WEEKLY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY NEWSPAPER
No escape from digital evolution! The countdown to Turkey’s greatest technology event Informatics Summit has begun. Transport, Maritime and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan will also be attending to the opening of the event, which will take place at Istanbul Haliç Congress Center on 22 - 23 November. The Informatics Summit’16 brings global and national visionary approaches on how we live the digital transformation process as individuals, companies and countries and how we should meet the future. The summit, this year is offering a comprehensive content intending to exist within the Industry 4.0 in the digital evolutionary process. “Digital Evolution with Industry 4.0 No Escape!” Digitalization transforms everything in the world in a giant spiral. In the new digital world, objects, devices, people, offices, homes, cities and countries are connected to each other with digital neuron networks and create an ecosystem that communicates, triggers, influences and intelligences with each other. Every field that can come to mind such as design, education, production, marketing, entertainment, commerce, shopping, health, transportation has to be
digitalized and become part of a huge digital ecosystem. Industry 4.0, which is the 4th wave of digitalization, does not only connects everything together, but also brings together new design, planning, R&D, industry, production, procurement, quality, process management, autonomous systems and sets the bases of the 4th wave of digital economy. There is no escape from being digital in this world for those who cannot be a part of digital evolution! The Informatics Summit is setting up a digital evolution road map all together in 2016, setting out the hints of catching the industry 4.0 wave. While still living the digitalization process, we can see that it is evolving very quickly. After 5 years, there will be 25 billion embedded systems and other portable devices connected to the internet. On these devices, about 2.5 quadrillion bytes of new data will be generated each day. Five years later, 50 billion TB of digital content will be produced in the world. 15 years later, 50% of our children will work in the future jobs that are not available today. We have to get inside the door of digital evolution because there is no chance for individuals,
institutions and countries that do not evolve digitally to exist after today. Evolution towards digital requires the digitalization of organizations, employees, leaders, processes beyond the use of technology. When digital thinkers and organizations come together, digital common intelligence is reached. From the summit, we will all leave with the answer to this question: What can we do with Digital Evolution 4.0 and where is the next stop? The main building blocks of the Technology Platforms at the Informatics Summit this year were taken from the
digital life. In our world, our view from the global to today reaches out to 2050s. What happens in the connected world, what will happen? The answer to the question of what we will encounter in the world where Digital Evolution will take us will be sought in the Informatics Summit. Summit Topics n Turkey’s new way out: New R&D and Innovation Perception with Industry 4.0 n C Level in Digitalization n Evolving towards Digital Society n Digital Works and Digital Gaining n Women of the Digital Era
n Digital Innovation in Mobile World n Digital Medicine Revolutions n Cyber Security 4.0 in Digital n Dynamic Structure of Integrated Digital Marketing n Preparation to IoT and M2M: Embedded Systems n Artificial Intelligence Algorithms with Cognitive in Big Data and Cloud Solutions n ERP Solution Processes n Industry 4.0 in CRM Operations n Digital Life in Digital Istanbul n New Generation Cities and Smart Urban Transformation
Inventram and Mitsui’s investment partnership Japanese Investment Company Mitsui bought 30% of Koç Holding’s technology investment company Inventram. Mitsui, which is one of the largest investment groups in the world and Japan with its total assets reaching 97 billion USD and turnover reaching 42 billion USD, has purchased one of the most important technology investments in Turkey in recent period by purchasing 30% of the shares of Inventram. A press conference was
held at Koç Holding with the participation of Koç Holding Deputy Chairman of the Board Ali Y. Koç, Koç Holding Tourism, Food and Retail Group President Tamer Haşimoğlu, Inventram General Manager Cem Soysal, Mitsui Europe Corporate Planning President Naotaka Hayashi and Mitsui Turkey General Manager Yoichiro Yagihashi. Speaking at the meeting, Koç Holding Deputy Chairman of the Board Ali Y. Koç remarked that the agreement was a milestone for Inventram
and said: “I strongly believe that the agreement of this partnership with Inventram is going to open up many more doors for extensive cooperation in the upcoming period. I wish that this partnership, which will accelerate Inventram becoming a global company, will be beneficial to my country and I hope that it will be an opportunity for the increase of investment from Japan.” Ali Y. Koç continued: “Those who rebuild the game and those adapting
quickly to the new rules are always one step ahead. The basis of this change lies in technology and innovation. Our country maintains its economic strength and resistance despite the political and geopolitical turmoil both at home and abroad. However, Turkey needs to rapidly develop its innovation and technology power and capacity so that it can strengthen its global position, achieve its potential, transform the winds that I am talking about into opportunities and
eliminate threats. With this aim, it is very important to develop the infrastructure and the legal framework for education and technology; as well as the incentives for the creation of the climate and the investments to invest in technology. We are delighted with the pioneering steps that our government has taken in the last period. If we want to go from a middle income to a high income league, we need to target at least the other developed countries in this league regarding innovation.”
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Geovision Group became an R&D Center Founded in 2005, Geovision Group that provides sales, distribution and marketing solutions using the software it has developed and the infrastructure of geographic information systems became an R&D Center. The Geovision Group, with its 100% domestic capital, which is evaluated by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology as of October 31, 2016 and approving the R&D projects and investments it has developed since 2010, will be developing specific software and business solutions according to customer needs together with the R&D Center, besides its standard software developed on existing systems. Geovision Group, which has a large volume and up-to-date point-of-sale database, has also brought its customer database to
global level with Russia and Kazakhstan offices as a global technology and consulting firm. Geovision Group aims to establish infrastructure that expands to new regions, providing strategic partners innovative solutions and result-focused consulting services in sales and field management, commercial marketing, segmentation, research and audit. The next objective of the Geovision Group’s after becoming R&D Center is to produce solutions that make it much more meaningful and usable for brands to benefit from fast, accurate, diverse and large volumes of data. In line with this goal, IoT, large data, Route to Market and all the projects, products and applications developed in different disciplines in software fields will be actualized as integrated solutions.
e4734.com fulfills the information needs in the public and private sector tender legislation. e4734. com, a product and brand produced by 116 Informatics, is an information and training portal designed to address the information gap in public and private sector tender legislation. e4734.com Brand Manager Nilgün Akıner noted that both the public and private sectors have been paying for the cancellations due to lack of legislation information. Akıner, who defines e4734. com as Turkey’s first and only e-Learning based public tender education portal and information support system, stated that: “We offer userfocused information support system that meets the international standards with no time and space limitations for those who want to receive
training on Law 4734 and public tender legislation. Currently, trainings related to this legislation are given as classroom trainings, but for the first time in Turkey, e4734.com prepared an 18-hour training set using the distance education methods. We distribute this as a oneyear license because we follow the changes in the legislation and we inform our users about these changes as well as updating our trainings.” Akıner listed e4734.com’s advantages as the following: “Consider you decide having training in public tender legislation both for yourself and your staff. You do not have many choices except for the mass training models in which a certain number of people participate in a class at a high price. Moreover, you must also bear the cost of time that arises from the
inability of your employees to follow the daily work, except for the fees you pay for the training. You can now receive public tender legislation training, personalized according to your needs, independent of time and space. With e4734. com trainings, you can meet your needs in the fastest and low cost way possible. Content editorship of our training is done by Public Tender Specialist Dr. Eren Toprak. The tender legislation, the problems caused by the information asymmetry there, and its reflections on the information sector are causing great difficulties. We want to attract the attention of companies and public administrators to the benefits of proper use of the tender legislation. e4734.com is an ideal product for removing this information asymmetry.”
Turkey displayed its defense technologies Within the scope of 16th MUSIAD EXPO, “Concept business and market development platform” for defense and aerospace industry held at CNR Exhibition Center aims at igniting the light of 4th Industrial Revolution in Turkey. High Tech Port by MUSIAD, which stands out as a high, strategic and advanced technology fair, was opened with the participation of President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan. Prepared by aiming to provide international business development opportunities, focus and market expansions as well as international competitive advantage for Turkish defense and aerospace industry, the exhibition took place with the participation of delegations from 20 countries. At the same time, 78 exhibitors exhibited their latest technology products. The slogan of the fair was
determined as “to create global powers with national talents” and points out that the defense industry should be the driving force and locomotive of high technology in Turkey, as it is around the world. At the exhibition, it was aimed at the marketing of production moves of Turkey in defense and aerospace industry in recent years and at opening the way for new cooperation opportunities in new markets.
BBS left quarter-century behind BBS was established in 1992 by five partners knowing each other from university. The company, which celebrates its 25th anniversary, is managed by the same group. Even today, when even two partners cannot work together for a long time, this situation is very unique in Turkey. General Manager of BBS Bekir Alp Sayın stated that: “Corporate customers who are slightly above medium and medium scale are in our customer portfolio.
Of course we have customers at the top of the corporate scale. As fields, we provide services in almost every sector. Of course, after a long time of 25 years, we have specialized in some sectors in time. For instance, we have an important customer portfolio in the chemistry sector. As software and hardware, we have an experience that can meet all the needs of this industry. We have a serious experience in air transport sector and sectors that
support air transport. We prepared important projects in private universities. In recent years, we have gained a significant experience in the insurance field with our document management and customer relationship management projects. Of course, we are also interested in emerging sectors. For example, the energy sector is now among our new targets. Within the framework of EPDK regulations, we provide information security
consultancy services to energy companies. At the same time, we also meet the software and hardware needs of these institutions.” Bekir Alp Sayın explained the advantages and disadvantages of managing a multi-partner company for a long time: “We are all part of the business. Everyone specialized in specific areas and we benefit from this in times of crisis and growth. When we reached a certain size, we could transfer this
experience to the new staff very quickly. We also have the benefit of backing up each other. But during the investment period in a new field, a discussion process emerges and it takes time. We may have missed some of the opportunities. Of course, we cannot perceive our success as the success of 5 partners. We have 125 employees and it would be unfair to them if we, as partners, only we credit from the success.”