Bit Stew, From GE Digital

Message from Co-Founder, Bit Stew Systems, From GE Digital

IIoT is Amplifying the Data Integration Challenge

6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, and the number of connected devices will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. Newly connected devices are coming online within networks at an alarming rate, and most of the effort has been focused exclusively on data generation and not necessarily data management.

The challenge for the IIoT is how to get data from all of these complex devices and systems in highly diverse, often unstructured formats and make sense of it. This explosion of data will most certainly be too rapid, and too large of a change for traditional systems to handle. The risk for those who lag behind the curve on Industrial IoT is that they will cease to be competitive in the global industrial market. Read more.

Kevin Collins
Co-Founder, Bit Stew Systems, From GE Digital

Market Guide for IoT Integration

Benoit J. Lheureux | Massimo Pezzini | Alfonso Velosa
23 June 2016

IoT project implementers cite integration as a top technical challenge. To help determine which IoT integration offerings best match their IT project requirements, IT leaders must understand that IoT integration requirements differ and that integration capabilities of IoT solutions vary widely.

Key Findings

IoT integration is a combination of IoT device and data integration, back-end system integration, and third-party middleware integration; directors of integration and other IT leaders must address these requirements via a combination of integration capabilities that include, but are not limited to, secure and reliable communications, application and data adapters, API management support, and translation.
The IoT integration capabilities vary widely for different categories of IoT solutions (IT megavendors, OT megavendors, IoT platform/edge specialists, integration specialists, API management specialists and system integrators) – and for different providers in each category.
To fill in gaps in their IoT integration capabilities, IoT solution providers often rely on partners; this partner relationship can be helpful, but it could also add technical and commercial complexity to the project.