PTC is showing impressive momentum and continues to build a great IoT portfolio with the announced acquisition of Kepware.

The collected acquisitions of ThingWorx, ColdLight, Axeda, and now Kepware, flesh out a very nice set of functionality.  PTC is establishing a great IoT portfolio with solid footing where a lot of the early IoT money is likely to be spent – Industrial IoT. Kepware has relatively small revenues, but the company is entrenched in industrial automation and has a huge library of industrial product device drivers.  This library and Kepware’s industrial know-how can significantly streamline IoT connectivity to a very broad install base. This will be powerful in helping PTC deliver total solutions as industrial markets retool their infrastructure to gain the business performance and monitor/manage/optimize promises of industrial IoT.

I also believe 2016 will be hot for IoT acquisitions.  Who is next?

Click here for more details on the Kepware acquisition: http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2015/12/23/ptc-pushes-into-connected-factories-with-kepware-acquisition/