Helium announced the launch of its latest wireless network product suite, a comprehensive low-power, long-range solution for IoT devices. The new offering streamlines the ability to prototype, deploy, and scale a long-range network that connects thousands of end devices, with the intent to give companies a simple way to intelligently and securely deliver data from device to the cloud and application layer.

GE Digital announced the ServiceMax Summer '17 release, featuring new Condition Based Maintenance and Ranked Appointment Booking capabilities. These features help to assist companies in transforming services from a reactive to proactive delivery model. With these enhancements, service organizations can help to improve its customers experiences by reducing unplanned downtime and creating shorter response times.

Siemens India inaugurated its showcase digitalized low voltage switchgear factory at Kalwa, Mumbai last week. The globally benchmarked factory is capable of producing more than 180 variants at the rate of one product every nine seconds. The plant can manufacture over 5 million devices annually. Products at the plant communicate with machines and all processes are optimized for IT control, resulting in a minimal failure rate.

IBM announced the first IBM Watson-based services platform fully built on the IBM Cloud that augments human intelligence to help improve service provider operations via cognitive technologies and freeing up professionals to focus on driving higher value results.

Intel launched its new Intel Xeon Scalable processors, providing businesses with enough performance to handle compute-hungry tasks, including real-time analytics, virtualized infrastructure and high-performance computing.

Intel Xeon Scalable processors provide businesses with one of the richest suite of platform feature innovations that deliver significant performance increases across key workloads. According to the press release, these include: