General Electric’s digital business unit became one of the world’s largest software companies by offering an internet of things platform for industrial operations.
GE Digital’s Predix software platform enabled machines in factories to send data through the sensors attached to them to the associated computer interfaces.
GE claims to be the first company to have done this, and it has made huge amounts of money doing so. [Read more…] about GE Digital to switch to Amazon and Microsoft instead of building its own data centres