Soracom and Mnubo Announce Global Partnership to Bring End-to-End IoT Solutions to Leading Enterprises

Tokyo–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Soracom Inc., provider of the leading cloud-native platform for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced a strategic, global partnership with Mnubo Inc., a leader in data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for IoT, accelerating the delivery and deployment of turnkey IoT solutions for global enterprises. This alliance will help IoT companies realize faster time-to-value through actionable business use cases on top of an end-to-end, scalable and flexible IoT solution.

SORACOM’s platform for IoT applications provides over-the-air connectivity to cloud services via cellular and Low-Power Wide-Area (LPWA) networks. Seamless integration of the SORACOM platform with the Mnubo SmartObjects solution, which transforms IoT data to business outcomes, allows companies implementing IoT to securely connect their equipment and immediately gain business value from AI-driven IoT insights.

Earlier this year mnubo was recognized as a certified partner in Japan and now both companies are taking the partnership to a global level. This partnership will build on the two companies’ joint global presence and highly complementary IoT solutions to enable compelling business use cases such as optimizing operational costs by analyzing asset health, improving after-market services based on product usage and performance, boosting satisfaction by understanding customer experience, and enhancing business value through predictive maintenance. Both companies are already working with customers globally such as Yanmar Corporation and others.

“We are delighted to partner with Mnubo and bring AI-based IoT insights to our growing customer base,” said SORACOM CEO and co-founder Ken Tamagawa. “Our customer-centric vision strongly aligns with Mnubo’s ability to transform IoT data to business outcomes. Together, we are accelerating business value for leading IoT enterprises.”

“SORACOM is a strong IoT brand with a market-leading platform for cloud-native IoT connectivity and a broad portfolio of solutions – Mnubo is proud to be a trusted partner,” said Mnubo CEO and co-founder Frederic Bastien. “With this partnership, SORACOM and Mnubo will help companies get to market faster with a data-driven IoT strategy focused on business outcomes, ROI-enablement and high-value use cases.”

About Mnubo
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada – Mnubo is an Internet of Things company, providing data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions to connected product manufacturers and service providers. Mnubo delivers business outcomes from IoT data through its SaaS solution with out-of-the-box IoT insights and advanced IoT data science. For more, visit www.mnubo.com

About SORACOM
SORACOM is the market-leading platform for cloud-native IoT connectivity, used by more than 10,000 customers worldwide. We provide customers and partners across industries with the tools they need to connect, protect, control and coordinate their IoT deployments at speed and at scale. Launched as a venture-backed company in 2015, SORACOM was acquired by mobile operator KDDI in August, 2017, greatly expanding the company’s resources for global expansion. More information is available at www.soracom.io and https://blog.soracom.io/.

Contacts
Mnubo
Jennifer Sewell
Head of Product Marketing
marketing@mnubo.com

Jake Martin
Soracom Global
Jake@soracom.io