Darmstadt, Germany, July 21, 2022 – Software AG (Frankfurt MDAX: SOW) today announced its Cumulocity IoT platform is rated a leading vendor amongst 13 IoT vendors in MachNation’s 2022 IoT Device Management Scorecard. Cumulocity IoT has received this rating for the sixth year in a row. Among the 13 vendors rated, Software AG received the highest total score across a set of requirements spanning four distinct categories (integration, lifecycle management, architecture & security, business & strategy).  

The report identified the following key highlights of the Cumulocity IoT platform:

• “Managing edge deployment can be done centrally within the Cumulocity IoT tenant”
  Customers can leverage Cumulocity IoT’s excellent device lifecycle management capabilities to implement and maintain their edge deployments (…) Offering a unified solution across cloud and edge reduces development complexity, optimizes management functions, and saves customers time and money.
• “Cumulocity IoT Thin Edge continues to add new features and support for constrained edge hardware”
  Cumulocity IoT Thin Edge continues to add new features and functionality at a considerable pace since its inception last year. Designed to support low-powered, memory constrained hardware (ARM v7/v8, 32 MB+ RAM). […] Enterprise buyers should keep a close watch in the coming weeks and months to see what other improvements Software AG, in tandem with its partnership community, bring to thin edge.
• “Cumulocity IoT’s protocol-agnostic approach is critical to supporting a rapidly increasing LPWAN market”
  Software AG recognizes the growing adoption rates of LPWAN network protocols (…), especially for edge use-cases that primarily utilize power-constrained hardware. […] Software AG has implemented a LoRa integration tool into its core device management functionality that enables user to integrate and manage any LoRa device via any LoRa network with Cumulocity IoT.*

MachNation is the only firm exclusively dedicated to testing and researching IoT platforms, middleware, and services in its hands-on IoT platform test. According to the MachNation report: “The IoT device management (DM) space is one of the most important and complex technology areas of the Internet of things (IoT). Enterprises realize that support for IoT devices in a heterogeneous environment enables them to launch new services, create revenue opportunities, and minimize solution support costs.”

Bernd Gross, CTO of Software AG noted: “Without a doubt, IoT device management is one of the most important and complex technology areas of the Internet of Things. That is why we are extremely proud that our continued leadership in this space has been recognized by MachNation for the sixth consecutive year. Our relentless focus on providing the best IoT device management platform means that enterprises can adopt a ‘Buy and Build’ strategy where they focus their valuable resources on the competitive differentiating capabilities, and leverage Cumulocity IoT to deliver the underlying enterprise-grade foundations.”

Further details about Cumulocity IoT can be found here. A complete overview of Software AG’s IoT offering is available at softwareag.com/iot.

For further details, the MachNation Scorecard can be downloaded here.