Insights Digital Innovations
Our Innovation Focused Newsletter for the Bertelsmann Group
The speed of progress within the digital world is rapid. Cloud computing and new development cultures enable unique, innovative and digital business models which shape the Digital Transformation.
Here on our “Digital Innovations” page, we collect all contents of our “Insights Digital Innovations” Newsletter for Bertelsmann. We share insights about the latest cloud movements and improvements, we highlight benefits for your business, and we discuss trends, events and cases focused on innovations within the digital world. Enjoy reading.
Technology Trends and Innovations
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Marketing Dashboard for Arvato Systems
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Arvato Systems on growth course
To strengthen further continuous and positive development, Arvato Systems is now focusing on six key customer industries and at the same time strengthening its management with proven IT experts.
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What Is Artificial Intelligence?
We see Artificial intelligence as the next stage of Digital Transformation. Learn more about this in our blog article!
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MoreContinental Partner Program
Online Reward Shop Hosting on AWS | MoreContinental Partner Program | Arvato Systems
Arvato Systems uses Amazon Web Services to provide the modern cloud infrastructure basis for the MoreContinental Partner Program rewards store.
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Blockchain Easily Explained
Cooperate more cheaply, quickly and securely through automation and the inclusion of multiple parties. This is what the blockchain promises and is thus driving decentralized business and service models.
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Bertelsmann Collaboration Platform Picks Up Speed
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Security Incident Checklist
Timo Schlüter from Arvato Systems has summarized six tips on how companies can prepare for a security incident and react correctly.
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Green power in Arvato Systems' Gütersloh data centers
ince January 1, the IT company Arvato Systems has been purchasing only green electricity from the local public utility company, which is generated from hydropower, to operate the data centers at its Gütersloh site.
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AWS Container Acceleration
Create your own cloud-native container environment with Arvato Systems AWS Container Acceleration the quick and easy way.
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Bertelsmann Collaboration Platform Picks Up Speed
Bertelsmann officially launched the Bertelsmann Collaboration Platform (BCP) at the beginning of the "Data Week," and hundreds of experts are already using beta access to the Bertelsmann Collaboration Platform.
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How Companies Can Benefit from Data
Read our latest expert article on how companies can benefit from data while leveraging Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.
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SmartShift
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Managed Artificial Intelligence Services
Managed Artificial Intelligence Services
How to manage Artificial Intelligence that there are won't be unpleasant surprises. Read the article now.
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From Zero to Azure in Eleven Days - Thanks to Arvato Systems
Cloud Transformation
Arvato Systems helps AirPlus to migrate its SAP systems to Azure in just 11 days.
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Cloud Migration Guide
Are you interested to learn how to migrate in a structured way into the Cloud? Download our Guide to learn more.
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AI needs organization
AI Needs Organization
In the recent Luenedonk Magazin with the focus on AI Arvato Systems,' Martin Weitzel and Niels Pothmann are talking about how Artificial Intelligence becomes a success with the right measures. Read the interview here.
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Cyber Care & CDC
Managed Detection and Response: Your path to greater cyber security thanks to MDR services from an experienced CDC.
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Home office ready
Arvato Systems' Home Office Ready Campaign
Working IT everywhere - See how our team works from home!
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Article about Data, Hardware and Public Cloud
Data, Hardware and Public Cloud
Technical Requirements for the Application of Artificial Intelligence - an article by Niels Pothmann, Head of AI and Andreas Tamm, Lead Enterprise Architect at Arvato Systems.
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Remote Work & Mobile Business
At Arvato Systems we have been offering comprehensive solutions and services for decentralized and mobile working for many years.
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Digitize logistics processes with platbricks®
platbricks® - Smart Logistics Unlimited
Wearables revolutionize logistics. platbricks® offers an extensive range of apps and functions to help you get started.
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herSystemS
Our women's network at Arvato Systems
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BCP Interview with Matthias Moeller
Matthias Moeller about the Bertelsmann Collaboration Platform
BENET Interview with Bertelsmann CIO Matthias Moeller - "We Want To Create Value"
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Artificial Intelligence in the energy industry
Learn more about how many energy suppliers could benefit from AI applications.
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Cloud Foundry hackathon win with a new AI Integration Service
Learn more about the new AI integration service bringing our team to the win.
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Success with Artificial Intelligence
AI is no longer just a trend topic but has long been usable - read how AI can successfully support companies.
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ContractAI
The Bertelsmann App for a quick review of legal documents. From domain knowledge to an automated Ai service - How to transform legal expert knowledge into an algorithm.
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Bertelsmann AWS Community
The “AWS Business Group” of Arvato Systems has launched the expert community “beAWSome”. From now on, Amazon Web Services experts will be able to network through this community and engage in discussion. Bertelsmann employees (BGROUP members), reaching from beginners to professionals users, as well as interested colleagues, can access the community as well.
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Revenue Forecasting G-J
Learn more about our latest and very successful in-house collaboration between Gruner + Jahr and Arvato Systems.
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DiWA
It is essential to retrieve all information from the warehouse directly and smoothly in warehouse management. Self-learning chatbots make it possible.
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How Companies Benefit from Artificial Intelligence
Requirements, deployment scenarios and implementaiton paths for AI projects.
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Product Recognition in Returns Management
Learn more about how Machine Learning can optimize processes such as return management.
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Deep Retail - Data Has Always Been Pure Gold
New technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, face recognition, and eye-tracking begin a new era in the retail industry. Learn more about what this means for retail.
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Robotic Process Automation
Here at Arvato Systems bots are not only developed, but they also do their work every day. Read more about software robots in everyday use.
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SAP on Cloud
Learn more about important factors to guarantee a successful cloud migration project in our latest White Paper.
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AI-Based Forecasting for Ad Placement
IABM BaM Award & AI-Based Forecasting for Ad Placement
Arvato Systems has won the "IABM BaM Award" at this year's International Broadcast Convention. Learn more about the award and solutions behind it.
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Process Mining
Process Mining – Process Optimization with the Help of Big Data and Cloud
Process Mining technology is a real improvement for business operations. Learn more about how big data and cloud help with process optimization.
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MSP for Azure Leader
ISG has awarded us for times as “Leader” – we take a closer look into the Managed Service Provider Category.
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Crime Map
From a proof of concept (POC) to a real product. We are proud to announce that our Crime Map POC developed into a real product used to analyze and visualize crimes of one city in Germany.
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AI Applied to Business - Fashion Recognition
The AI Competence Cluster of Arvato Systems recently implemented a new showcase that can detect and classify various pieces of clothing.
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Blockchain - Track and Trace Update
We are happy to inform you about the latest status of this proof of concept (POC). Arvato Systems worked closely together to create a track and trace blockchain solution, helping to bring more transparency into the production and supply chain of food.
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Co-Creation as a Strategic Success Factor for the Digital Economy
Co-Creation as a Strategic Success Factor for the Digital Economy: Report from the Digital Leader Summit 2019
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Arvato Systems creates AI Shopping Wizard
Arvato Systems is currently developing a digital shopping assistant that will help customers choose their clothes. The recommendations made by the digital assistant are based on the current outfit, the desired occasion, age, gender, and the personal preferences of the buyer.
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In the fast lane with marketing automation
In the Fast Lane with Marketing Automation
The fact that "sales" is changing under the influence of digitization is not a new insight. To just send the sales force to a potential customer and hope that the arguments are convincing is usually not enough anymore. Often it is already a success when companies are even allowed to present their products on site. And the real challenge begins much earlier.
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Arvato Systems Honored as Microsoft Ecosystems Leader – Four Times
Recently published study "ISG Provider Lens™ Microsoft Ecosystems Germany 2019" designates Arvato Systems as ‘Leader’ multiple times.
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Schmitz Cargobull AG
Thanks to Arvato Systems, Schmitz Cargobull migrates its SAP systems to the Azure Cloud in record time.
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A Passion for Digitalization - IT Director
A Passion for Digitalization - Interview in the IT Director with Matthias Moeller
Matthias Moeller, CEO of Arvato Systems, on the topics of successful digital strategies. cloud migrations, and current AI projects.
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AI Applied to Business - Net Sales Prediction
Two weeks ago, Arvato Systems successfully finished a three-day workshop together with Microsoft and STARBOARD Cruise Services. The workshop focused on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help in optimizing business processes.
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Digital Healthcare
The German healthcare system is going digital. We are there too, supporting the IT infrastructure expansion needed to network doctors, patients, pharmacies and health insurers across Germany.
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Speech-Enabled Commerce
Speech-Enabled Commerce: Talking Replaces Typing
More and more users use their voice to do their shopping. It's time to integrate speech recognition assistants into the online store.
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Brand Detection and Video Recognition
How can AI analyze images or videos taken with smartphones and detect the displayed brand? Our new POC focuses on exactly that question.
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Innovation in the Field of Data Analysis
Data analysis is not an entirely new topic for companies, yet it is one of the most dynamic segments in the IT market. Learn more about how data analyses influences your business.
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AzureGlue – Connecting On-Premise & Azure
Traditional data centers and cloud offerings differ in many ways and therefore create a gap. We at Arvato Systems have used our cloud expertise and developed a connection to close the gap between on-premise and Microsoft Azure to provide the highest customer satisfaction.
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Arvato Systems as AI Expert
Arvato Systems joins a Bertelsmann workshop as an expert of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in which colleagues from Penguin Random House, Fremantle, and BMG explored solutions for the use of innovation in their businesses.
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Conversational Bots
From early successes to real challenges - Jens Kretschmann discussed the current status and future capabilities of conversational bots in his latest blog post.
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Analysis and Visualization of Big Data
Our new POC helps newspapers and journalists to streamline manual processes when it comes to the analysis and reporting of crimes within a city. Our automated tool recognizes and then lists out crimes in real time onto a city map. Thus, users can instantly find certain crime hotspots in a particular area of the city, categorized by the origin of the crime.
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Cloud-based Video Editing
For broadcasters, production houses – as well as post-production in general - multi-site workflows that include remote editing are challenging. Unfortunately, cloud technology alone does not resolve these issues yet. We consider the technical innovations required to make cloud-based editing a daily reality for editors.
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Cognitive Bot Platform
Our newly developed showcase features a Cognitive Bot Platform which makes an extensive set of chat and phone bots easy to create, to use and, most importantly, to maintain and that without a high level of IT expertise or even an expensive software development project.
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Marketing Dashboard
Our joint POC with the G+J subsidiary Territory includes the development of an interactive and comprehensive dashboard which can monitor all marketing campaigns and activities within a single tool. Are you interested in learning how our marketing dashboard streamlines manual processes by automating data collection from various sources and individual campaigns in real-time?
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Artificial Intelligence in Smart Products
In our latest Artificial Intelligence (AI) focused POC we concentrated on variations of prediction models as well as classification systems to create an autonomous prediction service with built-in anomaly detection. This innovative POC provides a smart and automated prediction service to the customers, which bring a variety of benefits for their business.
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Arvato Smart Logistics Platform
Arvato Smart Logistics Platform & Pepper L.I.S.A. at the #DPK18 - One of our digitization projects "Arvato’s Smart Logistics Platform" was selected as one of the 50 most innovative AI showcases in Germany. Thus, we were asked to present our project to all participating Microsoft partners and sellers during the "Experience World" exhibition and keynote.
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From Zero to Azure in Eleven Days - Thanks to Arvato Systems
Cloud Transformation
Arvato Systems helps AirPlus to migrate its SAP systems to Azure in just 11 days.
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How We Innovate
There is no single answer to innovation strategy and management practices that lead to success for all innovation purposes. It greatly depends on the “Innovation DNA” of an organization to know what is right and what is wrong.
Based on two key learnings, we would like to give you some insights into our own Innovation DNA and on how we are actively exploring digital innovations.
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AI in the Media Industry
Today's media industry survives on data. Enormous amounts of data in different formats from countless sources are edited, published and distributed on a daily basis. Although the data is collected and stored, no one is in a position to evaluate this flood of data and make it usable. But with AI – artificial intelligence – the collected big data instantly becomes feasible.
Read the article by Yvonne Thomas, Product Manager at Arvato Systems.
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Blockchain - Track and Trace
Are you curious how a joint POC between a German retail corporation, Microsoft, Impinj as well as Bertelsmann and Arvato Systems enables the end user to track and gather more information about the food we buy in grocery stores by receiving insights into the entire supply chain?
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Smart Solutions for Editorial Work - Cognitive Service Hackathon
Arvato Systems is researching smart solutions for editorial work. Are you curious how the latest technologies and especially cognitive services can support the processes in publishing houses? Find out what kind of prototypes our expert team has built in a two-day hackathon.
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Who Drives Innovation?
In the age of digital transformation, companies have to face changes in technology and hence need to place a bet on the future. New ideas should be developed, tested and, if not successfully implemented, quickly discarded or adapted. The increasing rate of change belongs to our daily lives but who is responsible for keeping up with all of them and implement them into their company?
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eSigning
It just takes a few seconds to sign a contract or other agreement, but it can take days or even weeks before the signed document arrives at the recipient, causing unnecessary delays. Arvato Systems is taking another step in the digitization of processes by banking on electronic signatures, aiming to shorten this process.
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more popular, and for many companies which already have used the innovative technology to optimize their products, it is now indispensable. Not only does artificial intelligence affect new product variations but it can also simplify entire processes, resulting in significant cost savings in the long run. Arvato Systems created a POC for a jewelry company to show the advantages of AI.
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It You Can Touch
A visit to a storage facility that hasn’t been built yet? Arvato Systems makes it possible. With a VR headset a view of design and warehouse processes is already available in the planning stage
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Content Management in the Cloud
Content Management in the Cloud
A Marketer desires that his campaign “goes viral.” But what happens to CMS systems when all the storytelling, video production, social media, and influencer marketing efforts really take off like a grenade? Find out in our latest blogpost how Content Management in the Cloud is the answer to success.
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Blockchain
Over the last couple of years, few topics have stirred as much interest in the area of computing as Blockchain has. A new kind of technology that would at some point impact every business to some extent. We saw a potential in Blockchain early on, didn’t wait to figure out its possible impacts and created first proofs of concepts at once. Upcoming, Bertelsmann, Arvato Systems and further partners are going to explore together the possibilities of Blockchain in a more in-depth showcase.
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Smart Energy Platform
Where there is a lot of light, there is plenty of savings potential. Intelligent energy data monitoring is a new and profitable way to save energy in the long term and that is what Arvato Systems’ Smart Energy Platform does. Optimized to real-time needs, smart IoT based lighting scenarios avoid constant light usage, increase the energy efficiency and create enormous saving potentials within the Bertelsmann Group.
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Robotics - Intelligent Business Companions
The world of business has been experiencing significant changes. Alongside ongoing digitalization, according to a Gartner study, robotics and artificial intelligence are the key strategic technology trends for companies. Reason enough then, for Arvato Systems to get involved with robotics and AI. Two visible signs of this are our in-house robots which have recently been attracting a great deal of attention.
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Serverless Webinar
With Serverless Architecture teams no longer need to worry about sizing, provisioning, securing or scaling infrastructure. Watch our on-demand Webinar to determine how a Serverless Architecture can help your business.
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Innovative Partnerships, Agreements and Awards
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IT Security: Cloud Security Survey 2021
IDG Research Services, together with Arvato Systems and other partners, has published the "Cloud Security 2021" study. The results show: Companies have apparently realized that the cloud offers great potential for increasing IT security.
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Arvato Systems is a Leader in “Digital Supply Chain Transformation Services”
Arvato Systems occupies a leading position in the ISG Provider LensTM Quadrant report – Germany 2020 – “Digital Business – Solutions and Service Partners”.
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Arvato Systems becomes Member of Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
Arvato Systems has now become a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA). MISA is an ecosystem of independent software vendors and managed security service providers that integrate with and provide managed services for Microsoft products to better defend against a world of increasing threads.
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Arvato Systems achieves AWS Well-Architected Status
Achieving AWS Well-Architected Partner status highlights Arvato Systems as an AWS partner with specialized technical capabilities and proven customer success.
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Arvato Systems among the Top 5 SAP Consultants
The trade magazine "Computerwoche" and the Institute for Management and Economic Research (IMWF) have named Arvato Systems "IT Champion: SAP Consultant".
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Arvato Systems receives Service Provider Award
At this year's Service Provider Summit, Arvato Systems took the first place in the category "Managed Public Cloud Provider" with the platinum award.
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"Best IT Service Provider": Arvato Systems Again Honored
Arvato Systems was named one of the best IT service providers 2021 by the business magazine 'brand eins' and Statista, a leading provider of market and consumer data.
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Arvato Systems Achieves AWS Migration Competency Status
Arvato Systems was recognized by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its in-depth expertise to help customers successfully transition to AWS.
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Arvato Systems receives top ratings for AI competence
Arvato Systems has received several awards in the current study "PAC Innovation Radar - AI-related Services in Germany 2020"
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Arvato Systems is ’Leader’ for Public Cloud Services
Arvato Systems was rated "Leader" in the current study "ISG Provider Lens™ Public Cloud - Solutions & Service Partners" by the IT market research and consulting firm ISG.
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Arvato Systems Receives "Best IT Service Provider 2020" Award
Arvato Systems Receives "Best IT Service Provider 2020" Award
"Best IT Service Provider 2020"
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Arvato Systems is a Top Employer 2019
For the sixth time in a row, Arvato Systems has received the trophy for excellence as an employer and is awarded the title of "Top Employer Germany 2019”.
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"Accelerator" in Managed Hybrid Cloud Providers
The independent IT research and consulting firm Crisp Research AG has named Arvato Systems an "accelerator" in managed hybrid cloud providers. Learn more how their recently published study, "Crisp Vendor Universe Cloud Computing Suppliers and Service Providers 2018" has defined the German “Hybrid Cloud Elite”.
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Digital Leader Award
In 2018, as in previous years, Computerwoche, ChannelPartner and the CIO Magazine together with Dimension Data, used the Digital Leader Award to honor Germany’s digital pioneers. Arvato Systems impressed the jury in the ‘Create Impact’ category with the Arvato Smart Logistics Platform which helps to close digitalization gaps in the supply chain.
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Innovators for the Internet Video Management
Streaming services, product videos, e-learning courses – an increasing amount of online content is transported via videos. Arvato Systems has positioned itself for this growth market with the acquisition of the IT service provider Vidispine in November 2017: The Swedish company is one of the leading and most innovative providers of cloud-based solutions in the field of Media Asset Management (MAM).
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Bertelsmann Hackathon
The winning team at the Bertelsmann Hackathon programmed the Arvato Systems robot Pepper L.I.S.A. as a personal shopping assistant to give consumers in stores a completely new shopping experience when buying clothing. Cloud-based “cognitive services” that employ artificial intelligence were used for the technological implementation.
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Business Support IT
A 2016 study confirmed the positioning of Arvato Systems as strategic IT service partner for the Bertelsmann group. The resulting program is called BSIT – Business Support IT. It aims to simplify IT services, implement and manage group-wide service agreements while giving complete cost transparency. It is available to all Bertelsmann companies.
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Arvato Systems is a Leader in Digital Transformation
ISG, one of the leading market research and consulting companies in the information technology sector, classified Arvato Systems as “Leader” in the Intelligent Operations – Midmarket segment. The research results and rankings are recently published in the ISG Digital Transformation Services & Solutions 2018 study.
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Cloud Partnership: AWS and Arvato Systems
Arvato Systems and AWS are partnering to create a strategic alliance to help customers to drive innovation by leveraging AWS cloud computing technologies and related value-added services from Arvato Systems.
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