Michael Campbell

Michael Campbell

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Our Connected World: No. 4 - On Human Connections

It’s only been 18 months - but we’ve all forgotten how to act in 3D.

I am writing this from my gate at ATL, on my way back from a customer meeting. Juggling that fine line between where the mask fogs my glasses but it’s low enough on my nose that I can see most of what I’m typing.

I spent most of yesterday with a customer, in the flesh. It was awesome. In that 8 hours of in-person, real, connected human interaction, I was struck by how awkward everything was. Nobody knew how to act. In the reception area we had to raise our voices to be heard through the masks and the bullet proof glass. There were multiple attempts at temperature checks, we had to be careful to use the clean pens on the right, not the dirty ones on the left. Did anyone really know what part of the office and conference rooms required masks and which were ok to show our ugly mugs?

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Our Connected World: No. 3 - On Building Your Own DeviceOps Software

“I know you’re smart enough to build it. But are you smart enough not to build it?”

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Our Connected World: No. 2 - On the Ownership of Your Cloud Data

Two years ago in London, I had an enlightening conversation with a solution architect who worked for one of the major cloud vendors. Let’s call him Simon. Simon and I were talking about the insane proliferation of IoT vendors - a number that has exploded to more than 1,200 according to research firm IoT Analytics (June 2021). In a similar report at the end of 2019, IoT Analytics emphasized that the number of vendors in the IoT industry is not consolidating - rather, it’s expanding.

The expansion is clearly due to all the hot air in the IoT segment. Lots of hot air.

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Introducing CRM for Machines: A Connected Devices Platform Service

Only 25 years ago, most businesses relied on spreadsheets (or a rolodex) for the entire sales process. From key contacts, to prospects, deal statuses, and more - we stored everything in these tools. Some larger companies used Siebel or another similar legacy CRM vendor. However, these tools were only available to the few large companies that could afford it.

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EdgeIQ Use Cases & Industry Solutions Handbook

EdgeIQ Use Cases & Industry Solutions Handbook

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EdgeIQ Announces New Financing Round to Expand

BOSTON, MA (July 21, 2020) EdgeIQ today announced it closed a new round of funding that will allow the company to accelerate its product development and go-to-market initiatives. EdgeIQ provides software that enables and accelerates digital transformation for connected product companies.

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Software: The Most Critical Element of Any Connected Product BOM

The other night I was marveling at a story that I read about the Open-AirVentGT.

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OnLogic Partners with EdgeIQ to Launch IoT Orchestration

New industrial devices offer simple setup and enhanced reliability for IoT monitoring in challenging environments.

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2019 Review and a Look at What's Next

We are a customer-driven, problem-solving software company. And in 2019 we helped 300% more customers than we did the year before. Why?

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Service Professionals Key Gatekeepers in Connected

I spent 3 days in Chicago last week attending the Service Council’s Symposium 2019.

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