Systems Integrators and Vendors with Integrated Cloud and Analytics Solutions Are Gaining Ground in IoT

IDC released its Global IoT Decision Maker Survey. Some of the key findings in the report include:

• 31.4% of the surveyed organizations have launched IoT solutions
• 55% see IoT as strategic to their business as a means to compete more efficiently. 21% regard it as transformative.
• Top concerns for organizations looking to deploy an IoT solution include security, privacy, upfront cost, ongoing costs, IT infrastructure, and lack of internal skills
• Top benefits of an IoT solution include improving productivity, reducing costs, and automating internal processes, which highlights an internal and operational focus by organizations over the short term rather than external, customer-facing benefits
• Vendors who lead with an integrated cloud and analytics solutions are being considered as critical partners in an organization’s IoT investment
• Network and traditional IT hardware vendors are losing ground to software and systems integrators
• Industries that lead in the adoption of IoT include financial services, retail, and manufacturing. Lagging sectors include government, healthcare, and utilities
• IBM and Microsoft have taken a leading role in almost all IoT segments, especially in analytics, software, systems integration, and providing an IoT platform. The reason for their success is blending a cloud strategy with analytics and software capabilities.

Sources:

IDC's 2016 Global IoT Decision Maker Survey Finds Organizations Moving Past Pilot Projects and Toward Scalable Deployments, http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS41788916

Internet Of Things By The Numbers: IDC Survey Finds It's All About The Data, http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/09/22/internet-of-things-by-the-numbers-idc-survey-finds-its-all-about-the-data/