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View from the Top “We collect a lot of data, and it is our job to ensure that we are building the right services and ap- plications to leverage this data”

Olivier Cadet

Vice President – Information Management System,

Kongsberg Maritime services.”

With its breadth of product, service and geographic dis- tribution, Kongsberg is many things to many people. But at its heart is software. “Kongsberg is recognized as a high tech company, and it is a signi? cant software company,” said Skryseth. “About 70% of what we do is software” across multiple markets, including maritime, oil and gas, energy, renewable energy, defense and space.

Kongsberg Digital will consist of about 500 employ- ees from existing software and simulation environments within Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies and Kongs- berg Maritime, and from the start it will have a signi? cant portfolio and revenues from advanced data, software and simulation products. In addition Kongsberg Digital will have a group responsibility for developing new digital so- lutions and related technology alliances.

In further explaining the rationale to create the separate company, Skryseth said digitalization is one of the key fo- cus areas in industry today, and it is changing the way we work: it’s tearing down walls, changing business models … and it’s happening rapidly. “We needed an organization solely focused on this.”

The World: Digital & Connected “Within four years there are going to be 200 billion de- vices connected to the internet, and the ability to get them to talk to each other, to create value, and to create machine- to-machine communication is going to be one of our fo- cus areas,” said Skryseth. The data revolution has evoked a number of catchy names, from “Big Data” to “The In-

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