These are your "Products of the Year 2023"!
We present: The winners of the "Products of the Year 2023" readers' poll! Which products and solutions impressed our readers! All categories, products and the people behind them at a glance.
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We present: The winners of the "Products of the Year 2023" readers' poll! Which products and solutions impressed our readers! All categories, products and the people behind them at a glance.
Software has become indispensable in the world of automation. Numerous functions are mapped in apps and software code. The winners in the 'Software & IT' category show what is important: Openness, flexibility and consistency.

According to Microsoft, the Microsoft Supply Chain Platform helps companies maximize their investment in data along the entire supply chain through an open approach.

The text robot ChatGPT, which can imitate human speech, has been causing a stir for months. The technology that runs ChatGPT has just been given a major upgrade. However, the software's weaknesses and risks remain.

Microsoft is currently trying to reshuffle the cards in the internet economy with the help of artificial intelligence applications. Google is now responding to the push and is making its AI infrastructure and suitable AI construction kits available to partner companies.
The IT infrastructure is not a cost block, but the starting point for continuous and successful transformation. Automotive manufacturers and industrial companies can only meet the current challenges on a stable foundation.
The goals of digital transformation in industry are clearly defined: more transparency, knowledge and speed. Now three digital twins - of plant, product and production - and their networking are making possible in practice what has long been clarified in theory.

After a scaled-down version in 2022, the largest industrial trade fair wants to return to its full format this year. Many of the exhibition topics are not new - but from the organizers' point of view, their discussion is now all the more urgent in the multi-crisis situation.
Software BOMs form the foundation for the application security of open source components. They still play a frequently underestimated role, especially for the security of software supply chains.

A good start to the new fiscal year has Siemens looking to the coming fiscal year with confidence: The Group is raising its forecast.