{"id":6458,"date":"2016-02-23T11:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=6458"},"modified":"2016-02-23T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:39:48","slug":"mena-telecoms-to-support-global-164-billion-iot-market-by-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2016\/02\/23\/mena-telecoms-to-support-global-164-billion-iot-market-by-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"MENA telecoms to support global $164 billion IoT market by 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Middle East telecoms\u2019 adoption of 5G will support the global $164 billion Internet of Things market by 2018, SAP\u00a0has announced at Mobile World Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Internet of Things era will see 50 billion connected devices by 2030, with ultrafast gigabit-speed 5G mobile broadband transforming services, from driverless cars to virtual reality government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Demonstrating the strong market opportunity, 34% of telecom revenue will come from new digital services. However, while 80% of telecoms said a real-time platform is a \u201ctop priority\u201d, only 65% have implemented it, according to a recent SAP report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Middle East\u2019s digital transformation requires real-time insights by all stakeholders to enhance people\u2019s daily lives and drive new sources of revenue. In the Middle East, 2016 is the tipping point for telecoms to adopt the real-time Big Data analytics that will form the foundation for digitisation,\u201d said Sherif Hamoudah, Head of Telco &#8211; Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, SAP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At the SAP stand, five interactive showcases include the SAP Digital Boardroom on the S\/4HANA real time business platform; the immersive Big Data GigaPixel Wall; the Digital Framing Experience using IoT technologies; the Digital Customer Experience; and a connected car with Samsung and SEAT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Supporting young telecom talent, SAP is hosting a mobile app challenge with the European Space Agency, networking sessions with technology incubator RocketSpace, and an innovation jam on 5G.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">SAP is driving global telecom innovation, with North American companies Rogers finding $100 million in savings, Cox Communications using Big Data to increase household product sales by 14 percent, and T-Mobile using social media to resolve 95% of issues.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East telecoms\u2019 adoption of 5G will support the global $164 billion Internet of Things market by 2018, SAP\u00a0has announced at Mobile World Congress. The Internet of Things era will see 50 billion connected devices by 2030, with ultrafast gigabit-speed 5G mobile broadband transforming services, from driverless cars to virtual reality government. Demonstrating the strong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[809,38,389],"tags":[390,119,531,562,285,240,388],"class_list":["post-6458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-news","category-networking","category-telecom","tag-5g","tag-big-data","tag-mena","tag-middle-east","tag-mobile","tag-sap","tag-telecom"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}