The Swiss business-to-business marketplace operator ALSO has bought AllThingsTalk in a move MachNation believes highlights increasing potential for IoT for small and medium-businesses (SMBs). As we have previously written, large enterprises have traditionally been the early adopters of IoT solutions but the explosive growth in connected devices in recent years has enabled the development of IoT solutions for SMBs, sometimes also called small and medium enterprises (SMEs). That’s a market that AllThingsTalk, of Gent, Belgium, […]
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Google acquires LogMeIn’s Xively
Google has announced its intent to acquire one of the early players in the IoT platform space, Xively, for USD50 million. MachNation has been tracking Xively since our first IoT platform ScoreCard published in 2014. Xively was formerly known as Pachube and COSM before it was acquired by the Boston-based LogMeIn in 2011. MachNation believes that the Xively acquisition was a value purchase by Google looking to find a company with some experienced IoT developers and […]
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What should Software AG do with newly acquired IoT AEP Cumulocity?
Earlier today, Software AG, a global leader in enterprise software including database management (DBMS), services-oriented architecture (SOA) and analytics announced that it acquired Cumulocity, a Düsseldorf-headquartered leading IoT application enablement platform (AEP) with a global customer footprint and recognition from independent, global industry experts. There are a couple of trajectories Software AG may choose to follow: 1) Software AG may leave Cumulocity as an independent entity without significant product/solution integration. This would allow Cumulocity to accelerate […]
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Relayr acquires San Diego-based Proximetry for IoT device management
On 22 December, 2016, Relayr — an IoT application enablement platform (AEP) vendor — announced the acquisition of Proximetry — an IoT device management platform (DMP) vendor. MachNation partners have access to this full research document.
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M&A insight: SAP acquires IoT application enablement vendor PLAT.ONE
On 28 September 2016, SAP acquired IoT Platform-Enabled Solutions (PES) vendor PLAT.ONE. While terms of the deal were not disclosed, MachNation has been tracking IoT mergers and acquisitions for 3 years. In this M&A insight article MachNation partners will find: Insights into the SAP/PLAT.ONE acquisition rationale Estimate of the acquisition purchase price and revenue multiple List of other related MachNation research documents In addition, MachNation has included PLAT.ONE in our 2016 IoT PES ScoreCard and […]
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