Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale
by ethbro on Saturday September 02, 2017 @12:26PM
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> OTOH, every complete IIoT solution will be bespoke. Sales, marketing, and integration will not be scalable.
This is what Palantir learned, and what Oracle semi-avoided in their positioning:
Your scalable solution is worthless without last-mile integration, and that integration is always bespoke.
Is the IIoT pushing for interface standards, a la SQL?
That would seem the main way to scale and extract the kind of revenue they're looking for. Create a standard (and therefore market) for smaller fish to perform the integration, such that it lifts the data up a level and products can be built that operate against diverse sources.
Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale
by warrenm on Saturday September 09, 2017 @01:34PM
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>Your scalable solution is worthless without last-mile integration, and that integration is always bespoke.
Yep. And always has been.
Spreadsheets are a great metaphor for this ... or an artist's canvas. They're both capable of amazing things being done on/in them ... but only with the application of custom effort.
Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale
by jessaustin on Saturday September 02, 2017 @05:26PM
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ISTM that you can't make much money by doing the easy part, unless you do a shitload of volume, at which point you're competing with AWS. Good luck!
This is the main problem with the article IMO.
Many IIoT technologies and platforms will be used across vastly different industries. Others will be industry-specific. As they always have, industry-specific vendors will integrate industry-specific elements with more "scalable" elements to provide complete solutions for specific customers.
OTOH, every complete IIoT solution will be bespoke. Sales, marketing, and integration will not be scalable.