Joe McKendrick

Real-time translators aren’t just about asking for directions in a foreign country. There’s business demand for this technology. And Microsoft, for one, is gearing up to meet it.

A PwC report finds the automotive industry is investing the most heavily in IoT applications. But others aren’t far behind. And a second survey from HPE Aruba looks at IoT adoption in industrial, healthcare, retail and government sectors.

Thanks to the rise of the digital enterprise, IoT and real-time analytics, event-driven architecture has moved from the shadows to the business mainstream.

Real-time employee feedback can provide ongoing, instantaneous feedback to employees, provide immediate instruction or reward – versus waiting 12 months for performance reviews.

A new report from the World Economic Forum looks at blockchain’s promise as well as the practical challenges the industry needs to address.

“If your organization benefits from distributed data sources, it’s not a question of whether to perform edge processing, the question is how.”

Hardware will be the largest IoT spending category until 2020, when it is overtaken by services. But IoT success is seen in the ways software and hardware can be brought together.

Businesses are ramping up their use of virtual assistants – or “conversational user interfaces” — for customer interactions.

The IoT is making itself known in energy, manufacturing, supply chain analytics, connected vehicles and other areas, but IoT projects still face challenges.

The first step: IoT device data improves operations.

Technologies are available today that let enterprise teams design or redesign business applications within any system environment no matter how much “legacy” infrastructure there is underneath.

Java is the language of choice for IoT programming, but developers worry about security and interoperability.