Vendors Forecast Big IoT Opportunities For The Channel

Intel's Steen Graham

One thing we did at Intel, talking about an end-user outcome, is if you look at inventory distortion or having too much or too little inventory, it's hundreds of billions of dollars in problems for retailers, right? Or even for a consumer, the challenge to find the right set of jeans that fits you perfectly. That's why we collaborated with Levis on our Intel platform for inventory management offers and were able to, in real time or near-real time, manage those assets. We could even transform that into an application for an airport. That presents a tremendous opportunity and those are the type of use cases we think are going to be repeatable for channel partners, that we're building an ecosystem around. If you look at deployments like that, and the number of ecosystem partners we're onboarding on that platform, we're starting to add more, and then it becomes repeatable for the channel to scale.