MachNation was pleased to participate in Bosch ConnectedWorld 2017 in Berlin. This pivotal event brought together 2700 partners and customers into a dynamite mix of 20th century electro-mechanical machines and 21st century digitization. There were too many exhibitors and partners about which MachNation could write, but we picked-out 4 that are relevant to the types of IoT middleware technology (colored orange in the figure below) that MachNation researches. Research report: (publicly available):
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Productized IoT solutions: making IoT easier
IoT is easy: a phrase that no one has ever said. More precisely, no one has ever said that deploying an enterprise- or carrier-grade IoT solution that supports multiple, integrated applications is easy. And this is certainly understandable. In general, it takes 5-7 IoT technology partners to stand-up one IoT solution. IoT technology vendors have not spent much time integrating IoT solutions that are relatively productized. However, MachNation is beginning to see some movement toward off-the-shelf IoT […]
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IoT Application Enablement ScoreCard: MachNation rates 35 AEPs to watch in 2017
Update: MachNation has published the updated 2018 IoT Application Enablement Scorecard with 21 vendors. Today, MachNation published its 2016 IoT Application Enablement Platform (AEP) ScoreCard – a rating of 35 Internet of Things (IoT) platform companies. Executive summary (Publicly available): Full report (Client-only access): The ScoreCard rates the following vendors (listed alphabetically): Aeris, Afero, Altizon, Amazon, Amplia, AT&T, Ayla Networks, Bosch, C3 IoT, Carriots, ClearBlade, Connio, Cumulocity, Davra Networks, DevicePilot, Electric Imp, Ericsson, Exosite, Gemalto, HPE, IBM, Kaa, MachineShop, Microsoft, MODE, […]
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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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Sonera selects Cumulocity IoT platform in Finland
MachNation partner Cumulocity, a Düsseldorf-based IoT application enablement platform (AEP) provider, continues to win carrier customers — this time with Finnish carrier Sonera. Cumulocity’s open, secure and flexible architecture has earned it the right to provide services to these high-quality and demanding carrier customers. It has also earned Cumulocity the right to call itself a leading IoT AEP in MachNation’s 2015 IoT Application Enablement ScoreCard. MachNation believes that Cumulocity is a high quality IoT AEP solution for carriers. Cumulocity […]
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