Collaboration Enables Customers to Sense, Measure and Connect in a Sensor-to-Cloud Environment

NEEDHAM, Mass. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — October 13, 2015 — ThingWorx, a PTC (Nasdaq: PTC) business and a leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, today announced it is working with global semiconductor company Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) to offer customers an integrated sensor to cloud environment using the ThingWorx® IoT Platform.

Smart, connected products and devices can generate thousands of real-time readings that create tremendous amounts of data. The collaboration between ThingWorx and ADI is designed to make it easier for customers to intelligently bridge the physical and digital worlds with technologies that sense, measure and connect. This collaboration will support the smart, connected product data’s IoT journey from devices and sensors to wireless communication to big data collection and analysis.

“A multitude of partners representing a variety of industries around the globe have selected the ThingWorx IoT Platform to help deliver IoT products and services that enable customers to increase value and grow revenues,” said Russ Fadel, president, ThingWorx. “We’re excited to collaborate with Analog Devices and endeavor to solve IoT infrastructure challenges such as connectivity, communications and other foundational services, so that customers can focus their time and energy on creating IoT applications to generate business value.”

ADI offers a broad portfolio of high performance analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing (DSP) integrated circuits (ICs) used in virtually all types of electronic equipment. Used by over 100,000 customers worldwide, ADI signal processing products play a fundamental role in converting, conditioning, and processing real-world phenomena such as temperature, pressure, sound, light, speed, and motion into electrical signals to be used in a wide array of electronic devices.

“Our vision in this IoT era is to help companies harness the power of the data generated from sensors in smart, connected products,” said Martin Cotter, vice president, Healthcare, Consumer and IoT, Analog Devices. “Through our collaboration with ThingWorx, we will strive to enhance our customers’ experience utilizing the data provided to the ThingWorx IoT Platform to empower rapid, rich and interactive IoT applications, real-time dashboards, collaborative workspaces, and mobile interfaces quicker than ever before.”

The ThingWorx Partner Program supports the engagement and enablement programs for technology partners, system integrators and consultants that complement the ThingWorx IoT technology platform. ThingWorx partners add high value to customers – by providing IoT expertise and technologies that contribute to a more complete IoT solution.

ThingWorx enables partner success by offering partners an appropriate mix of technical education and certification, sales training, co-marketing, and a variety of go to market models maximizing partner investment and optimizing their success with ThingWorx in the IoT space. To learn more about becoming part of the ThingWorx IoT partner ecosystem, visit here.

Additional Resources

• Harvard Business Review: “ How Smart, Connected Products are Transforming Companies”; authors Mr. Heppelmann and Professor Michael Porter, Harvard Business School
• ThingWorx IoT Platform – Resource Page
• PTC Internet of Things – Resource Page
• Analog Devices IoT - Resource Page

About Analog Devices

Analog Devices designs and manufactures semiconductor products and solutions. The company enables its customers to interpret the world around us by intelligently bridging the physical and digital with superior technologies that sense, measure and connect. For more information, visit http://www.analog.com.

About ThingWorx

ThingWorx™, a PTC (Nasdaq: PTC) business, provides the first platform designed to efficiently build and run the applications of today's connected world. ThingWorx delivers the most comprehensive IoT technology stack, which includes connectivity, device cloud, big data, analytics, mobile, and remote service applications, together with a groundbreaking IoT application design and runtime environment. ThingWorx is supported by the market’s largest partner ecosystem consisting of technology partners, system integrators, OEMs and vertical solution providers. The combination enables companies to reduce the time, cost and risk to securely connect assets and rapidly create innovative applications that deliver new value. ThingWorx is the most widely adopted IoT platform with hundreds of customers across a wide range of markets, including manufacturing, energy, agriculture, transportation, and government. For more information, visit www.thingworx.com.

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