The Sitech Asset Health Center (SAHC) at the Geleen site in the Netherlands delivers smart asset management services to the Chemelot cluster of chemical companies, startups, and service companies. These include DSM, OCI, Borealis, Arlanxeo, Fibrant, and AnQore. SAHC's goal is to deliver optimal plant performance and uptime and aims to reach “zero surprises” in plant operations. It does this by applying a well-designed asset strategy and best practices for asset management plus "fit-for-purpose" asset health monitoring and analytics.

The worldwide enterprise software market returned to growth in the first quarter of 2017. This market expanded on the back of relentless in-novation and available capital. Once again, exchange rates played a role, with the marginal weakening of the euro relative to the dollar. This 3.4 percent exchange rate fluctuation provided a slight lift to revenues re-ported in euros that ARC subsequently translated to US dollars for this report.

ARC Advisory Group held its fifteenth India Forum for the process and discrete industries from July 6-7, 2017, Bangalore, India. With the theme, Industry in Transition: Realizing the Digital Enterprise, the event attracted close to 280 delegates. The digital transformation theme resonated well because all organizations, whether technology suppliers or end users, have embarked on this journey and are at different stages.

Executive Overview
Platforms for applications and the Internet of Things (IoT) are appearing in the solution portfolio of many software and automation suppliers. Each company has its own rationale for offering a platform, but the underlying reason is that these companies need to move to an efficient, modern application development and deployment environment.