A Digital Network underlies the ability to gather data for the purpose of generating Actionable Business Intelligence
The first step in building your digital network is to deploy the Data Capture Agent. First, deploy it onto your business network and familiarize yourself with the technology and its capabilities. Then, start to deploy into your customer base.
The software will gather data and start to convert it into actionable business intelligence.
Initially, the data capture will focus on networked printers and copiers, but the scope of asset capture is unlimited.
As the Digital Network grows and matures, it will consist of three elements:
Some of the devices will be what we term "smart." These will become a part of the rapidly evolving "Internet of Things" (IoT), and others (for example, furniture) will be "lazy" and not connected to the internet.
In the simplest of terms, we are advocating building a vast network of assets and associating those assets with people (their operators) and their employers (businesses).
This network will underlie the transformation of the B2B purchasing experience that can subsequently take place.
