Harbor to Run Smart Services Forum at Hannover Fair
Harbor to Run Smart Services Forum at Hannover Fair Harbor Research announces new smart services forum covering the
fast-developing M2M/Pervasive Internet sector to take place at Hannover
Fair.
San Francisco and London (PRWEB) March 16, 2006 –- Harbor Research
Inc., the world’s leading provider of strategic consulting and research
services for the fast-developing M2M/Pervasive Internet sector, has
announced its first Smart Services Forum for 2006, to be held at this
year’s Hannover Fair in Germany on 27 April. Leading Industrial
companies also taking part in this special one day conference include
Mitsubishi Electric, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen (Heidelberg),
Invensys, Air Products, ABB and Schmitz Cargobull -- Europe’s largest
HGV trailer manufacturer. Top experts from these companies will join with Harbor’s specialist
team to outline what they have achieved within their companies and the
enormous benefits already gained from device networking and remote
smart services. Heidelberg in particular was recently awarded ‘IT
Application of the Year 2005’ in Germany for its achievements in this
area. This conference is also linked to a major theme of this year’s
Fair, that of Wireless Automation.
The Hannover Fair is the world’s largest show dedicated to Industrial
automation, process and control and drew nearly 250,000 visitors last
year from a wide range of countries worldwide. Harbor’s Smart Services
Forum (www.SmartServicesForum.com)
at the Fair will be the first conference to focus exclusively on the
smart service opportunities arising out of the M2M/Pervasive Internet
market development.
The ability to monitor, repair and control equipment remotely over the
Internet -- particularly using Wireless M2M technologies such as
Wireless WAN (including GSM/GPRS/CDMA cellular mobile and satellite),
Wireless LAN and Wireless PAN (including Bluetooth, ZigBee and RFID) --
has changed the concept of service for manufacturers in key industries
around the world. By increasing customer satisfaction with faster
turnaround times and enabling concrete savings on service costs, new
technology has allowed implementers to introduce “smart services” and
gain competitive edge over those still using traditional service
methods.
These new services represent a multi-billion dollar opportunity. Market
growth is also extremely strong. Harbor’s own research has documented
organic growth rates in double digits for many companies that follow
this path. The leaders are establishing the new performance benchmarks
for their industries, deriving more than 50% of their revenue, and 60%
of their margin contribution, from services as opposed to product
sales. For most management teams in product-centric companies, numbers
like these sound like nirvana.
Smart services are a wholly different animal than the service offerings
of the past, and customers perceive them as having entirely new value.
The Smart Services Forum is a conference format specifically designed
to explore the key benefits for those who are thinking of adopting
these methods in their own companies.
About Harbor:
Harbor Research Inc., has more than twenty years of experience in
providing strategic consulting and research services to high technology
clients. Harbor’s business development work is organized around
emergent and disruptive opportunities, with a unique focus on the
impact of the Pervasive Internet -- the use of the Internet to
accomplish global device networking that will revolutionize business by
unleashing entirely new modes of system optimization, customer
relationships, and service delivery.
Harbor Research’s clients are leaders in communications, computing,
control, and content. Harbor Research has built extended relationships
with larger multi-line companies including AT&T, ABB, Agilent,
General Electric, Danaher, Eaton, Emerson, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi,
Honeywell, Hughes, IBM, Intel, Invensys, Lucent, Motorola, Rockwell,
Siemens, and Texas Instruments, as well as with growth companies such
as EMC, Cadence Design, Conexant and Qualcomm. Harbor has built
relationships with a number of significant Pervasive Internet players,
including Axeda, Digi, Ember, GridLogix, Lantronix, Questra, Wavecom,
SensorLogic, Xsilogy, and Dust Networks, to name a few.
Contact Information:
Marc Kriessmann
Harbor Research, Inc.
415.615.9400 x23
415.615.0454 fax http://www.harborresearch.com
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