Paul Miller
Principal Analyst

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There’s A Role For 3D Printing In Your Manufacturing Operations
It's not just for prototypes and low-quality models. Learn about three areas where 3D printing already delivers real value.
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Proposed EU Data Act Places Industrial Platforms At The Heart Of Europe’s Technology Future
Europe’s proposed Data Act places the continent’s industrial firms at the heart of a plausible digital renaissance.
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Prognosen 2022: Smart Manufacturing
Lieferengpässe. Nachhaltigkeit. Innovation. Finden Sie in unseren Prognosen für 2022 heraus, was führende Hersteller planen.
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Predictions 2022: Top-Tier Manufacturers Will Prioritize Creativity And Sustainability
Supply shortages. Sustainability pressures. Geopolitical tensions. Find out how manufacturers will respond to these unique challenges in our 2021 manufacturing predictions.
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When Systemic Risks Collide: Why Supply Chain Issues Are The New Normal
Before March of 2020, “supply chain issues” was a term we’d hear after a natural disaster or labor strike — that all ended the moment we ran out of toilet paper. Unquestionably, the supply chain crisis has been a secondary theme of the pandemic, one that continues to escalate. For the 15 months since the […]
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Industrial IoT Platform Vendors Focus On Getting The Basics Right
In Forrester's 35-criterion evaluation of industrial internet-of-things (IoT) software platform providers, we identified the eight most significant — Bosch, Cisco, GE Digital, Hitachi, PTC, Samsung SDS, Siemens, and Software AG — and researched, analyzed, and scored them.
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Experiment, Then Scale: Lessons From Manufacturing
What's the best way to scale innovation at your firm? Start by learning from others' missteps. Find out more in this blog post.
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Stop, Look, And Listen Before Expanding Your Use Of Workplace Augmented Reality
A new Forrester report explains how business leaders should approach broader deployment of AR as one piece of larger employee experience (EX) programs that encourage employees to engage more creatively with the future of their work.
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Let’s Refocus Industrial IoT Software Platforms On The Things
At Forrester we're refining our definition of what an industrial IoT software platform is while introducing a new term to address broader requirements and use cases.
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The Race To Put Cars In The Cloud Is … Confusing
Cloud providers and carmakers keep announcing grand partnerships. The reality is more complex and, often, less exciting.
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The Next Industrial Revolution Must Celebrate The Worker
In the race for efficiency, modernity, and profit, we risk forgetting the needs, value, and importance of our human workforce.
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GAIA-X Must Be More Than Just Another European Infrastructure Provider, Or It Will Deliver No Value
Today Paul Miller, Tracy Woo, and I released our report that examines the market impact of the GAIA-X project. France and Germany announced an initiative in 2019, which was formalized as the GAIA-X Foundation in early October 2020. For our report, we spoke with several of the GAIA-X founders and studied its potential impact for […]
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NVIDIA Arms Itself To Terminate Intel’s Processor Dominance
NVIDIA just announced that it plans to acquire Arm Limited from SoftBank for $40 billion. The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and, thus, Intel and AMD). The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie […]
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Make Room For Public Clouds In Your Industrial IoT Strategy
Not too long ago, executives from manufacturing and related industries would not consider running their internet of things (IoT) initiatives from a cloud. Now? It’s hard to find one who doesn’t enthusiastically embrace some role for the public cloud. Makers of industrial IoT (IIoT) software platforms have undergone a similar change of heart, pivoting from […]
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With Good Foundations, Augmented Reality Offers A Great Way To Engage With IoT Data
Augmented reality (AR) and the internet of things (IoT) — in principle, these two hot technologies are a great match, with data streaming from IoT-connected machines to be used by AR-wielding engineers on the factory floor. My latest report, “Combine Augmented And Mixed Reality With IoT To Deliver Insight At The Point Of Need,” began […]
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La Réalité Augmentée Offre Un Excellent Moyen D’Exploiter Les Données De L’Internet Des Objets
La combinaison de la RA et de l'internet des objets n'est qu'une petite partie d'une solution plus vaste qui doit englober d'autres concepts technologiques à la mode.
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2019 Saw Industrial IoT Software Platforms Get Richer
My colleague Michele Pelino and I published “The Forrester Wave™: Industrial IoT Software Platforms, Q4 2019” recently, and we’ll be discussing the findings in more detail in a webinar on January 30. It’s a complex space, where traditional industrial conglomerates, established enterprise software giants, networking and telecom providers, hyperscale cloud providers, global systems integrators, professional […]
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