From ComputerWorld: Cisco Systems' planned $1.4 billion acquisition of Jasper Technologies could make it easier for enterprises to build businesses around services instead of products.
While the Internet of Things includes sensors and devices that enterprises can use to better run their operations and cut costs, it can also give them whole new business models.
Much of Jasper's business is connecting the products companies make to mobile networks. It sits between enterprises and mobile operators, doing the complicated work of tying IoT applications to network connections. Cisco builds a lot of the gear on the network side of that equation, plus higher-level smarts like analytics on the other end that can make IoT more effective and profitable. Bringing their capabilities together will simplify deployments that involve lots of different companies and pieces of software, the companies say.
"It gives the customer everything they need, essentially, to build a connected business," said Rowan Trollope, Cisco senior vice president and general manager of the IoT and Collaboration Business Unit, on a conference call to discuss the deal.
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