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deliver services and create new business
opportunities. IoT projects will impact
most organisations’ competitive position,
product development strategy and internal
operations, as connected things will help
generate revenue and lower costs.
“While respondents of our global CIO
survey said that 12% of their organisations
have deployed IoT and 24% are actively
experimenting [with] it, businesses in
the Middle East face increasing costs,
complexity and scaling challenges when
they implement IoT solutions that actually
deliver value,” said Rao.
“We place IoT at the ‘Peak of Inflated
Expectations’ as we believe it will take up to
10 years to achieve mainstream adoption by
local businesses.”
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A digital twin is a virtual representation
of a real object that is designed to optimise
the operation of assets such as aircraft,
power plants and buildings. The primary
short-term use is to lower maintenance costs
and increase asset uptime.
In GCC, Gartner analysts expect oil
and gas and manufacturing companies
to combine digital twins and IoT solutions
for asset performance management and
streamlining processes.
“Digital twins enable businesses to
optimise or transform their business model
and will become the dominant design
pattern for solutions in the next decade,”
said Rao.
“The challenge for organisations will be
to change their thinking from a hardware-
One major issue that
5G users face is the
lack of readiness
of communications
service providers.
centric to a hardware-plus-software-centric
perspective in order to fully integrate digital
twins internally.”
Organisations considering the use of
digital twins should focus on identifying
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