Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Roundup of Internet of Things Forecasts and Market Estimates, 2015

Forbes Roundup Of IoT Forecasts and Market Estimates

 

Louis Columbus' December 27th Forbes article provides a good summary of what is projected to happen with the Internet of Things.  The article includes a number of interesting infographics.

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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Internet of Things and Data Analytics Playing Dominate Role in Merger & Acquisition in 2015

The latest M&A trend reports show of the 1,069 technology-related transactions tracked in 3Q 2015, IoT topped the chart in average value per deal at $1.2 billion followed by Big Data Analytics at $800 million. Many deals were cross-industry and between  non-tech and tech companies. Companies involved in M&As of IoT valued at more than $5 billion, included: Carlyle, GICPrivate, Veritas Information, Honeywell-Elster.

Year to date, there were 114 IoT deals tracked (compared with 56 for all of 2014) with total value of $31.9 billion (compared with $13 billion for full-year 2014). Big Data Analytics deals of had a total value of $29.5 billion year to date, more than double that of its 2014 total.

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Saturday, October 31, 2015


M&A at its highest levels since before 2008.

According to dealogic.com, M&A deal value is at its highest rate since 2008.

Global M&A volume has surpassed $4tr for the first YTD period on record, and now stands at $4.06tr in 2015. This represents a 38% increase on 2014 YTD ($2.94tr), and is marginally higher than the previous YTD high in 2007 ($3.93tr).  

Technology is the most targeted sector in 2015 YTD with a YTD record high volume of $631.7bn, 53% higher than the previous YTD record high of $412.8bn set in 2000 YTD. 

Healthcare is second with both a YTD record high volume of $549.4bn, and a YTD record share of total M&A (14%)


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Wednesday, October 21, 2015














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Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations, operations and product teams, and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

Friday, February 27, 2015

5.4 Billion IoT Connected Enterprise Devices By 2020

Enterprise IoT Projected to Grow From 1.2 Billion To 5.4 Billion connected devices by 2020.


In our six years of Accredent's involvement with IoT we have seen the forecast for the number of connected enterprise devices continue to be adjusted upward each year as more businesses look to the technology to save money, collect useful information, transform their business models and change their basis of competition.

In the latest report from US mobile network Verizon projects that today's 1.2 billion business use devices connected to the internet will grow 28 percent year-over-year for the next five years to 5.4 billion by 2020.  Verizon believes the verticals and segments of energy and utilities, public sector, digital signage, connected CCTV, fleet management, and connected vehicles to be the sources of much of this growth.

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, analytics and use cases. Contact Us

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Accredent Enters 7th Year Supporting Business Growth


Minneapolis based Accredent, LLC is very pleased to be celebrating six years of supporting leaders of NASDAQ and private companies on their journey to growth and value creation through Strategy, M&A, Business Development and Insight Research. Thanks to our clients for their trust over the years, and the opportunity to serve and contribute to their success.

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, analytics and use cases. Contact Us

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com