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12-13. As we read the earlier part of the case study, GE has outsourced its major technological work to SAP and Microsoft to manager hardware, and GE is instead switching from its traditional heavy engineering to a more digitized form of business working on analytics of data gathered from operation of its heavy equipment like jet engines, turbines and use that data to predict future performance, downtimes etc...and increase business performance. With the invention of its new IoT application, and use of Predix software to analyse data from sensors has been a major transformation of its business model.

12-14. The case study explains that GE is more focussed on shifting from traditional industrial company to a technology-centric organization that focusses on providing enhanced product value by identifying and fixing operational problems using data collected and analysed from its own equipment using sensor technology. As we see, it has a more digitized business model movig towards analytics and business re-engineering.

12-15. Predix has given GE an advantage to venture into fleet analytics, an undiscovered area in the traditional business space. The case studt describes how Predix has helped them to identify the maintainance schedules of its jet engines, and how Middle East and China's climates makes the engines to clog frequently, and so Predix helps to identify early stages of such problems and help in longer lifetime and reduced maintainance costs of the engines. Similar advantages have been used in the Irish power plant to optimize and improve its efficiency of output.

12-16. I agree that GE is a technology driven company, but not purely a technology company. It is exploring areas where technology can be invested to optimize and provide competitive advantages as clients use its heavy equipment, but it still needs support from IT vendors like Oracle, SAP and Microsoft to run it backend of data management.  

12-17. In my opinion, GE is not planning and envisions to become a software company, but aims to be use the technology to its best advantage so that fleet analytics and Predix can help some of the most complex operational problems and reduce maintainance costs and increase lifetime of its jet engines.