Andrew Scheuermann
Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read

Great article Daniel. It strikes me that most platforms today, however, provide 4–7 on your list, rarely help with the 1–3 sensors and sensor-to-cloud data collection itself as opposed to just the receiving end. Like your Tesla analogy, it might be like a ‘platform company’ is offering the engine and car chassis to hold the passengers with their beautiful brand on it and asking you to build the wheels and the drive train to complete the bottom of the car. There’s 450 platforms because it looked too good on paper to be a 4–7 platform (or better yet just 4–6). Thus people have a reason to fear using these. At Arch, we’re build a 1–3 platform (device to cloud) with full 1–7 guidance and tools instead. This is like the wheels and robust drive train with a template engine and a path to configure and control your own engine and chassis in the future. We have seen that our customers agree with not recreating the wheel (especially good pun here!), but at the same time, they need a route to own their own data, cloud competence and customer experience in the future. We make both possible.

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