Machine Learning Cuts the Industrial IOT Value Delivery Problem

The concept of an IOT application platform is already an anachronism. Scan the web and you'll find over 400 vendors, from startups to huge firms such as GE making the case that their platforms are the future of edge analytics for IOT. Their narrative has roots in the fabulous innovation of the last 10 years by the major cloud vendors, starting with the concept of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and progressing (at least theoretically) to Platform as a Service (PaaS). Of course Software as a Service (SaaS) is a huge winner here, spanning everything from Office 365 to Salesforce.com. This narrative says that success depends on how well you build, orchestrate and run your new application in the cloud.