Covisint Corporation (Nasdaq:COVS), the leading Cloud Platform for building Identity and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, today announced that the Covisint Cloud Platform was showcased as part of the 2016 Sogeti IoT Hackathon. Winners will be announced Friday, November 11, 2016 at Sogeti’s Applied Innovation Exchange in San Francisco.
The 2016 Sogeti IoT Hackathon is a global event of inspiration, imagination, and innovation—bringing together a passionate community of technologists and practitioners from around the world to design and create IoT-based experiences and intelligent systems that have real-world application and market potential. The IoT Hackathon started in August and ran through October, taking teams through a three-month journey of human-centered design, creative engineering, problem solving, and team building.
Covisint and Sogeti have been working together to provide end-to-end digital solutions for clients. Customers are seeking increased value through solutions that combine domain knowledge and digital platform services.
“Our digital-first approach to addressing business needs complements Sogeti’s IoT design-thinking leadership in producing desired outcomes for customers,” said Sony Abraham, Head of IoT and Digital Services Partnerships, Covisint. “At the core, our platform enables solutions that connect people, systems, and things across digital ecosystems, and we are thrilled that one of the three Hackathon finalists has built an innovative solution on our platform.”
The solutions developed via the IoT Hackathon will serve as a basis for innovation lab events for Sogeti clients and prospects.
“The Covisint IoT platform allowed our teams to get an IoT hub with connected devices up and running at the speed of digital, a tremendous advantage when creating minimally viable products without significant upfront investment, as a Hackathon requires,” said Joo Lee, Vice President of Digital Transformation, Sogeti.
IoT Hackathon participants identified market opportunities in design thinking creative spaces focused on innovation across the following major themes:
- Smart Cities
- Smart Buildings
- Smart Energy Grids
- Connected Health
- Smart Manufacturing
- Immersive Retail
- Connected Transportation
