IDC MarketScape: Smart Cities Platforms

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IDC MarketScape: Smart City Platforms Assessment

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the current market for worldwide Internet of Things applications platforms for Smart Cities.

IDC projects that investment by cities in Smart City platforms will grow as more vendors offer products and services that help cities manage the complexity of Internet of Things (IoT) implementations, collect key data for improved operations and services delivery, and support work to be more resilient and sustainable. Cities are looking to smart, connected devices and the Internet of Things to capture new and more granular information to enhance decision-making, improve operations and maintenance, and provide new and improved services.

This IDC study represents a vendor assessment of the current market for worldwide IoT applications platforms for Smart Cities. This research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the vendors based on a comprehensive set of parameters of both current and expected capabilities to IoT technology deployments in cities. This IDC MarketScape assesses eight vendors in this space.

A scatter plot graph titled “IDC MarketScape Worldwide Smart, Sustainable Cities IoT Applications Platforms, 2023” categorizes tech companies based on their capabilities and strategies. The X-axis represents “Strategies,” the Y-axis represents “Capabilities,” and four categories are outlined: Leaders, Major Players, Contenders, and Participants. Notable companies include Microsoft (Leader), TerraGo, AVEVA, Esri (Major Players), AWS, Hitachi Digital Services (between Major Players and Contenders), Huawei (Participant), and Siemens AG (between Participants and Contenders).

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