Market Research Firm: Software AG a “Strong Performer” in IIoT
October 01 2018 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today revealed its
positioning as a “strong performer” with the highest current
offering score among other strong performers in a 24-criteria
evaluation of Cumulocity IoT (Internet of things) in The Forrester
WaveTM: Industrial IoT Software Platforms, Q3 2018.
In this report of the ‘15 providers that matter most,’ Forrester
defines industrial IoT as “software solutions that connect to and
manage smart devices and infrastructure in industrial and
manufacturing environments to integrate operational data and
control into business processes.”
Software AG’s Cumulocity IoT is an open and independent,
device-agnostic platform supporting more than 150 pre-integrated
devices and 300+ industrial protocols. This ensures secure
connectivity to any ‘thing’ can be achieved quickly and easily.
Cumulocity IoT operates across the cloud, on premises and at the
edge, and provides enterprises and service providers with total
freedom and choice in designing, building, deploying and evolving
their IoT distributed deployments seamlessly across any
network.
Bernd Gross, senior vice president, IoT and Cloud, Software AG,
said: “We are delighted to be recognized by Forrester as a ‘Strong
Performer’ with the highest current offering score among other
strong performers. Cumulocity IoT is unique in that it provides
enterprises with comprehensive integration capabilities that
provide short-term co-existence with legacy process components
(including operational historians) along with leading edge IoT data
processing capabilities. Additionally, we offer multiple edge
computing deployment options, which enable semi- or
fully-autonomous operation at, or within, critical industrial
processes.”
Using Cumulocity IoT, enterprises can very quickly start with
limited-scale, cloud-based IoT projects and, as their
sophistication grows, be confident to build an IoT platform and IoT
services that can grow effortlessly with them. Additionally, its
containerized feature deployment simplifies the management of the
overall IIoT platform and regulates its evolution, thus reducing
both the cost and risk of the first deployment and every ongoing
change.
Bernd Gross noted: “Because of the open and secure architecture
of the Cumulocity IoT platform, a vast ecosystem of third-party
products and services are available without the risk of ‘vendor
lock-in.’ Thus, businesses can develop and implement IoT services
at their own pace and at the optimal balance between risk and
ambition.”
In this Forrester report, Principal Analyst Michele Pelino and
Senior Analyst Paul Miller noted that “it offers some of the
richest wireless connectivity, industry-specific interface support
and edge connectivity of the solutions [Forrester] evaluated.”
Bernd Gross added: “Cumulocity IoT is used by many leading
technology companies such as Gardner Denver, STW (Sensor-Technik
Wiedemann), NTT Communication, Reliance Group, Trakerando and many
more. In fact, Cumulocity IoT has accelerated the pace of
innovation for these companies and given them a lead in their
respective industries with their IoT-powered propositions.”
Most significantly, Cumulocity IoT’s multi-tenancy securely
segments customer data and fully enables businesses to offer
services through B2B2X business models. Many such businesses are
Software AG’s telecom customers such as Deutsche Telekom,
Telefónica, Ooredoo and POST Luxembourg, who are developing their
own IoT services and marketing to their several thousands of
customers.
Notably, it took POST Luxembourg less than six weeks to build a
fully customized and secure IoT offering using Software AG’s
Cumulocity IoT. The Cumulocity–based solution enables the mail and
telecommunications company to connect and register millions of
devices quickly and securely. POST Luxembourg’s Smart City IoT
offering can connect all parts of a city or enterprise property,
providing the ability to monitor what and where anything is
happening – which makes it more secure and potentially more energy
efficient.
Cumulocity IoT is an IoT-as-a-Service solution that includes
enhanced high availability and multi-cluster deployment options. It
incorporates several carrier-grade features, including code-free
integration of devices supporting Low Power WAN (LPWAN)
technologies used for long-term low bandwidth remote monitoring,
Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) and Long Range
(LoRa). It includes fully flexible UI development allowing users to
either customize the standard UI, enhance the standard UI with
specific widgets or integrate the platform's services into
their own (possibly legacy) UI dashboards.
The full report of The Forrester WaveTM: Industrial IoT Software
Platforms, Q3 2018 can be downloaded here. A free trial of the
Cumulocity IoT platform is available here.
About Software AG
Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) helps companies with their
digital transformation. With Software AG’s Digital Business
Platform, companies can better interact with their customers and
bring them on new ‘digital’ journeys, promote unique value
propositions, and create new business opportunities. In the
Internet of Things (IoT) market, Software AG enables enterprises to
integrate, connect and manage IoT components as well as analyze
data and predict future events based on Artificial Intelligence
(AI). The Digital Business Platform is built on decades of
uncompromising software development, IT experience and
technological leadership. Software AG has more than 4,500
employees, is active in 70 countries and had revenues of ¤879
million in 2017.
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