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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The best of Apple and Google meet in IoT plug-and-play solution: Proteus case study
In 2015 MachNation expects to see a new deployment model for IoT solutions – a model where plug-and-play functionality is built into the solutions. A plug-and-play experience for IoT brings together the Google Android-type benefits of having many device types available and allowing open integrations with the Apple iOS-type benefits of solution reliability and ease-of-use. In this piece of research we discuss Proteus’ EcoCloud solution — a good example of a plug-and-play IoT solution that uses unique […]
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Business customers, like anyone, sometimes have problems with their communication services providers’ (CSPs) services. CSPs, as you might expect, try to resolve the problems of all their customers. But the more service problems a business customer experiences over the course of a year, the less likely they are to remain silent about it. In partnership with CSG, MachNation surveyed businesses about the actions they take when they are dissatisfied with their CSP. These insights and […]
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Cisco and 29 other event sponsors made the Internet of Things (IoT) come to life in Chicago at the 2014 IoT World Forum. Attended by 1500 people – the majority of whom were large enterprise customers – IoT World Forum is the de facto industry event for enterprises interested in spurring innovation and productivity in their organizations. MachNation is proud to be one of the 104 companies on Cisco’s IoT steering committee. All 104 companies […]
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Axeda Connexion 2014 is a who’s-who of enterprises and technology companies that have embraced or are learning how to embrace the connected future. The key themes from this year’s show span business/strategy and technology characteristics of IoT. Let’s take a look at some of the top ones. Impact of IoT solutions on business process. No doubt that IoT solutions pack all sorts of value for enterprises, but oftentimes we overlook the challenges that enterprises have in […]
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