LG Magna e-Powertrain, a collaboration between LG Electronics and Magna […]

With approximately 15,000 guests in person and a live-streamed online event, this year’s Cisco Live hybrid event was the first of its kind. Following the event’s successful conclusion, Rabab Zehra, Executive Editor at TECHx spoke with Osama Al-Zoubi, CTO, Cisco Middle East and Africa, to go through the specifics of what happened. Here is what Osama had to say.

Unipart Powertrain Applications (UPA) is a division of the Unipart Manufacturing Group (UMG), a Tier 1 supplier of automotive components worldwide. With only a few hours of finished stock on-site and delivered just-in-time, even minor service interruptions can have a huge impact on the entire Unipart supply chain. Unipart Powertrain Applications chose the Nutanix Cloud Platform and AHV hypervisor to eliminate database latency issues affecting its automotive parts division’s just-in-time delivery capabilities.

Whether it is Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data analytics or Internet of Things (IoT), technology has ignited astounding changes that leave no choice for the automotive industry except to catch up.

Following the app’s increasing popularity and success, it will now cater to the needs of individual customers, business executives, visitors, and corporates in the Qatar and Bahrain markets, making it the region’s first Super app.