Is digital transformation based on use of the internet of things and edge computing the business need that telcos can supply to small and medium businesses? Some think so.
This is the way Singtel segments its cloud computing offers for small and medium business customers. As you can see, Singtel offers the brand names in computing as a service, rather than trying to recreate such capabilities on its own.
Singtel also adds a preconfigured solution for internet of things monitoring, the cloud gateway and bulk data transfer. But Singtel focuses on integrating and managing the on-premise devices and software used to collect data, not the actual edge computing function itself.
You might argue that the value of digital operations is based on three capabilities: intra-company and inter-company communications, enabling better information tracking and extending business reach. All three of those objectives are classic “communications” requirements.
The new value-add is support for the analytics function. While not supplying the analytical engines or the core processing to conduct analysis, telcos can package the “function” of sensor network management as a key added-value role. Neither computing as a service vendors nor analytics software firms want to manage the on-site networks of sensors.
Most smaller businesses might not want to have their limited information technology staff doing so, either. In essence, the telco IoT role becomes that of system integrator and operations manager for the IoT sensor network.
source: Delta Partners Group
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