An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
One of the keys to surviving in this era of disruption is to innovate with new business models and new revenue streams. Increasingly, that means that organizations must look to innovate around digital services and how smart sensor or other Internet of Things (IoT) devices may help transform the customer experience and help to create new business models.
The challenge, however, is that working with these intelligent edge devices has proven to be very difficult as each vendor seeks to create its own ecosystem. Cumulocity by Software AG aims to solve this by delivering a platform that consolidates IoT devices into what it calls a single, manageable ‘operating system.’
The company’s agent-based approach supports over 150 different protocols enabling it to deliver plug-and-play type capabilities when adding a new device to the management network. The platform is extensible, allowing organizations to build IoT-based applications on top of it while leveraging the platform’s connectivity, analytics, security and device management capabilities.
The company claims that what sets it apart is the fact that it built its architecture with a cloud-native approach, but also with a recognition that processing would shift closer toward the edge as edge device capabilities improved. The result is an application-centric IoT platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop and deploy IoT-type applications and maintain them over time without the technical challenges typically associated with managing a collection of heterogeneous IoT devices throughout their lifecycle.
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