Like a lot of people who head up sales organizations, I get a lot of unsolicited emails that offer me many different tools that help our company improve its “batting average” in the sales process. For the most part, I delete them, but one particular note that I received lately caught my attention. The note […]
Larry Bellehumeur
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Four Essentials to Managing an M2M Solution
At Novotech, we do our best to help our customers with every part of a solution, even if we are not the ones working on every single part. In the course of a complete M2M solution, there is always a fair amount of complex things that have to be done, ranging from: integration into key […] -
Top 10 things M2M customers are not being told
One of my favourite types of blog posts are the ones with titles like “10 things that [fill in the blank] won’t tell you”. These posts tell things that this entity (whether it be a company, profession or service provider) doesn’t want you to know. It may be that they are overcharging for things and […] -
Carrier Sales and M2M: How to Fix What’s Holding Them Back
Everywhere I turn lately, it seems M2M (often under its codenames of "the Internet of Things" or "the Internet of Everything") is everywhere. It is being mentioned in boardrooms all across the world, at the Economic Forum in Switzerland and undoubtedly, at every Cellular Carrier headquarters in the world. One thing I have noticed, however, […] -
M2M: Now is as good of a time as any, Cisco
For a while now, I have been questioning the slow pace that many large technology companies have been showing in their efforts to increase their presence in the field of M2M / IoE. While companies like IBM and SAP have made some good strides, their primary focus has been more from the standpoint of doing […] -
M2M: Still too much talk with little action at the carriers
Over the past few weeks, we here at Novotech have taken a bit of a shot at the analysts for their rapid growth projections in the M2M space (Important legal note: No analyst was harmed in any manner by our actions during the creation of our blogs/rants). However, I do notice one interesting trend.....as the […] -
High Tech Garbage Cans FAIL the Privacy Test
As leaders in this new M2M market, we need to ensure that we don’t push the envelope of doing ‘what is cool’ without first factoring in the implications. That's the essence of my recent guest blog post on M2M Now. Take a read... -
M2M Growth and Current Financials: 9-Company Review
I received a call recently from a financial analyst looking for information on the M2M space. We were talking about how profitable the growth is in this space, and it got me to thinking...... We all talk about the explosive growth in the world of M2M, but....is anyone making money now? To get the pulse on […] -
Private Radio Data Networks: Top 7 Reasons the Tide is Turning
M2M - The Industry There is an important reason why I didn’t title this blog post, “The death of private radio networks is upon us” or “Why your business will fail if you don’t get off of your Private Radio Data Network". The reason is simple.....they are far from dead and they are still very […] -
M2M, SCADA, IoT, Big Data: Glossary for the Non-Nerd Crowd
Submitted by Larry Bellehumeur on October 29, 2013 - 9:24am M2M - The Industry I remember the old joke well....”What does PCMCIA, as in PCMCIA cards, stand for?” The joke was that it stood for “People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms”, and there was a lot of truth to that. While it is not quite as bad in […]