The creation of the Internet of Everything has been going on for a while now. It is easy to find estimates of the number of connected devices some years from now and how much the market will be worth but still hard to find the evidences that it actually happens and in which pace. A year ago I declared that we entered the teenage phase meaning that early moving customer started to go from power point and plans to pilot trials and roll-out. I still believe we are in the teenage phase but another important indicator – mergers and acquisitions – is starting to show that we are coming closer to the real take off. Because of this I will try to track relevant M&A deals in my blog onwards.Intel recently acquired Basis Science with their advanced health tracker, Google has spent about $5B acquiring Waze, Nest and Dropcam but PTC’s recent acquisition of Axeda for $170 million in cash following their $112 million Thingworx acquisition in December are even more interesting to me. PTC provides systems and solutions to a long list of very large companies globally and they obviously believe being a leader in IoT system and service enablement is key. I believe the Internet of Everything will be grown-up in less than two years from now and insist that the key difference from when people and companies were connected to the Internet is that ignorance will not be an acceptable excuse this time.
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This blog was… how do I say it? Relevant!!
Finally I’ve found something that helped me. Thanks
a lot!