The coronavirus pandemic is affecting businesses in a variety of ways. From loss of business to remote work, things are changing fast during the COVID-19 outbreak and businesses are being forced to adapt. Monitoring performance of the company’s infrastructure, systems and resources is critical for any successful business. Even in the digital world and especially in these times, it is essential you can address problems as soon as possible, to make sure they do not occur at all.

The consulting firm GIS mbH has been supporting customers since 1984 in maintenance, organizational and process consulting as well as in the implementation and optimization of IBM Maximo and Infor EAM. Company TROIA, collaborates with GIS mbH in managing various customers who use IBM Maximo in combination with the GIS Insights Control Panel. To understand what that means, let’s take a closer look.

As the use of AR grows, companies start to see how technology takes user experience and user interaction to a whole new level. But there’s more: placing computer-generated graphics in someone’s field of vision can bring remarkable improvements in terms of operational excellence and quality control.

Optimization is necessary for a successful business. With the constant technology growth and the use of AI and advanced analytics, the knowledge of your asset health in real-time is a big part of that success.

Mobile applications have been reshaping business for years now. With 10 billion mobile devices forecasted to be in use by 2020, the proliferation of mobile technology is fundamentally changing the way people think, work, act and interact. Mobile applications, or “apps,” enable people to be more productive from virtually anywhere. In fact, 92 percent of organizations believe that the failure to adopt such apps will put them at a competitive disadvantage.

We certainly started 2020 on a high note! Over 100 projects have been pooled by Next Energy as part of the Call for Ideas and the Call for Growth. Of the 80 companies, submitted to the Call for Growth, we were in the 11% entries which were submitted by non-Italian companies.

We’ve been saying that augmented reality has been around for quite some time, but most experts are predicting that this is the decade when AR becomes a part of our daily routine. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO is betting big on this emerging field of technology.

You wouldn’t open a restaurant without hiring people to cook. You wouldn’t buy a car and expect it to drive itself (unless it was a Tesla). So why would you invest in technology, without having a professional IT support team to back you up?

2019 has been a pretty incredible year for Augmented Reality and nothing less is expected in 2020. Now if there's one takeaway from 2019, it's this: We're well past the early adopter phase. 40% of small to midsize businesses are currently evaluating AR/VR (Gartner expects this number to rise to 70% by 2022).

Industrial AI Market Report 2020-2025 was recently published by IoT Analytics', identifying a total of 33 different use cases that employ Artificial Intelligence tools and techniques on (predominantly) IoT-connected data sources and assets of industrial enterprises. These are the TOP 10 ranked by size and at the very top is Predictive Maintenance - one of TROIA's strongest area of expertise.