Teleena and Cumulocity announce strategic partnership to accelerate IoT adoption

Teleena, a global IoT and MVNO enabler announced a strategic partnership with Cumulocity, the leading IoT device management and application enablement platform provider. With this strategic partnership Teleena will roll-out its IoT Suite with all functionalities for enterprises to build transformational IoT solutions and monetize new business models.

Nieuwegein – January 17 2017 — Teleena’s IoT Suite consists of four modules and is a complete end-2-end service for the IoT ecosystem. It is a configurable one-stop-shop for customers and includes mobile connectivity of all possible wireless technologies like 2G/3G/4G, low power LoRa and public WiFi, connectivity management (IoT Connect), device management (IoT Insight), integration workflow management (IoT Grail) and service billing (IoT Bill). With this partnership, integration to the Teleena IoT connectivity management platform is also available to all Cumulocity customers.

With most global economies now engaged in using IoT to reduce costs, improve revenues and increase customer satisfaction, an increasing number of organisations are finding that something that initially looks easy can turn out to be difficult, complex and costly to develop and maintain. Assembling an IoT solution, it seems, could be one of those things that appears deceptively simple, with recent evidence indicating that it can be a lot harder than it looks.

Cumulocity and Teleena believe that the creation of IoT solutions should be simple and the management of them should be highly automated so organisations can focus on what matters most: their customers.

“With Cumulocity we have integrated a market leading and future proof platform that enables seamless device on boarding, auto-discovery, control and management of IoT devices. Their offering can be readily incorporated into customer’s wider value offerings. Our combined best-of-breed components allows MNOs, OEMs/ODMs and enterprises accelerate their IoT deployments in a manner that is carrier grade for security, availability and reliability”.Timo Smit, Teleena’s founder and Executive Director

“Cumulocity continuously strives to simplify IoT solutions and enable the creative environment where experimentation can be done quickly, cost effectively and robustly. The Teleena IoT Suite provides its IoT customers with a turn-key approach to enable their businesses for the IoT, whether they are the end-customer or reseller. We are also delighted to welcome Teleena into our catalogue of pre-integrated partners.” Bernd Gross, Chief Executive Officer, Cumulocity

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Building and Operating Zero-Touch IoT Solutions

Cumulocity recognised as a leader in the 2016 MachNation IoT Application Enablement Platform ScoreCard

Cumulocity, the leading independent IoT device management and application enablement platform provider, is a leader among the pack of 35 IoT Application Enablement Platform (AEP) providers in MachNation's 2016 IoT AEP Scorecard. The companies assessed range from large well known IT vendors to more specialist IoT companies.

MachNation is the only insight services firm exclusively dedicated to covering the future of Internet of things (IoT) middleware, platforms, applications and services. MachNation specializes in understanding and predicting these technology sectors including their impact on developments in digitization, hardware, communication services and support tools.

This is MachNation’s third year of producing the extremely in-depth assessment of IoT AEPs that provide open-source, proprietary, cloud, edge or on-premises IoT middleware. MachNation’s IoT AEP ScoreCard helps public and private sector organizations understand the muddy, yet booming platform ecosystem.

MachNation’s ScoreCard presents ratings for the vendors across a set of 4 rating categories:

• Flexible and scalable deployment
• Focus on developer persona
• Operational sophistication
• Well-executed partner strategy

"This is the third year in a row that MachNation has rated Cumulocity as a leading IoT application enablement platform vendor. Cumulocity has a particularly strong offering in the maturing IoT AEP ecosystem. MachNation believes this strength comes from a horizontal industry-agnostic platform approach, a flexible deployment model and a focus on device integration." Dima Tokar, MachNation

View the Cumulocity Snapshot and public Executive Summary of the 2016 MachNation IoT AEP ScoreCard. The full report is accessible via MachNation.

Cumulocity joins Intel IoT Solutions Alliance to simplify IoT solution creation and secure deployments

Cumulocity, the leading independent IoT device management and application enablement platform provider, takes a prominent role in Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) modular, standards based IoT ecosystem. In addition, Cumulocity increases the number of Intel based IoT devices that can integrate with its IoT platform out-of-the-box.

Dusseldorf, Germany – With many disparate technologies, verticals and organisational maturity levels, Cumulocity believes that the Internet of Things (IoT) requires the collaboration of an ecosystem of partners to best serve an end customer’s unique needs in a way that focuses on benefits and minimises the risks.

Cumulocity has been cooperating on technology with Intel since its formation in 2010, with the two companies now connecting their strong ecosystems to the benefit of all customers and partners. The Intel IoT Solutions Alliance, with its 500+ global member companies provide scalable, interoperable solutions that accelerate the deployment of intelligent devices and end-to-end analytics. Close collaboration with Intel and each other enables alliance members to innovate with the latest IoT technologies, helping developers deliver first-in-market solutions.

The Cumulocity IoT platform is open, publicly documented and standards based, which allows customers to innovate full end-to-end solutions rapidly and completely removes the need for organisations to adopt risky “doubling-down” strategies. This collaboration allows the focus of Cumulocity’s 2,500+ strong developer community to move from one based around the use of pre-integrated Intel Atom and Quark based devices, to one tackling a broader range of business challenges.

“Our membership of the Intel IoT Solutions Alliance crystallizes one of the many threads of our collaboration and allows our partners and customers to benefit from one of the world's most recognized and trusted technology ecosystems. Opportunities have already been created with organisations in various stages of their IoT journey and we look forward to many more.”Bernd Gross, CEO, Cumulocity

Cumulocity and Libelium Catalyse the Evolution of Smart Cities and Environments

Cumulocity, the leading independent IoT device and application management platform provider, and Libelium, the leading wireless sensor networks solution specialist, combine their IoT platform and sensor network technologies to allow organisations to easily make their city, agriculture and water environments smarter.

Dusseldorf, Germany – The collaboration allows both the connection of sensors monitoring over 120 measurement types, and the integration of analytics triggers with enterprise business systems, to be performed in a ‘plug and play’ manner and eradicates the main complexities of IoT solution development.

Against the background of social, economic and technological changes caused by globalization and the integration process, cities around the world face the challenge of combining competitiveness and sustainable urban development simultaneously. With the growing majority of the population living in such cities, the necessity for them to efficiently manage their services, such as highways, public transportation, water supplies, sewage systems and street lighting, is increasingly important. In the more rural areas there are other challenges related to the very low population density. In each of these two areas, the importance of acting on the current and predicted environmental conditions allows organisations to utilise their assets better, to improve the traffic flow at peak times, reduce pollution and increase crop yields.

Cumulocity and Libelium recognise that the deployment and operation of IoT sensing, visualisation and analytics technologies need to be simple to allow the organisations managing large urban and rural areas to take full advantage of the value of the data they produce.

Libelium is an early pioneer in wireless sensor network technology. The Libelium Waspmote Plug & Sense! nodes have 120 sensors to cover hundreds of IoT applications such as smart water, smart cities and smart agriculture. Energy saving settings now extend the nodes lifetime from 5 to 10 years. Libelium’s Meshium IoT gateway is an industrialised IP67 compliant Linux router which can include WiFi, 3G/GPRS, Bluetooth, Zigbee and GPS. Being optionally solar and battery powered, the Meshium is applicable to many mobile, vehicular and outdoor use cases.

We are delighted to have Cumulocity as a Libelium Certified Cloud Partner. We have already received considerable interest from the market about our joint proposition and together look forward to supporting more customers make their city, agriculture and water environments smarter. Alicia Asín, Chief Executive Officer, Libelium

Cumulocity’s IoT application and device management platform has a full feature set for realising and scaling IoT solutions rapidly. The measurement data from the Libelium Meshium IoT gateways can be rapidly visualised and combined with other connected assets, such as traffic light systems, industrial pumps and tractors. Streaming analytics can be run across the data from all devices, with the resultant actions alerting enterprise business systems or sending commands to change the state of the actuators on a controlled asset.

Smart cities and smart environment will be two key focus areas for organisations over the next decade. IoT radically changes our understanding of what is considered possible, with the control of highway traffic, water quality and soil irrigation all based on the real-time senor data. The combination of Libelium’s wireless sensor network technologies and Cumulocity’s IoT platform allows organisations to retain their focus on stakeholder value and avoid the complexities associated with developing IoT solutions. Bernd Gross, CEO, Cumulocity

IoTNow speaks to Bernd Gross, Cumulocity CEO, about the strategic considerations for enterprises in the IoT

The rise of IoT is creating a plethora of exciting business opportunities as well as challenges for enterprises seeking to realize the business potential of connecting their assets. In order to support enterprises in reaping the full benefits of IoT in their business operations myriad IoT platforms have launched into the market over recent years, which in various ways, facilitate the development of applications and solutions.

IoTNow interviews Bernd Gross, the CEO of Cumulocity, regarding the IoT market and the best approaches to future-proof IoT applications.

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Cumulocity and Option Simplify the Adoption of Edge Analytics

Cumulocity and Option, an innovative Machine to Machine (M2M) wireless solution specialist, combine their IoT platform and IoT device technologies to radically simplify the adoption of IoT edge analytics processes for customers. The combination allows edge analytics models to be rapidly evolved using the Option Cloudgate LuvitRED device-based application and industrially deployed to the fielded devices with Cumulocity Device Management.

Dusseldorf, Germany — In recent years there has been a rapid growth in the use of computational analytics, none more so than in the Internet of Things (IoT). What originated as the detection of static thresholds (like power exceeding a specified value) has now evolved into applying far more complex formulae. Essentially building a synthetic mechanics ear which can anticipate the future operation of an asset based on their knowledge of how things should work and raise an alarm prior to failure. These formulae are now used at many points in the overall solution, with some assessing a single asset’s operation while others assess the combined process of multiple assets. The value of these techniques has grown exponentially with their complexity. However, it is this complexity that can slow their development and complicate their mass deployment.

Cumulocity and Option recognise the development and operation of IoT projects needs to be simple to ensure their efficient adoption for practical real-world situations. This combination of Cumulocity’s and Option’s technologies allows the edge analytics models to be continuously evolved by subject matter experts and be mass deployed to a scheduled release cycle into the field.

“There is no single standard at the edge, because the each vertical market brings its own hardware and interface protocol specifications. Option’s unique modular gateway, with its swappable expansion cards, provides the flexibility to connect almost any asset in any IoT vertical market at the highest quality and lowest total cost of ownership. In addition, Option’s unique LuvitRED software suite integrates the software protocols of the customer’s assets and applications seamlessly to the Cumulocity IoT platform. This combination provides a real end-to-end solution for customers!” Jörg Palm, Chief Marketing Officer, Option

LuvitRED is Option’s latest enhancement to the CloudGate solution, delivering a visually configurable agent for the design and deployment of smart IoT solutions using CloudGate wireless gateway devices. LuvitRED overcomes complexities of the vast variety of protocols used in different IoT verticals and delivers true IoT Edge Computing. With LuvitRED, stable and reliable IoT applications can be built and delivered faster, with less cost and risk. Processes that used to take days, weeks and months – even before testing and review – now take only minutes or hours. Cumulocity’s Device Management capability provides the administration and management of the Edge Analytics applications, models and configuration data. The platform’s bulk operations completely remove the complexities of mass deployments by executing update schedules for any number of groups of devices which are monitored in real-time. Roll-outs that would have consumed the resources of many field technicians are now avoided. The integrity of the device data presented to the customers’ business applications is now assured during the transition.

“Edge analytics is a powerful enabler for IoT services like predictive maintenance, which can significantly improve customer experience and reduce operational costs. Historically, the complexity of the development and deployment of the analytics model has slowed its adoption. The combination of the Option Cloudgate LuvitRED and Cumulocity IoT Platform allows customers to focus on the value of edge analytics and avoid the inconvenience of managing the practical deployment of these models. This provides all organisations with a low effort way to adopt edge analytics, and the reassurance that it will be commercially ready at scale as soon as required.” Bernd Gross, CEO, Cumulocity

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Simplifying the Adoption of Edge Analytics

Cumulocity and Device Authority partner to secure the remote deployment and management of industrial intellectual property

Cumulocity and Device Authority, a leading IoT Security Automation Platform provider, combine their technologies to allow design, manufacturing and industrial organisations a secure means for their intellectual property to be employed. The collaboration allows high-value industrial recipes, computer aided designs (CAD) and advanced machine configurations to be deployed securely and only readable by the application in the machine that will use it.

Dusseldorf, Germany - Manufacturing and process industries heavily invest in research and development to both develop products and optimise the process to manufacture them on an industrial scale. With the increasing sophistication of manufacturing techniques, process equipment and monitoring mechanisms a growing emphasis is being focused on the intellectual creations. This intellectual property (IP) can take the form of the industrial formulas, manufacturing recipes, computer aided designs and advanced machine configurations, and are often where a large proportion of a value in manufacturing and process industries reside. The protection of these assets in-life is therefore crucial.

Cumulocity, the leading IoT device and application platform provider, has been helping industrial organisations securely remotely monitor and control their machines around the world for over four years. Through use of Cumulocity’s carrier grade IoT platform, organisations have been able to optimise the operation of their remotely deployed machines for their customer needs and also perform preventative maintenance to ensure that the machines remain fully operational.

“Industrial internet of things security demands fresh thinking and fit for purpose solutions. The Device Authority platform has been designed from the ground up to deliver rapid security automation and active security posture enforcement to address the new security challenges. Our partnership with Cumulocity simplifies the implementation of policy and device-driven security for all IoT solutions.” Darron Antill, CEO, Device Authority

Combining the capabilities of Device Authority’s, leading IoT Security Automation Platform, with Cumulocity provides organisations with the ability to encrypt the data between the systems within the organisation’s IT environment and the applications on the remotely deployed machines. This provides organisations with the reassurance that their intellectual property is only able to be read by the authorised application in the intended machine. The data is transferred in encrypted format throughout the solution and is only decrypted for authorised users on the IoT platform when requested. This allows the use of the intellectual property to be controlled by its owner, thereby avoiding costly machine misconfigurations, unauthorised duplication and reduction in competitive advantage.

The underlying end-to-end data encryption also provides the foundation for more use cases in other vertical markets which require irrefutable auditability and traceability of measurement data and highly-secure user authenticated visibility of information. Important examples here are supply chain management in the food industry and the monitoring of patient health and wellbeing.

“With more and more manufacturers digitising their operations, the necessity to control the usage of their valuable industrial recipes and designs has never been greater. This collaboration allows organisations to securely deploy and control their industrial intellectual property in live operational processes simply, reliably and comprehensively.” Bernd Gross, CEO, Cumulocity

Software AG and Cumulocity Announce Strategic IoT Partnership

Combination Produces Comprehensive cloud-ready End-to-End Internet of Things Platform

Delivers innovative device integration with best-of-breed streaming IoT analytics and enterprise-wide integration capabilities

Supports enterprises in their digital transformation to implement new IoT business models

Darmstadt, Germany - September 6, 2016 Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) has expanded its Digital Business Platform with a strategic OEM partnership with Cumulocity, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) application enablement platform vendor, to offer a powerful IoT foundation for easily and securely connecting devices and extracting value across numerous industrial environments to produce operational efficiencies and create new revenue streams.

This enables a plethora of IoT use cases such as remote machine monitoring and control, production diagnostics, predictive maintenance and remote service across several markets and industries worldwide from their data streams.

By incorporating Cumulocity’s device connectivity and management product, the Digital Business Platform now provides the foundation for enterprises to securely integrate, link and scale to a network of millions of connected devices, distributed globally over thousands of tenants.

Enterprises now have the ability to connect and manage any ‘thing’, independent of hardware and protocols, to any application or business process in their enterprise or business ecosystem.

“This strategic OEM partnership combines Software AG’s strength in streaming analytics and integration along with Cumulocity’s device integration. It is now possible to bring together operational technology and integrate it with an enterprise’s IT systems (i.e., CRM, ERP, BI, etc) translating the streaming IoT data into meaningful, actionable information.” Wolfram Jost, chief technology officer, Software AG

Apama Streaming Analytics helps with the creation of operational technology by correlating the IoT data. Operational technology data is often provided as streams of measurements, which can then be enriched with other contextual and historical data sources arising from IT systems. Based on a set of applied rules, this information can then be used to take action, generate an alert, or kick off a business process.

The Digital Business Platform removes the guesswork from product development by collecting data about how products function, as well as how they are actually used. For example, by continuously analyzing equipment sensor data in real-time via machine monitoring, operators can determine equipment condition and understand when maintenance will be required.

“We are excited to be selected as a strategic partnerwith Software AG. We believe that the Software AG and Cumulocity relationship will further help enable the Internet of Things for our industrial customers. The powerful capabilities of Software AG’s Digital Business Platform plus Cumulocity’s ability to tap into sensor data will allow enterprises to create new business models, generate incremental revenue and optimize their operations.” Bernd Gross, CEO, Cumulocity

Cumulocity’s origins as part of Nokia Siemens Networks, the world's mobile broadband specialist, gives it the experience of managing networks of millions of devices in a reliable, rapidly scalable and flexible manner. Cumulocity removes complexity and allow the benefits of IoT to be exploited rapidly, comprehensively and securely by all organisations.

“We have been working with Cumulocity for over a year and are building a tight relationship through the demand of our joint customers across industries such as insurance, pharma, manufacturing, retail and utilities. Cumulocity brings us the gravitas and leading-edge IoT device integration that, when used with the Digital Business platform, provide an effective go-to-market IoT foundation.” Wolfram Jost, chief technology officer, Software AG

About Software AG

Software AG empowers customers to innovate, differentiate and win in the digital world. Its products help companies combine existing systems on-premise and in the cloud into a single platform to optimize and digitize their businesses. The combination of process management, data integration and real-time analytics in one Digital Business Platform enables customers to drive operational efficiency, modernize their systems and optimize processes for smarter decision-making. Building on over 45 years of customer-centric innovation, Software AG is ranked a leader in many innovative IT categories. Software AG has more than 4,300 employees in 70 countries and had total revenues of €873 million in 2015.

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Cumulocity CEO keynote presentation from M2M World Congress 2016

The importance of simplification in IoT - especially Industrial IoT projects

Cumulocity joins Oasis Alliance to enhance the MQTT standard for Internet of Things (IoT) deployments

Dusseldorf, Germany – Cumulocity takes a leading role in the evolution of the lightweight MQTT messaging protocol to improve its applicability for the IoT. In addition, the Cumulocity IoT platform now has native support for MQTT allowing customers to take advantage of the ability to communicate seamlessly and consistently out-of-the-box.

Today, IoT standardisation is slowly crystallising with a wide breadth of protocols vying to be commonly adopted. Since its creation in 1999, the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol has morphed into a protocol well suited for communication to IoT devices with limited processing, battery and communication resources. In 2014 the stewardship of the MQTT protocol was handed over to the Oasis Alliance, a not-for-profit consortium which is managing open standards for the global information society, and it has recently been approved for release by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

Cumulocity believes that open standards are fundamental to the success of IoT and the exploitation of its benefits within organisations. As such, Cumulocity actively tracks numerous evolving protocols and techniques, has been an early adopter of many open standards and has developed its own open publicly documented versions where none were available, such as SmartREST and Cloud Field Bus. In joining the Oasis Alliance, Cumulocity will ensure that version 5.0 of the MQTT specification incorporates the considerable experience it has gained working with numerous global customers. Specifically, that the specification incorporates the necessary plug-and-play and scalability approaches required by modern IoT deployments.

The Cumulocity IoT Platform is open, publically documented and easy to extend with plug-ins and applications. The native support for version 3.1.1 of MQTT provides our customers with a faster, less resource-intensive and more flexible implementation of the standard compared to a MQTT broker based deployment, with the reassurance that the feature will have commercial level support and will continue to be evolved with the platform.

As the leading independent IoT platform provider we actively track the myriad of evolving technologies and techniques within IoT and support those that deliver measurable benefit to our customers. We are pleased to join the Oasis Alliance to pursue the continued evolution of the MQTT standard and incorporate its native adoption into our IoT platform. The native implementation further simplifies IoT solutions by eliminating unnecessary software components and enabling faster, more reliable and scalable solutions. Bernd Gross, CEO of Cumulocity