The Transforma Insights Blog

This blog post explores the findings of Transforma Insights' inaugural IoT Application Enablement Platform (AEP) Peer Benchmarking report, which examines the strategies of twelve leading vendors of IoT AEP capabilities. The companies covered are: Altair, AWS, Clearblade, Ericsson, Fujitsu, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, PTC, SAP, Siemens, and Software AG.

A couple of eye-catching moves from the leading players, including Cisco causing some friction by switching pricing models and Ericsson enabling an inter-operator reseller model, has created increasing interest in the IoT Connectivity Support Platform space, and there’s more change to come.

On 2nd November Transforma Insights ran a webinar looking at IoT forecasts over the next ten years. This was based on our extensive IoT market analysis contained with our TAM Forecast Database.

Ahead of the Transforma Insights IoT Forecast webinar on 2nd November, Matt Hatton explores the ways in which detailed IoT Forecasts demonstrate the wide variety within IoT.

Matt Hatton recently spoke with Mark Thirman of the MIT Connected Things Conference about many different aspects of IoT and Digital Transformation, including many of the highlights of Transforma Insights' recent IoT research.

Ahead of Transforma Insights' webinar on the 2nd November looking at IoT forecasts, a dynamic graphic showing the evolution of IoT connections by industry sector between now and 2030.

According to Transforma Insights' newly published technology forecasts, cellular IoT connectivity will make a radical switch in the next ten years. We forecast IoT will shift strongly towards 5G and Low Power Wide Area (LPWA).

The concept of the Digital Twin is a key one in IoT and for enterprise digital transformation. Jim Morrish explores how the relationship between the physical twin and the digital twin is changing, making way for the digital master.

Edge computing is becoming a critical battleground in AI and IoT. In this blog post Jim looks at how edge computing can potentially accelerate the development of more effective AI rules.

One key participant in the IoT market is the Communications Service Provider (CSP). Matt Hatton recently published the comprehensive CSP IoT Benchmarking Report that looks at strategies in 5G, LPWA, IoT platforms, IoT applications and much more for Aeris Communications, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, KORE, Orange, Telefónica, Telenor, Telia, Verizon and Vodafone.