UAE- Internet of Things revenue set to hit 2 billion this year

(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) With the Middle Easts IoT market growth outpacing the global average the regions IoT hardware and services revenues will reach nearly $2 billion in 2015 according to Deloitte.

As the Middle East’s Internet of Things (IoT) revenue will reach nearly $2 billion in 2015 organisations need to innovate with the power of Big Data SAP announced on Wednesday.

With the Middle East’s IoT market growth outpacing the global average the region’s IoT hardware and services revenues will reach nearly $2 billion in 2015 according to Deloitte. As the GCC diversifies its economy the non-oil sector will grow by six per cent in 2015 according to the International Monetary Fund.

In this emerging Digital Economy as more objects and devices are connected together they are creating vast amounts of data that Middle East businesses are looking to leverage for actionable insights into their supply chain research and product development customer preferences and location-based services and offers.

As Deloitte predicts that global IoT analytics revenues will grow by 500 per cent over the next four years SAP is seeing strong take-up in the Middle East for the recently-released SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA (SAP S/4 HANA) which connects people devices and business networks in real time.

“The Internet of Things will be the Middle East’s biggest game-changer and enterprises need to develop comprehensive strategies to reimagine their businesses in the digital economy” said Frank Forndron SAP head of Customer Office SAP Mena and head of Quality Management for SAP Mena and Emea Emerging Markets.

“We’re seeing strong demand for our SAP S4/HANA real-time in-memory business suite which reduces complexity and cost and delivers customer value and boosts the region’s economy.”

The advancing inter-connected IoT era will connect at least 50 billion devices and generate $14.4 trillion in value by 2020 according to a report by Stephenson Strategies and SAP.

Already SAP counts more than 370 SAP S4/HANA customers worldwide with key enterprises in the Middle East embracing the platform’s in-memory and real-time capabilities to support economic growth.

Bin Sammar Trading and Contracting Company one of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s leading contracting companies with 14000 employees is deploying SAP S/4 HANA solutions to drive the Kingdom’s engineering construction and operations sector especially for mega-projects in infrastructure transportation telecommunications and housing. “With the Kingdom’s construction sector experiencing strong growth our vision calls for utilising state-of-the-art technology to enhance our business and the Kingdom’s infrastructure” said Shaikh Mus’ad bin Sammar Al Otaibi founder and chairman of Bin Sammar Trading and Contracting Company.

“Analysing data in real-time is transforming our supply chain and project and talent management ensuring that mega-projects are delivered on time and on budget.”

Al Khalili Group one of Oman’s leading conglomerates uses SAP S/4 HANA’s real-time dashboard to track and analyse 40000-plus items in Oman and the UAE helping to determine product stocking leading to faster decision-making boosting competitiveness and enhancing the customer experience.

“With thousands of products and employees to manage daily we needed greater visibility into supply chain to track our customers’ orders and stocking and to enable our staff to further develop their technology skills in the Digital Economy” said Jumana Al Hashmi of Al Khalili Group.

“Providing real-time visibility is a major component of SAP S4/HANA helping enable our expansion plans and supporting the region’s economic growth.”

SAP is now introducing the cloud edition of SAP S/4HANA to help customers drive their digital business transformation with the simplicity of the cloud.

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