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The
companies said on Wednesday they will combine Bosch's platform
and SAP's back-end software to connect vehicles, manufacturing
machinery and tools of Bosch customers.
By 2020, some 21 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices will
be in use worldwide, up from fewer than 5 billion last year,
research firm Gartner has estimated.
The companies said they planned to make SAP's real-time database
HANA available to Bosch customers to monitor production
processes.
The technology, for example, allows a production system to
select the torque for each screwdriver's task, increasing
efficiency.
A long-time SAP customer, Bosch expects its own "connected
industry" activities to deliver 1 billion euros ($1.12 billion)
in cost savings by 2020 and to generate an additional 1 billion
euros in sales.
(Reporting by Harro ten Wolde; editing by Jason Neely)
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