When it comes to data management, I don’t think there’s any debate on where industrial businesses collectively sit right now. The landscape of our world is changing rapidly, especially with the emergence of the Internet of Things, or as GE calls it, the Industrial Internet.

There are a lot of different forcing functions that play into the Industrial Internet, from the cloud to big data to security to sensor enablement. We should think about these in three fundamental categories:
• The first focuses on brilliant machines and the idea of “getting connected”—i.e., getting the data out of the assets or out of the processes that you have today
• The second concerns the concept of analytics and driving intelligent insights from it
• The third is about enabling people and ensuring they have the information to optimize the outcomes the business has identified

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