Thales Digital Identity and Security (DIS) is a multifaceted enterprise, providing IT and security services for IoT government programs, banking, mobile encryption, and biometrics. The company began its journey to the cloud after recognizing the benefits of Amazon Web Services (AWS), which allows flexibility of the public cloud in terms of costs and diversity of services. The team quickly moved a dozen legacy solutions to AWS by lifting and shifting, the main objective being to keep customers happy while respecting the service-level agreement. However, after implementing AWS, Thales DIS found it was difficult to control cloud costs. The cloud providers’ native tools they were using were not able to answer all of their needs. The team soon recognized the need for a comprehensive cloud management platform to attain visibility into the growing cloud environment and to implement cost optimization practices.

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.

The client's go-to-market teams weren't accustomed to attracting new buyers in the digitally networked world. These prospects come from an evolving demographic — millennials and Gen Z who were increasingly adopting the new ways of evaluating options online and making reservations.There were three key challenges that the client was facing.Outdated and aging systems (legacy core)Inadequate web presence and e-Lack of predictive customer understanding and analytics

• Lack of complete visibility into status of individual transactions• Absence of consolidated view to manage operations and optimize use of cash reserves• Reliance on a slow, expensive, and outsourced process to develop, test, and deploy new transaction formats

The customer, a national grocery retailer with over 1,900 stores across 20 well-known banners, was facing a significant challenge in centralizing energy management due to the multiple divisions, disparate building management systems, and a large variety of hardware in their portfolio. The customer had a series of public energy commitments aimed at reducing their carbon footprint. They required a solution that would provide real-time visibility into the performance of their refrigeration, HVAC, and lighting systems at the equipment level across their enterprise. They also needed to achieve energy reductions that would meet corporate ROI requirements, proactive maintenance processes on identified energy and building efficiency opportunities, the ability to validate energy savings through a Measurement & Verification (M&V) process, and the ability to integrate multiple IoT data points into one centralized platform.

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 leading service provider to the international engineering industry, was facing significant challenges in tracking and managing the status of shipments. The existing legacy systems and manual processes were cumbersome, time-consuming, and prone to errors, leading to inaccuracies and productivity losses. The client required a solution that could improve visibility, efficiency, quality of service, and profitability by tracking the lifecycle of shipments. The need was for a solution that could provide real-time tracking of worldwide shipment details, and could be maintained within the SharePoint environment for reporting and analytics.

Parkeon, a global leader in urban mobility technology, had a vision to transform their devices into a new channel for a wide range of city services, creating a developer ecosystem or an 'app store' for meters. The company aimed to create multi-service kiosks that are fully integrated into the Smart City ecosystem, allowing partners to build and deliver additional services through their devices. However, a significant challenge was connecting and integrating these new terminals with the company’s back-office business systems. Parkeon had been using its own network for device connectivity, but with the trend towards the Internet of Things, they realized they needed a more robust connectivity solution than they could build themselves. They needed a solution that could manage deployed meters and integrate the connectivity part of the solution.

SAP SE, a leading enterprise applications and cloud services company, was looking to expand its offerings by launching a cloud platform to deliver SAP solutions. The goal was to create comprehensive software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings that would allow existing customers to reduce their infrastructure investments and lower barriers to entry for potential new customers. However, to meet the demand for always-available business applications, SAP needed to ensure its cloud offering would meet enterprise requirements. This meant that the platform had to be stable, secure, and highly flexible, with no margin for service interruptions or maintenance windows. As the company's cloud business was expanding rapidly, it was also crucial to use resources as efficiently as possible to realize economies of scale, increase profits, and build a sustainable SAP cloud business model.

A large U.S.-based manufacturer of high-performance semiconductors was facing a significant challenge in optimizing the manufacturing process of its wireless products. The company, which designs and delivers a broad set of cutting-edge products including radio frequency filters, amplifiers, modulators, attenuators, and more, was experiencing lower than expected overall yield in some of its most complex products. This was affecting the company's productivity and profitability, and there was a need for a solution that could predict low-yield wafers early in the process and identify process improvements to increase overall yield.

StepStone, a leading digital recruitment platform, was faced with the challenge of ensuring the security of highly sensitive personal information of jobseekers worldwide. As a rapidly expanding business with a growing presence in the U.S. and plans to enter new markets, StepStone was increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated and numerous cyberattacks. The company's existing antivirus products were no longer sufficient to protect against these threats. StepStone's platform delivers over 100 million job applications per year to over 150,000 employers, averaging three million page views and one million site visits in a typical month. The company needed a robust security solution that could effectively protect endpoints, which were identified as typical ingress paths for cyber threats.

IIIEPE was looking for a faster, less expensive approach for deploying Moodle-based online learning environments that would still enable the Institute to meet high service standards.IIIEPE evaluated firms that could assist with this project and decided to work with IT Era.

The company's challenges are as follows;Manual errors in warehouse management.Problems such as inventory theft, delayed shipment, and the need for double verification of inventory

Hera is now among the nation’s largest multi-utilities, born in 2002 out of the aggregation of 11 municipal companies operating in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The first corporation of its kind nationwide, Hera worsks mainly in the environment (waste management), water (aquaduct, sewage and purification) and energy (electricity, gas distribution and sales, energy services) sectors. Other services offered include public lighting and telecommunications. Its range of activities undergoes continuous and constant development, and meet the needs of 4.4 million citizens in over 350 municipalities in Emilia-Romagna, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Marche, Tuscany and Veneto. Right at the technological heart of HERA is HERAtech, the company that manages the work requested by customers for all network services managed by the Hera Group and also handles the design and construction of plants and networks in addition to highly specialised technical activities, such as plant remote control, the technical call centre that manages Emergency Services and the Analysis Laboratories for drinking water, wastewater and waste.The project by Endian for Hera is developed in cooperation with the Fluids Remote Control Division and its main goals are to fully manage the suppliers’ access to plants and devices, and to punctually monitor the network distributed over the regions covered by the service. Control activity takes action in multiple data centers, the places where all critical infrastructure is housed, and it’s all about authorizing access to suppliers and scanning all connections to detect any possible unauthorized devices or intrusions. 

Debeka’s IT monitoring monitors both the critical IT infrastructure with more than 4000 VMs and critical applications and services, e.g. customer applications. Debeka IT is the basis for core applications of the insurance business. In the event of critical disruptions, it is, therefore, necessary to respond promptly and 24/7.Before the introduction of Enterprise Alert, Debeka used a solution developed in-house. In order to reduce maintenance and servicing costs and to avoid having to use its own capacities for further development, Debeka opted for a purchased solution. The solution had to be flexible enough to take over the existing processes, but also offer additional functions and be future-proof. In addition, the product should have a GUI.

Automotive special-shaped parts (engine camshafts, crankshafts, automotive interior parts IP, ID and other components) are characterized by irregularities, and difficulties such as reflective curved surfaces cause machine vision intelligent detection problems. The development of intelligent detection technology for such products in China is relatively slow. At present, more than 90% of the special-shaped parts production enterprises still remain in the manual visual inspection method. However, manual visual inspection is slow in detecting complex defects and has poor reliability (such as manual visual inspection of camshafts, skilled quality inspectors need 2-3 minutes per piece).

Sky-Futures, a company specializing in drone-based industrial inspection services, was in need of a workflow management system. The system was to process images and videos captured by drones during oil rig inspections. The primary objective was to make equipment monitoring more cost-effective for oil companies. The challenge was to develop a system that could efficiently manage and process the vast amount of visual data captured by the inspection drones, and provide a platform for automated order, document, and digital asset management.

The telecommunications company, offering a wide range of services including broadband Internet, fixed telephone and mobile device services, and television and on-demand entertainment, was faced with the challenge of updating its core legacy systems for billing and operations. The company needed to migrate data from its legacy billing support system (BSS) and operations support system (OSS) to modern data center applications. This process was complex due to the different data formats used by each application and the need to maintain data integrity throughout the migration. The traditional SQL process was deemed too slow and verifying the accuracy of the data migration was nearly impossible. The company required a scalable solution with analytical capabilities to assess data quality, identify errors, uncover root causes and prioritize fixes according to potential impact on revenue or customer experience.

SAP was looking to launch its HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC), a preeminent infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution. The challenge was to find an infrastructure partner that could deliver significant improvements in processing speed, product time to market, and security that SAP customers were expecting. SAP needed a solution that would allow its customers to quickly, easily, and inexpensively run and support SAP HANA applications. Furthermore, the solution needed to be flexible enough to respond quickly to platform changes or technology innovations. SAP also wanted to streamline its customers' cloud adoption by eliminating the need for them to purchase or manage extra storage infrastructure.

DemystData, a New York-based software company, is dedicated to demystifying data for its clients, particularly financial institutions. Despite the increasing use of data in the financial sector, it is still heavily underutilized, leading to business decisions being made based on suboptimal or incomplete data. DemystData aims to close this gap by providing clients with access to new and more data. However, as datasets grow larger and data sources become more varied, the complexity increases, leading to more time-consuming work for the limited pool of data science resources at the company. The challenge was to manage this increasing complexity and workload without compromising the quality of data analysis and insights.

DigiCert, a provider of scalable TLS/SSL and PKI solutions, was facing challenges in securing their AWS environment. They were already using Imperva’s SaaS Web Application Firewall (WAF) to protect their on-premises applications, but their existing DDoS mitigation solution on AWS was not satisfactory. The solution was excessively scrubbing traffic and blocking legitimate traffic. As DigiCert's business is subjected to daily attacks, they needed a robust security solution that could manage risk, monitor all traffic, rapidly identify threats, and only allow valid traffic to access their applications. They wanted a solution from a single provider that could deliver both WAF protection and DDoS mitigation across their entire hybrid environment. The solution also needed to lower false positives, assure rapid response to minimize potential business interruption, and automate as much of the security process as possible due to time and resource constraints.

The customer, a US-based industry leader in lighting technology, had developed a proprietary wireless mesh networking protocol for their IoT-led outdoor lighting systems. These systems were used in various settings such as parking garages, airports, restaurants, and roadways. However, the functional testing of each wireless network for these diverse IoT devices became complex and adversely impacted the customer’s scalability and cost-effectiveness. The challenge was to build a test strategy that automated testing of their wireless outdoor lighting product line while sustaining the quality of their high-performance solutions.

Carlsberg UK, a subsidiary of the Carlsberg Group and the UK’s fourth largest brewer, was in need of a web-based Monitoring & Targeting (M&T) System for multiple plants and distribution depots throughout the UK. The brewery sought a system that could import and calculate weekly KPI data against targets for multiple utilities including gas, water, and electricity. It also needed to analyze production data and calculate plant efficiency. The system had to manage data imports from a wide range of meters to incorporate complex production procedures in place across the brewing process and be intuitive for non-technical users. Additionally, Carlsberg UK required an energy solution to distribute a range of use alarms and average usage alarms automatically via email and display hourly dashboards at the department operator level to monitor usage during different operational states.

The organization, a leading provider of integrated logistics solutions, was facing several challenges in its quest to become the top player in its field. The company, which is one of the largest wind and solar energy logistics players, was struggling with managing complex Over Dimensional Cargo (ODC) operations. They were also looking to consolidate all their divisions, functions, service offerings, and capabilities to achieve a high standardization and interoperability level. The company was in need of a solution partner who could accommodate and support their expansion into other logistics segments. Additionally, they were seeking a solution that would support their goal of bringing innovation to the logistics industry, which would help in delivering cost-effective and modern technology-driven solutions.

The challenge faced by the engineering design software provider was to build a new compliance program from scratch, start earning revenue quickly, and expand to multiple geographical markets. The company had never systematically instrumented its products to identify piracy, and wasn’t at all confident that it understood the magnitude of its problem. Like many software companies, it had relied primarily on anecdotes, speculation, and tips from disgruntled employees, but it had no reliable data to set priorities for enforcement, or to pursue specific infringers. The company needed a solution that could provide reliable data and help them pursue leads in different markets.

A Global 50 Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) company was facing significant challenges with its North American truck shipments, averaging 25,000 per month. The company lacked a system for real-time monitoring of inventory in-transit, leaving operation team members in the dark about real-time disruptions and unable to prevent or mitigate late or non-delivery for their customers. The company's new strategic cross-docking network was underperforming due to inaccurate inbound Estimated Time of Arrivals (ETAs), which reduced the number of goods that could be cross-docked. The company's Transportation Management System (TMS) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems were not receiving real-time information and rarely received shipment plan updates. Consequently, the company had to employ hundreds of people to manually update ETAs by making check calls to carriers, drivers, and customers. This manual process was not only time-consuming and error-prone but also latent, with disruption reports often received well after they occurred.

Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, a utility company servicing a 2,600 square-mile area in New York, was facing the challenge of transitioning away from a traditional distribution model to accommodate the growing push for renewable energy. The company had a long-term vision that aligned with the state’s commitment to sustainability, but the transition was not as simple as flipping a switch. The utility company needed to ensure quality and reliability as demand evolved. The introduction of their distributed generation program, part of New York State’s energy plan, brought new possibilities and incentives to customers but also introduced a few challenges. The utility company needed to ensure they had the right level of visibility and control over their grid, especially with the introduction of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), small-sized power generation units that attach to the grid and enable the utility to introduce renewable energy sources, such as solar power.

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India (MBRDI) was seeking an automation solution for their newly inaugurated state-of-the-art facility in Bangalore, dedicated to Learning & Development. The facility, named 'Gurukul', includes training rooms, meeting rooms, quiet areas, and in-house banquet halls, all designed with a focus on occupant needs and experience. MBRDI wanted a system that would enhance the occupant's experience by improving thermal (temperature and air quality) and visual (lighting) comfort, providing tailored occupant experiences, and empowering the facilities team with visibility into their energy consumption and HVAC & Lighting systems. The system also needed to have remote management capabilities and contribute to energy savings and carbon footprint reduction.

The world generates 2.01 billion tons of municipal solid waste annually, and traditional waste management methods are proving to be highly inefficient. Approximately 80% of waste is collected at the wrong time, leading to overflowing bins, unsanitary environments, citizen complaints, illegal dumping, and increased cleaning and collection costs. Early waste collections also contribute to unnecessary carbon emissions, increased traffic congestion, and higher operating costs. Nordsense, a Denmark-based company, aims to address these challenges and revolutionize the waste management sector using IoT sensors and data insights.

Many cities are grappling with issues such as aging infrastructure, increasing air pollution, traffic congestion, rising energy prices, and scarcity of natural resources. The traditional methods of managing these challenges are proving to be inefficient and unsustainable. For instance, waste management companies have been operating with limited innovation in operational efficiency. Trash containers often fill up too soon, and there is no real-time information on waste bins filling level. Similarly, city parking management systems are under pressure due to high and unstable demand from users. The challenge is to fully exploit all available spaces and connect them with IoT to monitor and optimize the occupancy of parking spaces. Additionally, most cities lack real-time monitoring of street light conditions, leading to energy inefficiency and higher operating costs. Lastly, cities face environmental challenges such as air pollution, noise pollution, water safety issues, inefficient irrigation, and flood risks.