Solair was acquired by Microsoft’s Azure division today for USD20 million to USD30 million, according to estimates based on MachNation IoT M&A research. MachNation’s recently published IoT Platform-Enabled Solutions (PESs) ScoreCard includes a rating and analysis of Solair. In summary: Solair’s strengths – a solution that speeds-up time-to-market for its customers and an open-source hardware approach that lowers costs of deployment. Solair’s weaknesses – a lack of industry-sector expertise and a solution that is fairly primitive. For more information on […]
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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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Using survey data from MachNation’s recently published 2015 IoT Application Enablement ScoreCard, we have created a series of research documents on quantitative key performance indicators (KPIs) for IoT application enablement vendors. KPIs include: Sales revenue by category – percentage sales revenue by five revenue categories including product, implementation, integration, maintenance and other revenues Sales revenue by geographic region – percentage sales revenue by eight global regions of the world (WE, NAR, CEE, DVAP, MENA, SSA, EMAP, LATAM) Industry sector […]
Continue readingMore TagWhat is an IoT platform? Easy MachNation definitions of AEP, DMP and CDP
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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MachNation and our partner NetCracker are creating a set of IoT thought-leadership blogs. In the blogs, MachNation defines a new IoT OSS/BSS typology called the IoT Platform Framework. The framework consists of Network management Connectivity management Device management Data management Analytics In this series of blogs, you can read more about our IoT Platform Framework. See the first two blogs on the overall framework and IoT network management with SDN/NFV.
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