Enterprise IoT Platforms drives innovation in IOT Solutions
Enterprise IoT has recorded tremendous growth in the year 2015 and it is expected to flourish further in 2016 unveiling lucrative business opportunities for new IOT platforms offered by startups and software vendors, says Ravi Varma Namboori, Director of Architecture at Equinix.
With constantly emerging IoT solutions and platforms, IoT has become innovative technology trend that grabbed the attention of many business managers. Global enterprises community accepted enterprise IoT as an innovation enabler in the year 2015 and it is going to play crucial role in enterprise software in years to come.
Today, huge number of startups are venturing in to enterprise IoT space to capture the significant market share similar to the other fast growing enterprise trends. These IoT enterprise startups are offering wide range of services from isolated infrastructure to complete solution.
With the growing number of startups driving innovation in enterprise IoT space, larger companies are forced to make their mark in this space with continuous innovation. Both startups and larger organization have been offering various new services in enterprise IoT space making the technology selection difficult for the companies that plans to power their IoT solutions with emerging IoT technologies, adds Ravi Varma Namboori a data center expert.
Industry experts states that IoT technologies are going to be on the priority list for global enterprises in 2016 includes.
Platform-as-a-Service IoT Platforms
PaaS vendors offer complete IoT platforms which enables enterprises to build IoT solutions that leverage best from IoT services which includes not only stream analytics and device management but also significant benefits from infrastructure services.
Enterprises that evaluate PaaS platforms need to consider that IoT offerings will be much more attractive for companies that are already using PaaS solutions such as Salesforce, Azure, AWS and Bluemix. The combination of infrastructure and platform services will make enterprise IoT solution much more sophisticated and adds significant value to the business.
Though IoT PaaS platforms gives significant business benefits, enterprises need to know that these platforms will not be industry specific and they work exclusively on hybrid and public clouds which could be a challenge aspect for some industries.
IoT Data Services
Data is the most important aspect of any enterprise IoT solution, it is known that enterprises process, analyze and derive business strategies from huge volumes of data generated from IoT infrastructure. Data being an ultimate value enabler drives companies towards building enterprise IoT solution that is sufficiently capable to handle processing and real-time analytics.