Security is one of the hottest topics discussed today among enterprises, vendors, communications carriers and system integrators in the IoT ecosystem – and for good reason. An HP Research report on IoT security revealed “an alarmingly high average number of vulnerabilities per device”. These vulnerabilities include
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Pub/sub versus application enablement platform: what’s the difference?
In this short question-and-answer article, we discuss two popular approaches to efficiently, cost effectively and safely get IoT data from endpoint devices to IoT applications. We look at the differences, benefits and drawbacks of publish-subscribe (pub/sub) and application enablement platform (AEP) solutions. We also provide a short of list vendors of pub/sub and AEP solutions. MachNation partners can access this research.
Continue readingMore TagAutodesk purchases IoT application enablement platform vendor SeeControl
On 27 August 2015, Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK) – a provider of computer-aided design (CAD) software – acquired IoT application enablement platform vendor SeeControl. In this analysis available for MachNation partners we discuss what Autodesk might be doing with SeeControl and provide a high-level financial valuation comparison of recent AEP acquisitions including PTC’s acquisition of Axeda, ColdLight and ThingWorx; and Amazon’s acquisition of 2lemetry.
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This complimentary research article offers 5 best practices describing how carriers can most effectively leverage their relationships with IoT AEP vendors. Carriers can triple their IoT/M2M revenues with an IoT AEP. Whitepaper: Carrier Best Practices for IoT Application Enablement (Publicly available): The best practices include Identifying the best AEP technology Working with two types of SIs that have domain expertise Building an inter-departmental team to select and implement an AEP Engaging a new ecosystem of partners while […]
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Cumulocity, a leading IoT Application Enablement Platform (AEP), has scored two more customer wins with top-tier service providers. Etisalat – On 22 July 2015 Etisalat, a tier-1 global communications carrier headquartered in Dubai, awarded Oberthur Technologies a contract to provide it an IoT AEP powered by the Cumulocity platform. Oberthur will leverage its existing relationship with Etisalat in providing deep telecoms integration and development services to offer new IoT solutions to a variety of new customer […]
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