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PTC Offers Free Vuforia Chalk Trial To Aid Those Impacted By Coronavirus
by Dylan Martin
'What we quickly realized in light of COVID-19 was that many more people can't get to where they need to get to because of travel restrictions and social distancing and so forth,' PTC exec Mike Campbell says, explaining why the vendor decided to offer the augmented reality app for free until the end of June.
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Coronavirus Has ‘Expedited’ Need For CBT’s Remote Expert/Connected Worker Solution
by Steven Burke
‘We had seen rapidly increasing interest in this solution from utility and manufacturing companies prior to coronavirus, but now we are seeing interest across multiple industries,’ says CBT CEO Kelly Ireland. ‘All businesses now are having to figure out a way to support clients in an entirely different manner.’
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PTC Says Business Model Meant To Withstand Events Like Coronavirus
by Dylan Martin
'Even though we are seeing some signs of softness in smaller pockets of our business, we have not observed a material disruption to our business due to macro conditions,' PTC CFO Kristian Talvitie says in an investor call in which he outlined the strengths of the company's annual recurring revenue business model.
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Microsoft Makes Azure Sphere GA To Secure IoT Devices
by Dylan Martin
'Our mission is to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secured and trustworthy IoT devices,' Microsoft's Halina McMaster says of the company's Azure Sphere solution for securing IoT devices powered by microcontroller units.
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Industrial IoT Analytics Startup Seeq Raises $24 Million, New Filing Shows
by Dylan Martin
The newly disclosed funding comes as the Seattle-based startup, which provides advanced analytics software for manufacturing data, seeks to expand its roster of channel partners.
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Sight Machine Goes Vertical With Industry-Specific IIoT Solutions
by Dylan Martin
'As we got into several verticals, we realized there is industry specific language […] that companies like once a company like us has gotten experience in a vertical,' Sight Machine CEO Jon Sobel says of the industrial IoT startup's new industry-specific solutions.
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Building An IoT Practice: Partners Need To Start Small And Simple
by O’Ryan Johnson
Solution providers need to deliver a business outcome to successfully sell the Internet of Things to customers. And Ingram Micro is there to help every step of the way, making sure partners understand the key considerations involved.
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Siemens To Buy Container-Based Edge Platform From Pixeom
by Dylan Martin
The industrial giant is diving deep into container technology to make it easier to run applications at the edge in factories. 'We view ourselves [as] what VMware did for the data center, we're doing for the edge,' Pixeom CEO Sam Nagar told CRN in an interview earlier this year.
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Dell's Jason Shepherd: IoT's In the 'AOL Stage.' The Next Stage Is Open.
by Dylan Martin
'In any emerging market, you have to get through that dumb-it-down stage before people can handle the choices and start to go do things on their own,' Dell edge computing exec Jason Shepherd says.
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Packaged IoT Solutions Can Help VARs Get Past Pilot Paralysis, Survey Says
by Dylan Martin
'The more that these are packaged, the more that these are proven, the more that these are ready to go, hopefully what that allows is to cut down on the proof of concepts,' IPED senior consultant Mark Williams says.
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PTC Reports Strong Q4 IoT Growth, Plans $470M Onshape Acquisition
by Dylan Martin
'Onshape is a very unique asset. Because of the high cost of entry, you simply won't find another [computer-aided design] SaaS startup out there,' PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann says of the vendor's plan to acquire Onshape.
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Blockchain: 5 Things The Channel Needs To Know
by Kyle Alspach
Opportunities abound for solution providers to get involved with bringing blockchain to customers, including by using smart contracts to enable predictive maintenance of IT systems.
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