Editor's Pick: Internet of Things Makes Enterprise Headway

Internet of Things Makes Enterprise Headway

Richard Adhikari Sep 22, 2015 10:33 AM PT
	The Internet of Things is poised to soar in the enterprise, a new survey from IDC indicates, with the planning stage rapidly shifting to deployment. Nearly 73 percent of about 2,500 respondents to the firm's IoT Decision Maker Survey said they already had deployed IoT solutions or would do so within the next year, the firm reported Tuesday. The survey respondents came from 15 countries. [More...]

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