Technical and operational development of platforms

Creating physical platform solutions with combinations of technology expertise

Parties

• The service provider (company / group of companies) creates a technical platform and operating models that facilitate its use
  
• Technology solution providers and their ecosystems
  
• Customers utilize the platform in their own business

Business Model

• Sales of technology as products and solutions
  
• Service-based model: IaaS, PaaS, Saas
  
• New technology adds value to the customer

Technical enablers / features:

Competences:

• Exponentially scalable technologies
  
• Cloud services and architectures
  
• Open APIs to support connectivity and scalability of customer and partner services
  
• New solutions allowed by performance or a new paradigm (e.g. Blockchain)
  
• Opportunities offered by the new digital environment (eg IoT)

• Technical excellence, continuous updating of competence
  
• Application skills
  
• System performance optimization,
  
• Architectural expertise (technical, applications)
  
• Technology layer ecosystem expertise
  
• Management of technology trends

Classifications:

• Components and basic technologies
  
• Networks, interfaces, subsystems

• Integration of entities
  
• Specific service entities, eg information security
  

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