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per cent possess the advanced skills necessary to be most adaptable to changing technology. Currently, there are over 1.3 million openings
for software roles on LinkedIn - illustrating a burgeoning demand that is not being filled. Companies might believe that their IoT challenges can be solved by hiring a developer, but they will struggle to make this happen overnight.
The soluTion
Instead, empowering the existing team is critical. Crosser believes smart tools are key to supporting existing teams and helping them to innovate. The company’s response to the aforementioned challenges is built around three key principles. The first is self-service simplicity, which is
enabled by an approach that we refer to as “low- code”. This method is trending across industry, to facilitate innovation without reliance on software
developers. With pre-built modules, which can be dragged and dropped to develop specific use cases, and visual design flows that facilitate IT/OT collaboration, teams without software development skills can work together to bring Industry 4.0 into their facilities. The Crosser library features pre-built building
blocks designed for any request or ambition. By selecting relevant analytics modules and enterprise connectors, companies can collect their data, attach meaning to it, apply intelligent logic and create clear workflow actions. Just having a means of processing data isn’t
enough. Businesses also need an architecture that addresses the entire data lifecycle. Integration platforms have evolved from the old and slow enterprise service bus (ESB) solutions through integration platform as a service (iPaaS) models to the next generation platforms, often
referred to as hybrid integrations. Having a hybrid architecture delivers full flexibility to deploy processing and integration nodes either on-premise, on the edge, in a cloud or data center. Offering the best of both worlds, businesses can deploy low-code solutions anywhere, but are still able to handle them on a single platform. Deployment of Industry 4.0 technologies
may be growing, but that does not mean it is without challenges. Having the right people, knowledge and infrastructure to make data management a reality can seem out of reach. But implementing a single, reliable and user- friendly Edge Analytics Platform can bring the latest technologies to any facility - with or without software developers.
Crosser
www.crosser.io
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