How Bosch is connecting its business for the AIoT era
By Christopher Ludwig and Ralf Bretting2021-03-23T11:16:00
Robert Bosch CIO Vijay Ratnaparkhe is continuing a revolution in the company’s corporate IT division as it takes a starring role in connecting Bosch operating units and products – expanding the possibility for data-driven services and AI across the business and supply chain.
By the time Vijay Ratnaparkhe took over as chief information officer (CIO) at Bosch in autumn 2019, his predecessor, Elmar Pritsch, had overseen the launch of Bosch’s own cloud service, run from its computer centre in Stuttgart, Germany. The service has become a major component in the Bosch IoT Cloud, connecting equipment and products to data and software offerings. Based on this cloud creation, Bosch is pursuing a dual approach in its wider IT and digitalisation strategy. The company develops its applications in a hybrid cloud platform to combine the advantages of its own cloud technology with the capabilities of public cloud providers.