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What is IoT Software?
Internet of Things (IoT) software is a form of technology that allows for connected devices to communicate with each other over the internet. It generally consists of various hardware and software components such as sensors, wireless networks, and databases. With the help of IoT software, data can be collected from multiple sources for further analysis and it can also be used to control devices remotely. IoT software also offers advantages such as improved efficiency and better security for connected devices. Compare and read user reviews of the best IoT software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Epicor Connected Process Control
Epicor Software
Epicor Connected Process Control (CPC), formerly eFlex Systems, provides manufacturers a flexible, no-code/low-code MES solution. No programming or special skills required. Digital work instructions, with multi-media capabilities, along with the ability to integrate virtually any device with communication capabilities, provides 100% historical record of the product and the process. Providing data insight, from production reports, to part history, quality summary and more — address issues quickly, minimize waste and disruptions. Whether you start small in subassembly areas, an entire line, or apply enterprise wide - we work with manufacturers of all sizes and needs. Hosted on prem or in the cloud, you decide what's best for your operations. -
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TRACTIAN
Tractian
Tractian is the Industrial Copilot for maintenance and reliability, providing a cutting-edge platform designed to prevent unplanned downtime, boost operational efficiency, and enhance maintenance capacity. Trusted by global brands such as Bosch, Kraft Heinz, Carrier, Hyundai, Johnson Controls, and P&G, Tractian combines condition monitoring, energy efficiency, and a CMMS into a comprehensive, mobile-first solution. With Tractian, you can: Monitor real-time vibration, temperature, runtime, and RPM across critical assets Get real-time alerts and detailed diagnostics to address potential issues before they lead to failures Digitize workflows for streamlined work order management, planning & scheduling, and materials management Optimize energy consumption for improved sustainability and cost savings -
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HiveMQ
HiveMQ
HiveMQ is the Industrial AI Platform helping enterprises move from connected devices to intelligent operations. Built on the MQTT standard and a distributed edge-to-cloud architecture, HiveMQ connects and governs industrial data in real time, enabling organizations to act with intelligence. With proven reliability, scalability, and interoperability, HiveMQ provides the foundation industrial companies need to operationalize AI, powering the next generation of intelligent industry. Global leaders including Audi, BMW, Eli Lilly, Liberty Global, Mercedes-Benz, and Siemens trust HiveMQ to run their most mission-critical operations.Starting Price: $0.34/hour -
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Golioth
Golioth
Connect and secure devices, send sensor data to the web, update firmware over the air, and scale your fleet with our instant IoT cloud. Select hardware and connectivity that meets your needs from your preferred vendor. Use the open source Golioth Device SDK to integrate with your firmware securely. Once connected you can instantly monitor, manage, and update your devices from the Golioth console. We’re a group of industry-leading hardware, firmware, and cloud engineers. We understand the struggle to connect “sand” to the internet, so we built a better way to do just that. We’re built for the embedded developer workflow. Use the tools you’re already familiar with to build robust and reliable devices, faster. Choose from hundreds of hardware options and a variety of connectivity types, protocols, and multiple embedded RTOS providers. Golioth provides a single control plane for all your devices, whether you’re exploring an idea, or improving an existing project.Starting Price: $0 -
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FrameworX
Tatsoft
Tatsoft’s FrameworX is the complete, modern SCADA and IIoT platform for building high-performance industrial applications. Designed for edge-to-enterprise use, it unifies operations, data, and AI under one scalable, .NET-based architecture. Features include real-time data modeling, historian, alarms, reports, audit trails, scripting in C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, and Python, plus 100+ native drivers for PLCs, DCS, OPC, and MQTT (broker/client/SparkplugB). Build once—deploy anywhere with zero client installs and full web, mobile, and desktop access. Includes every module from day one: Devices, Alarms, Historian, Reports, Security, and DevOps tools. Proven in 5,000+ global deployments, FrameworX powers mission-critical operations across industries with reliability, unlimited scalability, and transparent licensing. (FrameworX was formerly known as FactoryStudio.)Starting Price: $750 -
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EMQX
EMQ Technologies
EMQX is the world's most scalable and reliable MQTT messaging platform designed by EMQ. It supports 100M concurrent IoT device connections per cluster while maintaining extremely high throughput and sub-millisecond latency. EMQX boasts more than 20,000 global users from over 50 countries, connecting more than 100M IoT devices worldwide, and is trusted by over 300 customers in mission-critical IoT scenarios, including well-known brands like HPE, VMware, Verifone, SAIC Volkswagen, and Ericsson. Our edge-to-cloud IoT connectivity solutions are flexible to meet the demands of various industries towards digital transformation, including connected vehicles, Industrial IoT, oil & gas, carrier, finance, smart energy, and smart cities.Starting Price: $0.18 per hour -
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KACE by Quest
Quest Software
KACE® by Quest supports your unified endpoint management (UEM) strategy by helping you discover and track every device in your environment, automate administrative tasks, keep compliance requirements up-to-date and secure your network from a range of cyberthreats. Discover, manage and secure all your endpoints from one console as you co-manage your traditional and modern endpoints, including Windows, Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, and iOS and Android devices. KACE is a Unified Endpoint Management solution that offers a single point of control for managing IT systems across the entire organization, inside or outside your network. This comprehensive solution takes the stress out of keeping devices secure and compliant so you can do more.Starting Price: As low as $3/mo/device -
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Blynk
Blynk
Blynk is a low-code IoT software platform for connecting devices to the cloud, building mobile apps to remotely control and monitor them, and managing thousands of users and deployed products. It’s a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) that helps businesses and individuals seamlessly progress from a prototype of a connected product to its commercial launch and further growth. Blynk provides a range of features facilitating the launch and maintenance of commercial projects, e.g. device provisioning, device management, data storage and visualization, alerts and notifications, user management with multi-level tree-like organization structures, OTA firmware updates. Blynk is hardware-agnostic which means customers can connect to the Internet any device from the broad list of supported hardware and use a suite of software products to monitor and control it.Starting Price: Free -
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Open Automation Software
Open Automation Software
Liberate your Industry 4.0 data with Open Automation Software IIoT platform for Windows and Linux. OAS is truly an unlimited IoT Gateway for Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi 4, Windows IoT Core, and Docker deployments. Create HMI visualization for web, WPF, and WinForm C# and VB .NET applications. Log data and alarms to SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, MySQL, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, MariaDB, SQLite, InfluxDB, and CSV files. MQTT Broker and Client interface along with cloud connectivity to Azure IoT and AWS IoT Gateway. Read and write data from remote Excel Workbooks. Alarm notification to email, SMS text, and voice messaging. .NET and REST API programmatic access. Allen Bradley ControlLogix, CompactLogix, GuardLogix, Micro800, MicroLogix, SLC 500, and PLC-5. Siemens S7-200, S7-300, S7-400, S7-1200, and S7-1500. Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, and Modbus ASCII for Master and Slave communications. OPTO-22, MTConnect, and OPC UA, OPC DA.Starting Price: $495 one-time payment -
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AWS IoT
Amazon
There are billions of devices in homes, factories, oil wells, hospitals, cars, and thousands of other places. With the proliferation of devices, you increasingly need solutions to connect them, and collect, store, and analyze device data. AWS has broad and deep IoT services, from the edge to the cloud. AWS IoT is the only cloud vendor to bring together data management and rich analytics in easy-to-use services designed for noisy IoT data. AWS IoT offers services for all layers of security, including preventive security mechanisms, like encryption and access control to device data, and service to continuously monitor and audit configurations. AWS brings AI and IoT together to make devices more intelligent. You can create models in the cloud and deploy them to devices where they run 2x faster compared to other offerings. Optimize operations by easily creating digital twins of real-world systems. Run analytics on volumes of IoT data easily—without building an analytics platform. -
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PubNub
PubNub
Innovate with Realtime Features: We take care of realtime communication infrastructure so you can focus on your app. Our Platform for Realtime Communication: A platform to build and operate real-time interactivity for web, mobile, AI/ML, IoT, and Edge computing applications Faster & Easier Deployments: SDK support for 50+ mobile, web, server, and IoT environments (PubNub and community supported) and more than 65 pre-built integrations with external and third-party APIs to give developers the features they need regardless of programming language or tech stack. Scalability: The industry’s most scalable platform capable of supporting millions of concurrent users and allows for rapid growth with low latency, high uptime, and without financial penalties. Security & Compliance: Enterprise-grade security and compliance with the most stringent regulations worldwide, including GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and CCPA.Starting Price: $0 -
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Litmus Edge
Litmus
Litmus Edge is a hardware‑agnostic industrial data platform deployed at the edge to connect to virtually any industrial asset. Using a large library of pre‑built drivers, it rapidly ingests data from PLCs, SCADA, MES, historians and sensors, then normalizes and contextualizes that data for analytics and control. The platform delivers real‑time KPIs and dashboards at the edge, supports running analytics and machine‑learning models close to the machines, and publishes ready‑to‑use data to cloud, big‑data and business applications. This gives manufacturers a scalable foundation for smart manufacturing and Industrial IoT programs. Designed for engineers modernizing OT systems: - 250+ drivers - MQTT/Kafka/REST ingestion - Data modeling + transformations - Edge ML/SLM runtime - Container support - Secure cloud connectors - Fleet managementStarting Price: 15000/5k data points/site -
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EquipmentCloud
Kontron AIS
EquipmentCloud® is the agile service and after-sales digital transformation solution for medium-sized machine and equipment manufacturers. It allows you to optimize your processes, improve customer loyalty and enable new data-based business models – all in one place, easily and efficiently. With configurable, easy-to-use modules, you can digitalize and scale your individual use cases step by step. With all your information in one place, you can save time and money while increasing customer loyalty. Lay the foundation for a successful digital transformation of your service and after-sales from a cost center to a profit center and take your business to the next service level.Starting Price: €79/month/machine -
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Qliktag Platform
Qliktag Software Inc.
The Qliktag Platform is a one-of-a-kind platform to enable everyday consumer products as IoT Connected Smart Products that can be interacted with digitally. For any item equipped with tags such as ordinary 2d barcodes, NFC tags, RFID, QR Codes, Data Matrix, smart packaging sensors, IoT sensors, watermarks or other triggers, the Qliktag Platform can help assign an internet identifier and a "digital twin" with a unique web link for each batch, product or serial instance. This enables the product to send or receive information over the internet through it's lifecycle. The Qliktag Platform also lets you develop a wide range of smart applications & business processes from traceability, transparency, authentication, trust, customer engagement, re-order and more in a low code environment that is highly scalable across billions of items, secure & flexible.Starting Price: $275/month -
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Altair SmartWorks
Altair
As organizations pursue their digital transformation strategy for the Internet of Things (IoT), some seek the “built-in” expertise of turn-key PaaS solutions while others want the flexibility of highly customizable offerings that adapt to their existing ecosystem. In either case, Altair SmartWorks delivers advanced IoT technology within an open-architecture environment to drive the innovation that fuels sustained competitiveness. Altair SmartWorks was built for optimal flexibility, from its extensive compatibility with third party hardware, communication technologies, and applications to its innovative licensing and global partner ecosystem. Altair SmartWorks is also integrated with Altair HyperWorks, a leading simulation platform, and Altair PBS Works’ high-performance computing cloud technology, allowing its users to implement highly scalable IoT projects and realize their digital twin strategy.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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Simplifier
Simplifier AG
Simplifier helps companies with SAP modernization by providing a leading low-code platform for enterprise application development. They specialize in rapid app creation, integrating SAP and non-SAP systems, and optimizing business processes. Their platform offers intuitive UI design, pre-built interfaces, and comprehensive training for cost-effective, efficient solutions. Modern User Experiences: Replaces traditional SAP GUI with modern interfaces across all devices, enhancing usability. Streamlined ERP Cores: Transforms SAP systems into streamlined, upgradeable ERP cores without custom code. Seamless Integration: Connects SAP On-Premise systems through Simplifier On-Premise or Simplifier in the AWS Cloud, ensuring quick responses to customer demands and emerging trends. Try Simplifier for freeStarting Price: €16.90 / month / user -
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ShiftWorx
FreePoint Technologies Inc.
FreePoint Technologies' ShiftWorx is a unique grouping of modules that provide an end-to-end solution for continuous improvement across the production floor. ▪ Production Management - Real-time information on machine performance, jobs, and operator workforce. ▪ Performance Analysis - Metrics at the machine, line or plant for historical, situational and predictive insights. ▪ Quality & Compliance - Benchmarking, standards and procedures to meet audit and compliance regulations. ▪ Team Member Development & Performance - Operators have better tools for creating value added work. ShiftWorx provides a ‘holistic’ shopfloor management platform that when applied in whole or in succession affords manufacturers a production optimization solution backed by Toyota Production System (TPS) consulting expertise. Measure, Analyze, and Improve with ShiftWorx! Contact us for a complimentary consultation from our TPS experts! Schedule a software demo specific to your Industry today!Starting Price: $125 -
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MQTTRoute
Bevywise Networks
MQTT Broker built with passion to provide everything you need to deploy & scale your IoT application. REST API, dashboard and widgets, complete data store & more. A Quick snapshot of the IoT devices with client connection & disconnection and the most important data visualized with widgets on multiple dashboards. Alerts and coloured notations for the different value based triggers. Rules engine to transform MQTT Messages for effective M2M communication automation. Event & timer based rules to define & pattern match data and create actions. Secured publish and subscribe messaging model with two layer of security for device communication with SSL / TLS for the connectivity and device authentication with Username / password as an additional layer. Web security for data view. Broker High availability mode will provision multiple message broker in parallel to collect & publish messages from devices. This ensures 99.99% of data collection to be successful irrespective of any software.Starting Price: $299 one-time payment -
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Azure IoT Central
Microsoft
Azure IoT Central is highly secure, scales with your business as it grows, ensures your investments are repeatable, and integrates with your existing business apps. Build scalable solutions faster with IoT Plug and Play. Simplify device interactions in IoT solutions with an open modeling language. This not only enables a seamless device-to-cloud integration experience, but it also helps reduce development time, cost, and complexity. Device Builders can build devices that integrate seamlessly with any Azure IoT cloud solution. Solution Builders can accelerate solutions without writing embedded code. Consider how your IoT solutions grow as you need them, and how to protect your data on devices and in the cloud. Azure IoT Central is the only app platform that’s built with the properties of highly secure and scalable IoT solutions. Get ahead in your market and transform your business with our growing selection of IoT app templates for common industry scenarios.Starting Price: $0.08 per month -
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Skysens IoT Platform
Skysens
Skysens IoT platform is an application layer with middleware specialized for IoT applications. The platform can work with multiple IoT sources either IP-based or non-IP based such as LPWAN with multiple features such as user management, alarming, reporting, rule management, and many more. With Skysens middleware, the platform can work with existing legacy data sources such as SCADA will full functionality. It has different application modules for smart industry, smart cities, and smart businesses for easy use. Different pre-configured applications such as condition monitoring, indoor and outdoor location tracking, maintenance monitoring, and many more. Device ID-based cross rule function in order to create smart actions depending on the rules with help of bi-directional connectivity of LPWAN networks. API server for connectivity agnostic LPWAN-based application integration with REST APIs. Skysens Mobile app is ready for use on Android and iOS.Starting Price: Free -
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OEEasy
4i Platform
The Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a key performance indicator that measures the efficiency of industrial machinery and equipment. Implementing OEE measurement in your manufacturing process can help you enhance the performance of your machines, reduce their downtime and improve the quality of your production. It is a great metric for benchmarking progress in improving manufacturing productivity. Equipment management and monitoring. OEEasy is a web-based app that automatically measures the OEE of your production lines in terms of quality, performance, and availability indicators. Easy and quick setup. Fits all manufacturing machines at a low cost. OEEasy is the production performance app on the 4i Platform. Enhance beyond production expanding through other apps such as ELT, and CEnergy. OEEasy translates your data into charts and reports to help you visualize your productivity and performance.Starting Price: Free -
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Datacake
Datacake
With the Datacake platform, you can realize your Industrial IoT use cases, such as condition monitoring, data logging, real-time dashboards, and data analytics. Connect LoRaWAN or NB-IoT devices and gateways to the platform. Use MQTT or other interfaces. Use the Datacake IoT platform and Ready-to-Use LoRaWAN sensors to detect water levels in flowing or standing water, containers or other vessels. Use modern online maps and display the positions of your IoT assets (e.g. sensors, machines, or other things) in real-time on Interactive Maps. View the routes traveled by these devices in a historical view directly on the map. Upload images and place sensors directly in the floor plan of the building, hall plans, or other diagrams. Show your customers the conditions on-site in a simple way. Send data to your devices on Datacake via webhook. Payload decoders for HTTP requests are also available here.Starting Price: €1 per device per month -
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FourJaw
FourJaw
Turn machine data into actionable insight - fast. FourJaw technology turns live machine data into clear, usable insights, empowering better decisions across every shift, every site and every machine. Not just when a machine stops, but where energy’s being wasted, where jobs are stalling and where time and capacity slip away. FourJaw’s plug-and-play IoT hardware connects to almost any machine. It’s installed in minutes with no disruption and no downtime. Real-time insights into performance, OEE, energy, and output, all in one intuitive platform, with configurable dashboards that show the data manufacturers need, how they need it, making reporting and analysis feel effortless. See what’s underperforming, what needs improving, and where to act next. From one machine to the entire factory, it’s simple to install and built to scale. FourJaw. Factory Intelligence. Made Simple.Starting Price: $144 per month -
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Kuzzle
Kuzzle
Activate the power of the Kuzzle IoT platform online, with no commitment. Kuzzle publishes open source software for managing the Internet of Things, data, and APIs. Conceived and developed by French engineers, Kuzzle solutions accelerate the deployment of modern applications by offering an open source standard. Our teams are ready to support your IoT projects. Connect and manage your territory while offering new smart services to users. Urban hyper vision with Kuzzle IoT, to manage public lighting, waste and voluntary drop-off points, water, public buildings, parking, and energy consumption. Kuzzle IoT is agnostic and compatible with sensor technologies and all IoT and network connectivity devices. We provide ready-to-use IoT functionalities for all your uses, including geolocation & geofencing, asset tracking, digital twinning, etc. Simplify the deployment of your IoT applications. Activate the power of the Kuzzle IoT platform online, with no commitment.Starting Price: Free -
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AWS IoT TwinMaker
Amazon
Use your existing IoT, video, and enterprise application data where it already lives, without needing to reingest or move the data to another location. Save time with an automatically generated knowledge graph that binds your data sources to virtual replicas of physical systems to accurately model real-world environments. Get an immersive 3D view of your systems and operations to optimize efficiency, increase production, and improve performance. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier for developers to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines. AWS IoT TwinMaker provides the tools you need to build digital twins to help you optimize building operations, increase production output, and improve equipment performance. With the ability to use existing data from multiple sources, create virtual representations of any physical environment, and combine existing 3D models with real-world data.Starting Price: $1.50 per million calls -
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Kisi
KISI
Kisi offers a flexible platform for your business, acting as an all-in-one, standalone solution or integrating with your existing access control solution. Streamline user onboarding and management with automated access provisioning in Kisi. You can even connect your user management systems to Kisi, automatically enrolling users and granting them the permissions they require. Grant and revoke access on a user or team-wide basis. You can even integrate your SSO or directory solution for automatic provisioning in the future. Customized alerts automatically forwarded to via email or phone push notification when a door is forced open. All events are recorded and organized in the Kisi dashboard, making reports and audits a breeze. Leverage software integrations or build custom solutions with Kisi's API. -
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Armis Centrix
Armis
Armis Centrix™ is a comprehensive cyber exposure management platform that provides continuous, real-time visibility and protection across IT, OT, IoT, and IoMT environments. Powered by the Armis AI-driven Asset Intelligence Engine, it identifies every connected device, assesses cyber risk, and monitors vulnerabilities across an organization’s entire digital attack surface. The platform automates risk scoring, streamlines compliance reporting, and supports rapid incident response through deep asset intelligence. With capabilities that span asset management, OT/IoT security, medical device protection, and early warning threat detection, Armis Centrix™ enhances operational resilience for modern enterprises. VIPR Pro adds advanced prioritization and remediation to connect findings directly to actionable fixes. Designed as a cloud-native, frictionless platform, Armis Centrix™ empowers organizations to reduce exposure, strengthen security posture, and maintain continuity at scale. -
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SkySpark
SkyFoundry
SkyFoundry’s software solutions help clients derive value from their investments in smart systems. Our SkySpark analytics platform automatically analyzes data from automation and control systems, metering systems, sensors and other smart devices to identify issues, patterns, deviations, faults and opportunities for operational improvements and cost reduction. SkySpark helps building owners and operators “find what matters” in the vast amount of data produced by today’s smart systems.Starting Price: $60.00/one-time -
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IoTWorX
Iconics
IoTWorX™ combines ICONICS’ cutting-edge IoT software technology with its proven HMI/SCADA, analytics, and mobile solutions running in the cloud. ICONICS offers manufacturers and facility managers several key IoT technologies, including connectivity to assets, secure cloud communications, and built-in real-time visualization. Analytics at the edge result in minimized latency while leveraging FDD technology to significantly reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Users can connect to virtually any automation equipment through supported industry protocols such as OPC UA, BACnet, SNMP, Modbus, web services, and classic OPC tunneling. -
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Pega for IoT
Pegasystems
Valuable business decisions are made when the real-time device and sensor data are analyzed and immediately acted on. The IoT revolution means millions of connected things, and with it comes a tremendous opportunity to automatically deliver valuable insights and new revenue streams. Use Pega’s industry-leading case management and BPM to turn IoT-enhanced insights into carefully orchestrated actions across business and system silos. Pega Machine Health continuously orchestrates people, processes, things, and data to optimize the health and value streams of connected IoT devices. Organizations can analyze and prescribe steps for prevention and repair and proactively improve their customers’ experience. Stay ahead of the rapidly evolving IoT ecosystem with the exceptional business agility made possible by Pega 7. Pega 7 enables your IoT team to continuously drive improvements in both the analytics and the orchestration of IoT-driven actions.
