For over two years MachNation has posited that the worlds of IoT and IT would eventually merge in order to better serve large and mid-sized enterprises. As IoT becomes more mainstream, there must be improvements in two key areas — IoT technology and IoT channel capacity/capabilities. This blog highlights an example of an IoT Platform-Enabled Solution (PES) vendor leading to build channel capacity and capabilities by borrowing from IT best practices. On 26 April 2016, […]
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Bosch launches IoT Cloud at Bosch ConnectedWorld 2016
On 9 March 2016, Bosch launched its Bosch IoT Cloud — and IoT PES — providing enterprises with a platform to offer IoT solutions for the mobility/automotive, industrial, energy/building technology and consumer goods sectors. This piece of research, available to MachNation partners, discusses the Bosch IoT Cloud, Bosch IoT Suite and Bosch ConnectedWorld 2016 event.
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Every vendor has an IoT platform. The word “platform” has become greatly overused. Now MachNation clears the confusion with this 1-page definition guide to the differences between an application enablement platform (AEP), a device management platform (DMP), and a connected device platform (DCP). One-page guide (Publicly available):
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Based on MachNation’s IoT Application Enablement ScoreCard 2015 , MachNation has found there are now two types of IoT data and application enablement vendors in the ecosystem — Application Enablement Platform (AEP) vendors and Platform-Enabled Solution (PES) vendors. Due to the lack of maturity of IoT markets and the varied IoT priorities and deployment requirements of public and private sector organizations, both types of vendor can be credible and successful in the market. This research […]
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Update: MachNation has published the updated 2018 IoT Application Enablement Scorecard with 35 vendors. Today, MachNation published its 2015 IoT Application Enablement ScoreCard – a rating of 23 Internet of Things (IoT) platform companies. The ScoreCard rates the following vendors (listed alphabetically): Aeris, Amazon, ARM, Autodesk, Ayla Networks, Bug Labs, Carriots, Cumulocity, Davra Networks, Electric Imp, EVRYTHNG, Exosite, IBM, MachineShop, PLAT.ONE, PTC, SAP, Sierra Wireless, Telit, Waylay, Xively, Yaler and Zebra Technologies. This is MachNation’s second year of providing […]
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