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> OTOH, every complete IIoT solution will be bespoke. Sales, marketing, and integration will not be scalable. This is what Palantir learned, and what Oracle se
by ethbro 9y ago
> OTOH, every complete IIoT solution will be bespoke. Sales, marketing, and integration will not be scalable.
This is what Palantir learned, and what Oracle semi-avoided in their positioning:
Your scalable solution is worthless without last-mile integration, and that integration is always bespoke.
Is the IIoT pushing for interface standards, a la SQL?
That would seem the main way to scale and extract the kind of revenue they're looking for. Create a standard (and therefore market) for smaller fish to perform the integration, such that it lifts the data up a level and products can be built that operate against diverse sources.
- warrenm 9y ago>Your scalable solution is worthless without last-mile integration, and that integration is always bespoke. Yep. And always has been. Spreadsheets are a great metaphor for this ... or an artist's canvas. They're both capable of amazing things being done on/in them ... but only with the application of custom effort.
- jessaustin 9y agoISTM that you can't make much money by doing the easy part, unless you do a shitload of volume, at which point you're competing with AWS. Good luck!