Lux’s industrial IoT expert assesses C3.ai’s strategy, technology, and ability to execute and win deals across the broad IoT landscape

Redwood City, Calif. April 6, 2016 – C3.ai, a global leader in enterprise IoT platform and applications software, today announced that Lux Research, an independent research and advisory firm, has rated C3.ai as a “strong positive,” its highest ranking, after evaluating the company’s platform and underlying technology.

Lux Research provides strategic advice and ongoing intelligence on emerging technologies, such as industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications, for multinational organizations seeking effective strategies for innovation and growth. Its profile of C3.ai is available to clients via Lux’s Member site.

The C3 Platform™ accelerates an organization’s time to business value by providing a complete, enterprise-scale platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution that enables the rapid design, development, deployment, and operation of next-generation software applications. The C3 Platform enables organizations to leverage all available data – including telemetry from sensors and devices, data from diverse enterprise information systems, and external sources (such as social media, weather, traffic, and commodity prices) – and employ advanced analytics and machine learning at scale, in real time, to capture business insights for improved operations, enhanced customer engagement, and differentiated products and services.

“With 70 million sensors under management across 20 large-scale deployments worldwide, C3.ai provides the only complete, cohesive enterprise platform for rapid IoT application development,” said Ed Abbo, President and CTO, C3.ai. “Optimized for the cloud, with no hardware to install and maintain, the C3 Platform enables companies to focus on the mission-critical tasks of developing applications, performing data science, and integrating with business processes.”