IBM

Since rolling out its IoT unit in 2015, IBM has promised to spend $3 billion over four years to develop a portfolio of cloud services and software aimed at delivering weather-related IoT services to the enterprise.

Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM's Watson platform enables an array of capabilities for end users, including building secure scalable IoT apps and services, monitoring assets and managing facilities. More recently, IBM linked with AT&T to help partners create full IoT solutions by pairing IBM's developer tools, cloud and analytics services with AT&T's IoT platforms and global networks.

In 2017, expect IBM to continue its push to use cognitive computing as a differentiator in powering its developer resources and data analytics.