Kontron announces partnership with SQLstream to enable IoT (Internet of Things) applications with real-time analytics

Kontron’s family of IoT Boards, Gateways, Modules and Systems will be integrated with SQLstream Blaze to provide the industry’s first real-time analytics cloud service for IoT

Augsburg,  23. February 2016 – Kontron, a leading provider of Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), today announced their partnership and licensing agreement  with SQLstream, a leading provider of streaming analytics solutions, to extend Kontron’s cloud based embedded device service platform with real-time analytics and automated action. The partnership supports Kontron’s approach to providing an enhanced IoT platform for integrated security and analytics.
 
Using the Kontron and SQLstream solution, enterprises in any industry can acquire live data from embedded devices, analyze and visualize it, and automate actions throughout their device management IoT service lifecycle. The Kontron and SQLstream solution will provide enterprises worldwide with the following advantages:

    • End-to-End IoT Deployment – Enterprises in any industry can quickly bring IoT services to market via a single solution that enables them to manage IoT application development, connectivity, and the entire service lifecycle.
    • Live Application Development – Business analysts and developers can create applications from raw data in a matter of minutes and change them on-the-fly while data is in motion.
    • Streaming Analytics & Automated Actions – Provide enterprises with business advantages, instantly, through better decision-making and automated actions based on real-time information.
    • Central Data Visibility, Global Scale – Businesses will gain a global view of the data flowing through their IoT deployments – including device and application service data.
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"Businesses need data in real time to know and act on what’s happening with connected devices every moment," said Damian Black, CEO of SQLstream. "Only SQLstream delivers a streaming analytics platform designed to both empower applications and services with live data, and  continuously respond to changing business conditions in real time. Together with Kontron, we are enabling businesses to capitalize on the Internet of Things with a blazingly fast real-time data analytics solution that enables action at the point of insight.”
 
Jens Wiegand, CTO of Kontron, adds, “Blaze is perfectly suited for our diverse customers to help them operationalize intelligence from the discovery, integration, analysis, visualization and rapid adoption of fast, big data.  Our partnership with SQLstream will help our customers solve their big data challenges and unleash the full possibilities of their applications.”
 
The ECT industry’s first IoT analytics offering is based on the SQLstream Blaze suite of products which delivers the best-in-class streaming analytics platform. SQLstream Blaze includes the core stream processor, s-Server, real-time visualization products for developers and enterprise power users, platform management tools, and a comprehensive suite of agents and adaptors for machine data and enterprise integration.
 
 
About SQLstream
SQLstream empowers businesses to capitalize on live data in real time.  SQLstream has designed its streaming analytics platform to enable anyone to create live data applications from raw data in minutes, and deliver continuous ingest and ETL, streaming analytics, and automated actions at the point of insight.  SQLstream offers the only solution enabling businesses to continuously respond to changing conditions, every moment. SQLstream is based in San Francisco, California. Download SQLstream Blaze for a live experience at www.sqlstream.com/downloads.
 
 
About Kontron
Kontron, a global leader in embedded computing technology and trusted advisor in IoT, provides a complete and integrated portfolio of hardware, software and services. Kontron creates many of the standards that drive the world’s embedded computing platforms, bringing to life numerous technologies and applications. The result is an accelerated time-to-market, reduced total-cost-of-ownership, product longevity and the best possible overall application with leading-edge, highest reliability embedded technology.             
Kontron is a listed company. Its shares are traded in the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and on other exchanges under the symbol “KBC”.
For more information, please visit: www.kontron.com