Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (15th Edition)
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (15th Edition)
15th Edition
ISBN: 9780134639710
Author: Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12, Problem 15CSQ
Program Plan Intro

General Electric (GE) company:

The General Electric (GE) company is an American multinational conglomerate located in New York. It operates in several manufacturing industries like power, transportation, oil and gas, healthcare, and aviation. 

Predix:

  • Predix is a software platform which is launched in the year 2015 to collect data from the industrial sensors and to evaluate the information present in the cloud.
  • It is capable of running any cloud infrastructure.
  • It consists of open standards and protocol which makes the customer to connect their machines to the internet quickly.

Explanation of Solution

Value to the firm provided by the decisions:

  • Value provided by Predix in cloud services of GE:
    • It helps to provide security to the data stored in the cloud.
    • It gives security to the company which link their operations to the Internet.
    • Thus, it enables the firm to safeguard the data in a very protective manner.
  • Value provided by Predix in GE industrial product:
    • It helps to schedule the maintenance check of the machine which helps the machine operators to check the machine regularly and repeatedly without missing the checking operation...

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