Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), a global beverage company, was facing challenges in managing its technology platforms across more than 50 countries. The company had divided its business into six different zones, each managing its own IT processes, and had 16 corporate datacenters. This resulted in siloed information and operations, duplication of research efforts, and difficulty in embracing innovation company-wide. The company wanted to centralize its IT functions and move away from managing core infrastructure to focus on innovative services. Additionally, AB InBev was looking to develop a global analytics platform to gain valuable insights into the vast amounts of data harvested from each step in its manufacturing process.

Automating welding processes with robots enhances productivity and environmental friendliness. However, the quality of robotic welding can deteriorate due to various factory conditions. Continuous monitoring and adjustments are necessary to maintain high standards.

BrainBox AI, a leader in building automation, uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to automate Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and save money. The company's technology gathers and analyzes data from a building's HVAC system, combines it with external data such as weather conditions, and feeds it through the cloud to BrainBox AI's prediction models. However, the company faced challenges in ensuring uninterrupted data flow from the building to the cloud. They needed a wide-area network (WAN) solution independent from the on-site, wired ISP. The variance across sites was slowing down deployment, and the limitations of guest-level access left BrainBox AI's IT team wanting additional control. Furthermore, BrainBox AI's hardware enclosure is compact, which restricts the size of the WAN solution that can be used. The company also sought widespread expansion of its HVAC automation system and needed highly scalable routers that support cloud-based visibility and adjustments.

U.S. Venture, a company operating in diverse industries such as automotive aftermarket, energy, and technology, faced significant challenges in managing and analyzing customer data due to its complexity. The company struggled with creating enterprise tools and processes that could eliminate silos and promote collaboration. The Data and Analytics team at U.S. Venture, established in 2018, initially focused on data warehousing and basic reporting. However, they soon realized the need for advanced analytics at scale. The team faced difficulties in maintaining models and disparate data sources, which could quickly become unmanageable without the right people and tools. Additionally, the team's data scientists and analysts were using a varied set of tools and coding mechanisms, leading to a lack of standardization and collaboration. The individual team members built their own components that lived in different places and were created via their own tools, saved on personal computers, with no visibility for other team members about where projects were and how they were created or functioned.

J.P. Morgan, the landlord of London's iconic Spitalfields Market, faced the challenge of enhancing the property experience for its office tenants, public guests, and on-site retailers in a post-pandemic world. The need to address health and safety concerns, provide information on COVID-19 safety measures, and create safer, more engaging experiences for tenants and visitors became paramount. The global landlord also aimed to re-open their office space and market post-lockdown, grant office occupiers access to the market, its traders, and deals, and elevate their sustainability initiatives. Furthermore, J.P. Morgan sought to reduce congestion and create more touchless experiences at the market, which sees nearly 300,000 people per week at peak times. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this need, prompting for more touchless ways of ordering, paying, and collecting food from the popular food trucks at Spitalfields Market.

Comcast Corporation, the second largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue, was facing significant challenges due to the volume and variety of operational and billing data. With over 20 million customers across 40 states, the company needed to establish standardized processes and automate data flows to overcome a wide range of billing, finance, compliance, supply chain, and marketing challenges. In 2009, the company was dealing with massive amounts of data that were causing major revenue assurance challenges. The customer billing review interface required the processing of a billion records every month, within very tight timeframes. The company’s decentralized accounting and finance operations, with 20 different regions and 30 different accounting practices, further compounded these issues.

Tata Power Skill Development Institute (TPSDI) was established to empower individuals with employable skills, primarily in the power and associated industries. The institute aimed to address the skill gap in the Indian Power Industry by offering module training and certification across a broad spectrum of employable skills. However, TPSDI faced a challenge in making its courses accessible to a wider audience, including disadvantaged sections of society and those below the poverty line. The institute needed a platform to provide real-time information about its profile, facilities, leadership team, training hubs, and most importantly, its online courses. The platform also needed to allow students to register for these courses and provide details for upcoming and previous webinars, including registration links and video access.

Acatec S.L., a leading manufacturer of precision aeronautical components based in Spain, was striving to reduce costs and exceed client expectations by embracing new technologies. The company decided to overhaul its entire process, from the purchase of raw materials to the final delivery of the product. However, Acatec had historically outsourced all macro engineering and IT/Technology projects to external professional service companies. This resulted in a lack of in-house engineering and technology personnel to drive productivity improvement initiatives. To improve productivity, Acatec decided to implement time-saving, resource-light systems aimed at assisting forward planning of work, gauging capacities, and managing demanding delivery schedules. This included the implementation of management systems for warehouses and computerized control productions. However, the company soon realized that the first step towards increased productivity and efficiency was measuring the actual events.

With AxFina’s desire to innovate and scale and regulatory requirements looming, they turned to Hungarian IT company DIGITAL Kft. to help them migrate the entirety of its IT applications to the cloud. Microsoft Azure became the ideal solution to ensure AxFina maintained security, regulatory compliance, and speed.

Total S.A., a French multinational energy company, is one of the largest energy producers in the world. Its operations span the entire oil and gas supply chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to power generation, transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and international crude oil and product trading. To support these operations, Total’s IT environment runs a wide variety of applications on premises, as well as extensive public and private cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure. The company needed a consistent platform and management for all of its sites, regardless of size. Some offices contain as few as three people, while others may support up to 1000 employees. The organization needed a strategic solution that would position the organization to respond to any need. The company was also seeking to dramatically minimize the size of its data center footprint as part of its environmental initiatives to reduce greenhouse emissions.

The client, a large bank with over 260 branches, serving more than 2 million customers, 170,000 SMEs, and 600 large corporate companies, was facing challenges with the manual process of testing software and system changes associated with SAP ERP. The bank uses the SAP ERP system and its various components to handle specific business processes associated with their banking activities, such as managing invoices. However, the process of introducing software changes into the system or adjusting the system’s settings involved long and resource-hungry manual testing activities. The client wanted to significantly accelerate the testing process by automating these manual processes.

The client, a global industry leader in tax services, was facing a significant challenge in managing transfer pricing compliance requirements. The process involved a substantial amount of tax calculations, which were being done manually, resulting in a time-consuming and costly process. The client was seeking a solution to automate these calculations to make them faster and more cost-efficient. Additionally, the client needed a system to monitor transactions between various business units and legal entities more effectively. The transaction rules, methods, and tax calculations were previously kept, applied, and completed manually in Excel, which incurred substantial time and resources.

Streamline digital connections between people, processes, and equipment.Today, this pioneering company continues to lead the way in both talent and modern technology deployment to deliver some of the industry’s most complex projects. With over more than 30 3D machine control systems that are used on dozers, excavators, motor graders, and skid steers; 30 rovers and total stations; and 50-plus base stations, the company maintains one of the largest technology-enabled fleets in the Upper Midwest. 

Nanded, a city in India's Maharashtra State, is a significant spiritual hub for the Sikh religion, attracting a large number of visitors throughout the year. The city leaders identified a need to enhance security and realized that an innovative approach was necessary to meet their needs and budget requirements. This led to the inception of the C-Cube project, Nanded’s command, control, and communication center, designed to monitor the entire city. The challenge was to design a Safe City solution that would provide comprehensive functionality within the budget constraints. The city leaders, along with security consultants MIPL and system integrator Samarth Security Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd., were tasked with this responsibility.

The client, a provider of services including design and management of social media programs, development of digital engagement strategy, and strategic consultation on international security, was in need of a solution that could help them analyze and visualize social media data. They wanted to offer their customers detailed analyses and visualizations of social media data to help them make informed decisions. The challenge was to create a visually appealing and fast application that could visualize, analyze, and generate market trend reports. The application needed to be scalable to accommodate the ever-growing dataset.

Essex Furukawa, the world’s largest manufacturer of magnet wire/winding wire, faced a significant increase in demand due to the rapid shift of global automakers towards electric power. The company needed to maintain its market leadership by increasing throughput and uptime while delivering high-quality products. The challenge was to meet the growing demands without compromising the quality of their products. The magnet wire they produce for electric vehicle motors must meet exacting standards to withstand years of severe stress, including high heat, high electrical current, and fast switching frequencies. Essex Furukawa leadership recognized the need for a digital transformation of their manufacturing plants to collect and analyze production data for predictive maintenance and continuous operational optimization.

MindArk, a renowned PC game developer, wanted to expand its reach by creating a cross-platform mobile solution. They aimed to develop a strategy game with city-building elements, turn-based battles, and appealing game art. The game, named ComPet, was envisioned to allow players to collect and train pets, participate in quests and battles, and defend their villages. The client also wanted to link ComPet to their successful multiplayer game, Entropia Universe, by including some of its characters. Furthermore, they wanted to enhance the user experience with features like real-time weather effects and an efficient game admin system for smooth operations post-launch.

Aker BP, one of Norway’s largest oil exploration and development companies, faced a significant challenge in providing efficient internal support to its approximately 2,000 employees across five offices and various offshore sites. Initially, the company relied on administrative assistants to handle queries related to IT, HR, training, supply chain management, and more. However, as the company grew, this approach became less efficient, with support staff becoming overwhelmed with repetitive tasks and queries. These tasks, while important, consumed significant amounts of time, diverting them from key tasks such as recruitment, training, and organizational development. Aker BP sought to move away from a reliance on human support and aimed to achieve administrative self-service by increasing employee efficiency while maintaining the high level of service they were accustomed to. The company aimed to create a central hub of knowledge that employees could easily access for answers, while still having support staff available for more complex requests.

Selina, a global boutique hotel group, had invested significant time and effort into building its social media presence. However, the brand faced challenges in tracking leads and sales generated through platforms like Instagram and Facebook. Facebook’s Messenger, a key communication tool for the brand, did not provide a way to distinguish between leads, customer support, and Q&A questions. It also did not allow brands to automatically assign and route the user to the correct departments. As a result, customer support response times were not instant, which was a key goal for Selina. The brand wanted to build a scalable lead generation system that allowed teams to provide faster support and offer the best vacation booking experience for guests.

Redflex, an Australian-based company that develops intelligent transport solutions (ITS) for government, police, and traffic departments, wanted to increase their market presence with a new solution for traffic management. The company needed to validate their product idea and develop an intelligent transport solution with high detection accuracy. The main task was to develop advanced models to detect a certain anomaly based on the image received from the client's cameras. The company decided to increase their presence in Europe and expand the portfolio of their services. Therefore, they needed to create a next-generation solution for traffic management, taking into account the traffic rules and related policies of different countries.

Workiva, a global SaaS company, faced several challenges in 2020. The sales team, led by Melissa Raber, Senior Director of Global Inside Sales, was struggling with the complexity of assembling larger buyer groups, long sales cycles, and difficulty converting top-of-the-funnel buyers. They also lacked visibility into high intent buyers. Tasked with generating 40% of the pipeline for their organization, the team needed a tool that could address these issues, provide visibility to intent data, and engage with conversation-ready, high-intent leads. Workiva had previously invested in an email-based conversational marketing tool, but it was ineffective for generating new business. Melissa knew it was time to find a tried-and-true conversational marketing and sales solution that would help them achieve their pipeline goals by shortening their sales cycle.

ASML, the world’s leading producer of photolithography machines essential for microchip manufacturing, was facing a significant challenge in its testing process. The company's rigorous testing procedures, which are crucial due to the high cost of production delays and the potential for microscopic faults, were time-consuming. Engineers were provided with virtual machines for testing, run from an on-premises data center, but these could take a full day to return results. This delay was holding back the development cycle, as software engineers had to wait anywhere from two hours to a full day for test results, due to limited on-premises data center capacity. The demand for testing varied dramatically, depending on the number and scale of tests, making it difficult to manage with the existing infrastructure.

Mocoh, a Geneva-based company supplying essential energy and resources across Africa, was facing a significant challenge in managing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2021, the company had little to no visibility of the carbon footprint or intensity of its oil and oil product trades. Mocoh wanted to lead the way in identifying sources of carbon emissions across its supply chain and publishing its findings. The company recognized the importance of transparent information and collaboration with all stakeholders in the complex energy transition. However, to do this, Mocoh needed to start measuring emissions from across its supply chain. The goals were to inform regulators with data-led information, understand the scale and structure of emissions in its products and transaction logistics, identify opportunities to reduce carbon intensity, and proactively and transparently share data with stakeholders.

Eurocell, the UK’s leading manufacturer, distributor, and recycler of UPVC window, door, conservatory, and roofline systems, faced a challenge in harnessing their vast amounts of data to provide customers with an unrivaled customer experience. They aimed to fully personalize every single customer touchpoint, improving their understanding of their customers and how they communicate with them through their digital channels and branch teams. This need intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic as their e-commerce sales rapidly increased. They recognized that artificial intelligence (AI) could empower them to deliver on their strategic goal, but needed help distinguishing between their diverse customer-base in their SAP data, and understanding how their data could be used to create AI models.

Marketing to prospects (direct mail, telemarketing, and email) is expensive. Targeting incorrectly can hurt your brand, leaving prospects feeling spammed. Traditional techniques are not very sophisticated, resulting in low response rates which in turn leads to high cost-per-lead/acquisition numbers.

AxFina Holding S.A, an asset and loan servicer focused on Central and Eastern Europe, faced a significant challenge when it acquired Hungarian leasing company Lombard Lízing Zrt. The infrastructure of Lombard had reached the end of its life cycle and needed to be replaced within a few weeks. AxFina, with its ambition to innovate and scale, was also under pressure to meet regulatory requirements. The company had been hosting its IT infrastructure in Hungary with in-house datacenters, but this legacy system was nearing the end of support. AxFina needed an alternative solution that would not only significantly reduce costs but also support its growth across jurisdictions and product innovation. The company was looking at a potential expenditure of about 1.5 million Euros just in Hungary to replace the infrastructure.

 As a global company with over 1,200 employees and 24 subsidiaries, KTR systems has a diverse and complex digital infrastructure to protect. With increasingly subtle and sophisticated cyber-attacks targeting every corner of the digital ecosystems, the IT team sought a new approach that could detect and autonomously respond to these threats.

IGEL Technology, a global provider of innovative and powerful thin client solutions, was looking to transition from a hardware manufacturer to a software provider. The company aimed to deliver complete solutions for software-defined endpoints, facilitating secure access to virtual and cloud-based working environments. IGEL's IT Manager, Tim-Oliver Felsen, believed that the future of IT workstations would be heavily reliant on cloud services due to their user-friendliness, flexibility, cost benefits, and efficient management. The company had previously relied on an external service provider that operated a Citrix infrastructure for most of its IT users. However, IGEL wanted to take the next step and transform its virtual workplaces into real Cloud Workspaces.

MTC desired a Next Generation 511 system that provided choice and efficiency in mobility for the 8 million residents, visitors and workers it serves, while leveraging the latest technology advances to reduce cost.

GE Hydro, a subsidiary of GE Renewable Energy, provides solutions for hydropower installations, including machinery and equipment sensor integration, testing, measurements, and data interpretation. However, they faced a significant challenge in monitoring the conditions of their installations. Hydropower installations are located in severe environments, often with aging connections between the rotor poles that exhibit drastic temperature rises and cause unplanned failures in production. Traditional solutions like batteries, direct wired connections, infrared devices, and fiber-based temperature sensors were ineffective due to the harsh conditions, high radial accelerations, and the proximity of metal parts. Furthermore, the high speed of transit in front of the antenna, which can go up to 250 km per hour, posed additional challenges. Monitoring, collecting, and managing reliable data with a small RFID TAG was a major technical challenge due to the high currents and related electromagnetic fields inside the enclosure where the RFID chip in the generator is located.