Top trade-offs when designing an IoT cloud solution for scale
The trick to designing an IoT cloud solution for scale is to find the correct balance and optimise the trade-offs between the different options.
Scaling your product to the ‘00s, ‘000s, or even millions brings additional commercial and technical risks that can be easily overlooked during development and early deployment. Getting your IoT product to scale profitably is a multi-stage journey that requires different skills, experience and approaches at each stage.
55% of organisations “have struggled to deliver business value from IoT projects”. Most have conducted in-house pilots, but “lacked a coherent strategy to deploy their initiatives enterprise-wide” according to Cognizant.
Whether your IoT development is an in-house project or a new product or service, it will inevitably involve a set of competing technology choices. One set of choices may work for a prototype or in-house pilot, but will they work at the scale and reliability you are targeting? Is your profitability dependent on deploying at scale?
The true cost of an enterprise-wide initiative or scale IoT deployment is often underestimated as are the risks. This can lead to a loss in stakeholder confidence (and sometimes funding).
Getting your IoT product to the scale and operational reliability required is a multi-stage journey that requires different skills, experience and approaches at each stage.
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We take our customers from idea to concept to millions of deployed products; we know the journey. We help them manage risk, keep stakeholders on side and deliver successful, profitable products to market faster.
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6-steps to scaling profitable, secure, smart IoT products to market
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