Analysis of five of the main IoT platforms providers

“Many established vendors such as AWS and PTC only have a strong presence in specific regional and vertical areas of the market, despite promoting horizontal and global IoT coverage.” IoT platform providers are demonstrating their technical capabilities and geographical reach through their IoT use cases and customers (the details of more than 200 use case announcements are included in Analysys Mason’s recently published IoT platform use case tracker 4Q 2018). This article discusses the key observations drawn from our analysis of five of the main IoT platforms providers, namely Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco Jasper, Ericsson, PTC and Software AG. These observations are as follows. Established vendors are strongly focused on North America and Western Europe, and 81% of all customers are based in these regions. This is not surprising, but the low number of deals in China, Japan and South Korea is notable.