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Companies Partner To Jointly Market Connected Tools

  • Reuters, Thursday, September 22, 2016 9:05 AM

Europe's biggest software firm SAP and German car parts maker Robert Bosch [ROBG.UL] have signed an agreement to partner to connect everything from screwdrivers to cars to the internet. The companies said on Wednesday they will combine Bosch's platform and SAP's back-end software to connect vehicles, manufacturing machinery and tools of Bosch customers. By 2020, some 21 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be in use worldwide, up from fewer than 5 billion last year, research firm Gartner has estimated. The companies said they planned to make SAP's real-time database HANA available to Bosch customers to monitor production processes.

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