Our report on the Building Performance Software (BPS) business demonstrates that despite some 150 confirmed acquisitions in the last 6 years, the industry has at least 350 established suppliers delivering across 16 different market segments. These segments overlap and cause confusion when building operators are evaluating how they meet their value propositions. This is particularly critical now that the major real estate owners are in the midst of investigating the impact of the Building Internet of Things (BIoT) on their business and they need to know what measures are being made by the BPS industry to meet this challenge. The good news is that our report shows that right across the western world M&A, Investment and Strategic Alliances are bringing together software solutions to meet the BIoT challenge. This is absolutely vital because the data from these software packages will eventually need to be processed by IoT Data Services such as Big Data and Machine […]