The objective of Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF) Objective is to create /select standards and specifications for an open, interoperable, secure process automation architecture so end-users of controls systems can choose the modules offered by different vendors into one basket. OPAF largely comprises members from Exxon, Lockheed Martin and Schneider Electric, and they are creating these open standards with help from others in Industry.
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Cognitive Product Support:Next Phase of Intelligent Support Services
Today, customized user experiences and burgeoning demands are two major expectations from customers in an As-a-Service economy. Hence,the same anticipations have been building up for the technology sector. Read how Cognitive Product Support could unleash a number of far-reaching impacts.
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Nov 02, 2017
Design Thinking: Putting customer and customer experience at the core of product innovation
Successful companies are increasingly putting customers, not technology, at the heart of product design. It turns out that understanding what problems customers have and how a product can solve them is more important than simply incorporating new...
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Oct 19, 2021
Containers and microservices: Leveraging AI to make businesses agile, flexible, and scalable
Containers are seeping into almost all the corners of the Digital Transformation. While containers are so atomic, the job they do is humungous and disparate. Microservices existed well before containers did, but have experienced challenges that were...
OPAF – The Industry Game Changer in DCS Market
Transforming Business by leveraging Blockchain
When someone thinks of the word ‘Blockchain’, the first thing that comes to their mind is “Bitcoin” or “Cryptocurrency”. No doubt, it was bitcoin’s success which brought Blockchain technology into the limelight. But Blockchain is the under-the-hood technology and has many more applications beyond just bitcoin or cryptocurrency. Blockchain is a decentralized or distributed ledger where data in the form of transactions or records are stored on the ledger. All these records/transactions are immutable, i.e. no one can modify or change the data once recorded. Typically, hundreds of transactions are added in one block. And each new block is linked or chained to the previous block, thus creating a chain of blocks.
Collaboration at Telco Edge
The promise of stringent low latency use cases in 5G can be only fulfilled by MEC. It’s an enabler in 5G to provide an enhanced customer experience and plays a crucial role in making new age digital services like autonomous car, AR/VR gaming, drone, robotics, and many others a reality. These low latency use cases of MEC promise to unlock new revenue streams for Telcos. MEC makes the Telcos environment more dynamic, open, programmable and exposes its APIs to third party which are enterprises to run their applications in close proximity to end-users. Telcos MEC landscape is complex and it comprises of various players from infrastructure providers to silicon players to hyperscalers to enterprise. With Telcos at the core, all these players are evolving and transforming themselves to have a significant presence at the edge. In a MEC landscape of Telcos, infrastructure providers are establishing the edge, silicon players are powering the edge, hyperscalers are catalyzing the edge and for enterprises its new era where they are programing the use cases at edge.
The successful development and deployment of MEC landscape at the Telco will require very good understanding of these players. For the MEC ecosystem to flourish at Telcos, collaboration and co-innovation at the edge of these different players – infrastructure providers, silicon players, hyperscalers and enterprise, which can foster innovative services in agile delivery model is the key. This blog talks about the various players which comprises of Telcos MEC landscape and how they are transforming themselves to perform at edge
