Ericsson, the world's largest telecoms gear vendor, announced a partnership with Germany headquartered software firm SAP, to develop and offer technologies that will enable machines to talk to each other.
The partnership aims to offer technology that help improve efficiency in key business processes such as maintenance, remote service, inventory logistics, road transport management vending and customer experience management.
Ericsson will provide the hardware that will help machines directly connect to the internet and SAP will provide the software to help businesses find better and more innovative ways to respond to emergencies and customer needs.
Both both firms will jointly market and sell cloud-based, machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions and services to enterprises via operators around the globe. The solutions will be based on a combined software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from Ericsson and SAP within M2M, the companies said in a statement.
Ericsson and SAP did not disclose the financial details of the partnership.
Last week, IBM said it would partner Deutsche Telekom to provide machine-to-machine communications in areas such as managing city traffic and finding and parking slots for vehicles.
M2M is touted as the next big business opportunity for telcos and vendors and research firm Gartner recently said it estimates that the number of connected devices will touch 30 billion by 2020.
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