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Integration of key platforms is designed to bring together previously siloed data

Developers working with SAP software will be able to leverage innovative location and tracking technology from Here Technologies (Here) in an agreement between both companies to provide transportation management, advanced tracking and connected parking solutions. As part of the deal, Here plans to integrate several of its location services into SAP Transportation Management software, enabling enterprises to manage their global and local shipping activities across all transportation modes and industries.

UK company ParkCloud is to partner with SAP in a technology agreement which will see ParkCloud will integrate its solution with SAP Vehicles Network running on the SAP HANA Cloud platform for the Internet of Things. When used together with SAP Vehicles Network the ParkCloud solution will help enable drivers across Europe to reserve parking, manage park reservation systems and parking inventory. ParkCloud offers 340,000 bookable parking spaces in 1,250 car parks across 414 locations worldwide, and was

The UK Government-backed Transport Systems Catapult has announced it will host a unique national summit on intelligent mobility and the future of transport next month. Featuring some of the most prominent thinkers in transport technology, research, and policy, the Imagine Festival will reveal how different sectors believe technology will transform global transport. According to David Reid, director of the Imagine Festival at the Catapult, the Imagine Festival has been created so leading minds from UK i

SAP, Shell and Volkswagen are to collaborate on a co-innovation pilot to investigate how connected vehicles would interact with the world around them. The ongoing pilot in Hannover, Germany, aims to lay the foundations for a range of services including an integrated system for connected fuelling. The three companies are piloting an end-to-end scalable solution with the aim of delivering a hosted cloud-based solution that saves time and delivers new, exciting customer offers through connected vehicles tha

Technical services provider Royal Imtech takes a further step in its previously announced debt reduction program with the announcement of its intention to divest its ICT division. As announced on 18 March 2014, Imtech continues to be focused on achieving a long term sustainable capital structure and is committed to reduce indebtedness by at least US$554 million. To realise this debt reduction, Imtech will continue to review all options. The ICT division will be divested through an auction process in

German software company SAP plans to enter into a strategic cooperation with the Chinese government on the development of intelligent transportation systems to help manage traffic in China’s fast-growing urban areas over the coming decades. SAP and the Chinese High-Way Group plan to enter into broad collaboration for research on integrated solutions for transportation communications and the development of intelligent traffic management systems leveraging advanced software solutions from SAP for big data pow