Digital transformation can absolutely be thought of as improving a website through which a car rental company sells its used vehicles – an important source of revenue for the company. It can also be thought of as enhancing a mobile app that enables customers to make, modify, or cancel reservations, view a car’s mileage and features, or track a car rental shuttle. However, many other back-office, non-customer-facing technology investments fall under the digital transformation umbrella as well. MORE

The US Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) has defined a scale to describe the autonomous capabilities that self-driving cars have — i.e., their levels of automation. MORE

Information Technology Blog - - How Will Electric Cars Destabilize the Automotive Industry? The traditional automotive industry is in a period of flux. Automotive Parts Companies. The post How Will Electric Cars Destabilize the Automotive Industry? MORE

The Automotive Cyber Security Summit is for practitioners in the automobile industry who are working to predict and mitigate both current and future risks due to technology. The event brings together experts from across the auto industry, including manufactures, designers and providers of on-demand services and autonomous vehicles. The focus of the conference is system […]. Artificial Intelligence CTO Cyber Security Events Mobile News MORE

The Automotive Cyber Security Summit is for practitioners in the automobile industry who are working to predict and mitigate both current and future risks due to technology. The event brings together experts from across the auto industry, including manufactures, designers and providers of on-demand services and autonomous vehicles. The focus of the conference is system […]. Artificial Intelligence CTO Cyber Security Events News MORE

Having worked in and with the automotive industry for around 25 years, the challenges that OEMs face given their size and structures often inhibit the business agility needed to provide lasting customer value in an age of digital disruption. MORE

At this year’s CES, automotive companies revealed how they are working together to develop autonomous vehicles platforms MORE

A data-capture-and-authentication specialist is teaming with an innovator in automotive consulting to create an unusual new sales solution for US auto dealerships. Acuant, which has developed the auto-data fill technology solution Acufill, is integrating its system with services offered by NewTech Automotive. Their new service will help sales associates at dealerships to auto-populate critical information MORE

The automotive industry is continuously producing innovations that feature and support wireless connectivity, sensors, AI, smart infrastructures, and automation. Download the guide below to learn more about how automation is transforming the automotive industry. Automotive Digital Transformation Automation automotive automotive digital experience automotive digital transformation automotive industry emerging technologies automotive operations automotive technology MORE

Car hacking is not only a “thing” but it's also a thing that’s in its early days and because there’s the potential for exploits with serious and quite possibly life-threatening consequences, automotive cybersecurity is something we should all be very concerned about. MORE

Automotive leaders are also rethinking their approach with the customer. Automotive companies are becoming digital businesses and creating new smart mobility services. Digital disruption is catching up with the automotive industry. New technologies are drastically changing the entire automotive industry; from mobile enhanced audiences, electric vehicles with connective capabilities, to autonomous cars. The automotive industry is changing. MORE

Volkswagen’s recent announcement to build its automotive cloud platform on Microsoft Azure is yet another example of the types of tech-driven innovation efforts transportation leaders are taking to position themselves as customer experience leaders. MORE

Automotive dealerships are changing the searching and purchasing process. An omnichannel experience is a multichannel approach providing customers with a seamless shopping experience, whether they’re shopping online, or in a brick-and-mortar automotive location. MORE

British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover will incorporate Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820Am automotive platform to power in-vehicle connectivity MORE

At the end of the day, as the automotive industry (everything from buying and selling vehicles to the driver experience) continues to evolve in today’s digital world, bumps along the way will be normal. If you are interested in learning more about the state of the automotive industry and how technology is playing a key role in its evolution, you can download our new guide here. Over the last several weeks, we discussed self-driving and connected cars in-depth. MORE

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The automotive world is focusing on a different tactical approach to meet customer expectations and increase sales. The reason automotive companies are pushing mobile and digital: Easier buying and selling process for customers. With user reviews and instant abilities to price match across the web, buyers are leaning more towards digital automotive purchases. Joydrive , a newly launched online automotive retail marketplace is taking digital sales to the next level. MORE

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IoT Accelerates the Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry. In the consumer space, connected cars are emerging as an IoT industry leader, placing the automotive industry among the top segments for IoT adoption over the next five years. Digital Experience automotive autonomous cars connected cars connected consumer digital transformation internet of things IoT self-driving cars MORE

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For decades, the automotive industry was a technological backwater full of missed opportunities. Jeremy Sutter. Now, automakers worldwide are responding to new challenges with high-tech solutions. Today, the auto sector is seen as the fastest- evolving tech industry of them all. The Old Days. Not more than fifteen years ago, the typical car still relied on technology commonplace in the 1930's. MORE

Modern vehicles increasingly connect to the rest of the world via short range wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, wired interfaces such as OBD-II and USB, long range wireless communications such as 4G and the coming 5G for internet, and services such as OnStar, LoJack, and Automatic, to name only some. That world includes your enterprise and the criminal hackers and cyber carjackers who want to undo your data, your corporate fleets, and your people. MORE

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Over-the-air software updates for cars is a security risk. Researchers who developed an open source software update framework for cars are asking security experts to help find flaws in its code MORE

At the 2016 Women’s Industry Network Educational Conference, Susan Lombardo, senior vice president of vehicle acquisition for Enterprise Holdings, said, “Many drivers experience new automotive technologies for the first time in rental vehicles…I have no doubt that the U.S. New partnerships with companies that are developing self-driving car technology have also been formed. MORE

Cox Automotive is using Datameer to expose their analysts to the vast amounts of data they collect, from shopping behavior to vehicle information. Cox Automotive’s adoption transition was natural with Datameer. Watch Cox Automotive talk about the importance of using Datameer here. MORE

In this blog, we’re going to dive into an automotive maker use case in which we gave drivers a connected experience with cloud. The following is the eleventh blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. MORE

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artificial intelligence (AI) automotive transportation & logistics artificial intelligenceThis week, Uber announced that it would close down its self-driving trucks business unit to focus on autonomous passenger vehicles. In July 2017, we predicted that logistics and shipping firms would replace human-driven double- and triple-freight trailers with human-directed platoons of autonomous trucks and fully autonomous trucks as quickly as practicable and legally permitted. MORE

A new report from IntSights details the many ways cybercriminals break into a new generation of highly digitized cars MORE

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The strategic vision of the manufacturing and automotive treasury function is to deliver efficiency, control, and scalability. MORE

Automotive Cloud Commerce Communications Consumer Markets Digital Experience Digital Transformation Energy Financial Services Healthcare High Tech Industries Life Sciences Management Consulting Manufacturing StrategyIn todays “Digital Everything” world with all the confusing jargon around the subject of “Cloud” it is easy to miss the point of why cloud technology is important. In this blog I hope to remind the reader about some cloud basics. MORE