Demand and requirements for industry 4.0 software solutions

Abstract

Industrial progress is an integral part of everyday reality. It should be noted that the observed in our days the fourth industrial revolution is characterized primarily by digitalization, which accelerates transformation processes. The digitalization of economic activity poses new challenges to both enterprises’ managers and software developers. Software ceases to be a mass product, acquiring the characteristics required and defined by the consumer. The understanding of customers' needs helps the reducing uncertainty and allows on the producer’s development strategy selection. How on modern-day IT market to define the best collaboration strategy satisfying antagonistic expectations of decision-makers? – To create and to use the model which is capable of catching the technological complexity and market uncertainty. In this work, we will be concentrated on the various aspects of a such model creation, namely: use and awareness of connected software solutions, KPIs currently in use and planned, functionalities of software solutions, relevance of data to be analyzed, data security as a barrier.