeks ago that it had signed an extended contract extension with the aircraft giant Airbus, it was a deal that, with its estimated 20,000 users, both internally and externally, is a matter of tens of millions of euros even in a shorter contract perspective.
In the light of this, it is not surprising that DS has brought in the heavy artillery on the sales side, with executive chairman Bernard Charles in the lead. He is known as a great PLM visionary, with a keen sense of what is required to sell advanced digital technology in areas such as aerospace & defense and automotive. He has always played important roles when DS has completed major business deals around the 3DEXPERIENCE platform (3DX). Remember, for example, the big deal with Boeing in 2017, where DS, in a tough fight with Siemens Digital Industries Software, won an order extension for the 3DX platform in a 30 year contract, worth more than $1 billion.
When the extension with Airbus was announced, Charles was at the forefront again:
"Our long history of collaboration with Airbus begins its next chapter, enabling the entire company and its value chain to innovate globally, efficiently and virtually for decades to come. Airbus can take full advantage of AI and scientific advances in materials science, modeling, simulation, and production efficiency to create new opportunities with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This is ultimately about things that will define the future of the aerospace industry," he commented. So what was included?
It is clear that CATIA CAD is a cornerstone. This solution has a very strong position in the aerospace industry. It is not least dominant at the two giants Airbus and Boeing, although in organizations of this size there are always several players in the game. But CATIA, with its roots in Dassault Aviation, is the program that was the earliest to come out with solutions that could handle the complex geometries required in aircraft development, such as geometric modeling of complex Class A surfaces. But today, what DS can bring to the table has broadened enormously.
According to information provided to PLM&ERP News, Airbus will now utilize the full breadth of Dassault's 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which not only integrates CATIA but also SIMULIA for advanced simulation, DELMIA for manufacturing, and ENOVIA plus NETVIBES for collaborative product lifecycle data management. The indication in DS press materials is that 3DX will be deployed across Airbus and will function as support in the heavy business units – including Airbus Civil, Defence & Space and Helicopters. It has the potential to cover lifecycles, from initial requirements management to engineering, manufacturing and aftermarket support.
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury points out that the renewed partnership with DS will accelerate the company's digitalization, including AI support.
But DS is not alone on the PLM side within Airbus; for example Siemens, PTC and Aras PLM are in the game too, how then?
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SAPPHIRE 2025: “A new SaaS with the entire suite as a service – the end of point automation.” Things are moving fast in a world where the software side of things is largely about AI and agents. It was hardly surprising that the topic dominated SAP’s annual Sapphire conference this week. What happened on stage in Orlando, Florida, is a clear reflection of how fundamental and transformative AI is right now. It is equally certain that SAP, as the clear market leader with around 110,000 employees and operations in 180 countries, is a player whose AI agenda functions as a kind of powerhouse. It is no coincidence that SAP CEO Christian Klein pointed to how AI-based functionality is explosively changing resource planning systems. He noted that the key SAP tools, especially the AI assistant Joule, which are now being developed, enable companies to centralize data management and create comprehensive analyses across the entire business. The value that comes with AI's capacity for overview and, at the same time, can connect broad business aspects with detailed real-time data is in its own way earth-shaking. Systems that standardize and not just automate processes in a piecemeal manner not only make administration more qualitatively precise - a reasonable outcome is also that AI can significantly sharpen operational efficiency, save money and, in SAP's case, already increase productivity by up to 30 percent today.
The conclusion from Sapphire 2025 is that SAP is going "all in" on AI agents and Joule is the tool that moves simple task automation to a proactive overall solution for process design and problem management. Orchestrated by Joule, the agents reason, advise and act to help users, and they form the core of what SAP's board member for Product & Engineering, Muhammad Alam, described as the heart of the company's overall strategy: "With the new SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) that SAP is putting on the table, the point is, the entire integrated software suite as a service, not just different point solutions." That is the goal where agentic AI is the technical framework and Joule agents are the building blocks.
In using the term “Business AI”, SAP includes a combo of applications, data and AI. Just as SAP Business Suite forms the integrated foundation.
“That’s right, SAP combines the world’s most powerful collection of business applications with rich data and the latest AI innovations to create value for customers. We are realizing Business AI through further development of Joule, partnerships with leading AI pioneers and a series of innovations in the SAP Business Data Cloud. This helps users succeed in an increasingly unpredictable world,” summed up Christian Klein.
The prospects are mindboggling. Just over ten years ago, an analyst, Gartner’s Mark Halpern, pointed to SAP as an admittedly large and market-dominated player in the ERP arena and also active in PLM. “But,” he added, “with size comes inertia. It is developmentally tough to get a transatlantic steamer going or turn it around. SAP is moving like a glacier; slowly but surely and institutionally grinding.”
Today, the scene has completely changed. SAP is reinventing itself. How? Click on the headline to read the full story on PLM&ERP News.

Working in SAP's S/HANA in ERP and 3DEXPERIENCE from Dassault Systemes in PLM. Swedish medical technology company Mölnlycke Health Care has recently taken a big step forward on the digitalization side and when it comes to its business systems. This is through the deployment of a cloud-based system from SAP, a change that affects nearly 1,900 employees globally. The company is a world leader in its field with solutions that equip healthcare professionals around the globe with clinical material specialized in innovative solutions for wound care and surgical procedures.
When it comes to business systems, they have been working in SAP environment since 2000, while when it comes to product development, they work on Dassault Systemes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The latter is a state-of-the-art PLM platform that has meant a lot in terms of lead time savings within Mölnycke, which will be discussed in a coming article based on a presentation at PLM consultant TECHNIA's Innovation Forum 2024.
But it is on the ERP side that the company has now launched an upgrade to SAP's cloud-based solution, S/4HANA Private Cloud. The background is that Mölnycke has expanded considerably since the introduction of SAP around the turn of the millennium, which has created new needs for what the business system should be able to handle.
It was at the turn of the year 2024/25 that the decision was made to upgrade to S/4HANA Private Cloud, using the 'RISE with SAP' concept to accelerate continued digital development. RISE with SAP is a transformation set up that supports cloud migration with proven methodology, advanced tools and expert guidance.
Before the start of the project, Mölnlycke realized that much of the expertise surrounding the existing business system was in the hands of external service partners and to strengthen its own capabilities, the company has now chosen to invest in an internal skills upgrade to drive digitalization forward.
“Exactly, we are experienced SAP users and our business system already handles around half a million transaction events every day. However, we have noticed that much of the knowledge about what SAP can do for us has disappeared over time and therefore we have now chosen to invest a large part of the budget in a skills upgrade for our own employees. In this way, we secure our core competence in the long term,” says Mikael Björk, IT Manager at Mölnlycke.
It is noteworthy in this context that sustainability and digitalization efforts are at the center of the execution of the company’s mission towards its customers around the world. The IT department is organized around teams that take ultimate responsibility for solutions within different business areas, currently four: Wound Care, Operating Room Solutions, Gloves and Antiseptics. Mölnlycke’s current IT landscape is characterized by large COTS/SaaS platforms for ERP, CRM and PLM, which primarily support the internal core processes. In this perspective, they work according to agile development and DevOps methods, including end-to-end Software Delivery Lifecycle processes.
Initially, approximately 80–85 percent of existing processes will be moved to the new system – but what does the rest of the journey look like? How does AI come into play?
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Jobbar i SAPs S/HANA på ERP-sidan och 3DEXPERIENCE från Dassault Systemes när det gäller PLM. Svenska medicinteknik-företaget Mölnycke Health Care har i dagarna tagit ett stort steg framåt på digitaliserings-sidan och när det gäller affärssystem. Detta genom driftsättningen av ett molnbaserat system från SAP, en förändring som berör nära 1 900 anställda globalt. Till saken hör att bolaget är världsledande inom sitt gebit med lösningar som utrustar vårdpersonal runt om i världen med kliniskt material specialiserat kring innovativa lösningar för sårvård och kirurgiska ingrepp.
När det gäller affärssystem har man ända sedan år 2000 jobbat i SAP-miljön, medan man när det produktutveckling jobbar på Dassault Systemes 3DEXPERIENCE-plattform. Det senare en toppmodern PLM-lösning som betytt en hel del ifråga om ledtids-besparingar inom Mölnycke, som ska återkomma till i en senare artikel bl a baserat på en presentation vid PLM-konsulten TECHNIAS Innovation Forum 2024.
Men det är alltså på ERP-sidan bolaget nu sjösatt en uppgradering till SAPs molnbaserade lösning, S/4HANA Private Cloud. Bakgrunden är att Mölnycke sedan introduktionen av SAP runt millennieskiftet expanderat rejält vilket skapat nya behov kring vad affärssystemet ska klara av.
Det var vid årsskiftet 2024/25 man tog beslutet att uppgradera till S/4HANA Private Cloud, med hjälp av konceptet RISE with SAP för att accelerera den fortsatta digitala utvecklingen. RISE med SAP är ett transformationskoncept som stöder molnmigrationen med beprövad metodik, avancerade verktyg och expertvägledning.
Inför projektstarten insåg Mölnlycke att mycket av kompetensen kring det befintliga affärssystemet låg hos externa servicepartner och för att stärka sin egen förmåga har bolaget nu valt att satsa på ett internt kompetenslyft för att driva digitaliseringen framåt.
”Precis, vi är erfarna SAP-användare och vårt affärssystem hanterar redan i dag cirka en halv miljon affärshändelser varje dag. Vi har dock märkt att mycket av kunskapen om vad SAP kan göra för oss har försvunnit över tid och därför har vi nu valt att satsa stor del av budgeten på ett kompetenslyft för våra egna medarbetare. På så sätt säkrar vi vår kärnkompetens långsiktigt, säger Mikael Björk, IT-chef på Mölnlycke.
Notabelt i kontexten är att hållbarhets- och digitaliserings-strävandena står i centrum för exekveringen av bolagets mission gentemot sina kunder runt om i världen. IT-avdelningen är i detta organiserad kring team som tar slutansvaret för lösningar inom olika affärsområden, i dagsläget fyra stycken: Sårvård, Operationsrumslösningar, Handskar och Antiseptika. Mölnlyckes nuvarande IT-landskap kännetecknas idag av stora COTS/SaaS-plattformar för ERP, CRM och PLM, som primärt stödjer de interna kärnprocesserna. Man jobbar i detta perspektiv efter agila utvecklings- och DevOps-metoder, inklusive end-to-end Software Delivery Lifecyle-processer.
Inledningsvis flyttas cirka 80–85 procent av befintliga processer till det nya systemet – men hur ser det fortsatta resan ut? Hur kommer AI med i spelet?
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“THE INDUSTRY has the data but TENDS TO DROWN in alternatives WITHOUT A CLEAR PATH FORWARD.” In a press release from the business system developer IFS, an innovation program, IFS Nexus Black, is launched today, which is intended to support and accelerate the introduction of AI solutions in industrial companies. The company's CEO, Mark Moffat, believes that the program offers a powerful alternative to traditional software suppliers through customized solutions with guaranteed scalability.
“Many companies are stuck between rigid business systems and niche AI solutions with no growth opportunities,” says Moffat. “We can guarantee fast, effective, and scalable development of the AI system. That's how we help our customers become industry leaders.”
Matt Kempson, senior VP and IFS Nexus Black chief, points out that AI capabilities, such as assistants and built-in tools, are standard today. What IFS is bringing to the table is a counterpoint to what Matt Kempson calls “the industry’s AI identity crisis.” It’s a response to a fragmented landscape where tools, speed, and frameworks rarely coexist effectively or are functionally scalable. “Nexus Black exists because our customers want industrial AI that is fast, contextual, and scalable—not just off-the-shelf,” Kempson said according to ERP Today. “They have the data, but they’re drowning in options with no clear path forward. Nexus Black allows us to take on the challenge of driving business value,” he adds.
IFS initiative is interesting because it comes at a time when recent analyst studies conclude that many AI projects are not achieving their goals. Respected analyst IDC points out, among other things, that unclear goals, insufficient data readiness, and a lack of internal expertise are slowing down many AI POCs, Proof of Concepts. POCs play an important role in this context as extremely useful strategy models for testing use cases: In short, you can test AI solutions without the risk of disturbing existing systems and functioning platforms.
This fits perfectly into a situation where the explosive pace of development has increased the number of pilots launched by industrial companies. In parallel, IDC points out that many companies today have developed something of a pilot fatigue. There is a certain resistance to seeking practical results, among other things because they do not believe that it will be enough lessons to learn from these experiments. It is also the case, according to new IDC research, that 88% of the observed POCs are not capable of large-scale deployment. For every 33 AI POCs that a company launched, only four were upgraded to production, IDC found. That's barely 13 percent.
"The high number of AI POCs but low conversion to production indicates the low level of organizational readiness in terms of data, processes, and IT infrastructure," IDC reports.
Not least in light of this, new models for introducing AI solutions - just like the one that IFS is now launching with the Black Nexus program, are very interesting for companies with the desire to productively move forward on the AI front. But what is more concrete that IFS Nexus Black offers?
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